The Hunger Games (2012) is an action packed Sci-fi/thriller movie directed by Gary Ross and based on the novel written by Suzanne Collins. The movie stars Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Stanley Tucci, Wes Bentley and Elizabeth Banks in the lead roles.
The Hunger Games (2012) tells the brave story of Katniss Everdeen, who voluntarily takes her younger sister’s place in the Hunger Games. Hunger games is a televised fight to the death in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of nation Panem are chosen at random to compete.
The movie was an instant blockbuster at box-office and also won several awards including a nomination of Golden Globe Award. Let’s see the interesting facts and details about movie The Hunger Games (2012).
The Hunger Games 2012 movie poster
16. Lead actress Jennifer Lawrence was paid her highest fee of that time $500,000. For the next sequel The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), she was paid $10 million which was 20 times more than the initial offer.
Jennifer Lawrence
15. Actor Woody Harrelson is a vegetarian in real life. In scenes where his character Haymitch is seen eating, he eats either dessert or vegetables, or just drinks.
Woody Harrelson as Haymitch
14. Actors Liam Hemsworth and Jennifer Lawrence are both natural blondes. They dyed their hair brown for their roles in the film while Josh Hutcherson is naturally dark-haired. He dyed his hair blonde for his role in The Hunger Games (2012).
Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson
12. The Hunger Games (2012) is the first film in Hollywood to not be released by a big six studio (Fox, Disney, Paramount, WB, Columbia or Universal) and to gross over $400 million in the United States.
The Hunger Games 2012
11. The fictional nation in The Hunger Games (2012) is called Panem. This is derived from "Panem et Circenses," or "Bread and Circuses,". This comes from the latter days of the Roman Empire, in which the government would keep the masses satisfied not by performing their public services well, but by providing violent and deadly entertainments for the people to watch.
Nation Panem and it’s districts
10. In the Extras on the 2 DVD edition of The Hunger Games (2012), Director Gary Ross explains, "We were under tremendous financial pressure for this movie. It's under 80 million dollars, and it's a really really big movie. Other blockbusters cost twice or three times as much."
Knight Of Cups (2015) is an upcoming romantic/drama movie directed and written by Terrence Malick. The movie stars Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, Jason Clarke, and Wes Bentley in the lead roles.
Knight of Cups (2015) is the fictional story of an aspiring screenwriter living in LA tries to make sense of the strange events occurring around him.
Knight of Cups (2015) is a long time ambitious project of director Terrence Malick. Today, I have put together a list of interesting facts and details about Knight of Cups (2015). Have a quick look.
Knight of Cups (2015) movie Poster
10. There was no script for the film. All of the scenes were improvised.
9. According to Christian Bale, Terrence Malick didn’t tell the actors what the film was about Untill the shooting started.
8. Christian Bale said that at the start of each day’s shoot he wouldn’t know what would happen to his character.
7. In tarot cards, if the card, Knight of Cups, is upright, it represents change and new excitements, particularly of a romantic nature. It can mean invitations, opportunities, and offers. The Knight of Cups is a person who is a bringer of ideas, opportunities and offers. He is constantly bored, and in constant need of stimulation, but also artistic and refined. He represents a person who is amiable, intelligent, and full of high principles, but a dreamer who can be easily persuaded or discouraged. Reversed, the card represents unreliability and recklessness. It indicates fraud, false promises and trickery. It represents a person who has trouble discerning when and where the truth ends and lies begin.
6. The title of the film refers to the tarot card “Knight of Cups”.
5. Christian Bale had no lines to learn and Terrence Malick only gave him the character description.
4. While there wasn’t an actual script Terrence Malick would write multiple pages of dialogue for some of the actors and encouraged them to use whatever part of the dialogue they wanted. Despite playing the lead character Christian Bale received no writing for himself. This prompted Bale to try to sneak a peek of the other actors’ pages to ascertain what he could expect in each scene.
3. The first poster for the film features ‘The Tree Of The Soul’ by Dionysius Andreas Freher (1649-1728), a Christian mystic born in Germany, who was particularly fascinated by and wrote extensively about the ideas of Jacob Böhme (1575-1624), a German mystic, philosopher and theologian who believed that humans fall from grace, and that in order to find God again, they have to go through hell first.
2. Knight of Cups has had a two-year post-production cycle.
1. The third film to star Christian Bale and have the word ‘Knight’ in the title, following The Dark Knight and its predecessor The Dark Knight Rises both directed by Christopher Nolan.
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