Beginnings and adaptations

It's strange to think that about a year ago I was mourning the beginning of the end of one beloved book-to-movie adaptation (the imminent release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I), and today I am looking forward to the beginning of the beginning of another one, as the Hunger Games trailer was officially released today.

A year ago I was in a tizzy about HP7.1 and avidly watching any and all retrospective video clips of the series as a whole.  My favorite is this one, with Tom Felton waxing nostalgic over past props:

  I think I reread the book, or at least revisited my favorite scenes and prayed that they'd be faithfully reinterpreted and edited to be properly cinematic and dramatic.  And the movie did not disappoint.

This trailer has me excited, as it hits all the right notes and right scenes.  There is a palpable ease between Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss and Liam Hemsworth's Gale, as there should be because in the book they are very close friends.  It was a solid trailer but only one moment made me almost choke on my yogurt, and that was the very last clip with all the kids rushing towards something (the Cornucopia).  There's still about five months before the movie hits theaters, and I remain optimistic about it.