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Black Panther Take Three: T’Challa Is Not Excellent

01 Monday Oct 2018

Posted by jml78 in Film

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Black Lightning, Black Panther, Boots Riley, Chadwick Boseman, Comic Books, film, nokings, politics, Race, Random Acts of Flyness, Ryan Coogler, Salim Akil, Sorry to Bother You, superhero fiction, Terence Nance

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Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa is not the kind of male protagonist that we normally see in action/adventure movies, superhero or otherwise. He is refreshingly ordinary, frequently the least capable and experienced person in the room. At first glance, T’Challa’s narrative arc looks a lot like a traditional hero’s journey. He goes on an adventure, faces an existential crisis and returns transformed, but he is not learning how to be a superhero as much as he is working through his grief and deciding what kind of man and leader he wants to become.

“You are a good man, with a good heart. And it’s hard for a good man to be a king.”

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