Shaun KingVerified account

One moment that made me tear up was when #nakia told #okoye - “guns...so primitive”; also #killmonger delivering his lines during that sunset scene. Just wow... I too had several of these moments. Oh! Seeing black children playing basketball in 1992 “yo that’s me in a film!”

You have to realize why this is so impactful. When I was a preteen, the only representation that resembled “the intelligent black guy that pronounced his words” was Steve Urkle (family maters), or Carlton (fresh prince). These characters were the punchline, ridiculed, made fun of

I disagree. This is an entertaining movie but it’s quality is not to movies as Thriller was/is to music. I still and will always be blown away by Thriller. This movie is okay, but it won’t age as well.

If you remember the considerable black talent in movies past and present - actors, directors and so forth, does this movie do them justice? Is this the ultimate showcase of black talent in the movies?

Michael Jackson was a focal point - whose talent could be a fair representation of what black people could accomplish in music. I don’t think the same about this movie. I think black talent a many more notches in our belt.

This will be one of several movies kicking the door open. Some black kid (or kids) will watch movies like that and will be the Michael Jackson - level quality in the movie industry - showcasing black talent.

I think this film, sits next to something like “Get Out” which is good, but again, I think we have more levels to go. It also relies on more black directors being given more freedom. Then you’ll start to see the sharper end of the curve.

And while I love "Get Out," it is not on thst level,because Black Panther is more of a rare Phenomenon sad to say,just like MJ's Thriller was. This many Black People have not been brought together or had this opportunity to be brought together in this way in a long time.

I agree. #BlackPanther is phenomenal. I would like to add to the conversation, regarding the female roles, and how T’Challa responded to them. Women had more than a single boring gender role. Women were strong and confident. Women were fierce, and fun, and important.

T’Challa listened to and valued their contributions and existence. It was beautiful. And his love interest. The movie did not feature her as an object, cameras angling up and down her body. He played no games to “get her,” and he didn’t oogle her.

He respected her decisions. Her life was going to be as she saw fit for herself in this world. She was not his trophy. As a woman, I watched this movie with delight for the Futurism and Could-be-ism. Nothing else has ever been like it. Ever.

I absolutely loved it. And am for T’Challa’s character.

Are we getting folks out for A Wrinkle In Time too?

It creates a beautiful space where African American history isn't entirely constructed in exploitation and colonization, it allows a critical imaginary where deep breaths, relaxation, and imaginations can thrive. It doesn't brutalize or exploit people of color & is challenging

...........but it's a fictional history???

Is it? Counterfactual histories serve to open up space and disrupt conventional narratives. Wakanda might not exist but that doesn't mean stories about African-Americans shouldn't have been about dignity and absent brutality, no?

You said it creates a space where African American history isn't entirely constructed in exploitation, but you can't do that because that is the history, you can't tell the history of black people without struggle cause it's extremely important to our development as a culture

How history is told has a lot to do with who is doing the telling, the history of white people (I am white) is bound up in colonization, exploitation, even genocide...but how often does that foreground the stories we tell?

........you mean all the slave movies......and the holocaust movies........and the colonial American movies......dude the stories are getting told when the history is involved in the narrative, it doesn't have to be brought up in every movie but it does when it's important

hell the entire point of this movie was that Wakanda didn't help out black people throughout history, so even then the struggle is brought up and the main protagonists nation did nothing to stop it even with the tools to do so, so the struggle narrative is still there

the motivation of the villain is that black people are being mistreated