Abdellah Lammoudden

The Hunger games

When thinking about this task, the only movie I thought about was the hunger games, not only because its is my favorite movie, but also for the architecture shown during it.

The hunger games film series is composed of science fiction, dystopian, adventure films, based on the hunger games novels by the American author, Suzanne Collins, the first fil was debuted and streamed in 2012, the other film parts were later launched in 2013, 2014, 2015, Making a total of 2.970 billions in the box office.

The capital of Panem, of the Hunger games, is a technology advanced urban center where the nation’s most wealthy and powerful live. The capital reflects its brutal, totalitarian government, that take heed from the classical Roman influence. The overall look of the capitol is inspired by the Neoclassic designs of 1930, an architectural style used also by the fascist architecture, expressed though the interest in symmetry, columns and gold accents.

The fact that the Roman architecture had been a mix of signs of unity and power and Rome was a powerful civilization, that had a profound influence on all later western societies, is what gave the producers of the film the inspiration to take roman architecture as a theme for the film.

In the film, The world is divided into many districts the lower your district the lower you value in society, and that is actually what was going on during the same period of roman architecture, the society was divided into different social classes and each class has more rights than the other. Also the fact that the film is all about surviving and rebelling against the political system explains more the exaggerated use of roman architecture, since it carries with here the memories of war, changes in the political system…..