Random Dark Scenes That Were Left Out Of Hunger Games Movies (15 items)

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  (#13) Katniss Becomes Deaf In One Ear

  In the movie, Katniss blows up the Career Tributes' supplies at the Cornucopia and then hears a momentary ringing in her ears. In the book, blood comes out of her ear, and she's left permanently deaf on her left side. After the games, the Capitol gives her a hearing aid, which she later uses against them. 
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  (#8) Peeta Loses A Leg

  In the original Hunger Games movie, Peeta's leg is injured, but it's not completely amputated like it is in the book. Katniss, who helps make him a tourniquet in the games, doesn't even realize how badly Peeta is injured until they're being interviewed later by Caesar Flickerman. Peeta unveils the robotic leg the Capitol made for him in this interview, without which he surely wouldn't have been able to make it through the rest of the series. His robotic leg is mentioned often in Catching Fire, where it slows him down in a way that's completely omitted from the movies. 
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  (#9) People Are Starving To The Point Of Malnutrition

  Reaping fish soup, Mellark cookies, goat cheese bread from Prim, crescent bread from District 11, even Katniss's beloved lamb stew; The Hunger Games movie all but erases the book's focus on food, how rare it was to have it, and how joyful it was when you did. The film does include the flashback where Peeta throws some bread to Katniss while she's nearly passed out in the rain, but what the movie doesn't indicate is just how vital that gesture was.

  Katniss is on the verge of starving to death when Peeta saves her. When the two of them arrive in the Capitol, they partake in the food that is given to them, but they don't gorge themselves in the desperate way Collins describes. Remember, the Districts compete in these games so the champions can win an extra supply of food to bring home with them. 

  Catching Fire makes up for this a little bit by including the scene where Peeta express his disgust at the way the citizens of the Capitol make themselves throw up so they can eat more, all while people are starving to death back in District 12. Overall though, food is not the urgent, dire concern in the movies it is in the books. 
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  (#1) Katniss Murders A Stranger In The Capitol

  In one of the more random and harrowing acts of violence in the original version of Mockingjay, Katniss and her allies are hiding out in the Capitol when they come upon what appears to be an abandoned house. When a woman surprises them by calling for help, Katniss shoots her on instinct. 

  Although it's understandable why the filmmakers didn't want to include this moment for fear of what it would make the audience think about Katniss, it is a key moment in the novel. This scene shows just how much the uprising against the Capitol has changed Katniss, and how polarized the people on both sides have become. 
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  (#2) Peeta Kills Someone In The First Round Of The Games

  Peeta is portrayed as Katniss's less militant foil in the books and the films. This is why it is so significant in the first novel when he intentionally and knowingly murders someone.

  After the Cornucopia, Peeta teams up with the "career tributes." At one point, Peeta is sent back to finish off a girl whom Cato stabbed with a spear. Katniss watches him do it from a distance, and although he doesn't do it enthusiastically, he does do it.

  One could argue Peeta did this out of mercy, given the girl was already going to die, or as part of his long game to protect Katniss, whom he was trying to keep away from the other tributes. Both are probably a little but true, and eliminating this scene from the movie reduces both the sense of confusion Katniss initially feels about where Peeta's loyalties lie and the sense of guilt that would surely haunt the sensitive Peeta throughout the rest of the series. 
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  (#15) The War Between District 13 And The Capitol Is Much Bloodier

  As both fans of the books and the movies know, the majority of Mockingjay revolves around District 13's struggle against the Capitol. Yet both of the movie adaptations of the novel are less bloody in their depiction of the conflict. Although Katniss is involved in the fighting during each film, she witnesses less atrocities. In the novel, the rebels bomb cities and cause avalanches, and Katniss watches. 

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