The Films That Shaped It

The Hunger Games

2012 · Gary Ross · Africa

I spent a lot of time watching films like 'The Battle of Algiers', 'Reds', 'Nashville', 'Apocalypse Now', a lot of films from the 70s. Also films like 'The Emigrants' and 'The New Land' (two Swedish films, a Bergman movie and an Astrakhan movie, by Jan Troell) which are just about people trying to survive and keep their family together. That kind of thing.

I spent a lot of time watching films like 'The Battle of Algiers', 'Reds', 'Nashville', 'Apocalypse Now', a lot of films from the 70s... films about people trying to survive and keep their family together.

I spent a lot of time watching films like 'The Battle of Algiers', 'Reds', 'Nashville', 'Apocalypse Now'... Also films like 'The Emigrants' and 'The New Land'... which are just about people trying to survive and keep their family together.

— Gary Ross  ·  Hollywood.com (Interview: Gary Ross Reveals The Influences Behind The Hunger Games)

I spent a lot of time watching films like 'The Battle of Algiers', 'Reds', 'Nashville', 'Apocalypse Now'... Also films like 'The Emigrants' and 'The New Land' which are just about people trying to survive and keep their family together.

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