The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Pitch Meeting

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  • Step inside the Pitch Meeting that led to The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes!
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    Nearly a decade after the release of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 and the end of Katniss’s’s’ story, The Hunger Games are BACK, with an a kind-of-all-new tale about everyone’s least favorite tyrannical President, Corialanus Snow.
    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes definitely raises some questions. Like did they set out to make the longest title possible? How many times do they say Lucy Gray’s name and how many times does she sing? Are we rooting for the guy that runs the kids-killing-each-other competition? Why does this movie feel like two movies?
    To answer all these questions, check out the pitch meeting that led to The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes!
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  • @ianweech
    @ianweech Před 5 měsíci +8138

    "He sentences him to 20 years of being Eminem"
    That was solid.

    • @gerry40404
      @gerry40404 Před 5 měsíci +247

      That's exactly what I thought about him at that point in the movie. He looks exactly like Eminem used to.

    • @Flip_Flop82
      @Flip_Flop82 Před 5 měsíci +69

      Ohh, that was TIGHT

    • @Baronnax
      @Baronnax Před 5 měsíci +153

      @@gerry40404 Eminem basically owns the clean shaven white guy + short cropped blonde hair look now.

    • @mr.joshua6818
      @mr.joshua6818 Před 5 měsíci +71

      *8 Mile theme starts playing*

    • @PanSpaceman
      @PanSpaceman Před 5 měsíci +160

      talk about a shady villain. but it makes sense, the odds of him getting away with that were slim.

  • @Mina-hm2og
    @Mina-hm2og Před 5 měsíci +3961

    "How to make a child murderer sympathetic? Make him handsome". Ouch, that is so accurate it hurt.

    • @samblack5313
      @samblack5313 Před 5 měsíci +53

      He’s about as handsome as phoebe wall bridge.

    • @SeenAGreatLight
      @SeenAGreatLight Před 5 měsíci +96

      *Anakin liked that

    • @emilygrace8314
      @emilygrace8314 Před 5 měsíci +127

      No cause the amount of people I’ve seen skimping over and defending him on TikTok is INSANE. Like they’re saying he wasn’t bad in this movie but he literally was??

    • @ceasarsaran8573
      @ceasarsaran8573 Před 5 měsíci +23

      @@SeenAGreatLight Anakin was handsome, and mace Windu being a douche made him more sympathetic.

    • @Baeraad
      @Baeraad Před 5 měsíci +71

      At least in the book, I'm pretty sure he's not supposed to be particularly sympathetic - he's just a ruthless bastard who's also an underdog, so you kind of root for him anyway. People love underdogs, I'm sure I heard someone say that once. ;)
      Though I can imagine that that's a little too much nuance for a lot of people, sadly.

  • @Flipitmixit
    @Flipitmixit Před 5 měsíci +438

    4:19 The fact that there was a whole movie after the movie was insane😂

    • @user-ul8xu8sk5i
      @user-ul8xu8sk5i Před 5 měsíci +35

      True. Also true that "Part 1" would not have been well received. Sometimes books just aren't meant to be made into movies.

    • @yamanibryant-mccray2243
      @yamanibryant-mccray2243 Před 4 měsíci +3

      YES I WAS SHOOK

    • @vanyadolly
      @vanyadolly Před 3 měsíci +4

      That'll teach people to complain about Return of the King 😂

  • @OrigamiShinigami
    @OrigamiShinigami Před 5 měsíci +175

    "We are SO expendable, my dude! Hold me"
    "I'M IN!"
    That got me. Good sign for the episode

  • @Bizarro69
    @Bizarro69 Před 5 měsíci +1573

    "you've got a movie for me?"
    "Hitler, but young, and HOT."
    - an actual pitch meeting 10 years from now probably.

    • @Monkchelle_Kongbama
      @Monkchelle_Kongbama Před 5 měsíci +79

      for real though, we can seemingly romanticize any of history's tyrants except that guy for some reason

    • @zimriel
      @zimriel Před 5 měsíci +51

      @@Monkchelle_Kongbama Give it time, or more exactly give Qatar time

    • @AngryAuditor
      @AngryAuditor Před 5 měsíci +63

      "Napoleon" pitch meeting seems to have been "take the guy who brought needless slaughter and suffering to much of Europe but make it EPIC looking!"

    • @debochch
      @debochch Před 5 měsíci

      A young, hot, black, bi-sexual girl Hitler ethnically cleansing a certain race "between the river and the sea". Netflix will love it.

    • @thepubknight6144
      @thepubknight6144 Před 5 měsíci +24

      ​@@Monkchelle_Kongbama
      Hither has been romanticized alot in conspiracy theories
      That's that most unsettling part

  • @vonwux
    @vonwux Před 5 měsíci +2718

    _The most effective rat poison to ever exist_ - Said with the enthusiasm of someone working in the naming things department!

    • @lance134679
      @lance134679 Před 5 měsíci +61

      Hey you referenced that other thing! 👍

    • @user-pq8qn5df7z
      @user-pq8qn5df7z Před 5 měsíci +32

      THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!!

    • @BrainStormzFTC
      @BrainStormzFTC Před 5 měsíci +26

      The funny thing is that rat poison is basically just somewhat concentrated Advil. The writers clearly had no idea what they were doing...

    • @Geek-A-Geddon
      @Geek-A-Geddon Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@user-pq8qn5df7z I'm just gonna shorten that.

    • @la_scrittice_vita
      @la_scrittice_vita Před 5 měsíci +23

      Weirdly, _Only Murders in the Building's_ last season also used laughably effective rat poison where a sprinkle on a cookie dropped a 190 lb man in 8 minutes. Seems the current crop of Hollywood writers can't be bothered to do a Wikipedia level of research.

  • @craigw.scribner6490
    @craigw.scribner6490 Před 5 měsíci +398

    "So he sentences him to twenty years of being Eminem." Priceless! Thanks, Ryan, for another Pitch Meeting and more good laughs!

    • @Blake1720
      @Blake1720 Před 5 měsíci +6

      Lol ikr? I said the same to my husband in the theater haha

  • @sloreo8278
    @sloreo8278 Před 5 měsíci +875

    "About 6 more times than feels comfortable" is way too accurate. I consistently flipped between 'yah this is a decent movie' and 'was this produced by Disney'. Her singing was good but felt so out of place.

    • @violetlavi2207
      @violetlavi2207 Před 5 měsíci +120

      The fact that it feels out of place when the rest of the movie is so brutal in tone is the point - Lucy Gray’s singing sets her apart from the others and makes her stand out (she’s a performer at heart, and she’s the first to set that precedent for the Games becoming about spectacle)

    • @AwesTex
      @AwesTex Před 5 měsíci +56

      @@violetlavi2207I get that point but having her sing a fun diddy one scene before she says “I still have one foot in the arena” really undermined the point of how much she might have been struggling to adjust. Tonally the whole third act seemed really off. Like they wanted us to get the constant sense of fear without it detracting from budding romance. Just like the original Hunger Games trilogy, the third act just REALLY misses the mark

    • @mxtw7910
      @mxtw7910 Před 5 měsíci +39

      @@violetlavi2207it was all over the place though. Slave accent and style songs one second, country accent and style songs the next and pop style singing the next. The singing inconsistency didn’t make sense at all and was actually super jarring. Should have been way more subtle and endearing

    • @essennagerry
      @essennagerry Před 5 měsíci +13

      ​@@AwesTex I get what you mean but don't you think stuff that are tonally off in this way are still realistic? I'd argue real life is often tonally inconsistent like that. I just wonder where the line is or should be or where most people want the line to be between a piece of art that is realistic and that is congruent enough within itself. I felt fine with that tonal inconsistency because I often perceive it that way irl and it doesn't bother me. I'd like to understand your point of view better because I think most people feel this way whereas I tend to be much more fine with parts of the narrative seemingly being disconnected and chaotic. Like for example I really liked the "too funny" Thor movie and for me the comedy didn't at all take away from the drama. It made it more realistic to me. Life to me feels like a mixture of genres. Maybe it's just this way for people like me who can cry bcs of depressive feels, make a joke, crack at their own joke, then continue crying bcs of depressive feels. I'm just trying to understand the experience and the perception of people who notice these tonal inconsistencies - I only notice after someone points it out like you did.
      Though for me the third act did feel off as well and certain things felt off for me the whole time except maybe just during the games. I never really understood what Lucy Grey's deal is and I'm not sure if we were meant to or not, or if maybe her character is the type of person I'd find hard to read irl too.

    • @SeraphsWitness
      @SeraphsWitness Před 5 měsíci +22

      "realistic" does not mean "good writing".
      If you're going to do a song that is tonally off for the situation on purpose, you have to do it tactfully. The original Willy Wonka movie is a great example. The songs are endearing and enchanting, but with an edge of mystery and unease. They're entirely designed to put you on the edge of comfort and intrigue.
      That's a much more deft hand than just jumping from one genre to another in way that feels anachronistic. @@essennagerry

  • @Nabo42
    @Nabo42 Před 5 měsíci +1606

    "There's still about an hour left though."
    You know someone in the audience had this realization while watching the movie and wept a little.

    • @caitrionamcgee114
      @caitrionamcgee114 Před 5 měsíci +86

      That was me.

    • @drafezard7315
      @drafezard7315 Před 5 měsíci +65

      To be fair, I made that exact realization for the new Dune film. Having the climax happen 90 min into a 150 min film brought it down so hard.

    • @raulduke5371
      @raulduke5371 Před 5 měsíci +23

      I was there. I had this realization. It was like “Prostate Exam: The Sequel”.

    • @Arphemius
      @Arphemius Před 5 měsíci +27

      @@drafezard7315 Dune isn't out yet, is it? Or do you mean part 1? In which case, it's the first half of one novel, the climax of the story hasn't really happened yet.

    • @thebatman4279
      @thebatman4279 Před 5 měsíci +22

      I had that feeling after the Riddler arrest scene in The Batman. Good film but damn, that last hour is brutal.

  • @adamjanos2
    @adamjanos2 Před 5 měsíci +1091

    High amount of pitch meeting lore in this one.

    • @joshuawebster5847
      @joshuawebster5847 Před 5 měsíci +85

      I just can't tell which of these guys is the boss because neither one has a commanding mustache.

    • @danpsou
      @danpsou Před 5 měsíci +28

      Pitch meeting lore is TIGHT!

    • @mipmipmipmipmip
      @mipmipmipmipmip Před 5 měsíci +14

      It must have been hard to include so much pitch lore!

    • @69Kevrod2012
      @69Kevrod2012 Před 5 měsíci +7

      @@mipmipmipmipmip yea yea yea yea... yea!

    • @matthewpatrick7263
      @matthewpatrick7263 Před 5 měsíci +14

      @@mipmipmipmipmipNo; it was super easy - barely an inconvenience!

  • @user-kr4ly3fu6w
    @user-kr4ly3fu6w Před 4 měsíci +93

    In the book, he didn't provide her with the poison. He gave her the compact. She got the rat poison from the zoo where the tributes were being held. He gave her the idea, but not the poison.

    • @user-kr4ly3fu6w
      @user-kr4ly3fu6w Před měsícem +4

      @sergei_mikhailovich in the movie, he gave her the poison. In the book, he gave her the compact and the idea of using the rat poison which surrounded them at the zoo where tributes were imprisoned.

    • @sergei_mikhailovich
      @sergei_mikhailovich Před měsícem +2

      @@user-kr4ly3fu6w oh, sorry, I misread your original post. I haven't read the book yet

    • @Tsukaiyo
      @Tsukaiyo Před 28 dny +1

      I don't mind this change. President Snow's preferred way of getting rid of political rivals is poison, so starting this here works

  • @jenwil2875
    @jenwil2875 Před 5 měsíci +144

    Yes! Thank you! They said "lucy gray" like a 100 times in the movie!

    • @thomasboaz9950
      @thomasboaz9950 Před 4 měsíci +10

      As well as the book.

    • @VSMOKE1
      @VSMOKE1 Před 4 měsíci +1

      I hate you more than you will ever know

    • @flamingsword7341
      @flamingsword7341 Před 4 měsíci +14

      Lucy gray is her first name (her last name is Baird). It’s a double name like Lily Rose or Harvey Lee. It just sounds weird cuz it’s a made up name like most of the names in hunger games, but totally understand why you might find it annoying to hear over and over again.

    • @willholland1778
      @willholland1778 Před 2 měsíci +6

      @@flamingsword7341lots of the names have deeper meanings to them. Lucy gray is a poem about a girl who got lost in the snow . It’s very poetic

    • @flamingsword7341
      @flamingsword7341 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@willholland1778 ooh I didn't know that. neat!

  • @SpideyWarsStudios
    @SpideyWarsStudios Před 5 měsíci +4735

    This was the first movie I've ever seen where I genuinely wasn't sure what was supposed to be happening during the climax, or why things were even happening

    • @alexanderadams8372
      @alexanderadams8372 Před 5 měsíci +43

      Same o.o

    • @youngstar312
      @youngstar312 Před 5 měsíci +96

      ? What are you confused about. Maybe I could explain some stuff?

    • @MegaJestify
      @MegaJestify Před 5 měsíci +435

      That’s cause they crammed a huge book that was all internal dialogue into one movie and left you to assume so much

    • @siennaskye_journey
      @siennaskye_journey Před 5 měsíci +235

      If you didn’t read the book, I can definitely see why it would’ve been confusing. The book was amazing though! I have difficulty focusing when reading, but I had no trouble with Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes!

    • @youngstar312
      @youngstar312 Před 5 měsíci +70

      @@MegaJestify Kinda, but a lot of stuff is just done very subtle. Like slight face expressions by Snow.

  • @sonofvergil
    @sonofvergil Před 5 měsíci +1949

    Watching a Pitch Meeting for a movie you didn't even know came out is TIGHT!

    • @MrAgentTurner
      @MrAgentTurner Před 5 měsíci +7

      Lmaooo

    • @balrighty3523
      @balrighty3523 Před 5 měsíci +40

      And it’s super-easy, barely an inconvenience!

    • @nour2146
      @nour2146 Před 5 měsíci +8

      I knew about it but I saved my money from a box office flop

    • @my3dviews
      @my3dviews Před 5 měsíci +16

      Wow wow wow............................................................................................................wow.

    • @nour2146
      @nour2146 Před 5 měsíci +8

      @@my3dviews oh saying wow multiple times is tight!

  • @Spence_721
    @Spence_721 Před 5 měsíci +9

    “That’s a good point no one’s ever happy.”
    I was not ready for that accurate statement.

  • @lilvenom7876
    @lilvenom7876 Před 4 měsíci +37

    “Lucy Grey I’ll try to remember that”
    “Don’t worry sir you won’t have too because theirs gonna say her name 10,000 times”
    Lmao couldn’t be more spot on with that

  • @sob160
    @sob160 Před 5 měsíci +2479

    "Surviving because of how much you smell is tight."
    Well said.
    May The Stench Be Ever in Your favor!

  • @bazilwreckerloughead
    @bazilwreckerloughead Před 5 měsíci +901

    I like how they just kept calling that guy 'kid murder man' instead of his name...solid stuff right there!

    • @sayresrudy2644
      @sayresrudy2644 Před 5 měsíci +19

      😅😂. and “he kid murders”

    • @Surferion
      @Surferion Před 5 měsíci

      You mean CoralAnus?

    • @factorfitness3713
      @factorfitness3713 Před 5 měsíci +23

      I mean, his name is Coral Anus, so probably better that way.

    • @EricaRichter28
      @EricaRichter28 Před 4 měsíci

      @@factorfitness3713Lmao

    • @EricaRichter28
      @EricaRichter28 Před 4 měsíci +6

      @@factorfitness3713Fun fact: Coriolanus is a Shakespeare play

  • @Sancyria
    @Sancyria Před 4 měsíci +138

    As a Hunger Games fan I loved all of these: The Book, The Movie and The Pitch Meeting :D

  • @SamanthaLaurier
    @SamanthaLaurier Před 5 měsíci +42

    The amount of times I've been informed of a movie I didn't know existed by the Pitch meeting video for it is more than I expected it to be

  • @What.99
    @What.99 Před 5 měsíci +2609

    “Now every fart sounds like a secret.”
    That killed me lmao.

    • @kimreni
      @kimreni Před 5 měsíci +59

      Did it kill you because silent farts are deadly? 😏

    • @thePsiMatrix
      @thePsiMatrix Před 5 měsíci +23

      A sentence none of us expected to hear...

    • @kinglibra6179
      @kinglibra6179 Před 5 měsíci +7

      🤣 that part

    • @kevinsantos8439
      @kevinsantos8439 Před 5 měsíci +8

      the rat poison killed me

    • @SethrenJensen
      @SethrenJensen Před 5 měsíci +3

      Same! Good old fashioned gut buster, there! ^^

  • @MyBiPolarBearMax
    @MyBiPolarBearMax Před 5 měsíci +1021

    “Coral anus” is a great joke but getting surgery sponsored by unesco is an even better one 😂

    • @k.chriscaldwell4141
      @k.chriscaldwell4141 Před 5 měsíci +16

      Few will catch that, but 🤣we did. 👍

    • @James-mb3je
      @James-mb3je Před 5 měsíci +26

      I liked "my farts sound like secrets"

    • @PM-gf1nj
      @PM-gf1nj Před 5 měsíci +30

      Elaborate, please. I am too dumb to get them.

    • @L33Reacts
      @L33Reacts Před 5 měsíci +1

      I fucking lol'd

    • @hoid9407
      @hoid9407 Před 5 měsíci +11

      The colon whisper was absolutely hilarious.

  • @rouelandrewpulma9799
    @rouelandrewpulma9799 Před 4 měsíci +17

    That "Oh my god what?" moment when they mention that the movie still had about an hour to it was my exact response when the film dragged on. It felt like that whole "Lucy Gray surviving the snakes while singing thing" was super climactic only for the tension to just flatten out afterwards until the film ended. I understand that this is pretty much how the book also went, but that's also the reason why film adaptations are "adaptations". A visual medium requires a more compact type of storytelling than a written medium.

    • @monmothma3358
      @monmothma3358 Před 2 měsíci +6

      Yup. Didn't think it was too bad because I was prepared, but there is such a thing as being TOO close to the book, and Francis Lawrence is the man for that. Now the other books are great, and Suzanne Collins is a genius, but seriously, her self-discipline went out the window with the prequel. It was much longer than the other books and had _major_ pacing issues. It would have needed a lot of changes to work as a movie. Instead those issues carried over.

  • @georgem3456
    @georgem3456 Před 5 měsíci +6

    Such a bad idea to have a drink while hearing "the colon would be silent". Apparently, there are many orifices that pop can use to evacuate the body.

  • @claireh1508
    @claireh1508 Před 5 měsíci +76

    "handsome kid murder-man" is not a phrase I woke up today expecting to hear 😂

  • @deltawolf8636
    @deltawolf8636 Před 5 měsíci +193

    "We should hug each other after this"
    I'd love to see Ryan hugging himself. Prob be super easy, barely an inconvenience

  • @Dude-xb3xh
    @Dude-xb3xh Před 5 měsíci +18

    1:38 that brick joke was so well connected and written and unexpected that it makes me love the writing of this even more

  • @beaudure01
    @beaudure01 Před 5 měsíci +6

    UNESCO covering the cost of surgery is one of the most wonderfully random yet on point references ever.

  • @DrakeBarrow
    @DrakeBarrow Před 5 měsíci +310

    That "We're both so disposable" bit was pure gold. Also, sentenced to be Eminem for twenty years got me to inhale my drink.

    • @jimdoherty4108
      @jimdoherty4108 Před 5 měsíci +8

      I would never risk trying to drink something while watching one of these

    • @mbryson2899
      @mbryson2899 Před 5 měsíci +2

      It's only bad if you get the first 20.

    • @GuyjinOnline
      @GuyjinOnline Před 5 měsíci

      @@jimdoherty4108 I guess it's better than inhaling a little bit of "THE MOST EFFECTIVE REST POISON TO EVER EXIST!"

  • @user-dy3up3ov9o
    @user-dy3up3ov9o Před 5 měsíci +603

    This is the funniest one I've seen in quite a bit. I actually laughed out loud when the producer yawned.

    • @ConeJellos
      @ConeJellos Před 5 měsíci +13

      You laughed out loud!? You madman!

    • @TenFalconsMusic
      @TenFalconsMusic Před 5 měsíci +19

      I actually yawned just before he did.
      Then his yawn made me yawn again.
      I'm so excited not to see this movie.

    • @eugenetswong
      @eugenetswong Před 5 měsíci +1

      I'm so glad that he did. I was getting bored of this video, but his yawn confirmed to me how boring the story was.

  • @pedroteixeira1799
    @pedroteixeira1799 Před 5 měsíci +183

    The Eminem bit got me laughing so hard I almost coughed a lung. As always genius pitch meeting

  • @cn.st.182
    @cn.st.182 Před 5 měsíci +11

    Holy crap that Coriolanus joke was elaborate as FK. Damn. Three stages, all of them smart, creative and funny. Wow.

  • @mrcat3493
    @mrcat3493 Před 5 měsíci +106

    First Eminem shows up in Mordor in Rings of Power, now he's in Panem. The dude gets around.

    • @zimriel
      @zimriel Před 5 měsíci +6

      ... please stand up

    • @evanward4303
      @evanward4303 Před 5 měsíci +5

      He has a driver names Stan

    • @thebatman4279
      @thebatman4279 Před 5 měsíci +3

      I'm thankful because these films would feel so empty without him.

    • @TheRealJellyBomb
      @TheRealJellyBomb Před 5 měsíci +2

      Try to sleep through the night or you'll notice him standing silently over your bed, staring 🛌😱

    • @Ultimatum602
      @Ultimatum602 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Eminem even took a detour into Fortnite, SlimShady is wild

  • @LivingGuy484
    @LivingGuy484 Před 5 měsíci +90

    I love that he brought back the "Oh!" "Oooh!" Catchphrase 😆

  • @aliibrahim3264
    @aliibrahim3264 Před 5 měsíci +24

    Every time you say "aweoo!" I laugh heartily at how expressive and carefree it sounds. I hope it becomes a much more frequent catchphrase. Also, the "every fart sounds like a secret" delivery feels like a snippet of a commercial which I would love to see on your other channel. You're an addictive comedy treasure

  • @splitp173
    @splitp173 Před 5 měsíci +3

    "Now every fart sounds like a secret"..........sigh.......I laughed so hard at that line.....paused the video, walked away, rewound it, watched it again, and completely lost it a second time.....I think it's the finger next to the chin move that sells it........Anyway, Ryan, you are an insane comedic genius.

  • @FujioParis
    @FujioParis Před 5 měsíci +363

    "Now every fart sounds like a secret 🤫" - they made an entire prequel movie just so this line could be created and said so eloquently. Thank you to the many hands involved

    • @ZootSuitNewt
      @ZootSuitNewt Před 5 měsíci +4

      Many hands involved? I'm not sure you know how farts work.

    • @commandercaptain4664
      @commandercaptain4664 Před 5 měsíci +3

      @@ZootSuitNewt Well, not with that attitude...

  • @ughugh3767
    @ughugh3767 Před 5 měsíci +510

    I seriously watch anything I don’t want to pay in theatres through this series

    • @noahwhite659
      @noahwhite659 Před 5 měsíci +16

      I’ll still watch these, even if I do watch the movie in theaters.

    • @carolviclayne
      @carolviclayne Před 5 měsíci +2

      Me too 😂

    • @sergiosaunier
      @sergiosaunier Před 5 měsíci +10

      At this point, my movie-watching is pretty much all done here.

    • @excellentosunkoya5948
      @excellentosunkoya5948 Před 5 měsíci +6

      I saw it today. It’s a pretty good movie imo.

    • @Bossfightmedia
      @Bossfightmedia Před 5 měsíci +4

      I havent watched any movie in years but Pitch Meetings are Just a must have for e xD

  • @projectmc15
    @projectmc15 Před 5 měsíci +2

    0:59 “actually its going to be super easy, barely an inconvenience” line

  • @mazvitaselemani
    @mazvitaselemani Před 5 měsíci +88

    I'm surprised you didn't mention the group of kids that for some reason wanted to kill Lucy but not eachother? Or how Snow and his friend got in and out of the arena like it was nothing... or how Snow made it back into district 12 and no one even questioned that he was missing😭

    • @steverliu1886
      @steverliu1886 Před 5 měsíci +5

      Super easy! Barely an inconvenience!

    • @258Dandaman
      @258Dandaman Před 5 měsíci +79

      All those things are easily explained if you paid attention
      Making temporary alliances with enemies in dangerous situations is pretty common. It literally happened in all the other Hunger Games movies. Also some of them did in fact kill each other in this one
      Sejanus got in cuz he went in the middle of the night and bribed a peacekeeper.
      Snow got in cuz the head game maker arranged for him to. Also they barely got out alive

    • @PunoBendito
      @PunoBendito Před 5 měsíci +5

      @@258Dandamandidn’t explain how at the end snow didn’t get questioned at all for having been missing and then just showing back up at 12

    • @258Dandaman
      @258Dandaman Před 5 měsíci +16

      ​When did Snow go missing? You mean when he went to the lake? It was one afternoon, peacekeepers have days off too.
      Or are you referring to something else? I saw the movie twice, but it's been a couple of weeks now, so it's not as fresh in my memory

    • @PunoBendito
      @PunoBendito Před 5 měsíci +2

      @@258Dandaman when he runs away with Lucy.He’s presumably missing for who knows how long and you can’t say it was on his days off because he jumps into a moving truck to move out of the barracks

  • @tranazzi
    @tranazzi Před 5 měsíci +293

    Everyone: We’re so sick of these movies unnecessarily splitting into two parts.
    Ballad of songbirds and snakes: Soooo… what do we do here?

    • @NXGGLOBALPRODUCTIONS
      @NXGGLOBALPRODUCTIONS Před 5 měsíci +4

      😅😅😅😅

    • @lelouchs
      @lelouchs Před 5 měsíci +48

      i thought the movie was great obviously they couldn’t show all the love build up but i would prefer that then two movies

    • @imgonnaputsomedirtinureyedabs
      @imgonnaputsomedirtinureyedabs Před 5 měsíci +51

      I actually think they paced the movie really well so idk how much good splitting it would have been tbh. Last part maybe have felt rushed but it was similar in the book so i wouldn’t say it’s the movies fault

    • @dutchmansmine9053
      @dutchmansmine9053 Před 5 měsíci +3

      Didn't they write the book specifically so they cook make a movie?

    • @kool4209
      @kool4209 Před 5 měsíci

      put a chick in it and make it lame and gay

  • @ColinFox
    @ColinFox Před 5 měsíci +17

    "kid-murder-man" = best villain name ever

  • @EagleCroc
    @EagleCroc Před 5 měsíci +3

    "Now every fart sounds like a secret!"
    Likewise, man. Actually, mine typically are 100% silent but VERY smelly.

  • @tiriana2
    @tiriana2 Před 4 měsíci +10

    I really enjoyed this movie. It was the first hunger games for me and I'm like 40 years old.

  • @kayjacoby290
    @kayjacoby290 Před 5 měsíci +41

    "Now every fart sounds like a secret." 🤣 Needs to be a tee shirt, w/Producer guy's face & hand from 1:40

  • @Thundernoob98
    @Thundernoob98 Před 5 měsíci +17

    Him checking his watch towards the end was me in the theater needing to use the bathroom 😂

  • @benjigoodrich
    @benjigoodrich Před 5 měsíci +14

    Didn't think it was possible for these to keep getting better and better and yet here we are. Pure gold!

  • @shinigami1357
    @shinigami1357 Před 5 měsíci +4

    "Now every fart sounds like a secret"
    you cannot tell me this wasnt a random punch line he wrote an entire joke around. you just cant

  • @thedarkemissary
    @thedarkemissary Před 5 měsíci +6

    Hey, that reminded me of Hancock. When you got to the point where it felt like a whole second movie was starting.

    • @anna_in_aotearoa3166
      @anna_in_aotearoa3166 Před 3 měsíci +1

      OMG, I'm glad I wasn't the only one who felt like that! 😂 The first half was fun & fairly well-grounded if a little weird/irreverent, and then suddenly it turned into this sterile superhero blockbuster where the main characters threw each other all over the CBD with absolutely no apparent thought for how many people they were killing in the process, and frankly no apparent connection to the laws of physics either....

  • @thatGuywhocared
    @thatGuywhocared Před 5 měsíci +85

    Watching the film ✖️
    Watching the pitch meeting ✔️

    • @jameslazaridis4180
      @jameslazaridis4180 Před 5 měsíci +3

      Weak

    • @museofthesea
      @museofthesea Před 5 měsíci +6

      But the movie was good . . .

    • @thatGuywhocared
      @thatGuywhocared Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@museofthesea Rachel zegler 🤢

    • @raawesome3851
      @raawesome3851 Před 5 měsíci +1

      ​@@thatGuywhocaredher work in the movie was good, she's certainly not as bad as Bree Larson, and at least works well for the film.

  • @EvanSchwartz3
    @EvanSchwartz3 Před 5 měsíci +4

    This movie is really going to make things hard for kids named Childmurderman

  • @AnamiaFan
    @AnamiaFan Před 5 měsíci +21

    These just get better and better. The secret fart joke just killed me.

  • @SuperBC1975
    @SuperBC1975 Před 5 měsíci +54

    Great overview of the film.
    From now on I will refer to The Hunger Games as "The Child Murder Games." LOL

    • @poeticdavide
      @poeticdavide Před 5 měsíci +1

      I mean, that's what they really are.

  • @alexiospatestos
    @alexiospatestos Před 5 měsíci +15

    Watching the pitch meeting a few hours after I saw the movie is tight

  • @Conta_Minated
    @Conta_Minated Před 5 měsíci +10

    Wow, you've really cranked up all the dials of the Producer Guy this time. I don't think I've seen him quite like this before. Sure, there have been some pretty weird moments in the past, but this time it just feels like he has gone one step further than before.

  • @alyssafrantz9567
    @alyssafrantz9567 Před 5 měsíci +82

    It’s so validating having opinions about a movie, and then hearing Ryan repeat those opinions.

  • @TamarMebonia
    @TamarMebonia Před 5 měsíci +110

    "Injure those kids, handsome murder man!" - This is the kind of writing I'm here for :D

  • @bramton1
    @bramton1 Před 5 měsíci +62

    I'd love to see some old movie pitch meetings. Maybe a Film Noir, or Gone with the Wind. Go black and white on the pitch meeting.

    • @tacenda3250
      @tacenda3250 Před 5 měsíci +4

      He did that with Dumbo

    • @CorePathway
      @CorePathway Před 5 měsíci +4

      Do it in Black and White.
      Or better….a Silent Movie Pitch Meeting.🤣

    • @kool4209
      @kool4209 Před 5 měsíci

      the pitch meeting wouldnt be in black n white. do you think color was invented when the TV was made................................................................

    • @tacenda3250
      @tacenda3250 Před 5 měsíci +3

      @@kool4209 Obviously it was. If color existed before then, why would old videos and photos be in black and white?

    • @scottslotterbeck3796
      @scottslotterbeck3796 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Citizen Kane is ripe for parody.

  • @scholarhobbitz8269
    @scholarhobbitz8269 Před 5 měsíci +13

    Ok this might have actually benefitted from two movies. XD They could have used more of the slow burn romance and spiral that Snow went through. Fantastic as always!

    • @tiberiushazo6326
      @tiberiushazo6326 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Personally, having just read the book and seen this movie this week, I think a five part miniseries with about forty minute episodes would have been best.

    • @Temperius
      @Temperius Před 4 měsíci

      Possibly, they kinda missed a subplot in the Film that could have been included.@@tiberiushazo6326

  • @lhpoetry
    @lhpoetry Před 5 měsíci +2

    "You know nothing Coriolanus Snow."

  • @thrbrandao
    @thrbrandao Před 5 měsíci +157

    “No one is ever happy”
    It hit me harder than it should’ve

    • @jdzspace33
      @jdzspace33 Před 5 měsíci +10

      I mean.... he's not wrong

    • @trinaq
      @trinaq Před 5 měsíci +5

      A valid point, most of the drama and conflict in this franchise is based on people constantly suffering, which is why the games were created in universe.

    • @colbywilson8790
      @colbywilson8790 Před 5 měsíci +7

      I’m telling you if they had split the movie in two people would’ve given just as much flak as it’s getting now. People can’t make up their minds lol.

    • @jdzspace33
      @jdzspace33 Před 5 měsíci +5

      @colbywilson8790 probably. The only reason people accepted it back then is because it was final book in the series, so we all thought they would be better adaptations..... but, you know.... they were just money grabs. So that idea has been burned up due to misuse

    • @Ruddline
      @Ruddline Před 5 měsíci +1

      Internet movie criticism is getting pretty ridiculous, no money in ever being happy so lets just blast every movie ever.

  • @dozyproductionss
    @dozyproductionss Před 5 měsíci +5

    the quick "uh-oh" is so under rated.

  • @robintitanstudios6455
    @robintitanstudios6455 Před 5 měsíci +50

    "There's still about an hour left"
    "WHAT?!!!"
    Yeah...that right there. That was me in the cinema lmao
    I for sure thought the movie would end once Lucy Gray was the victor but then suddenly he's in district 12. Then he's suddenly shooting someone, getting a certain someone hanged, shooting Lucy Gray, poisoning Dinklage. Like WTF is going on 😂

    • @vanyadolly
      @vanyadolly Před 3 měsíci +1

      I feel like they really wanted to punish us for complaining about movies being split into two

  • @MrGUnit27
    @MrGUnit27 Před 5 měsíci +5

    Producer Guy's face at 3:52 caught me so off guard 🤣🤣

  • @river-yuki
    @river-yuki Před 5 měsíci +28

    So thankful for this Pitch Meeting for giving me a good reason to avoid my family for 5 minutes 🙏❤️

  • @ScubaFanatic60
    @ScubaFanatic60 Před 5 měsíci +26

    I'm thankful for Ryan George Pitch Meetings. Thank you!

  • @igpx666420
    @igpx666420 Před 5 měsíci +41

    Dude, I swear to God, “he sentences him to 20 years of being Eminem” is one of the best jokes I’ve heard on CZcams in months! I laughed so loud I had to roll the video back 20 seconds

  • @Holy_Jolteon
    @Holy_Jolteon Před 2 měsíci +3

    During the movie, i never did understand any of Snow's motives. For instance, one second, he turns in his "friend," and the next, he looks shocked that he was killed.

  • @marshallnmoonshine
    @marshallnmoonshine Před 5 měsíci +1128

    Ryan watches the movies so we don’t have to.
    Dude is a saint.

    • @annabetht4565
      @annabetht4565 Před 5 měsíci +20

      Yep…5 minutes instead of 2 hours that I’ll never get back.

    • @kneo12
      @kneo12 Před 5 měsíci +51

      Ballad of songbirds is good IF you're a hunger games fan

    • @philtess3126
      @philtess3126 Před 5 měsíci +10

      ​@@kneo12please stop with that rethoric. Liking or not liking a single movie doesnt determine if you're fan of the franchise. You can hate a movie and like the rest of them and you're still a fan.

    • @kneo12
      @kneo12 Před 5 měsíci

      @@philtess3126 what the fuck are you talking about.
      People who read the original book will probably like the movie because they've had the context while people who haven't will leave confused.

    • @jaxsetbertoncarlism8873
      @jaxsetbertoncarlism8873 Před 5 měsíci +33

      ​@@philtess3126they didn't say you're a fan only if you like the movie. They say you'll like it if you're a fan. Most fans enjoy to movie because it's a solid adaptation of an appreciated book

  • @corygreen4916
    @corygreen4916 Před 5 měsíci +46

    The coral joke may be my new favorite throwaway line ever.

  • @CM-pf1xc
    @CM-pf1xc Před 4 měsíci +17

    3:07 the hanging tree has such important unifying themes!!! It’s origin story is so central.
    Also I Loved ALL the songs they’re so good

  • @Tinette_Izdashit
    @Tinette_Izdashit Před 3 měsíci +3

    Thank you, Ryan George. I didn't even know there was another Hunger Games movie. This pitch was even funnier because I haven't watched this one, and I don't have to suffer thru it like I painfully did with the older ones. Great job! ❤😂😂😂

  • @PalmelaHanderson
    @PalmelaHanderson Před 5 měsíci +11

    I had no idea there was even a 4th book until like a year ago. I didn't know they made a movie from it until I saw the notification for this video.

  • @kre4ture218
    @kre4ture218 Před 5 měsíci +16

    Watching Pitch Meetings of movies you didn’t even know came out is tight!

  • @michaelryan6342
    @michaelryan6342 Před měsícem +2

    I love how Screenwriter Guy picked up "Kid-Murder Man" and ran with it. 😂

  • @ominousintrusivethoughts3947
    @ominousintrusivethoughts3947 Před 5 měsíci +35

    Something I noticed is that the hanging tree song hints at Snow's actions; "they say he murdered 3", the three people snow killed
    And "are you coming to the tree" Snow and Lucy met at the hanging tree when they ran

    • @vemlie
      @vemlie Před 5 měsíci +12

      I didn’t notice the first one but in the book they Lucy gray literally sings the hanging tree so Coriolanus knows to meet her there. They make it pretty obvious in the book, but the 3 people is a very interesting observation!

    • @airtemis
      @airtemis Před 5 měsíci +10

      Interesting parallel, I never thought about that. She originally wrote it because the first man that was hung in the movie (Arlo I think?) was accused of murdering 3 people.... but it did foreshadow Snow's kill count too 😮

  • @Insert_Bland_Name_Here
    @Insert_Bland_Name_Here Před 5 měsíci +167

    How on Earth does a movie that's chronologically set in the future look like it takes place in the 1970s?
    I do love that Coralanus Snow is just referred to as "Kid-Murder Man" throughout this entire Pitch Meeting, though 🤣

    • @illogicmath
      @illogicmath Před 5 měsíci

      Handsome kid-murder man to be more precise

    • @MegaKnight2012
      @MegaKnight2012 Před 5 měsíci +18

      Because there are certain decades of the 1900s that won't die. Some are trying to kill the 80s, but man, is it a struggle

    • @jlev1028
      @jlev1028 Před 5 měsíci +50

      Because YA dystopias love retro fashion, apparently.

    • @clogs4956
      @clogs4956 Před 5 měsíci +20

      It’s spelt Coriolanus and is a reference to a Shakespeare play of said name based on an old Roman legend, except this one survives the ending.

    • @MFlack2
      @MFlack2 Před 5 měsíci

      Fitting title for a completed POS

  • @Nanerpus27
    @Nanerpus27 Před 5 měsíci +147

    Quick question Mr. George: are there any pitch meetings you wish you could redo because you feel like you didn't do a very good job/you've thought of a few really funny jokes you wish you'd included? Thanks again for the pitch meetings, they always manage to bring a smile to my face :)

    • @ColinFox
      @ColinFox Před 5 měsíci +23

      He's revisited old pitch meetings before, and discussed how he feels about them.

    • @jessedupuy4124
      @jessedupuy4124 Před 5 měsíci +18

      He does something like that. Go to this channels playlists, Pitch Meetings Revisited.

    • @3souris
      @3souris Před 5 měsíci +4

      Regrets, he has a few; but too few to mention...

    • @whatdoesthisthingdo
      @whatdoesthisthingdo Před 5 měsíci +2

      @@3sourisHe did what he had to do…

  • @Spider_Gwen112
    @Spider_Gwen112 Před 5 měsíci +14

    I’ve read the book and was curious if the movie fixed any of the pacing issues (it definitely should have been two books, too)…so of course I turn to Ryan instead of buying a ticket. 😂

    • @AwesTex
      @AwesTex Před 5 měsíci +3

      Just like the Hunger Games trilogy the ending was wildly unsatisfying. I also thought we’d get some understanding of what must have made Snow so callous and manipulative but no, he’s just kinda always been that way, apparently.

    • @WhiteRabbitDreams
      @WhiteRabbitDreams Před 5 měsíci +3

      ​@@AwesTexSome people don't need a tragic backstory. Some people are just born monsters

    • @lilsriegerson6364
      @lilsriegerson6364 Před 4 měsíci +4

      ​@@AwesTex I thought it was the fact that the war forced him and his family almost starve and loose everything they had. He hated district people because they took everything from him

    • @rokeYouuer
      @rokeYouuer Před 3 měsíci

      I'd say the pacing was slightly worse than the book, although they cleaned up the narrative in a few places that made the overall story a bit more satisfying in my opinion.

  • @jordansimai3372
    @jordansimai3372 Před 4 měsíci +4

    Hysterical like usual! Honestly found the final hour of the movie the most interesting and believable tbh...

  • @Arcadio89
    @Arcadio89 Před 5 měsíci +6

    1:03 I don't know why but the "uuuuuh" always makes me laugh 😂

  • @josemarti7487
    @josemarti7487 Před 5 měsíci +79

    After watching 100 episodes of Pitch Meeting, I vagely beginning to suspect these two characters being one person😅😅😅

    • @KayKayBayForever
      @KayKayBayForever Před 5 měsíci +22

      Another conspiracy theorist, eh? Sigh, they’re clearly different people. Just use your eyes! They’re wearing completely different clothes! And one’s a producer, and the other is a screenwriter! It would be too much for one person to have both jobs!

    • @AegixDrakan
      @AegixDrakan Před 5 měsíci +19

      That character will need you to get ALL the way off his back about it! XD

    • @Mereologist
      @Mereologist Před 5 měsíci +13

      Being two people at once is TIGHT!

    • @neoroman0510
      @neoroman0510 Před 5 měsíci +15

      Listen, they couldn't be the same person, ok? The screenwriter guy has glasses and the other one doesn't! 'nuff said!

    • @michelkoerts1409
      @michelkoerts1409 Před 5 měsíci +9

      How? One wears glasses, the other doesn't. They can't be the same person. They are even in the same room at the same time!

  • @stonehenge5166
    @stonehenge5166 Před 5 měsíci +3

    From now on when I let out a silent fart I expected to be loud, I'm gonna follow up with "that one was a secret" and then go about my day.

  • @AWhistlingWolf
    @AWhistlingWolf Před 10 dny

    I'm a sucker for on-the-nose metaphors and comparisons so I love the dynamic of "she's the songbird, he's the snake".
    Well-meant, joyful and artistic VS silent, calm and deadly.
    No, I have not read the book NOR seen the film.

  • @LordJapos
    @LordJapos Před 5 měsíci +131

    Can I just take this moment to appreciate the fact that producer guy and writer guy used to be a bit purple, but are now perfectly color graded and have great lighting on them? Ryan is still improving.

    • @RedCaio
      @RedCaio Před 5 měsíci +11

      I've left a couple comments in the past saying "how is it that your eye color is purple?" and now I have an answer, thank you.

    • @imleeanthony2803
      @imleeanthony2803 Před 5 měsíci +3

      I LIKE PURPLE

    • @kool4209
      @kool4209 Před 5 měsíci +1

      tf you even talkin about

    • @ncapone87
      @ncapone87 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Don't do drugs kids

  • @GTMQ8
    @GTMQ8 Před 5 měsíci +85

    “Now every fart sounds like a secret” … I laughed so hard I started coughing uncontrollably 😂😂😂

    • @serenitynow85
      @serenitynow85 Před 5 měsíci +8

      Farting, uncontrollably

    • @TenFalconsMusic
      @TenFalconsMusic Před 5 měsíci +3

      I farted while reading this.
      This one won't remain a secret for long. My roommates are only a few feet away.
      Lullabies & snakes...

  • @drbjr99
    @drbjr99 Před 5 měsíci +2

    I too am scared all the time.

  • @einsteinjunior91youtube98
    @einsteinjunior91youtube98 Před 5 měsíci +8

    Fun fact: To be suited for rats, the only charactaristic a poison needs to have is, that it delays the killing as much as possible. Because when there is a new food source, rats let one of them eat the food and wait days and watch, if something bad happens to that test-rat. So the "rat-poison" from this movie would manage to kill exactly one rat in reallife ^^

  • @GWindMagic
    @GWindMagic Před 5 měsíci +62

    It's been twelve pitch meetings and six revisit pitch meetings since Bryan George made an appearance, please bring him back. #BryanGeorge

    • @realitymatters4745
      @realitymatters4745 Před 5 měsíci

      His shows is always funnier when he does them himself

    • @GWindMagic
      @GWindMagic Před 5 měsíci

      @@realitymatters4745 watch the end of interstellar pitch meeting. You'd understand lol

  • @sentinelstorm487
    @sentinelstorm487 Před 5 měsíci +38

    The emphatic body language of Director Guy in this episode is on point! 😎👉

  • @guyank6138
    @guyank6138 Před 5 měsíci

    Great video man, can we see more of the phrase "I decided" in Pitch Meetings? Saw it on the mean judge video you made and think it would be a nice addition 😊

  • @af4043
    @af4043 Před 5 měsíci +8

    One of the funniest in a while, Ryan! Knocked it out of the park.

  • @picturebreakdown
    @picturebreakdown Před 5 měsíci +55

    “He sentences him to 20 years of being Eminem”
    I’m so dead 💀😂

  • @rebeccasteen
    @rebeccasteen Před 5 měsíci +139

    Goodness, Ryan is so great I genuinely didn't notice the lack of jokes.

  • @tardiscommand1812
    @tardiscommand1812 Před 4 měsíci +3

    If they hold each other, 0:27 would they destroy each other being the same person occupying the same space?

  • @maverick5408
    @maverick5408 Před 5 měsíci +19

    Laughed way too hard at the Coralanus joke lmao

    • @zimriel
      @zimriel Před 5 měsíci +1

      hey yo
      they call me Coriolanus
      from Mercury to Uranus
      they all know me I'm famous

    • @katiegustafson6765
      @katiegustafson6765 Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@zimriel, thank you for spelling it correctly!

  • @ryanmarkley1979
    @ryanmarkley1979 Před 5 měsíci +19

    Well, this just made my Thanksgiving, thanks Ryan!

  • @cathygrandstaff1957
    @cathygrandstaff1957 Před 4 měsíci +3

    “How to make a child murderer sympathetic?” “Make him hot!”
    I mean they could also have made him a previous candidate in the Hunger Games, making it a parable about how those who suffer from injustice go on to perpetuate it as long as they can be the guy at the top. Also somehow they missed that the point was to watch kids shank each other, not to watch a bunch of snakes do the shanking. If I wanted a movie about snakes shanking people I’d ask for Snakes on a Plane 2: They Fly Now.

  • @bluecollarmenproductions
    @bluecollarmenproductions Před 5 měsíci +2

    “There’s till an hour left” exactly but also I wouldn’t want two movies idk what I want

  • @Abdo.R.Mohamed
    @Abdo.R.Mohamed Před 5 měsíci +9

    "He sentenced him for 20 years of being Eminem" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂