"the movie version"

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Disclaimer: I really can't stand purists; the following opinions contain biases against them.

I've concluded that the people who rage and rage about this-or-that not being in the books, that this is inaccurate, that this is trash, and that no movie version will ever live up to the novel... are, well, full of crap.

The people who say this don't know

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Since you and other commenters have hit most of my points on the subject, a tangent.

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Katniss's unique, limited perspective. They're going to lose that in film form. Because a film is not a novel.

Not necessarily! Unique and limited perspective can come out beautifully in film. But it takes technique and style and a good grasp of what the hell you're doing, and I would say it's not within the mainstream style guide. So chances are, any filmmaker capable of pulling it off is probably not spending his or her time on book adaptations; they're at Sundance or Cannes or whatever indie film festival they've gotten into.

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It is true that such a perspective in film will reveal and conceal different things than it would in a novel, so even if by chance the dudes responsible for Hunger Games go for it they're going to need to take that into account, and essentially rewrite the parameters of what the audience sees. Good comic-book adaptations do this. Rather than animate every frame of a Batman comic, they start from Gotham and show you things in that city that you wouldn't see on a printed page.