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Before There Was The Hunger Games...

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"Katniss follows the same arc from slave to gladiator to rebel to face of a war," The Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins is quoted as saying regarding the title character in the 1960 Stanley Kubrick classic starring Kirk Douglas.
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