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Black Panther review on Steemit
7 years ago
https://steemit.com/blackpanther/@b.....-reviews-alpha
...Killmonger is literally a Zealot, as in, "Simon the". As much as Simon is portrayed as a vengeful fanatic, desiring Jesus to preach discord against the Romans in Jesus Christ Superstar, Killmonger seeks to send Wakanda out into the world to take revenge on "the Colonizers'; to bend the world to serve those whom he sees as his people...
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...Killmonger is literally a Zealot, as in, "Simon the". As much as Simon is portrayed as a vengeful fanatic, desiring Jesus to preach discord against the Romans in Jesus Christ Superstar, Killmonger seeks to send Wakanda out into the world to take revenge on "the Colonizers'; to bend the world to serve those whom he sees as his people...
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So there's actually two things that review nearly touched on, but missed, that really bugged me about this movie. First, alongside the thematic pacing, the movie's pace overall needs work. 2 and a half hours for an "Enter the Hero" feature is at least 30 minutes too long (Iron Man, Captain America, and Doctor Strange all clocked in at nearly dead on 2 hours), and it definitely impacts the pacing on screen. With that much screen time, the movie could certainly stand to spread itself out over a longer time frame instead of repeated rehashings of things already covered.
Secondly, the strange schizophrenia of the bad guy's character. We see him methodically kill some people, heartlessly kill some others, we're told he's a walking coup, and half his raison d'etre is revenge. And yet he's also apparently mostly right about what Blank Panther should do as king of Wakanda and completely righteous in his actions? You can do the angry revenge antagonist, and you can do the misguided zealot antagonist, but it's a whole new level to do both in the same character in the same film, and the movie's tonal whiplash reflects this. See Magneto, and how any given franchise has to pick one identity for him, since trying to play him as both in the same canon is ludicrous. He's been portrayed as both kinds of antagonist to great effect, but it's hard to sympathize with a villain's plight when he's also a royal asshole.