Reacting to How Hunger Games Characters Are Supposed to Look (According to AI)

[@lilac_rain3855]

You can really see how Peeta and Katniss are a reflection of Coriolanus and Lucy Grey through their “correct” appearances and why Snow was so sure that Katniss did not love Peeta the way Peeta loved her since he felt Lucy Grey betrayed him when he loved her

[@boywonder2120]

He was right, if Gale didnt blow prim up she wouldve picked him instead.

[@mik1of3]

@@boywonder2120Gale didn’t blow up Prim ffs. Coin did. If you read the book, you’d know that Prim at 14 was too young to be on the scene in the first place. That Coin had to have okayed it… and since Coin didn’t like Katniss (she wanted Peeta at the get go) felt that Katniss had defied, embarrassed, disrespected her, in addition to the fact that Katniss did not openly support Coin as the next president of Panem…this was payback. Gale and Beatee created the bombs… Coin was the one who authorized the use of them. Coin knew what losing Prim would do to Katniss. (Just strengthens my suspicion that Coin is Snows daughter by Lucy Gray.)

[@rileydolenz5471]

That is a very interesting take, a connection I didn't make. I like it! Kinda makes me want to reread Ballad with that perspective.

[@hederlisa]

@@mik1of3 Coin being Snow's daughter is a interesting take. We know Gale didn't actually kill Prim. Katniss was calling out Gale's morality throughout the war with the weapons he was creating for Coin. The point is he gave Coin what she needed even though Katniss was warning him about her

[@erinc129]

Suzanne Collins was SO involved with the casting of the movies so it confuses me that people try to say that casting people of a certain race to play certain roles is disrespectful to the source material. Like... the way YOU imagined it when you first read it is not the same 'source material' as the choices made by the LITERAL author and team of creative minds behind these casting choices.

[@carsfan1995]

Was she involved in the casting? I only knew she took part in the scriptwriting for the first movie.

[@asl5079]

@@carsfan1995 She did partake in the casting

[@star_baker]

There’s so much more that goes into casting though. And in an interview Suzanne actually said that no one looks like the image she has of Katniss, but Jennifer was close enough. We don’t know what close enough means, but the way Katniss is described in the book is how she looks, and the books are the source material not the movies. The movies were adaptations and they made a lot of changes and took out important plots and characters. And when casting so much goes into it like the actor’s ability, their schedule, and their star quality (to make money). Movie Katniss doesn’t look anything like book Katniss.

[@Δ-Δ-Δ-Δ]

I always imagined Rue and Thresh after the actor and actress from the films. I had no problems imagining Rue as this sweet tiny black-skinned girl that reminded Katniss of Primrose.

[@blanket4763]

@@carsfan1995she worked with the casting department basically describing what they should look like and then the casters found actors that would fit

[@monaeckle]

Peeta honestly looked more like young Snow, kinda unnerving

[@gdesiree29]

Yes they both look alike

[@yarenkuyumcu9789]

Yeah and it became even more unsettling now knowing that he saw himself in Peeta and felt jeolous because Peeta was a type of man for Katniss whom he could never be for Lucy Gray.

[@gdesiree29]

@@yarenkuyumcu9789 oh he definitely saw himself in peeta. The looks and he didn't like to see katniss and peeta in love so he used peeta to get at katniss. This man is jealous 64 years later

[@leonardorafael7975]

Katniss and Peta actually mirror Snow and Lucy in many different ways.

[@MadelineLee-w3b]

Kinda creepy.... Peeta's my fav character..... Young Snow, on the other hand..... meh...

[@melindamercier6811]

I love how much Suzanne Collins did her research for Appalachia. There was a distinct ethnic group of people in Appalachia that were olive-skinned with dark hair having european, sub-saharan, and native ancestry. They were called Melungeon and were poorly treated in historic times due to their mixed race ethnic background. That would explain the distinct appearance of people from the Seam.

[@Coco_Loco95]

Agreed💯 I appreciate her accuracy. Us creoles in Louisiana have the same ancestry as the melungeons.

[@diabloakland]

Yesss the melungeon

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

I’m a small % Melungeon, taken a DNA test shows I have a sub Saharan African, and native DNA. Almost all people who are native to Appalachia (born within the mountains) have similar traits. Went to school with a girl that was Cherokee and Italian (Italians made up a large percentage of immigrants that came here to work in the mines)she and her whole family had dark hair and olive skin. I tell people that Appalachians aren’t white, might not be a “Poc” but can’t say we are not genetically diverse from standard white European. It is nice to see an author do some research into regional people and mixed heritage and cultures

[@carolinem.6747]

i just looked up what the average melungeon person looks like & the first pic that popped up looked just like AI gale

[@Coco_Loco95]

@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 some appalachians are definitely white, but the melungeon ones are poc. I think it’s cool you’re part.

[@jericafallas4227]

A lot of people imagine characters with no skin color description as white because white is their default, this has been studied and it is directly correlated to each person's context on what is "normal" to them

[@femalegays]

yea, my default was always more brown latino people like my family. i never even thought about it until other people started a discussion on the castings. like even katniss and gale i imagined as indigenous latinos like my family.

[@jimierrante-humes1119]

But like also the thing about cinna does green eyes not imply white

[@lizanne373]

@@jimierrante-humes1119No? People of color can have green eyes. Green eyes is not exclusive to white people.

[@predisions]

@@jimierrante-humes1119 not necessarily because african americans can be born with green eyes.

[@sims4hungergames212]

@@predisionsin extremely rare cases where they have a genetic mutation. It’s not common at all and anyone assuming he was white because of the green eyes should not be faulted for that

[@trinaq]

I find it ridiculous that there was outrage over Rue and Thresh being portrayed by actors of colour, since they were both clearly described as being dark skinned in the source material.

[@ProfessorPrel]

Was there outrage over that?

[@timothycsauer1]

Was anyone actually upset, or are you just trying to stir the pot.

[@sol15_]

@@ProfessorPrelyeah back when the cast was revealed for the first movie

[@lyssalovesit]

there were some incels on twitter talking shit about it but it wasn't a majority thing.@@timothycsauer1

[@nickyg7557]

​@@sol15_ these people were idiots who haven't read the books the right way

[@CoyoteLovelyLV]

I can't see anyone else but Lenny Kravitz for Cinna anymore. I read the books after seeing the movies, but I can't picture anyone else. Lenny Kravitz is too perfect.

[@mik1of3]

My first thought was Collins envisioned Prince for Cinna, but Lenny was just as good, if not better for the role.

[@Toria._.]

Yeah, same. He's my absolute favorite character, and I can't see him as anyone other than Lenny Kravitz

[@madelynmatamoro]

same

[@iamsherlocked7448]

Yes same 😂

[@ninak1976]

He looks great

[@stephenwillis6937]

Remember that the people in District 12 are severely malnourished and for a child that can stunt their growth thus making them look younger then they actually are. I listened to a case of kids who were pulled from an abusive home and they thought the oldest was 12. He was 19 but so horribly malnourished that he looked 12.

[@asl5079]

Yes, but not everyone in 12 was malnourished. If I remember right, from the book, Katniss was well nourished as a kid because her dad went hunting. When he died, it took her a while to get the courage to go into the forest by herself and try hunting and trapping, but she ate well after that. Peeta, too, was eating alright. Merchants had enough money to eat. Not a fortune, but enough. Gale, too, hunted, so he had enough to eat. While the general population wasn't eating properly, the main characters were alright.

[@blainehale2144]

Rue is literally described in the book to look like 10 at most I remember listening to it and thinking it was interesting cause she reminds katniss so much of prim which made me assume that prim looked younger too

[@asl5079]

@@blainehale2144 It's possible, but I don't think she looked younger because of malnutrition specifically. Again, Katniss started hunting a few months after her father's death, which were the only times her family didn't have access to much food. Prim got a goat, too, and Katniss bought tesserae, which helped. Katniss often mentionned how her sister was somewhat « pure », gentle, and it's in that maneurism that she finds her sister in Rue, not really physically.

[@Scarlett59319]

Yeah I used to be severely underweight because of my eating disorder, at 18 everyone thought I was still a child so I agree it makes sense

[@Ismail-kv3ex]

One thing I'd consider is how Gale is described as looking like a grown man when they first met at 14 and Katniss has watched previous Hunger Games (with careers) and later been to the capital itself I certainly think they rarely felt full growing up but it seems with their hunting skill, the Everdeen's and Hawthorne's managed enough to not be severely stunted like that

[@maja-kehn9130]

I think if you swapped Peetas AI version for the one of young Snow that would have been spot on.

[@gdesiree29]

It's crazy how they look alike

[@icy6c159]

I believe Snow saw himself through Katniss Peeta how they not only look similar but their actions too.

[@purpleclaws202]

​@@icy6c159 not really lmao Lucy isn't like Katniss

[@purpleclaws202]

​@@gdesiree29 they don't. Snow looked more snake like and had a more chiseled face. Peeta was more himbo/stocky type of guy he's always described as "strong and stocky"

[@isaiahdenver4224]

In 8th grade I was given detention for not reading the class assignment. During detention, my teacher told me I had to read from the hunger games and tell her about the first chapter. Best detention ever, ironically. She let me take the book home and I wouldn’t shut up about it the next day.

[@Shenanigans_333]

Teachers can be helpful sometimes, especially when they don’t mean to be 😂

[@carolinem.6747]

when i was a kid i thought i would hate THG too! it ended up becoming one of my favorite books of all time, & only b/c i happened to pick it up when i was bored w/ nothing else to read!

[@EditorGirl.goodeditor]

I want that detention. I wanna read hunger games

[@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527]

Fun fact: when I was a little girl I misunderstood the descriptions that said that Katniss and Gale had olive complexions and thought it meant they looked levantine or Arabic.

[@Variane-zg3lr]

Same, the translation to brazillian portuguese described her as “morena”, which ranges incredibly between olive skin to lightskin black, and my brain instantly went lightskin black for Katniss

[@Makjaoiuewhxkjs]

Her race was never described only the color of her skin and she had dark gray(?) eyes and dark hair. So she could very well be light skin black, Arabic, Native American, etc. All of those headcannons fit her description.

[@jaimelowe4246]

I always think of Native Americans when I think of olive skin.

[@Makjaoiuewhxkjs]

Even white ppl for example in Italy are sometimes described to have olive skin, this is a pretty broad description. But I think her being Native American fits the narrative the best. Like merchants have light eyes and hair = they are white and privileged, and the poorest would be Natives. Given that Panem is based on the current USA it fits really well.

[@dhsf5937]

​@@MakjaoiuewhxkjsOlive skin is a white characteristic.

[@riakun]

For context, mostly for those who don’t know, the reason why odd things keep popping up in these A.I. images (snow in Haymitch’s hair, no thick lips for older Snow, a backpack on younger Snow, etc.) is cuz A.I. can’t really make its own art, and actually takes art that people have done across the internet and makes it into the image as described. The original art piece base for Haymitch probably had snow in his hair, same with the backpack on a younger Snow.

[@mythking541]

Gale was exactly how I pictured him, honestly. Peeta looks like the actor that played young Snow and similar to the AI generation of Snow...theory, what if that was purposeful to also mirror Katniss x Peeta with Lucy Gray x Snow? Edit: After seeing the generated Lucy Gray, we need a side by side of Lucy Gray and young Snow compared to Katniss and Peeta. I am convinced they were describing the same people with very few difference to sell how similar those two couples are.

[@clover2739]

Yeah I think that’s deliberate, I feel like Snow saw himself in Peeta and hated how Peeta was in love with Katniss and was willing to do anything for her, when he saw that Katniss didn’t feel the same way back, so I think he took extra sick satisfaction in hijacking Peeta to make him hate Katniss and see her as a mutt

[@glory4645]

Perhaps but he doesn't have gray eyes in this AI version, they look dark brown.

[@Tswift13-v6m]

What Ai did Morgan Ross used

[@purpleclaws202]

​@clover2739 it's not deliberate. It's meant to be similar but not exact mirrors and its stupid how dumb bitches like you that try to feel smart think so

[@Maddie-ln5vb]

@@glory4645 Peeta and Snow never had grey eyes. They’re both described with blue eyes.

[@songofstorms7]

The actress who plays Wovey attends the high school I work at! My sister is her English teacher and she is the sweetest and so sassy! Very talented

[@CrystalClouds.]

Tell her she did an amazing job!

[@jairusjackson7799]

She did a good job for the little screen time she had. I didn't know she was an actual teenager

[@matteoairaghi790]

the biggest problem with the movie casting (not only for hunger games but most franchises) is the actors are way too old compared to their age in the books. Like Lucy Gray was 16 in the book and the actress is 22, Snow was 18 and the actor is 28. I think it takes away a lot of drama

[@MrRight1000]

Great point 👍

[@gdesiree29]

Even jennifer and Josh

[@notbill08]

For labor law reasons Hollywood has been casting 20+ somethings as teenagers for years. I saw the movies before reading the books and the casting choices were spot on!

[@femalegays]

even though it would make the gravity of their situations to a more chilling, i do not want children playing these people. fans and the media sexualized those kids from both it and stranger things, on top of just being brutal to them over lame things. it's the just better in irl to cast adults for these roles. not even mentioning the labor laws and how easily they could be abused or manipulated.

[@Celeste_51]

Yes I thought Lucy gray was 18 because she does not look 16 at all to me lol

[@notbill08]

The AI is doing "electric" blue eyes which is a little too intense! Katniss mother looks way too young and I don't see the stress or mental illness. Also Gayle looks asian Indian.

[@tell-me-a-story-]

I think AI made some of the uglier charecters a but to pretty. I liked AI Gale.

[@nickgreu4ever]

I believe I'm one of the few ones that imagined Cinna as black. I don't know exactly why, because I'm a white man and unfortunately I have the tendency to imagine any characters as white by default (read NW by Zadie Smith it changed the way I read novels). But I think the fact that he was very friendly to Katniss and didn't treat her like a spectacle like the rest of Capitol citizens, made me visualize him as some sort of an outsider, a minority, who could feel compassion and be protective of her.

[@mark_thurwanger]

“Unfortunately”? Bruh we all do that

[@Δ-Δ-Δ-Δ]

I read 100 Years of Solitude and imagined them as a family of white-skinned Spanish descent. Except Rebeca.

[@blanket4763]

I def pictured him black too

[@madethistocomment727]

​@@mark_thurwangerjust because a lot of people do it doesn't make it a good thing, so "unfortunately" is appropriate.

[@Thebatcavepetfriendlybakery]

I also pictured him black but i dont remember it being stated, its been a while since i read it though.

[@ddieter603]

Tigris would have been much-much older than AI got her. 65 years passed between the 10th Hunger Games and the events of Mockingjay. Peter Dinklage is an accomplished enough actor, he could have been cast as Katniss and done justice to the role.

[@What_isHappening]

Peeta needs to look kinder. AI made him look like he's the type of guy who would start fights.

[@hannajeggings9619]

besides the fact that josh hutcherson is shorter than J Law, I actually loved him being Peeta. also woody Harrelson doesnt look anything like haymitch but I also love him as haymitch. honestly enjoyed all the casting for the movie, even the ones who weren't super accurate

[@cristianasaras6898]

How tall is he 5’6 ? She’s 5’7 in some shots she looks like she has 2 inches on him

[@jac7198]

i LOVED him being shorter. katniss was the hero of the two. she won the hunger games

[@hannajeggings9619]

@@cristianasaras6898 I believe he's 5'5 actually, so yeah ur right, just abt 2 inches on him! They probably had some lifts in their boots respectively, bc she always looked 2-3 inches taller

[@readaholicgirl_5]

Maybe the reason Prim and Rue looked so young to us is because that's how 12 year olds look like? especially malnourished. Just think, these babies were put in the games with nearly adults. Barely had a fighting chance tbh

[@IdioticSurvivalSkills]

I just have two questions to ask 1. Will you do the same AI video for Percy Jackson characters? 2. What AI software/website you were using?

[@lightningboltt5437]

Fr bro

[@M_edits_3]

Idk if its right but it looks like art breeder images.

[@danielloader3351]

I was about to ask the same thing. I'd like to see percy jackson characters by ai

[@hueyfreeman2245]

Nah fr what ai did he use?

[@dan4606]

pretty sure its midjourney

[@ArnaMalwatkar]

I definitely saw Cinna as Black. To be honest I didn't know about races and their controversies back when I read the books. But I know I saw him as dark-skinned.

[@shannonleeann5643]

And it makes sense with gold eye liner

[@ArnaMalwatkar]

@@shannonleeann5643 Right????

[@mik1of3]

I always saw Prince when I envisioned Cinna…thought Collins did too.

[@ArnaMalwatkar]

@@mik1of3 Make so much sense

[@OliviaMiller-j9y]

Samee

[@MistarZtv]

When the Prey movie came out I was awestruck at how the main protagonist Naru looked liked. Naru was just like how I pictured Katniss would be just without the braid and Grey eyes of course of course. The build, size, complexion and nimbleness felt so close to how I read it.

[@jwooten4321]

Maybe you could also make one with the Percy Jackson series. I think that'd be pretty cool. I know there are official drawings and fan drawings and whatnot, but I'd like to see how AI would depict them.

[@tylerjohnson1947]

I want to see that too!

[@nmoney6655]

Rue being black was actually a very important detail to the story it shows that Katniss just seen her as a little girl she didn’t see her skin color

[@lukemysterio6194]

The reason that Haymitch has snow on his head is really cool. In TBOSAS Coriolanus's line is, "Snow always lands on top". That's why he has snow on his head, aka the top of the body.

[@nikkiej.5875]

The only character that was depicted accurately with the use of AI to how I pictured her was Katniss Everdeen. I also pictured her being small and having dark olive skin and dark brown hair in braids. I also had to read the first book of The Hunger Games for school but for me, it was 7th grade. I would love to see another video but for Percy Jackson.

[@lovelysakurapetalsyt]

This is one of the few things that I approve of AI being used for. They should use it more for casting roles if they wanna be book accurate

[@terebertuccivoicemusic9821]

Let's remember AI conveys human biases because it is fed by human interactions with content, so the default when there is no description of skin colour is usually white (because this is how biases and dominant identities work).

[@coachgoltzbizpro23]

Fun Fact about the actor who played Gloss (Forgot his name too): He was Thad Castle in Blue Mountain State. Went from party hard college linebacker captain to Hunger Games Tribute...

[@fionarodgers4806]

His name is Alan Ritchson.

[@blazingswordsman5410]

I would like to see AI generate an image of Clemmie, Crassus Snow, Coryos mom, Gloss and Cashmier.

[@MadelineLee-w3b]

Totally agree

[@MsSmontalvo]

Although I thought Jennifer Lawrence did a great job playing the part, it always bothered me that she looked so different from the way Katniss was described in the books. Same for Peeta. I tend to get peeved in general when movie adaptations of books stray too far (in my opinion), tho. In general, I think they did a decent job with the movies, but those particular differences in character appearances really bugged me. Also, I actually did picture Cinna as black in my head, so I thought his casting was perfect. Acted well, too. Same for Rue.

[@mik1of3]

This! I always thought Hailee Steinfeld would have been the better pick for Katniss for that same reason.

[@HanaTheRussell]

Keep in mind the white privilege that comes with the notion that all characters are white unless otherwise explicitly specified. “They didn’t say Cinna was black” yes but as you said they didn’t say he was white. I actually did picture Cinna as black during my initial read through. Idk why. I was happy with the casting then shocked to see people were upset or surprised. I hadn’t noticed he wasn’t described as black. Idk why my brain filled it in that way. There’s a book by a Black author, I forget the name. But she subverts this “white unless otherwise specified” trope in her novel by only mentioning when a character is white, and not specifying the other characters. Implying that non specified characters are POC and white is the unexpected other.

[@sharon-bp9pk]

yeah I don't get wtf his problem is

[@mennamohamed2338]

Oh I need to read that book !

[@BigYanz123]

As someone of colour myself, I wouldn’t call it white privilege because I do the exact same thing. The way I personally see it is if the author is white or if the book takes place in America or a European country where the majority of people are white, that’s what I’ll default too. That’s not to say I’m against diversifying the film if their race isn’t mentioned either, so long as they stick to what is actually described, like hair colour or what not. But I do understand why it would be the default. It would be the same if I was reading a book that took place in let’s say Japan for example. Unless told otherwise, I would just assume the character would look Japanese. But that’s just my reasoning and like I said, I’m from North Africa so I look more Arab, so it’s not me just defending my race or what ever either, just in case some reading my comment tries to paint me as a racist.

[@xenomorphbiologist-xx1214]

I don’t get how that’s a white privilege. I’ve read lots of books where the character is implied to be black or asian, etc without it being explicitly mentioned. Also sometimes you have to make assumptions if you’re given no information whatsoever. If you’re character is living in England and behaves like a typical British person, chances are they’re going to be right

[@Sophie-vw5ol]

Pleeease look up what this book is called. Would be so interesting for my study. I study theatre film and media science :)

[@thetattoedfae]

not Peeta looking like the actor who played Coriolanus 💀

[@KyleHamel21]

Pretty much my only issue is that whenever someone has blue eyes AI makes them look possessed. 😂 Still really cool though!!

[@pancake5344]

For me, I always pictured Cinna as being Chinese. Maybe it's that the words China and Cinna look the same, or maybe when I heard about his makeup I pictured some of the dramatic makeup I have seen in Chinese culture.

[@MsAngelsheart]

I could easily see this

[@ALoneLeopon9967]

Movie Ballad of songbirds and snakes Snow looks like slim shady with his head shaved

[@matthewmccarthy3284]

When I read the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes I pictured Lucy Gray to have wavy hair with some curls but not very curly hair.

[@EmelyPhan]

The 2nd Johanna Mason one looks like the movie version. I remember seeing comments from another video that mention AI might have borrowed the movie as reference.

[@Wineoclockbookworm]

This is kinda why I often (but not always) prefer to see the movie and read the book after. If I read first I have a picture in my head of what the characters look like and enjoy the movie less if they cast someone who looks different. One of the best casting in a movie adaptation of a book was Lonesome Dove. Every actor was spot on as to what I had pictured in my head.

[@horseyfacetheglorious]

Make these Riordanverse videos 1.) A Character Design Video Ex: Percy- Male / teenager / black hair / sea green eyes / olive skin / silly 2.) What The Characters’ Bogarts Are Ex: Percy - Alecto / Annabeth - Arachne / Grover - Polyphemus

[@leafyveins4985]

I always find it strange when people become fixated on a character being black that wasn't before. Why does it matter? But overall, great video! I enjoyed it. Really cool to see what AI comes up with

[@danielloader3351]

I think any race is fine if it wasn't specified but if it was I prefer it to remain accurate

[@carsfan1995]

@@danielloader3351 I think it’s also to the benefit of open casting calls. White women will always have opportunities for roles. Black girls are often relegated to being the best friend to the white lead. If they are the lead it’s usually based on Civil Rights era, Civil War, or during slavery. If they are in a modern day setting, it’s New York as the default or in the city. How many black lead movies are there where it’s also a fantasy setting or has fantastical elements? Black Panther, Little Mermaid, See You Yesterday. Black Panther was part of the MCU and thus was an affordable risk at the time. Little Mermaid was a remake of a popular IP and Halle Bailey was chosen because the director thought she was talented. See You Yesterday is only original film that I know of… and it’s more of a time travel movie where the lead has to go back in time to save her brother from being shot by a cop… We live in an era of IP-based projects. You’re lucky to get original movies in animation. If we want fantasy or sci-fi movie or show starring a POC (without “race swapping”) it either has to be a new character, a spin-off movie or show set in the same world to feature that character, or you have to dig through some sort of IP you have the rights to that also has a POC lead. Otherwise that’s what open auditions are for in non-historical or fantastical/sci-fi based settings. Support original projects starring non-white, straight characters and you won’t have the bologna “race swapping”. It’s not that hard.

[@JT-mj7fy]

Lenny Kravitz was perfect casting for Cinna, I don’t understand anyone’s shock on that. I think when authors don’t give skin color to characters, it helps the reader connect more with the story and book, as people tend to pull from what they know, their environment and their own experiences to fill in the gaps. This also helps when casting for movies or shows, as a more diverse cast can help attract a bigger audience. Even when they are changed; no reason to be upset, they are fictional characters - not historically accurate reenactment.

[@margaretconnor5623]

What's hilarious is they were also really mad about Rue being black even though the book DESCRIBED HER AS BLACK. The visceral racism that people spewed when Rue was cast was just awful.

[@robr7815]

Companies are lazy and racist. They prefer to cast black characters in white roles in old stories for "diversity" instead of writing new stories with black leads. If you want diversity, start writing new characters that aren't white and aren't straight. SIMPLE. Companies need to stop blackwashing white stories. And vice versa, stop whitewashing black stories. Kravitz was perfect for Cinna: because it doesn't matter for side characters. It's just annoying when the main characters aren't accurate to the book. I was pissed when Katniss wasn't olive skinned. But I thought prim was perfect because she looked like she was from the merchant class (which her mother was from). Katniss and her father were olive skinned, and her mother and Prim were fair. Just like I was so pissed when harry potter didn't have green eyes in the movies.

[@GeneralPenguiniscool]

I watched the new Hunger Games movie with my friends, and i loved it. I think it was super faithful to the book, although the changes made were great and really only improved the book.

[@Eabha-marie]

Peeta looked like Cornelius snow 😭

[@Celeste_51]

I’m loving all the hunger games videos recently ❤ so glad to see the new movie has bought some life and popularity into the fandom again!

[@takashitamagawa5881]

I thought the AI Katniss was much more true to the book description than was Jennifer Lawrence. Make no mistake, Jennifer Lawrence is a formidable actor and she played the role to perfection, but among other things she always seemed to be too tall and robust to be Katniss Everdeen. I would like to see AI conceptions of the redheaded women - Foxface and the avox Lavinia.

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

Jennifer Lawrence was a odd pick, fine overall for the movie but she’s a bit too “full figured and busty” to play a starving teenage girl, an actress a bit more lean and slender would’ve been a better choice imo.

[@msnorringtonsims6536]

fascinating that the AI also assumes the character is caucasian unless skin color is specified.

[@Zivanovaable]

About Lucy Gray's look the only thing is known dark curly hair, thin figure, and being captivating. But her eye color never ever mentioned. Just that she uses blue eyeshadows.

[@jocieValdez]

I think hamitch is pretty spot on and the second picture of Johanna. For cinna I actually imagined him Asian but I still love who they casted for him. Like it doesn't really make a difference. Although I always wish I could make a movie with the characters exactly how I pictured them and what everything looked like!

[@star_baker]

Ooh honestly an Asian Cinna would have been amazing. I imagined him with light skin so I guess my mind defaulted him to white. Though now that I’m thinking about it, there aren’t any Asian actors in the movies. Cinna’s race is unspecified and I like Lenny’s portrayal, but an Asian actor him would have been great representation

[@fayewong5628]

Peta looks like a younger Snow😂

[@makennacallahan]

Am I the only one when reading the books before the movies for some reason picture him as mixed with green eyes. I think that was because when I had read the books I happened to be in front of a man who was clearly mixed with the brightest green eyes I have ever seen. The movie and the casting actor for Cinna helped me even more with believing he was supposed to be mixed.

[@byoki_rain3227]

Honestly, I pictured Cinna with darker skin when reading the books, I think that's mainly because it's how I thought the gold eyeliner would look best? anyway, the movie was pretty accurate to what I pictured for him, also Lenny Kravitz portrayed the role excellently. Also, the Ai made Cinna look a lot like it did Finnick, which I find kinda funny. Haymitch.. I definitely pictured Haymitch a bit differently but the actor who played him got the vibe down so well that I didn't care.

[@hannahbriand3786]

I also had to read Hunger Games for school! (6th grade). As a class activity, we had to design a movie poster, which was super fun, and this was wayy before the movies were even announced. We also were assigned a tribute for the first book that we had to "follow" and report on what happened to them in the Games lol. Good times

[@Summerlily01]

AI Peeta looks like Corio from the new movie lol. Anyways, I always pictured gale as looking younger… like a 16 year old who is similar to (AI) Katniss.

[@clover2739]

I think Gale is 18, and Katniss book wise always described gale is looking older than his age and seeming way more grown up. I think both Katniss and Peeta look younger

[@jjcook0226]

The Cina AI looks more like how I pictured Finnick to be in the books

[@raven-deelarsen2644]

I love your show man, sorry if this sounds forward but I'd love a video on the Flickerman family. Lucky and Caesar were awesome

[@BlueDiamondStar]

I loved these. And tbh when I read books most of the time my brain cannot create an image of a face without a reference and I still don’t know much actors in general so while I have incredible imagination I struggle with faces but AI did very well in my opinion. Much better than my brain. Also the description of “olive skin” despite the decade since I read the books (circa 2012) still makes me think of more of a Latino type of skin tone. And “ashen skin” my entire life has been referred as just grey looking almost as if the person wasn’t feeling well type of skin tone and never as another way to describe dark skin. Maybe it’s to describe a dark skin with more grey undertone (cool toned dark?) Having hard time to imagine people off of the description is not easy without any reference whatsoever so I never much tried but I had a great way of imagining all the scenes in general. I had imagined everything very close to the movie but not too much as I sort of feel they don’t have that level of exact specific details down in the movie. I do liked Cinna in the movies and with this one AI didn’t do too bad. I did miss the part where they didn’t specify his skin color so apparently I imagined him as black and maybe different hair. I think for the most part he looked most down to earth among Capitol citizens Can’t wait for a chance to watch the new movie and possibly attempt to find a free access book online version.

[@nmoney6655]

Fun fact: I actually got the Hunger Games books for my birthday one year because I remember being in 6th grade and since my birthday is in the summer (a week from now to be exact) I was thinking about making a birthday list so I did gave it to my parents who on my birthday got me the entire series

[@magdelenasattler2054]

Anyone else think Lucy Gray was staring into your soul.

[@Fae_TheLittleMushroom]

Me 🙋🏼‍♀️

[@YTCProductions]

19:27 looks about accurate and younger before the morphling addiction And if they did a hunger games prequel before the first ever game then id be all for it

[@hateyawilliams6630]

They look FANTASTIC 😁 • Katniss • Haymitch • Effie • Old Snow • Young Snow 😍 • Mrs Everdeen • Joanna 😮 • Lucy • Coin Are NOT it 😂 • The Prim Reaper • Peeta 😭 • Prim • Finnick (because how could anyone compare to Sam Caflin) • Cinna • Tigris • Beetee • Rue • Highbottom (Peter is just the besssst)

[@azaanimations319]

Prim Reaper is Gale, right?

[@aaliyahbrown5739]

THE PRIM REAPER.....oh that is too perfect i cant stop LAUGHING😭

[@JaneCA21]

Love this! Would love for a part 2 in the future! Always love the work you put in 💙

[@Tabbychu]

Despite the inconsistancies in appearances at times, I truly truly believe they cast everyone so so perfeftly. Does anyone else think AI Gaul kinda looks like Carol from walking dead? 😂

[@cristinadreambaker4822]

"Don't expect us to be impressed... we just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear"😂

[@phoebedemontefalcon1423]

Tom blyth Look is better. The intensity on his eyes is what we imagined on the young president snow. He's built is also perfect because snow grew up deprived of food.

[@RB26679]

Katniss is described as having olive skin in the books. so she’s is still white but her skin is just more warm and tan then in the movies. And I know she is said to have grey eyes but irl grey eyes are just a very pale blue most of the time. I think overall Jennifer Lawrence fits the look of Katniss pretty good. But regardless of Suzanne Collins thought that the actors paleness would be a major problem then they wouldn’t have gotten the role. I heard she was very strict on casting.

[@SneeringBull905]

AI portraits for Cinna and the crazy doctor could be from unconscious bias. There is a “white default” bias in sci-fi literature. Other characters have to be described as brown, dark-skinned, black, etc. to be clearer to the readers. Imagine older Snow with all that lip filler, that would’ve been really uncanny. 😂

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

Imagine needing to describe a character in order for the reader to understand what they look like lmao I don’t understand what the “white default” means if there’s no description of the character the reader isn’t going to know what they look like at all.

[@UnilovelyUnicorn]

“Going from one psychopath to another” had me dying 😂

[@cheyennesmith2592]

I’ve noticed in a lot of movies or tv shows that were first books when they made them into movies and if the characters had curly hair they either straightened the hair or made it more wavy (like they Hermione’s in Harry Potter) but a lot of the actors or actresses that have natural curly hair have said that the hairstylists didn’t know how to style curly hair so a lot of the time they’d cast a actor or actress that didn’t have curly hair so they’d have a easier time to work with the hair.

[@star_baker]

I think the detail you missed with Mrs. Everdeen was that Katniss said that she ONCE was beautiful, but life wore her down. So I imagine a lot of stress wrinkles. Katniss is spot on. I think Gale is close but Katniss said they look related so I imagine him looking like her more, and younger. I think Peeta’s descriptions are spot on but I do picture him looking like young Snow more. Haymitch is very close too but he is also from the Seam so I imagine his skin as more olive. Finnick looks too old imo, he was 24 in books. When I read the books I never pictured Cinna as black, but I don’t think he race/skin color really matters as much as other characters because the Capitol isn’t described with a specific skin color or look. I imagine wealthy people of all races and there are people like Octavia who has made her skin color green. Katniss says that Cinna looks normal for a Capitol citizen who all alter their looks to looks like animals and stuff. But Cinna’s AI is so far from accurate too. I imagine him shorter with short cropped black hair. AI has made all the men very masculine. It’s not that I imagined Cinna as looking feminine, but not so manly as his AI. Cinna is also supposed to be young, like late 20s/early 30s. But why do they all have chin dimples? 😭

[@apoorvajindal5641]

The expression of AI Katniss and Jennifer Lawrence 's Katniss is same

[@sydneysmith2968]

Ok good. I wasn't exaggerating when I was picturing Highbottom as tall and Gaul with crazy white hair. At first I was weird about Peter Dinklage as Casca Highbottom, but he was one of the best things in that movie, same with Viola Davis. And yeah, I think AI has trouble interpreting what 12-year-old girls are supposed to look like. I agree that Prim and Rue's AI counterparts looked too young. They look what Maude Ivory was supposed to be aged at, and she's supposed to be 8 or 9.

[@3-and-a-halfgirls]

18:31 I love how the background is wheat fields, as district 11 grows wheat

[@AxolotlGameing-bc6rw]

Ai snow looks like a sith

[@catlover5998]

I liked that the ai did the right skin color for Katiness and Gale. If the Hungar Games ever get turned into a stream/tv series i hope that they give actors with a olive skin color a chance. I also the imange i came up for Cinna while reading the book was bronze/tan skin a mix between pearson from Inida and Neative American short hair and gold eye liner was enough to make his green eyes shine

[@zearrak5704]

while i am no fan of ai art, using it for comparison videos like this is a good way to use it

[@YTCProductions]

16:41 looks more like Carol Peletier From the Walking Dead with this one But viola killed it with her role as dr gaul and being so evil and grooming snow as a future gamemaker

[@rasyaramesh7009]

The reason we tend to picture characters whose skin color is not described as white is due to white bias - we always assume the default color is white. Not trying to say that we do this because we're inherently racist - its just years of defaulting to white that it's now conditioned into us. As a non white book reader i too am guilty of doing this. I now consciously try to be more imaginative when i read character descriptions and try to go all around the world :) i just think it's a fun exercise

[@jesserivera2043]

Oh the irony of Bee Tee looking the sexiest of all the men here

[@popamihnea6695]

They feel pretty spot on minus the old/very young characters. The ones mentioned as young are too young as you pointed out but the old ones with few exceptions like Snow/Gal feel much younger then they are supposed to be. Regarding skin color, idk I didnt get bothered by such things. They seemed perfect actors for the given roles, especially Cina where the color wasnt mentioned. The only thing that i questioned a bit on the last movie , the Balad of Birds and Snakes was the fact that quite a significant amount of tributes were suffering from some form of handicap, which either can only be explained by the rigging of the Reaping, otherwise considering the bad state of the districts, I wouldnt see much chance for children like this to survive even reaching the age (There was the Down Syndrome girl, there was another Kid who had a malformed face and there was that girl that had a mental disorder which they shot in the Zoo)

[@abelmendoza2078]

Love the work!!!! Keep it up 🫶🫶

[@bessieburnet9816]

A while before the latest movie was released, I used Bing image creator to make a sort of Disney Pixar style image of the Hunger Games protagonists I used a lot more overt descriptions used in the books, I think that yielded better results.

[@zairejordan4410]

Peeta looked like a young snow. Now as far as both Cinna and Dr. Gual go, I pictured them as any race.

[@gdesiree29]

I believe katniss was mixed . She wasnt white. Peeta was suppose to have blue eyes, we were robbed from that. Haymitch was suppose to look like katniss. They could had put woody in a black wig. RUE WAS INDEED BLACK. People cant read

[@AL77767]

I love how much work he puts in his videos thank you

[@flythew6097]

The Katniss AI generation is just Clove from the movies

[@eowynsisterdaughter]

Yeah, I remember watching it and wondering why they didn't cast Lawrence as Clove and the Clove actress as Katniss.

[@bridgemedeiros4367]

AI haymitch has snow on top of his head because snow lands on top

[@reaganmonkey8]

I prefer the actors to be able to play the emotions of the characters then look book accurate, except for the fact that Harry and Lily Potter don't have the same color eyes in the movie. I also don't visualize the characters from imagination very well, so I usually see the movie actor as the character.

[@gramos2169]

The comment “He looks more Mexican” gave me a good chuckle 🤣

[@tayloredwards4968]

Please do this for Percy Jackson

[@aaliyahbrown5739]

the AI Cinna literally just looks the AI Finnick😭😭

[@danigrl917]

Haymitch was very close to how I imagined him. Effie, too. Rue and Prim looked too young (like, 6yr olds). For "olive skin tone" I was just envisioning someone with more yellow undertones, lighter-colored skin. Like, Italian or Greek. I think my reasoning was that they're coal miners, and they weren't spending a lot of time out in the sun, so they maybe weren't as tan as they could have been.

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

Look up the “Melungeon people” of Appalachia. It’s likely they are the reference for the people living in the Seam, and growing up in West Virginia I will say that it would surprise you how dark skinned a lot of people here are, even coal miners. Diverse family backgrounds are very common, I have a great great grandma whose Cherokee and a many greats grandma who was likely either Indian (India) or Persian given her name and another female relative who is most likely of African descent. Certainly isn’t unique just to my family to have such a racially diverse family heritage.

[@YTCProductions]

17:24 looks about right In his younger self during his game he won minus all the gray temples and gray parts in his beard

[@ahlamm-6141]

The AI version of Katniss is very accurate, if they ever reboot hunger games (I hope they don’t, but that’s what Hollywood is doing right now) I hope they cast an actress that looks like her

[@ReginaStewart-k4r]

you know what, if they stuck with the HG book, TBOSS would be so haunting to watch cause Peeta and Katniss reminds Snow of him and Lucy

[@nickyg7557]

I'm not an expert in biology or genetics but I find it a little weird that the coal miners from the seam have darker skin although they are less in the sun as e.g. the merchants meanwhile they have very pale skin. I mean it's a work of fiction, but I didn't really get the sense behind that 😅 I mean if everyone in District 12 had olive skin that I would imagine it's a regional thing. But because there are differences in skin colour between these little people I don't really get behind it. I mean the seam and the merchants section aren't that far away from each other so.....idk

[@andpeg]

I think she was implying that the socioeconomic groups were so different despite living near each other. Also the racial aspect (most people headcannon the seam people as Native Americans)

[@OoOMonkeyCoFreakOoO]

Umm.. that’s not how that works 😂

[@nickyg7557]

@@OoOMonkeyCoFreakOoO that's not how what specifically works?

[@nickyg7557]

@@andpeg could be, maybe. Yeah. If it just has historical reasons

[@anigombs827]

2:39 watching this w 5 friends they all looked at me and said THATS YOU

[@monaeckle]

Rachel Zegler and Hunter Schafer did have curly hair in the movie though? Just more refined curls

[@HeatherNickless-vt8zr]

Even though the Ai Background is being blurred out from the image of "Book" Haymitch, it does look like he is standing at the edge of the wooded area in the snowy winter of district 12, that is why flecks of snow were added on to the image, I am guessing.