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Don’t watch Lord of the Rings, the Hunger Games, or Avatar. At least, not for the archery. Hollywood is stock full of misinformation and misrepresentation about archery. Sadly, not a lot of writers have the opportunity to really delve into the practice. So here is my all you wanted to know primer from how bows are constructed, to lining up and releasing the shot, to treating your friend’s nasty broadhead wound.
i feel like this is important and everyone should see this
I hate when the media makes The Hunger Games look like a battle for love. Get your bullshit fantasies away. This is about murder, over powered government, and a girl trying to change the way things are. News flash not every girls fantasy is to find true love.
the irony here is that our media is doing exactly what the Capitol did in the books; downplaying the murder, focusing on the bullshit love story
and institutionalized oppression, femmephobia, and exploitation of labor (re: outsourcing).
Okay. Just hold on a minute. As a white female, I agree with almost everything in this post. Yes, whitewashing is everywhere, and no, I do not favor it. However, it is NOT the actor’s fault for playing the role. They are simply doing their job. Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Lawrence and every other actor receiving rude comments for ‘whitewashing a role’ should be appreciated no matter what character they are, even if the role calls for a race that they aren’t. They are flawless as their characters and shouldn’t be discriminated because of people being upset about ‘the race of the character was all wrong, and they chose a white person to do it!’ And let me say this again. IT IS THEIR JOBS. THEY WORKED HARD TO BE IN THOSE MOVIES AND SHOWS. Have a little respect.
I don’t need to give anyone who contributes and/or perpetuates to whitewashing my respect.
"Here’s some advice. Stay alive.”
First piece of 2014! It’s not direct re-draw, but it’s inspired by my first piece of 2013. And now I can finally cross out drawing a full color Hunger Games illustration off my “things I wanna do” list. Though, let’s be real, I’ll probably draw another one somewhere down the line ahaha.
also an addendum to the hunger games slide, when they put out a casting call for the role of Katniss, they specifically asked for only caucasian actors to audition, which left out any possibility for any amazing PoC actors to have been discovered.
i hope this was informational and i didnt leave anything major out. if anything is wrong or needs to be updated, message me and i’l fix any fallacies!
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I have a lot of feels over this
I thought this was setting up for a joke.
Umm can we talk about Carrie Underwood’s dress right now?
this is some cinna from hunger games type shit
impressive!
Jennifer Lawrence is a great actress and she did a wonderful job in the role of Katniss. That being said, I would have preferred a biracial actress to play this part because I can think of so few heroines with “olive colored skin” that when one finally appears she ought not to be white washed.
(spoilers) Think how much more incredible the scene where Katniss covers Rue in flowers would have been if Katniss and Rue were both women of color. Think how much more powerful it would be if it weren’t a white woman mourning the loss of a black woman. (We’ve seen that before. We’ve seen privileged characters learn from less privileged ones.) Think how amazing it would be for women of color to see themselves represented in every scene that Rue and Katniss share. The Hunger Games has already shown itself to be an incredibly popular film. Just imagine if such a successful film contained scenes which included only actresses of color. I would trade in Jennifer Lawrence’s performance for that.
ALL OF THIS.
Jennifer Lawrence is a great actress and a lovely human being and normally I would be very happy to see a movie that features her. But that image of two women of color bonding, helping each other, impacting each others lives? We need that. As a people. With the way they cast this movie we have three notable characters (Rue, Thresh, and Cinna) playing the role of the Black Best Friend to a white person. And that’s so old. So tired. We need to show people of color as people. Not just as a White Person’s Little Helper.
I understand and appreciate the criticisms previously mentioned, but in defense of the movie, it’s set far into the future. That could mean that all people during that time period are equally oppressed by The Capitol. Sure color blindness doesn’t exist in this day in age, but when an entire nation is being oppressed by one super force of a government, a black person’s struggle is equal to the white person’s struggle. Not to mention each came from communities seemingly entirely composed of people of their own race, which means that they wouldn’t have experience white privilege in Katniss’s district because everyone was white. There was class segregation based on profession in District 12 but no room for race segregation or disadvantage. My thoughts are all hypothetical and forgive me for playing devil’s advocate but the movie is based on the book which is set way in the future.
The problem is that the audience the book/movie is intended for are NOT from the future, which means that all of the problems of today’s movie industry (whitewashing roles, intentionally restricting casting calls to only white actors and actresses - which happened when casting Katniss, etc) are always relevant. Again, as said: “I would have preferred a biracial actress to play this part because I can think of so few heroines with “olive colored skin” that when one finally appears she ought not to be white washed.” The lack of POC characters in our media, more particularly those portrayed in a positive light and as heroes instead of supporting roles, is always a relevant and important issue and a byproduct of a society with institutionalized racism.
Other important points were already expressed in the original commentary.
“That could mean that all people during that time period are equally oppressed by The Capitol. Sure color blindness doesn’t exist in this day in age, but when an entire nation is being oppressed by one super force of a government, a black person’s struggle is equal to the white person’s struggle.”
Oh my god, did we even read the same book? The Hunger Games has an explicitly racial dimension. The conditions of District 11 is a recreation of enslavement—everything from its geographic location (U.S. American South, based on the fact that it borders Appalachia and you take a train south to get there) to the type of labor they are made to do to (fieldwork) the way the people are punished (that would be brutally, with whips.) Then there’s dichotomy established between the way the Black intellectually disabled boy was treated (i.e. he was murdered) versus the way the intellectually disabled boy from District 12 was treated (“like a pet.”)
“Not to mention each came from communities seemingly entirely composed of people of their own race, which means that they wouldn’t have experience white privilege in Katniss’s district because everyone was white. There was class segregation based on profession in District 12 but no room for race segregation or disadvantage.”
Everyone in District 12 WAS NOT WHITE. DISTRICT 12 WAS EXPLICITLY SEGREGATED BY RACE. The people made to do dangerous physical labor (the coal miners of the Seam) are all olive skinned and dark haired, and they routinely starve to death. The white people in District 12 were also oppressed by the Capitol, but they were definitely privileged over the people of color in the Seam.
“What if Foxface realized where she was at that point – she was up against Cato, Thresh, and the team from 12. She wasn’t good with hand-to-hand combat, she relied on stealth and getting in and out of situations quickly. What if she realized that the chances were if up against any of her competitors, she’d die a terrible, painful death. Then, she sees the nightlock sitting perfectly in front of her as she followed Peeta, and thinks: “This is my painless way out. Why suffer more than I need to?” Maybe Foxface was more clever than we all believed.”
How exactly did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?
SALES INFORMATION!
Alright, so I have lots of leftovers from AnimeNEXT and I have no conventions lined up for the rest of the summer (so sad!). I’m opening up online sales for anyone who might be interested in purchasing any of my prints or postcards. This does include the Korra print I’m doing a giveaway of right now. All relevant information can be found here!
Thank you! ❤
whitewashing DESTROYS people from the INSIDE OUT
seriously
it demolishes childrens’ self esteem. it speaks a VERY clear message to young people of color.
what’s that message?
“YOU’RE UGLY
YOU’RE DIRTY
YOU’RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH
YOU’LL NEVER BE PRETTY
YOU’LL NEVER BE HANDSOME
YOU’LL NEVER BE ACCEPTED
YOU’LL NEVER BE ATTRACTIVE
DON’T EVER BE PROUD OF WHO YOU ARE, BECAUSE YOU ARE WORTHLESS”
it actually deliberately sends those messages
and it doesn’t end with childhood. it follows us through our adolescence, through our young adulthood, through our adulthood, through our old age. it never. goes. away.
ever.
whitewashing does a huge amount of damage. and that damage is permanent.
