We went to Black Panther together; and even though I was irritated by the (minor) flaws more than you were, there's no question that the movie was a groundbreaker, and a titanic feat of world building.
Chadwick Boseman could have bored us to death as a one-dimensional Noble King, or tried to match Michael B. Jordan's testosterone level. That he did neither--and carried the movie as a complex man with real flaws--makes his premature death all the more painful. How can Marvel possibly replace him?
But if I can't choose T'Challa, let's go with another groundbreaking superhero of color: Miles Morales. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse was a prodigious feat of imagination and just one hell of a lot of fun. What other movie could have Liev Schrieber as a deadly serious Kingpin and John Mulaney as a Looney Toon-ish Spider-Pig and have the audience say, "Sure, why not?"
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Date: 2020-09-10 01:24 am (UTC)We went to Black Panther together; and even though I was irritated by the (minor) flaws more than you were, there's no question that the movie was a groundbreaker, and a titanic feat of world building.
Chadwick Boseman could have bored us to death as a one-dimensional Noble King, or tried to match Michael B. Jordan's testosterone level. That he did neither--and carried the movie as a complex man with real flaws--makes his premature death all the more painful. How can Marvel possibly replace him?
But if I can't choose T'Challa, let's go with another groundbreaking superhero of color: Miles Morales. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse was a prodigious feat of imagination and just one hell of a lot of fun. What other movie could have Liev Schrieber as a deadly serious Kingpin and John Mulaney as a Looney Toon-ish Spider-Pig and have the audience say, "Sure, why not?"
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