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Why Marvel's Black Panther is no ordinary superhero movie
BBC News ^ | 9th February 2018 | Annabel Rackham

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: black; blackpanther; chat; colonialism; hollywood; marvel; moviereview; movies; panther; superheroes
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To: Ennis85

I think the key point that the author is trying to make is...they’re black.


41 posted on 02/11/2018 7:00:37 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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Can’t wait till the day that superheros are judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.


42 posted on 02/11/2018 7:02:42 PM PST by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: tbw2
Africa was then and is now still very tribal.

Many years ago I read Thomas Pakenham’s book, “The Scramble for Africa”. Had a lot of history on Africa and it's colonization in the later half of the 19th Century.

Africa, until the Europeans arrived in the 16th century I think, had lived the same way for thousands of years. As opposed to cultures and societies in other places, the Africans never evolved past a certain point.

The tribes were nomadic, primitive, and basically lived from day to day. To my knowledge they never invented much of anything and remained the same never developing as so many other places did. The causes for this I can't answer, although I have an good idea.

So you have the Black Panther movie with an advanced African Society but somehow they never shared their technology with any of the other tribes or countries. How does your Liberal with White Guilt explain any of this???????????

43 posted on 02/11/2018 7:02:44 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: gaijin

LOL!


44 posted on 02/11/2018 7:03:57 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Flatus I. Maximus

A number of those pictures were not bad. Some of them had white crossover fans. I always liked Richard Roundtree as “Shaft”.


45 posted on 02/11/2018 7:06:10 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: kearnyirish2

Every time African countries have used the anti-colonialism excuse to blame whitey for all their problems, it has led to mass slaughters. When they kicked white farmers out of Zimbabwe, it just led to starvation and ethnic cleansings. Which continent has the worse genocides, and who is doing it? It’s not whites. The Nazis blamed the wrong people for their problems, and so are black people who say white people caused all of theirs.


46 posted on 02/11/2018 7:17:43 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Flatus I. Maximus
Hancock was great.

Of course, the fact that he was black was immaterial. He just happened to be black, and they didn't act like it was a big deal. Amazing what happens when skin color is treated as unimportant.

47 posted on 02/11/2018 7:19:31 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Ennis85

We wuz kings.

All the hype in world won’t help this turkey


48 posted on 02/11/2018 7:21:03 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: 1_Inch_Group

I prefer a *real* black superhero:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Jones


49 posted on 02/11/2018 7:22:06 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Flatus I. Maximus

“What about all those crappy blaxploitation movies from the 1970s? Surely Shaft, Superfly, and Cleopatra Jones qualify as superheroes.”

Shut your mouth! But I’m talkin’about Shaft.


50 posted on 02/11/2018 7:23:07 PM PST by willk (everyone)
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To: Ennis85
"This is a nation that is highly developed, and they are so because they didn't get interrupted by or assaulted by colonialism."

I have seen reviews on YouTube and all of them praise this movie highly, whether the reviewers are black or white. In fact it is one of the highest recommended movies in the Marvel Universe, and one reviewer stated that it is a good enough movie on its own, not just as a Marvel movie. So I am not expecting it to be an anti-white film.

But not only are the reviews reviewing the film, but the reviews reveal the reviewer as well. I guess this comment reveals something about the actress. The thing is, Africa is being recolonized right now, by China, and most African leaders are fully in favor of it.

51 posted on 02/11/2018 7:23:10 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Ennis85

This movie seems to build on the myth of Louis Farrakhan, unindicted co-conspirator in the murder of Malcolm X(Little). Of Africans inventing white people as soul less demons, who brought down a civilization that flew without internal combustion engines before European honkies could wash their own faces.


52 posted on 02/11/2018 7:26:52 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: gaijin
The Age of Kings N Shiet

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

53 posted on 02/11/2018 7:28:11 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Colonialism in Africa was a commercial venture that was abandoned when the European populations wouldn’t sacrifice their children anymore to keep it going; in the end it allowed the populations to explode and left them with little to no means to administer themselves as independent countries. Does anyone today still believe the “good” from colonialism outweighed the “bad”?

Blacks in independent African countries didn’t just target whites; in East Africa they expelled their Indians as well because they saw them as parasites (using much of the original Nazi language). They basically chased out anyone with financial know-how, as well as their professionals; Nelson Mandela was terrified the same would happen in South Africa, and begged the whites to stay. He stated they would have no doctors or teachers if they fled, and was willing to grant concessions to let them be comfortable staying - and that alone explain why the Zimbabwe disaster wasn’t repeated in South Africa (as dangerous as it is).


54 posted on 02/11/2018 7:31:23 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: BenLurkin

“Gadot” means “riverbank” in Hebrew, for your information.


55 posted on 02/11/2018 7:33:00 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Jewbacca

Thank you. Good to know.

And she is still very easy on the eyes.


56 posted on 02/11/2018 7:34:37 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: gaijin

NO DICE. Africans NEVER invented the wheel, or arch, or much of anything else prior to the evil White man's arrival.

57 posted on 02/11/2018 7:49:02 PM PST by montag813
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To: kearnyirish2

I don’t know how much of the “bad” outweighed the “good”, but without European exploration which later led to colonization, a lot more of the world would be living in near-stone age conditions. Much of it was just plain conquering indigenous populations, certainly. A lot was also colonizing land that was basically free of human habitation anyway. Probably the worst thing was the spreading of diseases, which took place on both sides but was unforeseen and unintended.


58 posted on 02/11/2018 7:49:02 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: jmcenanly

At one point there was a civilization in the Amazon whose earthworks were spread across at least 155 miles. It wasn’t always jungle.


59 posted on 02/11/2018 7:51:15 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Flatus I. Maximus; shibumi
Hush yo mouf!


60 posted on 02/11/2018 7:52:19 PM PST by Salamander (And Ezekiel Smiles Again....)
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