PEL Presents PMP#146: Black Panther Films and Comics
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Perhaps alone in the Marvel Universe, Black Panther is taken seriously as a political statement, both in the content of its stories and in how the films are produced. Wakanda purports to present an alternate historical condition of Africa had it not been colonized.
Mark, Lawrence Ware, Anthony LeBlanc, and Viola Burlew discuss the comics and films, getting into the political ideas, the social function, the heroic character, and the unique challenge of making the film when the main actor has died.
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| 0:00.0 | This is pretty much pop a culture podcast ready at last to share our secrets with the |
| 0:12.4 | world, but is the world wise enough to handle them. |
| 0:15.0 | Today we're talking about Marvel's Black Panther franchise, begun by Stanley and Jack |
| 0:18.6 | Kirby in 1966. |
| 0:20.5 | Most recently, taken on in Ryan Kugler's Wakanda forever film and the comics by Tana Hashimoto's |
| 0:25.8 | John Ridley, Reginald Huddlin, Roxanne Gaye and others. |
| 0:29.6 | A Mark Linton Meyer, two tall but otherwise qualified to play the role of Everett Ross |
| 0:33.9 | in tonight's presentation. |
| 0:35.6 | You guys know who this is. |
| 0:36.9 | This is Lawrence Ware coming to you from Oklahoma City and I love Black Panther. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Anthony LeBron and I'm actually currently in the Albuquerque working and I love Black |
| 0:47.4 | Panther. |
| 0:48.4 | It's my only first love as long as the X-Men in the human comics. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm Viola Berlio out of Boulder, Colorado and I would consider myself a card carrying |
| 0:56.5 | number of the Doran Elage Pan Club for sure. |
| 0:59.6 | Look at that nice little reference like it. |
| 1:02.6 | Excellent. |
| 1:03.6 | Yes, though I'm sure I could have used a regular crew in full for just hanging on the movies. |
| 1:10.5 | I want an excuse to go deep. |
| 1:11.9 | I never read a Black Panther comic at all before trying to prep for this, but you know this |
| 1:16.9 | has been a few... |
| 1:17.9 | That is not something you want to tell people. |
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