The Difference between the Hunger Games book and movie!
The Hunger Games and the rest of the trilogy has been topping the billboards for the best and the most imaginative story plot for quite some time. It has reached that stage of popularity where the books are being made into movies. In fact the second movie of the series released just recently! But, as we all have pretty much noticed, movies can't replicate the aura of the books so well and couldn't live up to the image that the readers had set in their mind. This particular post pinpoints few of the differences between the hunger games movie and book.
First difference would be the no-visit from Peeta’s father.Gale, her mother and sister come say goodbye to her. But Peeta’s father was supposed to visit as well and offer Katniss cookies. The film did’t include these scenes at all.Many youngsters inevitably die in the hunger games. In the book, some of these characters have their final moments in the lime light. For instance, in an early scene; Katniss starts camp near a young woman who starts a campfire. After the young woman is discovered, she is attacked and nearly killed by some of the fellow tributes. In conclusion of the book Cato,who was facing off against a group of mutant mutts, survives for several hours before Katniss puts him out of his misery.In the movie these deaths are done quickly. It’s possible that the deaths are abbreviated.
If there is a villain in the actual games, it is Cato. Towards the end of the film, district 11 tribute named Thresh saves Katniss’s life when he realizes how much she did to protect Rue throughout the games. After he saves Katniss, though, Thresh is ultimately murdered. In the book, the assumption is that Cato has killed him. But in the movie, the suggestion is that Thresh has died at the hands of a group of dogs that the game makers have called into battle to help kill some of the remaining tributes. Cato’s murder of Thresh in the book helped set the stage for a more intense final showdown between the surviving tributes.
In the book, Katniss recognizes that the Capitol has spliced parts of the former tributes into mutant beasts ; however, in the film version, the "dogs" are presented as nothing more than over-sized (and vicious) wild beasts chosen by Seneca Crane to galvanize the remaining contestants into a final altercation. No mention is made of where the creatures come from, or what exactly they are, leaving non-fans out of the loop in regards to one of the most horrific aspects of The Hunger Games. In the movie, the career districts are 1,2 and 4 whereas in the movie only district 1 and 2 are careers.
In addition, usage of tone and mode differs too, in the book, chapter one, Katniss said “it’s the day of reaping.” That was the end of the first paragraph; it shows suspense and gives interest for the reader to read more.
As Katniss was preparing for the games, one of the servants (who were introduced in the book as avoxes) had a connection with Katniss. Katniss held herself accountable for the state of the avox as she felt she could have helped the avox escape from the capitol. Even though the avox did not play such an important role, she was an example of the Capitol's power.
Even though the content and the storyline is obviously the same for both, the book and the movie have different styles, but at the end its your choice to decide which one is better.
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