Film Adaptations
The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter series and Twilight Saga. These are just some of the popular novels-turned-into-screenplays. This year, a novel written by Suzanne Collins will also hit the big screen. It is "The Hunger Games" trilogy. Ever since I started reading the first book, I became hooked to it. That's why when I learned that the film adaptation will be shown this 2012, March to be specific, it doubled my excitement! The scenes I imagined while reading the book can now be visualized. I'm expecting for it to be precise/exact as to what I have read, though. Does anyone here feel the same way?
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Screen Adaptations
"The Lord of the Rings", the series of novels about Harry Potter and "The Twilight Saga", they are just some of the popular novels turned into screenplays. This year a screen version of a Suzanne Collins' novel will also hit the big screen (or appear on the big screen). It is the trilogy of "The Hunger Games". Ever since I started reading the first book of one, I have became hooked on it. When I learned that the screen adaptation of the novel would be shown in March of this year this news doubled my excitement! The scenes I imagined reading the book can now be visualized. I'm expecting them to be precise as I have read and though. Does anyone here feel the same way?
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I certainly agree Ola, but you should at least try to watch the last two. See if the way Voldemort died the way you imagined ;) News is, I've seen The Hunger Games already. They just made a few modification though. I was looking for the details but I know it's impossible to squeeze them into a 142-minute screenplay, but of course the highlights were there! I wasn't fully satisfied but I wasn't disappointed either. Try reading it. It's great! (In my opinion. I don't know if other people just overrate it or something.)
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Hey there :)
I haven’t read Hunger Games, but I know this kind of excitement that you’re talking about – I was huge fan of Harry Potter books and I was waiting for movies the same way as you do now.
Unluckily, starting with Goblet of Fire, the level of movies was decreasing and decreasing. I was pretty disgusted with fifth and annoyed with sixth one, I haven’t watched last two movies and I’m afraid to take a look at them in spite of my friends’ opinions ;).
Difference between what the director imagined and what we do think usually causes a lot of disappointment, sometimes we hardly recognize that the movie was based on the book we loved.
One way or another, I hope that Hunger Games will be okay and that watching it will bring a lot of pleasure to you :). Who knows, maybe they will do a good piece of work with this one.
BTW, I’ve read somewhere that “Hunger Games” and Japanese "Battle Royale" are much of a muchness. While waiting for the movie, you can give a try to “ancestor”. :)
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