Tag: black panther

letitiawrights:

“The Dora Milaje needed to look like a real fighting force and I feel that its impact on women is that of empowerment, but it also speaks to young girls who want to dress up as the Dora, but don’t want to wear briefs and a bustier and a belt. They may not really like showing their legs and they may want to cover their bodies and still feel like a superhero. I feel like lately that’s the thing that I have seen that makes sense to me. We’re not teaching our daughters to lead with their bodies, but with their fortitude, minds, and strength. And they’re still seen as beautiful.”

– Ruth Carter on how she approached dressing the Dora Milaje in Black Panther (x)

Source: letitiawrights

dearthofequanimity:

mexicanan:

reverseracism:

jeniphyer:

I don’t understand how you can see Killmonger disrespect culture, attack women, basically was trained by military to tear down civilizations, his own father says he is disappointed in what he’s done, move to arm black people outside of Wakanda with high tech weapons (yes cuz giving Leroy and em cannon blasters is gonna help the cause) and y’all still fix ya lips to say he was right lol when Nakia exists. Wild.

I was waiting for someone to say this.

There’s a reason he was the villain. He killed his girlfriend in cold blood. His anger was understandable, true, but his methods abhorrent and destructive. The end result would have been huge amounts of death and chaos. No positive outcome.

[Killmonger was an amazingly written villain and a great, if not perfect, example of how to execute a “tragic backstory villain arc”. Due to his characters anger and Michael’s incredible acting it made Killmonger a character a large amount of people could empathize with. An amazing villain. Truly.]

Nakia LITERALLY was team “let’s stop having Wakanda be an isolationist nation and help the worlds oppressed” from the jump and she doesn’t get enough credit.

this whole thread is A+

exactly! she was meant as a foil to killmonger with the same founding principles to demonstrate his extremism while also being ABSOLUTELY RIGHT

Source: sitta-pusilla

jamesvega:

“We trained for a really long time doing the fight scenes. It was a big deal for us to create a character that didn’t seem like he got his strength or body or all this stuff just in a gym. We wanted [M’Baku] to feel like he’s out there training in the mountains, running around, picking up rocks, throwing… he’s psychically strong, but he’s not aesthetically concerned. You know what I mean? And that made it easier because we had a clear vision of what we wanted him to be. So that lent itself to me understanding who this character really is.” 

– Winston Duke

Source: jamesvega