#panache barker

[roswayward]

The fact that the tributes would see each other as they are entering the arena is a different kind of depressing and terrifying . Imagine if this was the case as Katniss was entering the 75th games

[bairdtopia]

Posting this because it's doing good on my twitter

[haymitchyappernathy]

quaking in my boots now that i finally have enough clips to start shitposting

[nativekatniss]

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.

[olyaroo]

Haymitch in this trailer quite literally had more screentime and tension with Panache than with Lenore Dove… Whose love story are you selling again, movie?

[vinsel-ao3]

Someone needs to draw them like this

[ro-garden]

Okay I need to know who is this that's doing some cardio as Haymitch is getting beaten up by panache

The fact that they have those in the training center is in itself is very funny to me like how does that count as survival skills? I guess whoever organized the place was too lazy to take out all the gym equipment

I think it might be barba

[sugar-petals]

me, knowing sunrise on the reaping will be a fantastic adaptation in a movie sense, the political consciousness it can bring (especially when they keep the crucial sentences), and how everyone working on the film can shine: 🤩

also me, considering the cruelty and losses haymitch will witness in and outside the perfumed hunting machine that is the arena, the setbacks of the rebels much mirroring our times, and how hard the watch will be because we’re as exposed to the powers that be like haymitch and district 12 are - as if we watch the games ourselves: