The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012 · 122 min
Documentary
★ 8.5A feature length, eight part documentary that covers everything from pre-production to adapting the source novel to casting to shooting to post and marketing. This is an amazing in-depth piece and it's notable how many women were involved in this production, from several Lionsgate executives to novelist Suzanne Collins herself. Jennifer Lawrence talks about her "hypocrisy" in not wanting to do a big budget blockbuster after having devoted herself to indies (despite X-Men, which she seems to discount somewhat). There's also a nice sequence on the strength and weight training the actors went through and the stunts that are so notable in the film, as well as having to dance around the violence implicit in the story due to the planned PG-13 rating the filmmakers were aiming for.
Crew
- Writer Cliff Stephenson
- Director of Photography David C.P. Chan
Cast
Suzanne Collins
Self - Author
Jennifer Lawrence
Self - Katniss Everdeen
Josh Hutcherson
Self - Peeta Mellark
Liam Hemsworth
Self - Gale Hawthorne
Donald Sutherland
Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Elizabeth Banks
Self - Effie Trinket
Lenny Kravitz
Self - Cinna
Woody Harrelson
Self - Haymitch Abernathy
Stanley Tucci
Self - Caesar Flickerman
Wes Bentley
Self - Seneca Crane
Willow Shields
Self - Primrose Everdeen
Paula Malcomson
Self - Katniss' Mother
Crew
- Writer — Cliff Stephenson
- Director of Photography — David C.P. Chan
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