black panther wakanda forever [early access]
Added 2024-09-14 13:00:06 +0000 UTChi friends!
here is my edited reaction to black panther wakanda forever.
WOW what a beautiful and incredible movie. i absolutely adored it, and i really think they did this the RIGHT way. i also loved the new characters introduced and i hope we get to see more of them!
thanks for watching with me!
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wow so many cool facts!!! i really really appreciate the efforts they took to represent and learn the yucatec mayan language, that's awesome!!
Emme
2024-09-16 19:31:37 +0000 UTCHey, Emme. Before anything else, I love your hairstyle and new profile picture. I have a TON of fun facts about this movie. I hope you’ll take the time to read this comment. Sorry that it’s so long, but I was so excited to finally share this with you. 1.) First, as you might have guessed there were some changes made to the original script. I'll start by saying that the first Black Panther movie was a father-son story told from the son's point of view. This sequel was originally meant to be a father-son story as well, but this time it would've been told from the father's perspective. With that said, T'Challa's son Toussaint would've had a more prominent role. This is where it gets awkward. In the original plot, T'Challa returned only to find out that Nakia had moved on and married a Haitian man. So he would have to struggle with co-parenting. Three years later, T'Challa celebrates his son's eighth birthday. Next thing we know, Namor surfaces into the upper world and T'Challa had to go save the world once again. (By the way, Nakia was trying to call Shuri over and over to explain why she didn't attend T'Challa's funeral. She wanted to introduce Shuri to her nephew, but she was mad at her for not attending and decided to ghost her instead. Ramonda was about to tell her daughter about Toussaint at the campfire when Namor appeared.) Valentina's role was heavily reduced as well. She would have been a secondary antagonist. This would've led to a three way rivalry between Wakanda, the States, and Talokan respectively led by T'Challa, Valentina, and Namor. Co-writer and director Ryan Coogler goes further into detail in the movie's official podcast. Here’s the link if you'd like to listen: https://open.spotify.com/show/25H3VGTKQUo1ImawOBVbvD?si=n3TRVNKnTv-Dls-fadXiGA 2.) There definitely wasn’t a dry eye on set. A lot of the actors would often cry while filming. So whenever we see them cry on scene, that’s also the actors mourning their co-star and friend. 3.) In the comics, Namor was also a member of the first incarnation of the illuminati - the group of heroes that we met in Multiverse of Madness. They decided to not include him in the Illuminati that we met in Multiverse of Madness as they had planned to put him in this movie instead. Iron Man, Namor, and Doctor Strange were respectively replaced by Captain Carter, Captain Marvel (Carol's friend Maria Rambeau), and Baron Karl Mordo. 4.) Atlantis is Namor’s home in the comics. He was created before Aquaman, but they changed the name of his nation so they could make him as unique as possible. 5.) Next, I wanna acknowledge W’Kabi’s absence. Daniel Kaluuya said he wasn't able to reprise his role due to scheduling conflicts. He was busy working on Jordan Peele's movie Nope. Director Ryan Coogler confirmed that W'Kabi is currently banished to the outskirts of Wakanda. In the Latin Spanish dub, Ramonda said he's in prison. However, there is some concept art of what he would've worn if he did appear. 6.) Almost two years ago, South African comedian Trevor Noah stepped down from hosting the Daily Show on Comedy Central. His co-star Danai Gurira was one of the last people he interviewed before he stepped down. However, he reprised his role as the voice of the Wakandan A.l. Griot. He also had more lines this time around. 7.) A few days after the movie premiered, M'Baku's actor Winston Duke said this on Twitter: "The intention for M'Baku in this film is to serve as the vent for a pressure cooker & that's what influenced this improvisational gem, amongst others." That gem was calling Okoye a bald-headed demon. I cracked up so hard in the theater I went to see this movie at. This was easily the funniest moment in the entire film. Also, notice that he's munching on a carrot? He did say the Jabari tribe are vegetarians. However, they're actually pescatarians because they have fishers. One of them rescued T'Challa in the first installment. In all seriousness though, M'Baku stood out for me the most. He in particular had some major character development in my opinion. Before he took that massive blow from Namor, he wasn't looking before leaping. If it weren't for that chest plate he was wearing, that push would ve killed him. Then after Ramonda died, he had a lot to consider. Those traits and experiences are what will help him become the proper king that Wakanda needs going forward. He also realized that it was time that he and his warriors upgraded their armor. They started wearing chest plates made out of vibranium. 8.) One particular thing that I like about this movie was that we got not one but TWO indigenous actresses from Guatemala. María Mercedes Coroy (Namor's mom) and Doña María Telón (the elder Nakia spoke to) are both from Santa María de Jesús in the Sacatepéquez Department. My parents are from Quetzaltenango. My mom knows both actresses from a 2015 movie they did together called Ixcanul (ish-ka-nool). That word is from a Mayan dialect called kaq'chikel which is native to Sacatepéquez. In English, the word ixcanul translates to volcano. 9.) The film's score includes edited versions for some of the soundtrack's songs, but they didn't add the film's version of Alone by Burna Boy which includes an excerpt of Stormy's Interlude at the start of the song. In the soundtrack, both songs are separate. @3:42 Senegalese musician Baaba Maal who provided vocals for some of the background music in Black Panther 1 and 2 also made a cameo singing at T'Challa's funeral. That reminds me: there's a three-part documentary series called Voices Rising on Disney Plus. We get to see how the score and the soundtrack for this film were put together. 10.) Josué Maychi, the actor who portrayed the shaman in the Zama flashback, was also brought in as a dialect coach for the cast. He taught them Yucatec Mayan. 11.) The next fact is a big one, but have you ever heard of two film techniques called dry-for-wet and wet-for-wet? Those are two different ways of filming underwater scenes. Dry-for-wet is basically when the actors pretend they're underwater when they're actually filming on dry land. Wet-for-wet, on the other hand, is when they actually have to film underwater. 12.) Stunt coordinator Chris Denison was the swimming instructor for the cast. He taught them how to free dive. Out of the entire cast, Mabel Cadena, the actress who portrayed Namora, was able to hold her breath the longest with a record of six minutes and thirty seconds. Chris believes that she would've gotten to ten minutes if he had another week to coach her. If Mabel returns to portray Namora in the future, that can still likely happen. 13.) Tenoch Huerta got to reprise his role as Namor for the Latin Spanish dub. He’s one of the few actors to reprise their MCU role in their native language. Aside from Tenoch, we also have Pom Klementieff voicing Mantis in Canadian French and Daniel Brühl voicing Helmut Zemo in German. *By the way, in a similar sense Diego Luna also dubbed for his own Star Wars character Cassian Andor in both Rogue One and his prequel show. 14.) And finally, Riri may not have been allowed to take her suit, but that doesn't mean we've seen the last of both of them. Her superhero codename is Ironheart. That's also the name of her upcoming Disney Plus show. Production has been affected by the strikes and some reshoots, but they should have it ready by this time next year. Dominique Thorne originally auditioned for the role of Shuri in Black Panther 2018. She even did a screen test with Chadwick. So when they wanted to incorporate Riri into the film, Dominique was their first and only choice. Furthermore, around the time they were wrapping up Wakanda Forever and before Dominque started working on her Ironheart series, she got a FaceTime call from Robert Downey Jr himself. He gave her his firm belief that Riri should be able to shine on her own terms and not be a direct copy of Iron Man.
Aldo Gonzales
2024-09-14 13:01:01 +0000 UTC
