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

[kellyjmf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Peeta joins the Careers to keep them from killing Katniss. But on the meta side, it allows the author to keep Katniss off-balance about Peeta and his motives and actions.

I mostly liked the choices they made for the movie except cutting the bread from District 11 after Rue's death. And I wasn't thrilled about adding a riot in its place.

I read all three super fast over the winter holidays and read them again last month. My 11-y.o. was obsessed with them and kept bringing up tiny details I couldn't remember.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

I thought the bread thing was a really nice touch, but in order to put that in, they'd have to include the backstory on bread and how she knew it was from D11, which might be a bit too much detail to stuff in.

In general, yeah, a well-done adaptation -- so much of the book is internal to her thoughts, and they did a good job of extracting the story without losing too much.

[skreeky]

Yes and no. I've heard a few people complain about how *unlikeable* Katniss is, and therefore they didn't like the movie at all. I think that the lack of her internal dialog is why they are completely missing that this is the point of the character. Her internal journey is how she deals with the pressure to "be likeable or DIE" and later become Someone Important while knowing perfectly well that she doesn't have the charisma to pull it off (and being just fine with who she is thankyouverymuch except that she might DIE).

For some reason, I seem to identify with a strong but unlikeable female that deals with people by minding her own business. But anyway...

So apparently something was badly lost in translation.