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4.8 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” came into theaters with a huge responsibility: It had to address the death of Chadwick Boseman, the star of the first “Black Panther” movie, who died of cancer in August 2020. Wesley and J discuss how the film offers the audience an experience of collective grief and mourning — something that never happened in the United States in response to the losses of 2020. They interrogate what it means that this gesture of healing came from Marvel and Disney, a corporate empire that is in control of huge swaths of our entertainment, and not from another type of leadership.

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0:00.0	I'm Jay Wortham.
0:07.0	I'm Wesley Morris.
0:09.0	We're two culture writers at the New York Times.
0:11.0	You mean super-powered individuals at the New York Times?
0:16.0	This is still processing.
0:32.0	We went to see a sequel to Black Panther or Conda Forever, you know, directed by Ryan Cougler,
0:39.0	a movie that has been highly anticipated.
0:42.0	Yeah.
0:43.0	But a big question on my mind, and I think on the mind of many people, was how the movie is
0:49.0	going to deal with the passing of Chadwick Boseman who died in August 2020 after a long battle
0:55.0	with cancer that many people did not know about.
0:57.0	Right.
0:58.0	A lot of people were grieving.
0:59.0	Ryan Cougler was like, I am not going to recast Black Panther.
1:03.0	So was this bit question mark?
1:05.0	I was less fascinated by that question.
1:09.0	I mean, I'm more in Chadwick Boseman, right?
1:13.0	But I just assumed that what was going to happen was this world is big enough to find
1:21.0	a plot that both accommodates the death of Tachala, aka Black Panther, played by Chadwick Boseman.
1:30.0	And he was the king of Wakanda, right?
1:33.0	They have to have a service worthy of the king.
1:37.0	And the movie opens with that.
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