![]() ![]() After the announcement, Katniss finds a gravely wounded Peeta. Haymitch persuades Crane to change the rules to allow two winners provided they are from the same district, suggesting that this will pacify the public. President Coriolanus Snow warns Crane about the unrest. She comforts Rue by singing to her and, after she dies, adorns her body with flowers, triggering a riot in District 11. Katniss later finds and frees Rue from a trap, but Marvel throws a spear which impales Rue. Katniss destroys the supplies the Careers stockpiled by detonating mines guarding them, while Rue provides a distraction. Rue helps Katniss recover, and they become friends and allies. Katniss becomes disoriented from being stung a few times. Using a knife, Katniss causes the nest to fall on the Careers sleeping below Glimmer dies, but the others escape. Rue draws her attention to a nest of genetically modified venomous wasps. The next morning, Katniss notices Rue, District 11's young female tribute, hiding in an adjacent tree. ![]() Peeta advises the Careers to wait her out. She runs into the Careers, with whom Peeta has seemingly allied, and flees up a tree. Katniss tries to stay away from the others, but Seneca Crane, the Head Gamemaker, triggers a forest fire to drive her towards them. Half of the 24 tributes die in the initial melee, and only 11, including all four Careers, survive the first day. During a televised interview with Caesar Flickerman, Peeta expresses his love for Katniss, which she initially sees as an attempt to attract sponsors she later learns his admission is genuine.Īt the start of the Games, Katniss grabs some of the supplies placed around the Cornucopia, a structure at the starting point, and narrowly escapes death. While training, Katniss observes the "Careers" (Marvel, Glimmer, Cato, and Clove), volunteers from the wealthy Districts 1 and 2 who have trained for the Games from an early age. Haymitch stresses the importance of gaining sponsors, as they can provide potentially life-saving gifts during the Games. She and fellow tribute Peeta Mellark are escorted to the Capitol by their chaperone Effie Trinket and mentor Haymitch Abernathy, the Games' only living winner from District 12. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen of District 12 volunteers to take her younger sister Primrose's place in the 74th Hunger Games. As punishment for a failed revolt, each district is forced to select two tributes, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18, to fight to the death in the annual Hunger Games until there is only one survivor, and the entire event is televised. The nation of Panem is divided into 12 districts, ruled from the Capitol. The film was followed by the sequel, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, in 2013. For her performance, Lawrence won the Saturn Award for Best Actress, the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress in an Action Movie, the Empire Award for Best Actress, and was also nominated for the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. It grossed $694 million worldwide, setting the then-records for both the opening day and opening weekend gross for a non-sequel, becoming the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2012.Īmong its accolades, the song " Safe & Sound" from the soundtrack, performed by Taylor Swift and the The Civil Wars, won a Grammy Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its themes and messages, Lawrence's performance, and faithfulness to the source material, although there was some criticism for its use of shaky cam. The Hunger Games premiered in Hollywood on March 12, 2012, and was theatrically released in the United States eleven days later. Principal photography began that month and ended that September, with filming primarily taking place in North Carolina. Ross was confirmed as director in November 2010 and the rest of the main cast was rounded out by May 2011. As the novel is in Katniss' first-person point of view, its screenplay develops ancillary characters and locations for the film. In the film, Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Hutcherson) are forced to compete in the Hunger Games, an elaborate televised fight to the death consisting of adolescent contestants from the 12 Districts of Panem.ĭevelopment of a film adaptation of Collins' original novel began in March 2009 when Lionsgate entered into a co-production agreement with Color Force, which had acquired the rights a few weeks earlier. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, and Donald Sutherland. It is the first installment in The Hunger Games film series. The Hunger Games is a 2012 American dystopian action film directed by Gary Ross, who co-wrote the screenplay with Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray, based on the 2008 novel of the same name by Collins. ![]()
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