PANEM FOREVER

THE HUNGER GAMES (2012) dir. Gary Ross

Finnick and Peeta in THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2

In the twilight of morphling, Peeta whispers the word and I go searching for him. It’s a gauzy, violet-tinted world, with no hard edges, and many places to hide. I push through cloud banks, follow faint tracks, catch the scent of cinnamon, of dill. Once I feel his hand on my cheek and try to trap it, but it dissolves like mist through my fingers.

I know it's not fair for me to hold you to the things you said in the games. You saved us. I know that. But I can't go on acting for the cameras and then... just ignoring each other in real life.

i decide she’s less mad than unstable. she laughs at odd places in conversations or drops out of them distractingly. those green eyes fixate on a point with such intensity that you find yourself trying to make out what she sees in the empty air. sometimes, for no reason, she presses both her hands over her ears as if to black out a painful sound. all right she’s strange, but if finnick loves her, that’s good enough for me

“My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me……..”

"This is Finnick Odair. Winner of the 65th Hunger Games. And I'm coming to you from District 13, alive and well. We've survived an assault from the Capitol. But I'm not here to give you recent news. The truth. Not the myths about a life of a luxury. Not the lie about the glory for your homeland. You can survive the arena. The moment you leave, you're a slave."

Look up. Look. Look at that. It's incredible isn't it? All those colours. Don't worry about anything else.

“When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking Prim’s warmth but finding only the rough canvas cover of the mattress. She must have had bad dreams and climbed in with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the reaping.”

The Hunger Games (2012)

THE HUNGER GAMES 2012 | dir. Gary Ross

THE HUNGER GAMES 2012 | dir. Gary Ross

I have a message for President Snow: you can torture us, and bomb us, and burn our districts to the ground. But do you see that? Fire is catching. And if we burn, you burn with us. THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART ONE (2014)

IT’S OKAY.  IT’S NOT REAL

“I always saw her as a very three-dimensional, very unique character, even in the book she can be written off as sort of comic relief. But what I love about Effie is she’s this great representative of the Capitol and all the Capitol stands for. She drank the Kool-Aid. So essentially she’s a villain — a really fun villain, but a villain nonetheless. The challenges for me were how to make her theatrical and larger than life but also fit into the tone of this movie, which is very serious. How do we make decisions where she can be overly effusive and positive about everything but at the same time be telegraphing to you that this is a horrible thing that’s happening? She’s not unknowing” (Elizabeth Banks, 2012).