There's no place like this to call home

[sovay]

And later in the afternoon, I combined the prevailing concerns of the last twenty-four hours and saw Ryan Coogler's Black Panther (2018) at the Capitol Theatre with gaudior and rushthatspeaks. I can't write about it right now, but it's a gorgeous film: worldbuilding, performances, music, myth, serious and beautifully realized Afrofuturism. The thing where if you get enough women in the same cast together, they have conversations about honor and technology, not just men. I want my toolkit-loving niece to be old enough to show her this film for Shuri. Casino shootouts and war rhinos. Maybe the next time Nabiyah Be's on film, she'll get to sing. Once upon a time the most familiar way into this story would have been through the eyes of Ross of the CIA, and this is not his movie.

Comments

[drwex]

The collective award is often Best Picture, but that gets conflated with Best Director a lot and often they go to the same work.

I think the best award here would be another movie. Vanity Fair reports that BP has now broken half a billion box office, which pretty much guarantees sequels of some sort, but the important thing will be what sort of sequels we get. Like, a Nakia/Shuri movie would be fantastic, particularly if you mentally think of it as a like a black-girl Bond with Nakia doing the missions and kicking the ass and Shuri supplying the tech and intel.

Another thing I've been tossing around in my head is an Agents of Shield-like sequel where the Dora Milaje are sent to fight problems throughout the black diaspora. Some (like the Boko Haram) require military solutions, some require tech, some diplomacy, some spy work - I can see an entire season here, easily, with a capstone movie.