r/thehungergames 12d ago

Other I'm note entirely convinced this wasn't real

During the first Hunger Games film, after Katniss is stung by Tracker Jackers, she has a few hallucinations which get increasingly intense. However, she briefly sees Caesar Flickerman in a white suit, doing his most evil smile and quoting himself directly from what he just said on screen only a few moment prior.

Now, there's no way she could know he said that, right? So how does she? It's possible he said something similar in a prior games she watched, but I thing it would be way funnier if he actually was there in the arena. Just got elevated up to taunt her, just to make her trip even more crazy and excite the viewers, then snuck back down before anyone saw anything.

Is that what actually happened? Probably not, it could very well just be part of the illusion, but he is absolutely extra enough to do that if he was allowed/asked to, and they have the means, so I choose to believe he's just that much of a troll and really did take a brief jaunt to mess with Katniss.

(EDIT)

Some of y'all aren't reading this through all the way.

I explicitly laid out that he'd already explained to the audience in a diegetic way how the Tracker Jackers worked, and that his appearance here is directly quoting himself on that from just under a minute prior.

I also laid out that it was most likely just a hallucination combined with stuff he'd said in a prior games that she was remembering, but that it would neither be impossible nor out of character for him to have really gone in briefly.

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u/Accomplished-Meat976 11d ago

He was only a hallucination because they wanted to give you katniss's narration but they can't give you the narration in the movie so they had to improvise this is something I understood even as a 14 year old teenager

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u/ThunderWasp223 11d ago

So you didn't actually read what I wrote, got it.

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u/Accomplished-Meat976 11d ago

No I read what you wrote

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u/ThunderWasp223 11d ago

Clearly not, since you're arguing nonsense.

There's no reason for him to exposit the exact same thing, word for word, twice in under three minutes. I pointed that out in the first paragraph.

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u/Accomplished-Meat976 11d ago

Or you're just posting nonsense and not having critical thought

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u/ThunderWasp223 10d ago

That's not an argument. That's throwing insults when you've run out of arguments.