Caesar Flickerman is a very important (and dastardly) figure in all three Hunger Games movies, but his evil side is especially accentuated in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part One. He really shows how puppeted he, and the rest of Panem (their country) is by the capitol. Caesar is the host for the Hunger Games (a gladiatorial competition in which 24 "tributes" fight to the death), so he obviously has the wrong taste in entertainment. In The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part One, Caesar is interviewing one of the victorious tributes, Peeta Malark, and Peeta is clearly forced to say exactly what Caesar told him. In his interviews with Peeta crossed so many boundaries (hence the title of this blog post), including talking about sensitive subjects to the very people who can't handle those subjects, and also being, as many people call him "the ultimate coward". Caesar has earned that title, and is the epitome of the capitol's crude and suzerain way of life.
In The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part One, Caesar frequently interviews Peeta. He asks Peeta unfriendly and cruel questions about topics like his love for Katniss, and his feelings about the rebels and the Hunger Games. In one case, he even has Peeta beaten by "peacekeeping troops" for telling Katniss that she is about to be attacked by nuclear weapons. Also, they turn Peeta into a living, breathing weapon, and Caesar just seems to keep being materialistic and content. Furthermore, his interviews are in front of millions of people with topics no one would want to talk about in front of anyone. Here is an excerpt from one interview. "It costs your life," says Caesar. "Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.""--pg 23 of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. We can easily discern that this is because of his thoughts on his own suzerainty that he has the guts to ask this question. He would not to his equal, because he is "the ultimate coward". Grossly, the symbol of the capitol's way of life that he represents is reeking off of him in scenes like this.
Caesar is also in my opinion defamed by his nonchalant way of asking these questions. In the first two Hunger Games books, he just casually introduces twenty-four tributes that are about to fight to the death, and only one will survive. Oh, you know, just a Saturday afternoon stroll. In the interviews with Peeta, he has a fake kind of emotion that is supposed to bring the people of Panem rallying towards The Capitol's cause, but he is seeming not to want to linger too long on opinions that Peeta has that disagree with his. Again, a perfect depiction of the ultimate coward. While Peeta is getting beaten by peacekeepers, Caesar just blankly stares at the situation. He is exemplified as the person who barbarically will sit by while there is something terrible happening, and as in the Hunger Games, actually condone that act. He is a Capitol idiot, and an ultimate coward.
Caesar is the biggest window that the people of Panem have into the way of life of the capitol. He is a terrible person, and acts as such. He is a person who can not face his own enemies until he has complete control over them. He is seen all throughout Panem, and is clearly the biggest villain to the rebellion's propaganda team. Caesar is the spitting image of the ultimate coward, and so are most of the people living in the capitol, but he is really the only one of them that we get to see in his full atrocity. Caesar Flickerman is the ultimate coward, and this post shows proof.
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