OPINION Is Marvel's Black Panther movie really a "special moment" for Black America??

Focal Point said:
However you want to look at it, would it be better for ya if we push down the inner child, the excitement of a movie geared I think to all our ppl, and the desire to feel a part of something different and the want to connect?
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Check that vid I just posted

Seit...is right....A lot of our people are disgruntled and ruined on the inside.

Instead of flipping this and using the movie to capitalize off the people's excitement of learning more about Africa....They live to "kill" the joy of the film.
 
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this just isn't because it's black ppl getting in the spirit, but rather you don't like when people get dressed up for Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings as well
 
The Lonious Monk said:
As someone loved the movie, I believe we should all be able to admit that the reaction to this movie has been a bit over the top. I get why its meaningful and I'd agree that from a societal standpoint its more important than your average superhero movie, but at the end of the day, it's still just a movie. I mean The Color Purple was a successful movie with an all black cast. It didn't hit the box office as hard as BP, but it also didn't have the MCU
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Difference between this and Color Purple is that even Color Purple had us looking kind of bad in the movie.

This movie makes us powerful and prideful the entire movie. Name another all black cast movie that's done this.

We were finally the shit in this movie!
 
TheNightKing said:
Difference between this and Color Purple is that even Color Purple had us looking kind of bad in the movie.

This movie makes us powerful and prideful the entire movie. Name another all black cast movie that's done this.

We were finally the shit in this movie!
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I said the same thing some pages back, and you just wrote it even more clear, concise, and to the point then I could hope to write it. This is why I don't mind ppl embracing mindsets normally we have closed off.
 
TheNightKing said:
Difference between this and Color Purple is that even Color Purple had us looking kind of bad in the movie.

This movie makes us powerful and prideful the entire movie. Name another all black cast movie that's done this.

We were finally the shit in this movie!
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True. But keep in mind, The Color Purple was grounded in reality whereas this movie is superhero fantasy. You gotta take that for what it's worth. It's a lot easier to paint a people the way you want in fiction than it is in reality, especially when a lot of the reality is ugly.
 
The Lonious Monk said:
True. But keep in mind, The Color Purple was grounded in reality whereas this movie is superhero fantasy. You gotta take that for what it's worth. It's a lot easier to paint a people the way you want in fiction than it is in reality, especially when a lot of the reality is ugly.
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We get a lot of ugly reality reminders... Mississippi Burning, A Time to Kill, The Butler, 12 Years a Slave, Boyz in the Hood, Rosewood, Glory, Precious, Miss Evers' Boys, Beloved, To Kill a Mocking Bird, A Raisin in the Sun, Monster's Ball, Menace 2 Society etc.

Sometimes you need some fantasy to remind you it's ok to imagine again and let go of the constant tragedy if but for only a couple hours
 
Focal Point said:
I didn't say you did, I just asked would that be better? Because that excitement made ppl want to embrace a part of us most typically don't know about or ignore.
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I did answer the question with my statement being “like 99% of other black movies”? And if Black Panther makes black people embrace their African heritage then something is wrong.
 
5th Letter said:
I did answer the question with my statement being “like 99% of other black movies”? And if Black Panther makes black people embrace their African heritage then something is wrong.
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I know what you answered, but all I'm asking is would it be better to you?

And as far as this movie getting ppl wanting to embrace our heritage, consider it a spark, most folk only know about a select few of the ancestors here in America and that's it and never ventured further. Take it as a positive that something can get the ppl interested outside of music and parades for instance.
 
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Focal Point said:
I know what you answered, but all I'm asking is would it be better to you?

And as far as this movie getting ppl wanting to embrace our heritage, consider it a spark, most folk only know about a select few of the ancestors here in America and that's it and never ventured further. Taked it as a positive that something can get the ppl interested outside of music and parades for instance.
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It seems as if you’re looking for a specific answer. And if a comic book movie makes people embrace their African heritage then no wonder fools are going to movie theatres dressed like Shaka Zulu.
 
5th Letter said:
It seems as if you’re looking for a specific answer. And if a comic book movie makes people embrace their African heritage then no wonder fools are going to movie theatres dressed like Shaka Zulu.
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The specific answer I was looking for was yes or no...

And I'm thinking the desire for the embracing comes from inspiration. So if a comic book movie is what it's gonna take to get the people to want to go at it open arms, than that's a start
 
5th Letter said:
It seems as if you’re looking for a specific answer. And if a comic book movie makes people embrace their African heritage then no wonder fools are going to movie theatres dressed like Shaka Zulu.
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You or no one else can decide or predict what spark will inspire and get people fire up...

But what you can decide on is how you will react to that "spark". You see people ready and hungry to learn more

Do you use that spark to be progressive or diverse?
 
We won't see what kind of impact this movie has till after it's out of theaters. I predict that folks will go right back to whatever they were doing before the first trailer was revealed. It's a fad that people can have fun with for now.

All these messages in the movie are the same messages the woke community has been preaching for years. Ain't none of it new to those that are informed. It's just that main stream society is letting it ride for now. If Kill Monger was a poster on the IC he would of been banned. Most of them would of hated dude. In real life a lot of these folks now openly hopping on the woke wagon would of left him out to dry. Like they do real life blacks that try to do shit. In real life I see Kill Monger dying exactly like he did in the movie but to some racist cops bullet. Demonized by the media and alone.

Chris Jorner was a real life Kill Monger. That nigga in Houston that was shooting at cops during that March, him too. Probably more and they all have died in vain. So there's a lot of new dashiki mfer's I'm giving the side eye.
 
a.mann said:
You or no one else can decide or predict what spark will inspire and get people fire up...

But what you can decide on is how you will react to that "spark". You see people ready and hungry to learn more

Do you use that spark to be progressive or diverse?
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It's an opportunity to teach.

But it's gonna take a minute to get the class attention cuz they more focused on fantasy vs reality
 
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