A well executed deception will garner greater box office gains. They had me convinced of this movie magic with at least two scenes in Divergent but for the purpose of this paragraph, I will only mention one. Tris (Woodley) loses a person very close to her. Whoot, there it is! She finally got me. The tears. The Emotion. The release of pain. The tiny blond boy/girl from he book had arrived on screen; however, much too late. We spent more than a hundred and ten minutes searching for the real Beatrice and only got an untrained former American Teenager. It’s said you that can’t turn a hoe into a housewife, but allow me to pose the question: can you turn a starlet into a warrior? Yes, you can and yes, others have.
Many actresses in Hollywood acquire roles which require them to physically or skillfully become a character they are meant to portray. The transformation from stardom to badassdom takes most of all dedication and commitment to the deception. Demi Moore successfully convinced us she could hack it as a Marine and Linda Hamilton trained enough to face off against a muscle machine from the future. In the divergent novel, Tris describes herself as having a body equivalent to that of a pubescent twelve year old boy who towards the end of training had developed muscles in all the right places. She gained strength in knowledge as well as body. She could have at least learned how to throw a believable punch for the movie. The deception was to persuade those of a preconceived notion to who this character is/was and astound the newly introduced; they accomplished nigh. If they, (the director) wanted to focus on the strength of the actress, then the script should focused more on Tris’ inner turmoil as opposed to her battle training.