Hunger Games Deleted Scenes That Shouldn't Have Been Cut

[@ColliderMoviesandTV]

Who here has read The Hunger Games Books!? ❤️

[@lordvenjix3757]

Watched Movies Only

[@generalmattymanyt5688]

Movies only

[@a3sthetic_ali3n48]

I haven't bought them yet unfortunately

[@marissame8472]

I have read the books too many times! I watched the movies after I finished the books- so amazing.

[@mele6406]

I have read the book eight times already and plan to read them again soon

[@shayrose6976]

((SPOILER ALERT AHEAD)):: I think they shouldn’t have cut the scene in Mockingjay where Katniss finds her prep team locked up in one of the lower levels/ dungeons in District 13. It shows the malice that Coin was capable of and it’s one of the scenes that really had me guessing Coin’s motives.

[@rowanaforrest9792]

Yes. Coin was really the female equivalent of Snow, equally malevolent. She craved power as much as Snow did. The books bring that out even more than the movies, which build up to the realization more slowly.

[@InsouciantPlatypus]

This!! My dad and I often talk about how important her prep team was in the book, and especially how important that particular scene was. Such a shame they didn't include it in the movie.

[@520_Mena]

Omg finally someone who knows this too. Thanks and its so true.

[@KM-ld9ln]

We do see that she is bad, but we don’t truly see the extent of it

[@Zitrolena]

Currently rereading it and I definitely agree

[@ellamarshmella]

Darius, a peacekeeper who defended Katniss at Gale’s whipping, was also cut out. He was made an avox, and worked with the girl who was captured by the Capitol in the woods.

[@aroonamunir9810]

Ella Marshmella he was an avox in the catching fire because i have been reading the book in quarantine

[@jayce_cccc]

Darius played a significant role in Gale and Katniss' journey. He was even the one who ignited Gale's feelings for Katniss. But it's fine, what makes me sad is Madge. I wished she's in the movies as well.

[@ilovedambooks2239]

@@jayce_cccc It’s probably for the best we would’ve had to see her die too.

[@AthenaTheCat]

Yeah Darius was turned into an avox to throw Katniss off so she would die in the Quarter Quell

[@jayce_cccc]

@@ilovedambooks2239Yeah, but at least, she'd still be the one to give that mockingjay pin.

[@bobbiebrown8490]

The biggest thing left out the movies was the actual hunger ... they forgot to emphasize the lack of food and that being the real reason Katniss was so good with a bow ...the black market where she got mockingjay pin and the disgusting food they were serving ... also the first train ride how they stuffed themselves until they were sick ... I always thought it odd they left out such an important detail

[@gabis3289]

And all her flashbacks about her dad

[@shoppinmadnesz22]

ya they could've used CGI to make J.Law look gaunt & malnourished in the beginning of the 1st book just like they used it for Fat Thor or skinny pre-Captain America. but I assume they didn't have the budget for it yet because they didn't fully realize how big the movie was going to get. and they definitely _didn't_ want their main actress to actually starve

[@heatherwarner865]

You're correct. In the books the districts were kept hungry and the only time they got extra food from the Capital was after the games. How well you did in the games meant how much food your district got. They mentioned it extremely briefly in the first movie and you see them knocking over the "tribute food" during the uprising in 11 after Rue died.

[@alexn.1446]

@@shoppinmadnesz22 The actor ofbThor actually wore prosthetics, the belly wasn't CGI

[@KindredKeepsake]

Right? Every time one of these moody teens left dinner early without finishing their plates made me mad. It's like "You are not going to see anything like this again. Stuff your frowny faces!" XD I get that stress can affect an appetite, but come on. They were literally starving.

[@Joker19290]

They also cut the moment where Cato hold Clove's body and cried, it means even the evilest person still have emotions.

[@elteescat]

I don't really believe Cato was evil. He was just the way he was trained to be by his district. He was still just a kid like the rest of them.

[@justinmartin4662]

Cato wasn’t evil, he just had different values. Everyone thinks they’re the hero. The way he was is good in the culture where he was raised. Just like the people you think are evil in real life probably think the same about you.

[@gabis3289]

And the down-graded Clove's death my ALOT. In the book, her skull was smashed SEVERAL times before colapsing, and even then she was still barely living. In the movie she was smacked against the Cornucopia twice, and she instantly died. Yet while Katniss was in her room at the training center, they shiwed clips of other Games, and showed images of the Soon-to-be-Victor beating the last tribute to death with a brick. I feel as if they could have AT LEAST made it a BIT more dramatic.

[@lakirachute4101]

@@gabis3289 I thought he hit her once with the rock. When I read, Suzanne never specified another blow. I may be wrong, so don't quote me. I still agree with you though. I truly wish that the dramatics were heightened in the scene of her demise.

[@idontpost2]

I don't think he was evil just had different values because of the way he was raised. There's only two characters I believe are truly evil, president snow and well gale. Gale let prim die. Katniss wouldn't have even entered the hunger games if it wasn't to protect prim

[@udraj914]

Cato's death was quite horrible in book. He was attacked by the mutts all through the night, before Katniss shot him

[@indiaspencer2105]

That part of the book along with Cato coming to clove while she was dying/dead made me cry like I know they’re terrible but it’s not all their fault

[@isabellaa8773]

it was so bad. like it was amazing as a written piece but it was so horrible reading it, i was just getting more and more desperate and just hoping that it would finally come to an end. it was really a horrible death

[@jgrahamiii7749]

I saw the first movie before reading The Hunger Games, but read the other two well in advance to the movies being released. My biggest disappointment was the elimination of the record of Haymitch's victory as it says a lot about what motivates him and how very like him Katniss really is. Of course, when you consider the primary motivator for Studios is the making of money, then adding scenes like the 50th Hunger Games will greatly inflate the budget with all kinds of extra actors and extra time shooting those scenes. Additionally, most audiences will not sit more than 2-2.5 hours to watch a movie. But you all know that... I am now waiting to see if The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes makes it to the big screen. It fills in a lot of background, but leaves more questions than ever as to who Katniss is and how she fits with the first victor from District 12....

[@petraoconnor5085]

Catos death breaks me the most

[@newt2811]

And peeta 2as just slowly dying of blood poisoning til dawn

[@haileymontjoy669]

The books are darker than the movie... I honestly see it (goes over to reread the books)

[@RockhorrorP4L]

I know right? Like when they saw Peetas blood after the warning for the bombs?

[@ilovedambooks2239]

@@RockhorrorP4L That part made me want to cry and puke at the same time.

[@RockhorrorP4L]

@@ilovedambooks2239 sameeeee

[@RockhorrorP4L]

@@ilovedambooks2239 btw love your name♥️

[@ilovedambooks2239]

@@RockhorrorP4L Thank you! I love your profile picture!

[@princessp9625]

another dark thing that was cut was when she finds her prep team in the basement of district 13 brusied and bloody and hung up by there hands in a dark cellar because one of them was hording her bread rasion

[@shayrose6976]

I just said this too! Like that was kind of a big thing. Lol.

[@imbored.1750]

Yes! I get that the book had so much in it that they couldn't put everything in the movie but that was a big thing!

[@paubravo3056]

@@imbored.1750 Yeah but I think that would've been a spoiler for the audience - Coin and 13's cruelty... Mostly Coin's

[@peanutgallery7514]

Yea and Octavia was supposed to be green.

[@emmeline8048]

Why were they killed? Because they were hoarding bread? That is kinda confusing

[@sydneykurzawski7266]

Actually, the reason Katniss said "Nightlock" for Finnick, was because that was how to destroy the holo. It's in the books, and ima actually pretty sure it was in the movies

[@slaydussy4331]

It was actually in the movie

[@pblckidzpraise5775]

The nightlock pill from District 13 was also mentioned in the last movie as well.

[@chipdickington]

exactly

[@sarahzimmerman4825]

Also they actually have night lock pills in the movie but what do they know they never do they're research completely

[@kitakoproductions8894]

@@sarahzimmerman4825 Yeah I was confused when they said that the Nightlock pills were cut because I definitely remember them being present lol

[@LeySidle]

I missed how they softened Katniss' PTSD and how bad she was after Catching Fire. They frequently would find her screaming inside lockers and abandoned storage rooms.

[@zoepenisten7372]

Hiding for naps in hiding places until they found and forced her out. It was true depression

[@victorialopez7159]

They also cut out the picnic on the roof that happened in Catching Fire. I was so mad when they caught that out

[@lilahc6866]

YES

[@anyasmith1703]

I LOVE THAT BIT!!!! Peeta wants to spend what he thinks will be his last days with her 😭

[@madmax-tx6bl]

SAME OMG I WAS SOOO MAD

[@nathang6376]

Just because we don’t see it on screen, that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen at all in that world.

[@gabis3289]

YES! And at the end of the 74th Games, when Peeta didnt lose his leg, that led them to not having him put in emergency surgery and Katniss didnt hafto/couldnt scream for him and pound on the glass wall for him.

[@aroonamunir9810]

I love how the huger games is still relevant.

[@AthenaTheCat]

It will always be relevant 😌

[@beetfn]

i mean i feel like fortnite and pubg warzone wouldnt be a thing if the hunger games was never created,after all those games were inspired by minecraft hunger games which was inspired by...the hunger games books and movies

[@chasequalio8526]

ARE YOU KIDDING IT IS ALWAYS RELEVENT

[@ella.ztr7]

Ofc!!

[@peanutgallery7514]

I love the ginger games so much

[@timberseay-binkley6705]

Did y’all even WATCH the movies before making this video? Boggs clearly says in the movie, the holo has a self destruct mode by saying “nightlock” three times. Boggs also VERY CLEARLY gives every person in his unit a nightlock pill. Peeta even mentions it 2-3 times before he finally convinces Gale to give him one of the pills. Watch the dang movie before making videos with false info, its that simple

[@ladynightmare_13]

It's also mentioned multiple times in the book. Whoever wrote this particular video failed massively here. 😂

[@ravenstark2165]

Thank you! I was having those same thoughts. I appreciate you.

[@Kbug-jt5zw]

I agree! I hate when ppl make videos without the proper information

[@Sheechiibii]

I was just about to comment on that.

[@girijaappukuttan1948]

Exactly! These people never learn!!

[@meghanrose1874]

Haymitches mother, girlfriend and younger brother were also killed which is why he has no family and why he’s an alcoholic it’s not cause maysilee, maysilee was also madges aunt which is how madge got about having the pin... and finally johannas family was also killed because she refused to sell her body for snow like finnick does

[@quicksilver4169]

Wait, the last part confused me a bit. Did you mean Johanna selling her body for snow only, or for people in general?? Just a bit confused!!

[@quicksilver4169]

I know about everything that you just said, that last part confused me a bit, lol.

[@cortniebrewster4277]

@@quicksilver4169 i wouldn’t be surprised if it were both after reading the ballad of songbirds and snakes

[@quicksilver4169]

@@cortniebrewster4277 Oh. Thanks!!!

[@lindaw2165]

@@quicksilver4169 Coming in late to the party but I just reread the books. Finnick explains that Snow would sell Finnick - or his body at least - to the highest bidder. Basically Snow pimps out any Victor that he deems attractive or gets requests for. You can expect that Cashmere and Gloss (the brother-sister Victors from District 1) were probably also treated this way. Joanna refused to do it, so Snow had her family and friends killed. She said in the arena "There's no one left that I love".

[@Monicalia]

The change that actually angered me was how normal Katniss looked after the war. In the movies, she was severely, SEVERELY burnt all over her body and her hair was a complete mess (''''flavius performs some beauty miracle on my hair, managing to even out the front while getting some of the longer locks to hide the bald spots in the back''). In the movie she looks downright flawless, as if she didn't just survive a war and a bomb explosion. I remember this upsetting me, because as much as I expected them to skip over her suicidal attempts (which was dark af, let's be honest), I was at least hoping the movie would show how the war can destroy you not just mentally, but also physically. But nah, let's show her being pretty and ravishing :/

[@gabis3289]

Ya honestly, i dont think her attemps to take her life were that bad. Maybe when she tried to drug herself, yeah. But starving herself isnt that bad. For the Hunger Games, i mean.

[@chiannegibbs9462]

They do show one of her attempts in MJ part 2 but it is only for a split second. Right after she shoots President Coin she pulls out a night lock pill and it’s about to take it and Peeta slaps it outta her hand as the mob comes to kill Snow. I do agree I wish they showed the physical side of war too.

[@luv.georgie5047]

Yeah, she was near to death because she was drugging herself to death because she thought she basically had nothing to live for. She only stopped before the execution.

[@gracie9658]

THANK YOU. The last movie is a mess imo No one ever mentions that. Katniss and Peeta both have bad burn wounds. Katniss literally catches on fire (irony of the whole "Girl on Fire" image) and has to have surgery. They cut so much out of the ending and rushed it. They show her with one wound on her neck and one on her wrist, I'm sure some people don't even know what happened to her. They also didn't manage to capture the depth of her and Peeta's long lasting trauma, which is a shame because I found that was well done in MJ1. The ending looks so happy and like nothing happened, they don't even mention that the epilogue takes place like 20 years later.

[@alilake1]

Yes I talk about this all the time, she had no physical scars after.

[@amymorgan7797]

You forgot to say that Flavius and Octavia were held by District 13, chained up and locked in a room full of their own feces, beaten down and starved

[@blankxblankx8516]

What, when?? Why would district 13 do that to them??

[@jayce_cccc]

Yeah. In the movies, all of their works and even dialogues were given to Effie.

[@izzygriffiths532]

@@jayce_cccc but thats only because suzanne collins went 'we need more effie!' so they swapped them because of her

[@ieatdust8666]

@@blankxblankx8516 Apparently they stole more food then was passed out.

[@emmeline8048]

Does feces mean poop and why did they do that?

[@itsb003]

The biggest thing that they cut out that really adds a whole element to the story is Katniss learning to swim. The book clearly explains how tributes from districts with no bodies of water had no idea how to swim and this helps you understand why it was such a big deal in “Catching Fire” that Katniss was confident in her ability to even get off the platform. This adds such a beautiful element to her character! And to the arena in “Catching Fire!” And why you want her to stay alive!

[@SachaO-C]

Yes exactly! And it was shown to us in the books that Peeta couldn’t swim, making it even more vital that Katniss gets to him quickly so she could safely bring him to shore ensuring he doesn’t drown!!!

[@reinysbutterfly3849]

I mean they also left put how Snow had Haymitch's family and gf killed and for 25 years used him and Johanna as examples if the victors stepped out of line.

[@nnn9122]

The movies never mention why, once we see Johanna after her rescue from the Capitol, her head has been shaved. To see her go from a victor of the Hunger Games, this strong, seemingly fearless character, to a girl who is absolutely petrified of water because of how she was tortured in the Capitol. I understand it pales in comparison to what they did to Peeta, but I also think it's weird we don't get an explanation as to what happened to her hair.

[@bbirdieee]

They were electrocuting her, honestly it probably singed off.

[@ash-of8yp]

This is late lol but they shaved her head because they didn’t want her hair to soak up any of the electric shock

[@nnn9122]

I just meant that her being tortured with water and electric shocks was a weird thing to leave out of the movies. In the books, we're told she would have even been a part of the rebel army if one of the exercises hadn't included flooding the streets which sent her into shock. Her line in the movie about herself and Peeta being familiar with each other's screams is not a sufficient explanation for the torture SHE endured at the hands of the Capitol in my opinion.

[@AthenaTheCat]

Hear me out.. hear me out.... People say fox face was dumb for eating the nightlock but she actually wasn’t. She was a very smart girl and once in the games did hardly anything so was considering “boring” the game makers would never let her win they would kill her off before she could win. She would rather die a painless death then a bloody gruesome one and when she saw the nightlock she took her chance and ate it. Also she had to make it look like an accident because if you commit sui ide in the arena the capitol kills your family

[@demiwarren2936]

Yes yes yes that's what I thought. She was too smart for that

[@loveislove2359]

Night lock isn't a common plant and being from district 5 it's actually more logical that she didn't know about it. Capitol don't want the districts to know about each other, they never learn things (including plant) from other districts.

[@cisio64123]

@@loveislove2359 Yes and remember Katniss herself only knew about nightlock because of her illegal training in hunting and gathering from her father. Katniss had a training and knowledge that was very rare in Panem . Peeta like most had never been trained in such skills so although his area had nightlock he still had no idea about it which is why he picked them to begin with. Even if it had been in her district it's highly possible and most likely that thanks to the law she like Peeta would have had no knowledge of it. Even as smart as she was it's more probable that Foxface just didn't have knowledge of poisonous berries like nightlock so she ate them.

[@emmie_strawberry]

Wow I didn't know that you couldn't commit suicide or you're family would get killed. I totally missed that when reading the books, but it makes sense. I think it also makes sense that she made it look like an accident, but it wasn't, because she is literally so smart, I'm shure she would have known that they are poisonous.

[@maeg.9123]

Theres even a scene in the movie and I think the books where shes matching hundreds of plants in record speed when they were training.

[@dragonofmusic9410]

"Scenes of foreshadowing were cut so as to not be spoilers for the audience." Me: What? Also, let's not forget just how twisted the relationship between 13 and the Capitol was. The movies never touch on the fact that the Capitol knew full well that 13 was alive, but decided to pretend they were dead on the basis of preventing a nuclear war. Aka, it was a Cold War type situation. In general though, it's ironic to me how people complain about how stretched out and contentless the last three films appeared when there was all that source material content just sitting there. Just goes to show, Hollywood can be pretty dumb lol.

[@Viewable11]

Right. The book even mentions a "mutually assured destruction" situation between Capitol and district 13 with both having nuclear missiles pointed at each other. In the movie, Coin asks Boggs whether the Capitol knows district 13's "secret weapon". In the book they explicitly talk about nuclear missiles. The political+military conflict between the two nuclear powers very obviously is an allegory for the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union in 1983.

[@avawerner8937]

They also totally cut out Madge

[@mickeysalah1916]

Madge made the mockingjay pin much more meaningful

[@ilovedambooks2239]

I love your picture!

[@enolaholmes2111]

@Katie Miller It makes me sad btw I really love your pfp.

[@kayamiller9798]

And Peetas dad, I mean he wasn’t a huge character either but it made the relationship between peetas and Katniss so much better in the beginning

[@melloyellow6818]

And peetas friend delly

[@lillywolf4687]

I’ve read all three of the Hunger Games books and the mutations in book 1 is what I still find most disturbing. Any other book scene I can handle, but knowing Cato was being ripped apart alive, fully conscious, for who’s knows how long, by beasts that more likely had the real tributes eyes and hair is something to graphic I just couldn’t read.

[@stephanies5686]

Same. There are a lot of things in the books that seem more like adult content, rather than young adult to me. That one you mentioned especially! I just read her newest book Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. It's a great great book but iit seems pretty gruesome in a few parts. And being through the eyes of Snow as a youth, we see his internal progression into what he becomes. Just how incredibly self centered and messed up he is, I feel like was intense to read. Like, damn this guy has no heart or soul lol Great book!! Idk how its labeled young adult tho 😬

[@tldavis1989]

I'm currently rereading them after last reading then a few years ago and honestly, it gets harder every time. The sadistic, mental and psychological torture is gruesome all the way through. I mean, by the third book, once they're inside the Capitol and Finnick says, "Let the 76th Hunger Games begin," oh man... it's brutal. From beginning to the end of this trilogy, it's absolutely brutal. Maybe it's as I get older or because I have a young daughter now, but I am fighting off tears constantly through this read.

[@gretacadeienjoytolife6981]

Welcome in the group!

[@LilliaGreen7977]

@@stephanies5686 You'd be surprised by how many books get labeled YA because of the main character's age. It's kind of a publishing rule. They assume adults, or anyone over the age of 20, wouldn't read a book with a leading character under the age of 18. So they designate that to a younger audience, no matter it's theme. I've read some pretty messed up books in middle school that really shouldn't have been there. (Still love them though)

[@its_ira3154]

It really was dark but honestly what got me was the mutts that killed Finnick… What I imagined was honestly terrifying

[@ashdaddy7294]

I hate that they cut out her relationship with her prep team and how district 13 tortured them. It shows how coin wasn’t so difficult from show

[@Phoenix-np1iu]

yes yes yes

[@Joe-xx7nd]

snow

[@dcbsmt]

The real darkness they left out - in favour of more action scenes - is the psychological trauma that Katniss suffers and which feature MUCH more prominently in the books. In the movies they hardly touch upon it which makes the epilogue feel a bit unrelated to the rest of the movie. As for at least some of the gruesome bits being left out: Hollywood never messes up their pretty actors unless abolutely necessary. So no bitten-off legs, no scars from the poison fog, no burnt off hair, nothing.

[@yanad5613]

Yeah I don’t get it why they had to leave out the peeta’s loosing his leg plot too, it was a traumatic experience, and made more sense him saying to Katniss she should stop treating him like he’s so some wounded puppy on a victory tour ..and was so crutial during the quarter quell cause like everything was just harder for him with this prostatic leg

[@forestgrump4723]

I think the most crucial scene they cut is the prep team being tortured in district 13 as punishment for taking bread. It shows how much alike district 13 and the capitol are and why Katniss is so hellbent on not allowing coin to take control after snows fall. So hellbent that she shoots her instead of snow because she knows someone else will take out snow but no one else realizes how evil she is.

[@kathrynbuser]

One of the things I really missed was when Peeta warned Katniss about the Capital bombing 13 it was actually supposed to end with blood splatter and us hearing Peeta scream. I can see why they cut that out but I really missed it and I think it would have added a whole new dimension to how brutal the Capital was.

[@gracie9658]

That scene definitely stuck with me ever since the first time I read it, it's brutal.

[@catystrickland9652]

Yeah, it also was more sneaky in the book. “You’ll be dead by morning.” Yeah, that was in the movie, but Peeta didn’t make it so obvious that it was an attack by literally saying there was going to be an attack in the book.

[@carolynmir9128]

This was not cut off, but rather changed. Prim is not the one to visit Peeta in the hospital after he’s tortured to try to talk to him. In the books, someone says it can’t be someone close to Katniss (because as we all know, Peeta didn’t want to do anything with her) because it might trigger a negative reaction, so they find him a common friend from their childhood named Dolly to visit him and talk to him, who also lost all her family after district 12 was destroyed.

[@dollyah]

part of the reason they might of cut out Delly was because they asked if Delly was related to any memories of Katniss, and that was how Peeta had covered up Katniss knowing the Avox who she saw get captured. I wish both of those parts were included

[@rebekahshinn2482]

I will forever be salty that they left out the cave scene. That was crucial to Katniss and Peeta’s relationship.

[@holi117]

Some of my fav moments. I had to explain to my bf that the medicine didnt come right away, that a week had passed with katniss comforting peeta and trying to keep him alive and confortable...

[@Crazylissee92]

Super crucial for sure at least a couple of scenes but it was way too short.

[@songwriterlife7777]

@@holi117 they made it seem in the movie like the games only lasted a few days.

[@ivonnegallegos58]

Oh I'm salty about how she acquired they Mockingjay pin, the burns after the bomb and Katniss trial after killing Coin. Also, how they presented the Peeta goving the bread to her. It was SO important because her family was starving, she was mot yet old enough by days to be part of the hunger games so she couldn't ask for more supplies, trying to sell Prim baby clothes, and at that point she had given up and just accepted she would die....then Peeta does that and it gives her the hope enough to go on, and that's why she feels so bad she has to go to the games with him since she feels in debt....idk gives SO much more background to their relationship

[@annaathey8827]

Great points about the scenes that were left out of the movies! I just want to add some thing about Haymich’s backstory. Not only did he watch his ally and friend die in the arena, it was hinted that her death was a warning to him. Since he had just discovered the force field at the edge of the arena. He use this force field to win the games and after which, his whole family and his girlfriend back in the district died of “ accidents“. This is why he is so depressed and drinks. The district punished him for discovering their Forcefield a secret and then using it to his advantage. Much like what Kattnes at the end of the first book, exploiting the hunger games on necessity for a Victor and threatening to deprive them of that in order to get both her and Peter out safely. Also explains why Haymetch understood the dire circumstances they were all in after Kattnes first got out of the arena.

[@raea3588]

Yes. Out of everything amazing they could have added to the movies, I feel even a small bit of Haymitch's backstory at some point would have been helpful to the viewers. Without it, at least in the first part of "The Hunger Games", he comes across as a bitter drunk who could care less about Katniss and Peeta; about anything and we never really find out exactly why. But it does show what an amazing actor Woody Harrelson is. He made us feel we knew why without knowing! He told the whole back story without saying a word.

[@eliseig8998]

“This is so dark” Me who read the books: .... 👀 Like I didn’t even realize it was that dark lol.

[@burnt.norton]

ikr? they’re talking about how these scenes or parts of the book are “dark”, but they’re not even that dark..

[@VioletA400]

I’m just realizing now how dark the books really were. And the underlying messages. Went right over my head as a kid lol

[@booklover2598]

Same

[@gabis3289]

Same. I was watching with my mom and brother (who was 7 at the time) and my mom was like "Ummmm. Its PG-13. Should he be watching this?" And i laughed. Cause he watched Harry Potter, which is PG-13 and TV-14, and I read the books, which are for adults at age 11, one of my friends read them at age 8-9, so i was like "Of course he can!!! Its not THAT bad, just wait until he reads the books in 3 years"🤪😅

[@mrinalinibhattacharjee698]

Ikr

[@Surdeigt]

Huh? They all had nightlock pills, when they were in the Capitol in mockingjay. When Boggs give the holo to Katniss, he even said what the code was.. They never kept that our of the movie..

[@monikacrljen6827]

They didn't explain it as well as I would have liked. But yes it was in the movie

[@Surdeigt]

@@monikacrljen6827 I thought it was well explained in the movie. Maybe I wouldn't have thought it was well enough explained if I didn't read the books first - I don't know 😳

[@monikacrljen6827]

@@Surdeigt that's how I feel. Like it was mentioned bur if I didn't have the full backstory I may not have connected the dots on my own

[@patriciamaecolindres7094]

As someone who watched Mockingjay first before reading the book, Yes it was well explained in the movie they even say that "as what Katniss called" something like that.

[@Alexa_eq]

One thing I really missed, was in the 1st book I believe, the rivers were drained to make everyone go to the cornucopia for water, however in the movie there wasn't really a reason to go to the middle if I remember correctly.

[@serenushka]

In the movies they announced a "feast" in the middle of the arena with a bag for everyone with something they were all in need of to survive.

[@Emily_reads]

@@serenushka but what about in the end when Katniss and Peeta faced cato?

[@lolijustgaming]

@@Emily_readsthey were forced to the center because of the mutts

[@AbbyRo-vj6py]

What about how Clove actually dies? In the book she got a rock smashed into her head, but in the movie she was just smashed against the cornucopia

[@ieatdust8666]

And Katniss hears Cato yelling in the woods but he's too far away to save her.

[@mahitadheen6948]

Yeah...the producers thought that the book version was too violent for the audience so they modified it

[@emilygrace5822]

@@ieatdust8666 omg in the books when clove died i cried because cato was literally so sad i cant

[@boop6169]

@@emilygrace5822 she literally wanted to peel katnisss face off while she was alive but okaaayyyyy I get they were ALL gonna kill someone ( except fox face ) but that girl was MENTAL

[@lexiiiuu6075]

I feel like that's more of a minor detail

[@lunahyacinth6335]

I still wish they would have included the whole “extra food rations for adding your name to the tribute draw more than once” it really would have shown the risk children were willing to take to have food on the table.

[@hyperwolf5420]

I'm not sure if this is a dark part of the books but it's definitely a gruesome part. Katniss' left ear got destroyed deaf after she blew up the career's stockpile. Then after the games she got it repaired by the capital. Before the quell games began she found out through Beetee and Wiress how to spot a force field. However Katniss knew that if the capital found out she could see the force field, they would make it so she can't. To cover up the info she knew she said that her surgically repaired ear had enhanced hearing so that the capital wouldn't find out she could see the force field. Not to mention it would get the doctors who repaired her ear in trouble. Again showing up the capital and making them look foolish. IDK that plot seems important to me

[@thatxxweirdxequestrianxx6999]

Yes I remember that part, I was so happy when beetee didn't say anything lol, what's weird to me is how the movies made her likable, when in the books (When I first read them I didn't really like her, sollen and hostile, as haymitch said) she wasn't meant to be likable, but yes that's important, I also find peeta leg important, because I believe Katniss mentioned he couldn't run as fast, also because she felt a bit guiltily..

[@thatxxweirdxequestrianxx6999]

Also there was huge foreshadowing in the books!! If you look closely at the first book, Katniss mentioned the spear going through the girl.. Familiar!?... Rue. Weird foreshadowing, especially because Katniss wanted to save her.. Anyway all this to say, the avox girl and darius were probably my favourite, so sad when they died, though glad she went quick.

[@hyperwolf5420]

@@thatxxweirdxequestrianxx6999 For sure, There are just too many parts the directors cut out. I understand that they had to shorten the films for rating reasons, but there are some plots and details that made the films feel just a tiny bit wasteful. Don't get me wrong, the movies were able to throw in some details the first person view of the books couldn't, but still... Things like Haymitch's quell game, the story of the avox girl and Darrius, Madge, Maysilee, and many other characters that were either left out or lost their details that made you like them more. I know the movies had to be shortened and they got some unique takes, but some details were so good it was just a little wasted on the films for not including them.

[@thatxxweirdxequestrianxx6999]

@@hyperwolf5420 Yes I agree! I was a bit lost in the movie catching fire, also little thing here, but they haven't really stayed true to the book, how did Katniss see rues painting, when the tributes aren't allowed to see each others, it just makes it a bit hard to follow (for me)

[@Enya_artist]

Along with this; Cato's death, it was so much more grusome, he was torn apart, but left alive, Katniss shot him in the head out of pity. In the book it was told he was trying to say "Please", his death was far more dramatic in the book. Along with clove's death, she had her skull crushed multiple times, the movie made it look a lot less grusome, and I think it was Cato who cried holding her lifeless body, but I can't entirely remember.

[@that_myth_nerd]

haymitch did say that after he won his games by tricking the last other tribute into throwing an axe past him into the force field around the arena, bouncing back to kill her. A week after he returned to district 12, his family and his girl were dead. there was nothing romantic with maysilee, he had a special someone at home. Maysilee was very close with katniss' mother during their childhoods, though.😊

[@RenaceHighblue]

There are so many deleted scenes from the movies... i wish they could put all the deleted scenes together with the movie so we can watch it like a second version off the movie but with the deleted scenes i would love to wacht it! And the scenes they cut from the books it will also be fun if they make like a movie with those scenes and also deleted scenes!

[@gabis3289]

Yes. And somethinhpg thats so crazy to me, is that they made a 4 hour Marvel movie, the Star Wars movies are really long, yet the could do that for the Hunger Games. It bothers me so much.

[@MustardSeedish]

I would have loved more of Peeta's character and the funny banter between him and Katniss.

[@cheesemafia6800]

They also left out Katniss almost dying of thirst

[@jessicahogan7248]

The cave scene was also related to a big storm and flood that kept them inside for a while, only to dry up the rivers to lead Peeta and Katniss closer to the centre of the arena for the final battle. Not dark but it played on the dehydration factor and how much the arena could be manipulated.

[@lordvenjix3757]

As thrilling and smart as it is terrifying, The Hunger Games Franchise have a number of big-gun literary series brought to screen over the past decade.

[@mrzprakoso]

I was upset when the scene in district 13 when Peeta got madly jealous of Gale & Katniss in the dining room were excluded from the mockingjay movies. That's the most anticipated scene from the book!!

[@theshellest]

The only thing that bothered me about the movie that was different than the book was how no one really seemed hungry. In the book it's obvious and talked about a lot. I never really got the sense they were short on food in the movie. In the book they were hunting constantly so they could eat. I watched the first movie before reading the books and I remember thinking she was hot and tired, and that's why she sat down under the tree when Peta gave her the bread. In the book she was starving.

[@dabrinkdabrink8639]

True

[@dslai2938]

@@dabrinkdabrink8639 What bugged me the most was how they never really emphasized the “hunger” aspect in the *hunger* games in a literal sense. That’s like if Game of *Thrones* never emphasized on the *thrones’* importance.

[@dabrinkdabrink8639]

@@dslai2938 I couldn’t believe they erased Madge’s character and the origin of the mockingjay pin. Because it correlates back to Katniss’ mother’s friend and Haymitch’s games. Also ties into President Snow’s origin story… it’s like ? So they decided to make it where she bought the pin at the HOB randomly. That sucked.

[@ariespecula]

the deaths in the arena were also a lot darker. also lets not even get into the whole death order mess in the first movie cuz omg that was bad. but two girls were supposed to die from the tracker jackers, glimmer (1) and marina (4). not just glimmer. also, clove and cato had a way closer relationship in the book, which showed there were two star crossed lover stories, and made katniss realize that she is also a threat and not the only victim in the games. she also realizes this when cloves face got smashed in with a rock, and cato held clove close, sobbing, while she slowly died in his arms.

[@lexiiiuu6075]

I haven't read the books for a while but didn't rue get caught in a net in the air and the spear what thrown at her while she was caught?

[@quicksilver4169]

@@lexiiiuu6075 Rue got caught in a net in the ground, Katniss then heard her scream her name and freed her. Another tribute, Marvel, was behind them and Katniss shot an arrow and killed him, but he threw a spear and it hit Rue in the chest and she died.

[@gracie9658]

The District 4 female tribute's name is not Marina, it is not known.

[@gracie9658]

@@SMARTYTVyt When and where ? It's for sure not in the books, which is the only valuable source for THG.

[@Rufus1531]

@@gracie9658 Apparently it was mentioned in the initial script of the hunger games and so used on the hunger games wiki. Thats all i could find about it though. Hope this helps.

[@E.v.b.2003]

Peeta actually asks for a nightlock pill in mockingly part 2 before they head out of tigress' shop. He says "gimme a nightlock pill, cause I'm not going back" saying he'd rather die than be taken by the capitol again. That and Katniss reaches for a nightlock pill hidden in her armour after shooting Coin near the end of the movie before Peeta stops her and she's taken away by two people.

[@paytenhollobaugh3816]

imagine not reading the books. the books are WAYYYYY better!!!

[@rayphillips5237]

Less boring to, way more dialogue and plot twists.

[@booklover2598]

So true

[@lakshibadewan1824]

yup they are

[@PanchoPoncho89]

I can't read the books because they make the hunger games way too real for me. I am sure they are better lol but the movies is all I can do

[@emmeline8048]

I have not read the books but I do want to how many are there? I think there is four but idk

[@shareeselee8062]

Weren't girls trading themselves to the peacekeepers? I thought I read Katniss seeing that. I would love to see a movie of just Woody Harrison's character because he is so damaged by it so the story is probably awesome and he can act his butt off.

[@monikacrljen6827]

Yes, Katniss talks about women lining up outside the head peace keepers residenence in exchange for food.

[@meganhollowink]

If you hear, they mention they had to keep the movies PG-13 or else the younger viewers it's meant for, wouldn't have seen it. So that's probably why that's left out.

[@rosabellavitaalvarez-calde5836]

And how Katniss says she would have had to offer herself had she not learned to hunt. Also, that the Peacekeeper who did this was not really a bad guy, he even participated in the Hob trades, but was also very lonely. Perhaps he thought that in what he did he git some company and the girls got some much needed money

[@shelbyk907]

I’m glad they changed Effie’s fate in the 3/4 movies and made her apart of Katniss part in her being the Mockingjay

[@changingmind2522]

Me too! She was only in like one scene of the last book. Glad the movies changed that

[@yulu1217]

Haymitchs backstory with Maysillie makes his love for Katniss and Peeta even sadder, he may have loved Maysillie and lost her during the Hunger Games and now he watched the same process happen with Peeta and Katniss falling in love. He fought for them every chance he got because he didn’t want his history with Maysillie repeated with Katniss and Peeta. Making sure they both stayed alive and together was his way of making up for the past🥺😭

[@thesilvershining]

Great point! 😭

[@eulyc.959]

Except he had a girl friend, he explains to katniss that she, along with his mom and brother were killed after the games. They weren't in love. They formed a friendship during the games though

[@Viniciusvill]

Even with the darker part's of the history been cut off, the Hunger Games movies are definitely the BEST book adaptation I've ever seen. The core of the history of the books still in the movies and that's *to me* is a great thing!

[@colewalker9307]

the books are so much better tho

[@aroonamunir9810]

Hunger games was my first favourite movie, I'm honestly obsessed

[@zaritomaz975]

I don't understand why Cato didn't beg Clove to stay like. He was so much more interesting in the books than in the movies.

[@girlwhocanbreathe]

thats why i really love cato

[@derkomentareschreiber6220]

and do not forget, that in the books he was tortoured by the mutants for hours before Katniss shot him

[@Kbug-jt5zw]

That’s why I always read the books that were made into movies bc film makers leave sm out

[@lyn-uk6yb]

Literally😭 in the movies he was made into some kind of sociopath

[@madmax-tx6bl]

Yea I hated that, the movies made it seem like there was something going on between Cato and Glimmer..

[@jennamacfadyen1700]

They also cut out the seen were after Thresh bashes Clove's head into the cornucopia Cato comes and cries as he holds Clove's lifeless body and then goes and kills Thresh for revenge. This showed that there may have been something going on between the two and it gives the two careers more personality. Clato

[@dollyah]

something really small that I was a little annoyed they left out of the movies was the fact that Katniss and Peeta stood back to back with the berries while holding hands and actually went through with eating them. It shows they were serious and I think that it gave that scene just a little more depth.

[@dollyah]

@MsTokra yeah and it felt more like they were truly saying goodbye. Also they actually put the berries in their mouths, showing they were really serious and going through with it not just a stunt

[@dollyah]

@ALL TOO & DEFINITELY UNWELL (Taylor's Version) yeah that kinda proved they weren't faking it, in the movie it seemed like they weren't going through with it

[@gabriellaconsales1317]

Literally peeta was hanging onto a thread in the books and in the movie it was just like oh here is some cream and boom he is all better

[@corey6158]

They left a ton of things out in the first movie. Rue actually went to the Cornucopia bc she said to Katniss "I had to get out of there fast" after apologizing for very little supplies. The girl tributes from 8, 9, and 10 were left out of the bloodbath and training as well as the boy from D9, even tho she mentioned him many times. The girl from District 4 was in the career pack but they killed her off in the bloodbath. Katniss also stopped at the tree line after getting her pack and looked back at the Cornucopia and saw fighting and some tributes already dead, I personally would've liked to see this instead of her standing at her podium for a few minutes and then running to the bag.

[@Emily_reads]

Madge and the pin were also left out

[@indiaspencer2105]

Also Finnicks backstory wasn’t added to the movies

[@tigremalabarista3461]

It’s minor, but they show a scene still where Enobaria volunteers for District 2 in the 75th games. Scenes with the Careers I’d the 74th being darker were filmed too.They could’ve shown just how bloodthirsty the careers were mentally too.

[@Aliyah323]

I read the books and I think I would most definitely watch a more twisted version of the movies

[@rowanaforrest9792]

Yes. I love the movies they made, but I'd also love it if they'd kept them even closer to the books. (They'd have had to make the movies longer to do that, but I like long movies.)

[@WrenSantostefano]

You guys forgot to mention how the left out Madge and the Mayor...And it really annoys me how they left out Madge when she was the one that gave Katniss the mockingjay pin. No one ever thinks about that it was all Madges doing to make the rebellions symbol the Mockingjay.

[@itrickyalove]

I got really mad when instead of the peacekeeper in Catching Fire whipping Katniss in the face when she's protecting Gale, effectively ruining her face for her upcoming Wedding interview, he punches her. Like, the whole point of that injury was that it was extremely difficult, near impossible to cover up and that the Capitol and other districts were going to see her disfigured face. This would then lead them to believe that not everything is rainbows and sunshine as a victor or at least spread doubt.

[@dunkbuscusgaming7016]

Maybe if they ever make the new prequel book into a movie it'll be less tame or ifnthey ever do a reboot of the series I know I'd love to see a darker less tame Hunger Games it'd be awesome!

[@daniel_a3630]

A movie of the new book is already in the works

[@demiwarren2936]

@@daniel_a3630 IS IT!!!! OMG

[@daniel_a3630]

@@demiwarren2936 Yh but most scenes won’t actually make the final cut so I wouldn’t get your hopes up just yet lol

[@demiwarren2936]

@@daniel_a3630 oh yea that's very true

[@DebBaconPersonal]

Katnis’ breakdown is imo the most egregious omission

[@mayflyrose8195]

Not mentioning that Peeta should've lost his leg as a result of protecting Katniss by helping her get onto the cornucopia first in the first book. Thereby reinforcing the bond and obligations she feels towards him through the series.

[@Nikybeez]

Adding on about Katniss's prep team is that they were treated rather horribly by 13. Coin thought Katniss would be pleased with their torture, but she was sickened by it. I think that was the first time she started to doubt Coin's intentions, the righteousness of 13. How they were not above inhumane treatment.

[@fallinginaforrest]

Katniss didn't say "nightlock" to finnnick. It was the code for the holo to self distruct, so she could throw it down there and spare him from his misery

[@lilijas4596]

They also changed the scene after Rue died. In the book, it says district 11 sent Katniss district 11 themed bread, but in the movies, it shows district 11 uprising(I'm pretty sure its been a while since I read the books)

[@Eden-e4e]

I think something very important they left out was the whole situation with Darius. It affected in some way, katniss’s and peeta’s relationship in catching fire. Like: when Darius became an avox.. not only an avox but HER avox in the capitol, she felt she was betraying him by being with peeta because of their past friendship AND the fact that he defended gale at the whipping post, and he served many consequences when peeta suffered, well not much (from defending gale). It added SO MUCH to katniss’s trauma and hatred toward the capitol.

[@royamosavi4775]

(SPOILER ALERT) I loved the movies because they helped me imagine it more but the books were so much better and more detailed and the relationships Katniss had with some of the people were much more deep (I might've cried when Finnick and Cinna died)

[@cgomes21]

the Mockingjay book is the most depressing book I've ever read, still loved it of course!

[@Ad-qt8lx]

3:38 THAT WASN'T LEFT OUT lol. In the movie, the squad is given nightlock pills. Peeta demands that they give him a pill just in case he snaps again bc he already killed a member. After the rebels take the capital katniss holds on to her pill. When she goes to execute snow she hides it under her armor and after she shoots coin and the crowd rushes to kill snow, she goes to put the nightlock pill in her mouth to commit suicide but Peeta stops her and the guards take her away.

[@lllfff3628]

With most of the changes I'm absolutely okay and I often thought, it was the right thing to cut them out. But I was really sad, that they cut the backstory of Haymitch out. It explained a lot.

[@gabrielleduplessis7388]

Like Harry Potter, many of us gained some serious fictional PTSD. Maybe seeing the more gruesome scenes would have been too much for viewers and they wanted to make sure no one got nightmares. Also adding too many characters to the story/plot will be confusing and might mess with the flow of the film.

[@michaelmitchell9590]

In the Books, Snow was never more than I larger than life figure whose shadow was everywhere. He had to be placed in the movie to keep the story line moving. I wish the scene where Snow tells Petta, "I'm not asking" was put into the movie. It would have made Petta''s scenes as he reads Snow's Propaganda a bit more effective.

[@aanya3248]

Actually, Bonnie and Twill were the reasons Katniss and Gale knew about district 13.

[@Annie-zr6xy]

Peeta’s prep team was killed on live TV after District 13 broke Peeta and the other victors out of the Capital in Mockingjay, NOT after the victors held hands in Catching Fire.

[@patrickcallahan9206]

Haymitch was in the second quarter quell and that year 2x more tributes were in the arena. That means there was 48 tributes in the arena.

[@kathypaxton-williams4201]

I am one of those people who didn't know about the Hunger Games Trilogy prior to seeing the first movie. Once I did see the movie, however, I found the books and became read them all. Since then, I have read the trilogy multiple times. Given how much violence and dark themes ARE in the movies, I am impressed that they did squeak into the PG-13 rating! There are a few minor errors, such as name pronunciation, but the one that first jumped out at me was when Katniss and Peeta were in their cave during their first Hunger Games. In the book, Katniss mashed the sleep syrup into some berries, hoping their flavor would mask the sickly sweetness of the syrup. Also, the narrator keeps saying, in essence, "Nobody would believe this!" Um... if they've read the books, they would. Other than that, nice video!

[@dimdamen1]

The pills were in the movie, when Katniss shot Coin she tried to take it but it fell out of her hands because of Peeta

[@thedoitallguy99]

The fact that so many kids read these books in middle school.

[@lily-hazy8823]

I think one of my favorite things about The Hunger Games books was the fact that my godmother's book club decided to read it. None of them showed up to talk about it because they were so depressed and couldn't understand how so many kids loved the series when it was so dark. Meanwhile, I'm in high school with a bunch of other teen activists saying "CAPITALIST SOCIETIES THAT PLACE MORE EMPHASIS ON THE MONEY MADE FROM PRODUCTION THAN THEY DO ON THE VALUE OF HUMAN LIVES THAT PRODUCE THE MONEY, AND THIS DYSTOPIA IS THE RESULT OF LATE STAGE CAPITALISM." Too depressing for boomers, but incredibly validating for Millenials that can see the parallels between fictional dystopia and our current reality.

[@lindaw2165]

Not too depressing for this Boomer, and I totally got the parallels without a younger person pointing them out, thanks. I love this series and all it has to say about abuse of power.

[@alanaeverhart716]

I was JUST saying this to my mom. We’re a few notches away from that in America.

[@sophyvanegas5639]

I have older siblings so the first time i watched hunger games i was 7 then i wached it like for real at 9 because i ahd forgot parts and the last time i had watched it i wasn't paying full attention I've been obsessed ever since

[@burnt.norton]

same, i remember living through my hunger games obsession in elementary school because of my older siblings lmao

[@daynee26]

The part 1 of the hunger games doesn’t give me that interest but when I started watching the Catching fire and so on, wow. I’ve never been hooked up by a movie this much.

[@Clararodriguezz_]

They shoudn't cut the famous peeta phrase: are you here to finish me off, sweetheart?

[@abbiedolan6152]

Hunger games would have made a good tv show

[@dae0420]

they should’ve included peeta confessing he listened to darius and lavinia being killed

[@a3sthetic_ali3n48]

We love the movie Haymitch everyone lmfao

[@madmax-tx6bl]

We also love book Hatmitch when he fell off the stage at district 12 reaping 😂

[@mplwy]

I saw the first movie before reading the books. After reading them, I was disappointed with a few things in the movies like the mutts not resembling the tributes but I still love the movies too. One if the worst scenes in the first book is the fact that the mutts gnaw on Cato for hours, while he whimpers, until he is finally pushed/dragged to a spot where Katniss can get a shot to end his prolonged suffering.

[@breeanabeasley1196]

I read all of them and I was so sad when I finished them and I would definitely watch it twisted hunger games movie I watch the movies 10, million thousand times and can’t get over the ending of them

[@Rayane-ni3mt]

You forgot an important one : Katniss kills a civilian with an arrow in the last book, in the Capitole. She also tries to kill herself by overdosing on medicine near the end.

[@ravensparrow7443]

2021 and I’m reading the hunger games for like the 1,000th time in a row

[@VenusXTheSea]

Haymitch: "embrace the..probability of your..iminent death" Peeta: 👁👄👁 "Your kidding, right?-"

[@layladunn3434]

I hate that they didn't really show Katniss spiralling into darkness in the movies as well as expanded on how Katniss fought Peeta when he tried to stop her from taking the nightlock after she shot snow.

[@shanonfreek]

I talk about this one little glimmer of a foreshadow in Catching Fire where Plutarch shows Katniss his special pocket watch. And he opens it up and its a mockingjay. And Katniss being so dumb, doesn't realize he's showing that he is behind her and the rebellion. She literally thinks he's not showing it to people because he doesn't want other people to rip the design off.

[@franzi7358]

THEY CUTTED THE WHOLE CLATO RELATIONSHIP OUT

[@Fayle_Ross]

Don't forget that Flavius, Octavia and Venia were LOCKED in DISTRICT 13, without access to water, food or bathroom, just chained to the wall, for WEEKS

[@kayisfish]

I wish they had left in Peeta losing his leg. It was relevant to so many later plot points in little ways. Also, I wish the dog mutts in the first movie were closer to the book. Creepy, yes...but it worked.

[@sofakingphat8087]

I always felt that Bonnie and Twill most likely died from exposure on their way to 13. Perhaps when they showed up at 13 they were not allowed in based on the premise that they may have been spies.

[@gdesiree29]

Makes sense. Or peacekeepers caught them