Posted on 02/11/2018 6:10:59 PM PST by Ennis85
The Black Panther first entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe back in 2016 in Captain America: Civil War.
Now he's got his own film, which goes way beyond the usual expectations of fantasy, fight scenes and romance.
Having a plot based around a black superhero with a predominantly black cast is a first for Marvel, but the film builds on this concept in a massive way.
Directed by Creed's Ryan Coogler, it is set in the mythical country of Wakanda: a hidden African kingdom with incredible technological power, due to its reserves of the world's most useful precious metal.
Chadwick Boseman, who plays its king T'Challa and (more importantly) the Black Panther, tells the BBC that getting Wakanda right was the most important thing.
"This is fantasy and we have to create a culture," he says. "It's not necessarily because it's the first time we're seeing a black superhero; I think it's because we have to define what Wakanda is.
"It can't be some generalised version of what the country is or the accent.
"It can't be generalised in why we wear certain clothing or why we have the number of tribes we have - what are those tribes?
"We have a river tribe and a border tribe for example."
This is echoed by his co-star Lupita Nyong'o, who plays Nakia in the film - his love interest and moral compass rolled into one.
The Oscar-winning actress tells the BBC: "We're in Africa and we meet an entirely new nation that the world has never been to, and it delivers on feeling like another part of the world.
"This is a nation that is highly developed, and they are so because they didn't get interrupted by or assaulted by colonialism."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Some are very learned in it (and could school me); others just accept media interpretations.
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Still thers deride sources other than media interpretations ...
Still others ...
“This is a nation that is highly developed, and they are so because they didn’t get interrupted by or assaulted by colonialism.”
The British colonization of America certainly interrupted the development of the United States, as did the Roman colonization of Britain. /s
No one has mentioned the damage Islam did to Africa
>>But Wakanda has vibranium. It is the strongest metal in the world.<<
As opposed to Pandora’s Unobtainium. Cameron should sue.
Note: Until “Avatar,” the term “unobtanium” was a movie writer term (like MacGuffin). A lot of the industry was pissed at Cameron for taking that away.
After seeing the before and after photos I conclude that colonialism was the best thing that ever happened to Africa.
I was reading about a tribe of Amazonians and it was noted that they could only count to 2.
Anything more than that was simply called “many”.
Wait: cowardly black firefighter?
I have not heard of that one.
wow, I used to be a big fan of stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com.
It was, in the old days, a humor site.
Now it is just sad. Not the site, but the content.
>>Not only that, but he’s been around before another not real person, wolverine.<<
Wait.
Wolverine isn’t real??????
Name is tragic Johnson in New York...He became a firefighter through affirmative action...HE STANDS BY THE FIRE TRUCK,WHILE THE OTHER FIREFIGHTERS FIGHT THE FIRE.....
I have worked with Physicians ans Anesthesia students from Africa, pretty sharp folks.
Okay, WHAT QUESTION DID I ASK, is the census a response to?
I asked if you were born/lived in RSA and/or if you have relatives there. Ergo, just saying "the census", in not answering the query I put to you.
And as to why so many whites are still living in RSA, as opposed to Zimbabwe...the answer is a bit complicated.
First of all, it is extremely difficult for them to leave. They just can't just pick up and flee. But if you knew 1/1,000th of what you imagine you know about that nation, you would know that.
Apparently, you don't know just how many MORE white South Africans would be there still! The answer is a LOT! Yet they'v e been leaving, for many, many, many decades, in large numbers, even with all of the various roadblocks, red tape, monetary restrictions, and lack of accepting nations, put in their way of emigrating.
OTOH...some of them stupidly refuse to leave. It's their ancestral home, their families have been there for many 100s of years longer than the vast majority of carpet bagging/illegal alien blacks have.
Though the white ( and yes, black too ) genocide, in Zimbabwe, decimated the population there, there was also nothing to stop Zimbabweans from fleeing across the border, into RSA.
Please don't try to "teach" nor "best" me, especially not on this topic; you don't know enough about it.
This is accurate, but I still fear this movie could well be “The Last Jedi” of the Marvel Universe. The rave reviews, much like TLJ, are one warning sign. The continuing SJW convergence at Disney is another.
I have hopes for it to just be another great Marvel movie, and for them to continue to “play it safe” with these stories. The inevitability of SJW to see nothing but skin color and run with their narrative is going to happen regardless of how good the movie is. I just pray the substance doesn’t back them up.
The current census figures support the fact that far more whites are remaining in South Africa than in neighboring African countries, and they CAN just pick up and leave - other African countries are courting them (and white Zimbabweans) to help stimulate the economies of those countries.
Have some white South Africans left? Absolutely, yet proportionally many more remain than in Zimbabwe - because the South African government has always pursued a different policy than Mugabe. Some whites today still move to South Africa.
As far as any stats, coming out of RSA are concerned, taking them as gospel is akin to believing that under Obama, the American economy was a roaring success for everyone. LOL
Are you too ignorant to admit many whites have opted to remain in South Africa? Some have clearly decided they’d have their standard of living in South Africa instead of being a nobody elsewhere.
A sizeable portion of them have stayed because they say that this is THEIR country, which it is and has been, far longer than ANY of the blacks there!
A larger portion of them have stayed because 1) it is extremely difficult to get a visa 2) not many countries will take them ( and I bet you can't name the ones who have difficult and in some cases, peculiar rules about who can and who can NOT emigrate! ) 3) the regs re taking their own money out of RSA 4) age 5)family situations 6) other things which I don't want to take the time spelling out for you.
Wanna see someone who is "ignorant"? GO LOOK INTO THE NEAREST MIRROR/SHINY OBJECT!
Re their "standard of living" is a joke! Living behind high walls topped with electrified razor wire and broken glass, never knowing when you might be carjacked, forced off the road, mugged, raped, killed ? Your college kids intimidated, robbed, hassled, and forced out of class and at the end of that, not getting a job/getting a job, but having to do your own work as well as that of at least one black, whose job is a well paid NO SHOW one, lack of chance to get ahead, because they are white? THAT STANDARD OF LIVING?
Oh sure, there are still times when whites go on vacation, rejoice in the graduations of their kids, seeing their kiddos grow up and fall in love, etc.; but you have NO idea what you're talking about!
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WERE IN RSA AND FOR HOW LONG?
HOW MANY WHITE RELATIVES DO YOU HAVE LIVING IN RSA ?
“3) the regs re taking their own money out of RSA”
I thought blacks took everything from them?
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