GG Triggerhappy: Black panther
With the upcoming release of the movie about the superhero Black panther, we are seeing again the buildup of the already typical narrative that if you didn’t like the movie it’s because you’re a racist. We saw the same thing with ghostbusters, when a narrative was built claiming that every single person who didn’t like the film was sexist, and we have seen it since with various movies whenever they have a female or minority cast. It’s a way to deflect any criticism of the movie and excuse its failure by blaming the viewers with false accusations. Because, you know, the only possible reason to not like a blockbuster movie is because you hate women or minorities, it can’t possibly be because these movies are usually as simple as a lolipop. I’m not saying the movie will be bad; i’ve liked a few superhero movies, like the Iron man ones, or Wonder woman, but most of them are only worth for a 2 hours mild entertainment that i promptly forget.
In this case it has reached a point where Rotten tomatoes has threatened to ban people who give the movie a bad review if they think the review is hate speech. This would not be bad on itself until you consider how today everything under the sun is considered hate speech, and how some are already claiming that any negative review of the movie is racism. To prove this point, after one critic gave the movie a bad review, journalists, twitters and bloggers have been smearing that person for daring to give a bad review to a black movie, with headlines as wonderful as “Trump’s America Spoils Black Panther’s 100% Rotten Tomatoes score” or “Black panther is for movies what Barak obama was for politics”, arguing, like many are doing, that Black panther is the first blockbuster movie in history with a black protagonist, ignoring tons of movies like Blade, spawn, shaft, catwoman, men in black, Coming to America, etc. But the greatest claim of them all, is the one that the article in the comic, and some people in twitter, have made that Africa would be an ultra futuristic billionaire continent if it wasn’t for white people. Last time i checked a history book, Africa was already a pretty bad place when white people came arround, and their technological level wasn’t exactly state of the art. By that logic, Spain, which was occupied by the moors for almost 800 years, would be an ultra futuristic country if it wasn’t for them, and it should be as poor as Africa is right now. Instead, we are a normal European first world nation, and we were at a time the most powerful nation in the world.
The funniest thing about all of this, is that Wakanda, the fictional country that the movie is set on (and one some people believe is real), was actually in the comics an ultranationalistic state, with a big big wall surrounding it, that refuses any kind of inmigration or even tourism. T’chala is far, far more nationalistic and isolationist than Trump has ever been, to the point that the alt-right is making the joke that “he’s one of them”. And they’re probably not wrong.
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Do housen in spain all attached to each other? I havent been there for a year so who knows.
Ps: good job Nomaris, you went fully retard.
It’s shit like this, that makes me not want to see this movie, even though I am hyped for it (that’s mainly because Black Panther looks good and the villain looks interesting). Also get a load of “The white nerds will be forced to identify with characters that don’t look like them” bullshit, my response is that Kamen Rider Grease, Nero, Junko Enoshima, K’sara (yes that one), Old Evelynn (don’t get me wrong, I kind of like New Evelynn but Old Evelynn had such a good personality and yes I did like that drawing you did (side note: Hyped for the new champion?)), and fuck mothering Abriged Alucard (just to name a few).
Given the whole Nolan Bushell thing (did you say something on this subject), The recent shit going down with Diversity & Comics (the youtuber), Star wars episode 8 (goes without fucking saying) and everything else that’s been happening
I say Social Justice and entertainment as a whole needs a divorce proceeding.
The amount of people who may have a problem with black characters may be close to 0. There have been blockbusters with black protagonists since forever and no one made a deal of it. It’s only these sjw types making their huge projection of their own racism.
Nice wording man.
I used to not have a problem, but now whenever I see a black person in a TV show, movie or game I find myself stopping to ask myself if this just a character or a case of virtue signaling.
The truly funny thing is these yahoos doing all this crap has made everyone more sexist and racist then we ever were, cause we have these thoughts always on our minds because of them.
Until 4 years ago, no one gave a fuck if a character in a movie was black or female. Now it’s hard to dissasociate because there’s so much shit done for “diversity” that you have to wonder everytime one appears if the movie is gonna be preaching how bad we are for been male, or white in the Us case.
Well, I guess there would probably be some Cultural differences, as you probably would be a lot more Germanic and prolly still call yourselves Visigoths or so, and likely have a less surprising inquisition, but it would mostly be the same.
Africa would probably be mostly Bumfuck Nowhere with most states having a population of stickpicklers without the colonisation though.
Ofc there would be some social differences, and some different archytectonic style in the south, but the technological level would basicaly be the same. All of the first world countries in the world, regardless of how much they were “opressors” or “opressed” through history (and i think all countries have probably been conquered at some point) have a similar state of technology. Some countries have some more advanced military technology, but no one is even near to flying cars, combat mechs and iron man-like armors, which is the claim of the headline XD
Marvel’s Asgard shows what the West would be like without “diversity”.
So, the Sagrada Familia would FINALLY be completly built?
The movie was pretty okay, the supporting cast sucked ass however. The most annoying aspect is the media and socjus’s propaganda machine working hard to retroactively make it the first ‘black movie’ like the recent ‘first ever female movies’.
Not to mention they get all their technology and knowledge from a meteorite that crashed into their country.
…and knowledge and technology being brought into your country that you then use to your advantage? Definitely sounds like an allegory to colonialism.. .
As far as some legitimate critics of the movie, not enough action plus every issue with most live action superhero movies. Say what you will, but the animated movies do much better with less. The 2017 Batman and Harley quinn movie, it was enjoyable with a $3.5Mil budget where the black panther movie had a $200Mil budget. I don’t see the real appeal to the live action movies over anything animated.
“as simple as a lolipop”
Uh, that can be interpreted in some…. interesting ways…
I hate how they changed Wakanda’s history to accomodate the snowflakes. In the comics Wakanda got it’s technology by selling a small amount of vibranium and then using the funds to send their brightest around the world to universities in order to learn and then innovate. In the movie, “they have an advanced metal that they can mine somehow so they have great technology.” Hell, they never even explain how it’s mined and smelted in the comics but since adamantium’s weakness is heat then it can’t be using fire. Somehow they have to use gamma radiation because that’s the official vibranium weakness.
“we were at a time the most powerful nation in the world”
Brought down by the misfortune of finding a mountain quite literally made of silver (Cerro Potosi in Bolivia) and then failing to take any steps to address the ensuing inflation. The Dutch revolted because they were tired of being ruled by Catholics, and then Elizabeth told every English captain that she wouldn’t lift a finger to punish piracy as long as the pirates were paying her.
At some point the dutch where tired of the spanish and there bullshit. So we put them in there place. Thats how we role. The dutch aint taking shit from no nigga. XD