THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES (The Rise of Coriolanus Snow) EXPLORED

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  • In the shadow of Katniss Everdeen's future rebellion, "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes," directed with dystopian flair by Francis Lawrence, delves into the origins of Panem's tyrannical overlord, Coriolanus Snow.
    Penned by Michael Lesslie and Michael Arndt, the prequel takes us 64 years back in time to the origins of The Hunger Games. Featuring Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Jason Schwartzman, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, and Viola Davis, the narrative tapestry is woven with the threads of the 2020 novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins.
    The film unfurls the tale of a young Coriolanus Snow (portrayed with a mix of desperation and cunning by Tom Blyth), the last beacon of hope for the waning Snow lineage, once revered in the Capitol. The post-war era has not been kind to the Snows, leaving Coriolanus clutching at straws to salvage his family's lost honor.
    Thrust into the role of a mentor in the Hunger Games, Snow is paired with Rachel Zegler’s Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute hailing from the destitute District 12. Lucy, a figure who exudes defiance through song, soon becomes the darling of Panem, offering Snow a glimmer of hope to alter their intertwined destinies.
    As the narrative twists and turns, Snow finds himself at a moral crossroads, grappling with his innate propensity for both benevolence and malevolence.
    The film elegantly portrays his tumultuous journey, a high-stakes game where he must decide whether he will emerge as a songbird, a symbol of hope and resilience, or a snake, an emblem of cunning and ruthlessness.
    “The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” is more than just a precursor to the rebellion; it's a complex study of character and power, a gripping tale of survival against the backdrop of a society on the brink of collapse.
    In this video we’re going to explore the story, characters and ending of the film.
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Комментарии • 201

  • @asusaki6207
    @asusaki6207 9 месяцев назад +77

    I think the issue with the movie is essentially that it is a movie. The book is written from Snows PoV, you very clearly get insight on his thoughts and his descended as well as the reason why she choose to use his story for a prequel is very nicely explored. For the movie that wasnt possible. If they had split it or went with a series instead it wouldve given the story enough time to develop in a way that it needs to.
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    The main motivation of the story is nature vs nurture. Snow and Katniss grew up under incredibly similiar circumstances but one turned out to be more of a martyr like person while the other turned incredibly selfish, both needed a "kick" from a partner, in Snows case it was Lucy and for Katniss it was her relationship with Peeta. After all even in the original snow wasnt the villain, he was an antagonist and a perfect counter and mirror for Katniss, the prequel explores how that came to be.

    • @LordWyatt
      @LordWyatt 3 месяца назад +1

      Well said. Snow said it himself that he hated how weak and stupid Love made him and eventually married a woman he didn’t love to emphasize this. Katniss chose love in the end rather than power or extreme survival

  • @AncestorEmpire1
    @AncestorEmpire1 9 месяцев назад +312

    You know you’re desperate when you beg the author of the OG source material to write a prequel novel, just so you can make a movie on it and not lose the film copyrights.

    • @D0NU75
      @D0NU75 9 месяцев назад +24

      it surprises me they didn't outright dismiss the author like they did for the Lord of The Rings netflix series, they could have very much do so.

    • @HaydenHag
      @HaydenHag 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@D0NU75lotr Netflix? You mean Amazon's lotr rings of power?

    • @Kubinda12345
      @Kubinda12345 9 месяцев назад +30

      To be fair that book was good and it gave a great depth into the Capitol, why do they support the Hunger Games and why do they hate the Districts so much.

    • @AncestorEmpire1
      @AncestorEmpire1 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@Kubinda12345 to be fair, it didn’t need a prequel and it’s low balling that the studio needed to beg for one.

    • @lisah8438
      @lisah8438 9 месяцев назад +10

      ​@@AncestorEmpire1Why does something need to be needed. Nothing of entertainment value is needed. Movies are made for source of entertainment.

  • @dustinvaughn8871
    @dustinvaughn8871 9 месяцев назад +80

    Honestly this was my favorite book in the series. Following the mind of a man fighting with his internal desires and eventually becoming the sociopathic tyrant from the OG story was amazing. Lucy Gray is a plot point her role is to be almost a human representation of his mother’s compact. While his father’s compass is his ambition the way the novel lays this out thematically is done way better than the movie.
    The movie was fantastic

  • @Azure_tv
    @Azure_tv 9 месяцев назад +105

    The “hanging Tree” song is important because to highlight the familial connection between Katniss and Lucy. It’s also a folk song of District 12 that similar to the rebellious song American slaves would sing in during their long work hours to spite their oppressors. In the book, the peacekeepers felt the song was so rebellious they banned the citizens from singing it in public.

    • @Falconer22
      @Falconer22 9 месяцев назад +1

      Azure, gee, thank goodness you explained that to all of us, as if it wasn't obvious 🙄. You're SO deep, lol

    • @Azure_tv
      @Azure_tv 9 месяцев назад +10

      @@Falconer22 is it fun being bitter and alone?

  • @ringailetervydiene5942
    @ringailetervydiene5942 9 месяцев назад +16

    I think you missed the whole character of Snow. He is a survivor. He was 5 when he was left to fend for himself. Clearly whole family's hopes were only on him from that point on. That is immense trauma and responsibility to put on a five year old. He lied, he wore the mask day in and day out to get his family a chance at surviving. He never trusted anyone except his cousin. Cause she was the only one he could trust. Then Lucy came and he had hopes of being healed, being normal, learning to trust again. Still yet he had to do this in a world where one missed step would end his life and subsequently lives of his cousin and granny. He really tried to survive while letting Lucy into his heart. But then she treatened him if he ever looses her trust he'll be dead to her while he already knew he had done things she might consider being the basis of loosing her trust. Then she threatened to rat him out on the murder of mayor's daughter. And the final snap was her trap where she tried to kill him with snake bite. He knew then and there he was dead to the only person he tried to get close to. The door has shut. He'll never ever trust anyone and he'll survive in a world where kill or be killed is the only way. He is a survivor and nothing else matters. His cousin saw this in his eyes that's why she said he looked like his father. You view it from a point like he was a normal lad in his late teens who met a girl ignoring the fact that this was absolutely unimaginably traumatised young adult who got no help whatsoever to try to heal from that trauma and therefore could not carry a healthy relationship with another human especialy when that other human was also traumatised and was ready to ditch the relationship at first sign of trouble.

    • @Atmatan
      @Atmatan 6 месяцев назад +1

      I think you missed this whole video, because clearly all Niyat did was explain beat for beat exactly what happens.
      Seems like you just wanted to complain in public.

    • @seanbennett3452
      @seanbennett3452 2 месяца назад

      As if a 5 year old could do anything. What a ridiculous statement.

    • @seanbennett3452
      @seanbennett3452 2 месяца назад

      She didn't try to kill him with the snake bite. It was used to disorient him so she could disappear...forever

  • @madambutterfly1997
    @madambutterfly1997 9 месяцев назад +45

    Peter Dinklage just brings it to every role he does still pissed at how Game of Thrones pretty much castrated him for the latter four seasons

  • @callmev3531
    @callmev3531 9 месяцев назад +11

    11:12, I’d say one of the best parts of the film was how Snow and Lucy’s actions influenced the games themselves, indirectly improving on Gaul’s brutal but ultimately crude methods as head gamemaker that were costing the game’s viewership and support.
    Because of them, the idea of sponsorship and investing the audience in the survival of their favorite tribute (an idea Snow got from Tigriss) gave the games the longevity to continue taking the lives and the innocence of so many people for decades to come, ironically using sympathy to support a system built on highlighting the cruelty and savagery of people.
    Without Snow’s use of audience sympathy for the tributes and Lucy molding herself into a celebrity as part of her bid to survive before being dropped into the arena, the games were implied to have otherwise been destined to die out, sparing the lives it would go on to claim.

    • @stanfromuzbekistan8282
      @stanfromuzbekistan8282 8 месяцев назад

      Which is why, Casca Highbottom’s repulsion to Coryo is so layered. It wasn’t just that Coryo is Crassus’ son, but also that he could see the same dark hunger in him too.
      Casca wanted the games to end, and he was so close to achieving that in the 10th Games as audience interest dwindled. Finally, the sadism that his name was attached to would end.
      Then, out the woodworks, the son of the man he despises is innovating, developing and improving upon the sadism and it gets renewed. The kicker is, Casca recognizes that Coryo’s evil stems from the fact he just wanted to improve his grades. Like father, like son.

  • @BigFanOfManyThings
    @BigFanOfManyThings 9 месяцев назад +31

    I took everything with a grain of salt. I knew that the movie would have to cut down time of events and visually be a spectacle rather than be able to portray all of snow’s thoughts naturally. The ending was a bit of a quick change in both book and film but with the film not able to translate snow’s thought processes, it comes across as him turning evil because a girl betrayed him, whereas in the book he was equally going to abandon her, lucy gray’s sides of things not so obvious. I think there was not enough material to have split the book into two movies so I’m glad that didn’t happen. With the time and effort, they did a great job. For more character insight you’d just need to read the book yes, but it all there on screen too.

    • @ennieminymoo6675
      @ennieminymoo6675 9 месяцев назад +1

      I'm glad someone else saw the problem this movie had. Snow just changes nature too quick. Some people theorized that Dr. Gaul messed with Snow's brain to see Lucy Gray as his enemy, but I'm not too convinced

    • @BigFanOfManyThings
      @BigFanOfManyThings 9 месяцев назад +3

      I'm not convinced either. Sometimes like Lucy gray says, people can be good but then something happens to them to make them cross the line. But they have to have that potential too. Snow had his own family to protect, his own beliefs, his fears. He made his own choices, not every major change is down to hijacking :)

    • @ennieminymoo6675
      @ennieminymoo6675 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@BigFanOfManyThings Precisely, besides it would do a disservice to the character if the whole reason he is pushed to become the man he is in the Hunger Games is just a mere brainwash

    • @saul94923
      @saul94923 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@ennieminymoo6675 the book covers this pretty extensively tbh. His thought process is pretty thorough and as the reader you 100% understand what he does and why he does it. By the end of it I hated the man for his actions, but I understood why he made them. Take this example. The timeframe he was in district 12 wasn't the week or so he was there in the movie. He was there for months. Plinth showed up like a month into into it and he slowly started sympathizing with rebels over time. A key moment that unfortunately got crunched for time was that they were both applying to be officers and Snow even graduated because Plinth begged and paid for it. Snow agonized over the recording and even thought about deleting the recording. When he did send it he hoped that nothing would come of it. The ending also makes much more sense. In the books he loses Plinth, he's paranoid about the murder and he really sees no future for himself in district 12. So as he's leaving (in the movie that's when he sneaks into the back of the truck) he gets caught and told that he made it into officer school. This was something we say him study and work towards but obviously with the guns out there he would ever be able to pursue it safely. So he leaves with Lucy gray and then he finds the guns in the cabin. Then it happens like it does in the movies.

  • @RSanchez111
    @RSanchez111 9 месяцев назад +60

    I don't know, I would've been much more interested to see how the world evolved after Katniss than in the origins of Snow. If they really wanted to do a prequel, I would've loved to see how our world collapsed and led to the rise of Panem. That seems much more interesting to me than the rise of Snow.

    • @D1craigRob
      @D1craigRob 9 месяцев назад +2

      9 out 10 people agree with you. Snows origins don't interest us, especially these origins.

    • @dahken417
      @dahken417 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@D1craigRobIts been a long time since I read the books, but doesn't flavor text through the series essentially give Snow's origin?
      Katniss knows about his general rise to power and there are mentions of gossip and observations that fit together over time. Something about him having a political position, poisoning people to move up, poisoning himself to cover his tracks, and having long term mouth ulcers or something that make him smell like blood as a result.
      'A Ballad of Songbirds ans Snakes' is a wonderfully catchy title, but this feels VERY unnecessary.

    • @lisah8438
      @lisah8438 9 месяцев назад

      Snow is a big part of the games

    • @RSanchez111
      @RSanchez111 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@lisah8438 yeah but we've already seen four movies with him

  • @ohnosmoarlulcatz
    @ohnosmoarlulcatz 9 месяцев назад +65

    For me, the biggest mistake was involving the games. It should have taken place outside of that window and more on the events that lead up to it (such as the building of the arenas) or the aftermath of it. While we did see some of the aftermath in the beginning of Catching Fire, it was an abnormal one. The prologue was also kind of pointless considering we already knew the outcome the war early on and this does very little to add to it.
    One of the thing that baffles me is how easy it was for anyone to sabotage the games. This is already the 10th game, meaning that the war already ended 10 years ago and they should have had plenty of practice by this point. People are running in there, throwing in unsanctioned things, and even messing around in the prep/control area. For an authoritarian government, security and intelligence seems to be awful. How the heck does Coriolanus gets away with so much?
    The problem with trying to portray Snow as sympathetic is that the things he does to achieve his goals "at any cost" makes it hard to sympathize with him. It would be different if he didn't get his friend killed or try to shoot Lucy. In both cases, he willingly made the choice that led to their deaths when there was no reason to do so.

    • @filmcomicsexplained
      @filmcomicsexplained  9 месяцев назад +6

      Yep, I was hoping to see the actual war, but we only got a one minute scene of young Snow and Tigris seeing a guy hacking a deadbody. That should have been the movie!

    • @Arquebusier89
      @Arquebusier89 9 месяцев назад +10

      I disagree. Snow didn’t choose to be the dictator out of choice, but the environment. It’s all about survival in Capitol. It’s the same as outside of Capitol, you need to survive being in the rural, not dead being beaten by peacekeeper etc.
      What’s wrong with sympathizing with Snow? Didn’t we all grow up, changed from the idealistic us to working in capitalist society to continue to survive in this cruel reality world?

    • @ohnosmoarlulcatz
      @ohnosmoarlulcatz 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@Arquebusier89 There's nothing wrong with sympathizing with Snow. The problem is that young Coriolanus is part of the Peacekeepers and thus not subject to most of what you mentioned. His quality of life is actually quite good throughout the film even if he's supposed to be on the poor end of the Capitol. He's taken care of by others each and every time and simply had to serve out his 20 yrs punishment. He likely would have ended up exactly where he was in The Hunger Games without killing a bunch of people unnecessarily. It's his selfishness that causes his friends to die and his eventual loss of Lucy.
      Remember that he is the one who later on kills his enemies when the Capitol is not depicted as cutthroat. Sure it can be tough for the people who lost a lot during the war, but they are still in very good condition compared to the Districts. He is the one who decides that it is best to let the games continue and be a reminder of the war that happened 75 years ago. He is literally the one responsible for making Panem remain as awful as it is.

    • @jjosifovic
      @jjosifovic 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@ohnosmoarlulcatzI wouldn’t say his selfishness causes his friends to die.
      That one capital girl gave a glass bottle to a district girl stupidly n was taunting her.
      Snow Asian friend was stupid for putting her hand in a snake pen knowing they would bite her since she lied about the class work that she said she wrote.
      N his best friend was an idiot. He volunteers going to the same district as snow, leads people in that district to escape to go north…. He does this knowing if he gets caught snow will be questioned n if their is proof that snow is lying, snow will be hanged.
      Was snow ambiguous n selfish yes absolutely but let’s not pretend all his friends weren’t suicidally stupid lol

    • @Ch50304
      @Ch50304 9 месяцев назад +1

      Yes, sadly you make a lot of good points.@@jjosifovic

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 9 месяцев назад +29

    There is a possibility that they might make a spinoff TV series based on the movie, giving us glimpses of what happened to Snow between the Original Hunger Games films and Songbirds And Snakes. But we'll have to wait and see.

    • @Kuweiyo
      @Kuweiyo 9 месяцев назад +2

      I would much rather have a show that shows up the events of all the other hunger games than more prequels. I'm not even going to bother to watch this prequel.

  • @Rager454
    @Rager454 9 месяцев назад +48

    If there WAS a need for a prequel, why wouldn't they do Haymitch's story? Wasn't his the one where there were 48 contestants? I'd much rather read/watch that than something about the villain that's just the figurehead for the authoritarianism

    • @rocketterrier
      @rocketterrier 9 месяцев назад +6

      Haymitch deserved so much better 😢

    • @Daisyreneesmith
      @Daisyreneesmith 9 месяцев назад +3

      Coryo didn't start off evil

    • @divvyn
      @divvyn 9 месяцев назад +5

      my theory on is is Suzanne Collins is trying to put the focus on how awful the society is and Snow is just another tool for the upper class to maintain order even though when he started out he was fully against the games, it reminds me of marie antoinette

    • @Kubinda12345
      @Kubinda12345 9 месяцев назад +2

      Because we know Haymitch's past.

    • @RandomVidsforthought
      @RandomVidsforthought 9 месяцев назад +3

      Because his story was told before

  • @notbill08
    @notbill08 9 месяцев назад +8

    If you compare this movie to the original 4 films, you are going to be disappointed. That being said, as a standalone film, it is excellent. Don't over analyze and enjoy it for what it is.

  • @sarizonana
    @sarizonana 9 месяцев назад +3

    I loved this movie and I liked the OG saga just alright, I wasn’t a crazy fan of the previous saga but was good enough to keep engaged for 4 movies and I think I liked this prequel even better.
    I think this film showed Disney to how to properly do a villain’s origin story. They did an incredible job with Turning Snow into the tyrant of the original series. In a good way this film felt like The Joker by Todd Phillips for teenagers.
    Tom Blythe was incredible as young Snow and usually I’m not impressed by young actors but Blythe was incredible.

  • @hey-zel
    @hey-zel 9 месяцев назад +4

    Obviously the books will always remain superior. I think if they’d made this into 2 parts it would’ve helped this film out more because the games in this film plays out so much more differently than the way it did in the book. Because of the changes of the games in the movie it does loose a lot to understanding why certain things are done later on with our characters. I agree that this one doesn’t necessarily feel like it’s apart of the original films universe. I LOVED the first one because of how indie it felt (even though there was a lot of budget) because it felt like it resonated more with the book’s universe. I feel like they could’ve done that here as well but they always wanna go bigger. I do like the way Rachel described her character and Katniss.
    “Lucy is a performer forced to fight and Katniss is a fighter forced to perform”
    I also think the expectation of everyone thinking Lucy would be another a Katniss might’ve ruined it for them. But I will give it credit for being able to weave many things to the originals. Now when you watch the original films certain looks and actions Snow does makes you feel slightly uneasy because you now know his past

  • @Kubinda12345
    @Kubinda12345 9 месяцев назад +5

    I loved the whole aesthetics both in the Capitol and in the District. It kind of reminded me of the 1950s USSR.

  • @madambutterfly1997
    @madambutterfly1997 9 месяцев назад +4

    So that's why he hates the Mockingjays

  • @haydensawesomegoogleacc9853
    @haydensawesomegoogleacc9853 9 месяцев назад +7

    idk what the whole bad reviews are about. i really thought this was a great movie

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot 9 месяцев назад +7

    More teenage dystopian shenanigans.

  • @Azure_tv
    @Azure_tv 9 месяцев назад +4

    I would be here for a Panem Series. This series has gone BEYOND a YA novel.

  • @mysteryman4013
    @mysteryman4013 9 месяцев назад +7

    I love your videos and appreciate your work. I hope you’re doing well 👍🏽❤️

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 9 месяцев назад +8

    Nice!
    I've been waiting for a Video based on THE HUNGER GAMES books and film series.
    People have complained that they didn't need a prequel to show the origins of The Hunger Games, as the series has been done to death.

  • @LordWyatt
    @LordWyatt 3 месяца назад

    Snow knocking the Tribute out was self defense. Killing him was murder.
    It’s a good scene though, showing Snow as more than doing what needs to be done to survive, as he would have easily escaped with Sejanus afterwards. It’s not like the tribute was stunned and had a gun or ranged weapon, he was out cold.

  • @madambutterfly1997
    @madambutterfly1997 9 месяцев назад +4

    The Hanging Tree is a fire song

  • @thefatlazycat838
    @thefatlazycat838 9 месяцев назад +1

    For anyone reading this, I recommend you do see the movie. I thought it was great. The movie can’t fit in every detail from the book. But it does a great job with the 2 hours and 38 minutes it has to work with. You can’t please everybody!

  • @iranicus
    @iranicus 9 месяцев назад +7

    Really enjoyed the song Lucy sung during the snake part. Like the books I did think they rushed act 3 though.

  • @krisguillen50
    @krisguillen50 2 месяца назад +1

    I disagree with most of this analysis. I think it’s a great story detailing the transition of a passionate and ambitious kid to a cold dictator. And what events lead to his emotional isolation. He has to adapt to external pressures and turns his back on love after losing so much.
    Great film

  • @srami004
    @srami004 6 месяцев назад

    Great analysis. Even though I haven't seen the film, I agree that it should've been split into two parts. Anakin Skywalker's transformation into Darth Vader would serve as inspiration into this film.

  • @CDN296
    @CDN296 7 месяцев назад

    Snows descent into madness and treachery was somewhat painful to watch

  • @jeremyconnor414
    @jeremyconnor414 9 месяцев назад +2

    It's more like a story of a of the rise of the villains

  • @tompearce5418
    @tompearce5418 2 месяца назад

    We need a prequel story further back, covering the Cataclysm and the rise of Panem. How did the Districts come to be forced labour camps in the first place?

  • @thearmchairjournalist566
    @thearmchairjournalist566 8 месяцев назад

    Can’t believe I missed this Niyat, good thing I regularly check in to see what I’ve missed 👌

  • @Kubinda12345
    @Kubinda12345 9 месяцев назад +2

    I really liked the movie but I respect your opinion.

  • @kalena.giauque
    @kalena.giauque 9 месяцев назад +2

    love this vid but the way he pronounced tigris 😭

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 9 месяцев назад +4

    I highly recommend that you do a video on the Monster Verse series MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS starring Kurt Russell and his son Wyatt.

    • @filmcomicsexplained
      @filmcomicsexplained  9 месяцев назад +2

      Is it good? Havent had a chance to see it yet!

    • @shainewhite2781
      @shainewhite2781 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@filmcomicsexplained It's amazing! It takes place in the 1950,'s, as well as 2015, a year after The San Francisco Incident that involved Godzilla and the Mutos.

    • @shainewhite2781
      @shainewhite2781 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@filmcomicsexplained It even shows the origins of Monarch, as they had known about Godzilla and the Titans for many years, covering up several incidents, and why they didn't tell the outside world.

  • @D1craigRob
    @D1craigRob 9 месяцев назад +1

    I dont recall Snow mentioning he spent time with his lover in district 12.

  • @djcruiselover3827
    @djcruiselover3827 9 месяцев назад +3

    Very much disagree with you. I thought it was very good.

  • @81bclions
    @81bclions 9 месяцев назад +4

    please do review of thanksgiving love your channel!!

  • @saulduenas8487
    @saulduenas8487 9 месяцев назад +2

    Hi, I just want to say that this comment might be unrelated to the hunger games video that you posted recently but I’m just wondering out curiosity, could you do a video about the 1999 Stanley Kubrick film called Eyes Wide Shut starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman?

  • @TheKeyser94
    @TheKeyser94 8 месяцев назад +1

    Maybe you should watched this movie from the wrong mind set, this is not a good character turn bad, Snow arc in this movie is more similar to the Lex Luthor arc in Smallville, Lex wasn't the paragon of virtue in the first two seasons of Smallville, he was selfish and controlling, even that he have a genuine desire to be friends with Clark, but Snow never had a desire to be friends to anyone, he held himself like he was nobility and everyone that was born in the Capitol, even that was a complete lie, because the government of the Capitol see their lives as expendable as the lives of those on the Districts, he never give a fuck about Sijanus, he was only use him, and he discard him when he stopped being useful, and the "romance" with Lucy Grey was completely centre of how Lucy perceive Snow, when that image was shattered, the "romance" die, Snow is like Rodrick in that aspect in The Fall of the House of Usher, putting his own desire and ambitions before anyone else, even the selfless love of someone else could turn against it, and that why Trigis grow to hate him.

  • @gamerstheater1187
    @gamerstheater1187 9 месяцев назад +6

    John Snow is such an interesting character

  • @WarrenThePredator
    @WarrenThePredator 9 месяцев назад +1

    Don’t know if you have covered this old horror movie before, but let’s see one about critters 1-2 the man eating dust bunny’s!!

  • @robertagu5533
    @robertagu5533 9 месяцев назад +6

    So basically they messed up Snow's Origin here an the birth of this franchise an did it Dany Targaryian style starting as a heroish an WAY TOO fast turn to the Darkside while going WAY TOO forced for the world creation is what the take away is with this. With the rest being hit an miss.

  • @dani-chan5655
    @dani-chan5655 9 месяцев назад +2

    I thought it was so good

  • @randomdude499
    @randomdude499 9 месяцев назад +3

    Disagree fully, one of my favorite movies of all time. Idk where all this criticism is coming from

    • @lisah8438
      @lisah8438 9 месяцев назад +3

      Film reviewers are out of touch.

    • @George_Fl0yd
      @George_Fl0yd 9 месяцев назад

      Y’all are a bunch of Braindead 🐑

  • @ilynpayne7491
    @ilynpayne7491 8 месяцев назад

    I think this was supposed to be a series with not less than 8 episodes so that we could understand the character snow, short movies will always lack

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 9 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😊

  • @anubusx
    @anubusx 9 месяцев назад +1

    Somehow Snow Returned.

    • @iranicus
      @iranicus 9 месяцев назад

      Snow always falls on top ✊

  • @90klh
    @90klh 8 месяцев назад

    Ahhhh highbottom isnt drinking, hes taking a high powered opioid, called morphling in this universe

  • @Falconer22
    @Falconer22 9 месяцев назад +5

    As much as I loved the books and films, Ill NEVER spend a cent on anything Rachel Z is ever in. Cant stand her as a person and wont waste time kr money on her.

  • @SellavinAtoms
    @SellavinAtoms 9 месяцев назад

    I hope you work on the rest of the series as well.

  • @evansiemienkiewicz7877
    @evansiemienkiewicz7877 9 месяцев назад +2

    Tigris

  • @madambutterfly1997
    @madambutterfly1997 9 месяцев назад +3

    Wasn't she the first District 12 winner before Haymitch

    • @filmcomicsexplained
      @filmcomicsexplained  9 месяцев назад +4

      Yep Haymitch is District 12's second victor!

    • @madambutterfly1997
      @madambutterfly1997 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@filmcomicsexplained my God District 12 sucks and they're supposed to be the gryffindors of the story. Lmao

    • @triplek-dysongamingwithdan7771
      @triplek-dysongamingwithdan7771 9 месяцев назад +3

      ​​@@madambutterfly1997Well their high losing rate in the Hunger Games isn't due to them "sucking," but because they're essentially set up to fail as they don't have wealthy sponsors like Districts 1 and 2. If I give you a stick and set you up against someone who's been given a sword, losing is to be expected when you're the one with the stick.
      Edit: Also, all Districts were banned from training tributes, but Districts 1, 2, and 4 were allowed to train their potential tributes because they were goody goody with the Capital, so their tributes would easily have the advantage over other districts (like a nobody having to fight a trained boxer, MMA fighter, etc.)

    • @WoodSageSeaSalt
      @WoodSageSeaSalt 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@madambutterfly1997I mean they were one of the poorest districts.
      The majority of the participants were poor teenagers whose name had higher chance of being picked poorer they were.
      Meanwhile District 1, 2, 4 were training their children to win the game to the point of them being called “career”.
      They were already all decent at using weapons and physically much fitter than everyone else.
      Movie showed Clove being a smaller one but the book described her as being much bigger than Katniss.
      The more realistic physical difference portrayal would have been Isabel (Clove actress) playing Katniss while Jennifer Lawrence playing Clove to physically overwhelm Katniss in the final fight.

  • @feralprocessor9853
    @feralprocessor9853 9 месяцев назад

    Cool automated delivery Drones

  • @lisah8438
    @lisah8438 9 месяцев назад +4

    I disagree. The movie was good.I thought it was better than the original Hunger Games movie. Why are movie reviewers so out of touch.

  • @robincatluv7173
    @robincatluv7173 9 месяцев назад +1

    I thought he killed bobbin? He does in the book did they change it in the movie?

    • @thefatlazycat838
      @thefatlazycat838 9 месяцев назад

      Snow does kill Bobbin in the movie, too.

  • @TheBean87
    @TheBean87 9 месяцев назад

    Hey Niyat, hope you’re doing well. Could you do a video on Dark Harvest?

  • @johncarter8103
    @johncarter8103 9 месяцев назад +3

    Great video Can you do Cyberman variants,Nazis and the Dalek Emperor from Doctor Who and Hearts of Iron IV

  • @CDN296
    @CDN296 7 месяцев назад

    Snows......a real snake .

  • @anubusx
    @anubusx 9 месяцев назад

    Explore The Ancient Enemy from The Phantoms.

  • @peeratatr1492
    @peeratatr1492 8 месяцев назад

    Snow is a true G

  • @zilentknight246
    @zilentknight246 9 месяцев назад

    Any chance we could get an Archive 81 video???

  • @divvyn
    @divvyn 9 месяцев назад

    Coryo is giving marie antoinette for me

  • @nocheating6521
    @nocheating6521 9 месяцев назад +2

    The title is ironic, because if Snow has a choice between a Songbird or Snake. The obvious choice is a snake. Not only is a bird on the food chain, but a snake lives longer.

    • @jamesyandsonsoutdooradvent9394
      @jamesyandsonsoutdooradvent9394 9 месяцев назад +1

      What snakes eat birds??? All predatory birds eat snakes. Snow and prez from 13 were snakes and get beaten by the mocking jay

  • @blaze556922
    @blaze556922 8 месяцев назад

    I enjoyed it even though the music was forced and Zegler is almost unwatchable. I hope she stops being cast after Snow White

  • @ilovefish9458
    @ilovefish9458 9 месяцев назад +1

    I love your content!

  • @feralprocessor9853
    @feralprocessor9853 9 месяцев назад

    Pretty dystopian world

  • @lumare
    @lumare 9 месяцев назад

    I think you meant Viola davis had heterochromia, not that her eyes were asymmetrical :)

  • @FoNgThOnG
    @FoNgThOnG 9 месяцев назад +2

    Bout to fight to the death...Wear a dress.

  • @Rob_gimes
    @Rob_gimes 9 месяцев назад +4

    I thought they stopped making these movies years ago

    • @obsidian00
      @obsidian00 9 месяцев назад

      ...they should have!

    • @sierrajohnson717
      @sierrajohnson717 9 месяцев назад

      They stop. Then they start again

  • @thecaveman2951
    @thecaveman2951 8 месяцев назад

    The book did a good job at showing how crazy he is so it didn't come as a shock when he turned on her in the end the movie is just terrible and for once in my life I'll sit here and say it would have been better if it were two different movies one in the Capital One one in district 12

  • @Uptownfunky760
    @Uptownfunky760 9 месяцев назад +1

    I disagree with 90% of what you said but okay !

  • @JoeyMartz
    @JoeyMartz 4 месяца назад

    Disagree about the 2 film approach... I think the audience would have rejected it.

  • @jaydenberkman7475
    @jaydenberkman7475 9 месяцев назад

    Lucy gray just like Katniss Everdeen

  • @AreUmygrandson
    @AreUmygrandson 9 месяцев назад

    I just want to dance!

  • @Genesiscoupe3000
    @Genesiscoupe3000 9 месяцев назад +3

    Weird.Weird.

  • @phoeberey5941
    @phoeberey5941 9 месяцев назад +4

    Only made it to 3mins because I just can’t with the name pronouncing

  • @Atmatan
    @Atmatan 6 месяцев назад

    Use a different model, please.
    I can quite literally hear every individual place you used gpt...

    • @Atmatan
      @Atmatan 6 месяцев назад

      "given this conversation, compare catniss as a protagonist to coriolanis"
      Like, I can even hear your prompts in my head.
      Your writing has been fine up until now, don't rely on redundant machines when they're best used for other tasks.

  • @jeremybennett2168
    @jeremybennett2168 8 месяцев назад

    cool

  • @Luz4SiKio
    @Luz4SiKio 9 месяцев назад +1

    Having read all the books and loved the films. It's such a shame Rachel Zegler is in this movie. There is no way I can watch a movie with her in it. She makes me want to puke 🤢🤮

  • @feralprocessor9853
    @feralprocessor9853 9 месяцев назад

    Very brutal sport

  • @Velereonics
    @Velereonics 9 месяцев назад +4

    Seems like Suzanne read Red Rising and went "omg" because 'girl sings songs and becomes problem for big government' is the impetus for those books.

  • @Narco42
    @Narco42 9 месяцев назад

    Anything zegler or viola davis are involved with needs to be ignored.

  • @iceheart1289
    @iceheart1289 9 месяцев назад +2

    Wait Peter Dinklage is in this?! Im not a GoT fan but after realizing he was Scourge in Beast Wars i want him in more movies!

  • @Jacob42086
    @Jacob42086 9 месяцев назад +2

    Inno-vative not iNnUvAtIVe 😂

  • @DMundus
    @DMundus 9 месяцев назад

    Katniss is a believable character but Lucy Grey is not. Her singing never feels genuine or organic and it's just so out of place in many instances

  • @RippedDiscs
    @RippedDiscs 9 месяцев назад

    the hunger games are for people who are starving

  • @taylormullis4942
    @taylormullis4942 9 месяцев назад +2

    Is it just me or does there seem to be quite a few films as of late trying to humanize horrible villans

    • @thefatlazycat838
      @thefatlazycat838 9 месяцев назад +1

      I don’t think the movie tries to humanize President Snow. It just told his origin story. And how he went from being somewhat of a redeemable person to just being pure evil.

    • @sarizonana
      @sarizonana 9 месяцев назад

      @@thefatlazycat838exactly my thought and the main reason why I thought this film was incredible.
      Really an 8/10

  • @desupair
    @desupair 9 месяцев назад +3

    The Hunger Games and the Three Flops of Rachel Zegler

  • @davidbricejr.7340
    @davidbricejr.7340 9 месяцев назад +1

    ✌️

  • @kirbymarchbarcena
    @kirbymarchbarcena 9 месяцев назад +3

    TOM BLYTH: I'll be portraying Coriolanus Snow
    RACHEL ZEGLER: I will be Snow White in the Disney remake...we're both Snow, weird! Weird!

  • @scionixx9568
    @scionixx9568 8 месяцев назад +1

    I think Rachel Zegler is just awful

  • @dani-chan5655
    @dani-chan5655 9 месяцев назад

    Huh??

  • @tjm11015
    @tjm11015 9 месяцев назад +2

    I used to love Peter Dinklage, but I won't watch his sht no more. He got all up in arms about not using dwarves, or "little people" in Snow White. WHY? Then there was a bunch of "diverse multicultural" people, now it looks like CGI DWARVES....What was the point, now there are nonexistent little people and the the actual little people that would've gotten paid and had their careers move forward are sht out of luck.

    • @filmcomicsexplained
      @filmcomicsexplained  9 месяцев назад +4

      Yeah after rising up the ranks to be one of the most well known actors, he's kicked the ladder underneath him, making it virtually impossible for another dwarf to have a succesful acting career. Such a dissapointment

    • @tjm11015
      @tjm11015 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@filmcomicsexplained I'm glad you agree, I appreciate your content man.
      🤜🤛

  • @user-kp6eh2wp3o
    @user-kp6eh2wp3o 9 месяцев назад +2

    Boo to Rachel Zegler!

  • @clubkid13
    @clubkid13 9 месяцев назад +5

    Rachel Zegler ruined this movie

  • @johnrandolph1989
    @johnrandolph1989 9 месяцев назад +4

    Yeah, the book is more compelling, so read that and ignore Snow White & The Hunger Games.

    • @robert48044
      @robert48044 9 месяцев назад +1

      don't be that person. the flip side is don't think Hollywood can do no wrong but nobody cares at this point about a book being better, we know.

  • @Gigipretty64
    @Gigipretty64 9 месяцев назад +1

    I might have paid to see this had Rachel not turned out to be so unsavoury but I imagine FilmsComicsExplains tells it much better, thank you ☺️ I can’t wait to see you get to 1million, I’ve been watching you since about 250k.

  • @charlesbelisle8606
    @charlesbelisle8606 9 месяцев назад +2

    Rachel Zeglars career is irredeemable for me, I won’t watch anything she’s in.

  • @francescarosalia3839
    @francescarosalia3839 9 месяцев назад

    That was a lot of words to just say you didn't get the point