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ffs: reviewers: Jennifer Lawrence too fat to play Katniss in The Hunger Games
not as obnoxious as the racist tweets, but pretty stinking obnoxious.
FWIW, I thought she looked perfect.
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Jennifer Lawrence Is Not ?Too Big? To Play Katniss
| Posted Friday, March 23, 2012, at 4:03 PM ET
Jennifer Lawrence earlier this week
Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
A baffling, infuriating trend has cropped up in reviews of The Hunger Games: critics bodysnarking on Jennifer Lawrence. ?A few years ago Ms. Lawrence might have looked hungry enough to play Katniss,? writes the New York Times? Manohla Dargis, ?but now, at 21, her seductive, womanly figure makes a bad fit for a dystopian fantasy about a people starved into submission.? The Hollywood Reporter?s Todd McCarthy comments that Lawrence?s ?lingering baby fat shows here.? And?most bluntly?Hollywood Elsewhere?s Jeffrey Wells calls Lawrence a ?fairly tall, big-boned lady? who?s ?too big? for Josh Hutcherson, who plays Katniss?s romantic interest. (In case the message didn?t come through: Wells thinks Jennifer Lawrence is BIG. He also thinks we should be wary of ?certain female critics? who ?may be susceptible to the lore of this young-female-adult-propelled franchise.?)
Let us count the ways this line of reasoning is ridiculous. First, Jennifer Lawrence is a thin young woman. Her body type may differ ever so slightly from the Hollywood norm?her thighs appear functional rather than merely decorative?but she?s still leaner than the vast majority of the American population. The hullaballoo over Lawrence?s figure reminds me of the rash of articles a few years back that could not get over the curviness of Scarlett Johansson (another thin actress). The fact that a woman?s shape deviates slightly from the stick-thin figures that populate the silver screen does not make her ?big.?
Second?to respond to those whose argument is that Lawrence doesn?t look authentically ?hungry? enough for the role (rather than those, like Wells, whose argument is purely aesthetic)?not everyone who starves him- or herself looks like a supermodel. If that were the case, everyone on a calorie-restricted diet would be skinny; genetics prevent most humans from achieving that look. Just as living in a world with abundant calories does not automatically make everyone fat, living in a dystopian world like Panem with sporadic food access would not automatically make everyone skinny. Some bodies, I daresay, would be even bigger than Lawrence?s.
Finally, if critics are going to pick on a 21-year-old woman for not being skinny enough for a fantasy film, why haven?t they been more consistent in their critiques of actors? bodies? I haven?t seen much concern about Liam Hemsworth?s muscular frame, even though his character in The Hunger Games occupies the same food-strapped world as Katniss. Nor?to take an example from another recent film?did I see many reviews of Friends With Kids that took issue with the disconnect between Jennifer Westfeldt?s slim physique and her character?s constantly commented upon postpartem unfuckability. If we held actors? physical appearance to a standard of strict realism in all movies, most Hollywood actors would be uncastable in films set in present-day America. Movie critics suspend their disbelief all the time?and when they suddenly refuse to do so for a female actor whose body looks more like an average woman?s body rather than less, it?s hard to see that as anything but sexist.
here's a still from the film, if you haven't seen it:
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Re: ffs: reviewers: Jennifer Lawrence too fat to play Katniss in The Hunger Games
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She has a rockin' body. She looks fit and athletic, which is exactly how I pictured Katniss. Some little whisp of an actress would have NOT worked in this role AT ALL.
Hello, this is fat?
Ditto
Too fat? Try athletic. Try muscular. Try shutting *** up.
How horrible that young women actually have someone with muscles and curves to look up to. The horror. I mean, it would have been much more realistic to have skeletor Jolie sticking her toothpick of a leg out to shoot a bow and arrow, right?
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ditto!
she's not one of the people being starved. She's a hunter, feeding her family and selling off the extras to buy other stuff they need.
If she was all emaciated, you wouldn't believe she was that good with the bow and arrow, would you?
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I've had students say she didn't look like she was starving like the character was. That she was too in shape and too healthy.i haven't seen it yet.
I think she looks great - those guys need to STFU.
JFC, it's a book.
She's freaking hawt. That body is seriously slammin.
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she looked great in the movie. Not fat.
But -- Katniss and Gale were wearing some pretty decent clothing in their scenes and looked pretty healthy. I sort of expected crappier clothing and that she would be more wiry. (This isn't a comment on her weight -- just a picture in my mind given the context of the horrid state of their district).
Well I don't think I'd appreciate the movie making a bunch of teens going on strict diets to make themselves look starving just for a few scenes towards the end of the games.
People need to chill out and enjoy the movie for what it is.
ETA: How did they make Kristen Stewart look like such crap in Breaking Dawn? Did she lose weight for it, or do they just have a good makeup artist they should hire for Hunger Games?
how irritating.
i did notice her build in the scene you posted the still from. i remember thinking, "wow, what a tiny waist. and boy--she is STACKED! i wish i was built exactly like that!!"
stupid critics need to find something else to concern themselves about.
Her district is starving but she climbs, tracks, hunts and eats what she kills and what she gathers. I'd be surprised to see somebody non-athletic in the role. She has to have some mass to be able to scale fences, climb trees, pull bows and skin and butcher game.
Oy.
I was actually bothered by the red carpet photos because JL was towering over tiny little Josh Hutcherson. they're the same height according to IMDB, but obviously she's wearing heels in all those photos. I never pictured Peeta as little.
So I re-read the begining of the book where everybody is described - and he's specifically called out as being "medium height." He seems about medium to me.
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I want to say in one frame in the movie, I thought "holy crap her waist it tiny." While in other scenes she did look curvy.
I feel like I started to read the books after the movie was already being filmed. So, when I found out it was her, I pictured her as Katniss. I even watched random weirdass Winter's Bone to see how she'd play as Katniss.
I heard that Josh Hutchinson nailed his audition. They said something like he could have been purple and 2 ft tall, and he was still that good. A taller Peeta would have been nice, IMO, but JH did a really good job with the role.
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I remember the ScarJo hullabaloo. Also Kate Winslet was deemed too fat by the hollywood establishment at one point as well.
Hollywood is batshit crazy. Jennifer Lawrence looks awesome.
I've got the waist and hips but not the boobs. Not even when I was BF. *cries*
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In the book, she mentions that some of the players will have a harder time than her because she always had 1st pick of her kills and that she's used to climbing trees, hunting and gathering, whereas she knows the others don't have her outdoorsy skills. I pictured her being hungry but healthy. JL is a perfect Katniss.
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Which is exactly what happens when you train physically for 6 months+ before shooting in order to be able to run, jump, shoot, climb, etc. And to look like you actually hunt for your family's food!
I'm sorry, Katniss would not be stick-thin. She would be muscular. Lean, sure, but strong. She also supplements her family's food with her poaching, so she gets enough calories. Definitely not excess calories, but it seems like enough. Her family is not literally starving or suffering from malnutrition, rickets, and other nutrition-related diseases. But it does take work to get enough food. Big difference. The difference between death camps and early white settlers on the American Prairie, for instance.
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jennifer lawrence is super hot.
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