Turns out ‘Hunger Games’ star Josh Hutcherson is just as confused about the logistics of Peeta’s rock camouflage as the rest of us

I like how this is framed as some massive trauma “they could have stopped it” “they let it happen to me” in juxtaposition of this being about him painted like a rock lol

I laughed so hard at this in the movie. Reading the book I just imagined he smeared some dirt on his face and brushed some leaves on top of himself or something, there was no reason they had to do this 

Could you imagine a method actor getting told that. Like hey i know you play a baker but what if you were also an expert in body painting yourself like a rock? The director would probably get a dense loaf of burnt sourdough the next day.

Peeta would kill it at Is It Cake.

I assume that because he made cakes, he was able to decorate them and had skills like that.

I remember seeing it at the cinema and the audience atmosphere had been so tense throughout, and when *that* shot came up on the big screen everyone started laughing in confusion and surprise, I think because you don’t initially realise what you’re looking at. It caught us all off guard but was quite nice to break the tension.

You never go full rock…

I laughed so much at that scene

The cake is a lie.

Well, bakers decorate cakes I guess?

I want to know who the hell in district 12 had money for elaborately decorated cakes. The mayor? There can’t possibly be enough “well off” enough people in that district ordering them. I assumed their bakery mostly sold bread

I think about this once a week.

in the story he was a skilled artist. he made fanciful cake decorations. if you’ve ever seen the is it cake type stuff, you’d be less incredulous.

For me, the real problem with the camouflage thing with ol’ Pete isn’t even “how did he achieve the effect?”.

I can dismiss that as artistic license on the part of the people who made the movie.

The problem is this:

Throughout the Hunger Games, we know 1) all the contestants are tracked by the game makers, and 2) there are constant depictions of all of the contestants being constantly fucked with by said game makers.

So regardless of how fast he could’ve gotten a convincing camo-face covering, even if we just call that flat out magic, there’s absolutely no way the game makers would’ve just let him lay there for hours/days unperturbed. It’s not like they lost him, or forgot where he was, and the game makers definitely wouldn’t have stopped trying to kill him.

Cause in the book it’s assumed Peeta is more advanced and has more skills as a baker than just making bread. He makes cakes.

Cakes can be intricate— especially when the book was born— CakeBoss and such was a crazy and cake artistry was the rage. A baker could also be a painter at the time.