Katniss is always finding something useful in a tree or lying on the ground.
However, he thinks a lot of it can be traced back to Jennifer Lawrence and the character of Katniss.
For instance in the book, before going into the games a girl from District 12 named Madge gives Katniss her mockingjay pin.
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Her first-person narrator, Katniss Everdeen, who hails from a shabby coal-mining area, is a tough, resourceful girl, a huntress who protects her family.
In true young-adult-fiction style, Katniss has a second admirer stalwart, gentle Gale, played by Liam Hemsworth, who looks, in this movie, like a larger Taylor Lautner.
To celebrate "The Hunger Games, " the cookie-maker designed an imaginatively themed cookie-box featuring 16 cookies in the likenesses of, among other things, Katniss and her "girl on fire" costume.
Bella Swan is a lousy role model because she relentlessly pursues a romance while Katniss Everdeen is a positive female role model because she kills people with a bow, right?
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Young audiences are sure to embrace Katniss on screen the movie is off to an epic start and all the more so because Ms. Lawrence is the perfect choice for the role.
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The Hunger Games is a post-Apocalyptic story about a young girl, Katniss Everdeen, who takes part in a televised battle where children fight to the death until only one person is left.
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Folks who got to see early screenings or take part in test audiences would have been tweeting about whether Jennifer Lawrence is a good Katniss and just how crazy the Capitol looks.
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Catching Fire seems predestined to be successful, what with the fabulous Jennifer Lawrence reprising her role as Katniss Everdeen and the fact that the Oscar-winning writer of Slumdog Millionaire, Simon Beaufoy, is writing the script.
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The book's territory is covered dutifully, with no evidence of a distinctive style, but never explored in ways that might have given the audience access to the workings of Katniss's mind, or the stirrings of her soul.
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Though the novel has a variety of characters, most of the story centers on Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, Hunger Games representatives from District 12 (presumably West Virginia), and their efforts to emerge from the games alive.
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But "The Hunger Games, " which was directed by Gary Ross the script is credited to him, Ms. Collins and Billy Ray takes a painfully long time to move Katniss and Peeta out of their town to the garish sophistication of The Capitol.
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In one of them, a televised conversation between Katniss and Stanley Tucci's madcap, blue-pompadoured interviewer, Caesar Flickerman, we see the power of her beauty and honesty, and, at the same time, the ease with which she might be corrupted in the pursuit of celebrity.
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At first, Katniss is on a simple quest to survive the games, but the stakes keep getting raised, and soon she must figure out a way to win the survival of 2 people, herself, and the other contestant with whom she may be falling in love.
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Jennifer Lawrence, with her burnished-copper complexion, husky voice, and pale-blue eyes, is fine as the resourceful sixteen-year-old heroine Katniss Everdeen, but Ross consistently drains away all the tensions built into the cruel idea of the movie the increasing wariness and suspicion each kid must feel as the number of teens still alive diminishes, and the horror (or glee) that some of them experience as they commit murder.
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