Thursday, March 29, 2012

Hunger Games: the missing scene

I saw the movie Hunger Games last evening and was a little confused until I later found out that a scene had been removed to protect the rating of the film. The missing scene would have helped a lot:

- Catness (our heroine) and Rue (her younger and smaller friend) are walking through the woods when they suddenly encounter one of the competitors. He is poised and ready to throw his spear in an effort to take out Catness, the main competitor. Catness moves quickly and grabs Rue and uses her as a human shield. Rue takes the spear in the chest and appears mortally wounded. Catness sees this and in one move, snaps Rue's neck and tosses the lifeless body aside. Still moving, she draws her bow and brings down Spear boy with a single arrow. He is lying on the ground moaning as she pulls his head back and starts sawing on his neck with her bowie knife. There is an terrible scream that is suddenly silenced, until it is picked up by the mocking birds. The camera switches to a silhouette shot of Catness holding his severed head up to the sky. Jumpshot to each of the remaining competitors, trembling as they hear the awful echoing sound from the birds and the sudden realization that it wasn't the evening gown they feared, it was her Heart Of Darkness...

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