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The Hunger Games Renaissance. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023), dir. Francis Lawrence

"Then he reads the list of past District 12 victors. In seventy-four years, we have had exactly two. Only one is still alive. Haymitch Abernathy, a paunchy, middle aged man, who at this moment appears hollering something unintelligible, staggers onto the stage, and falls into the third chair." - The Hunger Games, pg. 19

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District 12 being one of the poorest, underfed Districts showing how ripe a revolution really was and they were also coal miners and associated the most with music and singing and mockingjays and songbirds they were literally the canary in a coal mine

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) + text posts

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This is the funniest take on "what if Snow chose to be a good person" because instead of imagining young Snow being this sweet kind person, it's just Donald Sutherland playing a senile old uncle who constantly beefs with birds.

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Plus my favorite comments

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people saying that young president snow got hot when he shaved his head WRONG. thats when he turned mid. he was hot when his hair was long and he was pathetic and sad all the time and running around in his little skirt

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I know that the point is that we aren’t supposed to know what happens to Lucy Gray, just like the song she was named after, but the movie specifically ending and rolling credits to the song Can’t Catch Me Now paints it all as so optimistic. Like to ME she escaped. She got out and she lived and she was free.

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TBOSAS was a really good adaptation and the one thing I really loved seeing was the culture of district 12 with the Covey at the Hob.

From the original trilogy, we read katniss describe her home with fondness and get bits of what’s it like living in district 12.

The hob being a major center of community as the black market in Katniss' time when in Lucy's time it was a place to sing and dance —still a place of community.

The folk music that carries on for generations reaching Katniss.

Katniss knowing the valley song and hanging tree.

The district 12 musicians playing old folk songs at Finnick and Annie's wedding in district 13. Everyone, including Katniss, dancing and having fun.

The Harvest festival (described in catching fire I think) which was another district wide community party filled with music and dancing.

District 12 was made up of a beautiful tight knit community.

The covey scenes just made me feel bittersweet that these joyous moments were very rare in district 12.

All to end with the death of district 12.

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Lucy Gray: Hey, what happened to “we ride together, we die together”?

Coriolanus, running away: Die by yourself!

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Jennifer Lawrence’s raw delivery of The Hanging Tree is one of the most powerful moments in the original movie trilogy. Learning the origin and irony of the song elevates that moment to transcendence.

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all i’m saying that those kids who enter thg fandom right now have beautiful things like a very faithful tbosas adaptation and everlark for a ship name.

because, i’ve remembered recently, we had peenis.

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thinking about tigris watching coriolanus become his father, even after she tried her hardest to make him anything but. watching the little boy you love, dying in the house you both grew up in. they saved each other. while he grew out of love, she grew into it. they both knew what it meant to be good; she knew he had made the choice to be bad. he killed that little boy she loved, and replaced him with a monster.

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I’m not typically one for contributing to head-cannons, but I do have one for TBOSAS that I’m willing to stick by: Lucy Gray is the reason they have someone from the Capital read the names.

Snow saw what happened when the games were rigged to settle personal scores, and he knew exactly how the scales were tipped (Lucy Gray even stresses that the reaping was “bad business” instead of plain bad luck). I don’t think he would implement this change for any noble reason to stop this kind of infighting, but rather so any rigging was done on his part rather than left up to the people of the districts. No one else could have a last minute revenge like Lucy Gray to stand out or remind him of her.

In conclusion: Lucy Gray and the Mayor’s blatant rigging of the 10th reaping are why Effie and her predecessors had to come to 12 every year

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trailers had this man looking so serious when he was, in fact, anything but

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I haven’t been here in a very long time…

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes awaken me…

Hi.

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It's actually crazy to me how I've seen people blame Lucy for Snow's actions.

Apparently she was such a tease and messed with his mind.

Apparently he was such a good person because he left behind his life for her and decided to run away with her.

Like, how can you miss the point of the story so bad?

Snow was always obsessed with power and control. No one "messed" with his mind, he changed into the person we see in the OG Trilogy because of his own ambitions.

Also, the only reason Snow even agreed to run away with Lucy was because he was convinced that his gun would be found and he'd be executed. He didn't do it because of the feelings he had for Lucy, he did it to save his own skin.

Both the book and the movie make it obvious that Snow's priority was to find a way back to the Capitol ASAP.

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My biggest (not biggest but one of the main ones) critique of the ballad of songbirds and snakes movie is them removing lucy gray singing the medow song to maude ivory (also in general them not putting maude ivory in the film franchise) because the idea of katniss being a descendent of someone who was close to lucy gray and the one to kill and end Snows reign would have been jaw dropping as a film watcher. The song its self too, Snow is probably the only person who knows where that song orginated, lucy gray the one he tried to erase from history. Though she may have disappeared, her history still lives on. The music plays such an important role not only to build historical moments but it adds so much depth into the orgins of characters, how they learned the song, question who they learned it from, I can talk about the music aspect of the hunger games for so long.

if i saw lucy gray singing the medow song in theaters my jaw would have been on the floor.