And now I need a Hunger Games icon! (Yes, I am a fan, but I'm not really part of the fandom. Also, when it comes to entertainment news, I live in a cave. Stuff like this must always be brought to my attention!)
It looks good! Obviously there wasn't much to go on, but I'm feeling better about who they cast as Katniss. I always have that trouble, though, when I read a book and then see the movie version--the characters never look the way I expect them to! Katniss just seems very--white! And not lean enough for a girl who is starving. (But I wouldn't want them to but the burden of losing weight on a healthy actress.)
I remember the actor they cast as Gale looking a lot whiter than I expected, too.
I'm also interested to see how they portray the Capitol, as that was always my least favorite part of the books. They all just seemed so transparently shallow in a rather unrealistic way. I could see a society condoning this sort of blood sports, even with children, but they were just so...naive about it!
Ah that's good! I'm not familiar with the actress they cast, so I'm not sure how old she is or normally looks. Then again, I've gotten so used to TV and movies casting 20-somethings to play teenagers, that I doubt I would have noticed!
I'm totally not part of the fandom either. I just loved the books to pieces.
Characters in movies always tend to end up white, whether they are or not in books. BLERGH! Though honestly I always pictured Katniss as white because Prim has blonde hair and blue eyes.
I thought The Capitol worked rather well as an allegory for people who buy into media and what it says in a wholesale fashion and do not think for themselves. I think there is plenty of that going on in our society and getting into the subtleties of media manipulation would have been a bit beyond the scope of the books, but they were certainly times when we saw what a good costume, a good show, a good interview could do to sway the audiences. Also there is the weird way in which violence on TV is distanced and unreal--especially when everything in their society is so unreal.
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It looks good! Obviously there wasn't much to go on, but I'm feeling better about who they cast as Katniss. I always have that trouble, though, when I read a book and then see the movie version--the characters never look the way I expect them to! Katniss just seems very--white! And not lean enough for a girl who is starving. (But I wouldn't want them to but the burden of losing weight on a healthy actress.)
I remember the actor they cast as Gale looking a lot whiter than I expected, too.
I'm also interested to see how they portray the Capitol, as that was always my least favorite part of the books. They all just seemed so transparently shallow in a rather unrealistic way. I could see a society condoning this sort of blood sports, even with children, but they were just so...naive about it!
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Characters in movies always tend to end up white, whether they are or not in books. BLERGH! Though honestly I always pictured Katniss as white because Prim has blonde hair and blue eyes.
I thought The Capitol worked rather well as an allegory for people who buy into media and what it says in a wholesale fashion and do not think for themselves. I think there is plenty of that going on in our society and getting into the subtleties of media manipulation would have been a bit beyond the scope of the books, but they were certainly times when we saw what a good costume, a good show, a good interview could do to sway the audiences. Also there is the weird way in which violence on TV is distanced and unreal--especially when everything in their society is so unreal.
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