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The Hunger Games: MockingjayBook vs MovieHere's a list of the changes I saw in the movie adaptation of the Susanne Collins book
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The Hunger Games: MockingjayBook vs MovieHere's a list of the changes I saw in the movie adaptation of the Susanne Collins book
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Item # | Book | Movie |
| 01 | Prim suggests how to help Peeta | No recovery procedure is discussed |
| 02 | Delly Cartwright is first from 12 to talk to Peeta during the recovery procedure | Prim talks to Peeta |
| 03 | Peeta confronts Katniss in cafeteria | No scene |
| 04 | Finnick berates Katniss for how she treats Peeta, asks, “What would Peeta do if roles were reversed?” | No scene |
| 05 | Plutarch and Pres. Coin argue about wedding plans | No scene |
| 06 | Huge wedding cake rolls out, Katniss told fishing scenes decorated by Peeta, he's making progress | No scene |
| 07 | Gale and Beetee discuss new weapon designs in lab while in District 13 | Discuss weapons plans on ship while flying to District 2 |
| 08 | Train station at District 2 is clean and white | train station is heavily damaged, dirty and dark |
| 09 | Train exits tunnel on fire | No fire |
| 10 | There are large TV screens at train station, Katniss watches herself on screen and sees herself get shot | No screens |
| 11 | When shot, Katniss injurs ribs and loses spleen | Injury not severe, only bruising |
| 12 | Katniss takes painful medication to heal ribs faster | Ribs not seriously injured |
| 13 | No scene | Joanne tells Katniss about shuttle going to Capital |
| 14 | Katniss is told she cannot go to 12 because she isn't properly trained, still injured and not disciplined | Told she cannot go because she's not needed |
| 15 | Katniss goes through military training to prove herself | No military training while in District 13 [Director made decision because he felt Katniss didn't need more training and didn't want to film a montage] |
| 16 | Joanna fails training and cannot go to Capital | No training shown and she's still a morphling addict |
| 17 | President Snow poison's General at table | No scene in book |
| 18 | Katniss is sent to capital to make propos | Katniss sneaks on supply ship to get to capital |
| 19 | Not in book | Paylor gives pre-attack speech, says not to target civilians |
| 20 | Plutarch gives Katniss Nightlock pill on first mission | Boggs gives pill at Capital |
| 21 | Peeta's cuffs are metal, cut into his wrists | Cuffs are soft straps but still cut wrists |
| 22 | Boggs survives mine explosion and brought into apartment | Boggs dies immediately, body seen later covered in black goo |
| 23 | Peeta throws Mitchel across street, where he activates wire trap before being trapped in black goo | Peeta throws him in to black goo where he activates wire trap |
| 24 | Black goo runs down many streets | Black goo confined to one courtyard |
| 25 | Teams break open apartment door to escape black goo | Escape black goo by running up stairs |
| 26 | Black goo solidifies inches thick and has toxic fumes | Black goo is liquid and recedes leaving only color - no fumes |
| 27 | Strike team moves several blocks on black goo towards city center | Black goo confined to one courtyard |
| 28 | Team watches rebel assault forces send cars down streets and killed by traps on TV | Not shown |
| 29 | Strike team enters tunnel through closet access in apartment | Team enters tunnel off street |
| 30 | Pollux and Castor cannot get video equipment shells through closet tunnel entry, leave them behind in apartment | Shells are carried through tunnels |
| 31 | Katniss kills women when emerging in apartment | Team exits tunnels on stairs onto street |
| 32 | Teams searches for food in apartment, discuss Capital hoarding | No search, no discussion |
| 33 | Katniss given can of her favourite capital dish, lamb stew | Katniss doesn't eat. Gale loves capital food |
| 34 | Lizard mutts in tunnel smell like roses. Katniss smells roses and panics - She chokes and puts on gas mask | Katniss hears mutts call her name, no smell, no gas mask, Peeta alerts team |
| 35 | Team encounter's peace keepers in merge before last attack with mutts and Finnick's death | Teams loses Finnick, emerges into peace keepers |
| 36 | Messalla is frozen and melts in light trap | Messalla is incinerated and flies apart |
| 37 | Tigress' shop is run down, fur underwear on racks | Shop beautiful with select few dresses on fancy displays |
| 38 | Tigress cooks team dinner | No eating while in shop |
| 39 | Tigress puts make-up, wigs and scarves on team to disguise them | Only hoods |
| 40 | Katniss and Gale exit shop into crowded street | Streets are empty at shop and only join crowds a few blocks later |
| 41 | Cressida and Pollux leave Tigress' shop first, lead Katniss to mansion | Cressida and Pollux stay behind in shop |
| 42 | News report of man being attacked on street because he looked like Peeta: People warned not to attack, just report | No news report |
| 43 | Peeta exits shop for possible diversion | Peeta not shown leaving shop |
| 44 | Street opens and swallows Katniss and Gale, stopping them from the mansion | Check point and peace keepers stop their progress |
| 45 | Gale captured when shop door opens | Gale captured on street |
| 46 | Katniss realizes too late Gale wants her to shoot him with arrow so he won't be captured | Gale screams “Shoot me!”; Katniss aims arrow but chooses not to shoot Gale |
| 47 | Katniss recognizes Prim's duck tail; her untucked shirt | Prim's shirt is tucked |
| 48 | Not in book | Peeta rescues Katniss, puts out flames - Cut from movie |
| 49 | Katniss has major burns requiring skin graphs and operations, suffers elective mutism, visited by psychiatrist Doctor Aurelius, and often hides in closets | Katniss has some burns and is treated by mother with ointment |
| 50 | Katniss wanders mansion, gets lost, finds plant nursery | Katniss is exploring mansion, sees green house, and explores it |
| 51 | Katniss cuts white rose with shears. Gives it to Pres, Snow for execution | Katniss plucks rose, stares at it in water |
| 52 | Katniss has one arrow in quiver, symbolic of last shot of the war | Quiver is full |
| 53 | Cressida and Pollux sent away to film District's recovery | Cressida and Pollux film President Snow's execution |
| 54 | Nightlock pill in slot on Katniss's shoulder. Katniss bites Peeta's hand when she tries to eat it; she screams and fights him to let her die | Pill is tucked under armor, Peeta grabs Katniss's wrist to stop her, she's captured quietly |
| 55 | Katniss injured during arrest for killing Pres. Coin | No injury |
| 56 | How Pres. Snow dies is a mystery | Crowd beats Pres. Snow to death |
| 57 | Katniss left naked in cell for weeks | Sits alone in room wearing Mockingjay suit for a few hours |
| 58 | Katniss put on trial, found not guilty for assassination by PTSD defense | Haymitch reads letter from Plutarch that Katniss will be pardoned |
| 59 | Effie meets Katniss | Effie greets Katniss and Haymitch kisses Effie |
| 60 | Katniss sits in chair at District 12 house | Katniss lies on sofa |
| 61 | Katniss flown in shuttle to District 12 | Katniss travels to district 12 by train |
| 62 | Katniss doesn't move in District 12 | Katniss active: hunts |
| 63 | Greasy Sally cooks Katniss meals | No Greasy Sally, dishes piled in sink |
| 64 | People return to district 12, rebuild, remove bodies, construct mass grave in meadow. Katniss asks about mayor's house. | No activity in District 12 shown |
| 65 | Katniss and Peeta make book of Victors | No book |
| 66 | At District 12, Doctor Aurelius calls to check on Katniss and give news updates | No Dr, Letter from Annie updates news |
| 67 | Peeta plants Primrose at side of house | Plants flowers in center of complex in front of house |
| 68 | Katniss says it took 15 years to consent to having children with Peeta | Movie appears on a few years have passed. |
| 69 | Katniss tells baby about grave under meadow | No mention |
| 70 | Katniss sings “under the Willow to baby” | No singing |
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