Address Ryan Coogler
interpreters Letitia Wright, Tenoch Huerta, Angela Bassett
premiere 11 November 2022
We would be talking about a very different movie if Chadwick Boseman, the actor who played Black Panther in several Marvel movies, hadn’t died in 2020, when ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ was being prepared. The disappearance of the actor led to a radical change of approach by producer Kevin Feige, creator of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And so, lacks the iconic male character -Decided not to replace another actor and resort to digital techniques to reproduce Boseman-, the movie boosts the female role to the point of empowerment.
It should be noted that Black Panther is the first major black character to appear in Marvel. To overcome his feminist and pan-African ideology, his deep-sea superhero rival Namor comes from Mesoamerica, not an Atlantean like in the original comic. Although it will soon fade the political discourse is very clear: two oppressed cultures, Africa and MayaRival/ally to combat the destruction of western colonization and ‘vibranium’, the strong metal from which the Black Panther suit and Captain America’s shield are made. It’s somewhat long, somewhat discursive, but at a fundamental level in the understanding of superhero cinema, it’s more dramatic than epic, sober and thoughtful.
Source: Informacion
