Honestly the movies cutting out the origin story of the Mockingjay... like, my dude. My guy. I get it, not every part of a book can be adapted. But maybe not... like...... cut the POINT OF THE SYMBOL YOU'VE BEEN USING FOR 4 MOVIES???? Le H U H????

It’s ironic how the Capitol romanticizes Katniss and Peeta’s relationship, using it as entertainment alongside the killing of children, and then the movies do the same thing. Sometimes the movies seem like they were created from the Capitol’s viewpoint

Women being inexplicably, illogically pretty is a huge, and I cannot overstate this, HUGE issue in the media.

The met gala this year made me think about how panem isn’t far off

The hunger games books are so fantastically well done and so freaking smart but the movies just missed the mark in so many ways. About the love triangle, the movies definitely botched it but as for the books. There's an interview with Suzanne where she explains how peeta and gale both represent different ways of living through the hardship and trauma. Gale is angry and revenge seeking whereas peeta is more focused on making peace. Katniss choosing between them is more about choosing how she wants to live the rest of her life

Joanne was my favourite. She always had that bitter attitude about life, she was humourous at times yet strong and boi wasn't she traumatized. And Finnick too. In the book he was my child, that smile,also , when his death was described in one freaking line in the book and Collins moved on like nothing happened.. well, my 13 year old self was distraught, let's just say that.

in my personal opinion, everyone's focus on the katniss/peeta/gale love triangle is the exact thing the books are trying to bring awareness to. to the citizens of the capitol, the hunger games is pure entertainment. they (disturbingly) find enjoyment in watching children as young as 12 die horrific, gorey, torturous deaths. if you pay attention in the first movie, when haymitch is speaking to seneca (the head gamemaker of that games), he gives seneca a tip to regain attention when the games started to get "boring": young love. after that point, both the books and most especially the movies shift the focus from the tryanical government killing children for shits and giggles to the pure romance between katniss and peeta, gale gets added in there too. for a moment, the reader and/or watcher can almost forget the real message of the story. the people who only took the romance from the series are a good representation of the capitol. not to say it's bad, but you must admit it's genius writing and storytelling

killing people ... excuse me ..... *children*

every time someone says Book To Movie Adaptation a Percy Jackson fan dies

Basically: why books are a superior form of story telling when time is not a factor

Olivia: I can’t believe I was allowed to read this at 16 Me who read it when I was 12:😶

it was a terrible idea to read the hunger games at the innocent age of 10 because it was so impactful to me. i literally remember searching for an outfit katniss wore at the thrift store and braiding my hair to go to the theatre for mockingjay. prim was literally the first major character death i read in a book that really upset me and i was depressed for days afterwards. i still cant reread anything but the first book because they absolutely ruin me

Remember when they made a remix of The Hanging Tree? I remember listening to that while the movies were coming out and seeing something that said that’s exactly what a dystopian government would have done to a song like that. The Hanging Tree was a really beautiful song and they really remixed it and made it a fun pop song to sell to us.

I used to be so obsessed with the hunger games that every single lock screen, home screen and profile picture was the catching fire logon and I used my scanner to scan last page of mockingjay and I stuck it up on my wall. I can to this day still quote soooo many lines from the movies. But like looking back I really didn’t appreciate the books as much as I should’ve.

"Why was I allowed to read this at like sixteen?" Girl why was I allowed to read it at ELEVEN???

There’s actually a new book coming out in the hunger games “universe” next year so hopefully that will make more people revisit the original trilogy? maybe?

The Disney Channel movie Holes is one of the best book adaptations I've ever seen. It is the one rare exception where the movie is better than the book.

My super religious grand-aunt gave me the hunger games books because she had finished reading them. I didn’t think that I would enjoy them because the movies were about half way released and every girl at my school was only talking about the love triangle thing, but I was bored and I was really caught off guard by how much I enjoyed them.

I never realized how angry I should be about the movies but after the Percy Jackson adaptation, following the basic plot of the book was a win for me

Also Katniss straight up losing her hearing for a lot of the games from an explosion and having to get her ear reconstructed at the end.

The Hunger Games movies dipped really badly. Never read the books but even I saw the quality dropping throughout the movies. At least it got a better movie treatment than Percy Jackson though.

To be honest though, catching fire was one of the best book to movie adaptations in regards to adapting the locations and overall vibe of the book. Flawless

i love a conspiracy theory so here i go: the hunger games has a strong direct political message, it doesn’t go around the bushes like harry potter. i think this has a lot to do with why it died down. i don’t think anyone in power would like people getting ideas, specially since the book’s main target is teenagers and young adults. yes other books tried to do the same and go with the angst political story but none were able to do it in the same way the hunger games did. anyway i don’t think it would be in the interest of some people to have a franchise like that being branded into our brain like harry potter or twilight.

I’d have to disagree on Catching Fire specifically. I hold that up as one of the best movie adaptions ever. Also cool makeup!

olivia been coming through with these makeup lewks 🥵

I've read it somewhere (probably tumblr) that the Hunger Games movies are what the Capitol would have created to explain this history if it had won

this girl talks about shows and movies I never cared about but she has such interesting points of view and way of talking I dont mind watching anything by her

One of the things that gets me the most is how in the movies katniss was made to be a conventionally attractive, healthy white woman. There was a lot of symbolism w katniss's appearance in the books that they really should have stuck to. She was ethnically ambiguous, frail, and her growth was stunted from malnutrition. Peeta was blonde haired, blue eyed, and fit bc he came from a """wealthier""" part of the district.

rue's death in the book still haunts me. i spent 10 minuets crying when i read it. like how was 16 year old me allowed to read that

Oooh did you know that Suzanne Collins didn’t actually want the love triangle to be that big of a deal? Her editor actually made her make it a big deal so it would sell. So I blame the editor, not Collins.

“I’ve been through more physical, emotional and mental trauma then most people will ever go through” *cuts to ad of children jumping on a trampoline to happy music

I think the hunger games series is similar to George Orwell’s 1984, where the main characters (Winston/Katniss)aren’t the focus of the story, they are a medium to warn us about the horrible world they live in and how we could end up like that

i remember reading this at like 12, literally sitting in my kitchen sobbing because of f prims death, i’m never going to forget that, it’s probably one of the most impactful books of my life. i lost interest in the movies almost immediately. i need to reread these books so i can keep the true meaning in my mind, it makes me sad.

The Hunger Games is happening. It’s just that we’re The Capital

I'd love a TV show adaption by a company like HBO that would show the gore and not baby it.

Holes is still the ultimate in book-to-movie adaptations for me. And maybe it's because he was my favorite character, but I think if the movie kept Haymitch's role as prominent as it was in the books, a lot of the darkness in the series would have been maintained.

After reading the hunger games in 8th grade when all the movies had finished and no one really talked about it anymore so any rant I had with anyone about the books was one sided and no one cared... I need this. Thank you.

Can we talk about how MADGE WASNT ADDED IN THE MOVIES. I HATED THAT

Okay so hunger game were the books that got me back into reading in middle school and while I like the movies I always had HUGE problems with them for all your reasons though the ONE thing I like they did that they didn’t in the book is the scene where one of the districts goes to explode the water thing that was for there power ?? (I can’t remember what they are called) that scene always hits me so hard

Let's be real.. a story that has a point and message will not.get anywhere without a love story to push it into popularity. If it wasn't included then it wouldn't get popularity. In the literary aspect it doesn't add anything. In the marketing aspect its everything..

Your eyes are wicked as you stare straight into the camera

I would say your second point is the biggest- it’s depressing. The movies were fine stand-alone, but the sadness and uncomfortable dystopian truths scare people. Harry potter has a clear evil person Oh and when Finnick died in the book, i cried like a baby

I’m so glad someone finally mentioned the watch because it was such a major plot like she couldn’t have figured it out without that and they just said ehh we don’t need that

Jk Rowling probably thinks she’s making Harry Potter relevant again w the whole dumbledore being gay shiz but acc it’s just cuz it’s a genuine staple of pop culture. But seriously it’s been so long so you really don’t need to try and make it relevant when it’s so fricking popular. Aight I’ll go.

i haven’t read any of the hunger games books or watched any of the movies but you better believe i watched this whole video just because i love olivia

I agree. Frankly with Mockingjay, I would have been in love with an R-rated iteration of the film. I don’t see how you can tell that story with a PG-13 story without glossing over all of the trauma and grit that makes that story unique. One detail I loved from the book is the innocent capitol citizen Katniss kills being discovered by the Capitol media and Katniss noticed that her makeup was done to beautify her for the camera. That’s a damning criticism of the media. This article does a fantastic job diving into why the book is so phenomenal and how the films don’t compare, leaving many unaware of how deep this series is: ew.com/article/2015/11/24/mockingjay-part-2-book-movie/

i've never read the books but i loved the movies. i thought it was the most well acted and well-written "big movie" franchise we've had in years. unfortunately the themes are so dark and politically it hits so close to home it's hard to "enjoy" the way people enjoy franchises like twilight and harry potter.

This makes me want to reread the series..

i remember so vividly how before the second film came out there was so much discussion abt who should play finnick and why.... and then it was sam claflin and so many people were so disappointed oof

Omg okay but our teacher literally read the first two books to us in 5th grade So imagine how crazy that must have been

I’m so glad you made this video. I feel like The Hunger Games has mostly been swept under the rug and it’s good to see someone generating a conversation about it again

I read the books when I was 12 and I don’t think so was too young. It gave me a unique perspective on life, war and humanity, it’s shaped me and I honestly think I’d be a less aware person today if I never read the series.

The best scene in the movies in my opinion is the victory tour. It best showcases the forced aspect of Peeta and Katniss’s relationship while still showing the power of the capitol. My favorite line is from this where a little girl says “I’m going to volunteer, just like you did.” And katniss is all sad cause like, child murder, and it just hits really different idk

"Why was I allowed to read these books at 16?" 16? I read these books at age 11! Although, now that I think about it, maybe that's why I'm so messed up...

I read this book at the ripe age of 13, and it emotionally changed me as a person. I had no means of wrapping my head around what was happening and I remember at the end of mockingjay I sat in my room just feeling like a hole had been shot through my gut. I have never had a book destroy me in the same way that this series did.

Okay I was super into The Hunger Games fandom on Tumblr when I was in high school and still stay in touch with several people I became friends with, and now I'm teaching the first book to my high school students, and wow, I have been hit with so much nostalgia lately. This series is so important and phenomenal and deserved better

prim’s death messed me up. katniss volunteered in the beginning to save prim.. but she ended up dying in the end. sure it’s cool that she found love and destroyed the capital, but in the end, it was kinda all for nothing.

Hunger games and maze runner are my favorite series but are hardly ever talked about. Loved hearing someone else’s opinion

I watched this video 12 hours ago today and I am now 276 pages into rereading the first book. I haven’t read a full book in months. This series deserves so much more credit.

I was so mad when I watched the movies... as a teenager, I read the trilogy and was so moved by the omnipresent spirit of revolution that I couldn't stop reading. The romance meant nothing to me. And the movie just went "Revolution who? Here you got some love triangle between a bunch of generic hot people" I think the movies tried too hard to be Twilight and failed because they misunderstood the HG books. It was OK for the Twilight movies to put the love story/love triangle front and centre, because it was the main topic of the books. It was NOT OK to do the same with the HG movies because they switched the sub and the main plot... ridiculous and disappointing!

There’s supposedly going to be a prequel coming out some time in 2020. I think it takes place 10 years after the war during the “Dark Days.”

Honestly I'm so glad you made this, I was young when I read it and did not appreciate the impact of the book. PLEASE make a series where you discuss each book

I completely forgot that Peeta even loses a leg?? It's been so many years thank you for this beautiful reminder of the actual story wow

Ok but this makes some excellent points and I'd like to add a few if that's all good 1. Peeta, if he was played by literally anyone else, would be seen as a neckbeard because he only sees katniss as an object just like gale does. That bit in mockingjay where the gem "katniss will choose whoever she thinks she can survive best with" remember that lovely thing? Yea peeta is characterized beyond his objective desire for her only by how much katniss thinks she owes him (which could have been great if they'd actually examined how katniss is just rehab for the men in her life) 2. Johanna is terrifyingly similar to katniss except katniss did what Johanna tried to do by accident and that could have been a truly great character dynamic beyond the obligatory "like I couldn't take you" (yes Johanna is my favourite, she's like a dystopian lisbeth salander but a little less goth I love her so much) 3. If they'd taken the time to viscerally show katniss' ptsd it would have been a way more compelling way to show how she's developed as a character AND a way more hard hitting way to end the movie, imagine if you will, greasy sae (The lady katniss sells her hunting to at the black market/hob) coming into her house making her eat and bathe, katniss washing off the playing card sized sheets of scar tissue, having a nightmare in bed later and greasy sae coming in to comfort her the same way she comforted prim at the very start of the first movie. Now wouldn't that be memorable? They could even have a throw at line of "prims not screaming anymore" for extra effect Thankyou for listening, if you got this far you deserve a cookie (Edited for grammar)

I remember reading the series when I was twelve and when I learned that Cinna was killed I was so upset that I nearly threw up.

this was on my recommended and i clicked IMMEDIATELY! the hunger games are one of my favorite series ever and ever since i have reread them i have been totally obsessed with them, but its sad bc no one else is! the books are masterpieces. thank u so much for making this video i literally would hear people talk for hours about the series bc it is just so fascinating. Also i TOTALLY agree with u on the depressing part. I was planning on rewathcing/rereading the mockingjay book and movies but then i realized how extremely depressing everything was in that book. When i read those books in 6th grade, it all totally brushed over my head

I feel like book Katniss and movie Katniss are basically different characters! Remember Rue's death? In the book, she thinks something like "there's no point in comforting words, telling her she'll be ok. She's no fool" and in the movie she literally says "you're ok. You're ok. You're ok." And like you mentioned at the end of Mockingjay in the book she basically completely emotionally shuts down, whilst in the films she moreso breaks down (I don't really know how you'd portray three weeks of her being mute and just months of her not being able to eat or shower in the movie without it getting very dull or being glossed over in a montage in fairness, but yeah). Movie Katniss is a snarky hero who shows her trauma in many emotional breakdowns, nightmares and crying fits, whilst book Katniss is much less heroic (like you said, shaking like a leaf and becoming mute and suicidal after shooting Coin and Prim's death) and much more gritty and realistic in how her trauma is explored. I don't think crying fits and emotional breakdowns are an unrealistic trauma response and she has those in the book too, but stuff like you mentioned about the emotional shutdown, not eating or talking or showering, that total loss of function, is much more chilling and just as realistic to me. You reminded me how different the books are, I'm thinking of giving them a reread now! That said, I love the movies too. Whilst movie Katniss is a different (and arguably more shallow just because of the lack of access to her thoughts and less runtime) character, I still think on her own she's a fairly gritty and real exploration of trauma, and was done much better than most movies dealing with similar subject matter. Regardless excellent video and discussion! EDIT: I also just noticed the kitty in the background on the bed, he's very cute : 3

I am still obsessed with the hunger games and divergent and I love the books and can’t wait for the new book

Ah, throwback to when Twilight, Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, and the Hunger Games were on a massive hype train at the same time.

I personally really loved the movies as well as the books. Jennifer Lawrence did an absolutely fantastic job at acting and everytime I watch the movies I get all tingly and feel like I’m 13 again. The atmosphere (especially in Catching Fire) was so electrifying and you could almost taste the revolution that was about to happen. I could never get tired of this series. It really is the trilogy of the decade.

I feel like no one talks about it anymore because it’s associated with teenage girls so people are put down for liking it.

the hunger games would be so good as an animated series

I completely agree with you with the whole book to movie adaption! One part that really got to me from the first movie was when Katniss risks her life to get the medicine to save Peeta. In the book it’s very dramatic with Katniss’ cut gushing blood, the difference between the needle that has to be injected in the book vs the balm they use in the movie and how Katniss passed out afterwards. Also in mockingjay after Coin’s Assassination, Katniss literally almost starves to death while her trial is going on and has this internal battle to give up or stay alive. And don’t even get me started on Peeta’s leg.

I literally think about the Hunger Games happening in real life all the time. It's so scary because it really could happen easily.

Imagine comparing the similarities between the 2nd and 3rd maze runner books and their movie counterparts

10/10 video I feel this also RIP Finnick I sobbed in the books

I'm still OBSESSED with The Hunger Games

the hunger games book had an incredibly strong impact on me. when i first finished reading them at age ten, i went straight back to book one and read them all over again. i never focussed on katniss and peeta or katniss and gale but more of the horrific backstory which brought them to the hunger games. i did enjoy the movies when they first came out (probably because i was twelve) and certain scenes are really impactful but the books really changed my whole viewpoint.

this video inspired me to read the books and can i say....thank you. i had already seen the movie before the books and loved them but now (6months later) i’m rewatching this video to compare what you said before and after i knew what the books really brought.

I remember when I was 10 my cousin let me borrow her books. I didn't eat or sleep for 2 days because I wanted to finish them. I *needed* to finish them. And when I did I found it hard to go to sleep because I kept envisioning Prims death everytime I closed my eyes. I had nightmares about it. The series needs more recognition and praise, and if it weren't for the stigma around Y.A it would have gotten it by now.

I think the reason that the Great Gatsby movie needed to be so accurate is because its a book where the symbolism is so important and has a vital role in the story its telling, but I think something like the personality changes made to Katniss make the story, like you said, a lot more palatable.

this series was so good i hate how ppl talk abt it as like some shallow dystopian-romance when i think it had problems but was also fairly well written and had an interesting message

I love that you mentioned the Great Gatsby remake with Decaprio because I felt the same way especially the detail they put into the setting all of the set pieces and the scene felt exactly how I imagined then when I read it the first time.

I read all three books about 5 years ago when I was 16 and liked them but they didn't really resonate with me but I've just reread them all and in between those readings developed something very similar to PTSD and understand it soooo much more!! I also love how Katniss *didn't* just get over it because that was one of my issues with how Harry Potter ended; with Harry so happy after all the trauma he experienced it just wasn't at all realistic. I can relate so much to Katniss in terms of the PTSD and symptoms and stuff it's both nice to read something and feel understood and also scary

just want to say your vibe gives me Haley Williams circa After Laughter

I’ve never felt more understood holy poop, these books were so impactful to me when I read them, I appreciated the movies as a separate entity but the books were another level of insane energy and emotion

I just reread the hunger games books a month ago and Mockingjay literally made me cry myself to sleep. Also I agree so much that the movie left out so many things and added so many unnecessary things that make me mad especially the first movie. Great video btw!

i was just watching the hunger games thank you for this

The Hunger Games is the best trilogy/saga ever ever ever

I love this series because of the how effectively Katniss's emotions were conveyed. The first time I read it I was 10 and I loved it but in rereading it I see now I didn't notice most of the underlying or marked themes. But every time I read Catching Fire in particular the absolute despair and hopelessness of Katniss after the second Hunger Games were announced was horrific. The whole world is horrific.

i honestly genuinely enjoyed the first movie and i feel like the mood of the original story was captured quite well compared to the rest of the movies. i can't help but wonder how the rest of the movies would've turned out if gary ross had stayed as the director

Mockingjay DEVASTATED me for MONTHS I never wanted to watch the movies.

not about the topic but your makeup looks AMAZING

honestly I’ve been waiting for someone to bring this back, this series brings back so many mems.

I think catching fire will be considered a sci fi classic years from now. U can watch it as a stand alone movie even and I've seen it so many time. It's so close to a perfect movie and I will never forget how it affected me

I read this book at the age of like 8. I don’t know what my parents were thinking, but it was always one of my favorites, simply because it was so powerful. and I’ve always said that Catching Fire is very narration based, so I thought that while the movie didn’t do the best job, the fact that they could pull off a movie where the main character is mostly by herself and just thinking is pretty cool? like definitely not as good as the book, but the way Jennifer Lawrence was able to portray emotion and thought was pretty awesome

YOU ARE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL AND LIKEABLE PERSON!! I care about the hunger games far too much now but I’m glad I just have given you 20 mins of my time

Maaamm, I will need a review from you on the prequel when it comes out and I agree with you. It's not just about katniss, it's about a whole rebellion. Glad I'm not the one to feel super depressed reading and watching these

Am I the only person that enjoys both the books and movies? I feel like there were some huge changes that were mistakes in the movies but I still over all enjoy it and think it’s a solid enough adaptation.

Amazing video as always and I love your outfit and makeup. It matches the theme well :)