Why 'Black Panther' is Ryan Coogler's most personal film to date

Being a black American sometimes comes with an identity crisis. After all, parts of African American culture are rooted in a land some of them will never know thanks to colonialism, imperialism and slavery. The result, hundreds of years later, is a generational distance.

"One of the things that sometimes comes with being (of African descent) is being made to be ashamed of being African and ashamed that your people live in these beautiful huts and ashamed that some of your people are running around with no shoes on and that when the music plays, we dance like no one's watching," Ryan Coogler said. "But that ... is beautiful and we can be proud of it."

This is the one of the messages the co-writer and director wanted to ensure audiences received from his latest picture, Marvel's