Black Panther – Wakanda accent is that?
December 25, 20200:00Episode

Black Panther – Wakanda accent is that?

In the lead up to the 91st Academy Awards and it’s 7 nominations we mine for vibranium as the explore Wakanda for all things Black Panther. Beware of all the spoilers as we talk about the Batman spectrum of violence, the Nolan complex, why Forrest Whittaker should stay away from accent heavy roles, Samuel L Jackson has tenure for all Uncle Ruckus roles, who we think are up and comers and so much more!The post Black Panther – Wakanda accent is that? appeared first on For Your Reference.

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In the lead up to the 91st Academy Awards and it’s 7 nominations we mine for vibranium as the explore Wakanda for all things Black Panther. Beware of all the spoilers as we talk about the Batman spectrum of violence, the Nolan complex, why Forrest Whittaker should stay away from accent heavy roles, Samuel L Jackson has tenure for all Uncle Ruckus roles, who we think are up and comers and so much more!

Stats

Released: February 2018
Director: Ryan Coogler
Budget: $200,000,000
Box Office: Opening – $202,003,951, Gross – $1,346,913,161

Breakdown and Analysis

  • Main point of debate was trying to reconcile the light hearted nature expected of a Marvel movie but also the cultural significance of Black Panther.
  • Before getting into the details we are already distracting by Forest Whitaker’s terrible accent. Yeah we said it. Fight us. He had practice in Last King of Scotland so no excuses for him.
  • Would he still be Killmonger if T’Chaka had taken him back to Wakanda? Did the King’s decision help to form the vengeful villain or was he always destined for a blood bath? Even though we couldn’t reach a consensus on this we agreed that Killmonger was the relatable villain.
  • Oti discovers that for a smidge of time he was referred to as Black Leopard.
  • We enjoyed the decision on making M’Baku is Nigerian. No powers, no suit-o!
  • Oti shares insight into W’Kabi’s fickle self interest. The person that can be bought out, the betrayer, represents what’s wrong in Africa right now.
  • We also dived into whether W’Kabi was the weak link? If not for him, would Killmonger have had an audience with T’Challa and Co?

Unrelated but vital points

  • Heath Ledger’s joker
  • Joaquin needs a hug
  • The Batman spectrum of violence
  • The Nolan complex – gritty superhero movie
  • Oti ranks Jamie Foxx naturally charismatic Jamie Foxx
  • Idris Elba deserves all the roles
  • Jeff Bezos and all the qualms
  • There will be no besmirching the Skarsgards in mine household
  • Let me defend Kaluuya in this court of law!
  • Samuel L Jackson has all Uncle Ruckus roles in perpetuity, he’s got tenure
  • Michael B Jordan needs to Bradley Cooper himself

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Get Out

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2017 7.8

"Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined."

Hotel Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda

2004 8.1

"1994. In Rwanda, the classification of the native population into Hutus and Tutsis, arbitrarily done by the colonial Belgians, is now ingrained within Rwandan mentality despite the Rwandan independence. Despite the Belgians having placed the Tutsis in a higher position during the Belgian rule, they have placed the majority Hutus in power after independence. Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu married to a Tutsi, Tatiana Rusesabagina, is the House Manager of the Hotel Des Milles Collines in Kigali. The Milles Collines, owned by Sabena (the national airline of Belgium), is a four-star hotel catering primarily to wealthy white westerners. Paul, who knows how to work the system to run the hotel effectively for its guests and for Sabena, is proud that most of the Caucasians who he meets in this professional capacity treat him with respect. After a specific incident, the relative calm between the Tutsi guerrillas and government-backed Hutu militia takes a turn. Paul's thought that the native population as a whole who are not directly involved in the conflict will be protected as the UN peacekeeping forces and thus the world is watching doesn't happen as the western world largely evacuates from Rwanda and abandons the natives. Such begins what will become a genocide of the Tutsi population. Paul, who is able to get his immediate family to the hotel which is still largely seen as a place of sanctuary, will have to use the considerable skills he has used to run the hotel as well as he has instead to keep himself, his family and any others taking refuge at the hotel alive, whether they be Hutu or Tutsi. Meanwhile, Colonel Oliver, a Canadian heading the UN peacekeeping forces, and Pat Archer with the Red Cross do what they can to assist Paul and to get people to safety first to the hotel then out of the country, while field journalists, like photographer Jack Daglish, try to bring the genocide back into the global media to have the world once again care about what is going on."

Beasts of No Nation

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2015 7.7

"Follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in a fictional West African country. While Agu fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination Depicts the mechanics of war and does not shy away from explicit, visceral detail, and paints a complex, difficult picture of Agu as a child soldier."

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The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight

2008 9.1

"Set within a year after the events of Batman Begins (2005), Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new District Attorney Harvey Dent successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City, until a mysterious and sadistic criminal mastermind known only as "The Joker" appears in Gotham, creating a new wave of chaos. Batman's struggle against The Joker becomes deeply personal, forcing him to "confront everything he believes" and improve his technology to stop him. A love triangle develops between Bruce Wayne, Dent, and Rachel Dawes."

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