The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - 21 Distracting Revelations That Almost Ruin It

15. Lady Gaga Is Definitely To Blame...

Gaga The whole premise of the Capitol is a place without restraint, or self-awareness, where people dress like freaks, cover themselves in ostentatious make-up and ludicrous hair pieces, where they congratulate themselves and use their underlings to advance their own self-serving agendas while pretending they are doing what is best for them. Or in other words the entire model for Collins' Dystopian future seems to have been heavily influenced on the pop culture phenomenon that is Lady Gaga.

14. Phillip Seymour Hoffman Just Turns Up As Himself

Hoffman Despite the fact that everyone in the Capitol appears to have been dressed by a hyperactive child without restrained or the burden of actual experience in the fashion industry - and that even Katniss and Peeta get dolled up for their social engagements there - one person fails entirely to conform. If it wasn't obvious enough that he was a curious and important character, and that he probably wasn't all he seemed when he approached Katniss for a hushed, cryptic conversation, there is a giant indicator that he's Different, and thus Important by the fact that he turns up to the party dressed not as a Hunger Games character, but as plain old Philip Seymour Hoffman, as if his wardrobe department were on strike for that scene.

13. The Make-Up Department Clearly Took A Lot Of Inspiration From Ross From Friends.

Katniss Jennifer Lawrence is a beautiful, striking screen presence, who is both endearing appealing without artifice, and incredibly disarming when dressed up for impact (something that underpins her flaming dress sequence in the first film, and the wedding dress scene in Catching Fire.) So it's slightly odd that it appears at one point that she has had her make-up done by the over-zealous make-up apprentice of Ross Gellar from Friends, intent on making her look like an over-compensation street-walker.
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