Catching Fire, in theatres November 22nd

Are you one of those people who cannot wait to see the second installment of The Hunger Games? Well good news, there is only 27 days remaining until it opens in North American theatres on November 22nd 2013.

"Catching Fire" will be sure to have many young archers in the movie theatre - but to be fair, Katniss Everdeen really does very little archery in the films. In the first film she only shot an arrow 13 times.

Compare that to other films like The Avengers (23 shots by Hawkeye), The Fellowship of the Rings (22 shots by Legolas) and other films that have a lot more archery in them. The Hunger Games is more about the drama - which admittedly is the real reason why people are watching it.

But hey, the drama is very good. And the archery is good too. So maybe there is less archery in the film, but it is still a very good film.

Korean Boy talks about crafting a Traditional Korean Bow

In the video below 14-year-old Dong Woo Jang from Korea talks about crafting a Traditional Korean Bow using a variety of woods during his experiments in bowmaking.

Thorin Oakenshield with Bow

Thorin Oakenshield with Bow

Women in Archery during Early 21st Century

In recent years archery has become increasingly popular - and nowhere is this rise more noticeable than the number of female celebrities being shown in films, music videos, photography doing archery - often just posing with the bow and not actually learning archery.

Below is a collection of female celebrities from the last 15 years or so doing archery - or at least posing with a bow and arrow. It is a long list too. Everyone from actresses Anne Hathaway and Keira Knightley to fashion supermodels like Daria Werbowy and musicians like Ke$ha.

To Anne Hathaway's credit she at least got an archery lesson and presumably learned something. Many of the photos of fashion models and actresses below clearly show a complete lack of formal training in archery. You can usually tell easily by their form and stance whether they have had any lessons or not.

To be fair, if we found a similar number of photographs of male actors, male fashion models and male musicians doing archery, they would likely look equally inept.

Women in Archery during the Mid 20th Century

Below are a collection of photos of women doing archery - often celebrities from 1940s, 1950s, 1960s.

According to my research archery saw a bit of a revival during the 1950s - and a small revival in the 1970s.

Basically it was suddenly kewl to be seen with a bow. So everyone from Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, Anita Ekberg, Candice Bergen, Cyd Charisse, Gene Tierney, Jean Parker, Susan Hayward, Lana Turner and others were picking up archery - not so much as a sport or something they do regularly, but just so they could be seen as part of what was essentially a fad at the time.

This fad even extended into the 1970s when people like Jane Fonda also picked up the bow.