10 Off-Screen Movie Moments Audiences Deserved To See
8. The End Of The Quarter Quell - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
After escaping the 74th Hunger Games with their lives against all odds, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, along with 22 other previous winners, were thrown back into the relentless fight to the death again. This however, would spark the revolution that the series was ultimately about.
In the arena, the rag-tag group of the likes of Katniss, Peeta, Beetee, Johanna, and others devised the plan to bring the entire arena down around them. In a way, this was the exact moment the revolution against Snow and the Capitol began, but audiences didn’t really get to see it.
The first chess move was Haymitch and Plutarch rescuing Katniss, which was immediately countered by the Capitol taking Peeta and Johanna as their prisoners amid the chaos. Instead of this mad scramble however, the director chose instead to show plenty of slow-motion shots of the heroine being airlifted out to safety.
Once awake, she attacked Haymitch and was knocked out yet again, only to miss the Capitol’s next big move, literally bombing District 12 off the map. Again, fans didn’t get to see this, instead only a quiet conversation between Gale and Katniss, learning of what happened with the latter instead of seeing it themselves. These two moments could have truly elevated the movie as key scenes not only in the second installment, but the whole franchise.