Book Vs. Movie

Book Vs. Movie

                For this assignment I am going to discuss the differences between the book The Hunger Games and the recently Released movie. Because the book came out first I am going to examine the differences that the producers made to the movie compared to what the author wrote in the book. As well the similarities that the producers were able to copy from the movie.

One of the most significant changes that the producer makes to the movie compared to the book is the point of view that it is in. In the book the point of few through the whole thing is through Katniss’s eyes. You know what she thinks, hears, says, and does. You really don’t get much of the story outside of hear. While the movie it is not this way, I think they made it like this because it is a lot easier to do and is more appealing to the audience to do it this way. Because we as the audience can know everything that is going on instead of looking through her eyes the whole time. Another major difference in the movie was a major point in the plot of the movie. In the movie the major’s daughter gives katniss a pin in the shape of a mockingjay. But in the movie it is Katniss’s sister who gives the pin to her. This is a major part of the movie because the rebellions symbol is the mockingjay because of what Katniss did in the Hunger Games. I think that the producers made this change because they wanted to make her sister more of a character in the movie rather than being kind of ignored like she was throughout the whole book.  Another thing that the movie changed about the book is how the character looked and how they were portrayed. I thought that the actress who played Katniss was spot on but I was not envisioning Peeta the way he was in the movie.  In the book they described him as being a big guy, very muscular a pretty tall. But in the movie he was the opposite, it was a little weird seeing him smaller than Katniss was because I thought he would just be some big guy. I think they did this because they were trying to get a star studded cast and Peeta is portrayed by a person who is in a lot of other movies and is growing quite popular in the world of Hollywood.

Although the producers did make a few significant changes to the movie I think that it was better for the audiences to watch. One of the really good things they did was the stuck really closly to the storyline of the book, they didn’t stray to far to what really happened in the book.  They stuck so close to the story line because they didn’t have to change to much to make it a really good movie to watch. I am not saying that the movie was better than the book by any means but I think the producers did a really good job on the movie hitting all the important spots.