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The Girl Who Aimed With Fire: Watch First Teaser for The Hunger Games

Jennifer Lawrence introduced a suspenseful, heavily forested preview of The Hunger Games at the tail end of MTV's Video Music Awards in a pre-taped segment from North Carolina, where the adaptation of Suzanne Collins's bestseller is still being shot. And speaking of being shot: In the clip, Lawrence takes aim with a fiery arrow and artfully dodges some woodsy danger. Indeed, she's the new goddess of the hunt. Watch after the jump.

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Short! Fire! For those wondering, that's Liam Hemsworth as Gale providing the voice over. Also, as Movieline's Jen Yamato points out, Rue's whistling at the end sounds an awful lot like the X-Files theme song. The Hunger Games arrives in theaters on March 23, 2012.

VERDICT: May the odds be ever in your favor.

[via MTV]