PixieJane
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posted April 11, 2017 09:44 PM
  
One discordant note that comes to mind is how the internet made a big deal about Rue in the Hunger Games was going to be played by a black actress, despite that fact that Rue WAS black in the book. None of the kids I know did that, nor did they know anyone who did (they liked that they got it right, and instead would nitpick that Katniss was played by a white actress when in the book she had olive skin, brown eyes, and black hair, but they didn't really care, the point was if you were going to make a big deal about an appearance of a character then it didn't make sense to focus on Rue). Btw, worth noting, kids have been out reading previous generations since the Millennials, and that's despite how much is online and in video form (which is to say more kids who saw the Hunger Games actually read the books than kids in previous generations reading book classics and popular novels before seeing the movie). It actually makes me wonder if it was a false twitter war arranged by movie producers to get people talking about the movie (because such controversy is bound to add to the movie's profits, and they've been known to intentionally generate controversy on purpose since at least the 1960s, and arguably as far back as Betty Boop) rather than by kids. But there's no way to know who the vast majority of the people twittering over it were (or their ages). Yet if it really was fans (the vast majority being kids) behind that controversy then that would be an unpleasant surprise for me. IP: Logged |
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