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on Wednesday January 30 2019, @07:01AM
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Here's how to see Black Panther for free during Black History Month:
Ready to go back to Wakanda? Marvel's billion-dollar blockbuster Black Panther came out in 2018, but now that it's up for the Academy Award for best picture, it might be time to watch it again.
The film will be rereleased in theaters for one week at 250 participating AMC theaters, Marvel Studios said Monday, and it's free. Interested moviegoers had better book now. A waiting list will be started once showings fill up. Screenings start Feb. 1.
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(Score: 2) by aclarke on Wednesday January 30 2019, @12:09PM (7 children)
I'm a pale-skinned Canadian of European descent, but I did grow up in Africa. So my perspective is skewed in all sorts of ways. I watched "Black Panther" a couple of months ago, finally. I'd heard such good things about it. I did manage to finish the movie, but honestly I was embarrassed for Africa and Africans. Africa is a huge continent with over a billion people on it. Africa's history is complex and fascinating on its own, with no need to create some sort of alternate reality where the people are something other than what they are. It's the cradle of humanity for goodness sakes!
To me, "Black Panther" was basically, "we think Africa as it is is no good, so let's remake it with our own values of success". That's the opposite of honouring Africans or Africa. Maybe I'm being too harsh, but every "white" superhero movie I can think of (and I've generally stopped watching them), if it takes place on earth, is grounded in some general version of reality. Even in "Black Panther", when they show up in Oakland, it's actual-real-Oakland, not some sort of "what if Oakland was something else that is less inconvenient from our point of view?"
How this is being shown as part of Black History Month is frankly completely beyond me. It's like as humans we're intent on turning ourselves into a parody of the worst parts of ourselves.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday January 30 2019, @02:06PM
I was a fan of the comic book for years, and I've seen the trailers, and reading your comment it does sound like you might be a too harsh. All superhero comics have large bits of pure fantasy. The planet Krypton? Shangri-la? Asgard? Wakanda is nothing compared to many others.
And yeah, Wakanda is a tiny tiny little nation in a huge continent - that's how it's almost plausible for them to escape outside notice.
Perhaps I'll feel differently after I get around to watching the movie, but it made sense in the comics, at least on the level you expect from a superhero comic.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 30 2019, @02:29PM (5 children)
That's because you're looking way too deeply into it.
It's a freaking superhero movie. Relax.
The original black panther character was created so that african-americans could have a Marvel superhero they could identify with. The same reason they created the character Ororo Munroe (Storm) a decade later.
Of course he couldn't be an "ordinary" african. He was supposed to be a freaking superhero, with super-powers and all that, for frick's sake.
Gosh some of you people are way too anal about this. Leave your brain at the door, relax, unwind, enjoy the movie. Not everything is about "diversity", "empowerment" or "social justice".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 30 2019, @05:26PM (2 children)
Well, I did see the movie. I didn't have to leave my brain at the door but I did allow myself to relax, unwind, and enjoy the movie. And I'm about as lily-white suburbia as they come. Some of the idiots in this conversation need to climb down off the ledge and get over themselves. Not everything needs to be about YOU as the center of attention.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday January 31 2019, @11:25AM (1 child)
Do not underestimate the power of hollywood to drill ideas into people.
No, not with this kind of movies, which are kind of political and so hit the superliminal.
The way is to take what you want people to believe and put it in a lot of different movies without having it challenged in any way. This conditions people to accept it as natural. GVTTA CAVAT LAPIDEM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @06:52PM
Sounds familiar, where have I heard of this phenomenon before? Oh right, the bible!
Yes media is used to push propaganda but it is amusing to see just what kind of propaganda bothers certain people. Seems that you are just scared of the big D.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 30 2019, @08:31PM (1 child)
That's probably the first time I heard that being a super requires one to live and/or rule a TL+1 tech city.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 30 2019, @09:24PM
Yeah, Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark make do with just McGivering common, ordinary tech.