Sadly, I'm not going to see it tonight :( because some people have "work" and "school" and "responsibilities," and it's no fun to go to a midnight premiere by yourself. I may go see it early afternoon tomorrow, if not, it is a lonnnnnng Saturday wait for me. However, since I am obsessively reading MOCKINGJAY and imagining myself as many of the characters, I think I will do fine.
And to showcase my super bookgirl nerdiness, I have recently become re-obsessed with fan fiction. I ALWAYS love a good Harry Potter one (and I like some of the real-life fics on the actors too) and used to enjoy Twilight as well, but those drag on me these days. Of course, now I am all about The Hunger Games, and my love of Peeta drags me to those. And (SPOILER-LAND) because I am me, I have totally realized I love Gale too, but am very happy he didn't end up with Katniss. In fact, I've seen a lot of Johanna/Gale ff that I think might actually work. Mainly because she is such a fierce bitch (I lovelovelove Johanna, especially as a foil to Katniss. Along with Finnick and probably Boggs, she is my fave minor character).
I am excited/nervous for the movie. Adaptations, especially from a book series, are always shaky ground. It could be epic, like Harry Potter. It could be lame, like Twilight. It does have a big studio backing it, a great director, and Suzanne Collins herself wrote the script, so I don't think she would butcher up her own story. I feel like any changes she makes would make sense because she created this entire world after all. Not sure how much money it will get, but hopefully a lofty amount because those Games? MUST be epic. I know it'll be much less violent than the actual books to keep it's PG-13 rating, but honestly, imagining it in my mind was awful enough. I'd probably vomit if I saw it on the big screen.
So I guess all that is truly left is finding the actors that fit these characters. I love how Harry Potter went and found virtual unknowns that really BECAME these characters. I read somewhere that Emma Watson says she knows Hermione much better than she knows herself. I know it might be a draw to pick some big names, but some of the suggestions I've seen are absolutely ridiculous. A lot of them seem like they'd work. I have my own opinions on who I think would work (mainly for the boys because I have to imagine SOMEONE when I'm day-dreaming, right?), but I will save those for another post.
In other YA book news, I am quite excited for MATCHED by Ally Condie to be released in about a week and a half. It seems part The Giver/ part THG/ part awesome. I seem to be into dystopian novels these days, and it has gotten pretty awesome reviews. It is supposed to be another series (I believe a trilogy), and I always work best when I am anxiously awaiting another awesome read. So if I manage to scrounge up any Thanksgiving money, that is definitely what I will be spending it on! I've included the blurb I found on Matched's GoodReads page below:
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.
The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow.
God, I love Ky already.
*Post title from Monty Are I's (a band whose name I ALWAYS get wrong, but not this time!) "Only the Weak"
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