(Woot for seeing the Hunger Games twice. I'm going again tomorrow for a friend's b-day)
I think your thoughts on the difference between book!Haymitch and movie!Haymitch were really interesting. Since I read the book after the trailers for the movie came out, I always pictured him with Woody Harrolson's mannerisms and voice, so that difference wasn't there for me between the movie and the book.
One big difference that I think the movie had - it was obvious Haymitch was suffering from something on the PTSD spectrum. One scene in particular really stood out to me. When he was watching the two little children in the Capitol chasing each other with fake swords, the look on his face really struck me as a nasty flashback. A lot of the things he did, his jokes, the digs at Effie, the drinking, all very obviously concealed that thin veneer of self-loathing.
Granted, that's all obvious in the book as well, I just felt like the movie emphasized his trauma instead of his rebellion, whereas I think the book emphasized his plot to change the Hunger Games so that two Tributes had a chance of winning, and how he plotted that from the beginning.
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I think your thoughts on the difference between book!Haymitch and movie!Haymitch were really interesting. Since I read the book after the trailers for the movie came out, I always pictured him with Woody Harrolson's mannerisms and voice, so that difference wasn't there for me between the movie and the book.
One big difference that I think the movie had - it was obvious Haymitch was suffering from something on the PTSD spectrum. One scene in particular really stood out to me. When he was watching the two little children in the Capitol chasing each other with fake swords, the look on his face really struck me as a nasty flashback. A lot of the things he did, his jokes, the digs at Effie, the drinking, all very obviously concealed that thin veneer of self-loathing.
Granted, that's all obvious in the book as well, I just felt like the movie emphasized his trauma instead of his rebellion, whereas I think the book emphasized his plot to change the Hunger Games so that two Tributes had a chance of winning, and how he plotted that from the beginning.