{"id":6251,"date":"2018-02-07T12:41:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=6251"},"modified":"2018-02-07T12:41:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:41:24","slug":"black-panther-marvel-pushes-a-message-of-inclusion-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=6251","title":{"rendered":"Black Panther: Marvel pushes a message of inclusion for women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some fodder for MonSFFA’s Marvel vs DC debate?<\/em><\/h5>\n

HEAR THEM ROAR<\/h1>\n

Marvel pushes a message of inclusion for women<\/h2>\n<\/hgroup>\n
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    MATT KENNEDY\/DISNEY Lupita Nyong\u2019o, left, stars as Nakia and Letitia Wright is Shuri in Marvel\u2019s highly anticipated Black Panther, a hopeful blockbuster that offers meaningful and powerful roles for women \u2014 both in front of and behind the camera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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    It doesn\u2019t take long into a rollcall of female characters in Black Panther to recognize a certain trend.<\/p>\n

    These women get the job done. There\u2019s Okoye (Danai Gurira), the fierce head of an elite unit of female bodyguards who oversees intel and security for the technically advanced fictional African country of Wakanda and its new king, T\u2019Challa, a.k.a. Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman). Her combat skills are equal, if not superior, to the titular character and she doesn\u2019t need a custom-made vibranium suit to protect herself while using them. There\u2019s also Nakia (Lupita Nyong \u2019o), a Wakandan spy and Black Panther\u2019s former love interest who is also no slouch in hand-to-hand combat. She also possesses a sense of social justice far deeper than any of the men around her. There\u2019s Shuri (Letitia Wright), Black Panther\u2019s genius kid sister who is far more adept than her older brother when it comes to understanding, designing and explaining Wakanda\u2019s advanced technology.<\/p>\n

    Finally, there\u2019s Ramonda (Angela Bassett), Black Panther\u2019s mother and queen mother of Wakanda who attempts to hold the kingdom together after her husband is murdered by terrorists.<\/p>\n

    As Entertainment Tonight\u2019s Nischelle Turner pointed out while hosting a news conference for the latest lavish entry into the Marvel Universe in Beverly Hills last week, the movie may be titled Black Panther but it could very well have been called The Badass Women of Wakanda.<\/p>\n

    \u201cIn African culture, they feel as if there is no king without a queen,\u201d says Bassett, who joined the cast, director Ryan Coogler and producer Kevin Feige in Beverly Hills the day after the star-studded Hollywood premi\u00e8re of the film. \u201cIn this story, it highlights the queen, the warrior, the young sister. I was so proud to have my daughter and my son there last night. Because in their faces and in their spirit, they were feeling themselves. And they stood taller after last night.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Not unlike recent blockbusters Wonder Woman and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Black Panther seems to represent a modern shift in thinking when it comes to the types of roles females can have in action-packed blockbusters. The film must be doing something right. Weeks before its release it became victim of a campaign by an alt-right group to sabotage its score on Rotten Tomatoes. The plan failed miserably, but not before it was revealed that it was hatched by the same basementdwelling trolls who attempted a similar tampering of The Last Jedi a few months earlier because they were disgusted by what they saw as the film\u2019s \u201cfeminist agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

    There was no talk of a feminist agenda at the Beverly Hills news conference, which happened before the Rotten Tomatoes story came to light. But there was a sense among the female cast that the film deserved to be celebrated not only because it is the first time a black superhero has headlined a Marvel Universe movie, but because it also offered so many deep and meaningful roles for women.<\/p>\n

    The Walking Dead\u2019s Gurira plays Okoye, both a general of the Wakandan armed forces and the leader of Dora Milaje, the royal family \u2019s ferocious baldheaded, tattooed bodyguards. In one scene, Okoye bitterly objects to having to wear a wig while undercover.<\/p>\n

    \u201cHer joy and her pride is walking with that bald head and that tattoo on it,\u201d says Gurira. \u201cIt\u2019s so subversive and it\u2019s so subversive in the right way to say you don\u2019t have to have hair to be beautiful. I thought that was so fun. There\u2019s so many great things I could say about how Ryan developed these women characters and allowed us to collaborate. I feel really blessed about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

    The talent wasn\u2019t just in front of the camera either.<\/p>\n

    Coogler points out that the film employed a number of women behind the scenes, not to be subversive but because they were the best people for the job.<\/p>\n

    That included executive producer Victoria Alonso, Oscar nominee cinematographer Rachel Morrison, costume designer Ruth E. Carter, production designer Hannah Beachler, co-editor Debbie Berman and first assistant director Lisa Satriano.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThis film had the involvement of brilliant women all over it, from start to finish,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

    All of which offers a strong message for audiences, says Nyong\u2019o, an Oscar winner.<\/p>\n

    \u201cEach and every one of us is an individual, unique,\u201d she says. \u201cWe all have our own sense of power and our own agency and we hold our own space without being pitted against each other. I think that\u2019s a very powerful message to send to children, both male and female.<\/p>\n

    \u201cIn this film, there is so many of us. We really get a sense of the fabric of Wakanda as a nation. We see women alongside men and we see how much more effective a society can be if we allow women to explore their full potential.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Black Panther opens Feb. 16.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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