The Hunger Games (film): Difference between revisions

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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: In the book, Katniss gets her pin from Madge. Madge wasn't in the movie, so it was a gift from Greasy Sae.

* [[Adaptation Expansion]]:

* [[As You Know]]: The sportscaster scenes are this. Information about the Games provided by Katniss' narration in the book is provided by them here, such as Caesar explaining the Tracker Jackers to the audience. Seeing as first-time viewers would be small children, one assumes talking about an engineered species of creatures that's never found in the city is for the benefit of the target audience, namely the Capitol viewers.

* [[Beard of Evil]]: Seneca wears a [[Weird Beard]] with immaculately trimmed curlicues that is opulent, silly and sinister all at once.

** Due to medical treatments, Katniss's swollen Tracker Jacker stings completely vanish in the next scene. The cut she receives on her face all but vanishes in the next scene as well. For all the time she spends sleeping outside and fighting to the death, she still looks great by the end.

** Averted with Glimmer, who wasn't much of a glimmer anymore after {{spoiler|the Tracker Jackers were done with her.}}

* [[Big Heroic Run]]: Played straight and subverted. Katniss runs to save Rue when she's caught in the Career's net trap, and then runs to find Peeta later on when she hears the gong signalling a Tribute death (which wasn't him).

* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: Averted. {{spoiler|Rue dies midway through the film, and Thresh is the next-to-last to fall.}}

* [[Boring Yet Practical]]: The trainers stress that learning wilderness survival can give you at least as much an edge of winning as combat. In addition, Haymitch stresses really hard to Katniss that she ''must not'' bolt for the weapons at the start, but make for high ground and water right away. Katniss goes halfway by getting a backpack of wilderness survival gear, and that proves all she needs to start with, and through sheer luck, inadvertently gets a knife from Clove.

* [[Call Back]]: Snow explains to Seneca why the Hunger Games needs a champion, and why it isn't simply an annual public execution. {{spoiler|Peeta buys this at the end, asking Katniss to kill him so that District 12 will have their champion. Katniss, by now, realizes that she would do far more good as a ''martyr'', and tells Peeta there doesn't need to be a champion at all.}}

* [[Chekhov's Classroom]]: Haymitch tells Peeta not to start a fire as it's a good way to get killed. Later in the film a girl does just that and you can guess the outcome.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The mockingjay pin and {{spoiler|nightlock berries.}}

** Katniss shoots an apple out of a roasted pig's mouth. She later shoots a sack of apples to set off the alliance's mines.

* [[Cool Train]]: The maglev that takes Katniss and Peeta from District 12 to Capitol. Unlike modern-day maglevs, this one hovers high above the tracks and appears to be flying on its own. It's also equipped with all the amenities for the tributes and their retinue.

* [[Cue the Sun]]: As soon as {{spoiler|Cato dies}}, this was invoked.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: {{spoiler|After outfighting Katniss, Clove gets completely overpowered and killed by Thresh.}}

* [[Dawson Casting]]:

** Isabelle Furhman, who plays Career Tribute Clove, was 14 when they filmed. Peeta mentions that Careers are always 18 when they volunteer. That means that although Fuhrman is six years younger than Lawrence, she was playing someone two years older. Also averted by Jacqueline Emerson (Foxface) and Amandla Stenberg (Rue), aged 16 and 12 during production.

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Greasy Sae, Buttercup and Katniss' prep team. In addition, while the District 4 tributes weren't even important enough to get names in the book, the entire District gets demoted from being a Career District.

* [[The Ditz]]: Glimmer - for a Career, anyway.

* [[Fake American]]: Aussie Liam Hemsworth uses an American accent to play Gale. Panem is supposed to be located in North America.

* [[Fantasy Gun Control]]: No guns for either the candidates or law enforcement, probably to prevent Katniss from simply wasting every opposing force and ending the story in ten minutes.

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Foxface and Prim. Gale also recalls Katniss as a child with two braids instead of the one she wears now.

* [[Hangover Sensitivity]]: When Katniss and Peeta meet Haymitch for the first time, he's more interested in continuing his drinking than giving advice, to the point of going back to his room.

* [[Held Gaze]]: Katniss and Peeta do this frequently between themselves as a means of subtly creating romantic tension before anything truly happens between the two in the games.

* [[Hope Spot]]: In-universe; Snow explains to Seneca why giving the Districts "a little hope" is a more effective means of control than simply rounding up 24 children every year and executing them. Too MUCH hope, however, is dangerous.

* [[Hotter and Sexier]]:

** Inverted with Glimmer's dress. In the book, she's described as wearing a translucent golden dress. However, in the movie, she girlishly bounces out on stage in a puffy white dress.

* [[Huge Girl Tiny Guy]]: Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss) is only a half inch taller than 5'7'' Josh Hutcherson (Peeta) but on screen the height difference looks more pronounced especially when they stand next to each other after first being announced as tributes. Hutcherson's height is regularly disputed, with some sources giving him as 5'5".

* [[I Let Gwen Stacy Die]]]]: {{spoiler|Katniss' sadness over Rue's death leads her to go to great lengths to protect Peeta}}.

* [[Impairment Shot]]: Almost every time Katniss is injured during the games.

* [[Infant Immortality]]: Obvious considering the subject matter, but made more apparent in the film: a number of the dead tributes are very clearly not even old enough to be in high school and get the same bloody deaths as everyone else.

* [[I Will Protect Her]]: Katniss to Prim. Then, to Rue. [[Rule of Three|Finally to Peeta]].

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: The Tributes, by necessity, wear their uniforms for the entirety of the game. Seneca Crane wears the same weird vest the whole time.

* [[Love At First Sight]]: Peeta says this about Katniss during his appearance on Flickerman's show as part of a gambit to increase his popularity for both of them and gain more sponsors. Whether or not he actually ''means'' it is the real question.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: "Panem" means "bread," which is a reference to the Roman phrase "bread and circuses," which are the ways that a tyranny can keep its population under control. People from the capital have Roman names, another reference to the trope. Katniss is named after a plant that is also called "arrowhead," referring to her weapon of choice. Rue means "regret," referring to {{spoiler|Kat's regret over her death}}. Peeta the baker's name sounds like "pita," a type of bread.

* [[Mercy Kill]]: {{spoiler|In the film, Cato actually screams "Please!" to be mercy killed by Katniss. And his ordeal didn't last 20 hours, unlike the book.}}

** Foxface {{spoiler|sneaking into the Career's camp to steal food}}. Based on the reactions to these three characters you'd think they actually had more screen time.

** Donald Sutherland's [[Throw It In]] scenes in which he explains President Snow's political philosophy.

* [[One-Woman Wail]]: During the opening scenes, ethereal vocalizations play as we see an impoverished District 12. Fans of the ''[[Halo]]'' franchise will find the tune [[Suspiciously Similar Song|suspiciously similar]].

* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Elizabeth Banks has some noticeable slips as Effie. It's harder to tell but Liam Hemsworth's Australian also comes out.

* [[Shining City]]: The Capitol. This is, however, a case of [[Light Is Not Good]] (see above).

* [[Ship Tease]]: Glimmer and Cato are seen cuddling while they sleep.

* [[Show Within a Show]]: The Hunger Games themselves.

* [["Shut Up" Kiss]]: Katniss to Peeta, when he got sick. But you do not get points for guessing this.

** Katniss, safely hidden in a tree, watches first hand a Tribute learn a cardinal rule about stealth in hostile territory the hard way: under no circumstances do you ''make a camp fire'' - [[Epic Fail|you'll be too easy for the enemy to spot]].

** Clove {{spoiler|giving a Hannibal Lecture to Katniss about her group having killed Rue rather than just killing her. Ends up badly for her when Thresh overhears.}}

* [[The Voiceless]]: Foxface maybe says a word or two (during her interview with Caesar but this is out of focus so it's hard to tell)

* [[Waistcoat of Style]]: Seneca Crane.

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Katniss and Peeta, {{spoiler|the last survivors, are told the rule that allowed them to win together has been revoked, so one has to kill the other. Katniss decides to have both herself and Peeta eat the nightlock berries, denying them their champion and giving District 12 two martyrs instead. Doing so forces to Seneca to either let them both win or let there be no champion and stoke further civil unrest - forcing ''him'' to become the final casualty of the Games.}}

 

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