10 Plot Holes In The Hunger Games Franchise

10 Plot Holes In The Hunger Games Franchise

The Hunger Games franchise translates well to screen but it isn’t all perfect. There are actually a number of plotholes in the movies, as you’ll see.

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The Hunger Games series has proven itself to be a brilliant action franchise full of truly emotional moments and gripping plots. With source material as spectacular as the Suzanne Collins novels, it was hard to live up to their greatness on the big screen. They pulled it off pretty well, though.

Despite being major blockbusters, there are still a few details of the plotline that don’t quite add up. We’ve collected the ten biggest plot holes across the four Hungers Games films.

10 Wrong Handed Salute

The original books make it very clear that the three-finger salute is to be made with the left hand. The series follows this rule almost always, but there is a notable error that appears in the first film that create some problems in continuity.

After Rue dies, Katniss makes the gesture with her right hand, and those watching in District 11 do the same. We know that this isn’t supposed to happen because a girl in the front row at the reaping starts to use her right hand before correcting herself.

9 Hallucination/Flashback Problem

When Katniss is attacked by the Tracker Jackers, she begins to hallucinate due to their powerful venom. In her hallucination, we see Caesar Flickerman commenting about how the venom is incredibly powerful.

However, this doesn’t make sense for Katniss to be seeing this as if it is a memory of hers, because he had only just said it on TV. Obviously, she can’t see or hear anything Caesar is saying or doing, so this memory simply wouldn’t exist in her mind.

8 Where Is The Camera?

There are various cameras littered around the arena in order to film proceedings for those watching at home around the many Districts. There are also ‘invisible’ cameras who are actually shooting the film for the real-world audience; these cameras don’t ‘exist’.

However, when Katniss is running from the fire, the scenes shown to the Game Makers seem to be coming from behind and in front of Katniss, despite there not being a drone or person filming. If there was some sort of invisible camera moving with her, it should be shaking as it runs after her.

7 The Yellow Sword

While in the arena, a tribute holds a sword into a campfire in order to, presumably, strengthen it. However, when he takes it out, it is glowing bright yellow as if it has just been formed in an oven capable of melting metal.

In reality, a campfire doesn’t have the heat to impact metal like this, no matter how long you hold it in for. The only explanation is that the sword isn’t actually made of metal, which seems unlikely.

6 Two Tributes Not Shown

In the bloodbath at the Cornucopia which happens at the very start of the 74th Hunger Games, tributes from District 9 and 10 are killed. There is a convenient event at the end of each day which reveals the tributes who died that day, but they aren’t on it.

As they weren’t a part of the plot, they were obviously not deemed relevant enough to be shown, even though they died and should have been up there. The music stops and the projection ends on screen, so they obviously weren’t shown after either.

5 It Wouldn’t Make Sense For Enough Victors To Remain

The idea behind the 75th Hunger Games is that some sort of gimmick would decide a unique way to carry out that year’s event. The 3rd Quarter Quell was rigged so that the competitors were chosen from the existing pool of winners, but this doesn’t add up to a situation in which there is a male and female winner from each district still alive.

As Haymitch explains, the career tributes from District 1 and 2 almost always win, so the idea of having enough winners from other districts who are still alive (let alone quite young) to compete doesn’t add up at all.

4 Plutarch’s Idea Doesn’t Make Much Sense

The big twist at the end of Catching Fire is that the seemingly evil Game Maker Plutarch is actually a good guy, working to turn Katniss into the Mockingjay; a symbol for good and a starting point for a rebellion against the Capitol.

However, placing Katniss into an arena made up of incredible danger that she might not be able to avoid is certainly not a helpful idea, and then claiming that his plan was always for her to survive definitely wasn’t a good thing to hedge his bets on.

3 The Aircraft Shooting Propaganda

In one of the Propos that Katniss has to produce as part of her role as Mockingjay in the film of the same name, she shoots down aircraft with explosive arrows, while Gale stands to her left.

When a film of this is shown later on, Gale isn’t present and it didn’t seem like there was anyone present at that moment in time to actually be filming. How did the film exist if no one recorded it in the first place?

2 The Wrong Drums

Any musician would have noticed this error almost straight away. At the end of Mockingjay Part 2, Katniss leads a procession towards President Snow’s execution. There is a soundtrack of Taiko drummers performing, but the drums actually shown are very clearly the much more photogenic Timpani.

Beyond the fact that these drums make very different sounds, the Timpani are also pitched instruments, while the Taiko drums are not a tuned instrument.

1 Katniss Needs A Fact Checker

Katniss was very much emotionally impacted by her time in the games. You’d think that she’d remember the specifics of basically everything that happened. However, when delivering a speech to District 2 in the final film, she mentions Thresh being killed by Cato, which isn’t what happened at all. He was actually killed by mutations.

The only explanation for this particular error is that this is what happened in the books. It is unclear while this particular line chooses to follow the story of the book, rather than the film series in which it exists.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/hunger-games-franchise-plot-holes/

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