The Success of the Hunger Games

Having the trifecta of Harry Potter, Twilight, and Hunger Games happening at the same time is astonishing. We will never see a phenomenon like that again. Like what a time to be a teen in a YA fandom.

“The boy from three does not want to stand up” me cackling because when he stands up in the movies he gets murked instantly

the fact that this video is longer than the ballad of songbirds and snakes movie is INSANE

the flower katniss saw wasnt a daisy it was a dandelion!

Being an absolute hunger games nerd and having listened to these books approximately 90 times each the amount of small details she gets wrong in her summary is breaking my brain. It's been entertaining and I enjoyed watching her.

The reason The Games as a section starts prior to The Hunger Games themselves, and directly after Peeta's reveal, is because the games actually started when the tributes were selected and when they explain Peeta's move to Katniss is when she realizes she's already in the games.

When i was a young teen i couldn't really appreciate what Hunger Games was doing. The comparison between it and Twilight also really bring it down when it comes to the "love triangle". The Hunger Games was never meant to be a love triangle (imo). but going into it as a teen thats what i expected and was let down. Now , upon reread, i can really enjoy and appreciate The Hunger Games story as a whole

No hate to the creator, but here are a couple mistakes I caught in case you noticed and were doubting your memory or confused. 21:50 Daisies are also edible, but the book actually refers to dandelions, which are weeds and therefore more prevalent and earlier blooming. 24:41 Haymitch is the mentor to the tributes, which means he trains them mentally and strategically for the Games. He gives them advice and guidance. A sponsor would be someone who sends him money to use to send gifts to the tributes while they are in the arena. 52:26 While Katniss is indeed shorter and less muscular than the careers, it's not the only reason they can't follow her. She's spent her life climbing trees and is much better at choosing good branches, rather than any branches and is also much less clumsy about it due to practice. This allows her to climb into branches even she admits wouldn't typically make for safe climbing. 1:15:15 It's the boy from 1, not the boy from 10, but she catches this

36:33 I think she started part 2 of the Games there. Because that’s when the playing actually started. More specifically playing (and manipulating) the people in the Capitol. Even if Peeta was truthful in his confession of love for Katniss, that’s when he started playing the bigger game behind the Hunger Games. Getting people to root for both him and Katniss.

Actually, the climbing thing is very much true! Climbers prefer to be slender to be flexible, and the way we use our muscles isn't how careers would have trained theirs! I myself am also very skinny but have long limbs, which are good conditions

"They don't bone, btw, get your head outta the gutter" but also "it would be better if they all just kissed" lol

LOVE YOUR EYESHADOW COORDINATIONS 😍 can’t wait to watch this feature film known as your video essay

i love how Miss Suzanne is able use the Hunger Games series to hold a mirror to our own day and that it’s digestible for several age groups. really enjoyed your vid!

in my personal opinion the end of YA as a genre/popular can be tied to the adultification of teenagers in general but also the trend thats been arising in general of not putting thought or care into the growth of children or the content they consume. i think there was a time period in the early 2000s where consumerism hadnt quite hit the broader book world and so care was still being put into the most consumed books, i think that period is also over. i think the 'fast fashion of books' that can be observed right now specifically in general romance/ romantasy is emblematic of that as well. i think generally the content that is being created right now and industries that produce content are focused so intensly on mediocrity- content that sells- that the idea that teenagers- or anybody - deserves good media, deserves things that are more than mediocre has gone mostly extinct. but i also think that this is a trend that will swing back around. we're already seeing a large number of people discussing the toxicity and consumerism that is controlling most content creation nowadays, so i expect public opinion to turn soon.

It’s so incredible how accurate the first movie is to the book! And I loved what you said about katniss’s idea of the games starting the day before with all the politics and getting sponsorships!!

this video is incredible, from the analysis to the production quality to the model arena on the table. i can't believe your channel is still so small! i've been rereading the hunger games and rewatching the films recently and they're making me go crazy so this video just perfectly scratched the analytical itch in my brain. i can't wait to watch the rest of your stuff!

@25.00 I believe that Cinna would have heard from the rebel forces indicate that the upcoming tribute is the 'mockingjay/chosen one ' bring that outfit ...he is the lynchpin of revolution and circles Katniss to evaluate and when he pulled out the pre-made outfit and it indicates agreement.

There are few things I wish the movies had done that upset me to this day. The big one is peeta's leg. It was such a bug thing and it would've been SO easy to implement. But also, I really wish for Rue they would have done the flowers more book accurate. The book describes katniss weaving a blanket of sorts and i believe she puts them in her hair as well, so that the flowers go with her. I just thought that for such and important scene they were pretty skimpy on it in the movie.

"Men don't think that hard" is really true. We either obsess over something or don't think about about it for longer than 5 seconds, there is no middle ground.

I think Suzanne Collins starts "The Games" right after Peeta drops the "Love" bomb on the Capitol audience, because from that very moment on: Whether Katniss wanted to or not, she had already started playing the games. Prior to that, she wasn't thrilled on impressing the audience, didn't really care about showing off in training, she didn't even shoot the apple in the hog's mouth because she was showing off- She did that because they were disrespecting her time & they were wasting her effort when she was meant to be giving her all in that part of the training. The games for all the other tributes started on the very moment they were parading, they had started to try and rob each other of possible sponsors but not for Katniss, to her the games are to start when they're placed into the Arena. But when Peeta plays the crowd in his interview segment, Katniss has inadvertently started playing the game earlier than she had expected to. Edit: Nvm, she got it XD