The Irish were stereotyped as lazy, unintelligent criminals and alcoholics. Women and girls were considered promiscuous, especially those with red hair. Annie was a redhead to oppose the awful stereotypes that were abundant, not because it was fashionable.
"The original Annie had a red Afro," points out Indiana University scholar Terri Francis.
"The blank eyes of characters in 'Little Orphan Annie' almost became Gray's signature, leaving the reader to interpret the mood themselves," according to The Cartoonist website www.thecartoonists.ca. But Uncyclopedia.wikia.com reveals that "the eyes don't actually mean anything; they're just creepy."
In the original 1982 version of the movie, Annie is a white, red-haired, freckle-faced orphan in New York City. In the contemporary version, she is also a little orphan girl in the Big Apple, but she happens to be African American.
She is a spunky, optimistic, energetic eleven-year old (10 in the 1982 film) orphan girl. She has curly red/orange hair (although she actually has straight auburn hair in the original musical and the 1999 telefilm version), though it sometimes shown to be curly near the end). In the 2014 film, Annie is black.
Albert Finney as Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks, a billionaire businessman who adopts Annie.
The title character. The spunky and optimistic 11-year-old orphan who is looking for her birth parents. She ends up getting adopted by Oliver Warbucks.
Her exceptional skills with swords and unarmed combat earned her the 4th rank, but she is also noted to be a lone wolf who struggles to work with others. She possessed the ability to transform into a Titan known as the Female Titan.
The Legend of Black Annie (2012) - IMDb.
Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks is a fictional character from the comic strip Little Orphan Annie and Dick Tracy. He made his first appearance in the New York Daily News in the Annie strip on September 27, 1924.
In the film adaptations, Annie kept Sandy for the duration of the story unlike in the musical where she was forced to abandon the dog when the Hooverville was raided. In the 2014 film, Sandy is a female dog instead of a male.
According to the novelization, Pepper is "the biggest of the orphans, a pug-nosed rapscallion with a face full of freckles and long, tousled hair that was even redder than Annie's." In the film, Pepper has short brown hair and brown eyes. She is the tallest orphan, although she is similar in height to Kate.
Annie the musical is based on Harold Gray's comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," which itself was based on an 1885 poem originally titled "The Elf Child." At the poem's third printing, poet James Whitcomb Riley decided to change its title to "Little Orphan Allie" to memorialize the real-life orphan that served as ...
Wallis had a role in the film 12 Years a Slave (2013), and collaborated with the Sundance Film Festival on a short film called Boneshaker. In 2014, she played the title character in Annie, the first African American to do so.
The original took place surrounding Christmas of 1933, as the date was a major plot-point in the story. Annie was 11-years-old then.
Annie (Aileen Quinn)
She was nine when she played Annie Bennett Warbucks, but Aileen Quinn is now 50. The child actress bagged the movie role after impressing bosses with her portrayal of the adorable orphan on stage. While the studio kept her under contract to make more movies, they were never materialised.
Annie (2014) is rated PG by the MPAA for some mild language and rude humor. Violence: A man is punched in the face. Kids engage in a scuffle. A character is almost hit by a speeding vehicle.
Annie takes place in 1933 in The Big Apple – New York City! While you might know a bit about New York City, here are a few other things to know about Annie's world. The musical Annie is based on a daily newspaper comic strip that premiered in 1924, itself based on an 1885 poem (“Little Orphan Annie”).
This indicates that perhaps the point of this titan was not to be inherently female, but has abilities centered on crystallization. Therefore, if a man were to eat the human wielding this titan, he would possibly retain his masculine features, but his defining characteristic would be to crystallize.
If a man inherits it, then it'll just look the same, but in a manly form. It'd still have the exposed muscles, but it's be a mans body instead. If you want a mental picture, think of the colossal titan but smaller, and with a more human-y body type.
Bertolt Hoover
Bertolt has been in love with Annie since they were children, and both were Warriors from Marley alongside Reiner. It's unknown if Annie knows about Bertolt's feeling towards her.
The investigation revealed that her real parents were named David and Margaret Bennett and that they are dead. The Mudges are impostors. Annie and Warbucks declare their love for each other. They realize only Miss Hannigan could have given the Mudges the locket and birth certificate.
Judging by Annie's appearence in her crystal for the last few chapters I can say with confidence that she didn't age physically at all. She appears to be the same height and her hair hasn't grown any longer, just untied.