The popular and fantastic book known as the Hunger Games, has recently come out as a movie and like the book, has topped the selling charts and was sold out in almost every movie theater for three weeks straight. I went to see the Hunger Games two weeks after it came out and was surprised to walk into a crowded theater. I read the book before I went to the movie and to be honest, was expecting to be disappointed. I was actually very pleased with the outcome of the movie compared to the book. I thought that it kept with the book for the majority things but it did leave out a few details.
One of the biggest differences that I noticed was where Katniss acquired her mocking jay pin. In the book, the mayor’s daughter, her basically only friend besides Gale, came to see her before she left on the train to go to the Hunger Games. When she came, she brought the pin with her and told her to wear it as a sign of disrespect to the capital. It was pretty big thing that she gave it to Katniss though because the pin was pure gold and in the district that they were from it was hard enough to afford bread let alone a gold mocking jay pin.
Another difference was that they left out the story in the beginning where the man and woman were running away and got caught by the capital. Gale and Katniss were out in the woods and the woman looked at Katniss and wanted them to help but Katniss was afraid and then the girl was captured. Katniss also encounters the girl again when she goes to the capital. The girl had her tongue cut out and was a servant for Katniss and the others.
Even though I was kind of disappointed about these main differences and the other more subtle things that the movie people left out, the movie did follow the book pretty closely. I also understand with the time crunch why the producers and writers decided to leave these little things out. The movie was absolutely phenomenal though and I would recommend it to anyone that hasn’t seen it yet. (381)
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