It's still one of the most negative depictions of the CIA I've seen in a big popcorn movie Ross himself may be more or less presented as a decent guy but he goes ahead and tells us Killmonger is also a CIA agent and everything he does in Wakanda is exactly what he's trained tohttps://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1302603237690945537 …
-
Show this thread
-
Replying to @arthur_affect
I think one of the key themes of black panther was “we all have the power to change” so tbh I think it was important to have Ross
1 reply 0 retweets 15 likes -
Replying to @lawnerdbarak @arthur_affect
"Except Killmonger, kill that guy"
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @SnowmanMcK @lawnerdbarak
T'Challa conspicuously offers Killmonger the chance to change ("Maybe we can still heal you" refers both to his physical mortal wound and his emotional damage) and Killmonger rejects it
2 replies 0 retweets 35 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak
probably because it require him to compromise and move towards T'Challa's utterly spineless lack of ideology or belief. Killmonger's main trait that makes him the villain is his actual belief in something.
2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @SnowmanMcK @lawnerdbarak
Well, no, the part where he shot his girlfriend in the head also makes him a villain
4 replies 3 retweets 75 likes -
Yeah, I mean... they're both doing "My ideology justifies my personal ambitions," when it comes to it. Killmonger primarily cares about other Black people (and Wakanda ignoring them) insofar as they're projections of the same happening to HIM.
3 replies 1 retweet 28 likes -
Replying to @the_moviebob @arthur_affect and
One of the many ways the film signposts the fact that Killmonger is not a good guy is that he doesn't care about Wakanda at all. It's a means to an end to him, and despite claiming its throne he has no interest in protecting it. That's what the Nakia/Okoye argument is about.
1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes -
Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @the_moviebob and
He only even calls it the "Wakandan Empire" out of convenience, it's obviously really going to be a clean-slate situation where he builds a new civilization from scratch, the Empire of N'Jadaku -- really, to give it its most honest name, the Killmonger Empire
1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
And honestly, yeah, that is more than a little resonant for real-life revolutionaries who ended up torching the civilizations they claimed to be liberating (sorry tankies)
-
-
Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail and
You're invoking real world parallels while arguing that CIA intervention in an election process doesn't count because technically he only shot down some planes.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @SnowmanMcK @NussbaumAbigail and
It's not "CIA intervention", he makes no effort to contact his superiors at any point, he's straight up taking orders from T'Challa and Shuri
2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes - Show replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.