I don't usually do this
Aug. 29th, 2009 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
samsomI just saw a preview on Lifetime for a movie based on an old Lois Duncan book, Stranger With My Face. This was one of the first books I recall reading during fourth grade, when I discovered books and everything that that means. So naturally it's significant to me.
It features a protagonist that is Native American, or at least part Native American. Basically, it's about a girl who looks different than the rest of her family. She has dark skin and black hair, and a history that is a major part of the suspense in the book.
So, the preview on Lifetime bugged me in a major way because the girl in the movie is so clearly white, WASPY even, as is her mother, played by Catherine Hicks of Seventh Heaven.
Seriously, was there any reason they couldn't maintain the integrity of the book, especially given that it was a major part of the story? I realize that adapting books to movies entails some short-cutting and revamping, but in imo, this shouldn't have been one of them.
There is some serious FAIL going on at Lifetime.
It features a protagonist that is Native American, or at least part Native American. Basically, it's about a girl who looks different than the rest of her family. She has dark skin and black hair, and a history that is a major part of the suspense in the book.
So, the preview on Lifetime bugged me in a major way because the girl in the movie is so clearly white, WASPY even, as is her mother, played by Catherine Hicks of Seventh Heaven.
Seriously, was there any reason they couldn't maintain the integrity of the book, especially given that it was a major part of the story? I realize that adapting books to movies entails some short-cutting and revamping, but in imo, this shouldn't have been one of them.
There is some serious FAIL going on at Lifetime.
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Date: 2009-08-31 03:17 am (UTC)It's a conspiracy, I think. Sort of like why health care isn't universal here in the states. Or at least an option. Too much money to be made otherwise.
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Date: 2009-08-31 03:21 am (UTC)My two big button issues are equal rights for equal people (meaning don't oppress minorities and gays, k?) and universal health care.
With my mom working at the VA, I hear all kinds of stuff. Operations that cost tens of thousands of dollars at county/city/private hospitals are done for hundreds at the VA. Because the VA has the buying power. They won't buy from companies with overinflated prices the way that the hospitals will. Medications that cost hundreds at hospitals only cost pennies at the VA. PENNIES!
My surgery was billed at 22K. My insurance agreed to pay 3K. Now you can't tell me that either of those figures was right. There is no way that an hour worth of surgery cost the hospital 3K.
There is a reason that insurance, hospital, and pharm CEOs are billionaires.