Black Panther
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beccaelizabethMy mum and my brother did visit. Brother wearing a Groot shirt with Don't Push The Button. Is a good shirt.
We watched Black Panther :-)
... mum said it probably worked better as comics or cartoons, but I did not follow her logic as to why? I know the challenge scene kind of lost her, not into it, but I don't know why.
I thought it looked very Different, but that is the point, it's Different with its own visual idioms and you just spend a whole two hour movie watching black people in Africa looking African. ... comic book refiltered African, but, you know, lots of black people doing design decisions too.
The whole isolationism thing, the arguments, Nakia and Killmonger and T'Challa's eventual decision... they put some layers in. Because it's not just reaching out to the world, it's handing them power. We've met the world, it's a dodgy proposition. I mean taking in refugees means trusting new people to make you stronger, so yaay to that, but if they want to use wealth to influence the world, their wealth is in their vibranium, so they'd be selling that, and look how much difference the tiny amounts the world had were making already. Going to change the whole landscape if the tech goes wider. Going to leave everyone at a lower tech level if it don't.
Killmonger's version where he's just Britain version 2.0 is a problem, but an interesting one. Because yeah, once upon a time a higher tech level thought they were helping. Kinda. Sorta. In vague propaganda theory. And arming every rebellion? Boom. Ordinary people boom. Worse messes.
So there's a good discussion about wealth and resources and what to do with them, and not shutting the world out, and there's no simple answers. T'Challa's decision is going to make things a lot more dangerous for Wakanda. ... even ignoring the next film...
*sigh*
The movie had heart, it had family drama, it had the kind of throne room amplification of consequences where that kid nobody admits is your cousin turns into a world shaking deal. Excellent use of monarchy.
And it had so many women. I mean, I'm used to one or two who have their own side quest at best, but look, so many! You can get three going on a side quest together and still leaving more women where the power is at! This is not a story we get to see much.
... anything else I'm thinking of is just stuff I saw on tumblr, mostly.
It's clever and I think a rewatch will be good fun too.
And I like every character as characters, even the ones you're glad to see stopped. That's some varied people they've got there.
I'm glad I bought it, even on blu ray, though the deleted scenes were not as extensive as I'd hoped. I'd watch a whole lot more of that world.
We watched Black Panther :-)
... mum said it probably worked better as comics or cartoons, but I did not follow her logic as to why? I know the challenge scene kind of lost her, not into it, but I don't know why.
I thought it looked very Different, but that is the point, it's Different with its own visual idioms and you just spend a whole two hour movie watching black people in Africa looking African. ... comic book refiltered African, but, you know, lots of black people doing design decisions too.
The whole isolationism thing, the arguments, Nakia and Killmonger and T'Challa's eventual decision... they put some layers in. Because it's not just reaching out to the world, it's handing them power. We've met the world, it's a dodgy proposition. I mean taking in refugees means trusting new people to make you stronger, so yaay to that, but if they want to use wealth to influence the world, their wealth is in their vibranium, so they'd be selling that, and look how much difference the tiny amounts the world had were making already. Going to change the whole landscape if the tech goes wider. Going to leave everyone at a lower tech level if it don't.
Killmonger's version where he's just Britain version 2.0 is a problem, but an interesting one. Because yeah, once upon a time a higher tech level thought they were helping. Kinda. Sorta. In vague propaganda theory. And arming every rebellion? Boom. Ordinary people boom. Worse messes.
So there's a good discussion about wealth and resources and what to do with them, and not shutting the world out, and there's no simple answers. T'Challa's decision is going to make things a lot more dangerous for Wakanda. ... even ignoring the next film...
*sigh*
The movie had heart, it had family drama, it had the kind of throne room amplification of consequences where that kid nobody admits is your cousin turns into a world shaking deal. Excellent use of monarchy.
And it had so many women. I mean, I'm used to one or two who have their own side quest at best, but look, so many! You can get three going on a side quest together and still leaving more women where the power is at! This is not a story we get to see much.
... anything else I'm thinking of is just stuff I saw on tumblr, mostly.
It's clever and I think a rewatch will be good fun too.
And I like every character as characters, even the ones you're glad to see stopped. That's some varied people they've got there.
I'm glad I bought it, even on blu ray, though the deleted scenes were not as extensive as I'd hoped. I'd watch a whole lot more of that world.