The political and social stuff Christopher outlined. Those DC fans could've chosen any prior MCU movie to do this to but they chose BP.
Black Panther - Pre-release Thread
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The political and social stuff Christopher outlined. Those DC fans could've chosen any prior MCU movie to do this to but they chose BP.
It actually seems to be the same people who did this shit with Last Jedi.
Last Jedi, with the female lead. Fits.
In what I'm sure will be a shock to nobody, the anti-Black Panther/Marvel/Disney Facebook page has been taken down.
Moving on. A one-minute clip from what would appear to be early in the film. Given the James Bond comparisons the movie has garnered, I would guess that this would be a part of the standard in media res opening that Bond movies employ.
Moving on. A one-minute clip from what would appear to be early in the film. Given the James Bond comparisons the movie has garnered, I would guess that this would be a part of the standard in media res opening that Bond movies employ.
In media res is also a common tool used by Everett Ross during the Christopher Priest run, so that's fitting.
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Exactly that. Much of the Priest run is narrated in the form of State Department reports written by Ross and he had unhealthy habit of getting ahead of himself.
Sounds like Luis from Ant-Man.
To a degree but not as rapidly (but that's mostly a product of the medium).
Christopher Priest put up review of the film on his blog. He calls it spoiler-free, but if you're the don't-watch-the-trailers level of spoilerphobe, you should probably still avoid it.
http://lamerciepark.com/wp/?p=651
It's a mixed review, but considering how critical and picky Priest is about fiction -- look around his blog and see his reviews of other films -- the fact that he likes it at all is a very, very good sign.
http://lamerciepark.com/wp/?p=651
It's a mixed review, but considering how critical and picky Priest is about fiction -- look around his blog and see his reviews of other films -- the fact that he likes it at all is a very, very good sign.
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Especially considering much of the film is inspired from his run on the book. He also echoes what other reviewers have said: The women steal the show. I certainly understand, without seeing the film yet, his criticisms particularly regarding the third act repetition, so I agree that his review is mostly positive.
This part also stood out:
There are at least four audiences for this film: Black Panther comic book fans, general comic book fans, African American general audiences and general audiences. This film offers high octane entertainment to all of these groups, but it will be the African American general audiences–who neither know nor care who I am–who will struggle the hardest to make it through the first act of this film without tearing up. The film’s glorious fairy tale of a highly advanced African civilization is enough to drop even the most cynical among us to our knees. A love letter to African Americans, the first half hour of this film had me wiping away tears at the sheer beauty of a people–my people–brought to glorious and amazing life in ways I never could on a static comic book page. Here, Black Panther finally had a soundtrack, and it is the soundtrack of my ancestors, my homeland. It was emotionally overwhelming and something I’d not quite prepared myself for.
I can't wait to see this film.
Sounds like something that's long overdue. The portrayals I've seen of Africa in Marvel's animated TV productions over the decades, whether involving Black Panther or Storm, have tended to be based on quite ignorant and unfortunate stereotypes about Africa, the idea that it was mostly just tribal villages and wilderness, and even the Wakandans were just another stock tribal culture but with vibranium-tipped spears and the like. When the BP movie was announced, I was desperately hoping that the filmmakers would make the effort to portray Africa authentically rather than falling prey to the usual American stereotypes and preconceptions about Africa, and it sounds like the film is just what I was hoping for.
Then I highly recommend reading Christopher Priest's run. I'm reading it for the first time right now (although I'm only about halfway through) and it deals with all of those issues.
I love how you think that hidden cities with secret technologies is "authentic Africa".
There may never have been a more appropriate use of an emojii. Many consider hip hop and it's surrounding culture to be the most pervasive American cultural export in history. You would be hard pressed to find a country in the world that has not been touched by it in some way. In most countries rap and hip hop culture are flourishing. Since the roots of rap stretch back to Africa, using rap is BP in infinitely appropriate.Literally the only thing about Black Panther I'm not excited about is the music (I LOATHE rap/hip hop, etc). You'd think that a hidden futuristic country in Africa would have more African sounding music then american made Rap style music
I've been listening to "Stars" for a while now and that is a great song.
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...and perhaps, ST: Discovery, with it's black female lead and Asian female captain.
Nah I think that one is review bombed by Trekkies who want Star Trek to permanently be limited to being a TNG clone.