{"id":92,"date":"2012-04-07T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/saturday-matinee-the-hunger-games-a-bookmovie-comparison.html"},"modified":"2012-04-07T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T12:04:00","slug":"saturday-matinee-hunger-games-bookmovie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/saturday-matinee-hunger-games-bookmovie\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Matinee – The Hunger Games – A Book\/Movie Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Have you seen The Hunger Games? If so, what’d you think?<\/b><\/p>\n

I went to see The Hunger Games yesterday. I enjoyed the book much more than the movie. However, the movie did follow the book’s storyline, for the most part, with a few added changes.<\/p>\n

Just like in the book, the 12 districts randomly selects a boy and a girl during the reaping, to play in the Hunger Games.<\/a> A total of 24 kids, aged 12-18 will fight in The Hunger Games until there is supposedly one lone survivor. I’m not going to bother repeating the plot since I already talked about this, in depth, on the link above when I reviewed the novel.<\/p>\n

The movie made a few significant changes. The Gamemaker played more of a role in the movie than in the book. I don’t recall seeing the Gamemaker very much in the first book. (Although, the new Gamemaker is a prominent character in the second book.) Also, there’s a number of scenes with the Gamemaker and President Snow in the movie. I don’t recall seeing much of President Snow in the first book. (Although, you do see him a number of times in the second and third books.)<\/p>\n

I felt that the character of Rue was not as deep or developed as in the book. However, in their defense, I know it’s hard to place every little thing from the book into the movie. <\/p>\n

Also, there were a number of scenes that they added to the movie which showed the people controlling the game. I don’t recall seeing this in the book – the Gamemaker and his underlings, actually seeing them put things like fire and wild dogs into the players world. We see the book totally through Katniss’s point-of-view, so all of this background\/behind the scenes stuff is not shown in the book.<\/p>\n

The movie was just okay. I thought it had some suspenseful moments, but, I doubt I’d want to see it again. If I had to make a recommendation, I’d say to read the book before seeing the movie. The book has much more depth – more meat – in the story than the movie.<\/p>\n

Have you seen The Hunger Games? If so, what’d you think?<\/b><\/p>\n

~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

SPOILER:<\/p>\n

I was surprised that they didn’t have Peeta to lose his leg at the end of the movie. This happens in the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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