The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Summary
The Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesrevealed what the Hunger Games were like before Katniss ' day , and this unfold the threshold to even better prequel spinoffs . Since the original series focused on the 74th and 75th Hunger Games , andBallad of Songbirds and Snakesfeatured the tenth , there are still 72 unexplored Games that the enfranchisement could potentially watch . Any of these could intend an interesting prequel , but the best feature ofThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesreveals which direction the next movie should go .
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesfollowed a young President Coriolanus Snow , as he mentoredduring the tenth Hunger Games , and his experience here at last turned him into the despicable dictator of Katniss ' story . The prequel provided an excellent foundation forThe Hunger Games , retroactively boost the series ' exploration of the distance humanity will go to for ascendance , security , and selection . There ’s little else to search in the way of Snow and Katniss , but with so many eld of Panem ’s horrible Hunger Games , there are still many ways to explore the dystopian time to come created byHunger Gamesauthor Suzanne Collins .
The Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes stop equivocally for one major character . We separate down the prequel ’s ending & what ’s next .
The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes Depicts What Early Hunger Games Were Like
Perhaps the most strikingdifference betweenThe Hunger GamesandThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesis how the Games are executed . Though the entirety of theHunger Gamesfranchise is set far in the future , the events of Snow ’s story take place only 10 years after Panem ’s great warfare . Resources are down in the mouth in the Capitol , and the Hunger Games are still in their other geezerhood . Therefore , the technology seen in the tenth Hunger Games is nowhere near what was seen in Katniss ' twenty-four hours . This means thateverything literal - human race audiences had come to carry from maintain the 74th and 75th Hunger Games was thrown out the windowpane .
Rather than advanced sports stadium that were just as lethal as the protection themselves , Lucy Gray and her competitors fought in a colosseum - style surround that put up little in the way of places to hide ( peculiarly before the bombardment inThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes).Additionally , it was Snow who suggested during the tenth Hunger Games that the Capitol citizens provide gifts to and calculate on the tributes . Before this , the tributes had only weapons and a special amount of time to stamp out each other . It was a very unlike , even more brutal event — something that may be deserving exploring in futureHunger Gamesprequel projects .
A Prequel Movie About The First Hunger Games Would Be Even Better
Thedifferences betweenThe Hunger GamesandThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakeshave remind curiosity regarding what the very first Hunger Gameswould have been like . Though only 10 year before Coriolanus got involved with the event , the hate between the Districts and the Capitol would have been at an all - metre highwhen the first Games were established , which certainly would have translate to the arena . Ultimately , a prequel explore what this would have looked like has the potential to be even more devastating , heartrending , and , therefore , impactful thanThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes .
Moreover , a prequel center onthe 1st Annual Hunger Games would provide an chance for theHunger Gamesfranchise to introduce the leader of the age . After Katniss ' war , when President Coin had all the exist victors ride around a board and vote on the continuation of the Games , Katniss wondered if that was what it had been like when the first Hunger Games were established — a gang of war - tear survivor vote to carry on the violence . As well as search what the first year observe the District Rebellion would have been like , aBallad of Songbirds and Snakesprequel could finally do Katniss ' question .
