Let The Games Begin! The Love, The Help, The Others

Last week I posted about the Tributes that will be portrayed in The Hunger Games film. This week it’s all about the Benjamin’s everyone else. From the Capitol to District 12.

And so there was a love triangle. Isn’t there always? The boy to call Katniss – “Catnip”

Gale Hawthorne

An 18-year-old boy who is Katniss's best friend and hunting partner. Like Katniss, he has black hair, olive skin, and gray eyes. While hunting, the pair combined their respective talents, his at trapping and hers at archery, to become a highly effective team. Their success makes them fixtures at District 12's black market, the Hob, where they trade their illegal game for other valuable items. Gale has three siblings: Rory, Vick and Posy.

Primrose Everdeen

Nicknamed "Prim", is Katniss's younger sister. She was 12 years old with blonde hair and blue eyes. Her name was chosen at the reaping for the 74th Hunger Games, and it was in order to save her that Katniss volunteers in her place.

Mrs. Everdeen

She is Katniss's mother. She was raised in town as the daughter of an apothecary, and subsequently had a fairly comfortable life. She gave it all up to marry Katniss's father and move to the Seam, where she lived in impoverished and starvation-level conditions.

Haymitch Abernathy

A "paunchy, middle-aged man" who was the victor of the 50th Hunger Games. Back 24 years before the series begins, he became the victor for District 12. After winning his games, he became an alcoholic and had spent almost all of his intervening life intoxicated to the point of embarrassment. Being the only surviving Hunger Games champion from District 12; one of only two in the history of the games. Haymitch is forced to mentor all of its tributes. He is often sarcastic and anything but sober. However, when pushed, he emerges as the pair's greatest advocate and shows himself to be astute as he guides his charges in a cleverly designed, unorthodox strategy aimed at ensuring the survival of both tributes.

Cinna

Katniss's stylist, responsible for her public appearance. After designing the spectacular outfits of the opening ceremony, he nicknames Katniss, "the girl on fire." Despite his professional interest in image, he sees through the superficial show of the Games to their cruel basic, using outfits as a way to prompt hypothetically risky notions.

Effie Trinket

A capitol-born chaperone who gets stuck with District 12 in the Hunger Games. At first, she loathes her attachment with District 12. Effie later becomes attached to Katniss and Peeta. She has bright pink hair [wig]. She seems totally unaware to the hardships of District 12, although whether this behavior is intentional or not. She is very strict about manners and is always punctual.

President Coriolanus Snow

Is the dictatorial ruler of the Capitol and all of Panem. Though apparently laid-back, this hides a psychopathic mind. He first appears in The Hunger Games when he crowns Katniss and Peeta as victors.

Caesar Flickerman

A popular Capitol reporter who is famous for conducting interviews for the Hunger Games for more than 40 years. Described as wearing a "ceremonial suit, midnight blue dotted with a thousand tiny electric bulbs" and having a heavily powdered face and hair that the color changes every year as does the tributes, giving every different games a different color, he is somewhat freakish in his appearance to Katniss's District eyes. He is easygoing with most, if not all people, and is excellent at making the tributes "shine."

Avox girl

A servant girl whose tongue has been cut out for being a traitor. She has red hair, porcelain skin, and striking features. Because of her inability to speak, Katniss does not know her name or anything about her. Katniss recognizes her from when she and Gale witnessed the girl's capture and the death of her friend. Katniss later speculates that she is a runaway from the Capitol.

Seneca Crane

The Head Gamemaker during the 74th Hunger Games who lets both, Katniss and Peeta lives.

I would love be on this couch!

Cinna, Effie, Haymitch, Katniss, Peeta, Avox (standing in red), etc...

Is there anyone I haven't listed you'd like to see portrayed in the movies?

Let the Games Begin! The Tributes

The Hunger Games movie is fastly approaching, and I'm one of those who do my research of the actors protraying my favorite characters. Why? Well I hate to be disappointed. Good thing I did. Gale is not the Gale I pictured and Thresh, I pictured more muscular than the actor who is portraying him. This way I'm prepared and used to the actors. I hate going into a movie with expectations and having them crushed. Now I'm at the movies with my mind on why this actor was picked instead of the one I imagined; when I should be enjoying the movie.

Not to mention names *softly coughs Twilight* but I’m glad Catherine Hardwicke isn’t directing the first movie to Hunger Games. Having the director of Pleasentville (a movie I really enjoyed) & Seabiscuit, Gary Ross, I’m sure THG is in good hands and we, the audience, will get what we are expecting.

Without further ado… LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

Now some of my discriptions are vague for most of the Tributes. To put it mildly... the Cornucopia was a bloodbath.

District 1 ~ Marvel & Glimmer (Career Tributes)

Marvel's name is unknown to Katniss until the Victory Tour in the second book; throughout The Hunger Games he is simply known as "the boy from District 1".

As a Career tribute, Glimmer teams up with Cato, Clove, Marvel, and the tributes from District 4. She is from District 1, which specializes in making luxury items for the Capitol. She is described as very beautiful, being tall with long blond hair and emerald green eyes.

District 2 ~ Cato & Clove - (Career Tributes)

Katniss considers Cato to be her and Peeta's most fearsome opponent because of his size and strength, skill with many weapons, and savage pleasure in killing. Like most Careers, Cato has complete confidence in his abilities and expects that he will be the victor. Katniss believes he is not completely sane after seeing his reaction to the destruction of the Careers' food supply.

Clove is arrogant, strong, and can use many weapons, especially knives, and she is known to not ever miss her target. She has a special hatred of Katniss because of her high training score. Katniss attempts to kill her with the tracker jacker nest. Like Cato, she enjoys killing, as evidenced when she captures Katniss at the Feast and plans to give her the most torturous death possible.



District 3 ~ Male / Female Tributes

Male Tribute is able to rearrange and reactivate the land mines at the start of the Games to protect the food the Careers have gathered, resulting in them allying with him despite his not being a Career Tribute.

District 4 ~ Male / Female Tributes

Like most District 4 tributes, the Female Tribute was part of the Career alliance. 

District 5 ~ Male Tribute & Foxface

Katniss gives her the nickname "Foxface" after seeing her on TV when they announce the contestants of the Hunger Games, describing her as "a girl that looks like a fox." Katniss shares this nickname with only Rue and Peeta. Foxface's real name is never revealed. Clever and evasive, she uses ingenious strategies, such as hiding in the Cornucopia at the Feast, in order to survive. She avoids contact with other tributes, but relies on them for food; she steals just enough food to survive, but not enough to arouse suspicion that any food is missing.

BEWARE OF THE NIGHTLOCK!

District 6 ~ Male / Female Tributes

District 7 ~ Male / Female Tribute



District 8 ~ Male / Female Tributes

District 9 ~ Male / Female Tributes

All I can say is LET THE BACKPACK GO AND RUN!

District 10 ~ Male / Female Tributes

He is described as having a bad leg.

District 11 ~ Thresh & Rue

Thresh has the same dark brown skin and golden brown eyes as Rue, but is not otherwise similar in appearance. Katniss refers to him as a "physical wonder" as he stands easily over six feet tall and is very well-built, possessing "muscles like an ox" which give him immense strength. Thresh is quiet and solitary, answering with single words during his interview with Caesar Flickerman. During training, the Careers, recognizing his strength, invite him to join their alliance during the Games but he turns them down. He receives a ten in training, tying him with Cato.

Rue and Katniss become allies. She is 12 years old, with dark brown hair, skin, and "golden brown" eyes. She is similar in size and demeanor to Katniss' sister Prim, which is a major factor in Katniss' decision to team up with her.

District 12 ~ Katniss Everdeen & Peeta Mellark

Katniss is normally quiet in school and does not bother with gossip and social matters. She lives with her mother and younger sister, Primrose, in the poorest district of Panem, District 12, which is in charge of mining coal for the capitol. Her looks are typical for those from the Seam. Long black hair, which she wears in a braid; olive skin; and gray eyes.

Peeta is described as being "medium height with a stocky build," having "ashy blond hair that falls in waves over his forehead" and blue eyes. He is the town baker's son and is talented in baking breads and icing cakes, which proves to be an unexpected asset to him in the arena, when he can camouflage himself effortlessly.