The Hunger Games

    Maria D. B

Period:3

        10/05/12

             

                       The Hunger Games

    The Hunger Games is the most fascinating movie yet. I like it because most of the movie is silent, silent movies are different and unique. Those movies are very historical, I like them a lot. It caught my attention how the director decided to create a silent movie in 2012. This movie takes place in a nation called Panem, which I never heard of before. It has a lot of action, adventure and also love, family love, the priceless kind. It’s a science fiction movie, which is not hard to tell most scenes are just too unreal.

   However, the book The Hunger Games is way better than the movie, it has more details about the story. According to David Denby, The Hunger Games is a prime example of commercial hypocrisy. “The filmmakers bait kids with a cruel idea, but they can’t risk being too intense or too graphic he books are more explicit” (David). The book begins with a nice, well-explained introduction, which says a lot about the writer “Suzanne Collins”. The book is written in the voice of “Katniss Everdeen”, who lived in Panem. The games are an annual event in which one girl and one boy-aged twelve-eighteen from each of twelve districts is selected by the lottery to complete in a televised battle to death. Only one shall live. I enjoyed watching the movie, but I wasn’t that impressed, and Rick Oxo agrees with me “The jiggly camera was awful, way too many close-ups, a few too many shots of silly people in the crowd and a few too many changes that didn’t help, but overall it was a pretty good movie made from a very good trilogy that is worth reading” (Rick Oxo).  Rick Oxo on March 25, 2012 at 4:40 PM

   Sometimes, people specially teenagers think that watching a movie is better than to read the actual book. Yeah, I admit it going to the movies is pretty fun and all; But what if the movie doesn’t make you believe, feel or live the story? Would it still be better? No, not at all first of all the longest a movie can last are three to four hours. Man, you wasted $12 for nothing. When you read the book, you learn more about the story, that scene that was cut from the movie is written down on the book.

    In conclusion, reading a book is better than watching the movie. I mean you can watch the movie, but when you read you feel like you’re living the story, instead of just watching it. The movie was good, it was one of my favorites of 2012, however the book deserves thumbs up and five stars, and it’s a masterpiece. What I love more about it is that if you really pay attention to what you read, it can take you to a whole new world. This book can truly make you feel what’s like to experience “THE HUNGER GAMES”

Work Cited

Wikiepedia.com: Rick Oxo, march 25, 2012; 4:40 PM.     

Wikiepidia.com: David Denby.