kali
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Post by kali on Mar 18, 2011 22:50:59 GMT -4
I don't like her. She doesn't fit my idea of Katniss at all. And beyond that I just find her personality really annoying. Every interview I've seen or read with her has rubbed me the wrong way.
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oceansun
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Post by oceansun on Mar 18, 2011 23:12:50 GMT -4
Aw, damn it, I was hoping for Hailee. Between Jennifer and Hailee, who seemed to be the top two choices, I'm glad they went with Jennifer. Hailee looks a bit too cute and young for me. I mean, Jennifer isn't what I pictured, but Hailee is farther from it. I'm a big Hunger Games fan, and after being hesitant initially, I think Jennifer will do a great job with the part.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2011 6:22:07 GMT -4
It's never explicitly said, no. But what I don't like is how, in the absence of anything explicit, people automatically default to whiteness. Like - oh, it doesn't say she's multiracial, so she can totally be white! Which is technically true, but it's annoying how white always wins out over non-white in this sort of ~*ambiguous*~ situation. Plus, the casting director completely limited the auditions to white girls anyway, and it sounds like Ross had a boner for Lawrence from the start. Grrr. Gary Ross' comments on this kind of annoyed me, too: I mean, there's the same amount of evidence for Rue and Thresh being black as there are for Katniss being non-white - all Suzanne Collins describes is skin colour. Why does he stick to that for Rue and Thresh but not Katniss? Could it be because the other 2 are supporting characters, so it's OK for them not to be white, but the lead still must be? And I've talked to people who are also shocked that Rue and Thresh are black. It's like the characters need a big blinking neon sign over their heads saying "BLACK/ASIAN/HISPANIC/INDIAN" before readers will realize that they're not white. There has been some discussion about this on YA author blogs. Always introducing a character as 'a black girl', when a white girl is just 'a girl', feels racist and wrong, but if you don't, people automatically think white. The Australian author Justine Larbalestier has made a point of making all her protagonists non-white, but readers often are blind to this and just assume the character must be white and she's even been screwed over by her US publisher putting white girls on her covers. Diana Peterfreund describes her black characters as 'black' if she's writing from the perspective of a modern American girl, but in another novel with a fantasy setting, she described the black character as having 'dark skin and closely cropped curly hair'. Many readers then assumed he was Italian.
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Post by Shanmac on Mar 19, 2011 7:36:50 GMT -4
I'll admit I'm guilty of picturing Katniss as being white ("dark hair and olive skin" pretty much describes my mom, who is white, to a "t," so I think I just pictured Katniss having similar coloring). Although I definitely wouldn't have been surprised to see a non-white Katniss in the movie, either. I think it's a bit ambiguous.
However, I don't think Jennifer Lawrence really fits the bill, even if she does dye her hair for the role. I'm not a huge stickler for things like that (ex: I still don't see why they couldn't let Anna Paquin have dark hair for her role as Sookie), but I also think Saoirse Ronan would have brought more to the part. Oh well.
Call it a snap judgment, but ew. This, from the first page of her thread, makes me really not like this girl:
Just stop talking.
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Post by Mutagen on Mar 19, 2011 8:03:00 GMT -4
The author Ursula K. LeGuin, who is white, wrote a fairly depressing and angering piece seven years ago in protest of the fact that her characters are ALWAYS whitened up when they are depicted visually. Always: on book covers going back to when she first started writing decades ago, continuing to the present-day, and continuing into filmed adaptation of her work. So, yeah. Not surprised that ambiguously biracial became blonde and white in this case either.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2011 9:39:49 GMT -4
Hailee is multiracial so they did at least let one not completely cacuasian actress audition. The other part of the casting call said the actress had to be underfed. Which seems wrong too. It reminds me of when Emily Blunt was told to lose weight to the edge of sickness for The Devil Wears Prada. I mean I know it is The Hunger Games but I don't remember Katniss being described as super skinny. Anyways I wonder if they will make Jennifer Lawrence lose weight. She is thin like almost all actresses are but not alarmingly so.
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kali
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Post by kali on Mar 19, 2011 10:44:58 GMT -4
They start shooting soon so she doesn't exactly have time to go on a Machinist diet.
I think they cast JL because this production is really rushed and they just didn't have the time to look for someone who actually fits the role. Easier to just cast the current IT girl and move on. I read somewhere that they auditioned 50 girls for this role. My mother auditions more than that when she casts her high school musical.
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Post by MrsCatHead on Mar 19, 2011 11:24:27 GMT -4
I wish they'd cast someone different. I like Jennifer. I think she's a fairly good actress, from the little I've seen.
But I agree with kali. It seems like they were rushed and took the easy way out. The people from Katniss' area are supposed to look so different that they immediately stand out. (except her mom and sis, right?) Visually, I'd like to see that on screen.
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Post by incognito on Mar 19, 2011 13:41:00 GMT -4
I mean I know it is The Hunger Games but I don't remember Katniss being described as super skinny. I think that Katniss is supposed to look a lot younger than her age though, right? And while that could just be how she is naturally, considering the setting, I think it makes sense for her appearance to be a result of mal/undernourishment. That said, IMO it's understandable why the studio would do away with that - American audiences probably wouldn't go for a bunch of young-looking kids brutally killing each other. Yeah, I guess they 'buy' her as being able to pass as Caucasian. Sigh.
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Post by GoldenFleece on Mar 19, 2011 14:07:06 GMT -4
Then why adapt the Hunger Games if its premise is too tough for America to handle? For a book series I know it's popular but so was His Dark Materials and that was softened for mainstream America too, and never got a movie sequel. I haven't read HG but the reports of all the changes for the movie are reminding me of how they tried to make Flowers in the Attic without the incest.
Is Jennifer still going with Nicholas Hoult? They're in the X Men movie together and he was her date for the SAG Awards, but I haven't heard anything about it since.
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