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 ...
If you’re being sarcastic,you missed the mark and if you are being “serious”, then you should just admit that you’re not qualified ( and your most assuredly aren’t qualified, at all!) to discuss this topic and promise to never again dare to post about it. Hell’s bells...you shouldn’t post about, no matter what!
That’s true; I’ve read articles last year about black intellectuals talking about recolonization (if that’s the right word) in SA. Not going to happen, I imagine, since Europe is pretty well played out and doesn’t have the money or the appetite. Better the devil you know...
I invite you to join the Boer farmers who post on Facebook. I’ve gotten to know several of them over the last two years. They lead a very difficult, fearful life. Good people, too.
The blacks in RSA don't outsider blacks as "authentic" and so "intellectuals" from other places just wouldn't work at all. Besides which, the whole of the blacks in RSA are still very TRIBAL! And that is something almost nobody outside, understand or even knows about.
Though the ANC is losing a wee bit of its hold, that's really not saying much; sadly.
My extended family, in RSA, aren't framers. Yet they too have been under the same kinds of horrors; those problems just aren't ever talked about in media outside of that nation...not even on YouTube. Nor has anyone outside of RSA talked about the University riots, a couple of years back. That was truly horrific!
Shaft definitely has the superhero pants.
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