Why is madge undersee not in the movie

A friend of ours who hadn't read the books was confused as to why this character was still hanging around with Peeta and Katniss. They thought she was the Reaping talking head that traveled from District to District, gathering tributes. When Katniss, Cato and Peeta battle it out in the big finale, they're overtaken by a pack of gigantic dogs hungry for their flesh, which are dubbed "Muttations.

Making it seem as if the Gamekeepers had harvested the eyes of the tributes and shoved them into these monsters. Was it an important cut, probably not. We already know The Capitol is evil, they send children to die for national entertainment. We don't need mutts that may or may not according to Catching Fire be made of the eyes of fallen tributes.

It's a huge stretch of believability. But like tongueless people subjected to a lifetime of servitude, that's horrifying. Haymitch got pretty sober relatively quick didn't he?

Wasn't he supposed to fall off the stage during the reaping of District 12? We would have liked to see more "Haymitch Disappoints," before he got his shit together. However, the additional scenes of Haymitch going after sponsors and tricking Seneca Crane fit the tone very nicely. And gave the audience a chance to understand how the whole game world operated without having to explain.

An excellent moment of showing, not telling. Peeta's first Hunger Games fatality was played down tremendously in the movie. One could even argue that the movie completely covered up his first kill. When the careers who Peeta teams up with during the first half of the games come across a Tribute from District 8, they attempt to kill her but fail. While she's slowly dying it's Peeta that volunteers to go back and finish her off. Katniss sees all of this and is horrified.

Granted one could argue he was showing the tribute compassion, what's more important is that Peeta was demonstrating to the audience that he was capable of killing.

In the movie you just see the District 8 Tributes' campfire, which causes the careers to appear. It is not implied that Peeta did any killing.

The hovercrafts were also a big part of the Games that were never really utilized in the movie. After a Tribute has died, a hovercraft would appear and snatch the body up taking along whatever was attached to it. This is fairly important in the second book as the resistance uses their hovercrafts against The Capitol. But also, in the final moment of the Games when Katniss and Peeta consider eating the poisonous nightlock berries it's heightened, because Peeta is slowly bleeding to death from his legs.

Anyone familiar with The Hunger Games books or movies know how powerful that symbolism is for history. Fans were understandably upset when the movie changed the story of how Katniss got the pin. That made Katniss and Madge unlikely friends, which made their friendship even more endearing and unexpected.

When The Hunger Games adapted into a number of movies, Madge was cut from the movies entirely. In District 12, Hob was a black market where Katniss and her best friend Gale went to trade and sell the excess game they caught. It was an incredibly important place to Katniss, so it made perfect sense that Hob was where the mockingjay pin came from. The Hunger Games took her far from home and eventually led to her destruction, but the pin was a reminder of where she came from. The fact that he came from a place in District 12 that Katniss appreciated only increased the emotional significance for her.

In the first movie, Katniss gets close to the edge of the Hunger Games arena, so the gamemakers steer her away from the boundary by creating a fire. The game makers do conjure fire in the book, but their motivations are far more sinister.

After the initial chaos at the Cornucopia, the action slows down, prompting the gamemakers to manufacture ways to get more casualties to keep the pace going and the audience entertained.

As soon as Snow announces the theme of the Quarter Quell, Katniss runs off, severely triggered by the idea that she has to return to the Games. When Haymitch accuses her of being selfish, it's another nod to how Katniss has been forced to become a symbol by her circumstances.

Most of the folks who live in the Seam share a similar heritage, including Katniss and Gale, who could be passed off as cousins. Part of their physical similarity is their olive skin and dark hair, strongly implying that both of them are intended as people of color in the books. However, both Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth are white. As a result, the story now centers a white girl, like the vast majority of stories represented in the media.

Johanna brings her up as a potential Tribute as revenge. She wears a side braid, and Snow asks her about her choice. She explains that everyone at school is sporting a braid like Katniss, as it is now a widespread trend in the Capitol.

Sponsorship is a major advantage for Tributes in the Hunger Games. Sponsors give money to mentors, who then use the funds to procure the resources necessary to help the Tributes. Besides, why not just write clear instructions rather than vague hints if he can send notes?

Haymitch is a largely enigmatic character when he first appears in The Hunger Games , but much of his backstory is revealed in the book Catching Fire , focusing on his own Hunger Games.

Au revoir, Octavia! Just leave already, Venia! Why it works: Losing the prep team blunts some of Collins' hilarious city-life satire, but better to give the filmmakers credit for judiciously cutting out ancillary characters.

Besides, there'll be plenty of time for the prep team in Mockingjay: Part 2; Part 1. What: Book-Haymitch is a dissolute wreck — in his first scene, he punches Peeta — and he remains a wreck even as he slowly warms up to his tributes. The movie removes the punch, speeds up Haymitch's shift from unhelpfully-cynical to helpfully-cynical, and adds in a few key scenes that show him heroically campaigning for his tributes.

Why it doesn't work: The sanding down of Haymitch's rough edges was probably inevitable — I can't imagine that punch ever making it past the MPAA — and Harrelson has a ridiculously charming screen presence.

But softening Haymitch removes the character's emotional core — let's face it, he's basically a PTSD victim — and turns him into an endearing Mr. Miyagi figure. What: Cato's brutal lieutenant has an appropriately brutal death in the book. Preparing to kill a wounded Katniss, she's surprise-attacked by Thresh, who hits her in the head with a rock.

There's still life in her now though, in the rapid rise and fall of her chest, the low moan escaping her lips. Oh, PG! Why it doesn't work: Even more so than the kid-killing montage at the cornucopia, Clove's sanitized death brings up the basic ethical question of whether a movie about kids killing each other should ever be rated anything less than R.

What: The film dramatizes a sequence that's left to Katniss' imagination in the books. After Rue's death, a riot breaks out in her home of District There's a popular fan theory that the man who starts the riot is Rue's father.

The stormtroopers respond by bringing out the firehoses. Why it works: The cathartic destructiveness of the sequence makes for arguably the most openly political scene of the movie — equally recalling the Civil Rights movement, Tiananmen Square, and Occupy Wall Street. It's also an intriguing tease for the revolutionary fervor in the Games sequels.

What: In the book's climax, the Gamemakers unleash horrific dog-creatures made from the DNA of the dead Tributes, including the adorable Rue: ''The smallest mutt, with dark glossy fur, huge brown eyes and a collar that reads 11 in woven straw. Why it doesn't work: Listen, the muttations are sort of ridiculous.