Here's What The Hunger Games Cast Was Supposed To Look Like
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ค. 2024
- Four years before Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, and more brought their characters to life onscreen in 2012’s The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins introduced them to the world in her dystopian novel of the same name. The Hunger Games series - both books and films - were a massive success with kids and adults.
While taking a character from page to screen can be a difficult process, full of both necessary and creative changes, the people behind the Hunger Games adaptation were able to get the characters pretty close to what their source material said they looked like - at least, mostly. Here’s what the Hunger Games cast was supposed to look like.
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Katniss Everdeen | 0:00
Gale Hawthorne | 1:12
Peeta Mellark | 1:55
Effie Trinket | 2:41
Haymitch Abernathy | 3:35
Cinna | 4:20
Primrose Everdeen | 5:02
Johanna Mason | 5:35
Finnick Odair | 6:16
President Coriolanus Snow | 6:58
President Alma Coin | 7:48
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Who's your favorite character from "The Hunger Games"?
I am not a Woody Harrelson fan, but he nailed it-also Stanley Tucci and Lenny Kravitz
I couldn't pick a favorite, they're all great. But probably Katniss.
RUE!!!
Haymitch and Johanna
Snow and Coin 😈
Even if their physical descriptions didn't match the books perfectly, I still think casting for these movies was fantastic.
I agree
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@@sophiehi4217 bro why
To be honest I think the movies were as close to the books as it could be.... not everyone could be book perfect and compared to a lot of other book to movie or TV show adaptions it was amazing
I think it was the a perfect mix of appearance and acting skills. All the characters acted like their character, and also looked enough like them for it to be believable.
Agreed
I agree the characters were very close to the images from the books I loved them all
I agree def one of the best book adaptions ever
Rue: Am I a joke to you?
After Katniss, my favorite character is Cinna. The rest are ok, but Cinna has a depth to him that the others don’t because he risked his life to help Katniss, all the while knowing he would be killed for it. He made Katniss stand out.
They never explicitly say it in any of the books but a theory I've always had is that Cinna's from one of the districts and somehow got out and became a stylist in the capital which if true would make sense why he's so cool to Katniss throughout the series.
EFFIE GANG
@@njay4399 no I've never seen any of Christians content but I'll check it out.
@@njay4399 nice to see someone who watches christian
@@nappyk96 He just finished the series for good so you'll have to start at the very beginning
Filmmakers: "So, how many people have grey eyes?"
Author: "Yes."
I have grey eyes, with a touch of green. They have been described as hazel green. My ID only says Hazel. Most people describe them as green. A different green, but green. But they have also been described as grey. So actually grey/ green I suppose.
I really like the casting. Even smaller roles like Foxface and Wiress fit so well to their character.
Foxface was perfect.
Jenifer even said that she didnt want girls to be like "I'm gonna get skinny and look like Katniss." I think that was awesome of her
I think she just didn’t feel like starving herself for the role and I don’t blame her. It wasn’t even that important of a detail because Katniss was fairly well fed thanks to her and Gale’s hunting.
I understand that point but it did feel like no one from 12 was starving like we were meant to believe they were. No one in the main cast looked hungry and the outlying districts were supposed to be full of starving people. They all looked very well fed and fit.
How did they make Kristen Stewart deathly thin in Breaking Dawn? She’s already really thin, so I doubt that was her and not CG.
She’s supposed to portray a girl that’s on the brink of starvation. Even the people in the town weren’t fully fed. Maybe more than the Seam, but not by much.
I get she doesn’t want people to look up to an unnaturally thin girl. But that’s kind of the point in this story. Context matters.
@@BlueDauntlessA very interesting point! I agree, none of the characters of District 12 looked any less well-fed then the people of the Capitol. It's the weirdness of the Young Adult genre, I guess: if it were a show for the kids, you naturally wouldn't want to show an unhealthy role model, but if it were made for adults, you would want to create something realistic, believable. As it is, The Hunger Games falls somewhere in the middle.
@@BlueDauntless There is one element, which is never mentioned, but I think is important, and it is the matter of physical strength in case of Katniss. I practiced archery for a few years, and a bow is not easy to use. You *need* physical strength to be good at it. If someone is extremely skinny, that doesn't only mean a lack of fat, but most cases a lack of muscle and an overall weakness. While I understand that Katniss was described very skinny in the books, I think the fact that they were hunting and getting a bit more food than other people in the district, so she could maintain a healthier weight and greater physical strength is much more fitting to the level of fitness she displays.
So... basically, they did a really good job casting. Who cares about eye color.
Right, obviously the author had both to fill-in more space and to help visualize the character but in the movie it really means nothing unless it has something to do with the plot. For cases like, Katniss and Gale looking similar, it's good a visual for our prejudist brains to say.. "they match"
I like the changes they did to Johanna! The whole casting was great, but Snow was exceptionally great!
The casting for Snow was good, but I feel like they should’ve given him more of a “Capitol” bibe. He was more similar to Cinna in appearance than the other Capitol citizens.
I'm really surprised that people complain about Jennifer not being young enough. She was only 21 when they did the first movie and I think that both her and Josh looks quite young in the first one. And to be honest Jennifer, Josh and Woody's (Haymitch) performances were sooo good in all the movies that I really think it was worth it.
Its because she looks like an adult. Katniss was supposed to look 14 bc of how small and starved she was
Edit: I also want to add that I feel like it takes an element away bc you forget how young these kids who have to die are
It’s funny I just rewatched the series and she looked so young in the first movie compared to the second. Her whole face looked like it changed and like she lost the baby fat in the cheeks. I had no idea she was 21 I thought she was under 18 in the first film for sure. I don’t think she looked like a grown woman at all.
@@daniellesimone7939 I strongly disagree that she looked like an adult in the first film. Sure she looked well fed and a lot stronger than she should have but definitely not like an adult woman. Late teens at the very oldest and that would be stretching it.
@@monimoo88 she didn't look like she was in her 30s but a 16 yr old? Not at all. Without makeup these kids still like small and katniss especially was supposed to be tiny
Don't have an issue with her age but Katniss is supposed to be small and petite which is how she climbs so high on the tree branches.
• Sam was a great Finnick, but if he was younger he would have been a PERFECT Peeta!
• My only problem(s) with J-Law was that she was too tall and looked waaaay older than 16
• Josh had Peeta’s beautiful sensitive eyes (even if they weren’t blue) and he was boyishly handsome, but he was a bit short and not blond enough
• Gale was supposed to be ruggedly handsome. Liam is just too “pretty boy” imo, and he’s supposed to have straight black hair.
• Woody was a great Haymitch, I don’t understand why they couldn’t give him black hair and contacts 🤷🏻♀️
Exactly! They did the hair dye for the others soooo
I think in the first hunger games they did amazing Jlaw was casted perfectly she looked very young! but in Catching Fire Jennifer definitely had aged a bit
thnk the black hair would make him look too scary the variatons of the blond rly suits his character
They were going to cast Hailee Steinfeld as Katniss before J Law
@@uhm4026 Wow. Hailee proceeded to play another archer character in Hawkeye.
Fun Fact:
Isabella Fuhrman (Clove) and Alexander Ludwig (Cato) would've been book-accurate depictions of both Katniss Everdeen & Peeta Mellark in the film.
yeah, I really like JLaw's portrayal of Katniss, so I'm not salty about it at all, but if ever (hopefully not before at least 30years have passed) they remake the films, it would be lovely to see a short, actually olive skinned Katniss for sure. Isabella sure had the right size for Katniss, but too white. Alexander was way too tall to be Peeta who's "medium height with a stocky build", so Josh was the right size. And I gotta say, it was so refreshing to see a straight couple on screen where the girl is taller.
@@kailovi
I agree.
Also, this comment I posted was also before I found out that Katniss originally had a dark complexion.
also furthermore personally i feel olive skin is slightly darker than a white skin tone and that a lot of the actors skintones where quite a lot paler than what id anticipated reading the books
I actually think Haymitch was one of the most accurate ones, the colouring is of but he looks the way I pictured him.
He really nailed the greasy hair
For your information Cinna is not peeta’s stylist. According to the book Peeta has his own stylist.
Yeah and she is called Portia I think
I’m just tired of grown ass adults playing kids. Them being teenagers makes the story more tragic in my opinion
Minors cannot legally work as many hours as adults. I believe that is partly why they go that route.
I agree. Had they casted accurately for the movie...Isabella Fuhrman would’ve been Katniss and Lawrence Clove.
Fuhrman was a finalist for Katniss and at 15 the right age.
I felt glimmer was the only actor over 20 who looked closer to the teen age.
check Battle Royale ;) all the actors are the age of the characters in it! on top of that, they're all classmates, so it makes it even more tragic.
It’s easier to have adults. As there’s more rights adults have rather than minors, who are restricted.
@@owenplourde3934 battle royale is about 9th grade children having to kill each other, so they're 14 years old. the actors are 14 as well!
Katniss, Cinna, Haymitch, Effie Trinket. Everyone did a great job. I would love to see or read a prequel about Haymitch. Woody H. Did an amazing job and I'd love to learn more about the character and how he coped after his time as a tribute.
Did you see they are making another movie.
Lionsgate has confirmed The Hunger Games prequel is aiming to start production in early 2022, ready for a late 2023 to early 2024 release date.
Actually, another thing off about Peeta and Katniss is the heights. Peeta was supposed to be much taller than Katniss at 5'10, and Katniss at 5'5.
"For the most part, Sutherland looked pretty similar to the book's description; he had the white hair and he was fairly small." ..... Except Donald Sutherland is 6'4".
I wonder y they just didn't put contacts in their eyes
Katniss did
Ikr!
For some characters this makes sense, like in twilight they have to for the vampires to be believable. But say if it's between green and blue color just for the sake of the character to follow the description in the book, personally don't find that important. Especially because many actors can't see comfortably or are allergic. I rather see a good quality actor who is focused on doing the best job than someone terrible who has the perfect eye color. IMO.
Sometimes it's not that important if it's not a character defining trait. Putting Effie in her natural hair would have been out of the question, but having green eyes rather than blue wasn't necessary, and had Snow worn snake contacts, or coin wear light grey, it would have been distracting.
@Quaker 2019 certainly no argument there, she did not match his eyes in the final movie flashback. Don't know quite how to explain that... except she was perfect in every other way for the part, but must admit it makes the line rather awkward.
4:31 Cinna was only Katniss’ stylist Portia was Peeta’s stylist
didn't cinna have helper stylists? there was like three of them helping cinna with katniss
@@starry_eyed_sky yeah her prep team
*Mockingjay book spoiler*
In the final book Effie dies (we don’t see it happens but it’s evident) Katniss’ prep team is who dresses her for the propos (I think that was what they were called) not Effie like in the movie
@@JelleBeans effie doesn't die in the final book... she peacefully said her goodbye to Katniss in district 12 after the war and returned to the capitol.
@@JelleBeans lol WHAT? Why are you lying? She didn’t die. She was kidnapped by the rebels and doesn’t appear in mockingjay until snows execution to help prepare Katniss.
@@JelleBeans no Effie shows up at the end
They did the best they could to make the casts look as much like the character as possible!
Nah...I think Haylee Steinfeldt would have been better. More age appropriate and closer to the book. JMO
The actors for the tributes should have been younger, so we could have feel more the atrocity of everything
They were all under 22. That’s pretty young.
@@camillashimwa7671 I know, but they look kinda older
@Yulee Be Me I didn't think about that, you're quite right
@Yulee Be Me not to mention the fact that filming such a dark story could be extremely traumatic for child/teen actors. I just watched the movies for the first time at the age of 22, and I had to take some time after watching them to mentally return to reality... I genuinely cannot imagine how difficult it would have been for a child/teen actor to film those movies and separate the fantasy from reality every day. Yes, ideally 16 year old actors would've been more compelling in a sense, but at the same time, we do need to be careful to prioritize the mental and physical well-being of children over accuracy in film making, especially when you can get actors that are only a few years older than their characters are supposed to be who still look relatively young, but they are actually adults. As far as I'm concerned, the casting department did a fantastic job, and every actor brought this story to life in a very compelling way and they all were perfect for their respective roles.
I think the majority of people who had read the books were older than the actors by the time they watched the movie .
I didn't have issue with the actors age.
My name is finnick and everytime i introduce myself, people ask me "isnt that the guy from the hunger games?" If only i could look like him
We’re you named after Finnick Odair?
Idc what anyone says even tho jlaw doesn’t look 16 nobody could’ve played Katniss the way she did
Every actor and actress did an incredible job in that movie. It is one of my favorites.
i wouldve NEVER imagined Katniss to look as she did in the movie, but BOY WAS JENN AN AMAZING ACTOR FOR THIS CHARACTER
I think the casting is perfect as I couldn’t imagine them looking any different,
its true that Katniss and Peeta look a bit older then 16, like the true cruelty of the games didn’t hit me until I imagined my 16 year old friend in them, but I don’t mind at all.
But yes I love the whole cast and personally Effie Trinket is my favourite character
Finnick is the worlds most handsome character. He is very stunning
Them: “ …he the white hair and was fairly small..”
Also Donald Sutherland: 6’4
That was annoying. I like that Snow was small man, but legal in the books.
1:00 hated that, it wasn't about "image" Katniss was thin cause she was POOR, she was at a breaking point, so unprofessional. Imagine Adrien Brody from "the pianist" saying dumb shlt like that about his weight lost for his character ☠️
My favorite characters are peeta then cinna. I have a crush on peeta and everytime I read the book and he says something I’m basically ice cream in the hot sun. I melt. Now cinna, I just admire him and his work
The only thing that bugged me was that Peeta was taller in the book and the movies didn't dive into the depth of their relationship as much as they could have.
Right! They made it seem like Peeta was raining on Katniss and Gale’s parade in the movie! In the book, Katniss had a soft spot for Peeta and developed genuine feelings for him. Gale was her partner, but not a romantic interest. She just felt like she owed it to Gale since they were so close if he wanted anything more.
Effie wasnt really made to be a serious character but she holds such depth and presents a really loveable character
I'm still dragging the OG Hunger Games fans to filth!!! over their reaction to Rue being played by a small black girl (as described in the book.) As a black teen who read the book in one sitting before going to see the movie, I was high key hurt by how shocked and outraged y'all were. (You know who you were and if you were or weren't. )
Yes! That made me so mad! I love Rue and the fact that people tried to whitewash her in their minds just ughhhh! Rue's actress was amazing and almost exactly how I imagined her!
!!!!!! Facts and they were horrible! She was a little girl. Horrible mfs
The casting of Rue was excellent. I actually felt more attached to her character in the movie.
The whole district is meant to be dark skinned... so have no idea how people misinterpreted the book.
I cant even understand why someone would be outraged about it. The Hunger Games Play in the US anyway so it would in No way be unrealistic or anything. Some people are crazy
@@princesslookie people were angry about that? Glad I did not get into the hunger games until a couple years ago. Apparently I missed that. That’s really stupid if people get mad at them.
Hunger Games is probably the closest book to movie adaptation I’ve seen
i love all the actors in the cast, even if they didn’t look exactly like the descriptions then they BROUGHT it with their acting because i never questioned who was who.. i was like yeah that’s definitely them
I just think the only flaw if I could say one is that EVERY actor was waaaaay older than what the books described, which of course takes away what made the Games gruesome in the first place
They can’t work with minors on a big production like this. It would’ve taken much more time.
@@owenplourde3934 They could have casted 18-19 year olds that looked like minors, though.
@@katarzynakolodynska9387 some people do look young for their age and they did infact cast minors on quite a few of the characters eg willow sheilds who played prim was 10 (younger than 12 - prims age), Isabele fuhrman who played clove was 14 and the actress of rue was also 12.
Katniss in the movies doesn’t look anything near a 16 year old.. they should’ve casted younger people so that we’d see how cruel the games are. (Forcing teens to kill each other)
check Battle Royale ;) all the actors are the age of the characters in it! on top of that, they're all classmates, so it makes it even more tragic.
@@battlestory7846 Battle Royal was a 9th grade group . I think most were between 14 and 15 years old .
@@MariaRodriguez-hb4ix yep, exactly. including the actors in the film (except for Kawada and Kiriyama who were in their 20s but also played older characters. Kawada for example is 19 years old in the film)
@@honeybugart i'm not criticising THG for this, by the way. i don't mind that the actors are older than their characters, i'mjust responding to those who did mind it and would have wanted a movie with actors the same age as the characters, which battle royale is. :)
children in acting is dangerous and harmful especially for such dark movies like this. so to me it makes sense why 20 year lds were casted. adults can also work longer and mostly better
I like it when the actor looks like the book character but I really respect Jennefer for not contributing to eating disorders among young girls.
But that scene with Clove doesn’t make sense when Katniss is much taller and bigger.
i get what you mean
funny how movie katniss' "eyes and skin" are described as accurate for book katniss while movie gale is a bit too pale to be book gale lol. katniss and gale are both described as olive, and generally thought to both be darker. katniss' skin fair skin is not book accurate. peeta is described as fair in the book, while jlaw is so fair that she's lighter than josh hutcherson. she did a lovely job as katniss but that doesn't negate she's...a bit of a white washed katniss and it's not okay to only recognize that for gale. this is giving me the same energy as people who were shocked when rue was black because they just ignored the book?
I think Jennifer Lawrence isnt a bad Katniss because while she isnt that dark her sister Prim is described as blonde with blue eyes, so they do have the Same parents and of course they look different but Not too different?
But yeah people being "shocked" about Rue is Just weird
that's because olive skin is an undertone, not a solid colour/shade. it's (more or less) up to the reader's interpretation what the characters look like so really you can't call out much whitewashing, with also including the fact its hard finding accurate and good actors too
also katniss has a white mother while Gale doesn't so it's probably hinted for him to be darker
@@TheSarahskaninchen agreed
You’re right. Jennifer and Liam were great in their roles but they missed a big opportunity for representation with Katniss and Gale. It would’ve been amazing to see two young poc shine in such powerful roles.
I’m so baffled that people think Katniss was what? Dark skinned? Her sister and mother are fair with blue eyes and blonde hair. Katniss has grey eyes. Her skin is not dark , she had had olive undertones it just means instead of having pink undertones she had yellow undertones because her fathers ancestry was probably of Italian or Mediterranean descent. So basically, Katniss was white with yellow undertones. She wasn’t whitewashed. Jesus people.
Gale was never Katniss first love 👀👀
Yes he was.
@@goldrush18x just curious… have you read the book?
@@kerencardenasr I’ve found that people who watched the movies first are team Gale. But people that read the books are team Peeta.
The movie definitely made it the Katniss and Gale show. But we know in the book she cared deeply for Peeta.
I just have to say that the actors of Cato & Clove (Alexander Ludwig and Isabelle Fuhrman) look more like Katniss and Peeta than Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson,the actual actors.
I think Alexander Ludwig was too old and tall to play Peeta, well, but he made a great Cato.
@@katarzynakolodynska9387 Peeta was supposed to be tall. Katniss has to stand in her tiptoes to kiss his cheek in the book.
I agree and both auditioned for those roles. Katniss was actually short and Peeta was tall and built. Clove was was supposed to be larger and stout too.
I love the books/movies and it was acted really well. But Katniss and Peeta were actually completely wrong compared to the book (but Jennifer and Josh did great). President Snow was also wrong but Donald Sutherland (he’s not short) was so good.
@@madethistocomment727 No, Peeta was not supposed to be tall. He is supposed to be medium height. Katniss is just really small. Gale is tall.
Alexander Ludwig is super tall and freaking huge. If that's your Peeta, you'd have to cast one of the World's Stongest men as Cato, maybe that Icelandic dude who was the last to play the Mountain on GoT.
@@FrakkinToasterLuvva good point. I'm 5'4" myself, so medium height is tall for me lol as far as Cato, he was described as monstrous, so he could have been that huge.
When i was reading all the books, i was like "JESUS CHRIST, why do they dont adapt this version of peeta". I mean, the actor is ok, and cute, for peeta, but in the books you read something like a short man but muscular and robust.
I saw somewhere a picture of the book Peeta, he's way more handsome than the movie one.
@@shamcaster6087 Fan Art did a great job with descriptions.
I always thought of the 'Seem' look as those of Mediterranean or Portuguese descent, kind of like what the cast of Mystic Pizza was supposed to be.
yeah. a lot of people say they think it's native american (but as far as i know that was never confirmed) and the first thing i ever imagined was a mediterranean look so unless i have it confirmed otherwise i just continue to imagine them the way i did originally. btw it's "seam"
I still think this movie was the closest to the book
No other movie gave me as much vibes.....I'm a book lover, alright and I don't like adaptations of books into movies but The Hunger Games is an exception
😍😍
In conclusion, almost everyone who had blue eyes should've had green eyes
Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark forever.
Katniss was supposed to be small, not gaunt.
Gale was not Katniss "first love", just best friend. Someone who made this video obviously hasn't read the books
Sounds like you’re team Peeta 😂
Effie trinket is my favorite character next to katniss.
in general i agree a lot with actors refusing to lose weight, but in certain, specific cases, like this one, i think its justified and should try to make it the goal. I mean PLOT wise she was supposed to be skinny. but not ina way that girls would want to be skinny like her, but because she was supposed to be famished.... because of a BAD thing, not a beauty trait
She shouldn’t have had a figure at all. Very small, very thin, no curves. Because she was literally starving, not because she was vain about her appearance.
Katniss and Gale have the Seam look. So they're supposed to have olive-toned skin, which is the same skin tone that people like Nina Dobrev and Victoria Justice have.
i think jennifer lawrence does have an olive undertone, at least that's what it looks like to me, she's just very pale. you can have light olive skin it does exist, but yes it does seem, quite obvious that gale and katniss are supposed to have darker olive skin. so still olive i think just wrong kind of olive
What about the cat in the first movie?!
They've nailed just about everyone with casting...
Katniss will forever be my role model in any book or movie I’ve ever read
My biggest changes to the castings would be
* peeta being more stout, since he's supposed to be convincingly strong
* gale and katniss looking more alike
* gale and katniss looking like teens, gale looks like a grown ass man in the movies
* katniss actually being tiny, having darker skin, and being truly plain (J Law is just too pretty)
* haymitch with his green eyes and dark hair, and also being a bit younger. by my math, he's only early forties, where in the movies he looks like 50s (though i did like his casting for the movie, since he was played really well)
Haymitch should look terrible for his age, he's been an alcoholic for decades...
*yes
*yes(tho they dont have to look like twins, hey dont look too different)
*no,he's supposed to look like a grown man
*idk abt tiny but it would make her seem more frail, no writing in the book says her exact skin shade other than its olive(which is more of an undertone) and yes more plain
* YES tho he is a mentally ill alcoholic so he probably would still look like shit
Didn’t Gale look like a grown ass man in the books too?
i think he was late-forties in the movies
I feel like cinna was spot on
I feel like we are living a b rated version of this now!
I feel like that’s a bit dramatic
The movies adaptation of the books was the closest I have probably ever witnessed. The eyes are almost not going to be able to be matched without serious contacts and then you can only shoot for so long. As far as I know color contacts only are safe for a few hours of wear.
As an aside I think Jennifer should have lost weight for the first of the movie because she was supposed to show the malnutrition of being in district 12. Then as she got to the capitol and was able to eat well, gotten more filled out and fit.
I never read the book so I have nothing to compare too. I can see how they wanted Katniss to be thinner cause of the food situation. But they did a great job conveying her situation and it was believable!
She and Gale were excellent hunters. So I don't see why they would want her to be super skinny.
The flash back, with the bread Peeta throws for her... is before she is a proficient hunter with her bow.
@@thewarriorbunny and archers have to be really strong and muscular
They were still probably a few meals away from starving. They didn’t just have to feed themselves, they fed others. And being fed va being nourished and well fed are very different
I was always kind of annoyed by the silly, sideways braid they put on Jennifer Lawrence. The book clearly says the long braid went down her back. Someone living in poverty wouldn't have bothered cutting her hair short, nor would she have bothered with such an affected braid.
Someone in poverty would VERY MUCH have bothered cutting their hair short bcs it's less to take care of, or more like barely be able to care of. With short hair not taking care of it won't cause you any problems
unless your womanhood and femininity is that frail I guess. And side braid is easier when you're doing it on yourself? I think so
i agree with the braid but someone in poverty would bother to cut it short. anyone can.
@@pink_alligator it really depends on what you decide to do, long hair actually takes a lot less effort to take care of, it doesn't need to be washed as often and if all you do is brush and braid it every few days it's a lot easier to take care of than short hair you need to brush and wash every day
it is stated that her mother did the braid on reaping day and on other people a back braid would have been easier. after reaping day katniss likely had stylists to do her hair so she never really needed to her own hair at any point in the series except maybe fro the start@@pink_alligator
I don’t know if I’d say Snow “orchestrated” the games. Technically the head game maker does that. When Snow came to power, he definitely “improved” them for better and/or worse.
snow definitely improved the quality of pre-games / post-games settings... he was the one who came up with the idea of a victors' village / monetary prize for the winners, and the whole training / eating and sleeping well in a nice place before the games thing
To me, snake-like doesn't mean that his eyes literally looked like a snakes lmao. More like his eyes were piercing, and thin. Like he's constantly squinting to see if he can get a glimpse of your very being. Can't wait to see how he's portrayed in Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes though!
Am I the only one driven crazy by the fact she keeps saying winner instead of victor?
Could you do one for how the actors appearance compare and differ from the characters of The Maze Runner series?
I dont know what you guys are talking about. Finnick is THE MOST STUNNING PERSON I HAVE EVER SEEN
Donald Sutherland was brilliant as Pres. Snow. He was so cold, calculating, and absolutely maliciously apathetic. He played the role amazingly.
prim looks like an alien in the edited version
😂 Jennifer Lawrence definitely doesn't have olive skin, milk is a better description
The books were very well written, esp the characters. I do think the movie fell short if you compare it to the book. They def should of made her more gaunt, small and tormented. It would have made her fierceness stand out more. My favourite character, Peeta should've also looked more ruged and a bit taller. He was supposed to be average height, not short. These people were supposed to be living in extreme poverty and it should show in their eyes and gaze.
Thank you! The age and the stature of Katniss was wrong. It still worked, but I think Hayley Steinfeldt would have been better. The youth and malnutrition of the tributes, esp district 12, contributed to the barbarism of the games… with the older actors, it looked more like an American Ninja competition than a death battle.
From what I remember Peeta was not malnourished. He / his family was considered wealthy in 12’s standards as his family owned the bakery. The poorest part of 12 was the seam where Katniss and Gale lived. Katniss sold game to people who could afford the luxury of meat, people like the owners of the bakery and peacekeepers. Katniss and Gale should have been thinner but I understand why Peeta was not made to look gaunt. He shouldn’t have been. Even if he didn’t have a lot living off of rolls would have made him fuller than those living off of rationed grain that barely lasted a year between a family of two or three when it was meant for one.
@@monimoo88 He maybe wasn’t starving like Katniss, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say he was well fed. The entire district was poor and starving. Just people in the town were less so.
people do mention about katniss hunting but it is stull mentioned that even after hunting, she still sometimes struggled to make trades for appropriate amunts food for her family. furthermore out of protection for prim, she prevented prim frim gaining tesserae, further reducing their food supply. they may have been slightly better off than others in district 12 but still were likely to be underfed and malnourished as a result of inadequate supplies
the casting was absolutely amazing. I felt that the essence of the characters was captured completely.
5:20 - geez, that second picture looks odd 😂
i think they should have have peeta's hair more wavy or "fluffier"
He should have also been taller than Katniss
My favourite character is by far Caesar. He seems like someone you would have wished to know in school.
I find it interesting that Jennifer's skin tone is described as "spot on" for the seam look, but Gale is called out for being pale. I don't think anyone would describe Jennifer's skin tone as olive. That said, Jennifer's performance was great as usual.
i think its hinted that gale would probablyyy be a bit darker than katniss. as she has a white mom and sister (well i assume so with them having white features like blonde hair and blue eyes) but gale doesn't
@@killisianomy8927 gale and katniss were literally described as looking like they could be siblings. both had darker skin, black hair, and grey eyes. it makes no sense to say liam was too pale for the role of gale but jennifer wasn’t.
@@killisianomy8927 She spent a lot of time in the sun hunting and fishing and generally being outside. Considering this is set in the summer, Lawrence should have at least looked like she had a tan. Not a pale girl that never sees the light of day.
Nothing surprising Hollywood always change characters appearance , even if the characters are clearly described
Cinnamon is only katniss’s stylelist and Portia is peeta’s
Cinna? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
cinnamon? 😭😭😭😭😭
No it's cinnabun
*Cinna *stylist
@@sebkilbride4181 no, he's a cinnamon roll
I feel like Peeta should've been a foot taller and a hundred pounds heavier
Yes and katniss should have been a lot shorter. Josh Hutchinson is only 5'5" though. Jennifer Lawrence is 5'9". Both actors did a good job
My favourite castings have to be Effie, Cinna, Rue, Peeta and other backround characters from the 74th and 75th hunger games.
I do have to admit Gale and Katniss were kind of whitewashed, they're described as having olive skin, dark hair and grey eyes- similar to eachother enough to be assumed as siblings. I also imagined Peeta being much taller while reading the books but If I recall it wasn't confirmed, so short Peeta is the only Peeta.
I also can't remember Haymitch's description in the books so tell me if I'm wrong but I think his actor did a perfect job and captured Haymitch amazingly. In spite of the other changes in appearance and obvious age difference to their characters, especially with Katniss and Gale, I think they embodied their characters well
It was amazing it's made me want to read the books to see how close they are or not xx
Me: snow already looks like a crazy old man the vision can’t be worse.
Me: it just got worse
The movies are pretty spot on
Katniss was NOT in love with gale! He was in love with her but she loved PEETA! PEETA was her first love, get the facts correct
She loved Gale but wasn’t in love with him. In the end he - like most everyone - deserted her when she was at her lowest. Very depressing story.
I’m sure you’re not biased at all 😂 Gale was her first love and their relationship was way less forced.
@@goldrush18x He was not her first romantic love. She encountered Peeta first! Peeta gave her hope. Then she met Gale.
When it was just Peeta and Katniss, they weren’t forced. She genuinely cared for Peeta, but hated being a puppet (fair enough, who would like that).
Peeta gave her hope. Gale gave her vengeance.
All of the main leads were too old. The whole point of the series was that the districts were being reaped of their CHILDREN. None of the leads look like they are children. Without that, the story and the tragedy of the Games loses a lot of the original punch.
Honey that’s orange hair
ngl, the description of finnick is almost the same as hans from frozen xd
When I first read the books I imagined president snow looking like Grindlwald
It’s funny how rue wasn’t mentioned cause there was a whole hoopla about that before the movies came out..
Vera ya dud a great job. Love these films and books💝😊
gale wasn’t katniss first love it was peeta🙄
Okay, y'all. Jennifer does NOT have olive skinnnnn! I personally think she's pretty pale
If they could have just cast a main actor with facial expressions that would have been great
Dude that book version photoshop is weird scary
Excuse me since when was Gale Katniss’ first love?
Have you not read the books?
@@codename495 I actually have read the books and seen the movies multiple times. Gale never had a chance and did you ever read the part where Gale killed Prim. I assume that you have like to say you have read the books but have only read 3 chapters of catching fire and have seen 1.5 of the movies❤️
having read the books, you are 100% right! Gale never stood a chance. And he had this inner darkness that Katniss subconsciously hated.
@@pianosauce5809 Finally another sensible human being...
Right back at you! The series would get a 10 from me if Gail died instead of Finnick, but since Finnick dies it's only a 9/10 from me 😂😂
there is a line in book , it was katniss's piv ... how they were well fed and actually in good condition because of her hunting in woods i dont remember the exact line
i read the first book of the series without even seeing the movie version once tbh i pictured Katniss Everdeen as a teen a 16 year old (age mentioned in the book) is vulnerable , its diff in the movies
Interesting video. I don't think such things as eye color are that important in the big picture, but your points are well taken.
But I can't imagine how any member of the cast could have been improved upon. The films were close enough to perfect!
However, I'm concerned that in casting the prequel, "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes," they're going to make a huge error. I've read they want an African American actress to play Lucy Gray Baird. Mark my words, if they do that, the film will flop.
Lucy Gray, or more likely her cousin Maude Ivory, is probably Katniss Everdeen's grandmother. Therefore the actress needs to resemble Jennifer Lawrence.
I do think Finnick's sea green eyes were significant though. (Ofc Coin's and Snow's too, since theirs indicate their cold personality, symbolically)
Katniss, Peeta, and Haymitch later makes their own memorial book (?) with all the memories that they don't wish to be forgotten, like the previous district 12 kids that went into the games, the dead victors etc. And they make sure to capture (or, Peeta paints) Finnick's sea green eyes in it. But that scene wasn't in the movie so I guess it doesn't matter 🙃
Also, the theory about Katniss being related to Lucy Gray (directly or indirectly) isn't really confirmed though, right?
@@lizg2153 No, it's not confirmed by Suzanne Collins, which is the only confirmation that would count.
But it's what really makes the most sense.
@@rickkinki4624 Olive skin can be used to describe someone who has some black heritage, so if they made the grandmother black, why would that cause any issue?
@@ea7109 I've honestly never understood the term "olive skin." The only olives I've ever seen are green and black.
But you do make a fair point, although I really don't see Katniss as being one quarter black.
I wish they casted younger. Its really easy to forget just how cruel all of it really is bc they look like adults when it should be happening to children
Okay..we have Josh Hutcherson as Peeta so I am not complaining.
I loved all the looks in the book's and movie's. So creative and beautiful/handsome. Expect for Snow and Coin of course. And I'll admit it too a while to get used to Effie.
I think Hayley Steinfeldt would have been a better Katniss. I thought Jennifer looked too old for the role. And Jennifer’s Katniss looked too healthy to be thisclose to starving. Woody was perfect for Haymitch, but the other guy considered for the role was John C Reilly and he could have pulled it off too. Lenny was perfect for Cinna… but I always saw Prince as Cinna. I always thought Liam would have better cast as Peeta, but he WAS Gale by Mockingjay.
she was the one that voiced gwen in spiderverse, right? i just lookkedv up some images of her and she deftinitely fits katniss dedscription more than Jenn and is an amazing actress as well. if she was the lead it would be ammazing
Cinna was only Katniss’ stylist. Peeta had another