Black Panther Lives, Lewk Cage and the Wraith of Stone
BLACK PANTHER
Although this movie wowed at the box office, it wasn’t because of its fights, which tended to be stylized and subpar. Its popularity stemmed from the fact that it borrowed a page from Bruce Lee’s playbook. In the vein of Lee’s Fist of Fury (1972) — which, because of the star’s courage to make an anti-Japanese film, gave pride and a sense of national identity to Chinese people while encouraging Asian-American youth to be proud to be Asian — Black Panther matters because it gives a stronger sense of African-American pride to African-American youth.
It’s not an origin story but a tale of how the current Black Panther — T’Challa, played by Chadwick Boseman — ascended to the throne of the advanced African kingdom of Wakanda by defeating the power-hungry Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), who’s bent on using the
