Donald Sutherland: President Snow
Photos
Quotes
-
President Snow : I wanted to tell you how very sorry I am about your sister. So wasteful. So unnecessary. Anyone could see the game was over by that point. In fact I was just about issue an official surrender when they released those parachutes.
Katniss Everdeen : You released those parachutes.
President Snow : You really think I gave the order? We both know I'm not above killing children, but I'm not wasteful. I take life for specific reasons, and there was no reason for me to destroy a pen full of Capitol children. None at all.
[coughs up blood]
President Snow : I must concede, it was a masterful move on Coin's part. The idea that I was bombing our own helpless children to hold back the rebels. It turned the last of my guards against me. There was no resistance left inside the Capitol or the mansion. Do you know it aired live? There's a particular savvy in that, isn't there? I'm sure she wasn't gunning for your sister, but... these things happen in war. My failure was in being so slow to grasp Coin's plan. She let the Capitol and the Districts destroy one another, then she stepped in to take power with 13's arsenal. Oh, make no mistake, she intends to take my place now. But... I've been watching you. And you watching me. I'm afraid we've both been played for fools.
Katniss Everdeen : I don't believe you.
President Snow : Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we'd agreed never to lie to each other.
-
President Alma Coin : [message appears onscreen] Good evening. For those of you who don't know me, please allow me to introduce myself. I am President Alma Coin, leader of the Rebellion. I have interrupted a broadcast from your President in which he attempted to defame a brave young woman. "A face picked from the masses," he called her.
President Snow : Plucked.
President Alma Coin : As if a leader, a true leader, could be anything else. I had the privilege of knowing a small-town girl from the Seam in District 12 who survived the Hunger Games and the Quarter Quell and rose up and turned a nation of slaves into an army! Dead or alive, Katniss Everdeen will remain the face of this revolution. She will not have died for nothing.
-
Egeria : Sir, should I call for your doctor?
President Snow : [jerking awake] What'd you say?
Egeria : Shall I call for your doctor?
President Snow : I hope you've wakened me for something more urgent than an old man's health.
Egeria : They survived. I don't know how. We picked them up on a surveillance cam.
President Snow : Let me see. I... I need to see for myself.
[recognizing Katniss]
President Snow : It's her. It is her. The arena has moved underground.
-
President Snow : Antonius, with our best troops crushed in the mountains and the rebels marching on us as we speak, what did we celebrate?
Antonius : The death of the Mockingjay, sir. If Peeta didn't kill her, her own arrogance did.
President Snow : Of course. That's the same facile thinking that led you to divert our best Peacekeepers into District 2. You have a habit of burying people before they're dead. If the Mockingjay were gone, the rebels would already be using her as a martyr. No, Minister Antonius, I'm afraid that is not what we were toasting at all.
-
President Snow : The rebels will reach the outskirts of the Capitol in a matter of days. We'll evacuate the outer blocks to let them in. I want all anti-aircraft defenses ready, so we're secure from the skies. Lure them into the city, and then our Gamemakers will make them pay for every inch with blood. I want every camera watching. We'll turn their advance into a celebration of suffering. Let each moment be captured for all posterity.
[Antonius begins choking]
President Snow : So, what did we toast tonight, Minister Antonius? We toasted a glorious era coming to its bitter end.
