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🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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It was a worldwide phenomenon and with THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES soon to be released it's back! We're sitting down with director Francis Lawrence and watching THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE! Considered by most to be the best of the THG series, Francis talks about joining the franchise, earning the trust of Jennifer Lawrence and Woody Harrelson, and how he crafted an epic blockbuster while prepping two more sequels!
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0:00.0 | There's a moment here where PETA comes back and Jen and PETA kiss for the first time and I remember one of the times because she was crying there was this huge clap of snot that was like connected between... I think her. |
0:13.0 | And were you always totally on board with splitting them into two films? |
0:16.5 | I mean, some series have gotten flack over the years. |
0:19.0 | But yeah, ours got flack. |
0:20.5 | I was not a big fan of doing it. I wish that we would have done just one complete movie |
0:25.8 | I think what I feel is left on the table is we really are going to be able to do |
0:30.9 | the R rated version of Constantine, |
0:33.2 | the like more sort of truthful, honest, you know, |
0:36.0 | scary like if it was if I was gonna get an R |
0:39.3 | I would have made it an R-rated movie. |
0:41.4 | Hello Dear Happy Say Confused listener it is I Josh Harrow. |
0:44.7 | So the quick little series of notes before we dive into today's special edition of the |
0:49.6 | podcast with Mr. Francis Lawrence, a special watch a long episode of Happy, Say, Confused. |
0:55.4 | If you don't know what that is, here's the deal. |
0:59.0 | This is a special mini-series, a spin-off, if you of happy say confused we have created a series of |
1:06.6 | very cool episodes in which I sit down with a filmmaker and watch one of their works in full. |
1:13.6 | So you were about to listen or watch a conversation I had with Francis Lawrence, the director |
1:18.7 | of many of the Hunger Games films, including catching fire fire the film we watched on this episode |
1:24.1 | you're gonna hear the highlights nearly an hour of highlights this is the best juiciest |
1:29.2 | stuff about the making of catching fire and Francis's career. It is a fun listen I guarantee you that. |
1:36.6 | If you want the entire conversation you heard me right if you want to sit there |
1:41.8 | with Francis and I turn on catching fire on your TV |
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