Coriolanus overhears Sejanus helping rebels planning to escape. Coriolanus bribes an officer to transfer him to District 12, where he and Sejanus begin Peacekeeper training.Īfter a man is hanged, inspiring Lucy Gray's " The Hanging Tree" song, Coriolanus and Sejanus visit the Hob bar where Lucy Gray performs with the Covey, a nomadic band. Sejanus volunteers as a Peacekeeper to join him. After the victory celebration, Highbottom confronts Coriolanus with the handkerchief and poison and sentences him to serve twenty years as a Peacekeeper for cheating. Gaul refuses to declare her the victor until Capitol viewers pressure Gaul. To avenge Felix's death, Gaul releases snakes into the arena, killing every tribute but Lucy Gray Coriolanus had secretly put a handkerchief bearing her scent into the snake tank. When tributes attack them, Coriolanus kills one. Gaul persuades Coriolanus to retrieve Sejanus from the arena. Coriolanus' wealthy friend and fellow mentor, Sejanus Plinth, resenting the Games' cruelty, sneaks into the arena and mourns next to his fallen tribute Marcus, a former District 2 classmate. Lucy Gray escapes through an explosion-caused hole, hiding in a service tunnel with fellow District 12 tribute Jessup. The Games begin with several tributes dying in the initial bloodbath. When Lucy Gray saves Coriolanus from falling debris, he gifts her with rat poison to use as a weapon. Not recognizing Clemensia's scent, the snakes critically wound her – confirming it was Coriolanus' proposal.ĭuring a Games arena tour, rebel bombs explode, killing several mentors including the President's son, Felix Ravinstill, and tributes. Gaul places the proposal document into a tank of genetically modified snakes that do not attack familiar scents. Coriolanus' classmate, Clemensia Dovecote, takes the credit. Volumnia Gaul, whereby Capitol viewers donate supplies to tributes via their mentors during the Games to increase viewership. While fellow mentor Arachne Crane taunts her tribute, who then kills her, Coriolanus earns Lucy Gray's trust, riding with her to the Capitol Zoo, and helps her win Capitol citizens' sympathy, much to Highbottom's displeasure, as he paired Coriolanus with a District 12 tribute so he would fail.Ĭoriolanus proposes a sponsorship scheme to Head Gamemaker, Dr. During the reaping ceremony, she charms Capitol viewers by singing and slipping a snake into Mayor Lipp's cruel daughter Mayfair's dress. Games creator and Academy dean, Casca Highbottom, advises mentors to focus on entertaining viewers rather than tributes winning the Games.Ĭoriolanus is assigned to mentor District 12 female tribute Lucy Gray Baird. Coriolanus determines to restore his family's prosperity by earning the Plinth Prize scholarship. Thirteen years later, Crassus' eighteen-year-old son Coriolanus is one of twenty-four Academy students selected to mentor a tribute in the 10th Annual Hunger Games. In the country of Panem, the noble Snow family's patriarch, General Crassus Snow, dies during the First Rebellion between the Capitol and the Districts. The film received mixed reviews from critics and has grossed $290 million worldwide. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes held its world premiere in Berlin, Germany on November 5, 2023, and was released in the United States on November 17, 2023, by Lionsgate Films. Set 64 years before the events of the first film, its plot follows the events that lead a young Coriolanus Snow on the path to becoming the tyrannical leader of Panem, including his relationship with the Hunger Games District 12 tribute Lucy Gray Baird during the 10th Hunger Games. The film stars Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Jason Schwartzman, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, and Viola Davis. Based on the 2020 novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins, it serves as a prequel to The Hunger Games (2012), and is the fifth installment in The Hunger Games film series. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is a 2023 American dystopian action film directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Michael Lesslie and Michael Arndt.
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