The Hunger Games Trilogy

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Dec 11, 2011 15:08:33 GMT -4 grommit said:

I got a cheap boxset and read the books over the course of a week. I enjoyed them but there's a lot of repetition and can't imagine how they're planning to make four movies out of them.

I think they could tell the story in two very good movies but unfortunately that's not how Hollywood works.

I wouldn't be surprised if they made two movies out of the third book if the first movie is successful.

And yes, there really was a lot of repetition...I mean, how many times in the second and third book did Katniss think she was going to die only to wake up in pain, overhear some stuff she completely misunderstood until Haymitch explained it to her?

[Babycakes]

I've read and reread the entire series about three times in the past week. It really is fascinating. I had no idea that they already planned to make 4 movies. I can barely imagine Mockingjay being 1 full movie. Where on the world would they split it? Nothing actually happens, just a lot of gruesome deaths. And if Hunger Games is going to be PG13, they're going to have to bump up the rating to R bordering on NC17 by the time they make it to the final movie.

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Yep they have already said they plan to make this four movies. I really hate this trend of turning one book into two movies. Especially since last books in series generally tend to be the worst ones. I would love it if Hunger Games had bucked the trend and turned the three books into two movies instead.

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Dec 11, 2011 15:08:33 GMT -4 grommit said:

I got a cheap boxset and read the books over the course of a week. I enjoyed them but there's a lot of repetition and can't imagine how they're planning to make four movies out of them.

I loved the first half of Catching Fire but was frustrated when Katniss and Peeta went into the Games AGAIN and we had the whole prep/makeover scenes repeated. I do think that the story was gripping enough to make you shrug off the things that weren't that great and just keep turning the pages, but I do wonder how they'll make it work in the movies.

[Mierin]

Nov 24, 2011 17:26:11 GMT -4 cabbagekid said:

Me too! I'm in for the re-read book club.

I seriously can not wait for the movie to come out.

Me too! I read the trilogy rather quickly as I wanted to know what would happen next. I should re-read it so I pick up on stuff I missed the first time around.

[mmmkrimpets]

Did anyone else completely miss in Mockingjay when Prim was killed until President Snow later apologized to Katniss for it? It could have been my split second attention span, but I re-read the pages a couple times and still completely missed it until later.

[Babycakes]

I figured it out/knew when she dreamed about bird Prim trying to take her up to heaven with their father and others when she was in a coma(?) after she was burned.

Something that's been bugging me even on my 5th(?) reading, is the glossing over of Peeta possibly killing people in the first Hunger Games. When Peeta and the Careers have Katniss treed, the Careers mention that Peeta is "handy with a knife". And I figure he had to convince them that he would make a reasonable addition to their pack. Plus 11 kids were killed on the first day. And while they're having that discussion, Peeta apparently finishes off the girl Cato thought he killed. It's only later when Foxface dies, that Peeta shows guilt, remorse, regret. Does anyone else have any thoughts on this. I've tried the books wiki, but it was pretty useless. The only death that Peeta is 100% responsible for is Brutus in Catching Fire.

[Aurora B]

Interesting question Babycakes. I didn't give it much thought but I went back and read the part about Foxface's death. Peeta didn't seem to be remorseful, just commented that it "didn't seem fair" that she dies after eating berries they were about to eat, therefore cluing them in that the berries were poison.

As far as the first girl he killed, I guess you could fan-wank that he didn't have to do anything, just wait by her until she died of the previous wounds and confirm her death to the Careers. But I don't think it was presented that he didn't kill anyone at all, except by mistake in the case of Foxface. He himself tells Katniss, before they go into the arena, he will probably kill when he has to. The details of his activities that Kaniss didn't see herself are just never confirmed when they are watching the recaps at the victor's ceremony at the end of the first book.

[kostgard]

On the Peeta question -

SPOILER: Click to show

I always figured he did finish off the girl Cato tried to kill, but it was the humane thing to do. A mercy killing. Then he killed Foxface indirectly and by accident. So I think he still basically got out of the games without "murdering" anyone and I could see him not getting that broken up about those deaths. Katniss had more "direct" kills and while she seemed to feel kinda bad after Glimmer's death, she certainly didn't regret killing the guy who killed Rue at all.

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Do folks still want to do a re-read? And if so, how should we handle spoilers?

[Babycakes]

Jan 5, 2012 0:47:09 GMT -4 kostgard said:

On the Peeta question -

SPOILER: Click to show

I always figured he did finish off the girl Cato tried to kill, but it was the humane thing to do. A mercy killing. Then he killed Foxface indirectly and by accident. So I think he still basically got out of the games without "murdering" anyone and I could see him not getting that broken up about those deaths. Katniss had more "direct" kills and while she seemed to feel kinda bad after Glimmer's death, she certainly didn't regret killing the guy who killed Rue at all.

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Do folks still want to do a re-read? And if so, how should we handle spoilers?

I'm definitely up for a reread. I've been reading nothing else but THG series for the past month. I keep catching little things on every reread. I have no clue how to go about handling the spoiler issue.

As for the the deaths, I can get on board about the mercy killing of the first girl by the tree, I even fanwanked a gentle smothering. But I always found it odd that it was only Foxface's death that bothered him, and not the other possible deaths he possibly contributed to. Who did he use his fancy knife skills on?

Aurora B:

As far as the first girl he killed, I guess you could fan-wank that he didn't have to do anything, just wait by her until she died of the previous wounds and confirm her death to the Careers. But I don't think it was presented that he didn't kill anyone at all, except by mistake in the case of Foxface. He himself tells Katniss, before they go into the arena, he will probably kill when he has to.

I figured that he meant for self defense purposes or to save Katniss only. Not to impress the Careers, or because that's just what you do in the Hunger Games. But it just seemed too coincidental that the girl expired when Peeta went to check on her. I read a theory that the Gamesmakers were holding off on firing the cannon so the Careers could get near/notice Katniss. This is fast becoming my new Harry Potteresque obsession where I labor over minor details.