![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
What are her siblings' names? Skyler and Apple?
So pictures have come out of Jennifer Laurence as the main character in The Hunger Games film, in which she, ya know, actually looks the part. And the author said the character was white, so, end of debate, right?
Cue the cries of blackface (yes, really) and the patronizing "Oh, you think just because the character spends all her time outdoors, she somehow magically developed some sort of tan?" And, you know... yes. That is how that works.
Anyway, it all goes back to Book!Katniss being supposedly biracial and Movie!Katniss not being so (I wonder... and I don't know if there's any way to say this in a non-horrible way, so... if a purely African-American actress were cast to play Katniss, would there be controversy because the character has Caucasian ancestry? Because honestly, that wank sounds a lot more fun. "I'm not a racist, but Katniss needs to be whiter.").
The argument is that Movie!Katniss is supposed to be biracial, but since she's being played by a white actress with a tan, they're using blackface to... I don't know, call more attention to an issue that could've easily been dropped and that most people found ambiguous? Okay, fuck the Gordian Knot... she has parents, this Katniss, right? So, if both of them are white, then she's not intended to be biracial and it's just a tan. If one of them is played by a PoC, then Katniss should be played by a biracial actress and you're free to feel guilty for watching the movie anyway. There. We solved the case!
So pictures have come out of Jennifer Laurence as the main character in The Hunger Games film, in which she, ya know, actually looks the part. And the author said the character was white, so, end of debate, right?
Cue the cries of blackface (yes, really) and the patronizing "Oh, you think just because the character spends all her time outdoors, she somehow magically developed some sort of tan?" And, you know... yes. That is how that works.
Anyway, it all goes back to Book!Katniss being supposedly biracial and Movie!Katniss not being so (I wonder... and I don't know if there's any way to say this in a non-horrible way, so... if a purely African-American actress were cast to play Katniss, would there be controversy because the character has Caucasian ancestry? Because honestly, that wank sounds a lot more fun. "I'm not a racist, but Katniss needs to be whiter.").
The argument is that Movie!Katniss is supposed to be biracial, but since she's being played by a white actress with a tan, they're using blackface to... I don't know, call more attention to an issue that could've easily been dropped and that most people found ambiguous? Okay, fuck the Gordian Knot... she has parents, this Katniss, right? So, if both of them are white, then she's not intended to be biracial and it's just a tan. If one of them is played by a PoC, then Katniss should be played by a biracial actress and you're free to feel guilty for watching the movie anyway. There. We solved the case!
