Feb 24 2025 38 mins 1
We’re in our last stretch of BODY & SOUL and we’re discussing a bonafide BILLY of a movie. A “Billy” is a movie that made a billions dollars. There’s more than a few (20? 30something Billys out there?) and since today’s theme is all about Black Directors and Black Lead Actors there’s one prolific box office smash that catapulted a longstanding character into the mainstream pop culture zeitgeist. Only our third Marvel Studios movie discussion, we’re talking Ryan Coogler’s 2018 superhero film “BLACK PANTHER” starring the late Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira and plenty plenty more including Forest Whitaker who we forget to even mention in this episode. Coogler’s flick stands as a prolific monument to the notions of Afro-Futurism and the villain of Killmonger has understandable notions even if the movie stumbles over some pretty layered philosophical implications. Also there’s fighting and car chases and South Africans with soundwave blaster gun hands and the CGI is decent about 80% of the time. The successful immersion of the techno-utopian concepts of Wakanda helped launch the first ever black superhero deeper into the consciousness of black culture all over the world. It really helps that the villain is good. That really stinks up most of these Marvel movies. Let’s revisit this iconic flick and see how it holds up.
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