#claudius templesmith

[plutieheavensbee]

caesar flickerman and claudius templesmith are totally a divorced couple

[hammah-banana]

Caesar Flickerman: I’ll wager he loses an eye.

Claudius Templesmith: Haha! On the contrary, I predict that act one, scene one will conclude with the loss of a gallbladder.

Caesar Flickerman: Or perhaps a leg. What say you, young Peeta?

Peeta Mellark: Oh god.

[buckys-arm-and-rios-dagger]

The fact that Stanley Tucci and Toby Jones played Erskine and Zola respectively in TFA in 2011 and then played Caesar Flickerman and Claudius Templesmith in The Hunger Games the following year is endlessly funny to me and I can't explain why

[incorrecthungergamesquotes]

Caesar: Hey, guys. Happy 'Claudius sucks' Thursday, everybody.

Claudius: Uh, what's 'Claudius sucks' Thursday?

Plutarch: Why would we ever tell you, Claudius?

[amidst-wonderland]

to this day i still find it hilarious that of all people to duo-present the hunger games in the film franchise, it’s the scientists behind captain america and the winter soldier in the mcu. like of all duos, it’s erskine and zola.

[wingardivm-leviohsa]

not gonna lie the love is blind s4 reunion on netflix was filmed like the hunger games interviews (looking at you nick&vanessa lachey aka caesar flickerman&claudius templesmith)... i mean just the over polished wardrobes, those so called “interviews”, everybody “forgiving” eachother, the bullies showing themselves from their good sides...and don’t get me started with the intimate home videos of the married couples, it reminded me so much of katniss’ and peeta’s proposal film in catching fire.

also them trying to broadcast it “life” (i mean it didn’t work out but nevertheless) so that they could show the contestants “true emotions”, in order to capture the audience and get them to root for the couple’s fairytale like relationships, while everything was way to over polished to be anything but real. kind of like emotional porn. netflix reality is just wild.

[enixamyram]

How could you translate Katniss' internal thoughts to screen?

If you become the screenwriter for the new adaptation, what would you do?

Are there any movies or tv series which have good example of this type of narration?

Thank you 😊

@curiousnonny

I actually think The Hunger Games is a perfect example for this. I've said before and I'll say again; I love the way they had Caesar and Claudius giving a commentary over the games, filling us in on details Katniss thought in the books, like what the tracker jackers were and what they did. And I also love how they showed what happened to her father through silent visuals. You got the whole picture through her nightmare hallucinations.

Those I think are the best and most clever ways to bring internal thoughts onto the screen. Having an inner monologue is fine, but a really creative way is to find ways around that. Either by someone else having reason to speak the gist of the thoughts, or showing rather than telling.

I think the showing rather than telling is my preferred example, just because it's not always easy to do so people who pull it off are very talented in my mind. Sometimes people don't understand what you're showing or it gets too confusing and you can't figure out where/when/what is happening.

But again, I think The Hunger Games handled this perfectly. I hope more films and series take their example and try to be a bit more creative with adapting the thoughts of their characters onto the big screen.

[moonmoonthecrabking]

"the sound of the trumpets startles me... it's my new best friend, claudius templesmith..."

i just think it's a little interesting that katniss would call claudius templesmith her best friend if she didn't care for him, if she only went to him out of obligation. sure, katniss is a sarcastic little shit, but i think there's an element of truth here with her being thankful to claudius for announcing that she can go home with peeta. because despite the trouble he's caused her, despite how much she feels they're both faking, she wants to be with him. not necessarily in a romantic way. but she just wants him to be there.