I don't think people understand just how astoundingly fucking great Marlo Kelly was in Dare Me. The kind of great that you will rewatch scenes you hate just to see her act.
UCP posted this one hour ago on Instagram. It's Addy and Beth's rain kiss, including the script to the scene. Enjoy :)
I love this scene, I watched it a million times. It's so pure. Addy's hesitant desire, Beth's smile - all the feels. And: I don't think anyone could have done that better than Herizen and Marlo!
But I'm surprised to read that they were 14/15 at the time of the kiss. This might change some of my theories, I think.
Hunger Games didn’t really eat holes in my brain the way that it did for some other people but god the opening lines. The opening lines. Katniss wakes up in bed and immediately, instinctively reaches beside her, only to find the bed empty and cold. Before we even know her name – before we know literally anything about her or this world or her place in that world – we know that she loves someone. We know that she is reaching for where Prim should be, sleeping safe and warm beside her, but Prim is not there. She is not there, and her half of the bed is cold and empty.
People talk about characters being “doomed by the narrative” when most of the time the character was literally just a well-foreshadowed death, but Prim WAS doomed by the narrative. It’s the very first thing we learned. It’s the most key, integral, important piece of information we’re given about everything that is about to happen: Every single choice Katniss makes is to protect her little sister, and it isn’t enough. In the end, Prim still dies. Prim was dead before the story even started.
Katniss, reaching. Prim’s side of the bed was cold and empty. There is no version of this story where Prim could have been saved.
Katniss, reaching. The very first thing she does in the series. She wakes, and she reaches, but Prim is already gone.
THAT is how you do Doomed By The Narrative.
Edit: Also it is key that there was literally nothing Katniss could have done differently. If she had not acted to save Prim, Prim would not have survived the Hunger Games. But by acting to save Prim, Katniss accidentally kicked off an entire rebellion and ultimately massively increased the amount of danger Prim was actually in. The key is that this is irrelevant. If Katniss had done literally anything differently, Prim still would have died. If Katniss had faltered or changed course at any point, Prim still would have died. There was never a point where Katniss could have changed Prim’s fate.
There’s no version of this story where Prim lives to see the end of it. She’s dead before the story begins. That’s doomed by the narrative.
kate bush really wrote wuthering heights in one night aged eighteen recorded it at four in the morning on one take reached the top of the charts within a week became a millionaire off it and lived the rest of her life making batshit music because she was set from the one song she wrote and filmed singing spinning in a random field without any planned dance choreography or not having even read the book. that is legend behaviour.
No, I don’t think about it ever, that night with Beth up high on the ridge.
There was a wonder in it, and who needs to talk about such wonders? We nestle them away, deep in the fury at the center of us, where things can be held tightly, protected and secretly cherished as a special notion we once held, then had to stow away.