tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294499213897153104.post5469372839701774074..comments2024-03-27T09:00:32.195-05:00Comments on The Signal Watch: Marvel Watch: Black Panther (2018)The Leaguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04836241071795980225noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294499213897153104.post-12483822751033480742018-03-06T14:34:38.394-06:002018-03-06T14:34:38.394-06:00Agreed.
I had a twitter conversation with a fil...Agreed. <br /><br />I had a twitter conversation with a film reviewer who was opining that not enough people were making comparisons between this and The Lion King (and I was like: hey, people are going to read that as both not right and vaguely racist, but you be you) and we got off on a tangent about how Lion King - when I worked at the Disney Store leading up to the film's release - was being pitched internally as a Hamlet reimagining. <br /><br />Because, yes... any time you're talking ascension and rights to thrones and the complications and pitfalls that you get if you knock it off with the "Chosen One" nonsense, you get to expose characters at a very essential core. There's so much at stake in these conflicts that are both family spats and macrocosmic. I mean, that's the thing: T'Challa wants to be good and wise and do as good a job of protecting his kingdom as his ancestors, but he is aware of what that cost everyone else in a way his ancestors couldn't see. And it's really Eric Killmonger's history that drives it home for him. The difference not being in retreating to status quo, but in how we move forward, with an open hand or clenched fist.The Leaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04836241071795980225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294499213897153104.post-30503518087103108702018-03-06T14:18:20.389-06:002018-03-06T14:18:20.389-06:00Even though I wasn't able to see the movie dur...Even though I wasn't able to see the movie during the opening weekend I snuck out and saw it twice the following week. I absolutely loved this movie. It's easily in the top 5 of all the Marvel movies for me. What was particularly awesome about this one aside from the obvious where African American's and women both get some great roles but the villain, if you can call Killmonger one, was the best we've seen so far in the MCU. He's got some real believable motivations behind why he's behaving in the manner he is and why you may not agree with his methods you have to think, "he's not wrong". <br /><br />I was really struck by the parallels between this flick and Shakespearean tragedies. Simon MacDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14749383583517044214noreply@blogger.com