To say that "The Hunger Games" is the US version of "Battle Royale" is even less reliable than saying that "Inception" is the US version of "Red Pepper". The two movies are not of the same magnitude and are not of the same genre. The violent blood and humanity of "Battle Royale" has become soft science fiction, dictatorship and girlish love in "The Hunger Games". The only thing in common is "a group of teenagers are forced to "Kill each other". In fact, anyone who has read the original should be well aware that "The Hunger Games" is more like the "Battle Royale" version of "Twilight", so this film adaptation is more often referred to by the media as a replacement for "Twilight" This is also a very worrying point. After all, no one but the film company wants to see another "Twilight series" born.
Fortunately, the movie "The Hunger Games" is neither the American version of "Battle Royale" nor the "Battle Royale" version of "Twilight". The film uses creativity based on the extremely faithful original to perfect the blank parts of the original and the entire adaptation. Many correct decisions were made during the process. It's a pity that these decisions have not been implemented well. Either the heat is not enough or the force is too strong, and in my opinion, it is a superfluous effect.
[Decision 1] From a subjective perspective to an omniscience narrative
, the original author of "The Hunger Games" seems to deliberately avoid the hard science fiction field. The entire story is told in the first person by Katniss. The regret after reading it was that I could not know what happened outside the arena. For example, how the mentor recruits sponsors, how the game organizer controls the entire game, etc. The film adaptation uses an omniscient perspective to help the audience understand the plot, so that we can see the scene of the main control room, President Snow and Seneca's conversation, a live show hosted by Caesar, helped explain the poisonous bees and mine traps, Haymitch's sponsorship to save Katniss, and the riots in District 11. I think these original scenes are very good. They not only satisfy my desire to find out, but also have significant effects in the expression of the theme of the movie and the supplementary explanation of the plot.
However, the lack of heat is Haymitch's off-court role. As early as on the train, Haymitch said that the key to winning the entire game is sponsors. However, Haymitch in the movie was drinking while watching the live broadcast. It was not until after seeing Katniss that Katniss was seriously injured and in a critical condition, did he set out to get sponsorship everywhere. Helping Peeta back sponsorship could have been the most motivating part of the plot, but the film was not shot...
The place where the excessive force was sci-fi elements, originally the sci-fi in the original work was the weak underbelly, and the movie magnified it even more. The fancy high-tech in the control room has no "principles" at all. Since the original book does not mention these technologies at all, the film creates an omniscient perspective and is too lazy to explain it, so the original soft science fiction abruptly generates pseudo science fiction. For example, where did those fireballs come from? For example, how the last monsters were created out of thin air. The design of these fake empty spaces even makes people feel that the competition arena is not in the real world but in computer games. For a moment, I crossed into the "Electronic World Contest." "NS.
[Decision 2] Killing will not become another "Twilight"
original annoying to read, especially after experiencing the four "Twilight Series", it is hard to see a teenager novel with a wonderful story. As a result, it was written that he fell into the tangled love of the girl's first love. Perhaps the bad reputation of the "Twilight Series" is a wake-up call for Lionsgate, and Lionsgate is obviously more ambitious, and may have decided to "suffer" and delete the sentimental drama. It was a good thing at first, but this "draft" is too much, Peeta's emotional bedding is basically deleted, Katniss's entangled inner activities are basically deleted, here and there are also deleted, plus the hasty ending in a hurry, So the most important line of affection in the original book was destroyed.
Although the emotional description in the original book is sweet and disgusting, I still like Katniss's portrayal of the psychological transformation of Peeta's fake drama. In fact, the film is faithful to the original and does not express Peeta's thoughts too much, but from Katniss's perspective to guess whether Peeta is acting, which sentence is true and which sentence is false. It is a pity that due to insufficient preparation, the two scenes in the cave seemed abrupt and embarrassing, and the audience could not even distinguish the true and false of Katniss' emotions. That is to say, the film did not successfully show the psychological change of Katniss's fake play. However, This is the heroine. If even the heroine's psychology is not successfully expressed, the whole movie will naturally become a "dogtail" in the end.
Of course, the two jealous shots I added to Gale were the most unacceptable. There are not many Gale scenes in the original work, and the love triangle is just in the "budget state" in Katniss's heart. It hasn't formed at all. I really don't understand why the movie has to force the love triangle into it, and the audience laughs constantly.
The first part in Capitol is actually very well filmed, and the faithful original is also fascinating, except for the most exciting opening parade. Although I had been disappointed in the "Burning Girl" before watching the trailer, the scene finally threw me out of focus and inside. The whole scene was well designed, but the image of the players was like an amateur inferior stage. The actors are too bad, but how did Katniss and Peeta become saints, the special effects of burning flames are extremely false, and the panic editing is even worse. It was supposed to be the first climax of the whole film, and it was just like that... But then Katniss's red dress on the Caesar talk show was better than expected.
The game process basically restores everything that can be restored to the original. I like Cato’s last paragraph very much. It is not in the original. The movie strengthens the theme and prevents the most fierce players from being manipulated. Behaved vividly and vividly. I didn’t count the time but I don’t know if there are five minutes in the ending paragraph? The movie seemed to end in 140 minutes. The last paragraph dragged the audience forward. What should be said was not clear, and the suspense that should be left was rushed, which is really a pity.
In terms of actor roles, Jennifer Lawrence’s convincing performance undoubtedly supported the entire movie; Hemsworth does not have a lot of roles, let’s not say, I look forward to his performance in the latter two movies; Peeta played by Hutchison and I I imagined exactly the same, like a sturdy border collie...囧; the three of Effie-Cinna-Haymitch are great, I really want to see more of their scenes; Caesar played by Tucci is also very exciting; Donald Sa The good drama of President Snow played by Selan is also yet to come...
Overall, "The Hunger Games" still played the safety card, but as the opening of the teenage film series, it is full of entertainment and enjoyment, and it has completed the task well. In order to take care of the original party, the adaptations are very faithful and almost all reproduced in the text; in order to take care of the youth audience and the PG-13 classification, various shots and various cuts are not enough to prevent you from seeing violence and blood. . Perhaps it is worried that adult audiences who have not read the original work feel that everything is too pediatric. The film has multiple themes that reflect the dictatorship and the riots of the people at the bottom, making the film seem more than just love. And this theme will also run through the entire series, and even become the absolute main line in the latter two parts.
With this momentum, this series will definitely be all put on the big screen. It is worth looking forward to the next revolution and war. Of course, we must be psychologically prepared that the real dog-blood love triangle will also be staged...o( ╯□╰)o
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