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- It's interesting is like obviously

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that's been a common theme
through all the books

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and all the movies, but one of the initial

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sort of inspirational moments for Suzanne,

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for the first books where
she was flipping channels

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and I think it was
between one of the wars,

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war footage in the Middle East

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and some like MTV reality game show

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and she started sort of just
like seeing the juxtaposition

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of these things and it
kind of, the idea grew

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out of her head based on that.

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So a huge part of the Games
is born out of the idea

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of these reality TV kind of game shows.

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But then blended with the violence of war.

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What we do here is we actually go back

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to where games were rudimentary

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and they would just
throw kids into an arena

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and have them kill each other
into now starting to see

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that kind of like crafted
development of audience attachment

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to characters and the
creation of storylines

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and the opening up of landscape

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and making things more complex.

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And so we get into the beginnings of that.

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That's a big part of it

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is that it's just much more rudimentary.

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It was literally until this
movie, it was just an arena,

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walled an arena, the doors get shut,

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there's weapons in the middle.

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It probably took an hour,
an hour and a half tops

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for the games to happen.

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This is where it all starts
to get more complicated

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'cause sort of the landscape changes

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and they have to, they're
actually really turning it

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into entertainment and
not just punishment.

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"The Hunger Games, the Ballad
of Songbirds and Snakes,"

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It's out in theaters now.

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