In 2018,
Black Panther
is beautiful.
It becomes the first superhero film nominated for the Oscar for best picture and proves to the industry that a blockbuster carried mainly by African-American actors and characters can be profitable.
Very profitable even (1.3 billion in revenue worldwide).
In the United States, the feline of the Marvel menagerie is causing debate within the black community.
Should we live hidden and happy like Wakanda, a technologically advanced African nation (it has no oil, but vibranium, an extraterrestrial metal with supernatural powers) but isolationist, or take part in the tumult of the world and try improve the lot of the damned of the earth.
The question, very political, nestles in the heart of a spectacular entertainment.
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The death in 2020 of Chadwick Boseman, the interpreter of King T'Challa who became Black Panther, could have compromised the production of a second part.
He forced Ryan Coogler to change the script and overcome…
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