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Mantis42 posted:"There's no such thing as a Snyder Cut, and you're delusional for thinking so!" — 9th March, the Anthropophagus has quitted his den — 10th, the Corsican Ogre has landed at Cape Juan — 11th, the Tiger has arrived at Gap — 12th, the Monster slept at Grenoble — 13th, the Tyrant has passed through Lyons — 14th, the Usurper is directing his steps towards Dijon, but the brave and loyal Burgundians have risen en masse and surrounded him on all sides — 18th, Bonaparte is only sixty leagues from the capital; he has been fortunate enough to escape the hands of his pursuers — 19th, Bonaparte is advancing with rapid steps, but he will never enter Paris — 20th, Napoleon will, tomorrow, be under our ramparts — 21st, the Emperor is at Fontainbleau — 22nd, His Imperial and Royal Majesty, yesterday evening, arrived at the Tuileries, amidst the joyful acclamations of his devoted and faithful subjects.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:I was gonna say that Wakanda is somewhere between America and "Modern progressive Saudi Arabia under MBS", but then I realized the latter is literally casting itself as a mini-America to sell itself to the imperial core, so it's almost a distinction without a difference. It also presents a comforting liberal vision of racial injustice - yes, dear viewer, it's all very unfortunate and you're a good person for feeling bad about it, but never fear, nothing actually needs to be changed to do anything about it. The movie presents racial injustice as something with no tangible effects, that isn't perpetrated by anybody. In the world according to Black Panther there is no wrongdoing to be stopped, no malefactors to be brought to justice, no institutions that need to be reformed or abolished - just a vague and nonspecific sense of unfairness that we wish wasn't there. The most immediate example of racial inequity that the movie cares to demonstrate is some cultural artifacts being on display in the British Museum, and by the end of that scene it's revealed that Killmonger doesn't actually care about anything that he said and was just appropriating the language of justice to get what he wanted Then the movie's uplifting finale has T'challa solving racism by opening what amounts to a coding bootcamp in Oakland. Yes, we're very sorry about the inconvenience - due to an unfortunate oversight, a little oopsie-doodle in the otherwise-perfect system, the prosperity wasn't being distributed as optimally as it could be, but now at long last there's a black billionaire among those at the top and at long last prosperity can come trickling down to poor black kids the same way it does so successfully to everyone else. And just think! By paying to see this movie, you - yes, you, dear viewer - could be helping to create a black billionaire, which means you helped solve racism by coming to the theater today!
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Also, much ado was made about the movie taking place in Africa, but Wakanda may as well be another planet like Asgard and the movie's only actual use for Africa beyond aesthetics is as a source of generic bad guys for T'challa to kill in an early scene.
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