Michael Phillips: I'm fed up with guns in the movies. Again.
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Feb 15, 2018
3 minutes
In "Black Panther," the juiciest Marvel Studios movie in years, there's a moment when the spear-wielding Wakandan general played by "Walking Dead" alum Danai Gurira perches atop a car speeding through the streets of Seoul. She's in pursuit of Klaue (Andy Serkis) and his machine-gun-wielding henchmen.
Once the bullets start flying, the general is disappointed but not surprised with the world outside her magically isolated but supremely advanced African nation.
"Guns," she says. "So primitive."
It's a throwaway line, but a sharp
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