Movie Review: The Black Panther

Recently, our 8th grade team went to go see the movie “The Black Panther”. It was an amazing movie! You may be asking though, how does it deal with anything that you learn about in E.L.A. Well it does, The Black Panther draws on themes, pattern of events, and character types from myths and traditional stories. It also deals with the Hero and his journey, which is an important element of E.L.A that we learned before watching the movie.

The movie “The Black Panther” seems like just like another entry in an endless parade of superhero movies is actually something much bigger. The movie has only been out for a month, and its cultural footprint is already enormous. The movie is about what is means to be African American in both America and Africa

The two main types of characters everyone knows are protagonist and antagonist. The protagonist of the movie is obviously Black Panther because he’s the central person of the movie. The antagonist is clearly Erik Killmonger because he is the obstacle that the protagonist has to overcome. Then we also have the dynamic character. The dynamic character is M’Baku because he changed overtime. He first wanted to take the throne from T’Challa, but then over time he helped him get his throne back from Erik Killmonger. If we have a dynamic we will also have a static character. The static character in the movie is Okoye because even when T’Challa was thrown over the waterfall and Erik Killmonger became the new king she never betrayed her duty to serve Wakanda, even when she was on the protagonist 's side. The major or central character is Nakia because she wasn 't going to give up and let Erik Killmonger rule Wakanda. She was the main character who was vital to the development and resolution for the conflict. Another type of character is a round character, which means a character who has a complex personality; he or she is often portrayed as a conflicted and contradictory person. I feel like the round character in the movie would be W’Kabi because in the movie he was on the side of T’Challa, but when T’Challa didn’t kill Klaw, W’Kabi gave up on him. Then later on sided with Erik because he killed Klaw and he wanted someone who could make a change. Then there’s the symbolic character, I feel like the symbolic character at the beginning of the movie was T’Challa Father because he use to look up to him so much, but T’Challa figured out that his father was a murder. At the end of the movie the symbolic character was now T’Challa because she defeated Erik Killmonger, so people looked up to him. Those are just some of the types of characters I noticed in the