Thoughts on the SOTR trailer? My issues with the film continuity in general aside (which they obviously can't fix), hopefully it has some interesting changes to the book.
I think as far as the films go, I actually quite like it. I have a lot of mixed feelings about the book itself...there were certain aspects I did not like (contradictions to the OG series; Haymitch not immediately getting eaten by mutts despite blowing up a tank (while Maysilee immediately got executed for killing Gamemakers); plot significance of Lenore Dove; Haymitch's ending, etc.). But while I had the reader's equivalent of post-nut clarity about the book, I think that the film is about as good as it gets for an adaptation. Here's some thoughts:
•The arena looks amazing!!! I am so glad they didn't try to make it look dark to make it 'grittier' because the whole point was that it's meant to be gorgeous.
•While I've always stood by the theory that the Seam are indigenous, that ship has long since sailed with the film adaptations, and I have to say that they did a good job of finding an actress for Louella who looks like a child version of Jennifer Lawrence.
•The casting of the victors was brilliant - Maya Hawke, in particular, looks so much like a younger version of Amanda Plummer.
•I'm disappointed that we haven't seen Wellie yet - I personally think that they're going to cut out a lot of her role simply because of time constraints.
•Mckenna Grace perfectly incapsulated Maysilee's attitude and I find it very sweet that she's paying tribute to the fan film with the bangs + hair braid.
•I did heard that they were going to do Appalachian accents for District 12, which I didn't really hear in the trailer?? If anything, Joseph Zada is fighting that Australian accent of his harder than any Career lol. So that was a shame.
•Can't go wrong with Elle Fanning as THEEE Effie Trinket.
•They found the tiniest child to play Ampert and I am worried about seeing That Scene.
•Kieran Culkin looks way too normal for THG (where's the green hair + lipstick gone???) but he did the Stanley Tucci Caesar Flickerman laugh brilliantly. He gives me more Lucky Flickerman vibes
•I suspect that the gore + blood will be toned down significantly, which kind of defeats the horror of the books, but they always seem to aim for a PG-13 rating with the films. I kind of wish they wouldn't...while the books are officially YA, they're not children's literature at all.
•One of the main issues I had with the TBOSAS film is that so much of the TBOSAS book is filled with Snow's batshit sociopathic inner monologue, which obviously Tom Blyth could not convey. So Snow ended up looking like a Nice Young Man who went through (1) breakup and then became a dictator, instead of the racist, misogynistic narcissist he was in the novel. Haymitch is far more consistent in terms of personality & actions in SOTR, so that won't be an issue here.
I might be disappointed with where Collins chose to go with the book, but I'm still going to watch the film. I think it'll be good for adaptation standards.
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