Many thanks to Abbey, Patrina, and Emily for posting! I am a notable slacker, and I do not anticipate that this will change anytime soon.
Here is a link to the Hunger Games movie trailer:
I can already see where the movie is losing some of the book's subtlety and understatedness. These are two elements which make the books remarkable and draw me to (and back to) them. I just keep telling myself, “It’s a movie, it’s different, it has to be . . .” It’s a very effective trailer, I think, but I can already see some small, but significant, changes (and it isn't just freaking out because the actors don't look like the people in my head. Though I'm sure there's that, too). Madeleine L'Engle taught me that "comparisons are odious," but how can you stop yourself with something like this, something you're so deeply invested in? I guess that investment is the problem, which leads to the question, WHY do we (or some of us, at least) get so strongly invested in these literary texts? Do you care about every filmic translation of books you've read? I didn't like what they did to The Lightning Thief, but I was able to respond fairly philosophically--I understood why they aged Percy and why they collapsed certain characters and plot elements into others. So why does a "faithful" interpretation of The Hunger Games mean so much to me? I realize that the particular elements I'm attached to may not be the ones that lend themselves most readily to the screen, or even that others would find important enough to preserve. . . . So, what do y'all think??
To be honest, I actually am very pleased with the trailer, and I think they're going to do a good job with the film.
ReplyDeleteJohn Green argues that while books and movie adaptations may tell the same story, they are not the same work. Under that frame, I believe that The Hunger Games (film) is going to be amazing. As effective as the trailer is, I think that the fact that they structured the trailer the way they did says that the production crew is going to do a pretty good job of telling the story that we've grown to love.
Hopefully the film will live up to the trailer.