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Hutcherson’s casting is pretty close to the books, except maybe for the length of his hair and his brown eyes. Oh, and onscreen Peeta has all of his limbs, he’s just lost his mind at the end of Mockingjay Part 1.- Photo:
Peeta Mellark in the Books: Minus One Leg
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In the book, Peeta has his leg amputated after infection sets in from the Games. Also, book Peeta has blue eyes. Peeta is described in the book as “medium height, stocky build, ashy blond hair that falls in waves over his forehead.”- Photo:
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Donald Sutherland is an attractive villain on screen and he uses his white hair and beard to full effect. But he’s definitely not the book Snow, with his weird mouth and snake-like features. Despite his toned-down look, maybe Sutherland is creepy enough with this roguish version of Snow, because did we really want to see the Voldemort version for four films? Maybe?- Photo:
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The book version of President Snow is strikingly different than the screen version. The literary character is described as “a small, thin man with paper-white hair,” with thick lips that are stretched across his face. His appearance is snake-like.
According to the books, as Snow poisoned his enemies, he had to drink some of the poison himself. He took an antidote, but he was not cured of the sores the poison left behind. He had surgery to fix his weird mouth, but it still looked weird. He wears genetically engineered roses to cover the smell of blood in his mouth. Creepy (and gross).- Photo:
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Stanley Tucci’s Caesar is decidedly more understated than the book version. His makeup is apparent, but doesn't totally live up to the over-the-top custom of the Capitol, or the way he's described in the books.
Yet somehow, Tucci captures the ghoulish media bloodsucker without all of the ornamentation.
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Caesar’s probably been injecting embalming fluid because he has changed little over the 40 years of his broadcast career. Katniss describes him this way: “Same face under a coating of pure white makeup. Same hairstyle that he dyes a different color for each Hunger Games. Same ceremonial suit, midnight blue dotted with a thousand tiny electric bulbs that twinkle like stars. They do surgery in the Capitol, to make people appear younger and thinner.”
For the 74th Hunger Games, Caesar went blue. “Caesar’s hair is powder blue and his eyelids and lips are coated in the same hue. He looks freakish but less frightening than he did last year when his color was crimson and he seemed to be bleeding.”- Photo:
