In their first Games, Peeta joins the Careers to secretly protect Katniss. It is during this period that the group attacks a girl from District 8. The Careers weaken her as a group but Peeta is the one who finishes her off. They inform Katniss that they are going to District 13 but are not there when Katniss arrives in the final book. Katniss states that they most likely did not make the journey.
Film fans will remember that nightlock is a poisonous berry found in the Hunger Games arena in the first movie. Katniss and Peeta threatened to use it on themselves and the Capitol used them on Seneca Crane. In the books, District 13 rebels had nightlock pills in case of capture. In a rare case of a movie giving a superior portrayal, the movie version President Coin is very cool and collected.
In the books, she is a wild hotshot whose Machiavellian plans are not lost on the reader. The movie portrayal was better for avoiding hinting at her demise. During his imprisonment in the Capitol, Peeta is put in TV interviews to upset Katniss and make her trip up. He has clearly been harmed offscreen and tries to warn her of an imminent attack.
In the book, Peeta is harmed heavily on camera but was not in the film. When Katniss discovers that she has to enter another Hunger Games in Catching Fire , she gets outrageously tipsy with Haymitch and has to deal with a hangover later. No tipsy JLaw for us. During his fight with Cato in the 74 th Hunger Games, Peeta is severely wounded in the thigh. This injury becomes so severe that his leg is amputated and replaced with a Capitol-made prosthetic.
Movie Peeta does not lose his leg, despite its importance to the books. During the second Hunger Games, Peeta tells Caesar Flickerman that Katniss is pregnant, making them more sympathetic to the Capitol audience.
This was left out of the movie. It's a great example of how much the adults of the book really expect out of her, which is one of author Suzanne Collins' best themes in her works critiquing war. This is also a time when the two really build on their relationship, which is largely missing from the movies. Although Katniss clearly ends up with Peeta, audiences are baffled as to why, as they had no chemistry and little romantic development. It's much heavier in the book, and it's done among nightmares, PTSD and teen emotions in a way that's more realistic and moving than many other dystopian novels.
Some other wonderful quotes were also cut, particularly lines between Katniss and Peeta that made their relationship much more believable. Katniss calls out Peeta's name when she realizes they can work together, clamping her hands over her mouth afterward, and Peeta's cute and clueless clomping around in the woods, which is a liability for her, isn't included, either. Cutting the scene made sense for time but it was a nice first stepping stone toward proving the existence of District 13 as well as demonstrating the effect Katniss was already having in Panem.
While filmmakers opted to use the three-fingered salute instead, which likely saved some time, the bread means so much more because it didn't come from rich sponsors but people who had to make a sacrifice to send it to her out of gratitude.
It was also an incredible act of rebellion, since people don't normally send aid to tributes outside their own district. It's one of the scariest moments in the series, so when we see the mutts on screen without these creepy additions they just don't have the same affect as they did when they chilled us to the bone in the book. For this scene, the BBFC demanded three formal cuts, the first of which stated:. When the Hunger Games begins, as the tributes rush to the Cornucopia and begin fighting, reduce the focus on a heavily bloodied knife which is held up following a stabbing.
This cut was achieved through the use of digital manipulation. No footage was removed, but the blood on the knife blade was painted out in order to satisfy the censors:.
The next change concerned the brief sight of a male Tribute being slashed across the chest. Like the previous cuts, this was achieved by digitally removing both the sight of blood splattering from his wounds and the sight of blood on his torso as he falls to the ground:.
When the Hunger Games begins, after the tributes rush to the Cornucopia and begin fighting, remove the clear splash of blood that results from blow with bladed weapon. These cuts would appear to be referring to the sight of a blonde girl stabbing a male participant and an occurrence a few seconds later that shows a machete slicing into another boy's leg. Once again, for these two scenes, no footage was cut, with the sight of splattering blood simply being digitally painted out for the 12A version, and the blood on the machete blade being digitally repainted black to lessen the impact of the scene:.
Another change occurs a few moments later, when a Tribute slashes a fellow player across the neck. This was removed following the advice viewing, and once again involves the digital removal of blood. The very brief sight of a blood splash on a wall and the subsequent splashing of blood onto a briefcase was painted out for the UK cinema version:.
The fourth formal BBFC cut concerned two shots of the male Tribute's corpse who was seen earlier being slashed across the chest. He is seen lying with visible bloody wounds in the PG version, but for the 12A version the BBFC issued the following to the filmmakers:. When the Hunger Games begins, after the tributes have fought beside the Cornucopia, reduce the focus on a bloody wound to a young male's chest as he lies on his back in the aftermath of the fighting.
As with the previous changes, no footage was removed outright, with the sight of his injuries being digitally reduced to attain a 12A rating:. Three more changes were made to the film for a 12A rating, and these were all undertaken after the initial BBFC advice viewing. Two of these changes concerned the burn wound that Katniss receives on her leg. For the 12A version, the close-up of Katniss washing her wound was slightly shortened, with the reverse angle of her tending to her leg extended to reduce the length of the following close-up.
Furthermore, the 12A version also lacks all clear sight of Katniss pressing on her wound with her hand, instead showing a close-up of Katniss writhing in pain as she tends to her leg off-screen. The last change made for the 12A version occurs when Clove threatens Katniss with a knife.
Knives have always been a concern for the BBFC, particularly in junior categories, and the Board noted this cut in a comment on their website in , stating:. In the version of the film seen for advice, there was a sequence in which a blade is sadistically held to a character's face. This shot has been removed from the classified version of the film. Strangely, the prolonged and arguably more dangerous sight of Clove holding a larger blade to Katniss' throat was considered perfectly acceptable, with the BBFC objecting only to the subsequent -- and extremely brief shot -- of Clove placing a second, smaller knife against Katniss' face.
Focus on the knife was removed by having the film cut to a close-up of Clove's face in its place:. In total, almost 30 seconds of cuts had been made to the film following the BBFC's advice viewing, with some of the cuts made during post production making their way into the international version of the film. But despite the BBFC making cuts, the UK release of The Hunger Games generated over 40 complaints from British cinemagoers, with some arguing that the film was too violent and others complaining about the cutting of the film.
As the BBFC commented in their annual report for The violence is generally restrained and undetailed.
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