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thesweetnessofspring · 8 months

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In your opinion, please rate thg movie series with 1-5 scale.

(1 = I hate it, 3=neutral, 5 = I love it.)

1.The Hunger Games :

Things that you like :

Things that you don't like :

2.Cathing Fire :

Things that you like :

Things that you don't like :

3.Mockingjay part 1 :

Things that you like :

Things that you don't like :

4.Mockingjay part 2 :

Things that you like :

Things that you don't like :

Thank you 😊

@curiousnonny

So honestly I think I've seen each of the movies like...twice for Mockingjay 1 and 2 and three times for THG and CF. The movies are basically an opportunity to have gifs displaying events in the book more than movies for me. But here we go:

The Hunger Games: 2.5. I like the opening with the interview with Seneca Crane and then transitioning to Prim's screams. I overall like the casting--they should have gone for POC Seam characters, but Woody and Jen are at least good in their parts and Gale could have been played by a cardboard cutout for all I care about him (which is basically what Liam Hemsworth was). I do like the Crane and Snow peeks. Dislike: Shaky cam. Terrible, nonsensical bread scene. Cutting out Madge. The gruesomeness of their injuries being sanitized. Cutting down Everlark. Peeta lost his cheekiness and endearing qualities (not Josh's fault, it's the script/direction). The cave scene is disappointing. Get Gale out of my face during the Everlark kiss please. Taking out how desperate Katniss was to save Peeta and reducing her to rebelling and him to being an idiot in love was AGH. The ending is also super rushed. And cutting out Peeta being an amputee!!!

Catching Fire: 3.75. I love this movie from the Reaping onward. There are little things I'd change, like Peeta giving Katniss the pearl after the beach kiss so he'd recognize she was still planning on dying for him. But again, good casting for new parts, good expansion with Plutarch/Snow, they kept up the tension and shot the action really well. Dislike: Too much Everthorne (SHE SHOULD NOT HAVE KISSED HIM BEFORE GOING TO THE QUELL AGHHHH). Softening Gale too much (having him save a woman from a whipping instead of being caught poaching, reducing the fight he had with Katniss and his pettiness about Peeta and Haymitch to him just wanting to fight against the Capitol). Not even referencing Haymitch's games was a bummer. And a repeat of Peeta not being an amputee in the Games. This is definitely the strongest out of all of them.

Mockingjay Part 1: 3.25. I like for the movie that they replaced Fulvia with Effie. Jen and Josh are at their acting peak in this movie. Snow taunting Katniss during the rescue and the quote "It's the things we love most that destroy us." Dislike: Once again things are too sanitized. Cutting out the prep team being abused by 13. Also too much Everthorne. They needed to add more rifts between them as it was in the book.

Mockingjay Part 2: 2.5. It's shot well. Um. Idk, it follows the plot of the book so for me that's always an automatic 2 points at least. Donald Sutherland shined in this one as Snow. Dislike: This is when things being sanitized bothers me the most. Katniss should be absolutely DESTROYED at the end of the war, as should Peeta. They screwed up Everlark post-war. Katniss returning from hunting when she first sees Peeta instead of emerging from the worst of her depression and PTSD and grief was a misstep, as well as Everlark not sharing even a kiss post-war. The filmmakers were just cowards when it came to Everlark.

Personally I'm still advocating for a THG animated series. The movies had a lot they were trying to cram in for a movie runtime and were limited in terms of timeline. Maybe if TBOSAS does well Hollywood will come to return to an established property.

#the hunger games #catching fire #mockingjay part 1 #mockingjay part 2 #curiousnonny #anon ask #everlark #let's be honest if they'd done everlark right the movies would have drastically improved #but for some reason that was like the number 1 thing they just couldn't figure out how to do right #they had this weird “we want the hype and success of twilight without the stink of it” so it made the love triangle weird #bringing out gale and reducing peeta it was awful and the weakest part of the movie franchise #so yeah more everlark and more gruesomeness of the actual games and war and their repercussions

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onlythebrave-91 · 9 months

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Hunger Games Playlist

Playlist order:

BOSBAS: Blowing in the Wind to my tears ricochet

transition to trilogy: DVD Menu

Hunger Games: 7 O'Clock News / Silent Night to Sidelines

Catching Fire: Talkin Bout a Revolution to Graceland Too

Mockingjay: Garden Song to Oceanic Feeling

I'm putting all my posts about my Hunger Games playlist in one place. I put them in the same order as the playlist, not in the order of when I posted them.

BOSBAS and my tears ricochet by Taylor Swift

Eat Your Young by Hozier (and a Modest Proposal)

Limp by Fiona Apple and I Bet on Losing Dogs by Mitski

Day After Tomorrow by Phoebe Bridgers

Salt in the Wound by boygenious

The Archer by Taylor Swift

Garden Song by Phoebe Bridgers

Stay Down by boygenious

cowboy like me by Taylor Swift

Would That I by Hozier

Daylight by Taylor Swift

Oceanic Feeling by Lorde

#hunger games #music #i put so much time and energy into this playlist pls listen to it #ballad of songbirds and snakes #catching fire #mockingjay #playlist #Spotify

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dandelioninsinthespring · 3 years

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Catching fire is my favorite movie, just like it is for many fans because it was cinematographically and acting wise incredible. Josh Hutcherson does a great job conveying vulnerability in Peeta, and Sam Claflin is great at showing how cocky, but smart Finnick is. And ofc Jennifer Lawrence. I only have to think about her scenes right after Cinna dies where she goes from absolute shock to sadness to *game face* in literal seconds and you can actually SEE the transition. Same with the end of the movie where Gale tells her a district 12 is no more and her face changes from despair to panic to anger and we know Katniss is going to kill Snow, even thought she hasn’t said anything. The film still has its faults...most important being making Plutarch into this mastermind who put Katniss in the Quill on purpose vs it being a shock to him in the books and the complete lack of info about the existence of District 13. Because there’s no Bonnie and Twill, it comes out of no where in the movies when Haymitch tells Katniss D13 exists and they are flying there rn. But still, I think the writing and performances (and a little bit of google for non readers) makes up for these mistakes.

Now let’s talk about Mockingjay. I hold the unpopular opinion that it was OK to split the last book into 2. I know it was a purely financial decision but I think knowing how much is covered in mockingjay and the absence of an inner monologue, splitting the book into two movies ideally allows to tell the full story without it feeling rushed or confusing. With this in mind, why did the last two movies suck??

Mainly, the writing. The writing was literally terrible. all of the subtext that the writers used in catching fire to portray katnisses/ other characters emotions is gone in mockingjay. everything is stated. I only have to think back to Part 1 where Peeta says “they’re coming katniss” instead of just “district 13, dead by morning!” to prove my point. That moment in the movies was nearly laughable. Not only do they explicitly make peeta state that there’s going to be a bombing of D13, but then Haymitch has to say “that was a warning”. There’s absolutely no subtext. And don’t even get me started on that weird zoom call between president snow and Katniss while they try to get out Peeta from the capitol. It’s just a whole lot of : “President snow, president snow it’s katniss” as of the Wifi is bad or something.

and ofcourse Finnick. It felt like character assasination the way they dealt with him in part 1. In the books, Finnick is a literal depressive MESS. He can’t leave the hospital or not be sedated for long periods of time because he’s absolutely lost it thinking of annie in the capitol. In fact he wishes that she’s dead because he can’t stop thinking that his actions are going to end up in her getting tortured. It’s incredibly painful to watch Finnick, who’s so confident and assured in himself, the comedic relief and most importantly someone Katniss genuinely likes, become this shell of himself barely able to be conscious because the love of his life is held captive. in the movies, he’s just...boeing. In fact he seems quite put together, but just not contributing much to the scenes he’s in. and we know these actors are capable cuz we have seen it before in the previous movie. But the writing removed all subtext and ruined the characters. Even Coin, who all of us dislike in the books, who constantly reminds Katniss of who’s in charge by torturing her prep team, publicly holding her to her role of the mockingjay etc, is not as ruthless...in fact she’s kind and seems like she wants to be a benevolent leader who cares about Katnisses wellbeing. This is why people who didn’t read the books are so confused about why Katniss shoots coin instead of snow.

I think the easiest way that Mockingjay could’ve knocked it out of the park like Catching fire did is would have been to show Peetas POV in the capitol. Instead of boring scenes filled with empty space and meaningless conversations to fill the movie time in part 1, adding in scenes of peetas capitivity would make the movie more intense and allow viewers to connect with the changed Peeta and feel for him. especially with how big of a role he plays in part 2 and in Katnisses recovery...it would have been nice to see his captivity so the audience could feel how broken and guilty Katniss feels about Peeta and the importance of his own recovery post the war.

#hunger games #katniss #peeta #mockingjay #catching fire #I mainly talked about part 1 but part 2 is not that good either it’s just action packed

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saoirseunaronan · 4 years

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Movies I’ve Watched in 2020

I’m gonna do this for pure self-amusement, so here we go!

🎞️ Frozen II ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - a whole ass treat!! this soundtrack is better than the first one because of the next right thing, show yourself and into the unknown, the trio of the tears. I love love love this movie!

🎞️ Taylor Swift: Miss America ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - to get a glimpse of taylor’s life and how vulnerable and inspiring she is i’m just babey about this movie

🎞️ To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - the first one was so much better i’m sorry lol i think the best part was the soundtrack for real and peter, but it’s a good movie to watch

🎞️ The Invisible Man ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - i think a huge reason why i loved this movie is elisabeth moss, but we can just ignore it lol i just love her i’m sorry. but this movie is really good, i really rec it for everybody (it has triggers pls be careful)

🎞️ The Hunger Games ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - the movie of a lifetime. gary ross did a great job, even tho i’d like less forest scenes and peeta’s leg situation to appear. still an amazing movie that makes me sob. rewatch.

🎞️ Catching Fire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - francis lawrence coming for my soul on this one!! great movie, amazing storyline, CF is just pure perfection. rewatch.

🎞️ Mockingjay Part. 1 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - transition movie. still a great movie, cause i’m a slut for thg, but a very chill movie with less action than the second and fourth ones. rewatch.

🎞️ Mockingjay Part. 2 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - GREAT FINALE!!! a movie that takes my breath away every single time and just opens all the wounds. rewatch.

🎞️ Get Out ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - amazing movie about racism and prejudice inside a GREAT horror film. jordan peele really be doing god’s work eating the rich and the white. rewatch.

🎞️ Seven ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - a classic!! i’m a hoe for investigation movies and this one is INCREDIBLE. great storyline, great production, just great everything. WHAT’S IN THE BOX???. rewatch.

🎞️ Parasite ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - one of the best movies of 2019, just amazing. bong joon-ho said EAT THE RICH MOTHERFUCKERS!! he was right tho. rewatch.

🎞️ The Platform (El Hoyo) ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ - this movie is very good in its message, but still very violent, took my sleep away for a couple of hours, had nightmares lol.

🎞️ Coco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - one of my favorite movies of all time!! i cried a lot, a laughed a lot, it’s just pure magic, i love it so much!! rewatch.

🎞️ Your name ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - SO TOUCHING!! I was crying for a good part of the movie and was so into the story I didn’t even know what time it was lol It’s so great and it has an amazing storyline and so raw :(( tears all the way.

🎞️ Little Women ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - i went thinking this movie was going to be about romance and little drama and no, this shit is DEEEEEEP! I loved it! Performances were amazing, totally deserving of nominations and awards, just YES and story was great!

🎞️ Gretel and Hansel ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - HORRIBLE! I mean lol I’m sorry but this movie sucks and I won’t spend time talking more shit about it, just don’t watch it ever

🎞️ The Maze Runner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - so the first movie is amazing!! it’s very similar to the book and it’s very good in terms of performances like my newtmas was LIVING and i’m just very pleased with the first movie, it does what it’s asked for! rewatch.

🎞️ Maze Runner: Scorch Trials ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - the second movie.... is enjoyable for someone who hasn’t read the books LOOOOL like i’ve read the books and re-watched this movie and it just changed for me. it’s a good movie if i can erase the book’s storyline cause it’s just very different, it’s a totally different story and i have no fucking clue WHY, cause the book is so good, but okay. so i wanna give it 3 stars for effort as a movie, but as a fan of the books things got out of hand. rewatch.

🎞️ Maze Runner: The Death Cure ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - the third movie gave me my newtmas scenes so I’M GOING TO TAKE IT! the movie is also extremely different like they could’ve just switched the fucking name lool but like NEWT’S LETTER IN THE FUCKING MOVIE IS SO GOOD!!! omg i have this movie so much for doing that i’m just babey

🎞️ Bacurau ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - this is a brazilian movie and it’s probably one of the best brazilian movie i’ve ever seen! it’s really good with its storyline and metaphors and it’s really interesting!! it’s also enjoyable! it didn’t stick with me so i’m giving it 3 stars, but it’s really good!

#movies i've watched #updates more to come #2020

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sophieakatz · 5 years

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Thursday Thoughts: The Right Medium For The Right Story

I’m a bit obsessed with the topic of adaptation – and by “a bit obsessed” I mean “I wrote my undergrad thesis about it.” Adaptation is a kind of re-telling; you take a story that was told before, and you change some things when you tell it again.

For example, West Side Story is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It’s the same basic story, but it’s set in 1950s New York instead of 1300s Verona, and the warring “families” are rival gangs instead of members of the nobility.

But there’s another kind of adaptation here that’s perhaps even more important than the change of setting – the medium. While Romeo and Juliet was originally a stage play, West Side Story was a musical, and later adapted again into a film. Adapting a story across mediums changes the work just as much, if not more, than anything else – or, at least, it ought to.

Minor spoilers for The Hunger Games books and movies as well as Disney’s Aladdin and The Lion King ahead.

[Image: The Hunger Games movie poster]

A Rose By Any Other Name Is Different

As a writer, I firmly believe that you must find the right medium to tell a story in. If you later change the medium, then something about the story is going to need to change as well. As much as a reader might want the film of a book to be completely loyal to the original text, a story originally designed as a novel is not going to work if you simply transfer it page-for-page onto the screen. This is because there are fundamental differences between books, a textual medium, and films, a visual medium.

My favorite example of a book-to-film adaptation that shows a clear understanding of the necessity of change is the Hunger Games franchise. Suzanne Collins’s books are told from a first-person perspective, giving the reader insight into Katniss’s thoughts the whole way through. Because we are hitchhiking along in Katniss’s mind, we get a lot of exposition about the world through her memories, and we know exactly what she thinks and feels about everything that’s going on. Importantly, this includes her confusion about how much of her affection for Peeta is real or just for the Capitol audience.

The Hunger Games film, on the other hand, is shot in a traditional third-person manner. Consequently, in the adaptation process, we lose Katniss’s point of view. We don’t get so many of her memories, aside from a brief dream sequence. We also lose her inner conflict about the performed romance (though the sequel, Catching Fire, plays catch-up on that point).

The filmmakers could have tried to make the film more like the book by adding a voiceover to explain what Katniss is thinking throughout the film, to sidestep the limitation of not actually being inside Katniss’s head anymore. Plenty of films do that. But The Hunger Games does not.

Instead, the film leans into the differences between the two mediums, seizing the opportunity to explore things that the book could not. While we lose Katniss’s inner voice, we gain everything that Katniss could not see. We get scenes of President Snow talking politics with Seneca Crane, making the viewer aware of the greater stakes of Katniss’s behavior in the Games much earlier than Katniss herself is. We also see the riots in District Eleven as they happen, instead of learning about them much later. In the third film, Mockingjay, scenes of Katniss’s work creating promotional videos with the rebellion are paired with the actual acts of rebellion that her words have inspired (I particularly love the “hanging tree” sequence at the hydroelectric dam). The effect is haunting, and it all truly drives home the magnitude of what’s going on.

As a result, the Hunger Games films remain true to the heart of the story without trying to shove a square peg into a round hole. A rose you read about in a novel might smell just as sweet as one seen on film, but only if you acknowledge that you can’t depict the rose in the exact same way in a book as you would in a movie.

[Image: The 2019 Aladdin movie poster]

Anything Is Possible… But Not Always

The current trend of live-action Disney film adaptations provides us with a fascinating case study in the power of adaptation, and of how well the adaptors succeed in transitioning a story from one medium to another. The original animated films (which themselves are mostly adaptations of oral fairy tales – but that’s a whole other blog post) and the new live-action and/or photorealistic CGI films are, of course, both films. But the kind of story you can tell in traditional animation is different than the story you can tell in a more realistic “live action” style.

(Not to mention that the kind of story you can tell in a mainstream media production today is different than the stories told twenty-plus years ago, representation-wise… but again, that’s a whole other blog post.)

Animation is a medium of imagination. That’s why animated fairy tale movies have always done so well. The un-reality of the medium lends itself to depicting the kinds of fantastical transformations typically told of in fairy tales. The viewer can suspend their disbelief and forget about the rules of the real world while watching an animated film. It’s much harder to forget those rules when the people on the screen are human actors.

The live-action Aladdin hits all the same story beats as the animated Aladdin, but it makes several brief but notable changes along the way. There are just some things that the animated film could get away with that the live-action film could not.

For example, the Genie spends a lot more time in a “human” disguise than he does in his natural blue form. If you were on the internet at all when the first images of Will Smith as the Genie were released, then you likely saw the backlash – for a lot of people, it just felt weird. A blue character with cartoony proportions who is constantly shifting into different shapes and sizes works very well in traditional animation, but less well when it’s an otherwise normal-looking human guy who is just… blue. You can smush and stretch the 2-D animated Genie and nobody will bat an eye, but if you tried to do the same to Will Smith – ouch! It conflicts with our idea of what is possible in the real world, and a live-action film is always going to feel more like the real world than a 2-D animated film.

This is likely why Jafar does not transform into a snake in this movie. Jafar-as-snake is arguably one of the best parts of the original Aladdin film – it’s certainly one of the best parts of the Fantasmic show at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. It’s awesome, it’s terrifying, and it does not happen in the live-action adaptation of Aladdin. Jafar does a lot of other magic – mostly levitation, paralysis, and creating a storm – but he does not turn into a giant snake. The world of Agrabah established in this film is many things, but it is not established that this is a world where people can turn into animals. We do see some animals turning into other animals – Abu becomes an elephant, and Iago a monstrously huge bird – but neither of them remain transformed for very long. The audience’s suspension of disbelief will only go so far in a live-action film, and the filmmakers probably guessed, and I think correctly, that Jafar turning into a snake would not have gone over well in this medium.

Another thing that would not have gone over so well in live-action is the scene in the marketplace where a shopkeeper threatens to chop off Jasmine’s arm for stealing an apple. Just picture it – a man grabbing a young woman and threatening her with a sword, and they are both real people with real-people proportions, and it is a real sword instead of a cartoony dinged-up scimitar. In the animated film, the moment is quickly played off as funny, but here it would have been scary, much too scary for the first act of an otherwise cheerful film.

A savvy adapter sees and accepts what won’t work as well in their chosen medium, and so makes the appropriate changes.

[Image: The 2019 The Lion King movie poster]

Rules? What Rules?

Which brings me to the new “live-action” Lion King. Now, if you enjoyed this film, then I’m happy for you, and I neither expect nor want to change your mind.

However, this film does not successfully adapt its story from one medium to another. It keeps almost everything about the story, the music, and the dialogue exactly the same as before – but now, the world and animals are photorealistic. Throughout the film, I kept wanting to close my eyes and just listen to it, because the film that I was hearing and the film that I was seeing just plain did not match up with each other.

When Mufasa dies, Simba’s voice actor is obviously crying – you can hear the tears in his voice. But Simba himself is not crying, because real lions do not cry. The disconnect between what the viewer hears and what the viewer sees reminds us that what we are watching is not real, consequently breaking the suspension of disbelief and robbing the scene of vital emotion.

A musical and a nature documentary are two very different things which we watch for very different reasons. Put bluntly, this new Lion King imposes the rules of a nature documentary onto a musical. In a nature documentary, the animals must look and move a certain way which does not line up with human emotional behavior, and the world must look and behave in a certain way which features muted colors and subtle movements. A musical, on the other hand, is all about heightened human emotion – that’s why characters sing, because their emotions are so big that they can only be expressed in song! Musicals are also about visual spectacle over strict realism (with some exceptions – compare the elaborate stage effects of The Phantom of the Opera or the intensive choreography of Hamilton with the much more subdued The Spitfire Grill).

There are a few moments where the rules of the animal world line up with the rules of the Lion King story, to wonderful effect. For example, when Nala is telling Simba to return to Pride Rock and confront Scar, Simba paces back and forth in a real form of lion body language which reads to a human eye as frustration. The slouched-to-the-side way that lions sit looks a lot like the casual lean of a confident villain, giving Scar a marvelous aura of attitude. Also, the frantic, bouncy, here-and-there movement of a meerkat lines up well with Timon’s jumpy, shifty personality and dialogue, adding humor at key moments.

But for most of the film, there is little to no bridge between the story that they are trying to tell and the medium that they have shoved this story into. The Lion King is not a realistic story. Audiences did not go see The Lion King in theatres in 1996 because they wanted to see a realistic story. They went to see a colorful, fantastical musical about talking animals with human emotions. Photorealistic CGI is simply not the right medium for that kind of story, and the story was not changed nearly enough to fit the new medium.

[Image: Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World]

What Comes Next?

I see nothing wrong with telling a story again. As I said before, I love adaptation. It’s clear that today’s filmmakers, especially the filmmakers at Disney, are eager to try their hand at recreating the stories that they watched and loved when they were younger. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, but there is a wrong way to do it, and I hope that future adaption films move away from that way.

One of the biggest things that Walt Disney loved about Disneyland was that, unlike the films, he could change things in the theme park if they no longer worked for the audience or if they could now be done better than before. I think he would be intrigued by the current culture of adaptation, and curious why today’s filmmakers aren’t doing more to explore the differences between mediums and the different kinds of stories that you can tell in different mediums.

Adaptation does not have to mean being stuck saying the same thing over and over. It could, and should, lead to us telling more stories, different stories, and better stories, because when it comes to adaptation, change is a good thing.

#disney #adaptation #the hunger games #the lion king #aladdin #hunger games #lion king #filmmaking #thursday thoughts #nonfiction #film analysis #reviews #musicals #animation #live action #storytelling

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shadowtearling · 5 years

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11 Questions

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Answer the 11 questions you’ve been asked

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Ask your nominees 11 questions

Let them know you’ve nominated them!

tagged by @doughtah thank you, lovely!

1. What are your top 5 tv/movie/stage adaptations?

GOD I don’t know the name of it but there’s this one Korean company that did a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream utilizing elements from their own folklore and it was great!

Red Velvet at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater was absolutely amazing.

The Fault in Our Stars has a special place in my heart.

Catching Fire/Mockingjay were really good story-/aesthetic- wise...

Pride & Prejudice 1995 BBC Miniseries = perfection

2. What’s a genre that you tend to avoid, actively?

thriller/mystery/horror. i’m a chicken and these types of books often drive my anxiety way up

3. What was the last book you read? Can you give us a blurb about it?

The Storyteller by Traci Chee (the last in the trilogy); the series is about this girl Sefia, living in this world where literacy doesn’t (or barely) exists. she finds a book and unlocks a world of magic. and she has to save the world.

4. Would you rather have an endless library but you only had a week to read each book you check out before you never have the opportunity to read it again anywhere, or a small personal stock of maybe 40 books that you could read over and over but you would have to only read those 40 books from now until your death?

endless library! i didn’t know rereading until two years ago i can learn to live again without (plus i already think about the Tearling Trilogy on a daily basis)

5. Can you cook? What’s one dish you were especially proud of?

I bake more than cook, really. I love making sweets. Crinkle cookies are my Thing

6. Can you read during transit (plane, bus, train, car, etc.)?

ONLY ON TRAINS (and only if i’m facing the reverse of the direction to which we’re headed... and only when i’m sat in the middle... and there’s a lot of conditions lmaoooo); i can never sit still on a plane to read; i get too sick in the car; the bus is a roller coaster so

7. Do you have a Type when it comes to favorite fictional characters? Do you want to share what that Type is?

someone who could charm the pants off me i guess lmaooo also someone cool & collected but has a great sense of humor (basically someone who knows their way around words)

8. Do you prefer standalones or series?

I love series. I love the whole anticipation process, but also I just love getting to spend a lot more time with characters than we do in standalones. Besides that, series are honest about being this long thing; whereas, standalones can deceive you. You think it’s one and done and suddenly, surprise! New book from this world is coming out!

9. What was the first book you ever truly enjoyed?

oh god i don’t know? Number the Stars was the first book i remember finishing in the US; first series i ever obsessed over was the Dear Dumb Diary series by Jim Benton

10. What, if any, are your reading traditions?

I don’t know that I have any? Maybe the fact that I’ve vowed to reread Persuasion yearly counts? Other than that, I never put too much stock into my reading habits. I just do it (or not...)

11. Do you read at work?

I used to! Lmao I just realized that at all three of my jobs, I’ve read at one point or another. The first job I ever had I just straight up read books and ignored my responsibilities (yikes... i was also like 17 don’t @ me). I also used to be able to listen to audiobooks and do my job but somehow I struggle with that now, so I haven’t done it in a while.

My Questions!

What’s your Most Anticipated Read of 2019?

Who’s your favorite Disney animated character? (Can include Pixar)

Do you play Super Smash Bros? Who’s your fighter? (Or Mario Kart? Who’s your racer? OR if neither, your favorite video game as of late?)

What’s your favorite aspect of a book cover?

What are your three favorite books/series of all time? (Which one would you Burn, Reread, and Rewrite?)

What book do you want to be turned into a graphic novel and why?

Who’s your least favorite character?

What book/series do you NOT want adapted into a show/movie?

Can you read backwards?

Spill the salt! Rant about the last book you really hated.

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non-sequitura · 3 years

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Retrospective on The Hunger Games

(spoilers for The Hunger Games trilogy)

I remember that I read The Hunger Games trilogy between 2011-2012, but there's a surprising amount of depth to it that I missed the first time around.

For example, Haymitch being alcoholic not because he's an incompetent trainer as implied initially, but because sending in tributes that without fail die every year is super emotionally hard on him.

And how nonetheless, he still does his best to give them real advice.

Also, in Mockingjay, I never really got why Katniss killed Coin when I first read it it was only when I realized that "oh, the 'keep the Hunger Games around to keep the Capital in check' thing is suppose to be about maintaining an evil status quo rather than actually changing the world for the better and it was Coin's idea" did I kinda get it.

But when I first read it I didn't have a ton of awareness about vicious cycles or overthrowing the government commonly leading to an equally bad government.

I thought Katniss killed her just bc she didn't like her vibe basically (as she mentions in the beginning of Mockingjay).

A few other things I didn't get the first time around:

-Why Prim had to die (still don't get this, really) -That Finnick Odair was actually a high-end escort for Capital civilians -Who the heck Plutarch Heavensbee was and what his deal was. Like apparently he basically orchestrated the whole transition from Catching Fire to Mockingjay and saving Katniss from the 2nd hunger games and I was just like "huh; generic dude with a funny name" -Why Katniss was such an appealing figurehead considering that she's very not TV-friendly -Whether Katniss actually was attracted to/in love with Peeta

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brachylagus-fandom · 3 years

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12 Days of WIPmas - Day 11

Not in Our Stars (but in Ourselves), a 39 Clues/Hunger Games fusion

basically Catching Fire with the addition of Cahills. First chapter under the cut.

District Eight

The Reading of the Card happens on a Tuesday. Amy spends the morning clearing out Grace's attic trying not to think about it; since Katniss and Peeta were crowned, she and Woof and Cecilia have taken long walks through noisy parts of town (always with a reason - to pick up fat quarters or yarn or food or Cecilia's kids from school or Dan, not infrequently, from Peacekeeper custody) and quietly speculated at length about what the twist could be. (Woof had suggested forbidding volunteering in order to rig the reapings as much as possible - the Starling brothers, both severely injured in Games-losing ways, are eighteen, and Katniss has a thirteen-year-old sister, and fourteen, which Dan turned five months ago, has never been a good age for Cahills. Cecilia, scoffing at the Capitol endangering their beloved Career districts, thinks they'll change the age range. Amy suspects they'll do reapings in proportion to how many rebels each district had - get Dan and Prim and Ned and Ted and whoever else a rebel loves who’s of reaping age in one fell swoop.) She's sick of dreading it; she'd rather sort through the rest of Grace's library and relish six months outside of the Capitol since apparently they think she should use the time post-drawing to get extra sponsor pledges.

Eight's victors decide to watch the Reading apart. (They used to do this at Grace's house, Amy knows from Woof's half-finished tatting projects bur- hidden in the couch cushions next to a forgotten earring of Cecilia's and notes in Hope's handwriting. She likes to picture them like that, crowded around the screen together, safe and healthy and alive.) When the sun starts to set, Amy goes back to her house, sets out dinner for Saladin, makes herself a cup of tea, and waits for Dan to come home. All of the factories were on half-shifts today because of the mandatory television (and because they're trying to crack down on the weavers by cutting their hours as deeply as possible), so he technically should have been home by four at the latest, but Amy would be entirely unsurprised if he's out painting mockingjays on burned warehouses or bleaching them onto Capitol fashion set to be shipped. (Wouldn't be surprised if the Peacekeepers shot him for it, either; Snow would think that a fitting punishment for her six months of freedom and what her district's just done.)

Five minutes before the broadcast is set to begin, long after sunset, Dan comes in, barely stopping to stomp the snow off his boots. There are fresh bruises on his knuckles. Amy hopes he isn't getting into fistfights with Peacekeepers.

"Where were you?" Amy asks. "There weren't any afterschool shifts today." Dan shrugs.

"Studying with Atticus and Lowell," he says. "They're stressed about the big text coming up, not sure they'll make seventy-fives." The weavers are getting antsy, he means. It's not surprising - things have been heating up ever since the last Games but Amy still tries not to think too hard about it. The last time the weavers got antsy - not counting last month, which ended with three bombed factories and fourteen executions and countless whippings, because last month was miniscule as far as riots in Eight go - was nine years ago, right after the "house fire" that killed her parents, and it ended with three executions for treason and four months of missed tesserae and twelve tributes, too young and totally doomed, who worked in the mills. (Thirteen, if you count Amy herself, but she'd worked inventory - bobbins in, bolts out - not on the floor. She hadn't been a mill girl, not really. Not in the way Hope had been, and especially not in the way Grace had been.)

"Well, just be careful where you… study," Amy says. "The weather's getting rough out there." Don't get caught running messages, she means. I can't lose you, too. Not for something that's partially my fault. Dan grunts an acknowledgement.

"What's on tonight?" he asks.

"Supposed to be the Reading of the Card," she says. "Cecilia and Woof say it's past time, actually." On their screen, the seal of Panem is replaced by Katniss modeling wedding dresses, which Dan scowls at.

Two years ago, he would've mocked the dresses - loudly, to Atticus' and Lowell's and Calico's laughing agreement - and mocked Amy's feeble comments in their defense. Two years ago, they spoke more than a handful of words to each other on any given day, even if most of those words were arguments. A year and a half ago, Amy went to the Capitol as a little girl with a jade necklace - a legacy tribute, sure, but still a child entirely naive to how the Games were really played - and she came home with Ian's blood caking the dirt under her nails and his words rattling around in her skull. (Silly girl, he'd called her, thinking you'll ever esc- and then she stabbed him and pushed him down to the mutts below, and he'd buried her alive but he hadn't deserved that, and she still sometimes wonders if he didn't really mean to win at all, if he was warning her of what was to come.) She came home, smiling and with clean hands (literally, not metaphorically) and deeply claustrophobic, to a brother who was quiet and furious and blank-faced. Sometimes, she thinks she lost him that year; if she didn't, she'll lose him (metaphorically, and maybe literally) when they go to the Capitol together, him as tribute and her as his mentor.

Caesar reminds Capitol citizens to vote for their favorite wedding dress - "something red to match Peeta," Dan mutters under his breath because Calico had been his friend before she had been Amy's first lost tribute - and then the screen transitions to the Viewing Room at Snow's mansion. The opening notes of the anthem play again. A small boy walks in with an ornate box filled with envelopes, each labeled with a games year. One marked 75 is drawn, and the slip within is pulled out.

"On the 75th anniversary," President Snow reads slowly, "as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the Capitol, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors."

That's… unexpected. Unprecedented. Terrifying. (Silly girl, Ian said, thinking you could ever escape, and Amy had killed him and come out with blood and dirt under her nails but she never really left and has spent the past two years bargaining for Dan's life with her body as currency with people who fundamentally do not care. She didn't escape. He did.) Subconsciously, Amy can feel the walls of the den closing in, trapping her, cutting off her air supply as Evan just sobs and sobs and sobs somewhere behind her, and then he goes quiet and a cannon goes off and she won't know it's not his until that night's deaths go up and she can't waste time trying to get to him when she has to dig herself out… Dan, swearing, storms out of the house, towards town (towards trouble), and Amy is back in the present, with a yellow and red quilt Cecilia made around her shoulders and nothing under her nails. The television has shifted to Caesar Flickerman and Claudius Templesmith guessing which victors will go in again; given that only five districts have at least two male and two female victors, it's not hard.

She has to go in again. (She never left.) Amy has so much less left to lose than Cecilia, and she's in better shape, more likely to win. (And, when she inevitably falls on a One tribute's spear, Cecilia has decades of mentoring experience; she's more likely to get their tributes - get Dan - out come next year.) They can get everything else they need out of Grace's house before the Reaping, stash it in a third-party location, and have Dan memorize it. They should do it anyways, just in case the Peacekeepers revoke access.

The day of the Reaping, Amy puts on her Reaping dress from two years ago and Grace's favorite jade necklace - her token, then and now - and shoes she can run in. She buries District Eight dirt as deep under her perfectly painted nails as she can get it. Dan, who's wrangled himself into a pure black suit of his own accord, doesn't mention the oddity if he notices it at all. He's been saying less and being out more than ever since the card was read; Amy doesn't ask where he's been or what he's been doing anymore. (She knows. She put him up to at least twenty percent of it.) Dissuading him is a lost cause, and the bugs in the house really shouldn't catch it if he chooses to tell her.

Dan stays by her side once she enters the pen and holds her hand like he's one of Cecilia's kids; Amy clutches his back. Antonius, after digging around for a moment, calls Cecilia's name, and she walks forwards, her kids still stubbornly holding onto her dress; the camera on the roof of the Peacekeeper's barracks catches every tear rolling down her face in HD, to be transmitted live back to the Capitol for its citizens to coo at. At the base of the Justice Building's stairs, Cecilia's husband takes the two younger children in his arms, leaving Cecilia to try to persuade only the eldest to follow him back with a few soft whispers before Peacekeepers force them apart.

Amy doesn't have to do anything. If she chickens out now, no one will know, and Eight might have a snowball's chance in hell of winning.

But - silly girl, thinking you could ever escape this. Amy came out of the arena, but she never left, never got all the blood and dirt out from under her nails, and now it's calling her back. Quickly, sharply enough that the cameras don't see, Amy takes her hand out of Dan's grip and steps forwards.

"I volunteer!" Antonius gapes at her. Cecilia sobs in relief. "I, Amy Cahill, volunteer as tribute." Antonius nods, gulps, announces her again. He's afraid for once. He should be; the crowd in the square is a powder keg of weavers who have mourned two Cahill girls already and rioters from six months ago who didn't get caught, and Amy's throwing out sparks.

It feels good to be the fire and not the cloth, for once.

Before visitation hour starts, the square erupts, and Eight's victors are hustled onto the train and out of the district as the square burns behind them. Amy, all the Eight she can have around her, only hopes Cecilia's husband and the kids made it out in time. She knows Dan probably didn't. (She knows Dan probably had a part in starting it.)

***

District Six

When the card is read, District Six's Victor's Village is eerily silent. It always is; its designers soundproofed every inch of it and placed it so far from the Hub that you can't even hear the trains. (Nellie misses the noise; she lived right under Track Five growing up, so the only time before her Games that there wasn't a train thudding overhead was the night before every Reaping.) As the closing notes of the anthem play and commentators come on, Nellie looks at the glass of vodka in her hand and debates flinging it at the screen to make Claudius Templesmith's face shatter.

She decides against it. Barely.

She needs to talk to Erasmus. The games this year were always going to be a mess, and they planned to disrupt them as much as possible, but this twist changes things. Disrupting a Victor's games will be easy. You have the lovers from District Twelve and either the mother or the legacy from District Eight, plus a variety of everyone's favorites from elsewhere. They can make this unpopular with ease. The only real problem will be getting them all out, since virtually everyone will either be in the games or mentoring them.

The morning of the reaping, Nellie doesn't dress up. She spikes her (recently redyed) hair up more than usual, but she wears the same grunge she always does; it's her style, and it got her through her first reaping just fine. When her name is called, she is thoroughly unsurprised that Rosie doesn't volunteer; she's pretty sure Rosie didn't even notice. (Ford certainly doesn't when his name is called. Nellie dreads what their pre-Games detox will look like.)

They have a brief visitation, Nellie's parents hug her and take most of her piercing jewelry (at least a quarter of which will be missing if she comes home), Erasmus glares down the peacekeepers to hug her tightly and whisper that there's a plan to get her out, yadda yadda, she's been through this before and it was just as forgettable the first time. The train speeds out of Six quickly, its wheels thudding along the track. Nellie can tell by the sound they're on a hyperspeed, duoblock wheels with front right starting to get fatigued. The sound lulls her to sleep.

***

District Five

Irina knows she's going back in; District Five's only two living victors are Edison, winner of the Forty-Ninth Hunger Games, and her, winner of the Twenty-Fifth. Most of her competitors had been picked because no one wanted them around, because they were a drain on resources, because they were hated; Irina had been all of those things, but she had also been chosen because people thought she stood the faintest, slimmest chance of winning.

She doesn't now. She's kept in shape since her win - she has too much time on her hands, so she might as well spend it doing endless pole vaults and gymnastics routines - but she knows the age breakdown of the victors, and she is one of the oldest left. She'll be speared through by some well-trained twentysomething from a Career district, and that will be that. This time, she has just as much of a chance as most of her tributes do (as Nikolai did), and she doesn't waste time trying to deny it.

She comes up when her name is called (after Flavinius spends a good minute and a half rooting around inside the ball for her slip, which is at least amusing even if it means nothing) and looks directly at the camera they plant dead center at the back of the square. She does not smile, or shiver, or cry, or react at all. She just stares into its dark lens until the cameraman turns away and whispers "as it began, and so it ends" under her breath. Edison staggers up next to her. She's not surprised she can smell the alcohol on his breath from two feet away; he's always been a less-than-functional alcoholic, even before he went into an arena swarming with insects and came out screaming.

They do not do visitation; there is no one to visit them. Edison has never had anyone, and Irina's husband is gone, and Nikolai… Nikolai is gone, too. (Irina just needs to block out why.)

***

District Three

Sinead can't return to the arena. Her brothers need her Victor's stipend; since the accident, Ned can only spend a few days a week in the workshop before the noise and the smell of burnt solder set off his migraines, and no one will hire Ted at all, not even for assembly work. If they were on their own, they couldn't survive, and all three of them know it.

So, on Reaping Day, Sinead stands in the pen with shaking and sweaty hands skating off her vinyl skirt; her stylist says it's in this year, and she needs to earn as many sponsors as possible however she can whether she's in or out of the arena. It's funny; the year of the Sixty-Ninth Hunger Games, she hadn't been nervous at all. Not with the crush of bodies in front of her to pad the probabilities and her brothers, leaning over their side of the cordon, beside her and so many Personal Efficiency credits on her side to balance out the tesserae they and everyone else they knew took out. Now, there are only two slips in a much smaller bowl - their tesserae haven't carried over, it seems - and a sickly sense of dread in her stomach.

Sinead doesn't cry when Wiress' name is called, but it's a close thing. It's not that she doesn't like Wiress - the woman got her out of the arena basically sane, and they work well together in the games and on technological projects - but she just can't afford to go back in again and lose - her brothers can't afford to lose her - she's going to lose Wiress, and it's going to hurt so, so much -

Then Alistair's name is read, and it's like a punch to the gut. Logically, Sinead knows the two events are independent - both of them had a one-in-two chance of being called - but it still feels like they should've gone in together if they went in at all. Alistair was there when her parents died and they had been too young to take out tesserae or get work; Alistair had been there to put her back together after she was crowned; Alistair was there when the battery factory exploded and through the months of painful recovery it had entailed for all of them; Alistair isn't going to be there for anything else, because Alistair's not getting out of this.

Not unless she does something about it.

***

District Two

Hamilton knows he isn't going back in. He knows the other victors have his back. He's barely out, not even cleared yet to mentor; his burn scars are still soft and fresh from a fourth round of half-successful remake. He's still woken up most nights by dreams of gasoline and fire and blood and the sensation of brain dripping on his fingers; the night before Peeta proposed, he nearly strangled Reagan when she tried to wake him up from a nightmare.

Reagan, who fights Madison almost daily over who'll get to volunteer the year they turn eighteen. Dad, trying not to look bitter at the honor he was denied, appeases them by saying one of them can try for a spot at seventeen like Enobaria; this only mutates the argument, which turns into a fistfight at the dinner table that Hamilton is left to break up as his parents smile. (He loves his family, he really does, but if Brutus' couch wasn't covered in wood shavings, he'd be staying there in a heartbeat.)

So, when Hamilton Holt is called forwards, he isn't worried about killing people again. (He knew what he was doing, knew what would happen when he set that trap, but that didn't mean he was prepared to watch a thirteen-year-old burn alive until Satin could shoot her.) He knows the others will volunteer in his place; that's simply how it's done in Two. The female victors had a frenzy when Boudicca was called, and Enobaria won, no surprise about that. Until the crowd is eerily silent, and Brutus - his mentor - is stone-faced and shameful, and his scars itch in the summer heat and there's a sea of victors in front of him but none of them move a muscle and Hamilton realizes there's been a conversation he was left out of.

Goddammit.

His family raves during visitation about the honor he's been given. His father, the front-runner for the Forty-First Games before he was kicked out of the Program for the Promotion of Athleticism (allegations of unauthorized steroids, which Dad admits to, and rumors of grandad committing treason, which he claims were entirely fake, that followed Hamilton in ugly whispers from teachers and jealous peers alike) is eager to have a son who will win the games twice (any other option is unthinkable), and his sisters are eager to watch, but Reagan is shaky and pale. Hamilton thinks she's finally figured out what will happen if he doesn't win. Especially after Cato's epic non-win last year, which was broadcast live to District Two's schools.

Brutus, his mentor a second time around, is a stone wall on the train ride up. Hamilton doesn't do anything to assuage his guilt; it's his fault they're both in this mess again. He absentmindedly scratches at his scars; they haven't itched this much since the second round of remake.

Hamilton Holt is from the safest district in Panem, has already won the games once with tricks and fire and pure, brutal violence, and he's been reaped for the first time in his life.

Goddammit.

***

District One

Jonah knew from the second the card was read that he was going back. He's young enough to still have a chance to bring his district glory; he's new enough that the sponsors haven't really fallen in love with him yet and won't care if he dies. (Jonah's fan's are a bit young for the big bucks, anyways - the markets pull in more money than a hundred concerts ever will - and he knew that when he made his talent music that he aggressively targeted to the tween market, had made that choice deliberately just as he had made his kills as personal and bloody and nonsensual as possible, and he doesn't really regret keeping as much of himself his even if it works less every passing year and even if this is what it led to.) The next morning, he gets a training plan from Victor's Affairs, supplements to help him bulk up muscle he's since lost to suit fashion whims and review on weapons he hasn't held in the six and a half years since his win.

His family doesn't visit him after he volunteers. He doesn't expect them to; he hasn't seen Broderick since before he started training full-time, Laila is keeping Phoenix as far from the Career program and her sister as possible (which, frankly, good for her), and Cora… he's always known his mother's love is fleeting. The last time he talked to her was when he got pulled out, needing immediate surgery to stabilize his leg and half-delirious from pain, and she called him a disgrace - for getting injured, for not playing it sexy, for mercy killing Fourth Place instead of dragging it out - and she's never walked back comments like that. The person who does visit him is Natalie Kabra, sister of the Seventy-Third's male tribute, who placed second after being mauled by mutts. She's seventeen still, a year shy of the arena, but already gunning for the top spot if the trainers' reports are anything to go by. (Also halfway to completely batshit crazy if the psychologists' reports are anything to go by, but that's not exactly a disqualifier in the Hunger Games.)

"Avenge him," Natalie says. "Kill her." Jonah nods; he knows Amy Cahill's odds of leaving the arena alive, and they aren't high. He won't even have to kill her himself.

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katnissed-blog1 · 7 years

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Favourite hunger games movies scenes?

Thanks for the ask!

In thg, when Katniss volunteered for Prim and the desperation in her voice. Everything Katniss did and sacrificed was for her sister and this scene really shows it.

The night before the games when Katniss and Peeta talked.

Victory tour in District 11 in catching fire.

Katniss and Peeta on the victory tour train. “See Katniss the whole friend thing works by telling each other everything, the deep stuff" “Like what?” “Like what is you favorite color.” “Oh you stepped over the line.”

When they destroyed the arena.

Also who can forget Johanna elevator scene.

The Hanging Tree scene in mockingjay. The way it transitioned from this rare moment of calm and silence except for the voice of Katniss singing to them making it into propaganda videos, to the rebels marching to blow up the dam. The whole sequence is done very well and I remember watching it for the first time not being able to breathe.

Epilogue which brings to mind everything that they went through and how far they’ve come and makes me cry every time.

There are definitely more but those are the ones that come to mind right now. The Haymitch and Katniss dynamic is also something that always pulls at my heartstrings, I love their scenes together. :)

#eobardwellscavanagh #this ask made me miss the series a lot #answered

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Oh God lol do NOT even get me started on the "real or not real" scene...I say as I come into your inbox and assuredly get started on the "real or not real" scene PFFFF. Like, hi hello I'm an old THG vet and have sidestepped two fandoms away at this point, and yet this STILL drives me bonkers bananas every time I consider it.

It makes me so mad for a few reasons here.

Francis did not shy away from showing Katniss' feelings towards Peeta in the previous movies. Hell, he even went OUT OF HIS WAY to show them, as he gave us additional content in Mockingjay Part 1. He gave us kisses, and a dream sequence, and Katniss' depression and devastation as she saw him crumbling away ((not to mention the infamous "i love...you...pee...ta" thing in catching fire right before she passes out on the hovercraft even though that one's up for debate and could have entirely just been an acting choice from jen or just wishful thinking from us but still lol like HELLO???)).

Along those lines, if we already got confirmation that Katniss loved him, and got to see that on the screen, then why?? Was it denied from us??? In the final movie???? In the movie where it realistically needed to come to a head????? In the movie where it was the LAST opportunity to portray it for audiences???????

I recall there being some sort of commentary from Nina or Francis or SOMEONE where they were saying that they couldn't have a love scene because it was a "war movie." And like...That is some shaky ass logic if that was the case. Because uhhhhh one of the biggest themes in the entirety of the series is HOPE? That uhhhhhh idk LIFE CAN BE GOOD AGAIN??? You know, just one of the largest lines at the end of the very book itself jsdkls. Like yes, Mockingjay was centered on fighting and war, but then it ended with gentleness. It ended with Suzanne showing how life continues on, and how goodness and peace can still be found after so much pain and suffering. Soooo to be like "lol we can't even show a kiss between our two leads because bang boom pow war movie" is just so??? Backwards?????

Alsooooo they can show Katniss and Peeta with kids but can't show them being in love? Because THAT makes sense lol. Because THAT won't be a jarring transition for general audiences at all. Because THAT won't further the whole argument that "Peeta forced Katniss into motherhood." Since they went from just a dry ass little cuddle in bed that almost seemed to be a regression from their Catching Fire cuddles and their dream cuddle in MJ1 to suddenly having a family. Like mMMMmMMMMM alrighty.

...Lol me honking my clown nose over my previous statement of "not getting started" BUT LIKE...YOU FEEL ME LMAO. YOU UNDERSTAND.

It's just something that will haunt me no matter how many other fandoms I cartwheel through.

YES, GO OFF! I am here for it and agree 100%.

I haven't really gone back to the movies after watching them in the theater until recently and I was just so underwhelmed with Everlark in general in the movies, though I agree I think in MJ part 1 they were doing more heavy lifting with the dream sequence and Josh and Jen's acting (but if I counted right, we only got four Everlark kisses in the whole franchise. FOUR, and only one was really romantic (the sewer one was more heart-wrenching and desperate)). I hadn't watched the movies all in succession until just recently, but for me that aspect was a big ol' flop. I honestly don't know how people who hadn't read the books ever shipped Everlark from the movies. I watched with my brother (who only read book 1 like 15 years ago) and he kept calling Gale Katniss's "boyfriend" and I was like NOOOO STOPPPP THIS IS AN EVERLARK HOUSEHOLD.

But you would think they would want to show Katniss and Peeta really did fall in love, and not just platonic love like so many people accuse it of being, but actual romantic and sexual love. Instead they just cuddle??? Like don't get me wrong, I love all Everlark cuddles but it's not enough to stop there--it's where they were at in CF. And if they didn't want a sex scene (even a PG-13 one) it's like, okay, whatever, I disagree, but not everyone does read "so after" as a sex scene so I could deal with a tamer interpretation. But no kiss???? No passion???? When Katniss tells us the exact opposite in the book??? Katniss is just supposed to be this like, numb person just wanting to absorb heat off of Peeta and treat him like a pillow??? No sir. No. We need that HUNGER Katniss felt for Peeta to be showing up.

I think what pissed me off, too, is that they really upped Gale in the franchise imo, especially CF. Katniss gave him three kisses in the CF movie, and one of them (before she goes off to the Quarter Quell) was not in the book. So it's okay for Katniss to kiss Gale before she goes off to her death, when she's trying to tie up her life in D12 and a rebellion is about to begin, but it's too unfathomable for Katniss to even kiss Peeta after the war when they're safe and she's able to focus on building the remainder of her life with the man she's chosen to be with, the man she loves???? MAKE IT MAKE SENSE FRANCIS.

AND LAST THING kind of tying into the Gale/Peeta contrast. I feel like the movies still viewed Gale as the traditional romantic lead--very manly and heroic in a traditional way, so he gets kissed without cameras around, like Katniss really wanted him physically, and only because of the Prim thing was he rejected. Whereas Peeta, who is pretty revolutionary in being a kind, warm romantic lead in an action/war franchise, was treated like some neutered dog. Good for cuddles but not passion, like a "smart" decision or a "well I'll take it" instead of the conclusion that book Katniss comes to, which is that she feels warmth and hunger and passion for him BECAUSE he is also safety and hope, and that is incredibly sexy.

#mockingjay #everlark

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