The film starts with two siblings talking, and it ends with two siblings talking. But here, he’s being honest with her. He’s telling her everything, telling her the truth. You see the difference between T’Challa and his father. — Ryan Coogler, Director’s Commentary
Marvel’s Black Panther: “UN Meet and Greet” Exclusive Deleted Scene (X)
This beautiful smile needs to leave my heart alone.
Why are all the BP deleted scenes the ones that show some real humanity and love between these characters? I want to talk to the editor right now.
NOPE CAN’T HAVE THAT IT’S ALL ABOUT THE PLOT MAN
Honestly studios these days are too afraid to make their movies too long so they end up cutting out a lot of humanity to make room for action scenes and plot furtherance forgetting that establishing who these characters are helps us care more about the plot.
THIS LAST POINT IS EVERYTHING.
why have nice character moments when you can have a big stupid pointless marvel climax battle for 30 minutes at the end
……Everyone cooled on Black Panther fast, huh?
Wait, you thought there weren’t any scenes in the movie that showed humanity and love between characters? What movie were you watching?
Because my god, every scene with the ancestors, or Okoye grappling with love and duty, or Shuri ribbing the shit out of T’Challa, or every interaction between M’Baku and T’Challa on the meaning of leadership and dedication to the people–and whether there was a duty to all people or just Wakandans. Or every fucking interaction between Nakia and T’Challa, for that matter?
But no, the scene that we needed to leave in was a white boy being praised for a genuinely meant but nevertheless incompetent gesture, because At Least He Tried. Because that’s the key scene that demonstrates humanity and love.
The fuck. I know y’all love Martin Freeman but frankly what the actual fuck, guys?
That isn’t to say it’s not a good scene–it is!–but it’s also totally a cuttable scene, because it doesn’t actually contribute much about either Freeman’s character or the relationships between the other three that isn’t already adequately shown in other scenes of the movie.
Marvel’s Black Panther: “UN Meet and Greet” Exclusive Deleted Scene (X)
This beautiful smile needs to leave my heart alone.
Why are all the BP deleted scenes the ones that show some real humanity and love between these characters? I want to talk to the editor right now.
NOPE CAN’T HAVE THAT IT’S ALL ABOUT THE PLOT MAN
Honestly studios these days are too afraid to make their movies too long so they end up cutting out a lot of humanity to make room for action scenes and plot furtherance forgetting that establishing who these characters are helps us care more about the plot.
THIS LAST POINT IS EVERYTHING.
why have nice character moments when you can have a big stupid pointless marvel climax battle for 30 minutes at the end
Marvel’s Black Panther: “UN Meet and Greet” Exclusive Deleted Scene (X)
They really, really should have included this in the movie. It’s such an important, precious show of development that has been taking place between these characters. From the man who arrogantly asked “Does she speak English?” and got cold stares and hissed answers for it to this, to Everett making the effort to learn their language and the others, while grinning at his slip-up, genuinely appreciating the effort and thanking him for it.
They learned to respect each other, heck, probably even like each other, and this whole scene would have shown this so perfectly.
(Also, who wants to bet with me that Shuri taught him the phrase and got it wrong on purpose?)
The politics of Wakanda in terms of Africa is really fascinating to me. Its a heavily isolationist country sat right in the middle of the most intergovernmental region of the world.
For one I imagine Wakanda is the ONLY African country not in the African Union, the only other country which comes close to this is Morocco who has a shaky past with the AU because it doesn’t approve of the AU recognising the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as an independent sovereign nation. But is currently a member none the less.
But moreover Wakanda is slap bang in the middle of the East Africa Community. Six countries attempting to become a single nation (The East Africa Federation) these countries are Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. This union covers three of Wakanda’s four boarders.
Wakanda is such a sore thumb. We see a lot of how Wakanda interacts with the west, but honnestly I think it would be more interesting to see how it interacts with their naighbours.
It would, wouldn’t it? It is strangely positioned and unlike Latveria, doesn’t present itself as a publically well known nation and it’s smack dab in the middle of whatever ex-USSR Eastern European geography you can sort of squeeze in there (I like to say it’s squeezed alongside the three Baltics because of the name).
Wakanda justifies it’s secrecy with advanced technology, a presumably very convincing and watchful Border Tribe, and being in some dense and treacherous mountains and jungles.
But I feel like those things can only go so far, especially the dense environment part.
I mean humans will climb anything, how many dead bodies does it take to keep Wakanda a secret in its location.
And now that it’s out, what sort of conflicts are going to arise from the East African Federation. That’s a genuinely interesting concept. Would there be in-fighting to try to curry Wakanda’s favor? Try to become a nation with Wakanda instead of the others? Or perhaps attempts to band together to take over Wakanda and then use their power to legitimize the federation they’re trying to mold?
I’ve heard people say you can could spin-off half a dozen or more movies based on the characters and concepts we got out of the Black Panther movie alone, and if it wasn’t a Marvel IP I would imagine it would definitely be able to expand to a movie verse with LotR scale only instead of being compressed to a few trilogies it’d be films focused entirely on a thing, and the thing being these land politics would be a great one to have.
