The hunger games book is amazing. I thought the movie might be better than the book but I was wrong. The book is more graphic which I happen to like more. But of course the book is different and similar in its own ways. Shockingly a lot of the dialogue from the book is in the movie which I didn't expect. The avoxes weren't in the movie and a lot of the killing of the tributes is different. Also in the beginning of the games, katniss' search for water was not at all mentioned in the movie.
Something that they did the same was the dialogue. I think that they did it so that the readers can feel comfortable as if they were watching the book take place. I think they were targeting the readers with the dialogue because in the movie the lines were so specific to the book that they might have taken the dialogue straight from the book.
I also think that it took a layer of mystery out of the movie without the avoxes. They were a confusing but interesting thing about the story. The avoxes all were missing tongues and they couldn't speak and you didn't know their crimes. I think the movie would have a sense of horror or mystery which I like.
Also the way that the tributes are killed in the book are different from the way they are killed in the movie. Like for example, in the book 2 girls die from the tracker jackers which are the poisonous bees that cause hallucinations. But in the movie only one person died, which is making me wonder where the other girl was in the movie.
But above all, the most interesting thing that differed between the book and the movie was the beginning of the hunger games. In the beginning of the hunger games movie when the games first started she almost immediately found water. But in the beginning of the book hunger games book when the games first started she spent like 1/5 of the time looking for water and she was suffering from all sorts of side effects of dehydration.
All in all both the Hunger Gamesbook and movie were amazing and hopefully they'll make a catching fire movie.
