The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is the second science fiction adventure film from America released from the trilogy series of The Hunger Games in 2013 based on the ‘Catching Fire’ novel of Suzanne Collins. Lionsgate produced and distributed this second installment and the sequel of the ‘The Hunger Games’ series. The film was directed, on the basis of the screenplay written by Michael Arndt and Simon Beaufoy, by Francis Lawrence. Along with other actors including Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Stanley Tucci, Lenny Kravitz, Toby Jones, Donald Sutherland, Paula Malcomson and Willow Shields in their respective roles Jennifer Lawrence returned as Katniss Everdeen in this sequel science fiction movie.
This sequel film was announced to be filmed under the directorship of Gary Ross, the director of first film of this series, several months before the release of the first film by Lionsgate the producer of this series. But after dropping the project by Ross due to inflexible production schedule Francis Lawrence was hired by the producer as the director of this second film in this series. To represent key roles in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire he selected Jeffrey Wright, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lynn Cohen, Sam Claflin, Amanda Plummer, Alan Ritchson, Meta Golding and Jena Malone. He started the shooting schedule in September 2012 in Georgia and Atlanta and later on moved to Hawaii. The film was released in Brazil, United Kingdom, Finland, United States and Norway in November 2013.
Storyline of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The story of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire starts just after the end of the film The Hunger Games where Katniss Everdeen, performed by Jennifer Lawrence, was recovering from the stress after traumatic incident in the District twelve to return to normal life. The imaginary involvement of Katniss in love with Peeta Mellark, enacted by Josh Hutcherson, during the Games had shocked him severely and he could not recover from it till now. But Katniss threatened President Snow about the well being of all of her lovers including her best friend Gale when he came threatening her at her home. But she does not reveal the enthusiasm of her love with Peeta during the Victory Tour of the Districts to everyone. Finally Snow decided to pay twenty four Tributes to the to the living victors during the 75th Annual Hunger Games due to the fear of increasing popularity of Katniss among the starving people of the community. He was afraid of the alliances Katniss and Peeta can make with the different groups of winners of the former catching fire hunger games winner, to remain active among them, if they are sent to the Arena for once only.
Evaluation of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire review explores the secret is not just a sequel of the original movie but it is its better and larger version. The new characters added to this film had raised its stakes considerably. Though it lacks various major entertainment gravitas but the infusion of various new aspects had made Catching Fire Hunger Games a unique science fiction movie. Viewers of this movie can experience the difficulties faced by the citizens of Panem at every turn of the movie including the tension to everything like adding layers of pathos and cruel tyranny of the Capitol. The more surprising story of this film coupled with impressive visuals at IMAX make the Catching Fire an improved version of its original film and a rare sequel.
Peeta and Katniss, in Catching Fire, were about to celebrate their victory in the 74th annual event of Hunger Games by touring all over the nation. But the things changed everywhere due to the disobedient ways they adopted to win those Hunger Games, they expected to give them a wonderful leisure life. Being the citizen of Panem the government controls forced them to be their puppets which made them angrier to the control of the government. Ultimately the recent winners were forced by the Capitol to face the 22 other previous victors of Hunger Games to make an example of its kind. The constitution of the tour, preparation for games and the Games are the three factors in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire that keep the viewers involved in the movie.
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