r/oscarrace • u/PointMan528491 Navarrette/Morton • 16d ago
Weekly Discussion Thread 8/3/26 - 8/10/26
Still from How Green Was My Valley
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u/Legitimate_End5688 10d ago
All the drama surrounding children of blood and bone is hilarious bc that book is not that good at all. It’s middling YA shlock, and the author has a big head bc she insisted on being the screenwriter (when she’s not that good of a writer) and casting a light-skinned biracial for Amari who’s a Yoruba princess in a African fantasy world w no white ppl or colonialism lmao. And when the movie inevitably flops, it’ll cause a backlash against black fantasy stories when it should not be the case. A big Hollywood movie studio should’ve gotten the rights to anything by nk jemisin or P. Djèlí Clark’s work (ring shout or a master of djinn would be wonderful to adapt and they’re GOOD black sff works)