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 ...
This movie is going to bomb. You heard it hear first.
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Oh I doubt that.
Just finished the book Monrvovia Mon Amour by Theodore Dalyrimple. I highly recommend it.
Wakanda is fiction; Detroit is real.
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My point was that the near-Stone Age conditions were their norm - and they are returning to them anyway. The spreading of diseases was more than offset by the population explosions that resulted from Western medicine; the populations quickly swelled to far more than the land had ever sustained in the past, and under Western management it could be sustained. The problems arose when the Westerners left (by choice or by force), and those large populations contended for diminishing crop yields, disappearing funds from corruption/theft, etc. - the violence was inevitable. This wasn’t just an issue in Africa; it was a problem in Asia as well (particularly China).
As for colonizing uninhabited land, that is what the original Dutch settlers did in South Africa; they didn’t fight as we did with Indians in the US to take land. In the end, their development of the land led to the migrations southward - their settlements contributed to the growing African populations as well. The dirty secret in today’s media is how many Africans preferred colonial rule (primarily for its stability), and how many Africans fought alongside Europeans to maintain it.
I’m tempted to denigrate that movie . . .
In the comic, T’Challa is the King of Wakanda (odd of liberals to lionize monarchy, isn’t it?) and there are stories where he is as much villain as hero. Wakanda has the market cornered on the world’s largest deposit of the valuable element vibranium. Similar to how Brazil has the world’s largest deposit of real life steel additive niobium. T’Challa is an avenger but occasionally withholds information and vibranium from the US that are crucial to security. He also maintains diplomatic relations with other fake Marvel nations such as Latveria (an island Baltic republic led by Dr. Doom) and Genosha (a nation where X-men-style mutants are essentially controlled through apartheid.
I’m sure the movie will be awful dreck that has nothing to do with the complicated character of the original comics.
That’s an excellent argument. The population explosion from going from a mostly hunter-gatherer to an agrarian society no doubt caused a lot of their problems.
Isn’t this the Plot Line for the Movie “Coming to America”?
Is Eddie Murphy the “Black Panther”?
Is James Earl Jones his Father?
Is Arsenio Hall his Bodyguard?
Truly pitiful in so many ways.
This movie is going to bomb. You heard it here first.
People can only take so much of the social justice crap.
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I agree. The liberal media have given Panther rave reviews but panned the 15:17 to Paris. I believe Eastwoods movie will be well attended and monetarily successful while black panther will be smelled out as bullshit and lose tons of money.
Perhaps the next installment should be produced in Wakanda, using all of that country's technological prowess. It seems only right...
Blacula.
Who the colonizer was also made a big difference.
France in particular left basket cases.
Well, actually...
Low IQ is common in tribal communities that intermarry. Africa, Middle East, Latin American Tribes...
It's even continuing here, in the US, where ghetto denizens are breeding without knowing (or caring) that they are first cousins, half-siblings, or even father and daughter.
Low-IQ societies don't produce forward-thinking leaders.
The Black Panther is getting his own movie because he has enough history, and enough rank in the Marvel Pantheon to warrant his own stand-alone movie. I have several animated Avengers movies that have him in it. He’s been around for many years. At one point, he was the leader of the Avengers. He’s already an established, second tier superhero. I didn’t hear any ‘he only got it because he’s handicapped’ when Daredevil got a movie. Right now this movie is like an ink blot test. Everybody is projecting their own nonsense into was is, end the end, just a blot of ink. He’s a legit, established Marvel character, and I’m sure the studio will treat him that way, no more and no less. I plan to be front row center next Friday.
I wonder if they have blues bars in Wakanda? If not . . . I'm not interested
“...Wakanda: a hidden African kingdom...”
No, it’s not. It’s a lake in Minnesota about 35 miles west of where my mom was born, and about 80 miles west of Minneapolis. No vibranium, but lots of panfish. Yum!!
So that's why America is so techno advanced!!
Oh wait!
What a pile; a 20' dem/sjw pile of recycled grass turned fertilizer.
Selma:
Budget—$20 million
Box office—$66.8 million
Doesn’t look like a bomb to me.
But you can’t judge the quality of a film by box office numbers alone.
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