'Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2' Spoilers: Movie Posters Featuring Jennifer Lawrence Face Censorship In Israel [VIDEO]
Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 posters featuring Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss are not appreciated in Israel.
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Haaretz reports that, instead, posters featuring a fiery crown replace Katniss for Israeli audiences. This apparently has to do with the fact that Jerusalem is not friendly to posters showcasing women.
The representative of an Israeli firm elaborated on why this change was implemented.
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"We discovered that public posters with the image of a female are often torn down in Jerusalem, while Bnei Brak does not allow posters with female images," the rep said.
Elsewhere in censorship, there has been talk of the conclusion to the series featuring a lot of violence.
A Business Standard report sourced director Frances Lawrence and actress Natalie Dormer's responses in regards the level of violence in the movie.
"In the visual interpretation of the stories, I wanted to make sure that we were again focusing on the emotional consequence of it, not the carnage, not the blood...You'll notice there is very, very little blood. That's not what I wanted to explore, that's not what I am interested in," Lawrence said.
The movie will remain true to the book, and therefore they could not exactly shy away from the violence. The director spoke about that as a challenge.
"That was probably the biggest challenge I had in the making of this movie specifically. I think each of the movies has been violent in its own way, but this was going to be the toughest," he said.
Dormer also added that they didn't want to be patronising to the young audience which also explains why they might have wanted to incorporate the grit.
"I think the Hunger Games is a phenomenon that's rewritten the rule book about what can be commercially viable. It's not condescending, it's not patronising to its young audience," she said.
Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 will hit theaters on Nov. 20.
