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Hunger Games: Movie vs. Novel (Part 2)
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A few days ago, I posted Hunger Games: Movie vs. Novel (Part 1). This was a lengthy excerpt from an interview I did at HungerGamesTrilogy.net exploring a lot of key differences between the Hunger Games movie and novel.
Here's a second installment--more differences between the movie and novel and what I think about them.
The Avoxes
The Avoxes play a much bigger role in the books. In the movie, they stand quietly with black-painted lips in the corners of rooms and are never even identified as Avoxes. If you haven't read the Hunger Games but you see the movie, you won't know that they are Avoxes and what this means.
In the novel, on the train enroute to the Capitol, a girl with red hair serves cake to Katniss, who recognizes the servant but can't quite figure out where she's seen her. Katniss associates a bad memory with the girl. After Effie and Haymitch explain that the girl is an Avox whose tongue was removed as punishment for a crime, Katniss remembers: she tells Peeta that she and Gale had seen this girl and a boy running through the woods. (p. 82) A hovercraft appeared and airlifted the girl with a net and shot a spear through the boy, then dragged him on a cable into the hovercraft. Although the girl screamed for help, neither Gale nor Katniss moved.
Later in the series, we see more of the Avoxes. I wonder if the subsequent movies will explain their roles or omit them again. Some of the Avox punishment is incredibly gruesome, such as neutering boys. But with PG-13 films, this type of graphic violence probably will be omitted.
The Berries
In the movie, Katniss and Peeta count down to eating the berries, but they don't put the berries into their mouths. In the novel, Katniss actually presses the berries to her lips, and at the last second, the Capitol intervenes and declares both of them winners of the Hunger Games. I haven't quite figured out why the movie omits this detail and am still puzzling through the reasons.
The Crown
At the end of the Hunger Games, Snow places a crown on Katniss' head. In the book, he breaks the crown in half and places one-half on her head and the other on Peeta's head. As with the berries, I haven't been able to determine the reason for omitting this detail from the film, as it makes a lot of sense for Snow to break the crown, symbolizing that he's upset with the fact that Katniss has outsmarted him but he's willing to concede her victory, this one time. It might have been an insightful moment about Snow's motives had it made it into the film.
The Forcefield on the Roof
In the book, forcefields play a big role in the games. We get a glimpse into the role of the forcefields as survival mechanisms--and death mechanisms--when Katniss and Peeta are at the training center. They're on the roof, where nobody can jump off, ie, where tribute suicide is impossible. When he holds his hand out, a zap hits him, and he tells Katniss that an electric field throws people back onto the roof should they attempt to jump off. Later in the books, we learn that these electric fields played a huge role in Haymitch's winning of the Hunger Games, and of course, the forcefields are central to the arena in Catching Fire.
The movie omits this detail of foreshadowing. Anyone who hasn't read the book but who sees the movie will probably wonder why the tributes don't jump off the roof and commit suicide rather than risk almost certain death by torture in the arena.
In Click here to read Hunger Games: Movie vs. Novel (Part 1), I discuss the movie vs. the book in detail, covering these key subjects:
the reapingcharacterization and deepness versus dialogue and actionreduced level of violence in the filmCato's deathGlimmer's deathRue's deathGreasy SaeMadge not giving the Mockingjay pin to KatnissPrim's nightmare in the opening scenethe muttsthe bizarre behavior of the parents not fighting back when their children are takenKatniss' motherthe bread motifDistrict 11's giftI also tell you what I think about the performances of the actors and actresses.
Click here to read Hunger Games: Movie vs. Novel (Part 1).
A few days ago, I posted Hunger Games: Movie vs. Novel (Part 1). This was a lengthy excerpt from an interview I did at HungerGamesTrilogy.net exploring a lot of key differences between the Hunger Games movie and novel.
Here's a second installment--more differences between the movie and novel and what I think about them.
The Avoxes
The Avoxes play a much bigger role in the books. In the movie, they stand quietly with black-painted lips in the corners of rooms and are never even identified as Avoxes. If you haven't read the Hunger Games but you see the movie, you won't know that they are Avoxes and what this means.
In the novel, on the train enroute to the Capitol, a girl with red hair serves cake to Katniss, who recognizes the servant but can't quite figure out where she's seen her. Katniss associates a bad memory with the girl. After Effie and Haymitch explain that the girl is an Avox whose tongue was removed as punishment for a crime, Katniss remembers: she tells Peeta that she and Gale had seen this girl and a boy running through the woods. (p. 82) A hovercraft appeared and airlifted the girl with a net and shot a spear through the boy, then dragged him on a cable into the hovercraft. Although the girl screamed for help, neither Gale nor Katniss moved.
Later in the series, we see more of the Avoxes. I wonder if the subsequent movies will explain their roles or omit them again. Some of the Avox punishment is incredibly gruesome, such as neutering boys. But with PG-13 films, this type of graphic violence probably will be omitted.
The Berries
In the movie, Katniss and Peeta count down to eating the berries, but they don't put the berries into their mouths. In the novel, Katniss actually presses the berries to her lips, and at the last second, the Capitol intervenes and declares both of them winners of the Hunger Games. I haven't quite figured out why the movie omits this detail and am still puzzling through the reasons.
The Crown
At the end of the Hunger Games, Snow places a crown on Katniss' head. In the book, he breaks the crown in half and places one-half on her head and the other on Peeta's head. As with the berries, I haven't been able to determine the reason for omitting this detail from the film, as it makes a lot of sense for Snow to break the crown, symbolizing that he's upset with the fact that Katniss has outsmarted him but he's willing to concede her victory, this one time. It might have been an insightful moment about Snow's motives had it made it into the film.
The Forcefield on the Roof
In the book, forcefields play a big role in the games. We get a glimpse into the role of the forcefields as survival mechanisms--and death mechanisms--when Katniss and Peeta are at the training center. They're on the roof, where nobody can jump off, ie, where tribute suicide is impossible. When he holds his hand out, a zap hits him, and he tells Katniss that an electric field throws people back onto the roof should they attempt to jump off. Later in the books, we learn that these electric fields played a huge role in Haymitch's winning of the Hunger Games, and of course, the forcefields are central to the arena in Catching Fire.
The movie omits this detail of foreshadowing. Anyone who hasn't read the book but who sees the movie will probably wonder why the tributes don't jump off the roof and commit suicide rather than risk almost certain death by torture in the arena.
In Click here to read Hunger Games: Movie vs. Novel (Part 1), I discuss the movie vs. the book in detail, covering these key subjects:
the reapingcharacterization and deepness versus dialogue and actionreduced level of violence in the filmCato's deathGlimmer's deathRue's deathGreasy SaeMadge not giving the Mockingjay pin to KatnissPrim's nightmare in the opening scenethe muttsthe bizarre behavior of the parents not fighting back when their children are takenKatniss' motherthe bread motifDistrict 11's giftI also tell you what I think about the performances of the actors and actresses.
Click here to read Hunger Games: Movie vs. Novel (Part 1).
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