Except NOT BLONDE, which I know shouldn't matter to me, but I really loved that I could picture a non-white protagonist if I wanted to?
Truth. The movie casting kind of loses the class/race intersection of the Seam vs. the merchant class in District 12. I am ambivalent at this point, though, because JENNIFER LAWRENCE AND HER FACE. (She really carries the whole thing with her FACE, because there's no first-person narration in the movie, so Jen has to take all of those internal thoughts and make them external. It's an outstanding performance, and I think the movie would really suffer without her.)
Very few characters' races are actually specified in the series, so I'm hoping they'll take that liberty to cast other non-white actors just because they can, like they did with Cinna.
Because the narrative knows what's up, and Katniss knows what's up, and they're shown as things to work around among all the other stuff, not falsely prioritized.
Yeah. I think the metanarrative aspect of it definitely helps the tropes feel less cliched. Because the characters know they're tropes - that's exactly why they're using them! To appeal to an audience that likes familiar narratives. Then the issue of expectations and roles/performance becomes part of the narrative, instead of distracting us from it.
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Date: Mar. 30th, 2012 11:30 pm (UTC)Truth. The movie casting kind of loses the class/race intersection of the Seam vs. the merchant class in District 12. I am ambivalent at this point, though, because JENNIFER LAWRENCE AND HER FACE. (She really carries the whole thing with her FACE, because there's no first-person narration in the movie, so Jen has to take all of those internal thoughts and make them external. It's an outstanding performance, and I think the movie would really suffer without her.)
Very few characters' races are actually specified in the series, so I'm hoping they'll take that liberty to cast other non-white actors just because they can, like they did with Cinna.
Because the narrative knows what's up, and Katniss knows what's up, and they're shown as things to work around among all the other stuff, not falsely prioritized.
Yeah. I think the metanarrative aspect of it definitely helps the tropes feel less cliched. Because the characters know they're tropes - that's exactly why they're using them! To appeal to an audience that likes familiar narratives. Then the issue of expectations and roles/performance becomes part of the narrative, instead of distracting us from it.