The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Summary

The Hunger Gamesstar Sam Claflin , who present Finnick in the original series , has offered a review for the serial ' late installment , The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes . The raw movie takes station decades before Katniss Everdeen is born , focusing on a young Coriolanus Snow and his rise to power in Panem . This includes a focus on his prison term as a wise man within the Games , and his tragical relationship with District 12 tribute Lucy Gray .

Speaking withMTVat the Golden Globes , Claflin tender up apositive review ofSongbirds & Snakes .

The actor praised Rachel Zegler for her purpose as Lucy Gray , as well as Tom Blyth for his personation of Snow and Francis Lawrence for his directing . Check out what Claflin had to say below :

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Rachel Zegler is perfectly shoot down it as a fellow Hunger Games somebody …. I have [ seen The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes ] , and you know , suitably impressed . I mean , Francis Lawrence is like one of my favorite directors and one wonderful human being . And Tom Blyth , equally stunning , stunning performance .

How The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes Bolsters The Hunger Games Franchise

Claflin ’s brushup ofThe Ballad of Songbirds & Snakesemphasizes its placement as a firm entry within the franchise . Blyth and Zegler lead a story that offers a likeable look at Snow ’s transformation into a tyrant , a much different take than Katniss ' freedom scrap . Because of how singular a premise the floor has compared to the master series , it tolerate out from the rest period of the films .

The exploration of howSnow variety throughoutSongbirds & Snakesemphasizes the way it leads into the residue of the enfranchisement , include Finnick ’s future Hunger Games involvement . Without the number of alterations Panem ’s President made to how the Games are diffuse , they would n’t become the disturb phenomenon of the main dealership . Offering context to these changes yield a deeper backstory to the enfranchisement ’s setting .

Without Coriolanus Snow ’s inner dialogue in the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes movie , he did n’t seem so bad — but several book lines try otherwise .

Finnick looking up in The Hunger Games and Lucy Gray looking confident in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

The praise Claflin and others have offered the cinema could also advance future moving-picture show beyondThe Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes . This could include exploring other character ’s backstories - mayhap Finnick - in greater particular than were established in the original films . However , any future endeavor for the enfranchisement would have to be indite by author Suzanne Collins , who could no doubt bring on another tale suitable of praise .

The Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakesis available to purchase digitally .

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Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow looking shocked and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird in the Arena in Hunger Games The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

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