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shamanicshaymin) wrote2014-03-10 06:48 pm
shamanicshaymin) wrote2014-03-10 06:48 pm
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It's Rue from the Hunger Games all over again.
Racist crowd whines about Annie being black in the remake of a famous musical.
As someone who thought the original Annie was gag-inducing, this new version actually looks pretty cute. This comment gives me a little more hope for humanity (bolding mine):
This is really sad. And it's so sad that its even pretty pathetic from a purely literary perspective. In the original story the whole point of Annie being a red head was to show that she was less desirable than the pretty blonds and the smart brunettes. She’s a disadvantaged outsider who uses charm innocence and grace to win the cold hearts of the echelon elites. Only once the wealthy have recognized her value does she have any and a scandal ensues. That the producers of this latest production have used a precious little black girl in place of a red head to retell this charming fairy tale, shows they understand the concept perfectly. The story was always about the children we throw away. A black child has every right to stand there and play that role. It's a role about those confined to poverty and about how kindness conquers all. And what’s sad is that all those people crying about “white Annie” obviously missed the entire point of the story in the first place. And seriously guys, you can’t remake Roots with white people because that didn’t happen to white people and a fictional fairy tale is no where near on the level of a true political hero and any such comparison is born of silly knee jerk pride and reactionary ignorance. This movie is about little orphaned girls and orphans come from all of us.
*applauds* Well said. I'll be looking forward to seeing Quvenzhané Wallis this Christmas. :D
As someone who thought the original Annie was gag-inducing, this new version actually looks pretty cute. This comment gives me a little more hope for humanity (bolding mine):
This is really sad. And it's so sad that its even pretty pathetic from a purely literary perspective. In the original story the whole point of Annie being a red head was to show that she was less desirable than the pretty blonds and the smart brunettes. She’s a disadvantaged outsider who uses charm innocence and grace to win the cold hearts of the echelon elites. Only once the wealthy have recognized her value does she have any and a scandal ensues. That the producers of this latest production have used a precious little black girl in place of a red head to retell this charming fairy tale, shows they understand the concept perfectly. The story was always about the children we throw away. A black child has every right to stand there and play that role. It's a role about those confined to poverty and about how kindness conquers all. And what’s sad is that all those people crying about “white Annie” obviously missed the entire point of the story in the first place. And seriously guys, you can’t remake Roots with white people because that didn’t happen to white people and a fictional fairy tale is no where near on the level of a true political hero and any such comparison is born of silly knee jerk pride and reactionary ignorance. This movie is about little orphaned girls and orphans come from all of us.
*applauds* Well said. I'll be looking forward to seeing Quvenzhané Wallis this Christmas. :D
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Also, this COULD still go horribly wrong. They dodged a bullet by casting Warbucks as... Jamie Foxx, was it? Either way, making Warbucks non-white was a necessity in any given case just so that we didn't have those unfortunate "underprivileged minority is nothing without rich white man" implications. Now they just need to keep to the original script with a minimal of changes. Luckily, I trust Jamie Foxx to treat this with respect and do exactly that.
Who I don't trust is the scriptwriters.no subject
I guess I should clarify by saying that it's Wallis as Annie that I have hope for. I think it's safe to say that trailers should never be trusted in general.