Comments | magratpudifoot: RE: A certain Yahoo headline I woke up to this morning

magratpudifoot

RE: A certain Yahoo headline I woke up to this morning

May 25, 2012 14:50

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bizarreoptimism May 26 2012, 03:06:43 UTC

I don't get it -- and for some reason, I'm REALLY curious about it. ;-) What was the headline??

Contains Catching Fire spoilers magratpudifoot May 26 2012, 03:56:01 UTC

THEY ARE CONSIDERING PATTINSON FOR FINNICK, DRACA. Someone thinks it's a good idea to shoehorn him into Hunger Games, as though he is playing YA Blockbuster Bingo ( ... )

librarian_byday May 28 2012, 15:28:55 UTC

I don't care who they cast as Finnick as far as looks go. To me it doesn't matter if he's white, black, hispanic, asian, or purple with yellow polka dots. The important thing is that the character is played well, because he is such a deep and tragic character, and they can't screw that part up. I mean, the actors they chose for Katniss, Peeta, and Gale didn't even have the right hair and eye colors, and the fans were all up in arms over it, but they were near perfect playing the roles. Yes, Finnick is supposed to be attractive because he is explicitly described as such in the books, but people forget that ANYONE can be made to look attractive in the movies. Plus, everyone has their own individual opinions of what is attractive and what isn't anyway, so it doesn't really matter. And the race thing really gets under my skin, the way people bitch about how "this character's not supposed to be black" or "they have too many white people in this scene" and I know there are going to be complaints no matter what race Finnick is going to ( ... )

magratpudifoot May 28 2012, 18:14:56 UTC

I'm not going to lie, I am definitely disappointed about the overwhelming whiteness of the cast...but it's a disappointment in Hollywood in general more than this particular franchise, and I'm more sensitive to this than I would have otherwise been most likely because Avatar: The Last Airbender was such a huge fucking failure, as far as taking a show with absolutely no white characters *at all* and casting a bunch of white people, and because I'm still smarting (perhaps even more now that I've become totally disconnected from the current episodes) over not getting Patterson Joseph as the Eleventh Doctor. It's absolutely amazing and an extraordinary step in the right direction that we got a mega-blockbuster action movie starring a physically strong young woman who isn't overly sexualized; the day we can have mega-blockbuster movies with racially diverse casts - truly diverse, not just one or two token "minority" characters in the supporting cast - be the norm will be an even bigger step ( ... )