Post 4: Adapting the Hunger Games

            Hello to all my fans! I’m back again with some more mind-boggling thoughts!

Would the Hunger Games be a hard film to make? Well, there would be many challenges. A challenge a filmmaker might have into making the Hunger Games into a movie is the fact that the whole setting is in the future. All the buildings in the Capitol have to be created in a futuristic style and District 12 has to have a village-type feel to it. Also, a setting for the arena would have to be found. Another obstacle is that a lot of the actors of the main characters would have to go through training to be able to portray the skills of their characters. All the different technologies of the futuristic world of Panem would also have to be shown.

However, this movie might be easier than some other books to create, based on the fact that there is a lot of action that wouldn’t be too hard to recreate on the screen. I do admit that, especially in the arena, there is a lack of dialogue that would make the scenes become boring, so that is another thing the screenwriters would have to pay attention to.

Some scenes that I believe are essential to the book (that cannot be cut out of the movie) are:

·         Katniss offering herself as tribute instead of Prim and Peeta is chosen

·         Peeta declaring his love for Katniss during the interviews

·         Katniss’ and Peeta’s suicide threat at the end of the Hunger Games

·         Katniss telling Peeta that she doesn’t love him

This last scene (as I have heard from friends who saw the movie) was cut out of the movie, leaving the movie with a totally different mood at the end. I have not seen the movie myself, so I am not able to pass any judgments, but I believe they cut that scene out because they will not be making another movie. That’s just my guess.

Another scene (or scenes you could say) that I heard was cut out of the movie was the relationship Peeta and Katniss carried throughout their stay in the cave. I don’t think that was a good idea on the filmmaker’s part because to many, many fans, that was the best part of the book!! Tsk tsk.

If I absolutely had to cut two things from the book, it would probably be Katniss’ relationship with her father, and how Peeta’s father gave cookies to Katniss before she left for the Hunger Games. I feel like both scenes wouldn’t transition so well into the movie and they might just take up necessary space.

Although I have finished the Hunger Games, I have not seen the movie yet, and looking forward to doing that soon and evaluating if it does justice to the book! Goodbye for now!