List of Mockingjay movie changes by Stefan

Here's a list of the changes I saw in the adaptation of the Susanne Collins book Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part1 with noteable exceptions

Yellow - minor change
Blue - major change
Gray - maybe just not shown
Green - True to book

Line #	Book	Movie
1	Opens Katniss in hospital	Opens her hiding in air vent
2	At 12, Katniss uses headset to contact Gale in shuttle	Alone and no headset
3	Squadron of ships circling to protect Katniss	Just one ship
4	All victor village houses intact	Only two houses remain, not Peeta's
5	Katniss visits old house in seam - only fireplace remains	Only visits main street and victory house
6	Retrieve's wedding photo	Retrieve's Dad's photo
Katniss Tripping on skull exactly as in book
7	Blue ribbon for Prim - wraps around cat
8	Finnick still hospitalized from electrical wound	Finnick okay
9	Katniss has tattoo schedule she ignores
10	All see Peeta video while in War room	Video shown while in cafeteria
11	List of demands includes killing Snow - cat 1st	Only two items - cat is last
12	Plutarch presents Cinna's sketches	Effie has book
13	Prep team abused and imprisoned in 3908	No prep team
14	Gale and Boggs fight in war room
15	Move to E-Quarters for cat window	move not shown
16	Hunting - Rabbits, squirrels, turkeys	Doesn't shoot Elk, returns empty
17	Katniss has scar from tracker removal	not shown
18	Retina entry to Special weapons	no special security
19	Meets Beetee in indoor meadow	At firing range
20	Special voice activated bow	Plain bow
21	Gale gets elaborate compound bow with scope	Crossbow
22	Finnick says “They will want to Kill you, Fuck you, or Be you”	Effie says line
23	Furing propo review Haymitch writes in notebook with purple marker	Haymitch uses electronic whiteboard with handwriting recognition
24	Plutarch makes up baby lost to electric shock	Katniss improvises at Dist. 8 hospital
25	Finnick want to go to 8 but no pants, then strips
26	Boggs - “We saw Odair naked” to Gale
27	Hovercraft launches from beneath field	Comes out of mountain
28	Plutarch gives Katniss Nightlock pill on mission	No Nightlock suicide pill
29	Katniss presses the flesh in 8 hospital	Walks around stunned
30	Bombs fall without warning	Warned, Run to shelter before bombs
31	2nd Gale Boggs fight, Gale breaks Bogg's nose
32	Katniss removes earpiece and ignores Haymitch's commands
33	Katniss wounded in leg - uses wheelchair
34	Katniss shouts “Geese” - shoot several ships	She and Gale down only two ships
35	Katniss amazed to see video team	Team always with her on street
36	Apologizes to Mom - will tell her next time they go out	nothing
37	Wheels into command - with Beetee	no wheelchair for Katniss
38	“We Remember” propos	not mentioned
39	After meeting - Gale n Pres. Coin chummy
40	2nd trip to 12 - Gale walks escape path thru to meadow	Gale talks in main street
41		Lunch at her lake & Hanging song
42		Dam scene not in book
43		Lumberjack scene not in book
44	People of 12 wait 3 days in meadow after games/bombing	Gale on rescue shuttle
45	2nd Peeta video ends with him beaten/bloody	Just screaming threat
46	Katniss arrives in empty bunker	crowded
47	Katniss retrieves protocol backpacks for 3
48	Bunks carved into wall	Free standing
49	Plutarch tells her to present brave show for them	No Plutarch in bomb shelter
*** Finnick speech about loving Peeta exactly as in book
50	Katniss runs to stop door closing: blocks with body	She's outside door screaming
51	Bombs doors are manual: they hold	Doors automatic - they close
52	Bombing lasts three days	Few hours
53	Coffee at meeting - Finnick sugar cube #2
54	Crater contains a dozen pink and white roses	Only white roses - hundreds
55	Tributes held in prison	Held at training center
56	Gas put in vents by spies	Gas grenades from strike team
57	Rescue not shown	Raid shown
58	Gale seriously wounded in raid	Not injured
59	Peeta has room full of nurses when he attacks Katniss	Peeta & Katniss are alone

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