Official Black Panther MCU Thread

[#1 pick]

I Can’t even write an indepth review of this without seeing it again (which I will tomorrow and again Saturday) because I’m so hype.

So many emotions man. This movie made me think about my father and everything he sacrificed trying to raise me to, not only be a productive member of society, but a black MAN who survived with a sense of cultural pride and integrity intact. The way Ryan Coogler paid homage to some of the African traditions and customs that my father used to tell me stories about made me FEEL like young Erik Stevens as his father told him stories about the wonders of Wakanda.

Just seeing Wakanda onscreen for the first time, with the Wakandans dancing and celebrating T’Challa as the new king was almost an overpowering sense of joy.

What people don’t understand (or I’ll say white People) is that we, as black youth, only had ONE cinematic hero we could call our own, and that was Will Smith. Blade and Spawn were mostly anti-heroes, badasses on Thier own right, but not something we would be encouraged to look UP to.

Will Smith gave us, as black boys, that bravado, that swagger, that charm, that confidence. From Independence Day to Hancock, he was our shining prince of heroism. But here, with Black Panther, we have true, unabashed, Black EXCELLENCE. From TOP to bottom.

There was no white mentor, no white wife. No white best friend representing the fact that they aren’t “all” bad. No white authority figure, and absolutely NO white savior.

This was blackness at the very core of Diasporan entertainment. It’s not meant to change the world, this isn’t Malcolm X or Do The Right Thing. But it’s THE film that can show our sons, our daughters, our nephews and nieces, that they too can be heroic. Can be beautiful, can be intelligent, can be majestic, can be MAGICAL.

Donald Glover once said that, at its best, Hollywood can serve as a vessel for telling the world’s most beautiful lies to children, so that they can grow up to change the world. Black Panther is fiction, there is no mystical city in Africa that went untouched by white colonialism and can serve as a beacon for black supremacy.
But when your daughter sees Shuri for the first time, and all of the technological marvels that her genius created. When your son sees T’Challa, and all of depth, passion, and regality that is his very being. They can dare to dream that this ideal of black brilliance could be born of their own aspirations.

And that is the true Wonder of Wakanda. That we can build it piece by piece. And that fiction could one day become reality.

It clearly wasn't Black supremacy. I think a powerful, amazing Black nation with Black people being in our natural form (no systematic white supremacy) is what it was. It also showed some flaws of that as well when lead by stubborn leadership.

 

[blac_da_rappa]

Lupita fine self on there

 

[Ziggiy]

nikkas feel like they took more from Priest, Hudlin, or Coates? Or a lil mixture of all?

There’s a LOTTTTTT of Hudlin in my opinion.

The only bit of Coates (thank God) is visual and the “Force Push” ability.

There was a bit of Priest in that they used a lot of characters he either created or reimagined. But mostly, If say the movie were a comic arc, it would’ve been written by Hudlin

 

[blockboy504]

Just got done watching this brehs this shyt was flames and Michael b Jordan killed this shyt

 

[threattonature]

I LOVED this shyt. I hated that they had to add

Spoiler

the shyt of him bullying the woman around the garden cause outside of that what really was making him a villian. I was actively rooting for him. I did like him opening a new center in Oakland (was that a nod to the Black Panthers) showing he agreed with the message to a degree. Hated having to have the white guy there to help them out.

Seemed to be so much symbolism in the movie. Can't wait to watch it a second time to further examine it.

Michael B Jordan murdered this shyt though. Amazing movie. Funny cause I wasn't really caught up in the hype and only went cause my boy talked me in to it.

 

[klientel]

Where was Cap during all this shyt? Chilling?

 

[MikelArteta]

Hated having to have the white guy there to help them out.

i dunno why they couldn't get a black agent or s omething

i hated that cac

 

[Ziggiy]

I didn't like how that white dude got to come to wakanda

In the comics he’s one of the VERY FEW
who are allowed in Wakanda so it’s canon to the comics.

It’s not like T’Challa let’s ANYONE let alone white People come into Wakanda all willy nilly. You have to have shed some type of blood on his behalf to get invited in, and even then it’s usually a quick stay with the locals giving you the the entire time

 

[MikelArteta]

Where was Cap during all this shyt? Chilling?

only room for one token white dude

 

[klientel]

Chadwick officially doesn’t have to do another movie and can sit on them marvel checks as black panther going forward.

Not at all....

with marvel you dont start making bank until the 2nd or 3rd movie....

 

[Rain]

Can ya'll dudes just enjoy the shyt instead of looking for every single tiny thing to get upset over? Nobody gives a fukk about the white dude. Jesus christ. He was the like the least memorable character in the entire movie

 

[ShaneTheRogue]

Killmonger best marvel villian

 

[MikelArteta]

The amount of spinoffs that I would watch from this

Killmonger
Suri
okoye
to bad gaddafi is dead as he's the og of this Dora Milaje type ish

 

[Black Panther]

Just saw it

 

[MikelArteta]

Can ya'll dudes just enjoy the shyt instead of looking for every single tiny thing to get upset over? Nobody gives a fukk about the white dude. Jesus christ. He was the like the least memorable character in the entire movie

Spoiler

the white dude saved white supremacy breh, dude basically blew up the death star plans