The Hunger Games


 * [first lines; the Head Gamemaker is being interviewed in front of a live audience]
 * Seneca Crane: I think it’s our tradition.
 * Caesar Flickerman: Mm-hmm.
 * Seneca Crane: It comes out of a particularly painful part of our history.
 * Caesar Flickerman: Yes. Yes.
 * Seneca Crane: But it’s been the way we’ve been able to heal. At first it was a reminder of the rebellion, it was a price the districts had to pay. But I think it has grown from that, I think it’s uh…something that knits us all together.
 * [the audience claps]
 * Caesar Flickerman: This is your third year as Gamemaker. What defines your personal signature?
 * [the scene cuts before we can hear his answer]
 * [in District 13, we hear Prim scream then Katniss comforting her younger sister]
 * Primrose Everdeen: No! No!
 * Katniss Everdeen: Shh, it’s okay. It’s okay, you were just dreaming. You were dreaming.
 * Primrose Everdeen: It was me!
 * Katniss Everdeen: I know. I know. But it’s not. It’s your first year, Prim. You’re name’s only been in there once, they’re not gonna pick you. Try to go to sleep.
 * Primrose Everdeen: I can’t.
 * Katniss Everdeen: Just try. Just try.
 * [Prim whispers to Katniss asking for a song, she lies down and Katniss sings her the first few lines]
 * Katniss Everdeen: You remember that song? Okay. I gotta go.
 * [she kisses Prim’s forehead]
 * Primrose Everdeen: Where?
 * Katniss Everdeen: I just gotta go. But I’ll be back. I love you.
 * [using her hunting bow and arrow, Katniss goes hunting for a deer in the woods, just as she’s about to shoot a deer, her friend, Gale, playfully startles her and she misses the deer]
 * Gale Hawthorne: What are you gonna do with that when you kill it?
 * Katniss Everdeen: Damn you, Gale! It’s not funny!
 * Gale Hawthorne: What are you gonna do with a hundred pound deer, Katnap? It’s Reaping day, the place is crawling with Peacekeepers.
 * Katniss Everdeen: I was gonna sell it, to Peacekeepers.
 * Gale Hawthorne: Of course you were.
 * Katniss Everdeen: Oh, like you don’t sell to Peacekeepers?
 * Gale Hawthorne: No! Not today!
 * Katniss Everdeen: It was the first deer I’ve seen in a year. Now I have nothing.
 * Gale Hawthorne: Okay.
 * [he throws a rock into a tree startling some birds and Katniss shoots her arrow at them]
 * [Gale and Katniss find a place in the woods to sit and talk]
 * Gale Hawthorne: What if they did? Just one year. What if everyone just stopped watching?
 * Katniss Everdeen: But they won’t, Gale.
 * Gale Hawthorne: What if they did? What if we did?
 * Katniss Everdeen: It won’t happen.
 * Gale Hawthorne: You root for your favorites, you cry when they get killed. It’s sick!
 * Katniss Everdeen: Yeah.
 * Gale Hawthorne: If no one watches, then they don’t have a game. It’s as simple as that.
 * [Katniss smiles at Gale]
 * Gale Hawthorne: What?
 * Katniss Everdeen: Nothing!
 * Gale Hawthorne: Fine, laugh at me.
 * Katniss Everdeen: I’m not laughing at you.
 * Gale Hawthorne: We could do it, you know. Take off, live in the woods. It’s what we do anyway.
 * Katniss Everdeen: They’d catch us.
 * Gale Hawthorne: Maybe not.
 * Katniss Everdeen: Cut out our tongues, or worse. We wouldn’t make it five miles.
 * Gale Hawthorne: No, I’d get five miles. I’d go that way.
 * Katniss Everdeen: I have Prim and you have your brothers.
 * Gale Hawthorne: They can come too.
 * Katniss Everdeen: Prim in the woods?
 * Gale Hawthorne: Well, maybe not.
 * Katniss Everdeen: I’m never having kids.
 * Gale Hawthorne: I might. If I don’t live here.
 * Katniss Everdeen: But you do live here.
 * Gale Hawthorne: I know. But if I didn’t. Oh, I forgot. Here.
 * [Gale takes out a bread roll from his bag and gives it to Katniss]
 * Katniss Everdeen: Oh, my God! Is this real?
 * Gale Hawthorne: Yeah! It better be. It cost me a squirrel.
 * [she splits the bread in half and gives a piece to Gale; as they are about to eat the bread]
 * Gale Hawthorne: Happy Hunger Games.
 * [Katniss jokingly does a fake British accent]
 * Katniss Everdeen: And may the odds be ever in your favor.
 * [they eat their bread in silence for moment]
 * Katniss Everdeen: How many times has your name entered it?
 * Gale Hawthorne: Forty two. Guess the odds aren’t exactly in my favor.
 * [Katniss is at the market when she notices strange looking pin]
 * Katniss Everdeen: What’s this?
 * Hob Vendor: That’s uh…mockingjay.
 * Katniss Everdeen: How much?
 * Hob Vendor: You keep it. It’s yours.
 * Katniss Everdeen: Thank you.
 * [after Prim and Katniss put on their finest clothing for the reaping]
 * Katniss Everdeen: You wanna see what I got you today?
 * [Katniss gives the pin she got earlier at the market to Prim]
 * Katniss Everdeen: It’s a mockingjay pin, to protect you. And as long as you have it, nothing bad will happen to you. Okay? I promise.
 * [at the reaping after all the District 12 adults children are accounted for, the announcer for Hunger Games addresses then all]
 * Effie Trinket: Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Happy Hunger Games. And may the odds be ever in your favor. Now, before we begin, we have a very special film brought to you all the way from the Capitol.
 * [a film showing the how the Hunger Games began begins]
 * [President Snow narrates the film showing how The Hunger Games began]
 * President Snow: [voice over] War, terrible war. Widows, orphans, a motherless child. This was the uprising that rocked our land. Thirteen districts rebelled against the country that fed them, loved them, protected them. Brother turned on brother until nothing remained. And then came the peace, hard fought, sorely won. The people rose up from the ashes and a new era was born. But freedom has a cost and the traitors were defeated. We swore as a nation we would never know this treason again. And so it was decreed, that each year, the various districts of Panem would offer up in tribute, one young man and woman, to fight to the death in a pageant of honor, courage and sacrifice. The lone victor bathed in riches, would serve as a reminder of our generosity and our forgiveness. This is how we remember our past. This is how we safeguard our future.
 * Effie Trinket: Now the time has come for us to select one courageous young man and woman for the honor of representing District 12 in the 74th annual Hunger Games. As usual, ladies first.
 * [Effie picks a piece of paper from a large bowl containing all the children’s names, she opens it and reads out the name]
 * Effie Trinket: Primrose Everdeen. Where are you dear? Well, come on up.
 * [a scared looking Prim hesitates]
 * Effie Trinket: Well, come on up!
 * [Prim walks slowly towards the stage, suddenly Katniss steps out and calls out to Prim]
 * Katniss Everdeen: Prim! Prim!
 * [the guards stop Katniss from approaching Prim]
 * Katniss Everdeen: No! I volunteer! I volunteer! I volunteer as tribute!
 * Effie Trinket: I believe we have a volunteer.
 * [after volunteering to take Prim’s place in the Hunger Games]
 * Katniss Everdeen: You need to get out of here! You need to get out of here!
 * Primrose Everdeen: No!
 * Katniss Everdeen: Go find mom!
 * Primrose Everdeen: No!
 * Katniss Everdeen: Prim, go find mom!
 * Primrose Everdeen: No!
 * Katniss Everdeen: I’m so sorry!
 * Primrose Everdeen: No!
 * Katniss Everdeen: Go find mom!
 * Primrose Everdeen: No!
 * [Gale steps out his line and walks up them and takes Prim away as she cries]