Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2

Here's where I think they will and should split Mockingjay into two movies. Because I just want to put it out there.

First of all, the director Francis Lawrence said in an interview that a big part of the first movie is getting Peeta back. Some think they should end the movie when he and Katniss are reunited and then he promptly tries to kill her. Fade to black. End Part One.

I don't think this is a good place because it is a cliffhanger of the same caliber as Catching Fire, and I really do not think they would do that twice in a row. It might be good for the ones who read the books because we know why he did that and that she is physically (but definitely not emotionally) okay. For a general audience, this would force them to wait a year to find out what happened, which they already had to do between CF and Part 1.

Some other folks out there have then said that they should end it at the Nut scene where they blow the place up, finally getting the last district on the rebel side. This could work because Part 2 would then be all about the Capital invasion, which is a solid plotline on its own. However, this is yet another part of the book where Katniss gets hurt: when that soldier she is speaking to and asking to join their side ends up shooting her. This would be yet another cliffhanger. Also, I checked on IMDB, and the actress Gwendoline Christie, who is playing Commander Lyme, is only listed in the credits for Part 2. In fact, all of the extras listed are from District 13 or 8. Not one is from 2, where the Nut scene takes place. So it seems unlikely it would end here just based on that.

So where do I think they will split? I think it will happen when she comes to her conclusion that Peeta is gone and never coming back to her the way he was. In the book, she tells them she can't be there anymore in 13 with him like that. They won't allow her into the Capital yet, so they let her go on the mission to 2 to try and bring the last district to the rebel's side. If it ends here, they have met that goal of getting Peeta back without it being a cliffy. Also, it will lead nicely into the last part as a true war movie with the goal to win the thing and get rid of the bad guys.

Yeah, I thought too much about this. Just my opinion although I do hope it ends there.

Hunger Games and Poetry

"Hope
is a butterfly
landing on your arm,
gracing you with its presence
for no more than mere seconds,
then flying up into the sky
before you can grasp it
in your hand,
once again out of reach."

--excerpt from my poem "Ode to Hope", October 2003

I have seen a butterfly in various movies and often think of my own line in this poem. However, as I watched The Hunger Games this last March, April, August, and September (yes, I have seen it four times), I pictured in my head each time the same stanza. In the movie, Katniss has just run off into the woods after escaping the bloodbath at the Cornucopia, and she sits down on this dead log. A butterfly, a brilliant blue in color, has landed nearby, and she reaches out and lets it walk on her hand. Then it flies away.

Whenever I see that, I think about my own vision of hope and how it flies away. The whole scene is good (thanks in most part to Jennifer Lawrence), but when I see it, I think of my poem and imagine if Katniss feels like she, even for a moment, has a feeling of hope,then the rest of us have one, too.

BAMF Girl's Club

BAMF Girl's Club

A YouTube series by Comediva about Hermione (Harry Potter), Katniss (Hunger Games), Buffy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Michonne (The Walking Dead), Lisbeth (Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), and Bella (Twilight) becoming roommates. It's awesome and hilarious while it pokes fun at each character. Enjoy.