On February 23, I had to opportunity to see the new Black Panther Movie, and I thought it was good, with a really good line here and there, but it was not anything spectacular. I am sure, though, that it will be a better live action Lion King adaptation than the one coming out with Beyoncé in it, as the plot of Black Panther mirrors the original Lion King. The Acting was good, as good as we have come to except from a Marvel movie, but nothing ground breaking. Chadwick Boseman and Letitia Wright had great brother sister chemistry. However, Danai Gurira and Daniel Kaluuya’s characters’ relationship was a bit forced, but that could easily be the fault of the writing, because they really are in only one scene together and there was only two lines
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The traditional noble sacrifice of the friend/sidekick/partner, is set up for Emmet Ross to take the fall but in this movie, he doesn’t, we get the sad music, and the lines, “How much time to I have.” But when it is all over Mr. Ross is still alive. There were also some missing tropes that usually find their way into superhero movies, the first being the damsel in distress, some beauty the hero must save, and secondly there was no impractical brooding, which is when the hero goes up on some tall structure ( a church, a towering building) and broods while gazing down on objects below, reflecting on past mistakes. This movie also borrowed some tropes from spy movies including their own version of James Bond’s Q, the technological wizard, who produces some new gadgets or upgrades on old tools for the hero. The black van car chase which originated in spy movies is now fast becoming a superhero trope. Black Panther also borrowed a fantasy trope, the wise old dude, or Jungian archetype of the mentor, and like Gandolf, Obi-won, and Dumbledor, Forrest Whitaker …show more content…
This movie in particular you didn’t really need to see any of the other movies to understand what was going on in Black Panther. Where my knowledge of MCU enhanced my viewing of this movie was in the reoccurring characters, references, and small nods to other films. And although this film does set up for the next movie it can be viewed as a stand-alone film and not as a piece of a larger puzzle. In regard to characters that have appeared in previous Marvel movies there is T’Chaka who was in Civil War and but didn’t really do much in that brief appearance, he dies and his son T’Challa swears vengeance for his father’s death. Which he, T’Challa, thinks Bucky Barnes is responsible for, but it turns out Bucky was being framed for the bombing. So that vengeance issue is resolved in Civil War and the only thing you need to know for understanding Black Panther is that T’Chaka died so now T’Challa is sad, and is the king of Wakanda, and this is all available to the viewer via flashbacks. Emmet Ross to my recollection didn’t do a whole lot in his MCU appearances, but to be sure I would need to re watch previous films. In Age of Altron, Ulysses Klaue is introduced as a smuggler selling vibranium on the black market, however they give you all this information in Black Panther. But if you weren’t a Marvel person you may not know to stay through ALL the end credits, and then you would
The traditional noble sacrifice of the friend/sidekick/partner, is set up for Emmet Ross to take the fall but in this movie, he doesn’t, we get the sad music, and the lines, “How much time to I have.” But when it is all over Mr. Ross is still alive. There were also some missing tropes that usually find their way into superhero movies, the first being the damsel in distress, some beauty the hero must save, and secondly there was no impractical brooding, which is when the hero goes up on some tall structure ( a church, a towering building) and broods while gazing down on objects below, reflecting on past mistakes. This movie also borrowed some tropes from spy movies including their own version of James Bond’s Q, the technological wizard, who produces some new gadgets or upgrades on old tools for the hero. The black van car chase which originated in spy movies is now fast becoming a superhero trope. Black Panther also borrowed a fantasy trope, the wise old dude, or Jungian archetype of the mentor, and like Gandolf, Obi-won, and Dumbledor, Forrest Whitaker …show more content…
This movie in particular you didn’t really need to see any of the other movies to understand what was going on in Black Panther. Where my knowledge of MCU enhanced my viewing of this movie was in the reoccurring characters, references, and small nods to other films. And although this film does set up for the next movie it can be viewed as a stand-alone film and not as a piece of a larger puzzle. In regard to characters that have appeared in previous Marvel movies there is T’Chaka who was in Civil War and but didn’t really do much in that brief appearance, he dies and his son T’Challa swears vengeance for his father’s death. Which he, T’Challa, thinks Bucky Barnes is responsible for, but it turns out Bucky was being framed for the bombing. So that vengeance issue is resolved in Civil War and the only thing you need to know for understanding Black Panther is that T’Chaka died so now T’Challa is sad, and is the king of Wakanda, and this is all available to the viewer via flashbacks. Emmet Ross to my recollection didn’t do a whole lot in his MCU appearances, but to be sure I would need to re watch previous films. In Age of Altron, Ulysses Klaue is introduced as a smuggler selling vibranium on the black market, however they give you all this information in Black Panther. But if you weren’t a Marvel person you may not know to stay through ALL the end credits, and then you would