thats a terrible justification. thats like saying "well black panther isnt about the black character as much as its about the leader and ruler of a country and his efforts to keep the peace and to continue fukking halle barry"
can you imagine trying to sell blade before the movies? dudes character was near non-existent, alot of blades personality and so-called "cool factor" was ret-conned after the movie.
its not. a terrible reflection of consumer climate and hollywood cowardice. maybe. but at the end of the day, blade is a vampire movie. look at the success rate there. before and after blade.
black panther is very much a movie about black excellence. opulence. decadence. invade our country and we'll murder all u CaCs.
oh, and i'm also smarter than ur iron man. just as strong as ur captain america too. eat a dikk.
not saying it cant be done. it can. but the precedent for selling that type of story, centered on a black character, unfortunately, is smaller. in recent history, the best recent comparison imo is 300.
we support bullshyt madea flicks instead of the movies that would justify this flick being greenlit in an eye-blink.
guardians? again, it's just a star wars knockoff if u want it to be. and even blatant star wars knockoffs make bank when they're done well.
i'm more pissed with how they've thrown blade to the bushes after trying to upstage him with bytch ass ryan reynolds in trinity... than i am surprised with the t'challa treatment.
here's the issue: someone like Steve Rogers has the codename: Captain America and that works... but could you imagine if they had dubbed him "White America" and tried to sell that shyt? Sure they could try and justify it by saying hey, he's american, and the majority of americans are/were white... and he just so happens to, coincidentally, be white... and we just made him the strongest, fastest, most skilled, most strategic, most physically dominant "human" ever.. because we thought itd be, yknow, a cool idea
lol shiiiiit, as good and as noble as the character would still be, just off the title of the character alone and what he looks like (plus blue eyed and blonde) would have people thinkin a certain way... shyt, the moment 'White America' subdues a black 'criminal' on screen, audiences would be on some
level of awkwardness on whether to cheer or not
Black Panther essentially suffers from that type of roadblock, despite being a fantastic 'Batman' esque type character. I do feel he'd have been better off going the Steve Rogers route and using his country's name in his title instead (the Wakandan Panther, or _____ Wakanda) or, prob better, just gone the Thor route with his birth name T'Challa simply serving as his official code name... with "T'Challa: Panther King" being the full header.
And not just the title of the character but also what the character is about and how they convey it. The bp comic that came out years ago (that they turned into a motion comic) made a point to shyt on white folks from the jump... which is lol for us, but hispanics, asians, indians, white folks.. at best they just lookin at it like "ok.. so you're an empowered black man stickin it to cacs.. is this one of those february things?.."
T'Challa can be a bad ass, culture embracing, master manipulating, kungfu billionaire black man without having to emphasize and spell out the "black man" part of it (through shytting on white folks) as the biggest selling point of the character. batman being white aint why people fukk with batman... else they'd fukk with booster gold and all the other lame ass cac characters that get no love.