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

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the movie. I thought the worldbuilding in the book was not bad for a YA novel (which is what it is; I find it endlessly amusing how the novels have caught on among adults, when I don't find it horribly depressing), but when compared to the genre as a whole, somewhere between "poor" and "on the low side of average". But it's probably the best that the genre will ever do in popular culture.