Catching Fire is probably my favorite book in the series. The book and they movie are very different in a lot of ways.
We start at the opening of the movie where we see Katniss hunting in the woods with Gale. In the book, we start off in the woods but with Katniss just sitting there drinking tea instead of hunting. The movie shows Katniss shooting turkey and picturing it as Marvel, the boy from District 1 in the last Hunger Games. Katniss freaks out and Gale has to calm her down and bring her back to realize she is not in the games.They showed this in the movie to show that Katniss has PTSD from being in the games and that there are some things she will never get over It also shows how much of an impact the games can have on peoples lives even after they win.
In the movie we see a lot more of President Snow and we even see some shots of him with his granddaughter. These scenes were not mentioned or included in the book but I feel that these scenes are important. It shows how Katniss is inspiring the next generation and leaving her mark on Panem. Having Snow's granddaughter wearing her hair like Katniss does and wanting a love like Katniss and Peeta have shows Snow how much of an influence Katniss has on everyone. It also makes Snow realize how much of a threat her influence is to him and the Capitol.
When she goes for individual assessment in the training center, in the book, Katniss simply sees a mat covering up whatever Peeta did so she can't see what happened. In the movie though, Katniss can see that Peeta painted Rue laying there surrounded by the flowers as Katniss did for her in the games. In both the book and the film, Katniss does the same thing for her assessment, which is "hanging" Seneca Crane, but in the movie she looks much more hostile since she has seen what Peeta painted. It makes her realize that the Capitol is to blame for all of this and she shows her frustration by doing the "hanging."
There are a lot of important scenes in the book that should have been included in the movie and if they had done that the movie probably would have been like 5 hours long. Overall, I think the movie got most of the major points but missed some little things that could have made it better. I thought the book was so much better than the movie (as is per usual).
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