The Hunger Games - The Hunger Games
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| German title | The Hunger Games - The Hunger Games |
| Original title | The Hunger Games |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 142 minutes |
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| Director | Gary Ross |
| script | Gary Ross Suzanne Collins Billy Ray |
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Nina Jacobson Jon Kilik |
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T-Bone Burnett James Newton Howard |
| camera | Tom Stern |
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Stephen Mirrione Juliette Welfling Jennifer Vecchiarello |
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The Hunger Games - The Hunger Games (original title: The Hunger Games ) is an American science fiction film from the year 2012 , based on the book The Hunger Games - Deadly Games by Suzanne Collins is based. It is the first of four films based on the three-part The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
action
The film is set in the future in the dictatorial state of Panem, which is located on the territory of today's USA . It consists of twelve districts and the Capitol as the seat of government. While the citizens of the luxurious Capitol live in affluence, the people in the outermost districts struggle for daily survival. Most of them are starving because food is scarce and they are not allowed to leave the district to look for food in the surrounding forests. To demonstrate the power of the Capitol over the citizens of Panem, the so-called Hunger Games are held every year . This is a kind of modern gladiator fight in which the mostly involuntary participants have to fight each other to their death until only one of them remains the winner. For this purpose, the so-called tributes, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18, are drawn in the districts and land in an arena in the Capitol. The Hunger Games are broadcast nationwide on television and all citizens are obliged to watch them live. The winner of the games receives a lifelong supply from the Capitol, and the residents of his district are provided with sufficient essential food for a year.
The action begins before the 74th Hunger Games. In the tribute draw in District 12, twelve-year-old Primrose Everdeen will be drawn as a female tribute for the Games. In order to save Prim from the apparently certain death in the arena, her older sister Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her place. Katniss, a talented hunter with a bow and arrow , has looked after the family since her father died and her mother collapsed. For years she was poaching and bartering with the booty and collected wild vegetables and fruits. Together with the male tribute Peeta Mellark from her district, she travels to the Capitol to prepare for the games. During the train journey they meet their mentor Haymitch Abernathy , a former winner of the Hunger Games, whose primary interest is alcohol and who treats them both with disregard and arrogance.
In order to increase their chances of victory, the tributes must win the favor of the public and especially the potential sponsors in the run-up to the games. With the presentation of the tributes in the Capitol, Katniss and Peeta already managed to overshadow everyone else's appearance thanks to their competent stylists. With their always fire-inspired outfits (District 12 is responsible for coal mining ), Peeta and Katniss continue to delight the audience. Katniss is known as "the girl who is on fire". Before the games, each tribute also has the opportunity to attract the attention of sponsors through a demonstration of their own skills in front of the playmakers and their subsequent evaluation. Katniss managed to achieve a high rating through a daring appearance, so that her reputation with the organizers and the audience continued to rise. During her TV presentation, Peeta reveals his love for Katniss, emphasizing the tragedy of the fact that only one of the two could leave the arena alive. Katniss takes this as a pure show and attacks Peeta backstage. However, your mentor suggests capitalizing on it.
At the start of the games, the tributes are brought individually to a spacious forest area, the arena, where they are set up in a circle in a clearing. In the immediate vicinity is the so-called cornucopia, a kind of supply station that is filled with essential items such as food and weapons. When trying to get hold of supplies and weapons, many tributes are killed by their comrades right at the beginning. Some survivors flee into the surrounding wilderness. After a few hours, only half of the 24 tributes are still alive. The well-educated tributes from Districts 1 and 2, the so-called "Karrieros", form an alliance with Peeta in order to eliminate Katniss as their biggest competitor with his help. While Katniss flees up a tree and is supposed to be starved to death after unsuccessful attempts at killing, she succeeds through a tip from Rue to put the persecutors to flight with genetically manipulated wasps. Then she enters into an alliance with the only twelve-year-old Rue, a tribute from District 11, in order to jointly improve her chances of survival. When Rue is killed shortly afterwards, Katniss holds her up against the rules of the game. This led to riots in District 11, which were bloodily suppressed by the government.
Meanwhile, playmaker Seneca Crane, influenced by Haymitch Abernathy , announces a change in the rules of the game: From now on there should be two winners if they come from the same district. Katniss then locates Peeta, who has meanwhile severed his career, seriously injured. The two hide in a cave, where they are to be instructed by the game management on a staged romance. When Katniss tries to get medicine for Peeta, Clove from District 2 attacks her. With the unexpected help of Thresh from District 11, she escapes and tends to Peeta's wounds.
When there are only four tributes left, the playmakers send dog-like mutations into the arena to bring the games to an end soon. These creatures first kill Thresh and eventually pursue Katniss and Peeta, who are able to save themselves on the cornucopia at the last moment. There they are expected by Cato from District 2. After a fight, Cato falls from the cornucopia and is attacked by the mutations. Katniss finally kills him with an arrow to spare him further suffering.
Peeta and Katniss believe that they are joint winners when the playmakers announce that the rule change has been repealed and that there will only be one winner. The two refuse to fight, instead Katniss suggests a double suicide with the help of poisonous berries. The playmakers then take back their announcement, as it would seriously damage the image of the Capitol if the game ended without a winner. Katniss and Peeta both emerge victorious from the Hunger Games. But Katniss' action is viewed by the Capitol as a rebellious, rebellious act. Seneca Crane is blamed for the unwanted outcome of the games and is locked in a room with only a bowl of poisonous berries.
publication
The film was released in US cinemas on March 23, 2012. In Germany, it opened on March 22, 2012. The German premiere took place on March 16, 2012 in Berlin.
production
Lionsgate received the film rights to Suzanne Collins ' bestselling series The Hunger Games in 2009 .
In March 2011, Lionsgate confirmed that around 30 actresses were interested in the role of Katniss Everdeen , including Hailee Steinfeld , Abigail Breslin , Emma Roberts , Saoirse Ronan , Chloë Moretz , Lyndsy Fonseca , Emily Browning , Shailene Woodley and Kaya Scodelario . On March 16, 2011, it was announced that Jennifer Lawrence had got the role, even though she was four years older than the character she was to play. She received a fee of $ 500,000 for the role.
According to The Hollywood Reporter , in addition to Hutcherson, Alexander Ludwig , Hunter Parrish , Lucas Till , Evan Peters and Alex Pettyfer also applied for the role of Peeta . Only Ludwig got a role in the film as Cato . In addition to Hemsworth, David Henrie , Drew Roy , Avan Jogia and Robbie Amell also applied for the role of Gale .
The film was shot from May 23, 2011 to September 19, 2011 at various locations in North Carolina . The scenes that take place in the Capitol were filmed in Charlotte and Concord . While Asheville was used as the arena , Hildebran and Shelby were used as District 12. Other locations were DuPont State Forest, North Fork Reservoir and the Pisgah National Forest .
The production budget was 78 million dollars .
Cast and dubbing
| actor | role | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Jennifer Lawrence | Katniss Everdeen | Maria Koschny |
| Josh Hutcherson | Peeta Mellark | Ricardo Richter |
| Liam Hemsworth | Gale Hawthorne | Leonhard Mahlich |
| Woody Harrelson | Haymitch Abernathy | Thomas Nero Wolff |
| Elizabeth Banks | Effie Trinket | Cathlen Gawlich |
| Stanley Tucci | Caesar Flickerman | Lutz Mackensy |
| Donald Sutherland | President Snow | Jürgen Kluckert |
| Wes Bentley | Seneca Crane | Philipp Moog |
| Lenny Kravitz | Cinna | Robert Glatzeder |
| Willow Shields | Primrose "Prim" Everdeen | Valentina Bonalana |
| Paula Malcomson | Mrs. Everdeen | Silke Matthias |
| Toby Jones | Claudius Templesmith | Stefan Krause |
| Amandla Stenberg | Rue (District 11) | Derya Flechtner |
| Alexander Ludwig | Cato (District 2) | Tobias Müller |
| Isabelle Fuhrman | Clove (District 2) | Kristina Tietz |
| Jacqueline Emerson | Fox Face (District 5) | Alessa Steinke |
| Dayo Okeniyi | Thresh (District 11) | Stefan Günther |
| Leven Rambin | Mica (District 1) | Nicole Hannak |
| Jack Quaid | Marvel (District 1) | Nico Sablik |
| Karan Kendrick | Atala | Natascha Geisler |
| Latarsha Rose | Portia | Svantje washer |
| Kimiko Gelman | Venia | |
| Nelson Ascencio | Flavius | Frank Schaff |
| Brooke Bundy | Octavia | |
| Amber Chaney | Avox girls | |
| Kalia Prescott | District 3 girls | |
| Ian Nelson | District 3 boy | |
| Tara quirks | District 4 girls | |
| Ethan Jamieson | District 4 boy | |
| Chris Mark | District 5 boy | |
| Kara Petersen | District 6 girls | |
| Ashton Moio | District 6 boy | |
| Leigha Hancock | District 7 girls | |
| Sam Ly | District 7 boy | |
| Mackenzie Lintz | District 8 girls | |
| Samuel Tan | District 8 boy | |
| Annie Thurman | District 9 girls | |
| Imanol Yepez-Frias | District 9 boy | |
| Dakota Hood | District 10 girls | |
| Jeremy Marinas | District 10 boy |
reception
success
The film grossed $ 155 million on the opening weekend in the United States , making it the third-best start of a non-3D movie there, after The Dark Knight Rises and The Dark Knight .
At a production cost of $ 78 million, the film grossed $ 691.2 million. In the United States he is on the list of the most successful films at number 13. He was there for nine weeks in the top 10 of the box office charts, four of them at number 1. Katniss is the most successful female hero figure in the US to date Cinema history.
In Germany, 386,276 cinema-goers saw the film on the opening weekend. As of September 2, 2012, the number of visitors was over 2 million.
| country | Net income in US dollars |
|---|---|
| United States | 408.010.692 |
| England | 37.332.095 |
| Australia | 31,072,125 |
| Germany | 20,303,785 |
| Mexico | 13,913,267 |
| Russia | 13,405,279 |
| France | 14.510.197 |
| Spain | 10,483,434 |
| Brazil | 10.152.708 |
Reviews
The film received mostly positive reviews. The Rotten Tomatoes review collection has an 84 percent positive rating, based on 281 professional reviews.
Hans-Ulrich Pönack reviewed the film for Deutschlandradio Kultur and came to the conclusion that it was “cynical, nasty nonsense”, “sick”, “bad”, “tasteless” and a “dull glorification of subtle extreme brutality among children”. Pönack saw a questionable “topic border crossing” coming and warned that the “outrageous blockbuster flick” would “add a new nasty nuance to the general screen show”.
David Kleingers called the film on Spiegel Online "a terrific teen drama, next to which ' Twilight ' looks like kid's stuff" and drew comparisons to Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale and Michael Anderson's Logan’s Run . The bestseller film adaptation is “much better than it needs to be” and is convincing “as a clever drama that takes its audience seriously”. With Katniss Everdeen, the film has “a wonderfully laconic narrator and resistant heroine, who is ideally suited as a cross-generational figure of identification” and who grounds the “hectic, brutal events”. Sophie Albers calls the film on Stern.de an “exciting, solidly staged youth thriller” and describes Jennifer Lawrence as a “lucky find” and “best identification material”. For Tilman Spreckelsen from FAZ.net , the “class of the film” is underlined by the fact that the audience is barely able to assess the protagonist's actions and her intentions; the film makes “us accomplices” and emancipates itself “from the template that is naturally denied”.
Isabella Reicher reviewed the film for the daily newspaper and the Standard and recognized it as "a form of gentle media criticism that is not a matter of course for young media consumers in a blockbuster". "The mirroring of internal film reality and production reality" also works well, the "accentuation of Katniss' subjective perception, which often runs through striking fades on the sound level" is interesting. The film is "aimed at the dramatic narrative behind the games, on the sensation, experience and development of the main character". However, "something about this first film noticeably serves to build up the plot and characters that are still to develop"; In addition, there is “a bit of a stale aftertaste” when “the honest (sic!) heroine herself has to become a killer”, although this “moral dilemma” is “creatively played around with the help of script ideas”.
For Christian Junge from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , the film is “a great step forward in pop culture”, since “a young woman is the action heroine” for the first time. Katniss is made "perhaps the most important female figure in contemporary pop culture"; Jennifer Lawrence for her part plays this role "brilliantly" and exudes "charm and glamor, but also a down-to-earth attitude". Junge recognizes in the story a “mixture of William Golding's pessimistic robinsonade“ Lord of the Flies ”and Peter Weir's media satire“ The Truman Show ”” as well as “a swan song on reality television ”; Director Ross denounces "the cynicism of pseudo Darwinian formats such as" jungle camp "". Junge particularly praises Tom Stern's camera work , which is “remarkably virtuoso and intelligent for a popcorn blockbuster”, as well as “the subtle, atmospheric soundtrack by T-Bone Burnett ”. In addition, figures and tension are built up “patiently” and you never know “what will happen next”, while the hand-held camera gives a “feeling of restlessness”. As the weaknesses of the film, he mentions the sometimes blurred computer-generated images and the “all too subdued romance of the heroine with a fellow fate”. All in all, The Hunger Games is "a promising start to a film series that could write pop culture history not only with box office records, but also with substantive accents".
The film was criticized by Sabine Horst in the magazine epd Film , in which she writes that the film could “get its thrill, its show values only from what it nominally rejects: fascist marches in the capital, the great clothes in the Katniss is wrapped by her stylist at public appearances, in Bourne- style, sensationally mean fight scenes for a film approved for 12 and over, and finally long, voyeuristic close-ups of the tortured face of Jennifer Lawrence, known from Winter's Bone . In the end, the staging knows - and that does not seem to be a consciously created effect, but a sheer inability - to no longer delimit itself from the view of the surveillance cameras in the forest. It is like trying to drive Hitler out with Leni Riefenstahl. "
In Entertainment Weekly, Lisa Schwarzbaum compares the film version with the book and attests to the former that it is "a muscular, honorable, fearless transmission of Collins' vision". The protagonist Katniss is “the heart and soul of the story” and is portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence “as impressively” as “as one can imagine”, in “her heaviness, her depth of feeling and her unaffected beauty”. In contrast, Schwarzbaum expressed doubts about Josh Hutcherson's portrayal of the Peeta, as this had been "polished into an ordinary sensitive good guy". Director Ross has the "difficult task of creating a future-meets- 1984 atmosphere in Panem". Overall, the film lags slightly behind the book.
Manohla Dargis was not enthusiastic about the work of the “improbable” director in the New York Times , who “in some ways frustratingly badly suited the brutal, unnerving story”; Ross manages to "round off even slightly irregular edges" and is possibly "too nice a guy for a hard case like Katniss". The protagonist is "the deadly rough center" of the story, a "possibly historical creation", without "sentimentality and psychosexual embellishment", a "new female warrior" who attracts the public's gaze, even in spite of Lawrence's "colorless" and "disengaged" representation. The script remains "dutifully close to the original material".
For Todd McCarthy of the Hollywood Reporter , The Hunger Games is a "faithful and passable film adaptation of the massive bestseller". The filmmakers had emphasized "the fascist-political side of the story" "by underlining the meticulous manipulation of the audience and the games themselves." The film would give “enough” of the visual, but the scenes, which are often short cut, would convey the feeling of “being ripped off a little”. McCarthy also criticized the lack of "hunting instinct" of the film, which he attributes to the intended youth release; but due to the "strong narrative structure, the built-in forward movement and the captivating main character", the film could ultimately "not be far off". Jennifer Lawrence was "brilliant", showed "impressive heaviness and presence", portrayed Katniss as "as one can expect from the books", remains "consistently convincing" and unconsciously captivates the audience's attention. Only when it comes to the “charade aspect of the romance with Peeta” does the film clearly lag behind the original, the gradations of Katniss' “tolerance and division” are “polished down to gentleness”. In this way the survival story preserves its "liveliness", but what lies beneath it is "stunted". The show values of the film are “lush, if not lavish”, the soundtrack contains “a fascinating mixture of regional and atmospheric flavors”, even if “more musical drive” towards the end would have been “more energetic”.
Differences between film and book
The film has a few differences from the novel. The following changes affect the story:
- The viewer often sees scenes outside the arena, such as a conversation between President Snow and playmaker Seneca Crane. This gives the viewer a knowledge advantage over Katniss, who only learns much of the information from these scenes, if at all, in the second and third volumes.
- In the film, Rue treats the unconscious Katniss with healing leaves without a previous conversation. In the book, however, Rue and Katniss team up first, after which Rue treats the swollen wasp stings.
- The uprising in District 11 after Rue's death is not discussed in the book.
- In the book, Katniss suffered from an injury to her left ear since the destruction of the supplies of the opposing group around Cato, which made it deaf. This injury was eventually treated by Capitol doctors.
- In the book, while overhearing other tributes, Katniss learns that Peeta was badly injured by Cato, which is why it occurs to her in the first place that the bloody trail in the rocks could be Peeta's blood. In the film, she sees blood and follows the trail seemingly at random.
- In the book, Peeta learns that Katniss' feelings in the arena were only acted out, in the film this is indicated very subtly.
- In the book, Peeta is seriously injured by a mutation in his leg, so that it has to be amputated later , in the film there is no such scene.
- In the book, the mutations reflect the identities of the tributes killed.
- In the book the cornucopia in the arena is a more traditionally designed, golden cornucopia, in the film it is a futuristic building made of greyish metal.
- In the book, Katniss receives the mocking booby brooch from Madge Undersee, the mayor's daughter. In the film, Katniss is given the brooch by a woman on the hob. Madge Undersee did not appear in the film.
Sequels
The three-part The Hunger Games series was filmed in a total of four parts, with the third part, Flammender Zorn , being split into two films. The sequels came to theaters in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
On August 8, 2011, Lionsgate announced that there would also be a film adaptation of Dangerous Love , the second volume of the novel trilogy. The release date of The Hunger Games - Catching Fire has been set for November 22, 2013. Since the screenwriters Ross and Collins were too busy with the post-production of the film from the first part to rewrite the second part, as originally planned, Lionsgate negotiated with screenwriter Simon Beaufoy (known for Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours ) in November 2011 Conditions for a film customization of Catching Fire . Ross would still direct the sequel. In January 2012, Ross and Beaufoy officially signed their positions as director and screenwriter respectively. In April 2012, however, it was announced that Ross would not direct because he could not have made the film that would have met his requirements due to the tight schedule. Thus, Francis Lawrence was hired as a director in May 2012.
Filming for the second film began in Atlanta on September 10, 2012 and ended on December 21, 2012. In the run-up, there were scheduling problems with the X-Men, originally planned for autumn 2012 : Future is Past , in which Jennifer Lawrence can also be seen.
The two-part film adaptation of the third volume took place from September 2013 to June 2014, including in the Babelsberg film studio . In Germany, The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 1 started on November 20, 2014, Mockingjay Part 2 on November 19, 2015.
parody
Directed by Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg , the parody The Starving Games was created in 2013 . The film was released in German cinemas in January 2014 with the title Die Pute von Panem - The Starving Games .
Another parody is The Hungover Games , an American comedy film by Josh Stolberg from 2014, which, in addition to The Hunger Games - The Hunger Games , parodies the films Hangover , Lone Ranger , Thor , Ted and Carrie .
Web links
- The Hunger Games - The Hunger Games in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website (German)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Hunger Games - The Hunger Games . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2012 (PDF; test number: 131 794 K).
- ↑ Age rating for The Hunger Games - The Hunger Games . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ German premiere
- ↑ 9 Untold Secrets of the High Stakes 'Hunger Games'
- ↑ 'Hunger Games': Jennifer Lawrence, Saoirse Ronan, Chloe Moretz, Emma Roberts, and more up for Katniss - EXCLUSIVE
- ↑ Exclusive: Jennifer Lawrence Gets Lead Role in 'The Hunger Games'
- ↑ 'Hunger Games': Is Jennifer Lawrence the Katniss of your dreams?
- ↑ Bory's Kit: Jennifer Lawrence's Very Good Problem: Two Franchises, Too Little Time , The Hollywood Reporter, March 15, 2012, accessed April 9, 2012
- ↑ Lionsgate Testing Actors to Star in 'Hunger Games' Opposite Jennifer Lawrence (Exclusive)
- ↑ Internet Movie Database ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c The Hunger Games. In: Box Office Mojo. IMDb.com, Inc., accessed March 10, 2013 .
- ↑ http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/
- ^ The Hunger Games (2012). Rotten Tomatoes , accessed September 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Hans-Ulrich Pönack : "The Hunger Games - The Hunger Games". Deutschlandradio Kultur , March 21, 2012, accessed on October 29, 2014 .
- ↑ David Kleingers: "The Hunger Games": "Twilight" gone out - now the teen gladiators are coming. Spiegel Online , March 16, 2012, accessed October 29, 2014 .
- ^ Sophie Albers: The hype about the "Hunger Games". Stern.de , March 23, 2012, accessed October 29, 2014 .
- ^ Tilman Spreckelsen: "Hunger Games": The goddess of carnage. FAZ.net , March 21, 2012, accessed October 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Isabella Reicher: In a near future . In: The daily newspaper . March 22, 2012, p. 15 ( online article [accessed October 29, 2014]).
- ↑ Isabella Reicher: Prelude to the sci-fi film epic: "The Hunger Games" . In: The Standard . March 21, 2012 ( online article [accessed October 29, 2014]).
- ↑ Christian Junge: This film gives young women courage. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 18, 2012, accessed on October 30, 2014 (Swiss Standard German).
- ↑ Sabine Horst: The Hunger Games - The Hunger Games , epd Film , April 1, 2012
- ^ Lisa Schwarzbaum: The Hunger Games . In: Entertainment Weekly . No. 1200 , March 30, 2012 ( online article [accessed November 4, 2014] “This Hunger Games is a muscular, honorable, unflinching translation of Collins' vision.… Katniss… is the heart and soul of the story… And Jennifer Lawrence… is , in her gravity, her intensity, and her own unmannered beauty, about as impressive a Hollywood incarnation of Katniss as one could ever imagine. ... Fans of the book and moviegoers coming to the story fresh may reach different conclusions about the effectiveness of Josh Hutcherson as Peeta… In the book, interesting edges rough up his niceness; he's not quite so easy to peg. But to these eyes, on screen he's been sanded down to a generic sensitive good guy… “).
- ↑ Manohla Dargis: Tested by a Picturesque Dystopia . In: The New York Times . March 23, 2012, p. C1 ( online article [accessed November 5, 2014] "Katniss, the lethally tough linchpin from Suzanne Collins's trilogy and now a rather less imposing film heroine, is a teenage survivalist… Gary Ross, the unlikely and at times frustratingly ill-matched director for this brutal, unnerving story ... has a way of smoothing even modestly irregular edges ... It may be that Mr. Ross is too nice a guy for a hard case like Katniss. A brilliant, possibly historic creation - stripped of sentimentality and psychosexual ornamentation, armed with Diana's bow and a ferocious will - Katniss is a new female warrior, and she keeps you watching… The screenplay by Mr. Ross, Ms. Collins and Billy Ray hews dutifully close to its source material… Ms. Lawrence's bland performance… The graver problem is a disengaged performance ... ").
- ^ Todd McCarthy: The Hunger Games: Film Review. The Hollywood Reporter , March 15, 2012, accessed November 5, 2014 : “Jennifer Lawrence is stellar in this faithful, good-enough film version of the massive best-seller. ... Ross, Collins and third writer Billy Ray have stressed the fascistic political side of the story, pointing up the micromanaged manipulations of the public and the games themselves ... As for visual spectacle, there's enough, but along with it, a feeling of being slightly shortchanged… all are cut a bit short… Most noticeable of all, however, is the film's lack of hunting instinct. ... It's also clear that the need for a PG-13 rating dictated moderation ... Hunger Games has such a strong narrative structure, built-in forward movement and compelling central character that it can't go far wrong. ... Katniss, embodied by Lawrence just as one might imagine her from the novel ... A crucial area in which the film falls far short of the book is the charade aspect ... of her “romance” with Peeta. ... the gradations of her ambivalence and acceptance are smoothed over to the point of blandness. The survival story retains its vitality, but what lies underneath is stunted. ... Lawrence remains compelling all the way ... and she holds one's attention unselfconsciously ... Production values are ample if not lavish. The Soundtrack… features an intriguing blend of regional and atmospheric flavors (the end-title tune from Taylor Swift engages on a first listen), though more musical propulsion would have helped juice things up in the late going. "
- ↑ Joshua L Weinstein: The Hunger Games Sequel Set for 2013 Release . In: The Wrap . August 8, 2011. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
- ↑ Kevin. P Sullivan: 'Hunger Games' Sequel Recruits Writer Simon Beaufoy 'Slumdog Millionaire' scribe takes over 'Catching Fire.' . MTV. January 17, 2012. Retrieved January 19, 2012.
- ↑ https://www.blairwitch.de/news/catching-fire-tribute-von-panem-fortetzung-22401/
- ^ Dan Cairns: Hunger Games: Catching Fire begins filming in Georgia. In: Newsbeat. BBC , September 11, 2012, accessed March 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Kim Masters: 'X-Men' Sequel to Shoot in January, Avoiding Conflict for 'Hunger Games' Star Jennifer Lawrence , hollywoodreporter.com, April 5, 2012, accessed April 9, 2012
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