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The Hunger Games is, to this day, my favourite book series. They hold a very special place in my heart. Growing up as an Indigenous girl, I really related and felt seen in Katniss specifically reading them as they came out. (And while I am no longer a teen, I still see myself in her retrospectively.)
Just saw this picture and wow, now I get what people were saying about Jennifer Lawrence being in brownface with bronzer a bit https://thanley.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/jenniferlawrencekatniss.jpg
Yeah I do agree a lot of the promos like that one qualified as brownface / digital brownface (digital because it's clearly edited not just bronzer)
listen, okay, i get what you’re saying but the hunger games are REALLY important for the country’s economy. they generate more revenue in just a few weeks than all of the districts do in like, six entire months. AND they’re an integral part of our culture. not just the capitol! the districts rely on the games too. we can’t just ABOLISH them. that’s CRAZY. but of course i support trans rights! they should have the right to put their names in and showcase their courage and bravery as their PREFERRED gender. but it’s funny you brought that up because i’m actually starting a petition to introduce a nonbinary category as well! tributes shouldn’t be required to align with arbitrary sex characteristics in order to compete. i mean, it’s 2316! i know the districts aren’t as advanced as we are here in the capitol, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be encouraging gender diversity. i’ll take the signatures to the city offices once i have enough. honestly, i have high hopes! the local lgbt community is sure to support it. plus, i mean, why would anyone be against it, really? just think! we could have THREE tributes from each district instead of just two. imagine the economical impact of twelve extra tributes every year! wouldn’t that be something! what do you think? will you sign?
"How Not to Drown" by CHVRCHES is SO Katniss coded
Maybe it's because it's your actual region. Maybe it's because of shared cultural implications. Maybe you just have a lot of ideas about expanding the lore. Whatever the reason, I'm curious to know what District folks feel most drawn to, and why.
Which Panem District do you feel most connected to?
District 1
District 2
District 3
District 4
District 5
District 6
District 7
District 8
District 9
District 10
District 11
District 12
I'll say that despite living on the Atlantic Coast and District 4 being Pacific, because my people in real life are so culturally close to the water, I feel most connected to them!
The Casting for Panache Barker in the Sunrise on the Reaping film adaptation is Anti-Black and Tone-Deaf
In the book Sunrise on the Reaping, Panache Barker is a minor antagonist from District 1. Based on his spots in the new trailer, it looks like the film adaptation is going to keep the role pretty accurate. Which makes the fact that they cast Jhaleil Swaby, a young Black man to play the character, pretty damn problematic. I'm not saying Swaby won't be able to do a good job with the role - but I do think that this is a case where racebending a character is really out of touch with the character's role in the story, to the point of creating hugely racist connotations.
Panache in the book is hyper-violent, hotheaded, and unintelligent. He is first introduced as breaking the train window when he steps out of it. Later in the showers, he literally swings his dick around in peoples faces. During training sessions, he talks over the female instructors and bullies the other tributes. At his interview, the Capitol just laughs at him for being dumb.
There is not much sympathetic about Panache, because he chooses violence every time. He chooses to hype up the system while refusing to believe in the fact that he himself is suffering from that same system. He refuses to believe in the fact that he has more in common with the other tributes than he does with the Capitol people he eagers to impress.
All this is to say, Panache's character represents toxic masculinity. And while I'm definitely not going to claim that Black boys and men cannot fall into that hole like men of any other ethnic background, I will say that there is nothing about Panache that reads as Black in the book. If he was Black, I would think that his toxic masculinity would have been displayed a little differently; it would have included the context of his race within the threads of that type of violence. Instead, I personally read him as a big white guy abusing underfed brown kids, in attempt to appease the overlording Capitol.
But instead of critiquing toxic masculinity as the book does, the film instead chose to make the hyper-violent, hotheaded, and unintelligent antagonist a Black boy. This instead now presents horrible, dangerous, racist stereotypes for Black boys and men as if they are true.
The Hunger Games films have a strong history of whitewashing, but this is the opposite of the answer. If the only roles you're willing to cast visible minorities in are villains and dead characters, that's adding to the problem.
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JOSEPH ZADA and WHITNEY PEAK as HAYMITHC ABERNATHY and LENORE DOVE BAIRD
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on The Reaping (2026) — dir. Francis Lawrence
ELLE FANNING (Effie), MAYA HAWKE (Wiress), JESSE PLEMONS (Plutarch), & KELVIN HARRISON JR. (Beetee) in THE HUNGER GAMES: SUNRISE ON THE REAPING.
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Not sure if this has already been said but I was going through the illustrations for the Illustrated hunger games and I can’t stop thinking of the depiction the artist took for Thresh.
In the original book, Katniss describes Thresh as powerful and intimidating—a build on par with the Careers, strong and silent, a mysterious threat lurking on the edges of the arena that is able to hold out until the very last days of the 74th games. And you can see how this interpretation informed the casting choices made for him in the live action adaptations. For years, the only image we’ve had of Thresh is of this strong, unstoppable guy who had to be taken out by either the physically strongest guy in the Games, or by monsters designed by the Capitol itself.
And then, you see Thresh as he’s illustrated.
The low angle. The backlight throwing almost his entire figure into shadow. The way he holds aloft the rock he just killed Clove with—the fact that you can *see* Clove’s corpse in the background. Everything about this image is designed to paint Thresh as this hulking berserker, moments away from beating in your skull.
But then you see his face. Those eyes, welling with tears. The look of disbelief. The way his mouth is opened—what is he saying? Is he asking Katniss if she’s the one who killed Rue? The little girl who would sing when it was time to go home from the fields? Or is he stunned into silence as Katniss recounts how she buried Rue in flowers, how she sang to her in her final moments? In the books it’s mentioned that he never talked to anyone—was he preparing, like Katniss, to see everyone in that arena as a threat? How shocked must he have been that this random girl he never even spoke to, whose name he’s probably forgotten, go to such lengths to show kindness to someone who wasn’t from her district?
More than anything, he looks so *young.* His eyes are large and expressive—his face is soft, still retaining a little baby fat. Throughout the book, Katniss categorizes her fellow tributes as potential threats first and foremost—she often describes Thresh as a stoic, unflinching powerhouse, but then you see this and you’re taken aback. Because this? This isn’t the calculating, powerful predator we’ve been expecting. This is very clearly a *child.* A *boy*, who’s been ripped from his home to fight to the death in an arena for the entertainment of the ruling class. Who probably got his strength from climbing trees, hauling sacks of grain, collecting food. Who was so deeply impacted by the death of his district partner that just the suggestion from another girl’s mouth that she had killed her sent him into a rage. Who, in the books, refused to interact with or fight any of his fellow tributes until he heard Clove talking at the feast.
You start wondering—did he ever want to kill anyone? Like Peeta, did the idea of the Capitol turning him into a killer make him sick? Like Reaper, was it a refusal to play into the hands of the Capitol? Like Katniss, did the fact alone that he had killed leave its own horrible mark? Did he spend his final nights jumping awake as he relived Clove’s skull caving under the rock? When the mutts finally came for him, do you think he hesitated when he saw the tributes’ eyes staring back?
This is a *kid.* They’re all just *kids.* And that’s what fucks me up so much about this picture of Thresh—that it’s not just a depiction of him, but of all the tributes who have ever competed in the Hunger games. That no matter how they are reframed as victors and monsters and killers and spectacles, at the end of the day they were all children. Boys and girls forced to fight each other to the death, while their true enemies watched on, laughing.
narrator who's terrible at social cues & describes every facial expression as "unreadable"
"The frown was completely unreadable. Thankfully, the loaded and raised gun offered a clue."
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The Hunger Games Renaissance. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026), dir. Francis Lawrence - first look at the cast of sunrise on the reaping
