Imagine yourself trapped beneath a glass bowl placed upside down on the kitchen table. Now, imagine that there are other people in there with you trying to kill you while all of your close family and friends are forced to sit around the table and anxiously watch you fight for your life. Those are the appalling images that come into my head when I think of the Hunger Games. When The Hunger Games, based off of the first book in the Hunger Games Saga written by Suzanne Collins, was released in March 2012, it dominated the box office. Although I thought that the movie was absolutely FANTASTIC, as a reader of the Hunger Games Saga, I was disappointed in what was left out. We all know that rewriting a book into a motion picture will result in the
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The film, lasting almost two and a half hours, does not lose the audience once. This is an important aspect that film writers and directors should pay close attention to. The emerging love between Katniss and Peeta is definitely something that keeps the audience’s attention and curiosity. From the beginning scene where Peeta gives Katniss bread so that her family doesn’t starve, to the scene in the cave, where Peeta and Katniss share their first kiss, the audiences in both real life, and in the movie, are definitely rooting for the two young lovers. The book, however; does a much better job of showing their progressive feelings for each other. In the book, the flashback of Peeta purposely burning some bread that was food for the pigs and giving it to Katniss so that her family didn’t starve, was completely shortened in the film. I think that it was an important scene because it showed the initial moment that Katniss began to fall for Peeta, Also the scene in the cave is much more descriptive than the movie. The movie scene is too brief and is not as romantic as the scene in the book. This was disappointing to me because I think that the romance in the book made it seem like they actually felt something for each other, and that they weren’t just pretending to love each other in order win over more sponsors like it is portrayed in the
The film, lasting almost two and a half hours, does not lose the audience once. This is an important aspect that film writers and directors should pay close attention to. The emerging love between Katniss and Peeta is definitely something that keeps the audience’s attention and curiosity. From the beginning scene where Peeta gives Katniss bread so that her family doesn’t starve, to the scene in the cave, where Peeta and Katniss share their first kiss, the audiences in both real life, and in the movie, are definitely rooting for the two young lovers. The book, however; does a much better job of showing their progressive feelings for each other. In the book, the flashback of Peeta purposely burning some bread that was food for the pigs and giving it to Katniss so that her family didn’t starve, was completely shortened in the film. I think that it was an important scene because it showed the initial moment that Katniss began to fall for Peeta, Also the scene in the cave is much more descriptive than the movie. The movie scene is too brief and is not as romantic as the scene in the book. This was disappointing to me because I think that the romance in the book made it seem like they actually felt something for each other, and that they weren’t just pretending to love each other in order win over more sponsors like it is portrayed in the