Currently halfway through book 2 of the Hunger Games trilogy (I started the first book...last Thursday. I have been almost totally incapable of putting the books down. Young adult fiction has that addictive quality...). I found I pictured Katliss as sort of Hispanic-looking (and less cute-pretty than the actress they cast, more sort of...harsh-pretty), and Thresh and Rue as more like South Asian than African-American...which I guess is because of my cultural reference points. When someone says "brown skin", I default to Asian rather than African/Caribbean because being British, we see more Asians day-to-day in most areas than African or Caribbean people. I had several Asian friends at school but there were almost no African-Caribbean kids at any of my schools. (Now I work in international development related research, I meet lots more Africans, which is also good!)
As for Cinna...I will admit I pictured him as being endearingly camp as my RP Elf character or Gok or someone like that. Which probably makes me an awful person or something, but that was how I see him and I adore him like that. So my gripe in the movies is not the actor's appearance or ethnic origin but the fact that he's just not pretty or effete enough for my expectations.
Almost as soon as I started reading the books, I admit I thought, "I don't want to see the movie of this in some ways, because I know they'll do things that don't meet my expectations based on the books." So although I've decided I'm too curious not to see the movies, I am expected to be disappointed multiple times. In the end, we all have our own mental images and even leaving out ethnicity, film directors rarely seem to cast characters who look like what my imagination expects!
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Date: 2012-03-27 07:20 pm (UTC)As for Cinna...I will admit I pictured him as being endearingly camp as my RP Elf character or Gok or someone like that. Which probably makes me an awful person or something, but that was how I see him and I adore him like that. So my gripe in the movies is not the actor's appearance or ethnic origin but the fact that he's just not pretty or effete enough for my expectations.
Almost as soon as I started reading the books, I admit I thought, "I don't want to see the movie of this in some ways, because I know they'll do things that don't meet my expectations based on the books." So although I've decided I'm too curious not to see the movies, I am expected to be disappointed multiple times. In the end, we all have our own mental images and even leaving out ethnicity, film directors rarely seem to cast characters who look like what my imagination expects!
Black Hermione would be awesome. :D