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![]() ![]() The climactic third Quarter Quell, a televised Most Dangerous Game pitting victors of the previous killer Olympics against one another, has its kicks and surprises. ![]() (Saverio has also coutured for Lady Gaga and Kim Kardashian, and you can tell.) But it says something about the mixed pleasures and longueurs of this erratically entertaining movie that one wants to applaud the dressmakers before mentioning the director, Austrian music-video grad Francis Lawrence, or the screenwriters: Simon Beaufoy ( Slumdog Millionaire) and “Michael deBruyn,” a pseudonym for Little Miss Sunshine and Toy Story 3 scripter Michael Arndt. (READ: Lev Grossman’s conversation with Suzanne Collins and Catching Fire director Francis Lawrence)īravo to costume designer Trish Summerville and to Tex Saverio, the Indonesian who created that gloriously gaudy wedding gown. ![]() Sensation! Show biz! Rarely have a political declaration and a fashion statement merged so stunningly. I am not your plaything, Katniss’ quick change says to the Capitol swells I am the dark surging spirit of revolution. The gown bursts into flame and morphs into a slinky black outfit, also with wings, that represents the mockingjay, the icon of Panem’s rebels. Outfitted in a spectacular white chiffon wedding dress with silver metal wings, Katniss strides down the runway and commences to spin. It’s on stage in the Capitol of Panem, that future American dystopia - in fantasy fiction, is there any other -topia? - the night before the 75th Hunger Games, when Caesar Flickerman (Stanley Tucci), the TV host with the Guy Smiley smarminess and the phosphorescent teeth, is interviewing Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence), the expert archer from District 12. ![]() Follow big dazzle moment in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire comes not in Katniss Everdeen’s home District, nor in the faux-jungle where the Games are fought. ![]()
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