The Hunger Game Book VS. The Hunger Game Movie

Katniss Everdeen, the girl on fire, who attends this killing competition, needs to survive under the other 23 killing tributes from other districts. If she wants to survive, she has to choose between humanity and surviving, life and love. Now, let the seventy-fourth Hunger Game officially begins…

The brief intro for the hunger game~~~~~

My Perspective to The Hunger Game

After finished reading and watching, I compared these two different representative ways. Both of them are amazing and good, but I still get a conclusion: The Hunger Game movie is better than the book.

The Similarities Between the Book and Movie

Maybe because the book and movie are both from The Hunger Game, there are a few similarities between them-the main plot about the whole story is still similar. For example, the personalities for each character are still the same. Like the relationship between Katniss, Peeta and Gale in the book are as embarrass as they do in the movie. The position where Katniss put Gale and Peeta in her heart, is always blurred in the first book and movie. Plus, the background of The Hunger Game is the same. Whatever it is a long descriptive sentence in the book or a simple teaser at the beginning of the movie, they can represent the same meaning that The Hunger Game has a meaningful history. It also gives a pre-preparation about what will happen next to the audience.

The differences Between the Book and Movie

The differences between the movie and book are so many, that even I cannot list all of them. First, take the different perspectives as an example, the book and the movie hold different angles about the story. The Hunger Game book holds Katniss as the main perspective all the time, that every plot’s development is modified by Katniss’s own thoughts. However, the movie has multiple perspectives about the whole plot. The director and other staffs photographed as a narrative angle throughout almost the whole movie. Only switch to each person when something only happened to themselves or want to represent some details as an exception. For instance, when Katniss tried to escape from fire, they took this scene as a personal perspective, therefore we can feel how Katniss felt at that moment. Also, unlike the objective angle in the movie, when the writer is describing different districts, she uses Katniss as a direction. Because of her critical and subjective opinions, doing this may lead to bias in the book. 

Second, the plots embody many principal details, the book doesn’t present them very well. Like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, their worlds from the book are so colorful. Even without relying on any real scenes, readers can clearly understand the so-called prototypes in their heads, which is one of the reasons why Rowling and Tolkien have always been very noted.

Harry Potter Characters
Lord of the Rings Characters

However, in this facet, Susan Collins doesn’t do as well as them. For example, about the Capitol and the Panem, the description that the book gives about them is to blur and mysterious, that the readers cannot fully imagine what are them like in reality. Nevertheless, the great thing is, the movie gives a great illustration of these two. This maybe is because the movie needs to give a complete story by using an objective angle.

Panem Map

A Brief Conclusion…

Last, according to these paragraphs, I can conclude that The Hunger Game movie has more imaginations, multiple dimensions and details than the book. So, these evidences can further verify my thesis statement: The Hunger Game movie is better than the book. By the way, I want to give some advice to those people who think the book isn’t good enough: go to watch the movie, and it will give you a kind of different feeling!

If you still don’t get it, watch this…

The Hunger Game Official Trailer

Here’s my references…

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