Difference between revisions of "BLACK PANTHER (2018)"
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'''BLACK PANTHER. Ryan Coogler, dir.,''' co-script with Joe Robert Cole (“based on the Marvel Comics by” Stan Lee and Jack Kirby). Hannah Beachler, production design. USA: Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Pictures (production) / Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (USA distribution and most of Earth), 2018. | '''BLACK PANTHER. Ryan Coogler, dir.,''' co-script with Joe Robert Cole (“based on the Marvel Comics by” Stan Lee and Jack Kirby). Hannah Beachler, production design. USA: Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Pictures (production) / Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (USA distribution and most of Earth), 2018. | ||
− | Relevant here for images and premise element of high-technology/appropriate-technology near-mythical city-state and environs of Wakanda set amid a mostly gorgeous natural world of Northeastern Africa. Look for this | + | Relevant here for images and premise element of high-technology/appropriate-technology near-mythical city-state and environs of Wakanda set amid a mostly gorgeous natural world of Northeastern Africa. Look for this Afrofuturism[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/02/17/the-resurgence-of-afrofuturism-goes-beyond-black-panther-to-janelle-monae-jay-z-and-more/?utm_term=.58bdc38c1044] variation on The Wonder City of the Future, plus some standard hexagons and pentagons, and the decorous rich suggestiveness of fighting monster rhinoceroses in bright, shiny armor. Note also high-tech upgrades to the Black Panther suit: a tight-fitting superimposition of the technological upon the human, with feline suggestions. |
The film was widely and intelligently reviewed at and around its release; see, e.g., the reviews in ''The New Yorker''[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-passionate-politics-of-black-panther] and ''Slate'',[https://slate.com/culture/2018/02/black-panther-the-new-marvel-movie-reviewed.html] both summarized and linked on Metacritic.[http://www.metacritic.com/movie/black-panther/critic-reviews] | The film was widely and intelligently reviewed at and around its release; see, e.g., the reviews in ''The New Yorker''[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-passionate-politics-of-black-panther] and ''Slate'',[https://slate.com/culture/2018/02/black-panther-the-new-marvel-movie-reviewed.html] both summarized and linked on Metacritic.[http://www.metacritic.com/movie/black-panther/critic-reviews] | ||
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[[CATEGORY: Drama]] | [[CATEGORY: Drama]] |
Latest revision as of 01:25, 18 February 2018
BLACK PANTHER. Ryan Coogler, dir., co-script with Joe Robert Cole (“based on the Marvel Comics by” Stan Lee and Jack Kirby). Hannah Beachler, production design. USA: Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Pictures (production) / Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (USA distribution and most of Earth), 2018.
Relevant here for images and premise element of high-technology/appropriate-technology near-mythical city-state and environs of Wakanda set amid a mostly gorgeous natural world of Northeastern Africa. Look for this Afrofuturism[1] variation on The Wonder City of the Future, plus some standard hexagons and pentagons, and the decorous rich suggestiveness of fighting monster rhinoceroses in bright, shiny armor. Note also high-tech upgrades to the Black Panther suit: a tight-fitting superimposition of the technological upon the human, with feline suggestions.
The film was widely and intelligently reviewed at and around its release; see, e.g., the reviews in The New Yorker[2] and Slate,[3] both summarized and linked on Metacritic.[4]
RDE, Initial Compiler, 16/17Feb18