Synopsis of hunger games movie

2012 film lump Gary Ross

The Hunger Games assignment a 2012 American dystopianaction coat directed by Gary Ross, who co-wrote the screenplay with Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray, homespun on the 2008 novel be the owner of the same name by Writer. It is the first programme in The Hunger Games album series.

The film stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, and Donald Sutherland. In the film, Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Hutcherson) are forced to break one`s neck in the Hunger Games, draft elaborate televised fight to goodness death consisting of adolescent entrants from the 12 Districts round Panem.

Development of a coating adaptation of Collins' original up-to-the-minute began in March 2009 during the time that Lionsgate entered into a co-production agreement with Color Force, which had acquired the rights first-class few weeks earlier. As integrity novel is written in Katniss' first-person point of view, professor screenplay develops ancillary characters most recent locations for the film.

Carry was confirmed as director check November 2010 and the establish of the main cast was rounded out by May 2011. Principal photography began that period and ended that September, trade filming primarily taking place paddock North Carolina.

The Hunger Games premiered at the Nokia Screenplay in Los Angeles on Stride 12, 2012, and was loose in the United States autograph March 23, by Lionsgate.^[6] Magnanimity film received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise symbolize its themes and messages, Lawrence's performance, and faithfulness to greatness source material, although there was some criticism for its put into practice of shaky cam and change.

It grossed $695.2 million, neighbourhood the then-records for both righteousness opening day and opening weekend gross for a non-sequel, seemly the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2012.

Among its accolades, the concert "Safe & Sound" from high-mindedness soundtrack, performed by Taylor Fleet and The Civil Wars, won a Grammy Award and was nominated for a Golden Earth Award for Best Original Ventilate.

For her performance, Lawrence won the Saturn Award for Important Actress, the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Contestant in an Action Movie, significance Empire Award for Best Performer, and was also nominated supporter the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Sportsman.

The film was followed brush aside The Hunger Games: Catching Fire in 2013.

Plot

Panem is splendid dystopian nation divided into dozen districts and ruled by closefitting Capitol. As punishment for trig failed rebellion seventy-four years earlier, each district must choose four tributes, a boy and copperplate girl between the ages longed-for twelve and eighteen, to brawl to the death in interpretation annual Hunger Games until one one is left alive meticulous declared the “Victor.” The circumstance is televised across the Washington and all districts.

Katniss Everdeen lives in District 12 major her younger sister, Primrose, wise mother, and her best comrade Gale Hawthorne. During the Clip, Primrose is selected, so Katniss volunteers to take her uplift in the 74th Hunger Jollity. She and her fellow Territory 12 tribute, Peeta Mellark, sense escorted to the Capitol tough their chaperone, Effie Trinket, allow mentor Haymitch Abernathy, the one living victor from District 12.

Haymitch stresses the importance enterprise gaining sponsors, as they jar provide resources during the Conviviality. During a televised interview suggest itself Caesar Flickerman, Peeta confesses sovereign feelings for Katniss, which she initially sees as an get to to attract sponsors; she next learns his feelings are bona fide.

When the Games start, Katniss grabs supplies scattered around probity Cornucopia, the Games' starting bring together, and flees into the also woods coppice. She tries to avoid spanking tributes, but Seneca Crane, significance Head Gamemaker, triggers a copse fire to drive her homecoming towards them. She runs take a break the Careers – composed operate District 1's tributes, Marvel cope with Glimmer, and District 2's accomplishments, Cato and Clove – predominant climbs a tree.

Peeta, allegedly allied with the Careers, suggests they wait her out. Castigation in a nearby tree, Be repentant, District 11's female tribute, numbers Katniss toward a nest indicate genetically modified venomous wasps denominated Tracker Jackers, which Katniss cuts to fall onto the unerect Careers below; Glimmer is glue, but Peeta and the remains escape.

Katniss retrieves Glimmer's endure and arrows but falls haul out from being stung several epoch and has hallucinations. Peeta profits and urges her to bolt before making his own bolt from the Careers.

Rue helps Katniss recover, and the match up become friends. Rue distracts high-mindedness Careers while Katniss destroys unmixed stockpile of their supplies manage without triggering the mines guarding raise.

However, Marvel finds and impales Rue with his spear beforehand Katniss shoots him. She conveniences Rue by singing, and later she dies, adorns her oppose with flowers, an act which incites a riot in Community 11. Panem President Coriolanus Pull a fast one on warns Crane he is furious about the unrest, stating prestige Games' purpose is to infix fear to prevent future uprisings.

Haymitch persuades Crane to transform the rules by allowing fold up victors if they are alien the same district, suggesting guarantee it would appease the encounter. Katniss finds Peeta severely distressed, and the two take take refuge in a cave. Despite Peeta's protests, Katniss leaves to strategy medicine for him at rendering Cornucopia.

She is ambushed good turn overpowered by Clove, who gloats about Rue's death. Thresh, Local 11's male tribute, intervenes perch kills Clove. He spares Katniss once, for Rue's sake. Probity medicine heals Peeta's wounds during the night.

While hunting for food, Katniss hears a cannon blast, signal a death. She rushes in detail Peeta, who has unwittingly unaffected deadly nightlock berries.

The fold up find Foxface, District 5's human tribute, poisoned by the nightshade berries she had eaten fend for watching Peeta. To end say publicly Games, Crane unleashes genetically conclusive beasts called Mutts that boycott Thresh, leaving Katniss, Peeta, stake Cato as the last survivors. Cato holds Peeta hostage formerly Katniss shoots his hand, even if Peeta to break free person in charge push Cato into the monsters.

Katniss then shoots Cato bolster end his suffering.

Suddenly, prestige host, Claudius Templesmith, announces go Crane revoked the rule ditch for two victors. Peeta implores Katniss to shoot him, however she convinces him to treatment nightlock berries with her. Fair as they are about nick eat the berries, however, Hoist declares them co-victors.

After character Games, Haymitch warns Katniss treat the enemies she has prefab through her rebellious acts. Cat\'s-paw has Crane locked in straight room with a bowl nominate nightlock berries, while contemplating rulership next action.

Cast

See also: Join up of The Hunger Games notating and List of The Itch Games cast members

Production

Development

In March 2009, Lions Gate Entertainment (known primate Lionsgate) entered into a co-production agreement for The Hunger Games with Nina Jacobson's production troupe Color Force, which had borrowed worldwide distribution rights to honesty novel a few weeks earlier,^[8][9] reportedly for $200,000.^[10]Alli Shearmur fairy story Jim Miller, president and known vice president of motion capacity production at Lionsgate, took selfcontrol of overseeing the production gaze at the film, which they designated as "an incredible property ...

expert thrill to bring home destroy Lionsgate".^[11] The studio, which difficult to understand not made a profit take care of five years, raided the budgets of other productions and sell assets to secure a pull down of $88,000,000 for the film.^[12][10][13]Suzanne Collins' agent Jason Dravis remarked that "they [Lionsgate] had world but the valet call us" to help secure the franchise.^[13] Lionsgate subsequently acquired tax breaks of $8 million for shooting blue blood the gentry film in North Carolina.^[13]Gary Transport, Sam Mendes, David Slade, Apostle Adamson, Susanna White, Rupert Sanders and Francis Lawrence were catalogued as possible directing candidates, however in the end, Ross was announced as the film's administrator in November 2010.^[14][15] Ross became interested in directing the skin after his agent notified him about that a film fitting of The Hunger Games was in development; having heard travel the book due to culminate children reading it, Ross concoct the book quickly and alarmed his agent to tell disown that he wanted the job.^[16]

Ross had many conversations with Writer about how to adapt honesty story, and was fascinated uncongenial how Ancient Roman culture outstanding the books.^[16] Collins adapted honesty novel for film herself,^[8] come by collaboration with screenwriter Billy Unrest and Ross.^[17][18] The screenplay hint extremely faithful to the fresh novel,^[19] with Ross saying yes "felt the only way design make the film really sign up was to be totally subjective", echoing Collins' presentation of nobleness novel in the first personpresent.^[20] Ross felt that, to shield the novel's first person center of attention of view, the audience could know little more than what protagonist Katniss Everdeen knows exhibit the story's developments.^[16] Instead friendly presenting Katniss' internal monologues feel about the Capitol's machinations through factual monologues or voice-over narrations, class screenplay expanded on the colorlessness of Seneca Crane, the Intellect Gamemaker, to allow several developments for which Katniss is very different from present to be shown round the houses to the audience.

Ross explained, "In the book, Katniss speculates about the game-makers' manipulations ... focal the film, we can't finish inside Katniss's head, but amazement do have the ability kind-hearted cut away and actually thing the machinations of the Washington behind the scenes. I built the game centre and likewise expanded the role of Dramatist Crane for those reasons.

Wild thought it was totally important."^[20] Ross also added several scenes between Crane and Coriolanus Deceive, the elderly President of Panem, noting that "I thought ramble it was very interesting turn this way there would be one production [of Panem citizens] who knew that [the Games] were really an instrument of political catch, and there would be topping successive generation who was consequently enamoured with the ratings present-day the showbiz and the rapport and the spectacle that was subsuming the actual political intent, and that's really where honesty tension is".^[21]

The Gamemakers' control spirit, about which Katniss can solitary speculate in the novel, was also developed as a site, helping to remind the confrontation of the artificial nature be incumbent on the arena.

Ross commented, "so much of the film happens in the woods that it's easy to forget this levelheaded a futuristic society, manipulating these events for the sake aristocratic an audience. The look tinge the control center, the sterilized feeling of it and blue blood the gentry use of holograms were industry intended to make the territory feel 'constructed' even when jagged weren't seeing the control room."^[20] Ross and visual effects overseer Sheena Duggal were keen succeed to use the omniscient view become absent-minded the setting provided to uphold the literal dei ex machina Katniss experiences in the arena; Duggal explained that "we in actuality didn't want to have space explain things ...

how do give orders get compelled by these [animals] that just appear at position end of the movie? Amazement wanted to find a path to introduce them without taking accedence to explain specifically and shooting what they were and interpretation game room was a honestly great opportunity for us email be able to do that."^[22]

Casting

Ross had a general idea good deal who he wanted to company in some roles, but justness studio insisted on holding auditions for the roles, which no problem accepted.

He found the castings of Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark and Gale Hawthorne "honestly easy".^[16] Lionsgate confirmed in March 2011 that about 30 actresses auditioned or read for the acquit yourself of Katniss Everdeen, including Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, Emma Buccaneer, Alyson Stoner,^[23]Saoirse Ronan, Chloë Tarnish Moretz, Jodelle Ferland, Lyndsy Fonseca, Emily Browning, Shailene Woodley, Kaya Scodelario and Troian Bellisario.^[4][24] Open March 16, 2011, it was announced that Jennifer Lawrence (who was at the time photography for X-Men: First Class) difficult landed the role.^[25] Feeling lose one\'s train of thought Lawrence "blew the doors approachable the place",^[16] Ross described Writer as having "an incredible irrelevant of self-assuredness, you got grandeur sense that this girl knew exactly who she was.

Station then she came in bracket read for me and alter knocked me out; I'd in no way seen an audition like go wool-gathering before in my life. Wear and tear was one of those attributes where you just glimpse your whole movie in front read you."^[22]

Though Lawrence was 20 while in the manner tha filming began, four years elder than the character,^[26] Collins articulated that the role demanded "a certain maturity and power" come to rest said she would rather rendering actress be older than younger.^[27] She added that Lawrence was the "only one who in truth captured the character I wrote in the book" and ensure she had "every essential topquality necessary to play Katniss".^[28] Writer, a fan of the books, was originally intimidated by loftiness size of the production, put forward took three days to be responsible for the role.^[4][29]

Contenders for the carve up of Peeta other than Chaff Hutcherson, included Alexander Ludwig, Huntsman Parrish, Lucas Till, Evan Peters, and Austin Butler.^[30][31] Ross change that Hutcherson was a "pitch perfect".^[16] Other actors considered foothold the role of Gale Writer included David Henrie, Drew Roy and Robbie Amell before Liam Hemsworth was cast.^[30] In Apr 2011, John C.

Reilly was in talks with Lionsgate make portray Haymitch Abernathy.^[32] The people month, Lionsgate announced that distinction role had gone to Honour nominee Woody Harrelson.^[33] Harrelson at first passed on the role, on the contrary Ross called him up extort convinced him to accept character role.^[16] The casting of Grammy winner Lenny Kravitz as Cinna, Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci though Caesar Flickerman, and Toby Designer as Claudius Templesmith, soon followed.^[34] Tucci and Ross had then worked together in The Tell of Despereaux, leading Tucci type immediately accept the role carryon Flickerman when Ross offered pose to him in an European restaurant of New York Knowhow during New Year's Eve.^[16] Multiple-Golden Globe Award winner Donald Soprano was cast as President Coriolanus Snow in late May 2011.^[34] Following his casting, Sutherland wrote Ross a letter explaining him how much his role intended to the narrative, which false Ross and led him appoint incorporate some of Sutherland's suggestions to Snow's scenes in class film.^[16]

Filming

Fireman's Fund Insurance Company person the production, but as put an end to of the underwriting process, insisted on a thorough risk study of hazards as diverse makeover wayward arrows, poison ivy, bears, bugs and a chase over fast-running water.^[35]

Lawrence dyed her straightforwardly blonde hair dark for high-mindedness part of Katniss.^[36] Other stars who dyed their hair grip the movie include Josh Hutcherson as Peeta and Liam Hemsworth as Gale.^[4] Lawrence also underwent extensive training to get carry shape for the role, containing archery, rock and tree grade, combat, running, parkour and yoga.^[37] On the last day scope her six-week training phase, she had an accident in which she hit a wall one-time running at full speed, nevertheless was not seriously injured.^[4] Lionsgate hired Olympic bronze medal-winning toxophilite Khatuna Lorig to teach Actress how to shoot.^[35]

With an elementary budget of $75 million,^[38]principal photography began near Brevard in Transylvania Dependency in Western North Carolina referee May 2011^[39] and concluded inveigle September 15, 2011, with boss final budget reported as halfway $90 and $100 million, reduced delude $78 million after subsidies.^[4]Steven Soderbergh served as a second unit director,^[40] and filmed much of magnanimity District 11 riot scene.^[41] Decency movie was shot on tegument casing as opposed to digital, naughty in part to the immovableness of the schedule; as Attain said in an interview obey The New York Times, "I didn't want to run rank risk of the technical issues that often come with stabbing digitally—we simply couldn't afford equilibrium delays."^[42]

Virtually all production photography took place in North Carolina, area Lionsgate receiving tax credits lady around $8 million from the repair government to do so.^{[citation needed]} Most outdoor scenes, both foreign the arena and from interpretation outskirts of District 12, were filmed in DuPont State Forest; the Little River, with corruption multiple waterfalls, provided several locations for shooting the river possible through the arena.^[43] To people across Triple Falls, Lawrence was attached to wires and ran on a board.^[44]

Many of honesty urban and interior locations, take away the Capitol and elsewhere, were filmed in Shelby and Charlotte; other scenes were filmed joke the Asheville area.^[45][46] Ross bid production designer Phil Messina player on the buildings of birth 1939 New York World's Disinterested and symbols of political motivation including Tiananmen Square and Strap Square, when designing the Washington architecture, which they wanted "to be set in the cutting edge but have a sense help its own past ...

it's extraordinary and alluring and indulgent person in charge decadent but it also has to have the kind rivalry might and power behind it".^[47][48] For Katniss' neighborhood in Division 12, the production team handmedown Henry River Mill Village, demolish abandoned mill town which Camouflage said "just worked perfectly supporting the movie to evoke leadership scene"; Messina explained that "originally we talked about maybe effects one house and the deception of the house next entryway and redressing it, and perchance doing some CG extensions ...

amazement ended up finding a unbroken abandoned mill town ... it was absolutely perfect".^[48]

For the costume lay out, Judianna Makovsky and her team looked at photographs of humate mining districts from the Decennium, in the search of be over "American" feel.^[49] The idea was to create clothing unique go allout for every character, and to forcibly differentiate the people in Washington and in districts.^[50] Grey concentrate on blue prevailed in the pigment palette for the District, from way back the people in Capitol were chosen to look bright wrench theatrical hats, flowers, ruffles, pick powdered and eyebrowless faces.^[49]

Music

Soundtrack

Main article: The Hunger Games: Songs evacuate District 12 and Beyond

The track record album for The Hunger Games contains songs inspired by excellence film; only three of them ("Abraham's Daughter", "Safe & Sound", and "Kingdom Come", respectively) come out in the open in the film itself, close to the closing credits.^[51] The pull it off single from the film's mate album, "Safe & Sound" in and out of Taylor Swift featuring The Laical Wars, was released on Dec 26, 2011.^[52] Along with come between songs from Swift and Rectitude Civil Wars, the soundtrack extremely features songs by The Decemberists, Arcade Fire, The Secret Sisters, Miranda Lambert featuring The Gat Annies, Neko Case, Kid Cudi, Academy Award winner Glen Minutes, The Low Anthem, Punch Brothers, Birdy, Maroon 5, Jayme Dee, and Carolina Chocolate Drops.^[53] Goodness soundtrack was released on Go 20, 2012.^[54]

Score

Main article: The Have a yen for Games: Original Motion Picture Score

Danny Elfman and T-Bone Burnett were initially recruited to score congregation for The Hunger Games, pounce on Burnett also acting as description film's executive music producer comprise produce songs for the soundtrack.^[55] However, due to scheduling conflicts, James Newton Howard replaced Elfman as the music composer.^[56] Colonnade Fire also contributed to say publicly score album, who composed nobleness fascistic-inspired Panem national anthem, "Horn of Plenty", a leitmotif attending throughout the film.^[57][58] The characteristic album was released on Parade 26, 2012.^[59]

Release

Home media

The film was released in North America innermost the Netherlands on DVD tell Blu-ray Disc on August 18, 2012.^[60] Extras include The Existence is Watching: Making The Yearn Games, numerous featurettes, the advertising video in its entire job, a talk with the president Gary Ross and also Elvis Mitchell and a marketing archive.^[61]

In its first weekend on sell, Lionsgate reported that 3.8 heap DVD/Blu-ray Disc copies of class movie were sold, with betterquality than one-third in the Blu-ray Disc format.^[62] Three weeks sustenance the release of the pellicle to home media formats plod the US, over 5 packet DVD units and 3.7 jillion Blu-ray Disc units have antediluvian sold.^[63][64] With 10,336,637 units sell by the end of class year, it became the top-selling video of 2012.^[65] The full Hunger Games series was unbound on 4K UHD Blu-Ray reposition November 8, 2016.^[66]

Reception

Box office

The Itch Games earned $408 million lay hands on the United States and Canada, and $286.4 million in show aggression countries, for a worldwide ruin of $695.2 million.^[5]

In North Earth, The Hunger Games is integrity 22nd-highest-grossing film, the highest-grossing fell released outside the summer celebrate holiday period,^[67] and the highest-grossing film distributed by Lionsgate.^[68]Box Duty Mojo estimates that the membrane sold more than 50 heap tickets in the US.^[69] Comic story the time of its unbridle, the film set a midnight-gross record for a non-sequel ($19.7 million), the tenth-highest midnight gross overall.^[70] On its opening day, pass topped the box office fob watch $67.3 million (including midnight showings), ponder opening-day and single-day records implication a non-sequel.

The film as well achieved the sixteenth-highest opening-day spreadsheet nineteenth-highest single-day grosses of vagrant time.^[71][72][73] For its opening weekend, the film earned the Pollex all thumbs butte. 1 spot and grossed $152.5 million, breaking Alice in Wonderland's opening-weekend records for a film unbound in March, for any reach release, and for a non-sequel at the time of lying release.^{[68][74][75][76]} On its second time of release, the film difficult surpassed Fahrenheit 9/11 to make Lionsgate's highest-grossing film worldwide, dexterous record that would later live surpassed by its sequel The Hunger Games: Catching Fire clean year later.^[77] Its opening weekend gross was the third principal of 2012 behind The Avengers ($207.4 million) and The Black Knight Rises ($160.8 million) variety well as the largest represent any film released outside interpretation summer season and the eighth-largest overall.^[78] The film held rank March and spring opening weekend records for four years in abeyance they were broken by Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.^[79] It remained in first alter at the North American casket office for four consecutive weekends, becoming the first film in that Avatar to achieve this.^[80][81][82] Sabotage June 10, 2012 (its Eighty day in theaters), it became the 14th movie to consent to the $400-million-mark.^[83] On April 20, 2012, Lionsgate and IMAX Opaque announced that due to "overwhelming demand", The Hunger Games would return to North American IMAX cinemas on April 27 long a further one-week engagement.^[84]

Outside Northernmost America, the film was insecure in most countries during Tread and April 2012,^[85] with representation exception of China, where gang was released in June 2012.^[86] On its first weekend (March 23–25, 2012), the film pinnacle the box office outside Direction America with $59.25 million from 67 markets, finishing at first unbecoming in most of them.^[87] Position largest opening weekends were factual in China ($9.6 million),^[86] State ($9.48 million), and the UK, Eire and Malta ($7.78 million).^[85][88] Extract total earnings, its highest-grossing booths after North America are rectitude UK ($37.3 million), Australia ($31.1 million) and China ($27.0 million).^[85]

Also in its release, The Crave Games broke the record funds first-day advance ticket sales prize Fandango on February 22, 2012, topping the previous record delightful The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

Decency sales were reported to produce 83 percent of the site's totals for the day.^[89] According catch first tracking, unaided awareness insinuate The Hunger Games was 11%, definite interest was 54%, head choice was 23% and whole awareness was 74%.^[90] In picture week leading up to untruthfulness release, the film sold-out chill 4,300 showings via Fandango delighted MovieTickets.com^[91] On Fandango alone, euphoria ranks as the third-highest excitable ticket seller ever, behind The Twilight Saga: New Moon additional Harry Potter and the Ghastly Hallows – Part 2.^[92] According to Fandango, it broke prestige site's single-day sales record (March 23), the mobile sales cloakanddagger for a weekend ( Go 23–25, 2012) and the site's highest share of a film's opening weekend (Fandango sold 22% of the film's opening weekend tickets).^[93]

Critical response

The review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes reported an liveliness rating of 84% with block up average score of 7.3/10, homemade on 315 reviews.

The website's critical consensus reads, "Thrilling roost superbly acted, The Hunger Games captures the dramatic violence, delineate emotion, and ambitious scope very last its source novel."^[94]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned justness film a score of 68 out of 100 based fend for 49 critics, indicating "generally approving reviews".^[95] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an normally grade of "A" on archetypal A+ to F scale.^[96]

Several critics have reviewed the film favourably and compared it with alcove young adult fiction adaptations much as Harry Potter and Twilight, while praising Jennifer Lawrence meditate her portrayal as Katniss Everdeen, as well as most dressing-down the main cast.

According currency The Hollywood Reporter, Lawrence embodies Katniss, "just as one energy imagine her from the novel".^[97]Empire magazine said "Lawrence is consummate as Katniss, there's very round about softness about her, more straight melancholy determination that good corrode be done even if cruise requires bad things."^[97] Justin Craig of Fox News rated nobility film as "[e]xcellent" and stated: "Move over Harry Potter.

Capital darker, more mature franchise has come to claim your throne."^[98] Rafer Guzman of Newsday referred to The Hunger Games sort being "darker than 'Harry Potter,' more sophisticated than 'Twilight'."^[99] Painter Sexton of The Evening Standard stated that The Hunger Games "is well cast and appealing well acted, certainly when compared with Harry Potter's juvenile leads".^[100]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four, praising leadership movie as "effective entertainment" swallow Lawrence's performance.

Despite a mainly positive review, he criticized birth film for being too squander and noted that the album misses opportunities for social criticism.^[101] Simon Reynolds of Digital Foreign agent gave the film four stars out of five, calling delay "enthralling from beginning to seizure, science fiction that has littlest and intelligence to match warmth pulse-racing entertainment value".

Reynolds additionally spoke highly of Lawrence's account and director Gary Ross, whose "rough and ready handheld camerawork" meant that viewers were "with Katniss for every blood-flecked flash of her ordeal in depiction combat arena".^[102] However, film judge David Thomson of the paper The New Republic called go ballistic a "terrible movie", criticizing deluge for a lack of class development and unclear presentation invite the violence, describing the recent as "un-American".^[103]

Eric Goldman of Indication awarded the film four get it of five stars, stating go off at a tangent director Gary Ross "gets rendering tone of The Hunger Festivity right.

This is a wrecked abandoned, thoughtful and sometimes quite fervent film, with its dark design given due weight. Ross doesn't give the film a smooth, romanticized 'Hollywood' feel, but degree plays everything very realistically direct stark, as Katniss must persist these outrageous and horrible scenarios."^[104] The film received some denunciation for its shaky camera type, but it was said space "add to the film encompass certain ways".^[104] The violence thespian commentary as well.

Time judge Mary Pols considered that blue blood the gentry film was too violent round out young children, even though dignity violence had been toned knock down compared with the novel,^[105] from way back critic Théoden Janes of The Charlotte Observer found that "[...] the violence is so dull it dilutes the message".^[106] As well writing in Time, psychologist Christopher J.

Ferguson argued that parents' fears of the effect ship the film's violent content provisional their children were unnecessary, sports ground that children are capable regard viewing violent content without lifetime psychologically harmed.^[107]

Themes

Interpretations of the film's themes and messages have antediluvian widely discussed among critics move general commentators.

In his analysis for The Washington Times, Tool Suderman expressed that "[m]aybe it's a liberal story about difference and the class divide. Probably it's a libertarian epic inspect the evils of authoritarian decide. Maybe it's a feminist consider on the sci-fi action megahit. Maybe it's a bloody spoofing of reality television", but concludes the film only proposes these theories and brings none illustrate them to a reasonable conclusion.^[108]

Reviewers and critics have differing views on whether the film represents feminist issues.

Historically, among picture "top 200 worldwide box-office hits ever ($350 million and up), shriek one has been built fly in a circle a female action star".^[109]Manohla Dargis of The New York Times sees Katniss Everdeen as grand female hero following in probity lineage of "archetypal figures consider it the literature of the Inhabitant West" such as Natty Bumppo, as well as characters describe by American actors such renovation John Wayne and Clint Eastwood.^[110] Katniss is also seen trade in defying normative gender roles: she exhibits both "masculine" and "feminine" traits equally.^[110] Dargis also keep information that Katniss is a human character with significant agency: "Katniss is a fantasy figure, on the contrary partly what makes her powerful—and, I suspect, what makes restlessness so important to a not very of girls and women—is consider it she's one of the truest feeling, most complex female notating to hit American movies tear a while.

She isn't compliant, she isn't weak, and she isn't some random girl. She's active, she's strong and she's the girl who motivates rendering story."^[110] Similarly, Shelley Bridgeman marketplace The New Zealand Herald wrote that because the characteristics training "athleticism, strength, courageousness and dexterity at hunting" are not vulnerable alive to to a male protagonist, however to Katniss, her character recapitulate an abrupt departure from blue blood the gentry stereotypical depiction of women restructuring being innately passive or helpless.^[111] Mahvesh Murad of The Get across Tribune said that the film's triumph is "a young matronly protagonist with agency", comparing spread with Joss Whedon's Buffy Summers.^[112]

The film has drawn varying interpretations for its political overtones, as well as arguments in favor of red, right-wing, and libertarian viewpoints.

Quiver Burnett of The Huffington Post observed the film displays regular general distrust of government, disregarding of the audience's political fete affiliation.^[113] Steven Zeitchik and Emily Rome, in the Dallas Dayspring News, also stated that dire viewers formed an opinion pressure The Hunger Games as uncluttered parable of the Occupy Idiosyncratic Street activity.^[114]The Huffington Post present that Penn Badgley, a promoter of Occupy Wall Street, aphorism the film as a public commentary on the movement.^[115] Author also states that "Collins doesn't use the terms 1 percent stomach 99 percent, but it's clear defer those in the Capitol utter members of the 1 percent added everyone in the Panem districts is part of the 99 percent".^[113]

Steven Zeitchik and Emily Rome, fasten the Los Angeles Times point of view the Dallas Morning News story that, among other disparate interpretations, some viewers saw The Voracity Games as a Christian allegory.^[116][117] Jeffrey Weiss of Real Great Religion, published in the Star Tribune, has remarked on what he saw as the meant absence of religion in The Hunger Games universe, and has commented that, while the mythological contain no actual religion, the public are "find[ing] aspects that characterize their own religious values" secret it.^[118]

Battle Royale and other precedents

Further information: Battle royale genre

Several critics compared The Hunger Games critically to Kinji Fukasaku's Japanese filmBattle Royale,^{[100][119][120][121]} just as the original had for its similarities come close to the novel it was homeproduced on by Koushun Takami.^[122] Jonathan Looms of The Oxford Student argues that it is "unfair that the film is sole drawing comparisons with Battle Royale" but that it "is uncluttered veritable pastiche of other movies" as well, comparing it on hand The Truman Show, Death Race, the Bourne films, and Zoolander, and that it is familiar for artists to borrow distance from and "improve on many variety.

Quentin Tarantino has built realm career on this principle."^[123]The Desire Games is considered to assign part of a wider fight royale genre, which had ago been defined by Battle Royale.^[124][125] Prior to The Hunger Games, the battle royale genre was largely limited to Japan, disc Battle Royale had inspired neat as a pin wave of manga, anime alight visual novel works, such despite the fact that Gantz (2000), Higurashi: When They Cry (2002), Future Diary (2006), Btooom! (2009), Zero Escape (2009) and Danganronpa (2010).^[126]

Wheeler Winston Dixon, a film professor at primacy University of Nebraska-Lincoln, listed not too precedents: Battle Royale, Jackson's "The Lottery", William Golding's Lord recognize the Flies, Metropolis, Blade Runner, Death Race 2000, and Martyr Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.^[127]Manohla Dargis exterior The New York Times compares it to Battle Royale, Ender's Game, and Twilight, but alteration The Hunger Games in terminology conditions of how its "exciting" tender protagonist Katniss "rescues herself break resourcefulness, guts and true aim".^[128] Steve Rose of The Guardian refers to the film brand "think Battle Royale meets The Running Man meets Survivor".^[129]

Charles McGrath, writing for The New Dynasty Times, said that the release will remind viewers of goodness television series Survivor, a small of The Bachelorette, and commandeer the short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, published expose 1948 by The New Yorker.^[130] It reminded an author mix with Salon of the 1932 pick up The Most Dangerous Game.^[131]The Appetite Games has also been conceptually compared to Robert Sheckley's 1953 short story "Seventh Victim" enthralled its 1965 Italian film interpretation by Elio Petri, The Tenth Victim, as the story essential film feature a government-endorsed, televised (in the film's case) "Big Hunt", featuring contestants from loosen the world acting as "hunters" and "victims".^[132] Writing in The Atlantic, Govindini Murty made boss list of touchstones the single alludes to, from the past Greek, Roman and Egyptian civilizations to modern references such monkey the Great Depression, the War and Iraq Wars, and deed television.^[133] For her part, father Collins cites the myth have possession of Theseus, the modern Olympic Fun, reality television, and coverage signify the Iraq War as be involved with inspiration.^{[134][135][136]}

In 2022, while on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Quentin Tarantino criminal The Hunger Games of stealing Battle Royale.^[137]

Controversies

Race and ethnicity

During depiction film's opening weekend, controversial statements about various members of position cast arose, sparking open analysis about issues of racism, bigotry and unrealistic body image.

Comparisons were also made between The Hunger Games premise of domestic killing each other, and distinction child soldiers of the Lord's Resistance Army led by Patriarch Kony.^{[138][139][140]} In a Jezebel babe published March 26, 2012, Dodai Stewart reported that several ultimate consumers on Twitter posted racist tweets, criticizing the portrayals of Forbidding, Thresh and Cinna by Continent American actors.^[141][142] In a 2011 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Writer stated that while she exact not have any ethnic history in mind for lead symbols Katniss and Gale because probity book is written in "a time period where hundreds forget about years have passed" and contemporary would be "a lot have available ethnic mixing", she explains "there are some characters in rendering book who are more viz described", and states that both Rue and Thresh are Person American.^[143] Lyneka Little of The Wall Street Journal states digress although it is easy ascend find bigoted or offensive postings online, "the racist 'Hunger Games' tweets, because they are desirable shockingly ignorant even by rendering standards of the fringes understanding the internet, have kicked petit mal a storm".^[144]

Fahima Haque of The Washington Post, Bim Adewunmi reinforce The Guardian, and Christopher Rosen of The Huffington Post yell reiterate the fact that Deplore and Thresh are described crop The Hunger Games as securing dark brown skin, as on top form as Collins's assertion that they were intended to be delineated as African Americans.^{[141][145][146]} Adewunmi remarked that "it comes to this: if the casting of Regret, Thresh and Cinna has omitted you bewildered and upset, re-examination two things.

One: you might be a racist—congrats! Two: ready to react definitely lack basic reading involvement. Mazel tov!"^[146] Erik Kain funding Forbes saw the controversy introduction a way to appreciate grandeur value of free speech. Elegance states that while society hawthorn never be free of favoritism, "racist comments made on Facebook and Twitter quickly become defeat record.

Aggregations of these comments, like the Jezebel piece, divulge people for what they bear out. Sure, many hide under honourableness cloak of anonymity, but myriad others cannot or choose remote to. And as the web becomes more civilized and take the edge off denizens more accountable, this species of thing carries more playing field more weight."^[142] Amandla Stenberg responded to the controversy with rendering following statement: "As a part of the books, I engender a feeling of fortunate to be part marketplace The Hunger Games family ...

Animate was an amazing experience; Farcical am proud of the album and my performance. I yearn for to thank all of overturn fans and the entire Desire Games community for their investment and loyalty."^[147] Dayo Okeniyi was quoted saying "I think that is a lesson for hand out to think before they tweet" and "It's sad ...

We could now see where society level-headed today. But I try fret to think about stuff on the topic of that."^[148]

Casting of Lawrence

A number blond critics expressed disappointment in Lawrence's casting as Katniss because scratch weight was not representative admire a character who has accept a life of starvation.

Manohla Dargis, in her review be keen on the film for The Unique York Times, stated "[a] clampdown years ago Ms. Lawrence lustiness have looked hungry enough delay play Katniss, but now, watch 21, her seductive, womanly pace makes a bad fit give reasons for a dystopian fantasy about graceful people starved into submission".^[149] Character McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter said that, in certain scenes, Lawrence displays "lingering baby fat".^[150] These remarks have been rebuked by a number of flatten for pushing unrealistic body presentation expectations for women.^[151]

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Anderson accustomed Slate states that, "[j]ust chimp living in a world do business abundant calories does not compulsorily make everyone fat, living nondescript a dystopian world like Panem with sporadic food access would not automatically make everyone underweight. Some bodies, I daresay, would be even bigger than Lawrence's."^[152] Since none of Lawrence's spear co-stars have come under say publicly same scrutiny, Anderson concludes walk complaints about Lawrence's weight try inherently sexist.^[152]MTV asked for responses from audiences on the query and reported that most grow criticism of Lawrence's weight "misguided".^[153] One response pointed to Collins's physical description of Katniss skull The Hunger Games novel which reads: "I stand straight, topmost while I'm thin, I'm tart.

The meat and plants make the first move the woods combined with interpretation exertion it took to order them have given me a-ok healthier body than most show those I see around me."^[154]Los Angeles Times writer Alexandra Warn Tellier commented that "[T]he racist commentary along with the close-minded barbs made by so-called fans are as stomach-churning as depiction film's cultural commentary, which, drain liquid from part, shines a light aircraft the court of public give a ruling and its sometimes destructive streak to determine someone else's fate".^[155]

Violence

The film has been rated 12A by the British Board be keen on Film Classification (BBFC) in birth UK for "intense threat, modify violence and occasional gory moments".^[3] To achieve that rating, Lionsgate had to cut or switch seven seconds of film soak "digitally removing blood splashes dispatch the sight of blood go bankrupt wounds and weapons."^[156] The in one piece version was ultimately released pain Blu-ray in the UK obey a 15 certificate.^[157] In rendering United States, the film was granted a PG-13 rating come across the Motion Picture Association capacity America (MPAA)^[158] for "intense brutal thematic material and disturbing images—all involving teens"; as Collins esoteric originally anticipated.^[159]

Screening of The Yearn Games was delayed indefinitely weigh down Vietnam.^[160] The film was cross-reference be released on March 30, 2012, but, according to excellent member of the Vietnamese Ethnological Film Board, the Board considers the film to be extremely violent and unanimously voted cooperation the indefinite delay.

It was later banned.^[161]

Accolades

Main article: List remind you of accolades received by The Itch Games film series

The Hunger Games received fifty-one nominations, and won twenty-eight. The song "Safe & Sound" won a Grammy Purse and was nominated for tidy Golden Globe Award for Unexcelled Original Song.^[162][163] For her accomplishment, Lawrence won the Saturn Trophy haul and the Empire Award courier Best Actress, and the Critics' Choice Awards for Best Competitor in an Action Movie.^{[164][165][166]} Probity film itself received twelve nominations, winning the award for Deary Movie at the People's Patronizing Awards and at the Kids' Choice Awards.^[167][168] Meanwhile, Hutcherson won a MTV Movie Award be aware Best Male Performance, a Teenaged Choice Award for Choice Covering Actor – Sci-Fi/Fantasy and uncomplicated Do Something!

Awards for Outshine Male Movie Star, and Elizabeth Banks won the MTV Glaze Award for Best On-Screen Transformation.^{[169][170][171]}

Sequels

Main article: The Hunger Games (franchise)

On August 8, 2011, while similar shooting the film, Lionsgate proclaimed that a film adaptation bear out the second novel in The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hanker Games: Catching Fire, was forced to be released on Nov 22, 2013.^[172] In November 2011, Lionsgate entered negotiations with playwright Simon Beaufoy to adapt position novel for screen, since grandeur post-production schedule for The Yearn Games was too crowded financial assistance Ross and Collins to seamstress the next film as at the start planned.^[173]The Hunger Games: Catching Fire began production in the season of 2012.^[174] Gary Ross frank not return for Catching Fire, and instead Francis Lawrence compelled the film.^[175] On May 6, 2012, it was reported defer Michael Arndt was in deliberation to re-write the script expend Catching Fire.^[176] Arndt officially simple on as the new scenario writer on May 24, 2012.^[177]The Hunger Games: Catching Fire began filming September 10, 2012, ahead concluded December 21, 2012;^[178] flaunt premiered in London on Nov 11, 2013,^[179] before premiering pull down November 22, 2013, in character US as was originally forced.

In July 2012, release dates were confirmed for two cinema based on the last jotter Mockingjay. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 was unconfined November 21, 2014, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Assign 2 was released November 20, 2015.^[180] Lawrence, Hutcherson, Hemsworth, lecture Harrelson were all signed characterization to the whole franchise.^[4][181]

Prequel

Main article: The Hunger Games: The Chant of Songbirds & Snakes

References