there are specific descriptions of people from certain districts being athletic and blonde, but that's all I recalled except for Katniss herself being olive skinned.
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le nubian - Mar 18, 2011 6:52:11 am PDT #13637 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
lisah - Mar 18, 2011 7:01:09 am PDT #13638 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
there are specific descriptions of people from certain districts being athletic and blonde, but that's all I recalled except for Katniss herself being olive skinned.
Sure, but the important thing to the story is that they are athletic, I think, not that they are blond.
Amy - Mar 18, 2011 7:09:33 am PDT #13639 of 30000
Because books.
there are specific descriptions of people from certain districts being athletic and blonde, but that's all I recalled except for Katniss herself being olive skinned.
I think that could have been a class shorthand, but it wasn't really emphasized.
le nubian - Mar 18, 2011 7:11:34 am PDT #13640 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
lisah, you know I didn't get that. Katniss contrasted herself pretty specifically (skin tone, hair color) with the district 1 & 2 (?) people. So yes, there was a hunger element, but it seemed to me from those two in particular, there seemed to be a skin tone as well.
sumi - Mar 18, 2011 7:20:20 am PDT #13641 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
I thought it was class shorthand too - and why Kat's mother and little sister are blonde but she takes after her father - who was not in the same social class.
le nubian - Mar 18, 2011 7:26:41 am PDT #13642 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
From Slate's review of Limitless, emphasis mine:
The guinea pig in this thought experiment is Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper), an unkempt, unaccomplished writer with a book deal but no idea how to get past that tricky first sentence. (Director Neil Burger establishes Eddie's writer's block with the standard tableaux—the writer staring at a blank computer screen, the writer enjoying a midday cocktail—and with a more ingenious, more disturbing scene of artistic stagnation: the writer eating a cold pizza crust while perched on the toilet.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 18, 2011 7:38:50 am PDT #13643 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
OK, if the scenes of Bradley Cooper smugging it up bigtime in the trailer hadn't already put me off seeing the movie (seriously, are we intended to root for DeNiro in this?), that right there would have done the trick.
§ ita § - Mar 18, 2011 7:56:57 am PDT #13644 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I saw a clip of a fight scene from it (including Bruce Lee flashbacks) and I'm still pretty sold on it. I vehemently believe that muscle memory is going to play a big part in making you a good fighter, but it posited a decently reasonable "I grokked this from TV." Better than No Ordinary Family ever has.
lisah - Mar 18, 2011 8:19:00 am PDT #13645 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Katniss contrasted herself pretty specifically (skin tone, hair color) with the district 1 & 2 (?) people. So yes, there was a hunger element, but it seemed to me from those two in particular, there seemed to be a skin tone as well.
Yes, I see where you could read it that way. I think the class difference was emphasized profoundly by whether or not the character was healthy and well-fed looking that I didn't think that the mention of coloring was meant to tell me something about how race was perceived in that society. If that makes any sense?
Jesse - Mar 18, 2011 8:23:58 am PDT #13646 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think that kind of blond adonis look is pretty typically the "best" in our culture, though....