Tasha: I’ll straight-up admit it, Scott: I went to a critics’ screening of The Hunger Games seeking ammunition I could use in the argument I knew was brewing between us from the moment I started editing your review of the film. And here’s why: One of your main points in that review was that the film hewed too closely to the book. You called it “stenography in light,” and said when a book-to-film adaptation sets out to be faithful to the source material, “the best result is a skillful abridgment.” Most painfully to me, you said this: “A book is a book and a movie is a movie, and whenever the latter merely sets about illustrating the former, it’s a failure of adaptation, to say nothing of imagination.”
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