*DIES*

[On her favorite scene from The Hunger Games]: The first time that Katniss has to go into the cylinder and she goes up into the arena and looks around and sees it for the first time, knowing that when that trumpet blows she could die. The thing that’s great about her is she’s not a murderer. She’s a hunter, but she’s not a killer. I told Gary [Ross, the director], “I totally understand if you don’t hire me, but please remember that after Katniss shoots a bow and kills someone her face cannot be badass. It has to be broken.“ She has to be heartbroken because she just took another person’s life. It’s so tempting, especially with a cool, big budget franchise movie, but we have to remember that she’s a 16-year-old girl who’s being forced to do this. These kids are only killing each other because if they don’t, they’ll die. It’s needless, pointless, unjustified violence. So there’s nothing cool about her. It’s not like she looks around the arena and goes “Yeah, I got this, I’m going to do this.” I think she looks around terrified and thinks, “Well there are all the million different ways that I can die.”

^^THIS. It makes me so angry when people cite Katniss’s bad-ssness as a reason The Hunger Games is so fantastic. SHE’S NOT. She was never confident in her ability to survive. She never felt a sense of accomplishment after killing someone. Yes, she’s brave. But if she weren’t brave, she would die. Yes, she’s kind of awesome. But that has nothing to do with her ability to shoot arrows. She’s awesome because of who she is as a character: conflicted but action-oriented, distant but not apathetic, intelligent but not robotic. She’s not an Angelina Jolie action hero; she’s a 16-year-old who’s only in this situation because she loves her sister more than anything.

t-funny:

Oh, stop it Katniss. You know you liked it.

“Do you find this”— he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose— “distracting?”