People in Panem’s oppressed districts respond with their own salute and then start to riot. In one scene, the main character, Katniss Everdeen, raises her left hand to her lips and then extends her arm outward, directly into a camera.
#ROMAN SALUTE MOVIE#
More recently, in the popular teen book series and movie “The Hunger Games,†a three-fingered salute becomes a rallying cry for the oppressed in the nation of Panem, which holds televised games that have children fight to the death. In Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lampooned the gesture in “The Great Dictator.†And who could forget Peter Sellers’ inability to control his right arm as the title character in “Dr. Far right and fascist sympathizers commemorate the death of Benito Mussolini and his mistress Claretta. Although there are no contemporary Roman texts that make reference to this salute, the Nazis can be forgiven for believing it was Roman as many 19th and 20th century plays, artwork and movies depicted the salute as ‘Roman. Olympic Committee after giving the black power salute of a raised fist as a protest at their medal victory ceremony. Adopted in the 1930s it is commonly believed that the salute was based on an ancient salute used by the Romans. But at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, two black American athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, were suspended by the U.S. The Nazi version of the salute was tolerated at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. The raised fist has been used by the civil liberties movement, the feminist movement, the labor movement and scores of others to show the same thing. The Young Pioneers, a Soviet youth organization, turned the open-hand to the side for their salute, while other communist groups often used the closed fist to symbolize unity and solidarity.
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