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rebecca_in_blue) wrote2011-11-18 10:23 pm
rebecca_in_blue) wrote2011-11-18 10:23 pm
Rebecca doesn't know it's not bacon!
My Sassy Jewish Grandparents treated me and another friend of theirs to dinner after services tonight. We had a pizza and "Kentucky Derby pie" for dessert. The pie turned out to be delicious, but none of us had ever heard of it before, and we had a time trying to figure out what kind of pie it was. Our waiter tried to explain it to us, but he was Hispanic, and every time he said "pecan," his accent made it sound just like "bacon!" (The sad thing is that I actually would've been willing to try a pie that had bacon in it!) We all cracked up when we finally realized that he was trying to say "pecan" - it was a lot of fun.
My Sassy Cajun Grandma has been released from the hospital and is walking with a cane again. We visited her in the hospital on Wednesday (Bikur Cholim: the mitzvah of visiting the sick, one of the most important mitzvot), and she was very weak, but fortunately, she has kept all her wits about her. There's an old lady Grandma's age at temple who is prone to forget her husband's name, where she lives, and what year it is. It's a mitzvot, but I still hate going to hospitals, and having out-of-town relatives come in to visit her was generating its own drama, so I'm glad she's back home.
And now that she's out of the hospital, I can get back to what I'm best at - whining about superficial, unimportant stuff! Has anyone else seen the new trailer for The Hunger Games? It just came out this week, and Sara and I are not thrilled. Apparently Jennifer Lawrence doesn't realize that Katniss is supposed to come off as kinda cold and mean, not sweet and soft-hearted. The "I just can't afford to think that way" is especially bad. Ugh.
Me: Sneezes three times in a row. (I sneeze a lot at night.)
Sara: "Stop it! You're out of control!"
My Sassy Cajun Grandma has been released from the hospital and is walking with a cane again. We visited her in the hospital on Wednesday (Bikur Cholim: the mitzvah of visiting the sick, one of the most important mitzvot), and she was very weak, but fortunately, she has kept all her wits about her. There's an old lady Grandma's age at temple who is prone to forget her husband's name, where she lives, and what year it is. It's a mitzvot, but I still hate going to hospitals, and having out-of-town relatives come in to visit her was generating its own drama, so I'm glad she's back home.
And now that she's out of the hospital, I can get back to what I'm best at - whining about superficial, unimportant stuff! Has anyone else seen the new trailer for The Hunger Games? It just came out this week, and Sara and I are not thrilled. Apparently Jennifer Lawrence doesn't realize that Katniss is supposed to come off as kinda cold and mean, not sweet and soft-hearted. The "I just can't afford to think that way" is especially bad. Ugh.
Me: Sneezes three times in a row. (I sneeze a lot at night.)
Sara: "Stop it! You're out of control!"
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Regarding the trailer:
1) There's no such thing as a bad actor. There are bad casting companies and bad directors. Actors are props with lines--that's it.
2) I'm more upset about the choice not to include Madge Undersee and her whole story in the movie. She is a minor character but VERY important.
3) As far as the Strong Female Character goes, America doesn't want it. We want our heroines demure, clever, servile, cloying and--if we go by the Twilight franchise--vapid, useless, and repeatedly abused. America would not respond to a truly strong, independent woman.
4) Major motion pictures are not made because someone has a vision or someone wants to adapt a cool book for the screen. They are business ventures that are backed by investors, created to make money--not art. Hundreds of hours of raw footage are cleaned up and turned into multiple scenes which are played in front of huge test audiences to decide which ones people respond to the best. So the Katniss that caused people to have the most reliable reaction ("I'd spend $7-10 to watch this!") is the Katniss that makes it to the screen. The Prop With Lines may have tried to play a darker, edgier Katniss, but the test audiences like softer heroines. So this is what you get.
Oddly, movie production is very Panem.