Compare And Contrast The Hunger Games And The Maze Runner

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There’s twenty-four people and only one comes out. The Hunger Games is fantasy, adventure love story set in a utopian society about a teenaged girl from a poor district who volunteers to fight in the 74th Annual Hunger Games to take her sister’s place. The Hunger Games series consist of three books written by Suzanne Collins in 2008. These three books were later made into four movies starting in 2012 directed by Francis Lawrence and Gary Ross; starring Jennifer Lawrence, Willow Shields, Josh Hutcherson, and Liam Hemsworth. When I first watched The Hunger Games, I was absolutely astonished of how well the directors made the movie. The last scene of the movie made me want to see the second movie right away; however, it was not in theatres for …show more content…

In The Maze Runner teenagers are thrown into an arena where they must conquer a maze to escape the boundaries they are being trapped in. However, in the maze there are many different creatures, that do not exist in reality, that the survivors must fight to continue finding a way out. In both movies, teenagers are thrown into an arena where they must complete a game to survive to only find out that their government is using them for an unorthodox reason. Personally, I prefer The Hunger Games series over The Maze Runner series. Throughout The Hunger Games, the characters seem more developed as you seem them act to different situations handed to them. In The Maze Runner the characters are exactly who you expected them to be, they are not different than other movies in the same genre. The Hunger Games is not the typical action, love movie that we see in today’s society. In each scene viewers are surprised about actions of the characters. However, The Maze Runner is your typical action, sci-fi film. The action of the characters are very expected because they are typically seen in other movies of the same genre. Overall, The Hunger Games and The Maze Runner are very similar when related the aspect of survival and special effects throughout the

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