they’re called sneakers!!! do you get it?
That shirt though!
She would.
black panther
I don’t know if this is the case everywhere but before they screen movies in UK cinemas a little certificate pops up showing warnings for violence and sex and all that, and before Black Panther one of the warnings was “one obscene gesture” and I was all OOOOOH I bet that happens in a moment of high emotion, I bet that forms part of the climatic scene of the movie or something
but it turned out to be Shuri casually flipping her big brother off
See, in our theater we got to start the movie with Chadwick Boseman staring darkly at the audience, unblinking
Eventually Letitia bounces in and asks what he’s doing, and he goes “I’m glaring at them so they don’t talk or text in the movie.”
“… You can’t just stare at the audience for the whole movie…?”
“watch me.”
HE CAME BACK AT THE END AFTER ALL THE CUT SCENES AND YELLED “STILL WATCHING”
We have similar warnings to that but they are interspersed through all the adverts and differ by cinema whereas the title screen OP is talking about is shown before every film in every cinema. It’s basically a screen of trigger warnings so people can prepare.
Coming back at the end is amusing though.
Yeah, this one was definitely Drafthouse specific–that don’t do warnings except when it’s time for everyone to settle down, really. I think the assumption is that you’ve checked the rating for yourself by then.
You got Chadwick Boseman and Letitia Wright in a little kind-of extra scene?! DAMN. I am jealous.
I don’t know if this is the case everywhere but before they screen movies in UK cinemas a little certificate pops up showing warnings for violence and sex and all that, and before Black Panther one of the warnings was “one obscene gesture” and I was all OOOOOH I bet that happens in a moment of high emotion, I bet that forms part of the climatic scene of the movie or something
but it turned out to be Shuri casually flipping her big brother off
I just realized this…
The opening narration of the movie, I always thought it was T’Chaka telling the story of Wakanda to T’Challa – BUT IT ISN’T
If you listen to it, the boy’s voice is a straight American accent, a young T’Challa would have had a Wakandan accent
THIS IS A YOUNG ERIK/N’JADAKA!!
THIS IS HIM HEARING THE STORY OF WAKANDA FROM HIS FATHER PRINCE N’JOBU!!
this makes so much more sense given that narration leads straight into that pivotal scene in 1992 Oakland and not to mention when Erik later on is speaking to T’Challa, he talks about how his dad used to tell him stories of home and how he was a kid from Oakland running around believing in fairy tales
I can’t believe after three viewings that it just hit me that I had assumed wrong the entire time!
This makes Killmonger’s story even more tragic!
There’s a sort of pleasing symmetry in that fact that Black Panther the character started off as a Fantastic Four side character (I was really surprised to learn that) and THEN the Fantastic Four movie, even if it was a flop, helped establish Michael B Jordan as a big name and opened the door to him playing Killmonger in Black Panther, which he’s getting rave reviews for
(And that now, the Fantastic Four themselves are pretty much side characters in the wider Marvel-movie-verse and Black Panther is the star.)
