The media when it comes to book adaptations

Contains spoilers of Mockingjay Part 1 the movie and Mockingjay the book

As you should know I love books. (Why else would I have a blog dedicated to books?) Another thing I love is good book adaptions. In my opinion a movie is a good adaption if:

• ·         They cast the characters according to the book descriptions.
• ·         There aren’t major alterations to the plot.
• ·         They don’t make a 300 page book into 3 movies! (*cough The Hobbit cough*)
• ·         They ask the author to there input, so that the movie has the same vibes as the book.
• ·         The movie doesn’t kill off a character that didn’t die in the book (*cough My Sister’s Keeper cough*)

      To be honest I’m not even sure how Hollywood could mess up movie adaptions so horribly. Come on, you already have a plot and characters and all you need to do is to bring the story to life, but for some reason, that seems too hard to do. Recently I watched Mockingjay Part 1 and I want to congratulate everyone who worked on that movie. It was so true to the book had amazing acting all around. I found it difficult to believe that some of my friends didn’t like the movie when I loved it so much. Everything was on point and I was in tears when Katniss finally found Prim and Prim was saying that she couldn’t live with herself if she left her cat, Buttercup, behind. I was watching it with my sister and at that moment we were both clutching on to each other and being glad that we have each other.

      For this post I wanted to talk about the media when it comes to book adaptions. My friends who didn’t like the movie said that they didn’t like the movie didn’t have enough action. It was then that I found out that hadn’t read the book and thought it was going to be as action packed as Catching Fire. What they didn’t understand, not just my friends but other people and critics that didn’t like that it wasn’t full of action, is what all the action and violence had done to Katniss. She isn’t some amazing superhero. She’s a teenager who’s suffering from post-traumatic stress and that’s something important to remember while watching the movie.

     

      Another thing I really wanted to mention is this #teampeeta against #teamgale, okay I understand shipping. I personally like to ship my favourite characters. But the way #teampeeta and #teamgale are being pushed in people’s faces needs to stop. The media is taking this way too far. In the Mockingjay Part 1 the president blew up a hospitable full of defenseless and sick people, hijacks Peeta, tortures all the victors and kills so many innocent people and yet the media is going ‘hey are you on #teampeeta or #teamgale?’ like it is the most important part of the story. 

I’m sorry I’ve been on hiatus for so long, but I needed time to focus on other things like school and family.  I’m also sorry that this post is an incoherent mess, but I’m just so mad and disappointed at the same time about what the media doing to Mockingjay Part 1.

-The girl with her head in the clouds