Hunger Games Adaptation

     Some challenges a filmmaker would have in adapting The Hunger Games to the big screen would be recreating the setting, preparing the actors to be in top physical condition, and the animation of futuristic creatures. The setting would be very hard to recreate because places such as the Seam and the Capitol do not exist. A filmmaker would have to completely create it and based solely off the description in the book. The actors, once casted, would still need prep work before filming. In the Hunger Games, each character has specific talents and abilities so the actors would have to go through serious training. For example, Jennifer Lawrence had to do lots of training to be as good with a bow and arrow as the Katniss is. Also the actors playing “career” tributes, or characters like Thresh would have to gain lots of muscle in order to fit the look of their character. Many of the characters practically starved to death during the games. Making the characters appear very skinny and bony would be a hard task as well. There are also many made up creatures in the book. This would require good animations to fit them into the scene and make them look as natural and realistic as possible.

     The most important scenes to keep in the adaptation would be when Katniss volunteers to be tribute and then Peeta is chosen, when Peeta declares his love for Katniss, when they join forces in the games, and the suicide attempt. These scenes if removed would completely change the plot. Two parts that could be cut would be the character the red- headed Avox and when the many meals they had before the games. These don’t have any effect on the plot and didn’t help develop the characters too much either.