The Black Panther
movie adaptation, based on the Marvel comic book of the same name,
has been getting more recognition than I recently thought and that’s
definitely a good thing! It is probably the big budget sci fi movie
that stars black characters and made by a black director (Ryan
Coogler) that has broken the most records. It definitely shows that
people of colour are becoming acknowledged for their work in
speculative genres. It’s bringing to light the sci fi/fantasy
community among people of colour, breaking the too long-time
impression of the genre being a white person’s. Along with that,
it’s also bringing to light the speculative movement known as
Afrofuturism and so making the movement less marginalised.
Afrofuturism is the intellectual movement of scientific and
technological speculation by people of African culture. That’s
probably too simple of a definition. However, an article at BBC.com
entitled “Afrofuturism:Why black science fiction can’t be ignored” explains it
really good which I think you will find fascinating!
Yes, I did see Black
Panther when it released back in March and thought it was super!
And do mind the pun—it was a super hero film that was made really
good.
Afrofuturism is
doing for speculative film what “blaxploitation” was doing for
the same in the 1970s, only better since Black Panther is
bringing Black sci fi and fantasy to the mainstream more than ever!
Because of that, I think there’s going to be a lot more big budget
films in the genre by people of colour and really well-made ones too
like Black Panther.
Until next time . .
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| Photo Credit: Pixabay.com |
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