Coogler has to step it up, there’s so much potential being left on the floor.
chomping through BP mythology too fast .. where is the wakandan secret service? war dogs chief/organisation? if the dore head is the general where does she work. where is their council? do they spy on the other tribes? if war dogs exist might they have heard something of talokan? would they not be brought in (even to reject them) as a means of finding out more abotu talokan? where is the deep dive into the tech? we see shuri's lab but see little of how things actually work. what are the war dogs doing in the usa now? any in the us govt/security services? man needs to flesh his script out so that there is less in terms of "major events" and more in terms of depth.
coogler is not setting the tentpoles right before filling in the blanks.
want to give riri a thread ... show her as a child watching tony stark/IM doing something just before ...
he needs to slow it down and make each moment more special.
that scene were those-two clapsed hands while using that printer was "pivotal" in script but the tension and elation was on screen and not transmitted or shared with the audience. it just happened.
compare and contrast with this set-up of one hero trusting another to do something .. and then that something being "executed" ...
a far bigger deal is made of cap and tony coming together in unison and the sharp contrast of success vs. cost of failure.
the use of angles. the script, the trumpets, the musical fanfare all leading to "agreement" and "execution" with the "cost of failture" building narrative tension.
that scene structure is missing from much of BP2 and BP1 as well.
coogler is a master of human aspects and "emotional turns" in the MCU but he is making super-hero films and his films lack something wrt super-hero magic
as one man said the skill of a director is to make the mundane look special and this applies double in super-hero films. coogler routinely makes the special mundane.
didn't think of that
