So I just saw The Hunger Games
Mar. 23rd, 2012 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
giandujakissI haven't read the books. What with all the hype for the movie, I was trying to decide whether to read the books, and then I remembered that, in my experience, people who read the book before seeing the movie are frequently disappointed in the movie, but people who see the movie first and then read the book often enjoy both, so I didn't.
Anyhoo, I have to say, the thing that disturbed the hell out of me more than anything else was -
That Katniss had to put on a romantic show with Peeta for the audience. That's how it was supposed to read, right? That she liked him well enough but her true love was Gale? I found that part way more disturbing than the rest of it. Although honestly, she had more chemistry with Cinna than with anyone else in the movie.
Overall, I was totally entertained and genuinely eager to see what would happen next, but it felt like there was supposed to be more there there than there actually was, which I assume comes from what was taken out of the books. Among other things, I was sort of disappointed that after all of the build up about the importance of sponsors, we barely saw them or their largesse. I assume that the reaction of the audience and the gifts they bestow are a bigger part of the book? I also felt like Katniss should have been forced to commit more ruthless acts - another thing that I suspect may occur more in the book? And of course, the actual hunger part seems to have been removed entirely.
Anyhoo, I gather from FList/DWircle posts that I should read the books, or at least the first one. So I plan to do that.
Anyhoo, I have to say, the thing that disturbed the hell out of me more than anything else was -
That Katniss had to put on a romantic show with Peeta for the audience. That's how it was supposed to read, right? That she liked him well enough but her true love was Gale? I found that part way more disturbing than the rest of it. Although honestly, she had more chemistry with Cinna than with anyone else in the movie.
Overall, I was totally entertained and genuinely eager to see what would happen next, but it felt like there was supposed to be more there there than there actually was, which I assume comes from what was taken out of the books. Among other things, I was sort of disappointed that after all of the build up about the importance of sponsors, we barely saw them or their largesse. I assume that the reaction of the audience and the gifts they bestow are a bigger part of the book? I also felt like Katniss should have been forced to commit more ruthless acts - another thing that I suspect may occur more in the book? And of course, the actual hunger part seems to have been removed entirely.
Anyhoo, I gather from FList/DWircle posts that I should read the books, or at least the first one. So I plan to do that.
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Date: 2012-03-24 05:33 pm (UTC)I think the only descriptors we got of her were olive skin, dark thick hair, and grey eyes -- what made me think she was biracial is it's emphasized how different she looks from her mother and Prim and Peeta, who are all very blonde, and Gale is like "her brother" -- "straight black hair, olive skin, we even have the same grey eyes....most of the families who work the mines resemble each other in this way." Her blond mother and sister look "out of place" because her mother worked in "the nicer part of District 12" and left it to marry Katniss's father in the Seam. Peeta has "ashy blond hair that falls in waves over his forehead", blue eyes and a stocky build, but he's from the merchant area -- the Seam is right next to the border with lots of woods and the mines and not much else.
Anyway, I just expected her to look different from Peeta at least, and she doesn't really.