This meme points out that Hunger Games fans are not at all like that. This is mostly a function of the story being a Dystopia: while both Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter have some scary moments, they are filled with enough hope and happiness that visiting there seems like a fun and good idea. Hunger Games , however, is a brutal hellscape where the closest thing to a happy ending is still going to involve lots of destruction. In many ways, the most controversial thing about any film adaptation of a beloved book is how it visualizes the characters.
This is because to book lovers, the ability to get a perfect picture in their heads of what a character looks like is a large part of the fun. With the character Seneca, it was a bit of a mixed bag: he looked fantastic. However, he was the face that launched a thousand memes. To the young men who are hoping to replicate this look to woo their own Katniss Everdeen off her feet Or shall we say, may the odds be ever in your favor. Earlier, we discussed how great Hunger Games was when it came to world-building.
Details great and small all added together to create a world that really made sense. However, there was a pretty notable exception to this: the actual games themselves! On paper, the whole purpose of these games is for the rich Capital to put the various districts in their place and assert the power of President Snow and his people.
In reality, it helped set the stage for Katniss to lead a revolution and tear the entire thing down. This meme is here to ask the real question: how the hell did Snow not see this coming? When it comes to using your power to influence people, it basically comes down to offering rewards or offering punishments. Even a child can see that the districts gain far less than they lose: their children are wiped out every single year, and if they are really lucky, only one child passes away while the other gets the reward of not starving and perishing.
Pulp Fiction is a cinematic classic for many reasons. One of the big ones is that the characters are unforgettable: their interactions about everything from god to fast food are absolutely scintillating. Also, in an early scene between hitmen Jules and Vincent, they discuss how the same thing can have funny names in different places.
It turns out there is a lot in a name. Earlier, we mentioned Battle Royale. This was a book by Koushun Takami that was later turned into a movie. The book predates Hunger Games by only nine years and it focuses on you guessed it a Dystopian future in which a cruel government forces young people to fight and hurt one another as a way of maintaining control.
Sound familiar? The weird exception to this, though, is District One. In this district, they actually glamorize the Games, to the point where people train all year in hopes of being chosen to fight. This meme points out a weird irony in the idea of this training: characters like Katniss are able to safely hide from these characters by climbing a tree.
Why, exactly, could these characters not climb a tree? If you were describing the Hunger Games plot to someone, they might get a bit confused when you get to the love triangle part. After all, this is a story about children being forced to brutally fight for their own lives; where would there be room to worry about things like love?
At first, Katniss seems to agree with this idea, pumping the brakes on a Gale romance because she has to focus on simply surviving the games. This meme reminds us of how ironic their relationship really was and how heartbreaking it was for Gale.
By all accounts, Gale looks like a pretty private person. In the first Hunger Games , Haymitch has a rather complex role to play. He has to spend some of his time playing nice with the elite in the Capital as he tries to secure aid for Katniss. At the same time, he has to draw on his experience as a previous winner of the games to help her survive. And though he starts out as a grouchy alcoholic, he ends up offering Katniss some pretty solid advice: avoid the Cornucopia, as it is a clear trap for contestants.
In this case, the answer is clear: passing away. Despite the fact that he was the architect of their misery, it was tough not to root for Seneca in the first Hunger Games. It turns out that he was in a similar position to Katniss and the other children: he had to do whatever President Snow wanted him to do, and any kind of defiance or failure meant his demise. However, this meme presents the idea that something would have been even scarier to Seneca than poisoned berries: a fresh razor.
Obviously, this is a man who takes intense care of and pride in his wild beard. Katniss is a lot of things to a lot of people. That ended up being a major theme of the entire story, of course: that some people saw Katniss as a pupil like Haymitch and others saw her as a lover like Gale and Peeta while still others saw her as a symbol of revolution like most of the districts.
However, very few people understood the real Katniss, but she peeks through in moments like this This meme showcases what a truly silly moment that is. Also, does she imagine that Gale carries around plastic bread loaves just for fun? Maybe she should have asked the fandom for their bread expertise? While the relationship between Katniss and Peeta and Gale takes center stage, there are supporting characters whose relationships also really make every scene sparkle.
Two such characters are Haymitch and Effie, and they have very different personalities: Haymitch is all about laying the blunt truth out there, while Effie is all about giving things a positive spin. Or, more specifically, if Effie dropped her super-polite veneer and started getting real with Haymitch and everyone else.
What, you thought we were done with silly bread puns on this list? In all seriousness, bread really does play a central metaphor in the story of the Hunger Games. It has historically been a symbol of life, which is made pretty explicit when a young Peeta gives it to a young, starving Katniss.
And this funny meme helps put all of it in perspective. In this particular variant, we see Katniss imploring Peeta to use his real artistic skills: his ability to knead bread. He spends most of the story effectively sidelined, having to watch both the drama and the romance between Katniss and Peeta on live TV. This means that he is constantly wondering if he could have or should have said something different to Katniss before she left so that she would know the true depths of his feelings.
Instead, all he can do is wait, watch, and worry. This meme points out what a knife to the chest that all of this has to be for Gale.
How awkward does that make things in their shared district? Or when he talks with her family? Also, of course, he has to be plagued with the classic question of whether he could have said something different and managed to get the girl.
Maybe that will win her hear. However, they have more in common than you might think: something that pop culture scholars specialize in is using one form of pop culture to help us understand other forms of pop culture.
In this way, everything is connected and nothing is truly irrelevant. Of course, this is exactly what meme culture is doing when it comes to mashups, which is what is going on with this mashup of Harry Potter and The Hunger Games.
As you might expect, it all comes down to Katniss. Part of what makes Katniss such a relevant character to young people the original audience for both the books and the movie is that she is so conflicted. Accordingly, one of the more haunting things about the story is the idea that much of her romantic feelings may just be a show she is putting on for others. In this meme, Harry Potter himself is horrified at the idea that she would betray a close friend in such a manner.
More than just a cool nickname, this is all part of situating Katniss as an inspirational hero who can help spark a revolution. This meme draws attention to the fact that Peeta was right there when the world saw Katniss as the girl on fire. He wore the same cool clothes, but he never had the same symbolic resonance with anybody. Both in the world they live in and the world we live in, no one ever took Peeta seriously as a symbol of youth revolution. This meme imagines him being actively put down by people like Haymitch, as the grizzled games veteran has clearly picked the winner of the bunch and decided he wants to be on her side.
As the story of The Hunger Games goes on, Gale slowly gets more things to do. During the review by Caesar and Claudius after the initial bloodbath at the Cornucopia, behind them are images of the fallen tributes and their times of death.
Some of the times shown are impossibly low, including several tributes shown to have lasted only a fraction of a second, not long enough to have even stepped off of their platforms. When the shot of the pre-Games "tribute scoreboard" switches from a close-up to a wide shot of the betting area, the board has changed significantly; the images of the Tributes are gone and the odds for each of them have changed.
Rue's odds, for example, instantly change from a dire to a quite impressive chance of winning. From the start of the arena parts to the end of the scene where Katniss blows up the food, the tribute plates are visible. From then on, the tribute plates have disappeared and can not be seen. During The Reaping, in the wide shot when the Mayor and his affiliates are being introduced, there is only a microphone and the chairs on the stage.
The Reaping Balls do not appear until Effie draws the names. When Katniss is walking up for the Reaping she has a bruise on her neck.
In next shot it's gone. The cut on Katniss's forehead, which she received from Clove, often changes from being scabbed over, to appearing scarred and healed with no blood. When wounded Katniss is on the tree and receives a parachute, she takes off the lid of the can with the medicine and places it underneath it the can.
In the following scene she's holding the lid on the side of the can. When Katniss hugs Peeta, her right arm crosses over Peeta's left shoulder, the following shot after, her arm is under Peeta's left arm. When Effie Trinket is shown from behind walking to the bowl to draw the girl tribute, she has a lot of hair on her neck.
Then, when she is shown from behind going to meet Katniss, she has just a few strands of hair there. When Katniss is driven from the tree by the fire, she unties her rope and jumps down the tree apparently without putting the rope back in her bag, but the following night, while hiding on a tree from the others who camp beneath her, she has tied herself to the tree again with the same rope. When Katniss is trying to saw off the branch that is holding the trackerjacker nest, the nest is shown resting on another branch in one shot, then it is hanging free in the next shot.
In the Reaping scene when Effie opens the note that has Prim's name on it, the tape goes from being long on the left to being long on the right. While Katniss is hiding in the tree from the tributes, she is shown once in her sleeping bag in one shot, and out of the sleeping bag in another. When Katniss fires her arrow at the apples on the pile of goods, she is barely into the clearing, but as the explosion knocks her backwards, she seems to have moved forwards a couple of yards.
After entering her private training session in front of the Gamemakers, Katniss Everdeen picks up a bow and draws it. In the side shot, she removes her index finger of her bow hand from the top of the arrow's shaft while drawing the bow. When the camera switches to over her right shoulder, her index finger is still over the top of the arrow and Katniss only removes it after she has fully drawn the bow.
When Katniss is cutting the branch with the tracker jackers, she first starts cutting it with the sharp side; then, when the camera cuts to the next shot, she's cutting the branch with the rough side. In the 'Reaping' scene when Katniss is seen yelling 'I volunteer' the camera shows her ducking under the Peacekeeper's arms, when the camera once again returns back to her she's back up straining against the Peacekeeper's arms.
During the countdown for the kick-off of the Games, the countdown is off by 4 seconds. When the number is shown in the arena after the shot of Gale in the field, the first number you should see is 4, not 8. When the tributes are riding the chariots in the parade, in the first shot, Glimmer's shawl is off of her right shoulder. When the camera cuts back to her, the shawl is back on her shoulder.
When Katniss is seeing images on the window of her penthouse room, in the forest image, when her face is focused, there is hair in front of her left eye. But after shifting to the forest image and then shifting back to her face, there is no hair in front of her left eye. When Katniss talks to Rue while they eat, Katniss has a few strands of hair hanging down over her right cheek.
They are no longer there in a shot of the side of her face. After Katniss receives her first gift from the sponsors, she leaves the container slightly opened. The next morning as she is climbing the tree past that same canister, it is fully closed. Immediately after that, they are shown with their hands folded together. During the speech from an instructor before the tributes commence their training, Glimmer can be seen to have a pimple on her right cheek, near her chin.
This is gone when she is on with Caesar Flickerman, but it could have been covered with makeup. When Katniss is chased up a tree, Glimmer can be seen without the pimple on her cheek, but she has one on her throat, right under her chin, where she didn't have one before. Then, when she laughs at Cato by the campfire, she has a pimple on her right cheek again. When Katniss pours a drop of water on her wound, initially she holds the bottle with all her fingers below the lid but when shown from top her first finger is above the lid.
When Katniss is kind of hiding from the careers in the tree, Cato tries to climb after her. In one shot, you can see his right arm rising to grab a branch, where in the next shot, it is his left hand grabbing it before it breaks off. When Katniiss is selected in the Reaping, and Effie asks for a round of applause, instead of applauding everyone in the crowd raises his left hand in the Boy Scout oath salute.
After Rue dies and Katniss covers her with flowers, Katniss turns toward the camera and gives the Boy Scout salute with her right, and District 12 folks watching her on TV also do it with their right hands. When Katniss shoots at the apples to blow up the stockpile, she draws the first arrow back twice.
You can see Gale standing outside the doorway waiting for his cue to come in to say his goodbye to Katniss. After her mother and sister leave, she tries the door and opens it a bit and then closes it. As soon as she closes it Gale opens it. You can see Gale standing there when she opens the door. When Katniss gets the cut on her head from the thrown knife, the wound has barely bled by the time she gets back to Peeta. Even small wounds in the head cause large amounts of bleeding very quickly.
Effie says that the train travels at miles per hour and that the trip from District 12 to the Capitol is "less than two days. According to the novels, the three-finger salute is given with the LEFT hand.
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