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President Snow: And it was decreed that each year, the 12 districts of Panem should offer up a tribute of one young man and woman between the ages of 12 and 18 to be trained in the art of survival and to be prepared to fight to the death.

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Katniss Everdeen and Peta Melark are the only Hunger Game tributes ever referred to by their first and last names. The other tributes are just identified by their first names, even when they're being introduced by Ceasar Flickerman during the televised interviews or their scores are being announced on television. See more...

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The Hunger Games (2012) - 26 corrections

Directed by Gary Ross, starring Elizabeth Banks, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Stanley Tucci, Wes Bentley (add more)

Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-fi, Thriller

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During the bloodbath, the District 6 girl is seen on the ground looking up at Marvel while he stabs her with his spear. Throughout the rest of the bloodbath, the same girl is seen battling to District 3 boy. [It is not the same person. The girl from District 6 is the one who is killed. The girl battling the District 3 boy is Glimmer. Both girls have long blonde hair worn in a somewhat similar style that is pulled back, but the District 6 girl has tighter braids and Glimmer's hair is a looser pig-tail style.]
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During the District 12 reaping, Effie Trinket is the only character with a microphone. However, after the female tribute has been chosen, Katniss and Primrose's voices can be heard amplified and echoed as if they were using microphones as well, even though neither are near the microphone. This is only in some shots, and the echoes come and go. [When the camera goes down to Katniss' and Prim's level when they are having the emotional moment, their voices aren't amplified or echo as if there was a microphone (because there isn't) - their voices stay at the same level and don't sound amplified. Only when Katniss is actually in front of the microphone is her voice echoing. Also, during this scene, Effie is muttering things to the mayor and such into the mic, maybe that's what is making the echoing.]
Edit Corrected by CuriousKid1
When Caesar Flickerman interviews Katniss on the night before the Games, you can see the edge of Stanley Tucci's wig right behind his ear. [Of course you can see the edge of the wig, because Ceasar is wearing a wig. The citizens in the capital dress in outlandish costumes, use garish make-up, have strange hair styles often dyed in bright colors, and wear all kinds of odd hats, ornate jewelry, embellishments, hair pieces, and wear elaborate wigs. It's not meant to be Ceasar's real hair.]
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When Katniss is hallucinating from the tracker jacker stings, she sees and hears Caesar (the announcer) describing the effects of the venom, which he had just done for the television audience. However, as she is inside the arena, she could not have seen him do this and would thus not 'remember' it in her vision. [She would not have to "remember" it. She is imagining it. Like everyone else, she's watched past Hunger Games and knows that Ceasar describes in detail everything that happens during the games. It is hardly a stretch that she would hallucinate him explaining about the tracker jackers to the audience, or in this case, to her personally.]
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In the scene where Marvel throws a spear at Rue, Katniss pulls an arrow from the ground to shoot at Marvel, yet nowhere in the whole scene does she ever take an arrow out and put it on the ground. [She doesn't pick up an arrow up from the ground. She quickly reaches behind to pull one from the quiver that is hanging low on her shoulder. It's hard to see, and it's fast, but she does take it from there.]
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Clove dies twice. Once at the cornucopia and later when when later Thresh kills her for Katniss/Rue. [Clove did NOT die at the Cornucopia. She is clearly alive during the entire bloodbath. She is seen grabbing supplies and when she throws the knife at the tribute who is about to kill Katniss. She then throws another knife at Katniss, but misses. The two actresses who played the female tributes from District 3 and District 4 both have similar looks to the one who played Clove, but it was definitely not her. Also, Clove is wearing a dark-colored jacket, and the dead girl has a yellow one. If you look at a cast photo of the tributes, you can see the similarities between the three actresses.]
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After both Katniss and Peeta are healed, they are walking by the river discussing the remaining tributes in the Games. Peeta mentions "Foxface" in reference to the girl tribute from District 5. Neither Peeta nor the audience should know this nickname Katniss created, as she at no point mentioned it to anyone. [How do you know she never mentioned it to anyone? Just because you do not hear her say it onscreen, does not mean she didn't previously use that nickname before the games when she was talking to Peeta or the support team. Haymitch, Cinna, and the others worked closely with Katniss and Peeta to prepare them, and they spent much time discussing the other tributes - who they were, what their strengths were, and so on. Katniss could have used that name at any time when referring to the girl from District 5.]
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When Rue dies, her mouth is open. When it cuts to the next shot of Katniss singing to her, her mouth is closed. [It would make sense that out of respect Katniss would have closed Rue's eyes as well as her mouth. There is enough time between shots for Katniss to have done this off screen.]
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When Katniss burns her leg in the fire, her trouser leg is also ripped. However, near the end of the movie when her and Peta have almost won, her trouser leg is no longer ripped. [You can see the rip on many occasions.]
Edit Corrected by Anastasios Anastasatos
At the beginning of the scene where Katniss fights Clove after getting the backpack with Peeta's medicine, Clove throws a knife at her, and it cuts her forehead. If someone gets even a tiny scratch on his/her forehead it bleeds a lot, so a cut this big should at least blind Katniss with all the blood pouring from it [as the book says]. But after struggling and running for her life, there's not a single drop of blood on her, and when Peeta rubs the medicine on her forehead, it is as if the wound was days old. [While head wounds do typically bleed a lot, it is not a guarantee. Sometimes deeper cuts bleed less and there are places/people who bleed less. Some people just don't bleed as much as others. Also, as Katniss surely has an adrenalin rush going, that alone could also explain the less than "typical" blood flow (adrenalin constricts the vascular system). As a paramedic, I have seen head wounds that bleed a lot and some that don't.]
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In the scene where Effie Trinket pulls a name out of the glass bowl, she opens it and the black tab is on the left, when she reads the name "Primrose Everdeen", the black tab is on the right. [The black tab is on one side when she first picks it up, but there is a quick edit cut, and during that time Effie could have seen that the paper was upside-down and quickly flipped it over before announcing Primrose's name. She has been the official representative at a number of reaping events in District 12 by now and would notice something like this.]
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When Katniss is sleeping up in the tree before the wall of fire starts, her sleeping bag has vanished - in the shot just before that she had it on. [Actually, Katniss has the bag on top of her [like a blanket], covering her legs. When she wakes up and sees the fire, she jumps off the tree.]
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In the scene where Katniss is in her suite and has the remote in her hand, she gets up and moves to the wall. The shot is of her back and her hands have no remote in them. Yet in the next shot, she has turned off the scenery with the remote. [The remote can be seen in her left hand during this scene; the room is dark but you can still vaguely make out the remote.]
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When the Fallen are displayed in the sky after Thresh is killed by the mutts, he is the only tribute shown, despite that Clove and Foxface both died earlier that day. In addition, the Panem national anthem is not played when the Fallen are revealed even though it's meant to be every time they're shown. [Just because we don't see it in the movie, does not mean that off-screen Clove and Foxface's images hadn't already been projected onto the arena's sky to the TV audience who are watching the Hunger Games. We saw Clove and Foxface being killed. Thresh's face is being shown to us so we're aware that he was also a victim. For the purposes of streamlining the movie's plot line and running time, it simply wasn't necessary to show us Clove and Foxface's pictures after we already knew they were dead or to hear the anthem again. It was the movie makers' choice to avoid boring repetition.]
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Katniss awakens on the third day of the Hunger Games and realizes the woods are on fire. This leads her into a confrontation with the Careers who chase her up a tree. Even though it must still be early morning (since it is highly unlikely that Katniss would have slept in), the Careers decide to light a campfire and set up camp at the base of the tree. It doesn't make sense for them to already be setting up camp this early in the day. [They intend to sit right there until Katniss comes down, however many hours or days that takes. There's no reason at all NOT to go ahead and set up camp since they figure on being there for a good while anyway.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
When Katniss and Peeta are told there can only be one winner, not two, Katniss drops her bow and arrows by her side and they do the bit with the berries. It is announced that both Katniss and Peeta are both winners, the ship flies overhead, and the camera looks down on the two of them. Katniss's bow and arrows are nowhere to be seen on the ground, even though it's a wide shot and they haven't moved. [Katniss' bow can actually be seen at the top of the shot right when it changes from the close-up of Katniss' face to the downshot. The bow is visible for over a second before the camera gets too close to Katniss and Peeta.]
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When Katniss is looking at the scenery in her room, she has some hair blocking her left eye. When the camera goes back to her, it is not blocking her eye anymore. [There is enough time between camera angles - from being directed at Katniss and then at the screen - for her hair to have been pushed aside.]
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Before Peeta throws the big metal ball in the training room, Marvel, Clove, and Cato are watching him. But after Peeta throws the ball, the camera shows Marvel, Glimmer, and Cato. Clove and Glimmer have switched places. [Right, before he throws the ball they are gathered together in a small group. After he throws the ball they are still gathered in a small group, but there is definitely enough time between shots for the characters to move.]
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When Katniss is being evaluated, she picks up one of four arrows and fires it at the target. When she tries again, she picks up another arrow, but the arrow that she shot is still there. After this happens, yet another arrow appears. [The stand with the arrows holds five arrows to start with. The next time she reaches for an arrow, there are four, and finally, as she grabs the last one, there are three left. There is nothing wrong with this scene.]
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When Katniss cuts down the branch with the tracker jacker nest on it, she first uses the unserrated side of the knife, and in the very next shot she's instantly using the serrated side, without turning it around. [When Katniss pulls the knife out, it is blade-side down, but the scene cuts away, and then shows her starting to saw into the wood with the serrated side down. She could have turned the knife then. ]
Edit Corrected by shaunmerritt

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