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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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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	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. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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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	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. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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