Black Panther:
- Released 2018
- American superhero film
- Major film
- Budget is $200 million
- Cinema sales was $1.347 billion
- Worldwide
- Produced by Marvel Studios
- Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Curran and Seaton - Power and Media Industries
- media is controlled by a small number of companies primarily driven by profit and power
- Media concentration limits variety, creativity and quality
- More socially diverse patterns of ownerships can create more varied and adventurous media productions
How is Black Panther so successful?
- Use of extremely famous and well known actors
- Use of highly evocative mise en scene provides an escapist fantasy for the audience
- Exotic locations including the fantasy city of Wakanda, London, Seoul
- Highly hybridised use of genre: superhero, action, fantasy, and sci-fi
- Extensive and elaborate CGI creates a whole different world
- Powerful soundtrack, combing electronic, hip-hop, and rock
- Universally understandable themes of power
- Minimising risk and maximise profit
- Black main character
- The majority of the characters are black
- Hard boiled film - deals with life's troubles
- Allows audiences to relate to themes and the setting
- Themes of drugs and violence
- A white antagonist
- City setting
- Themes of subjugation, racism, and political corruption
- Wakanda which is a fictional country located in Africa
- Traditional African clothes
- Big emphasis on family and heritage
- 'Black saviour'
- Strong black women
- Representation of black issues like black kids being shown in the poor parts of London
- The Black Panther movement which challenged racial prejudices
- Themes of revolution
- African accents
- Production history - cost $200,000,000 to make,
- Ownership
- Directors and actors
- Critical reception
- Production and Distribution costs
- Earnings
Production History
- $200,000,000 to make
- Coogler was confirmed as director in January 2016
- Filming began early 2017
- They had planned to make more scenes out of Wakanda to represent what it's like to be African in other parts of the world
- They tried to make the film a cross between Godfather and the James Bond films
- Coogler's vision for Wakanda was inspired by the southern African country Lesotho
- He wanted Wakanda to feel like a full country with multiple distinct tribes
- Special care was taken to create a futuristic look that was not alien
- $1.37 billion earnings as of May 22nd 2018
- Opening weekend they made $197,000,000
Ownership
- Produced by Marvel Studios
- Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Columbia Pictures Tried Making Black Panther In The 1990s
in 2000, The Blair Witch Project studio Artisan Entertainment acquired the rights to Black Panther
directors and actors
- director - Ryan Kyle Coogle, American film director, producer, and screenwriter
- came out 12 February 2018
- main character - Chadwick Bosemen, first black actor to headline an MCU film
- actors - Michael B. Jordan, American actor and producer, known for his film roles as shooting victim Oscar Grant
- actors - Lupita Nyong'o, Kenyan-Mexican actress and author
- actors - Danai Gurira, Zimbabwean-American actress and playwright
critical reception
- African audience had an emotional response
- over 6.1 million viewers
- 97% approval rating with critics
- 79% approval rating with audience members
- response - Representation is important — on and off-screen. Black Panther is a movie that appreciates the richness and depth of both black culture in the United States and African culture
- response - Black Panther doesn't really challenge the norms and instead amplifies prejudices and stereotypes
- Marvel is a major film studio
- Disney is the distributor
- Heavy use of CGI
- Recognisable actors
- Popular genre so exposure to a wider audience
- 4,072 cinema screenings
Black Panther Age Rating: 12
A fantastical mind-altering potion is drunk during a ceremonial ritual
One brief scene of a man and a woman kissing.
Non-sexual shirtless scenes.
A man and a woman make out briefly in a van. The man pushes the woman towards him before one of the assistants posing as a medic shuts the door.
A weapon's dealer stores a phallic shaped piece of metal in his fly. When removing it, it looks as if he could be exposing himself. Very brief, played for comedy.
There are battles with swords, spears, guns and fantastical weapons.
The violence in Black Panther is slightly more intense and realistic than other MCU films. Characters are impaled and slashed with spears and swords, the blood and wounds not always focused on by the camera.
A man is stabbed in the chest, another the same, another stabbed in the abdomen.
A man is cut numerous times during a fight
A large battle/civil war takes place with friends fighting each other. No clear if anyone actually dies, though bodies are thrown, trampled, stabbed, etc.
Security guards are shot, some at point blank range, another shot in the back unexpectedly
Two main characters are shot, one at point blank range (offscreen). Bullet wounds are shown (though not much blood)
During a comical scene, one character gives someone the middle-finger.
Although not actually in the film, the movie's soundtrack is explicit.
A few uses of the word "shit."
Some uses of "damn" and "hell," but generally speaking, the amount of profanity is low.
1 use of "For bast's sake", Bast is one of the Wakandan gods.
A scene takes place in a bar.
A character ask for whiskey
A man is thrown off a cliff to the horror of onlookers.
In the final battle, Black Panther stabs Killmonger. Killmonger laters pulls out the weapon, killing him.
Several main characters either die or almost die. Some in either dramatic or prolonged fashion.
Many intense battle scenes, showing many people being stabbed by spears.
In a flashback, Black Panther's father gets killed in an explosion of a building.
T'Challa almost dies by getting thrown down a waterfall.
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