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UNITED STATES · 2018
Black Panther
African identity and pride
political succession and leadership
isolationism vs. global responsibility
family duty and legacy
colonialism and imperialism
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Synopsis
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.
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Ryan Coogler has said he spent months studying the work of Ousmane Sembène — the Senegalese filmmaker who spent his career insisting African stories deserved their own visual language rather than a borrowed European one — before designing Wakanda's aesthetic. Sembène made his first film in 1963. He called himself the father of African cinema. Black Girl and Touki Bouki — Djibril Diop Mambéty's visionary 1973 film — are the real Wakanda.
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