Yeah but it COULD have been true, and that’s the point.
Costco’s founder once told the company’s current CEO, ‘If you raise the [price of the] effing hot dog, I will kill you’
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In case I’m being misunderstood, making a big budget summer blockbuster featuring the first black superhero was fantastic and overdue. The part that many people avoid discussing in mixed company is that it wasn’t a very good movie.
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Racism!
I’ve been assured any portrayal that is not masculine white men and feminine white women (in supporting roles only)is woke.
If Disney were taking financial risks giving black writers and directors carte blanche to make culturally relevant films that spoke to black experiences or just stories that we haven’t seen a billion times before that would be one thing. Just plugging “black” into the ai script writing algorithm and spitting out wakanda forever ain’t it. In my bog standard white dude opinion obviously, which admittedly doesn’t count for much in this case.
You realize the Black Panther character and Wakanda were created by Marvel in the 1960s?
The story was there. Someone just had to want to make a move with a black superhero, which they didn’t until now. That’s not nothing.
Eh, they had a black director that is one of the best in the world. They had Kendrick, Travis Scott and plenty of other young black artists make original songs for the film.
That wasn’t something they have done for any other film. You ask Kendrick to do a song for Doctor Strange and that isn’t happening. You get Coogler to ask him for Black Panther and it gets done. The director of Fruitvale Station doing a $200m movie is not nothing.
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Very serious response for a very not serious post.
Motivations of a Disney may not be pure, but the mere presence of POC heroes is a bid deal.
I think they know DeSantis is full of shit and isn’t going to actually follow through.
I’m not going to say it’s auteur filmaking, but BP had quite a bit of cultural relevance? I don’t know, it seems like it meant something special to a lot of people.
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Ryan Coogler was given Black Panther when he was 29(!) having only directed one feature film, fruitvale station. His other films now are Creed, creed 2 and Judas and the black messiah. Not a guy you get for performative wokeness
He did Creed before Black Panther. It’s why they gave him the job prob.
Timeline might be a little off on who had seen what but BP got announced in 2014 and Creed came out in 2015. BP might not have had Coogler until just after Creed, not going to Google endlessly.
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Looking at Wikipedia, Black Panther was announced with Boseman as the star in 2014. Ava DuVerney seems like she was the first choice but ultimately turned it down in July 2015 Coogler and Gary Grey are mentioned as candidates once she said no. Some combination of Grey deciding to direct The Fate of the Furious and Creed opening huge after it premiered in late November 2015 led to Coogler getting the nod in January 2016.
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https://twitter.com/kristin__wilson/status/1527096128222773250?s=20&t=A0pbs8d40e8UxvNdfcZfYg
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1527102199225954304?s=20&t=A0pbs8d40e8UxvNdfcZfYg
what possibly could be the reason to oppose a measly 28 million?
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