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Re: Racist Hunger Games fans are very disappointed
I didnt take the description of Rue to heart in the book. If someone had asked me what color Rue was before this thread or seeing the movie, I would have said white. I guess I tend to skim descriptions sometimes.
Heres the thing though - it doesn't matter. I pictured a little girl who dies heartbreakingly. I couldn't give a flying crap if she was black, white or whatever. And I really dont understand anyone who cares about that unless the race is integral to the story. Which in this book, it isnt.
This sort of thing shocks me because I simply don't understand it. I dont understand these people at all? How can a persons color make any difference to a film that has nothing to do with race?
Was the story true to the book? Was it well written, directed etc etc? And most importantly, was it well acted? These are good questions that effect the telling of the story. Skin color doesn't. And if it does upset you, please jump off a cliff and save everyone the agony of knowing you exist you racist ffuckk.
Seriously? Some people are just miserable. When I read the book I visualized Rue as black, but that's not the point. What is the matter with these people, and is there an island we can send them to?
I pictured Rue as Latina when I read the book.
And I have to admit I was a little thrown by the casting of Lenny Kravitz because I pictured Cinna to look like Carson Kressly.
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most of the characters looked different from how i pictured them when i read the book, but my memory is pretty hazy; i read the book like two years ago. when i saw the girl playing rue, i thought she was perfect for the part. i didn't remember that she was written as black, but it didn't matter to me because she was tiny and adorable and just right.
when i encounter racism, like when i read those posts, i am always just stunned. i guess i should realize that it exists, but i seem to keep forgetting. or else i'm blocking it out of my mind. i just can't believe there are people who honestly feel that way. it's so disgusting. it's like a dude walking around with his junk hanging out of his fly and being proud of it. nobody wants to see that. yuck.
i just drank two glasses of wine so that last analogy may not have made any sense. sorry about that.
See this is me too. I don't recall what any of them were described as, but as long as they act the part or "fit" the character then it wouldn't even cross my mind (which either makes me stupid or tollerant, take your pick).
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Im the same way. I tend to think my own thoughts about how a character looks, and have no idea why I do that. There is a book I have read a thousand times, with the main character being female. I have always seen her as having dark brown hair, and only noticed that she is described as a blonde in a recent reread. And its not just once, either. I think I just skip that detail because I prefer brown hair to blonde lol.
But I do wonder if picturing book characters as the same as yourself is like a default setting for humans? As with Rue, I just assumed she was white even though the description says otherwise. Its not that I care either way, I just do it without thinking. And thats kinda strange really.
I kind of do that too. I read the description and if I like it, I go with it. If not, I reject the author's reality and subsitute my own. I almost never like castings as a result. Though the Rock as Shadow wouldn't suck.
As to your second point, picturing characters like yourself is probably the human default minus outside socital influences. Unless a description states otherwise, I always assume the character is white. Because they usually are.
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The only character in the movie who was the wrong color was Buttercup. Rue was exactly how I pictured her...I don't think they could've found bigger, browner, more child-like eyes on anyone. I cried. Hard. And in my head before the movie, she was black.
I also had the impression that the population in general was just more mixed, and race was less defined than it is now. No one was ever specifically called "black" "white" or any such term. (I don't think?)
I'm not sure which emotion this article makes me feel most -- horrified, enraged, or saddened.
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