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honorh ([info]honorh) wrote in [info]unfunny_fandom,
@ 2012-03-08 21:50:00
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NEWS FLASH: In the future, we may not all be white!
The cast for the movie of The Hunger Games has been known for a while, but a certain segment of the fandom is having a hard time coming to terms with something about it: Namely, that Rue and Thresh, both described in the book as dark-skinned, will be played by African-American actors. Worse, so will Cinna, whose ethnicity isn't mentioned, and therefore must be white.

Hunger Games Tweets has been keeping its eye on some of the worse elements. Warning: Some extremely vile, racist language. Did you know that sweet, innocent girls must always be pale and fair-haired? And gay men can't be black? I'm telling you, it's an education.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I must go vomit.

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[info]spacelogic
2012-03-09 08:45 am UTC (link)
Given that I was in Harry Potter fandom when the rage about casting an Asian Cho Chang* was going on, I probably shouldn't be surprised by this, but, um....

*Probably mostly due to fans wanting to be in the movies and resenting any actor who got a part we they had previously been able to see as available, but I never saw anyone complaining about how an actor being cast was totally not fair because they were white, or British come to that. And there were a lot of Americans trying to sound British so they could try out for those films.

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[info]bienegold
2012-03-09 08:51 am UTC (link)
...for people who couldn't believe Blaise Zabini was black, a white Cho Chang was plausible?

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[info]spacelogic
2012-03-09 08:54 am UTC (link)
Yep! <:-D

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[info]adevyish
2012-03-12 01:50 am UTC (link)
For people who couldn't believe Blaise Zabini was male, even.

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[info]mirhanda
2012-03-09 08:12 pm UTC (link)
People thought Cho Chang wasn't Asian? What's next? People thought Padma and Parvati weren't Indian?

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[info]bubosquared
2012-03-09 10:24 pm UTC (link)
You think you're joking, but there were people who were genuinly shocked at that casting, actually. Some people, I'm telling you. o_O

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[info]mirhanda
2012-03-10 07:48 pm UTC (link)
Ö <---That is my face right now

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[info]rubymellon
2012-03-10 02:52 am UTC (link)
It's not just Harry Potter fandom, either. I was disturbed by how many people in the Runaways fandom didn't know Nico Minoru was Japanese-American, or thought she looked "racially ambiguous" or white. Ugh.

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[info]nursewretched
2012-03-10 04:29 pm UTC (link)
I've seen some people say similar things about Victor.

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[info]mirhanda
2012-03-10 07:49 pm UTC (link)
I don't even know the character you're referring to, and I don't recognize the fandom, but the name Nico Minoru just sounds Japanese to me.

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[info]honorh
2012-03-10 11:30 pm UTC (link)
Sounds sort of Japanese-Italian to me. "Nico", especially romanized that way, isn't exactly a common name in Japan. The family name is another story.

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[info]argylespy
2012-03-20 06:48 pm UTC (link)
I know I'm way late to the party, but I have a relevant story!

I roleplayed Parvati in my very first livejournal RP back in the day, and it was before the twins had been shown much in the movies so the original Parvati had chosen a PB, which got passed along to the Padma player, which then in turn got passed along to me. It was kind of awkward because.

Well because the PB was Natalie Portman.

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[info]mirhanda
2012-03-20 06:50 pm UTC (link)
I don't really role play so I don't know the jargon. When I see PB all I think of is "Peanut Butter" because I use the abbreviation "PB" on my grocery list. (TP is Toilet Paper, HB is Hamburger, among others.) I'm trying to figure it out, but all I can come up with is "pretend body" and I'm pretty sure that's not right.

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[info]argylespy
2012-03-20 07:19 pm UTC (link)
Close enough! It's actually short for "Played By," it the person used for icon purposes, mostly for original characters and characters from books and such without movie adaptations (or the character didn't show up in the movie) so there are no handy screencaps to make icons out of.

So yeah, in lacking screencaps or even pictures of the actors who played the Patil twins, the original Parvati player in this particular game chose to make representative icons for her using Natalie Portman.

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[info]mirhanda
2012-03-20 07:23 pm UTC (link)
Ah ok, thanks. It's pretty funny to imagine her playing an Indian girl. Those names are so obviously Indian to me, it's hard to imagine anyone not really getting that.

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[info]ekaterinv
2012-03-11 08:03 am UTC (link)
I imagined Hermione had brown skin until the movies. I don't think her skin color is ever mentioned in the books. I had this whole backstory in my head about how her father's ancestors had been brought over to England as slaves in the 18th century and her mother was an immigrant from India. I'm still disappointed it wasn't canon :P.

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[info]varkias
2012-03-11 05:54 pm UTC (link)
That would have been awesome. This is my new headcanon also.

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[info]adevyish
2012-03-12 01:50 am UTC (link)
And there are just magically no Asian fans, right?

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[info]spacelogic
2012-03-12 02:15 am UTC (link)
Oh, they could've tried out too! It was just unfair to exclude the white fans. Or something.

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[info]isaiddietpepsi
2012-03-13 04:11 pm UTC (link)
God, Cho Chang is such a stupid name....

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[info]spacelogic
2012-03-13 08:01 pm UTC (link)
I've seen worse -- read a comic once where the token Asian dude was named Chang Chang -- but, yeah. :-/

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[info]isaiddietpepsi
2012-03-13 10:35 pm UTC (link)
Heh. I was actually going to write, "Rowling might as well have named her Chang Chang!" at the tail end of my comment, but was too lazy. Yeah, it could have been worse, guess I should look on the bright side.

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[info]coffeebun
2012-03-14 11:43 am UTC (link)
LOL when I first saw the name I was like, did she seriously name a character "selfish"?? But oh well, yeah, could have been worse.

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[info]isaiddietpepsi
2012-03-14 06:09 pm UTC (link)
Is that what her name meant? I was more focusing on how 'cho' and 'chang' are both actually surnames, although I've read the defense that 'cho' sorta kinda sounds like the romanization for a Cantonese word.

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[info]full_metal_ox
2012-03-14 09:21 pm UTC (link)
There's such a thing as people of Sino-Japanese descent--in which case "Cho" could conceivably mean "butterfly", which would make sense as an allusion to her flying prowess (given the tendency of names to Mean Things in Wizardland.)

But I may be cutting an author who placed kappas in Mongolia too much slack.

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