When it was first announced that the prequel book for The Hunger Games would focus on a young President Snow, everyone rolled their eyes a little because they could not fathom how or why something like that would work out. However, when the book The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes came out, everyone enjoyed it. Was […]\n
"To tell a story about, and to create empathy for, a young man who's going to become the villain of the other books and movies was a really interesting challenge," Lawrence explains.
Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. Photo Credit: Murray Close © 2023 Lionsgateas they did for regarding character development. For the first set of films, it was the fact that the books were written in first person, so we only had Katniss, and while her POV was sometimes more limited, we understood what she was doing and her thought process while she was doing.
"It was really fun to go back to the formation of him and to humanize him on screen," Lawrence says."It was probably the trickiest thing, even from a scripting stage. Because in a book, you can hear a lot of characters' inner thoughts. Our primary objective was to get an audience behind him, but we also had to lay the breadcrumbs so that when the turn happens, it's believable.
The inability to translate complicated characters from page to screen without any internal monologue to help the audience along is something that most adaptations run into.expanded on the books a lot by seeing the world through the eyes of people who aren't Katniss, and it seemed to resonate with the fans.has its own hurdles to climb, and it'll be interesting to see the reception of this one not only by the fans but also by the general public and critics.
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