Anthony Mackie on Marvel's hiring/Black Panther, etc.

[Ziggiy]

He has a point.


BUT Black Panther is my favorite Marvel movie and if anything it proves that BLACK CREATIVES should be in charge of BLACK characters. And before anybody comes with the “bu bu but...Black Panther was created by a Cac!” Yes I know this. But there is NOTHING that will ever convince me that the Russo Bros would have tapped into what Black Panther and Wakanda REPRESENTS better than Ryan Coogler did with T’Challa and Kilmonger’s opposing viewpoints.

White creatives can NEVER truly understand what it MEANS to be black. So if you want just a cool, kick ass Panther, then sure. A capable white director/producer can do that. But to go DEEPER into the complicated legacy and emotional feelings that encapsulate black Americans relationships with the African diaspora? No white team is capable of that.


Ryan Coogler and his team of BLACK creatives made something deeper than the average Marvel flick. And yes, they were the ONLY ones who could’ve pulled it off (or a similar black creative team) put that same story in a white director’s hands and it would’ve been awful

 

[CodeKansas]

That's a dumb take

The director brought in his own people which happened to be black. Mackie seems to forget the black producer (Nate Moore) got him the falcon gig when he produced the Cap movies

Yeah black people should be on all sorts of movies but they should also be on black movies

I like this post.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

I'm shocked that this thread isn't 4 pages (at the very least) yet.

Y’all wanted the stan wars to be dead. So all but one of us letting it die

Spoiler

For now

2021 tick tock

 

[PortCityProphet]

He right
We great enough to do any position in hollywood and kill it. We should be involved in every single movie made. The proof is in the puddin that black folk can do anything handed to them.

 

[prophecypro]

Im already seeing people on twitter miss his point

 

[Jax]

Im already seeing people on twitter miss his point

they can't read.

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

I'm shocked that this thread isn't 4 pages (at the very least) yet.

This isn't TLR.

 

[HipHopStan]

This isn't TLR.

And thank Primus for that.

 

[Primetime]

He has a point.


BUT Black Panther is my favorite Marvel movie and if anything it proves that BLACK CREATIVES should be in charge of BLACK characters. And before anybody comes with the “bu bu but...Black Panther was created by a Cac!” Yes I know this. But there is NOTHING that will ever convince me that the Russo Bros would have tapped into what Black Panther and Wakanda REPRESENTS better than Ryan Coogler did with T’Challa and Kilmonger’s opposing viewpoints.

To your point, even though T'Challa himself was created by white jews (Lee & Kirby)... Shuri, Nakia, Okoye, and the Dora Milaje were all created by black men decades later. The modern T'Challa we see today was revamped by a black man 22 years ago, after white folks had the character collecting dust on the shelf for the 20 years prior to 1998.

Point blank, the reason BP is where he is today is due to black creatives who resuscitated and modernized the character back when it was taboo to do so. Think of the 20 years of stories Spider-Man and Batman got in the 80s and 90s that defined them to this current generation... now imagine if you thanos snapped all that way and had to start from scratch at the turn of the century? That was BP. He started so far behind in the race, but look at our nygga now. Black creative minds did that.

 

[Won Won]

its a very nuanced message that sounds like c00ning right up until the end...gonna take a min for that to get traction....
Plus this the film room breh not the locker room....

Woulda gotten wayyy more responses in TLR

Thread would've been platinum status by now had it been posted in TLR.

Most likely been taken the wrong way too. I had to read that twice.

This isn't TLR.

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/ant...rs-all-black-cast-and-crew-racist-wow.789486/

 

[CarbonBraddock]

Thread would've been platinum status by now had it been posted in TLR.

let's find out


https://www.thecoli.com/threads/anthony-mackie-c00nin-bird-guy-from-avengers.789500/

 

[CarbonBraddock]

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/ant...rs-all-black-cast-and-crew-racist-wow.789486/

negged

 

[NOSaintsFan02]

I have nothing to add to this post other than I had dinner tonight at a spot in New Orleans called Flamingo A Go Go and Anthony was seated right next to me with his wife and two friends. I ain't go up to him though.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

I have nothing to add to this post other than I had dinner tonight at a spot in New Orleans called Flamingo A Go Go and Anthony was seated right next to me with his wife and two friends. I ain't go up to him though.

You shoulda said


















On your left

 

[Dwolf]

“You want to do a good protest? Set up four booths in Times Square with a sign over them that say ‘Talk to me’ and put two black people and two white people in each booth and talk. Talk.”

This dude really said this