I also think (more book spoilers) that the implication around the meaning of giving the pin, and the alliances, or at least the symapthies, of Madge and her father, was pretty clear.
Jayne is a girl's name.
River ,'Trash'
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P.M. Marc - Mar 23, 2012 9:36:40 am PDT #18940 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2012 9:54:10 am PDT #18941 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Debet, I agree about the issue of how many times your name is in the basket. I don't actually remember what it is in the book. I thought it was put in for as many years you'd been going in (so 1 for Prim in her first year), but Gale's name was in there 42 times, and Katniss told Prim not to take food because it wasn't worth it, so I presume you can get food if you put your name in the basket? A tiny, important detail, that.
tommyrot - Mar 23, 2012 9:55:03 am PDT #18942 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
P-C: Yes.
DebetEsse - Mar 23, 2012 9:59:08 am PDT #18943 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Yup, P-C, you've got it. It's also cumulative, so, if Prim had taken one ration (tessera) of food this year, she would have been in twice, then 4 times if she did that again next year (3, even if she didn't take a tessera next year). Gale, then, has taken multiple tessera each year (an average of 5).
tommyrot - Mar 23, 2012 1:51:14 pm PDT #18944 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm in the theater for THG. I'm totally going to do a watch-n-post.
Ok. Maybe not.
DebetEsse - Mar 23, 2012 1:54:58 pm PDT #18945 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Tommy, we will hurt you. There was a person at the midnight show, in the front row, who had a phone out and in their lap for much of the movie. I kept trying to get Aims to throw popcorn.
I just remembered a thing. After the supplies explosion, when the career was yelling at the kid who set up the mines, the audience was laughing. And then, you know, they stopped rather abruptly.
Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2012 2:00:13 pm PDT #18946 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I don't remember if that's exactly how it went down in the book (I thought Cato stabbed him, maybe?), but yeah.
tiggy - Mar 23, 2012 2:07:59 pm PDT #18947 of 30000
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
he broke his neck in the book.
Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2012 2:14:33 pm PDT #18948 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ah, well, good for him.
I found this list of differences between the book and the movie. Lots of little things I'd forgotten, and a few bits where I prefer the movie.
Book: District 12's pouch with Peeta's medicine was orange.
Movie: The bag was grey.
OMG BLASPHEMY.
megan walker - Mar 23, 2012 2:19:22 pm PDT #18949 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
OMG BLASPHEMY.
True, but I did think when I saw that scene that the book had made a big deal about the size of the packs and how it would be easy for someone else to grab Peeta's because it was so small. That is something they could have done easily and, while much of the audience might not notice or care, others might wonder about big packs and think about what it was the others needed, you know?