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Originally posted by satellites™
I know but with books like Harry Potter, the translation to film happened so wonderfully in EVERY film imo, after I saw this movie I was left with a bad taste in my mouth. Like Katniss spends most of the book in her thoughts, building relationships with Haymitch, Cinna, Peeta, and Rue indirectly and then in the movie **** just flew right on by, like the way Rue just found Katniss and trusted her without hesitation was irritating, it was cute though overall.
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I disagree with this, the Harry Potter movies were great as entertaining and well-made movies, but they completely failed as adaptions of the books, ruining many of the central themes that made the books so great. Especially in the later movies, things like the many incarnations of "be kind to all living creatures" embodied by SPEW, the inclusion of centaurs/elves/thestrals in the final battle, erasing any semblance of Voldemort's back story (God forbid Hollywood allows us to view an antagonist sympathetically), the notion of forgiveness that comes from being an adult that is repeated practically ad nauseam in the book, embodied by Harry's struggles and fixing Dumbledore's wand at the end, failing to include the bond between Harry and his father, explaining his stag patronus, the Marauder's Map, the cloak and its connection to the Deathly Hallows blah blah blah. Basically the whole story was simplified to a tired and cliché depiction of "Good vs Evil" set in a magic world that had already been done over and over again.
In comparison to that, I think THG movie retained more of what was central to the book. So much of the book takes place in the head of Katniss and her internal monologue so it would obviously be hard to translate on the screen and much of it has to take place in the nuances of Jennifer Lawrence's acting, but overall all the really important things from the book were contained and merely sped up, without enough time to really flesh out the relationships, because of obvious time constraints.