Katniss’s prowess with a bow is legendary-so much so that archery ranges across the country are seeing a serious uptick in young female participation. So back into the arena the victors must go for some more Lord of the Flies–style bloodletting.Īs with the first movie, success in the arena relies on a mix of fighting and survival skill. Instead, the evil President Snow (Donald Sutherland) is worried that the two pose an existential threat to the imperial Capital of Panem by giving hope to the 12 subjugated Districts that are responsible for producing the raw material for their conquerors’ opulent lifestyles. The two-having won the previous year’s Hunger Games, a kind of dystopian Survivor in which contestants use primitive weapons to kill each other on live television-are expecting the well-fed life of peace and comfort that’s the prize of victory. In the new film, Catching Fire, the second of the books to be adapted to film, and which opens nationwide today, we find Katniss, (Jennifer Lawrence), living comfortably in the Victors’ Village alongside Peeta Mellark.
But I was also crushing on the female protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, because she was kind of the ultimate outdoor babe, a cross between Lara Croft and Becky Thatcher, who earned bonus points for being a bow hunter.
I was intrigued by the series in part because it was the popular book everyone seemed to be talking about. Full disclosure: Last spring, I read the entire Hunger Games trilogy in one go (okay, I listened to the unabridged audio version) while passing the long hours slogging to Everest Base Camp.
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