Era necessário apagar as maldições de Johanna Mason?

Isso não estava nos livros. Foi adicionado ao filme pelo diretor, em colaboração com o autor do livro Suzanne Collins & Atriz de Johanna Jena Malone . Em uma entrevista :

"This happens often in scripts," said Lawrence. "That interview sequence was basically done as a montage. The original script had these one-line little things that felt like they were in the middle of an interview. So I went to Suzanne Collins and said, 'Suzanne, I think you and I have to create a little addendum. Because actors can't just do one line that's in the middle of an interview. What we have to do is create a full section of an interview, so there needs to be a real question from Caesar Flickerman, and a full answer from each of these tributes, that sort of matches their point of view against the Capitol, but also shares a little facet of character.' And it was actually Suzanne's idea — or she and I together, actually — to give Johanna this 'fuck you punk' attitude."

As it happened, Malone had a similar idea. "I showed up on set that day, and I was like, 'Francis, I think I just gotta riff in there. I think I just gotta get up there and I just gotta lay one on him,'" she said. "He's like, 'This is great. Look, I also wrote you this [dialogue in question]. And I was like, 'I love you. Are you kidding me? This is perfect.' So I used that and made Johanna take it and eat it and chew it up and spit it out."

E o estúdio recusou devido aos requisitos do PG-13.

Everything went exactly as planned — until Lionsgate execs saw the day's footage. Apparently, Lawrence had not informed the studio that he was inserting two F-bombs into their PG-13 film; the MPAA generally only allows one before slapping a film with an R rating. So they rang up producer Nina Jacobson — the only time the studio did so during production — and asked her, Um, what are you doing?

"And Nina said, 'No, no, no, they're going to bleep it out,'" said Lawrence with a smile. "'Don't worry. We're not going to mess with the rating. Don't worry about that.'… It got the biggest laughs on set when [Malone] just went, you know, crazy. We just said this is from the Capitol, and the Capitol's airing it, and the Capitol would have bleeped it all out."

It was a delicious moment for Malone as an actor, but she also appreciated how it further drilled into the story's larger themes of media manipulation — and how uncomfortably close the Capitol can be to our own world. After all,Catching Fire is filled with people being slaughtered (bloodlessly) — not to mention Johanna's elevator strip tease. Yet saying "fuck" out loud is verboten.

"It's such an easy way in to understanding the mentality of the Capitol without having to do too much nudge nudge wink wink," said Malone. "Particularly in the society that we live in, there's like 60,000 different porn sites, but people get thrown off of Instagram because they show an artistic nude. It's just so weird the way that we censor ourselves, and that there's actually no balance between the two, so I think it's a really great way for a generation to see that as like, 'Wow, even at this level, they're still being censored.'"

Torna-se temática, em que Panem é essencialmente uma alegoria para a dissonância do entretenimento moderno. É meta em que um filme que gira em torno da morte sangrenta e tortura e escravidão de crianças é bom para 13 anos de idade , mas não um par de contextualmente adequado, não-sexual fugaz fode , ele próprio tem um governo no universo que exige que as crianças sejam brutalmente assassinadas, mas não está de acordo com xingamentos na TV.

Os Jogos Vorazes: Catching Fire foram classificados como 12A no Reino Unido, o que lhe dá uma palavra "F" para usar sem afetar a classificação etária do filme. E você será atingido com uma classificação de 15, o que teria impactado negativamente os lucros das bilheterias dos filmes, já que menos pessoas na faixa etária alvo do filme poderiam vê-lo.

É provável que seja por isso que a palavra foi digitada. No entanto, convenientemente a conversa acontece em um universo de televisão, para que eles possam bipar (no universo e fora), permitindo que o filme retenha sua classificação de 12A enquanto deixa o diálogo em questão (principalmente) intacto.

PG-13 Filmes geralmente permitem no máximo 1 uso não-sexualizado da f-bomba por filme. Pode haver exceções a essa regra.

Do Daily Mail :

Officially, the MPAA's Classification and Ratings Administration's guidelines state: 'A motion picture's single use of one of the harsher sexually-derived words, though only as an expletive, initially requires at least a PG-13 rating. More than one such expletive requires an R rating, as must even one of those words used in a sexual context. The MPAA's guidelines state that if two-thirds of the ratings board members believe that multiple F-words are used in a legitimate 'context or manner' or are 'inconspicuous,' then the movie could still be rated PG-13.

Quanto ao motivo pelo qual ambas as palavras-f foram extorquidas, em vez da que é requerida para a classificação de PG-13, seria estranho estilisticamente bipar uma palavra f e deixar outra na mesma cena desmembrada. A Hunger Games conseguiu usar o programa de TV no universo como uma desculpa para profanar os palavrões.