{"id":45668,"date":"2018-02-02T20:23:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T00:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45668"},"modified":"2020-08-05T20:23:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T00:23:24","slug":"exposing-convenient-revisionist-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45668","title":{"rendered":"Exposing convenient revisionist history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With Marvel Studio\u2019s Black Panther<\/em> on the horizon, spouting all sorts of racial rhetoric about it being historic and things other than a comic book movie, Washington Post contributor Sonny Bunch drops Mjolnir on the truth<\/a> of the matter: before Black Panther, there was Blade<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, Blade happened way before the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and long before there was an odd existence of Marvel movies between FOX, Sony, and whomever produced the turds of Ben Affleck\u2019s Daredevil<\/em>, Nicolas Cage\u2019s Ghost Rider<\/em>, and the poor Jessica Alba Fantastic Fours<\/em> that I\u2019m too lazy to expend the few seconds to Google.<\/span><\/p>\n

But for all intents and purposes, Blade is still a Marvel property, and therefore seeing as how the title of the film is named after him, makes him the first ever Marvel production starring a black person in the titular role.\u00a0 As much as the internet and the rest of the world really want to claim Black Panther is this evolutionary revolutionary, in the grand spectrum of comic book films, it\u2019s really not.\u00a0 It\u2019s just another addition to a library that\u2019s way bigger than lots of people want to believe, for the sake of pushing a very expensive agenda in order to expedite the recouping of a gargantuan budget.<\/span><\/p>\n

I love this article because Bunch does a great job of anticipating arguments to his article, and stomps them out before they can even be made, like pointing out all the other films, as small and as obscure as they may have been, being made in ages prior to the current internet, that have long beaten Black Panther to the punch as far as identifying black directors, black soundtracks, and other black things that are especially under the microscope now that we\u2019ve traversed into February, the vaunted Black History Month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I hope he dropped a mic after this piece went to publish.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Like seriously, he mentions shit like Meteor Man<\/em> and the Shaquille O\u2019Neal-starring Steel<\/em>.\u00a0 Just because they weren\u2019t produced with Marvel and Disney fuck-you-money doesn\u2019t mean that they have to yield the front of the bus to Black Panther.\u00a0 Maybe the hype machine should\u2019ve lowered their bar and gone after categories like \u201call black movie with black people that used catering companies owned and operated by primarily black people\u201d or something.\u00a0 Surely, if they temper their aspirations for history to more realistic categories, they\u2019d be sure to hit some serious home runs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, I loved this article.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure Black Panther will be an awesome movie, and I will in all likelihood check it out in theaters.\u00a0 I\u2019m very curious to why so much of it had to take place in Seoul, when Black Panther\u2019s own little world is centralized around Wakanda, a fictional country in Africa that\u2019s leaps and bounds ahead of the world it particular technologies and combat, but I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll be explained in a clever way.\u00a0 But again, let\u2019s not go into the film thinking it\u2019s the cinema equivalent to the desegregation of schools; let\u2019s just hope it\u2019s an awesome film, and a solid contribution to the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe, and nothing more.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With Marvel Studio\u2019s Black Panther on the horizon, spouting all sorts of racial rhetoric about it being historic and things other than a comic book movie, Washington Post contributor Sonny Bunch drops Mjolnir on the truth of the matter: before Black Panther, there was Blade. Obviously, Blade happened way before the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and … Continue reading Exposing convenient revisionist history<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,140,41,83,89],"class_list":["post-45668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-comics","tag-movies","tag-observations","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45670,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45668\/revisions\/45670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}