Posted by Kromey at 12:50pm Apr 17 '12In the book, once Seneca announced "Oh, nevermind, there can be only one -- good luck!", Peeta turned to Katniss and said, "Go ahead". Pretty much just like in the movie. What happened next they left out of the movie: Katniss said she couldn't do it (well, okay, that part was there), so Peeta just removed the tourniquet (it is a hard word to spell...) so that he'd bleed out and she'd win. That was when Katniss pulled out the berries and they did their little berry pact thing.
I do agree that both Peeta and Katniss were in far too good of shape at the end. As if the Games were just a momentary distraction for them. Part of it I think was needing to show just how dramatically awesome the Capitol's medicine was that they got, and fever doesn't really show all that well on a movie screen. Still, they could have had a yucky puss-filled wound that become a clean-but-still-bleeding-like-all-fuck wound, and that would have shown how good the medicine was, plus leave the two of them wounded and definitely in need of more than a bath!
Re: Rue and the trackerjackers: In the book, Katniss' interpretation at least was that Rue was warning her -- Katniss outright says as much! (Okay, not out loud, but to us.) When she then starts to cut down the nest, she signals to Rue what she's about to do, not Rue signaling to her to cut it down and drop it on the Careers below her.
I do agree that Rue wasn't developed enough in the movie, but thinking back on it it was Katniss' reaction in the book that made me cry, too, not little Rue's death. I don't know, it's hard to know if I cried when she died in the movie because the scene was well done, or because that scene is permanently seared into my brain-flesh from the book -- hell, just thinking about Rue at all I almost get choked up again!
I agree it was fun to see Capitol-finery Caesar in the woods with Katniss, but yeah his lines were stupid. Maybe they could have had him standing there calmly with Peeta's frantic voice telling him to run -- that would have been a great hallucination!
Clove! Dammit! I don't know why I have so much trouble with the names in these books, I'm not usually all that great but I can keep the major players straight usually! I think it's that we were introduced to all the tributes in one big rush, and I just didn't have time to get any of them straight...
I loved seeing more of Seneca, the Games' control room, and especially the conversations between Seneca and Snow. It really established well the Capitol's character in general, and I think it will really help to have Snow already established when we meet him again in the next movie. Seneca's execution was beautifully done, a superb addition to the movie.
I agree with Ed that watching Haymitch talk up Capitol folks and try to get sponsors was a wonderful touch. On the subject of Haymitch, though, his transition from constant drunkard to sober mentor was way too sharp, too sudden, too easy. It was a struggle in the book to clean him up, but in the movie it was literally just a single scene transition! I'm afraid folks who haven't read the books just didn't get what happened there, let alone the significance of it. :-(
I do agree that both Peeta and Katniss were in far too good of shape at the end. As if the Games were just a momentary distraction for them. Part of it I think was needing to show just how dramatically awesome the Capitol's medicine was that they got, and fever doesn't really show all that well on a movie screen. Still, they could have had a yucky puss-filled wound that become a clean-but-still-bleeding-like-all-fuck wound, and that would have shown how good the medicine was, plus leave the two of them wounded and definitely in need of more than a bath!
Re: Rue and the trackerjackers: In the book, Katniss' interpretation at least was that Rue was warning her -- Katniss outright says as much! (Okay, not out loud, but to us.) When she then starts to cut down the nest, she signals to Rue what she's about to do, not Rue signaling to her to cut it down and drop it on the Careers below her.
I do agree that Rue wasn't developed enough in the movie, but thinking back on it it was Katniss' reaction in the book that made me cry, too, not little Rue's death. I don't know, it's hard to know if I cried when she died in the movie because the scene was well done, or because that scene is permanently seared into my brain-flesh from the book -- hell, just thinking about Rue at all I almost get choked up again!
I agree it was fun to see Capitol-finery Caesar in the woods with Katniss, but yeah his lines were stupid. Maybe they could have had him standing there calmly with Peeta's frantic voice telling him to run -- that would have been a great hallucination!
Clove! Dammit! I don't know why I have so much trouble with the names in these books, I'm not usually all that great but I can keep the major players straight usually! I think it's that we were introduced to all the tributes in one big rush, and I just didn't have time to get any of them straight...
I loved seeing more of Seneca, the Games' control room, and especially the conversations between Seneca and Snow. It really established well the Capitol's character in general, and I think it will really help to have Snow already established when we meet him again in the next movie. Seneca's execution was beautifully done, a superb addition to the movie.
I agree with Ed that watching Haymitch talk up Capitol folks and try to get sponsors was a wonderful touch. On the subject of Haymitch, though, his transition from constant drunkard to sober mentor was way too sharp, too sudden, too easy. It was a struggle in the book to clean him up, but in the movie it was literally just a single scene transition! I'm afraid folks who haven't read the books just didn't get what happened there, let alone the significance of it. :-(
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