tea and hunger games.

[rmd]

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So, I saw the Hunger Games movie last week and then went off and borrowed the book and read it. IMAO, the book has better worldbuilding, but the movie is much tighter - a well-done adaptation of the source material, I think. I have one question about the plot and one comment on the book/movie difference below, however, after an lj-cut as spoiler-space.


So, Peeta goes off and joins the career tribute alliance when the games begin. This seems somewhat out of character for him based on everything else we know. Is this just weirdly characterized behavior, or is it foreshadowing for something later in the series?

Also, the mutant dog/attack-critters near the end are much creepier in the book. I'm not sure it would've worked well on-screen, so it's a good call not to, but, yeah, creepy.

Comments

[solarbird]

Except.

They did acknowledge what happened in the book with the hounds, visually, very briefly, in that you get a brief but clearly intentional shot of what looked like awfully human eyes on one of the hounds.

I took this as a reference to what they couldn't do from the book, and I think taking it out was the right call - as a fan. It wouldn't've worked on screen.

Peeta had done a pretty good job chatting up some of the pros beforehand in training, or so I remember. I took it as part of that. You saw more of that at the end of the first book and the first film where he turns it on and suddenly he's Mister Television during the post-Games interviews.

Unrelated to any of this, last weekend's Foxtrot made me very happy. :D