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The Hunger Games

Caesar Flickerman: So, Peeta, tell me, is there a special girl back home?
Peeta Mellark: No. No, not really.
Caesar Flickerman: No? I don't believe it for a second. Look at that face. Handsome man like you. Peeta... tell me.
Peeta Mellark: Well, there, uh... there is this one girl that I've had a crush on

forever.
Caesar Flickerman: Ah.
Peeta Mellark: But I don't think she actually recognized me until the Reaping.
Caesar Flickerman: Well, I'll tell you what, Peeta. You go out there, and you win this thing, and when you get home, she'll have to go out with you. Right, folks?
Peeta Mellark: Thanks, but I,

uh, I don't think winning's gonna help me at all.
Caesar Flickerman: And why not?
Peeta Mellark: Because she came here with me.

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The Hunger Games

Katniss Everdeen: May the odds be ever in your favor.

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[Katniss suddenly stabs a knife into the table between Haymitch's thumb and forefinger]
Effie Trinket: [gasps] That is mahogany!

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[last lines]
Peeta Mellark: So what happens when we get back?
Katniss Everdeen: I don't know. I guess we try to forget.
Peeta Mellark: I don't wanna forget.

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The Hunger Games

President Snow: Seneca... why do you think we have a winner?
Seneca Crane: [frowns] What do you mean?
President Snow: I mean, why do we have a winner? I mean, if we just wanted to intimidate the districts, why not round up twenty-four of them at random and execute them all at once? Be a lot faster.
[Seneca just stares,

confused]
President Snow: Hope.
Seneca Crane: Hope?
President Snow: Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained.
Seneca Crane: So...?
President Snow: So, CONTAIN it.

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Katniss Everdeen: [bows] Thank you... for your consideration.

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The Hunger Games

Peeta Mellark: Okay, uh, I'll take the bow.
[Katniss looks at him]
Peeta Mellark: I'm just kidding!

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The Hunger Games

Katniss Everdeen: I volunteer! I volunteer! I volunteer as tribute!
Effie Trinket: [pause] Uh... I believe we have a volunteer.

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Katniss Everdeen: Listen to them.
Peeta Mellark: Yeah. I just don't want them to change me.
Katniss Everdeen: How will they change you?
Peeta Mellark: I don't know. Turn me into something I'm not. I-I-I just don't want to be another piece in their game, you know?
Katniss Everdeen: You

mean you won't kill anyone?
Peeta Mellark: No... I mean, you know, I'm sure I would just like anybody else when the time came, but I just keep wishing I could think of a way to show them that they don't own me. You know, if I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me. Does that make any sense?
Katniss Everdeen: Yeah. I just can't afford to think like that. I

have my sister.
Peeta Mellark: Yeah, I know.
[looks at each other]
Peeta Mellark: [sighs] Guess I'll see you tomorrow.
Katniss Everdeen: See you tomorrow.

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Haymitch Abernathy: [referring to Katniss and Peeta] Now, I can sell the star-crossed lovers from District 12.
Katniss Everdeen: We are NOT star-crossed lovers.
Haymitch Abernathy: It's a television show, and being in love with that boy might just get you sponsors which could save your damn life.

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The Hunger Games

Haymitch Abernathy: Nice shooting, sweetheart. What-what-what did they... what did they do when you... shot the apple?
Katniss Everdeen: Well, they looked pretty startled.

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Katniss Everdeen: What the hell was that? You don't talk to me and then you say you have a crush on me? You say you want to train alone? Is this how you want to play? Huh?
Haymitch Abernathy: Stop! Stop it!
Katniss Everdeen: Let's start right now!

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President Snow: An eleven?
Seneca Crane: She earned it.
President Snow: She shot an arrow at your head.
Seneca Crane: Well, at an apple.
President Snow: Near your head.

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The Hunger Games

Peeta Mellark: Together?
Katniss Everdeen: Together.
Peeta Mellark: Okay. One.
Katniss Everdeen: Two.
Peeta Mellark: Three.

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Katniss Everdeen: [to Haymitch] Peeta's strong.
Peeta Mellark: What?
Katniss Everdeen: He can throw a hundred pound sack of flour right over his head. I've seen it.
Peeta Mellark: Okay, well, I'm not gonna kill anybody with a sack of flour.

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The Hunger Games

Katniss Everdeen: It's okay. You're okay. You're okay. You're okay.
Rue: Did you blow up the food?
Katniss Everdeen: Every bit of it.
Rue: Good... You have to win... Can you sing?
Katniss Everdeen: Okay.

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Katniss Everdeen: Peeta! Peeta! Oh!
Peeta Mellark: Are you okay?
Katniss Everdeen: I heard the cannon. I thought...
[noticing the berries he's picked]
Katniss Everdeen: That's nightlock, Peeta! You'll be dead in a minute!
Peeta Mellark: I-I didn't know.
Katniss

Everdeen: You scared me to death. Damn you.
[hugs him]
Peeta Mellark: I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

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Katniss Everdeen: You need to get out of here. You need to get out of here.
Primrose Everdeen: No...
Katniss Everdeen: Go find mom!
Primrose Everdeen: No!
Katniss Everdeen: Prim, go find mom right now!
Primrose Everdeen: No!
Katniss

Everdeen: I'm so sorry.
Primrose Everdeen: No!
Katniss Everdeen: Go find mom!
Primrose Everdeen: No!
Katniss Everdeen: Prim, leave before...
Primrose Everdeen: No!
[Gale grabs Prim and pulls her away]
Primrose Everdeen: NO! NO! NOOOO!

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The Hunger Games

Gale Hawthorne: What if they did? Just one year. What if everyone just stopped watching?
Katniss Everdeen: But they won't, Gale.
Gale Hawthorne: What if they did? What if we did?
Katniss Everdeen: Won't happen.
Gale Hawthorne: You root for your favorite, you cry when they get killed.

It's sick.
Katniss Everdeen: Gale.
Gale Hawthorne: No one watches and they don't have a game. It's as simple as that. What?
Katniss Everdeen: Nothing.
Gale Hawthorne: Fine. Laugh at me.
Katniss Everdeen: I'm not laughing at you!
[starts smiling]

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President Snow: [voice over] War, terrible war. Widows, orphans, a motherless child. This was the uprising that rocked our land. Thirteen districts rebelled against the country that fed them, loved them, protected them. Brother turned on brother until nothing remained. And then came the peace, hard fought, sorely won. A people rose up from the ashes and a new era was born. But

freedom has a cost. When the traitors were defeated, we swore as a nation we would never know this treason again. And so it was decreed that, each year, the various districts of Panem would offer up, in tribute, one young man and woman to fight to the death in a pageant of honor, courage and sacrifice. The lone victor, bathed in riches, would serve as a reminder of our generosity and our

forgiveness. This is how we remember our past. This is how we safeguard our future.