#the hunger games: mockingjay part 1

[obriy]

He believed in this revolution. He believed in you.

[dailyflicks]

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 2014, dir. Francis Lawrence

[solonglondons]

THE HUNGER GAMES APPRECIATION WEEK day 7: free for all → The White Roses — Mockingjay: Part 1

[alexstandall]

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 1 (2014) dir. Francis Lawrence

[onlyhereforangst]

it's the things we love most that destroy us.

[peeta-mellark]

You're always on my mind, oh, there'll come a day Day where we can fly, reach the glory haze, oh, hey High up in the sun in the brightest sky

[saraminia]

"He's changed so much already. What are they doing to him?... He's shaking... Even his voice is different."

[agentem]

Preparing for "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes"

I'm going to talk about the Hunger Games series some more because I'm in a hyperfixation.

If you saw the movies and/or read the books awhile ago, you might need a bit of a refresher before seeing The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (in theaters November 17!).

BALLAD is set 64 years before the events of The Hunger Games. It is takes place around the 10th Annual Hunger Games and Katniss competes in the 74th Hunger Games.

So really you just have to remember that Panem is a the country and they have Hunger Games. That's pretty much it. Ballad deals with how the Hunger Games themselves went from being a plain punishment to a spectacle that is still a punishment. You'll see.

There are only two characters from the first movie series in the prequel, as far as I know.

The first is this jerk:

Coriolanus Snow was originally played by Donald Sutherland and will now be portrayed as a teenager by Tom Blyth.

The other is a character you might not remember.

Tigris Snow appeared VERY briefly in the movie Mockingjay Part 2 (and the book Mockingjay). She was played by Eugenie Bondurant. We learn she was a stylist for the Hunger Games. Her heavily tatooed and feline appearance surprises Katniss. The director Cressida approaches her, saying she was part of Plutarch Heavensbee's underground. Tigris smiles when Katniss says she's going to kill President Snow and shelters Katniss's squad.

So it was a bit of a shock when Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes the book came out and revealed that Tigris is Coriolanus' cousin, who practically raised him because his mother died in childbirth.

In Ballad, Tigris is a cinnamon roll too pure for this world played by Hunter Schafer of Euphoria. I don't think it's a spoiler to say that we do not know what happened to her in between the two time periods. (Suzanne, if you are reading this, we need a Tigris novel. Or at leastanother novel in which she appears.)

I'd like to know if Tigris did her body modifications because she wanted to (I hope) or if it was to disguise her appearance (but she kind of draws attention to herself?) or maybe to cover up some scars? I'm worried about her. (Anyone got theories?)

Family Members

We do see some characters that are related to characters that will appear in the main trilogy.

Lucky Flickerman, played by Jason Schwartzman, is related to Cesar Flickerman, played by Stanley Tucci. Both are TV presenters that are involved with the production of the Hunger Games.

Snow is also classmates with members of the Crane and Heavensbee families. Seneca Crane (Wes Bentley) was the Gamemaker with the funny beard in the first movie. And Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman) was a key figure in the revolution that eventually overthrows Snow in Mockingjay Part 2.

TLDR, the elite families of the Capitol are insular. They all go to the same school and live in the same area. Outsiders are not welcome. Especially outsiders from the Districts.

Other Connections

SONGS

Ballad will also follow a female tribute from District 12. For the 10th Hunger Games that is Lucy Gray Baird, played by Rachel Zegler. Lucy Gray is very different from Katniss. She is a singer and performer, not a hunter. Her family is a group of other children that were once part of a traveling singing troupe called "the Covey". (They are now kind of stuck in 12 since the Rebellion.)

The song "The Hanging Tree" that Katniss sings in Mockingjay Part 1 is a part of Ballad. We learn that Lucy Gray wrote that song. And it is implied that the littlest member of the Covey, Maude Ivory, is related to Katniss' father. She is probably his mother or grandmother, which explains how Katniss knows the song more than 60 years later. (This theory has not been confirmed by Suzanne Collins but makes the most sense.)

Keep your eye on this little one.

BIRDS

Also you may wish to refamiliarize yourself with the fictious creature called the Mockingjay. The book Ballad features the bird itself, whereas the movies mostly focused on it as a symbol of the revolution (Katniss).

But mockingjays are hybrid birds created when the Capitol's genetically engineered jabberjays (these were seen in the arena in Catching Fire torturing Finnick and Katniss with their lifelike screams) mated with mockingbirds and a new species came about. Thereafter they were associated with the rebellion against the Capitol as a symbol. Katniss says they were something of a "slap in the face" to the Capitol--a sign they didn't actually have total control.

This symbolism will be furthered when Katniss herself wears a mockingjay pin into the arena and Rue teaches her how to use them to signal to each other. And then it becomes a whole thing where Katniss "is" the Mockingjay and that's the title of the third book/third and fourth movies.

[mindonmymoneyandmoneyonmymind]

i know i said this 1000x time but indulge me once more

IMAGINE

This boy that you were FORCED to have feelings for but actually ending falling madly in love with is captured. He is soo sweet and soo kind that he used his last dying breath to save you ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS!!!! He loved you before you even really knew he existed like that.

He gets kidnapped and he is all you can think about you see him getting weaker and weaker but he finally is returned to you unconscious. You cannot contain yourself to see him and tell him how much you love him and miss him and how sorry your are about everything that has happened to him...you shrug off the fuck boy from your hometown (who rescued him for you because he realized he didn't stand a chance) to see him wake up. He wakes up and IMMEDIATELY STARTS CHOKING YOU OUT TO DEATH LIKE CRUSHING YOUR WINDPIPE

WHAT THE FUCK

[mymoviewatches]

ᐢ..ᐢ - The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

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★ Ratings ★

✩ Personal Rating: 7/10

✩ IMDb Rating: 6.6/10

[theyareweird]

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 —Aesthetic

Movie Description

Following her rescue from the devastating Quarter Quell, Katniss awakes in the complex beneath the supposedly destroyed District 13. Her home has been reduced to rubble, and Peeta is now a brainwashed captive of President Snow. At the same time, Katniss also learns about a secret rebellion spreading throughout all of Panem; which will place her at the center of a plot to turn the tables on Snow.

[bo-kryzze]

KATNISS EVERDEEN The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014)

[billy-hargrooves]

I'm currently on a The Hunger Games rewatch. So I was wondering:

[nowadayz]

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 2014, dir. Francis Lawrence

[bringiton]

MOCKINGJAY – PART 1 (2014), dir. Francis Lawrence "Fire is catching... And if we burn, you burn with us!"