#angela x jordan (mentioned)

[hardcore-lonewolf]

🐈‍⬛BLACK CAT🐈‍⬛: A DC's T.T. (2003) & Y.J. (2010) X-Over Imagine

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PLOT: The Team finds out the biggest fears and most shocking truths ever kept from the Black Cat by accidentally reading her secret diary about how she feels about herself. This bad little kitty got some lucky charms and some diamond claws to sharpen out once she comes back from her mission in Tokyo, Japan. How will they react to her changes? Will they uncover her lies about her past? Can they win back her trust?

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MAIN CHARACTERS: Felicia Drusher | Evelina "Eva" Gwendolyn Nelson, Freddie Dinardo | Richard "Dickie" John Grayson, Kaldur'ahm | Jackson "Jack" David Hyde, Wallace "Wally" Rudolph West, Kon-El | Conner "Con" Jonathan Kent, M'gann M'orzz | Megan "Meg" Marie Morse, Xena | Ophelia "Helia" Shauni Trevor, and Artemis "Artie" Lian Crock.

Mentioned Characters: Phoebe Starr | Zatanna "Zee" Zorina Zatara, Raquel "Rocky" Sandra Ervin, Matthew "Matt" Noah Jordan, Lorenzo "Enzo" Kevin Carter, Cyberion Technis | Victor "Vic" Anthony Stone, Craig Wyld | Garfield "Gar" Mark Logan, Abigail Constantine | Rachel "Raven" Angela Roth, and Koriand'r | Korra "Kory" Scarlette Anderson.

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Catgirl was sitting in front of her godfather Batman and spoke to him in sign language. He was listening to her explanation of why she won't talk about her grandmother's powers, the Lucky Girl was half alien and was a magic user. The Dark Knight held his hand up, which made the young girl stop immediately and nodded with an understanding look.

Batman knew her mother and father so well. His friends were loyal and nice to him that they let him hold their daughter, who's sitting on a chair in front of him at a conference room. The billionaire playboy was the first person who saw the symptoms and kept a sharp eye on his godchild, because Catgirl was staying silent about her pain.

"Eva, it's not good for you to hide your powers away and contain them against your will. That inhibitor collar has to come off your neck or they'll be no missions for you anymore, you're hurting yourself and not trusting what you can do. They saw how you can use magic, but this is what made you special and unique like your mother. Let me see your left arm," the Lucky Girl was hesitant and complies, rolling her long sleeve to reveal that the transformation has begun due to negative feelings and emotions. "I do truly appreciate your decisions of getting therapy from Dinah, yet you're still hiding yourself from the Team and not letting them have their pain back Eva. Your mother and her family was excellent help to you...just trust me on this and stop doubting yourself. Your insecurities will haunt you for the rest of your life if you don't tell the Team why you haven't been doing missions with them since wearing the Mask of Destiny and Helmet of Fate...please for the sake of your loved ones. We'll always love you for how caring, kind, loyal, and supportive you've been with all of us...including me."

Catgirl hugs him after pulling her sleeve down and covering the proof. Batman pats her back as she begins silently crying and sobbing. The Dark Knight let her break down into tears and hide her face from the view of Justice League members, who were part of the meeting about the Lucky Girl.

Once the meeting was over, Batman held her hand in his and ruffles her hair. Catgirl smiles sadly up at her godfather and nods. He lets her go back to Mount Justice and hears her designation number being called out.

"Bruce, I know you're worried about her like I am, that's why she got us and the rest." The Dark Knight sighs and hugs his best friend Astro Woman. "We gotta hope for the best and pray nothing bad happens over in the mountain, especially when Wally tends to surprise her the most."

Catgirl walks through the Boom Tube with her bag on her back and tired eyes. Her platinum white wig was miraculously stuck in a high ponytail and her matte black lipstick wasn't stained around her soft lips. The Team heard their teammate walking and saw the Lucky Girl still exhausted from last mission, which almost cost her life.

"Hey Cat, how's your meeting at the Hall of Justice?" Catgirl grumbled softly underneath her breath and tiredly plops onto Wonder Girl, who caught the Lucky Girl on time.

"You want me to carry you to your room Kitty?" The Lucky Girl nodded quietly and clung onto the female demigod's front.

Wonder Girl carries her back into her bedroom and gently set the younger girl onto her bed. Catgirl hums in appreciation and purrs softly as the Amazon warrior pets her head, coaxing her to fall asleep hard. As soon as Wonder Girl heard soft snores and deep breathing from the Lucky Girl, she smiles and puts a blanket over the young girl.

The female demigod carefully left the room and closed the door. Wonder Girl heads back to the lounge, raising an eyebrow at her boyfriend Aqualad and shaking her head no with a deep frown. The Atlantean soldier understood that look and knew it meant there's something wrong with their youngest member.

Ever since the Team was formed...Catgirl was the first heroine to be part of it, she lived in the mountain and was always doing her work at her bedroom due to personal spacing. The Lucky Girl got used to the Boy of Steel and would be his support system whenever he's having problems with Superman, which shocked the Justice League cause the young mute girl rarely let people rather than them and Red Arrow be close to her. The rest of the original members in the Team will treat her like a baby and always adore Catgirl for being independent.

For example...the Team came back wounded and hurt, she sprung from her chair in front of the Super Computer and took them to med bay. Wonder Girl managed to heal herself and helped the Lucky Girl with treating their comrades, though an appreciative comment from the Boy Wonder threw Catgirl's brain off so quick that she went redder than a strawberry. The three teenage girls never stopped pinching her rosy cheeks since that incident, what got the Lucky Girl on her feet and running away into her hiding places from the trio will be the words "DRESS-UP", and all four boys will chuckle from how the mute girl showed fear for the first time.

"Is Cat okay?" Superboy asked the female demigod, worrying about the mute girl who became a baby sister to him.

"The League took her to an important conference meeting this morning, based on her reaction...they wore her out." Robin answered for the Boy of Steel.

"Roy did claim to me that Cat's been keeping a secret from us, he thinks she's the mole...but seriously? If she was the traitor, how come she'll always return back in the mountain stressed out and exhausted? That's the most dumbest thing I'd ever heard," the Amazon warrior explained to them.

"Unless...we could...you know," the teenage speedster suggested, earning raised eyebrows and confused looks until they realize what Kid Flash was trying to suggest.

"Baywatch, Cat will never forgive us if we do that. That's her private diary, it has her personal life in it." Artemis told him, smacking him upside his head.

"First off...Ow! Secondly, don't act like you wanna know what she writes in it." Robin nodded in agreement and the rest was hesitant, but they finally agreed to their plan. "Now who's getting it and the key?"

The Team said "NOT IT" at different times, Robin groans in defeat s the rest gave him pointed looks and the Boy Wonder does the deed. He slowly hacks into the room and slides the door open, seeing the Lucky Girl curled up asleep in a tiny ball. Robin smiles and quietly awes at his crush's cuteness.

'Alright Robin, it's just a book. My crush's book of secrets, it can't be that bad.' The Boy Wonder thought as he sneakily took her book case with the key and leaves the dark bedroom without being noticed. 'Cat must be dead asleep from that meeting with our mentors, poor little kitten must be tired from all those mission reports as well to stack that much stress on her body.'

Robin silently closes the door and resets the password to her grandma's name. Kid Flash immediately takes his best friend to the living room and they high-five with proud grins on their faces. The Team sat down on their chosen spots as Miss Martian takes the book and opens the case with the key.

"This is so wrong in so many levels guys," the female archer said while seeing the front cover has a picture of her with the Team on it. "She got us on the front and the back...let's hurry and agree not to do this anymore."

The female Martian takes the personal book out from the case and sets the diamond box down. Catgirl's private diary was themed with black words, gray covers, white paper, and silver lining. Miss Martian gulps nervously and passes the book to Wonder Girl, who gave her best friend a wide-eyed look of disbelief.

"M'gann," the female demigod said with an offended look. "How could you? I'm not dying in the hands of a twelve year old girl...here Rob, you read it."

The Boy Wonder pouts at Wonder Girl and opens the book. Robin begins reading it out loud to his comrades, blushing when he finds out Catgirl got a crush on him and saw many insecure thoughts she has about herself. Red Arrow was wrong about the Lucky Girl, but they were beginning to feel concern on the mute girl's issues and problems.

"Ever since the League found out what was happening to me within the Helmet of Fate, I've been contacting my grandfather Kent through Nabu with my grandma's help and assistance with the Mask of Destiny. All the stress, fear, and pain was causing negative reactions to my powers and humanity. My father fixed one of those problems...that golden collar on my neck, it was containing my alien side from losing control and it sorta helped me. After twelve years of it on my neck, it's not working and was making it worse. The Team are starting to see signs of it, I've lost my appetite with food last week, I couldn't get sleep since a few months ago, and becoming much sensitive with my emotions on a daily basis that Batman forced me into therapy sessions with Black Canary. I'm afraid of the rejection and betrayal the people I cared the most think of me. There's five stages of it, I went through four of them, the fifth one will be most painful one cause this will damage me inside out and turn me into a monstrous freak. I got many anxiety attacks and went into panic mode during the meeting. I'm not relieved from it, not because my grandmother injected me with my painkillers and antidepressants...I had almost hurt the League. I know they're scared of me...who won't? After all, I'm nothing but a burden and a monster. Nobody can change that, not even the Team...I should probably run away and never return to Earth after tomorrow night when everyone's asleep. They won't be hurt anymore...especially when I'm gone far away from my grandmother's home planet." Robin read, closing it and putting it inside the black box.

The Boy Wonder locked the box shut and hung the key back onto its hook behind the case. Robin got up from his spot and walks to his crush's room. The Team watches their youngest male teammate slowly opens the door and sees that Catgirl was still resting.

Kid Flash ushers Robin out of the room and freezes when the Lucky Girl moves in her sleep. The rest drags the two boys out from her room before letting Superboy close the door shut and hearing it lock itself automatically. The Team frowns sadly as they stared at Catgirl's bedroom door and felt guilty for how they assumed that she's the mole.

The next day inside the mountain, Catgirl wakes up and does her daily routine before taking her prescribed medication. The Lucky Girl rolls up her long sleeves and gasps silently when she sees it got worse than ever from the nightmarish thoughts echoing her head. The mute girl takes a deep breath and hides the proof from view.

"Kitty, are you up yet?" Wonder Girl asked the Lucky Girl.

The young child quickly grabs her baggy jacket and a pair of black sweatpants to conceal how her casual clothes she loves wearing the most have vanished. Catgirl puts on her wig and applied her makeup before putting on her shades. The Lucky Girl heads out of her room with her bag strapped on her back with her diary case hidden inside it and walks to the kitchen for some fruit.

Once she found a green apple, the Black Cat vigilante took a bite from it and passes her teammates with a greeting wave. Catgirl pets Wolf and rubs Sphere gently with a softened look while going outside to the beach. The Lucky Girl begins absorbing some solar energy and feeling it generate some pure cosmic mana for her to devour by consuming the life-force phoenix within her inner self.

Inside the mountain, Robin begun hacking into the cameras and managed to get full access to the beach's ones. The Team watched Catgirl meditate by herself on a large rock and levitating, which made them shocked cause they thought it was all something she wrote behind their backs. The Lucky Girl used her mana to grab a bottle of nectar and drank the liquid, humming in content while she takes pure magic energy from the Sun and use the life-force from the Moon to try fixing her issues.

"Everything in that book was true, she does have powers." Kid Flash said.

The seven heroes noticed something glowing from her left side, the Team gasps in disbelied when Catgirl rolls up her long sleeves to reveal that her right arm was scarred and her left arm was encased with some kind of cosmic ice mana. They continued seeing the Lucky Girl getting distressed and on high alert. The mute girl begun taking deep breaths and slowly tries to calm down.

"That was her secret," their leader told them after understanding why she wore long sleeves and anything baggy.

"Recognize: Catgirl; B-0-0."

The Team froze to hear their beloved comrade's designation number called out by the Super Computer and knew she's behind them now. Wonder Girl slowly turns and sees Catgirl, who was looking scared and was actually frightened. The rest followed and knew by her scared expression that the Lucky Girl was caught red-handed.

"Cat, it's not what it looks like. We're worried about you," the Lucky Girl immediately flinches when Superboy takes a step forward and tries not to lose her composure.

"What was that on your arm?" Catgirl shook her head no while backing away and panting with a horrified look on her face.

"We're not gonna hurt you Kitty, we wanna help you get through this...just trust us okay?" Wonder Girl told her, following the mute girl and walking closer to the young child's personal space.

'Get away Opal, stay away from me.' Catgirl thought while shaking like crazy and trying not to lose control of her powers. 'Stay away from me, stay away from me, stay away from me...'

The Team could see that Catgirl was sweating from the fear and discomfort while she cuffs her hands together to keep her powers in check. The Lucky Girl's inner self was trying their best with her host and attempting to comfort the mute girl from the tension. As soon as Wonder Girl got closer, their six comrades grew concerned and wait for the next move.

"I said...STAY...AWAY...FROM ME!!!" An energy wave of mana was shot through her hands and hit Wonder Girl hard along with their loved ones, who groaned in pain from the magic blast.

'I hurt them,' the Lucky Girl thought with fear and guilt. 'I really am a monster...'

Robin watches Catgirl rushes into the Boom Tube through blurry eyes, hearing her call number and passing out with his six best friends. The Lucky Girl made it to her stop at the nearest subway station and luckily got herself a ticket. She sat down on the bench and wait for her subway train to come.

"Excuse me miss," the Lucky Girl turned to see some little kids and gave them a wave. "Do you got some food and water for us?"

Catgirl nodded, she begun taking out some sandwiches and bottles of water from her duffle bag. The kids thanked the mute girl and hugged her, which she responded with a pat on their backs and ruffling the hair on their heads. The Lucky Girl got her violin and thought about something to do for the children.

The selectively mute girl put her duffle bag to the side with a protective mana shield around it and stood on the bench. Catgirl thought about the hard times and good memories she have with the Team. The Lucky Girl takes a deep breath and begins playing her song.

Once the song ended, the people surrounding her applauded for her performance and put some money into her backpack. Catgirl bows for the crowd and hands some candy to the children, who cheered for her generous gifts to them. The Lucky Girl put her violin back in its case and heard her train number.

'Great, Raven and the rest are going after me too.' Catgirl thought as she heard her crow cawing ring tone for Raven, hanging up and setting her phone on silent mode.

Meanwhile near New York City, the Team couldn't find their Black Cat and won't give up searching for the mute girl. Catgirl's icy aura left some trails that leads to her and the seven sidekicks followed them to reach the fixed subway station underground at Manhattan. The Lucky Girl must've gotten down there for a train ticket and go somewhere else.

Around Broadway, Catgirl stepped onto her destination and gave a sincere smile to the people who helped her with her things. The Lucky Girl walked upstairs and saw the lights in amazement. The mute girl was relieved that her clothes she wore was back in her bag, but her gym clothes was affected by the transformation and was worrying her a lot.

The transformation was almost done, Catgirl got until midnight and the pain will fade from her body by replacing it with euphoria. Her inner alien side was keeping her stable from the toxicity of every environment and person she walks into by accident. The Lucky Girl tightens her cloak and vanishes into the shadows of night.

"Cat? Cat, where are you? Please come back home, we miss you." The Lucky Girl froze to hear the worry and saw the concerns of the Team's faces.

Catgirl gulps while looking at the mirror, seeing that it was getting darker and the metamorphosis was getting close to completion. She checks her watch and went scared...it was around eleven fifty-five at night, which meant her travel through New York City and its famous place must've been lasting longer than a hour. Catgirl kept her breaths silent and her heart couldn't stop beating like crazy.

The Lucky Girl suddenly shivers from the cold air and tries not to sneeze, which will trigger Superboy into finding her first. She held back the noise while sneaking away and going between a billboard. Catgirl sighs in relief until she lets out a sneeze, which sounds soft and cute like a kitten.

The Cadmus clone heard Catgirl's adorable sneeze, freezing and snapping his head at the billlboard. His six teammates followed his glance to the billboard where they were having a music award show and realized that she was in Broadway. Catgirl begun panicking with distress while her ice mana went into waves of energy and kept glowing bright like the stars in the sky.

"Kitty, please...for everyone's sake, just show yourself and we'll take you home...safe and sound." Catgirl scoffed from Wonder Girl's words in response, she sees a clear opening and takes a deep breath. "Cat...I don't wanna chase you all through morning, it's Saturday now and all I wanna do now...is sleep."

Catgirl's black pupils turned into slits and she let her transformation consume her completely after hearing her watch beep, signaling that it has struck midnight. The Lucky Girl starts flying in the air and the Team begun chasing her. Catgirl dodged the signs and construct some cold mana to block her loved ones from grabbing her.

The mute girl found herself flying to Central Park and hiding inside one of the cherry blossom trees, shifting into a white cat with blue eyes and black collar that has a silver bell on it. The Team reached there, they didn't see her use her witch arts to turn into a cat and climb up the blooming tree. Robin and Artemis saw ice footprints of a cat leading up to the tree they saw in front of them.

"Cat, please come down." Robin said, desperately begging for his crush to come down the tree.

"No! Go away!" Catgirl replied, refusing to come down and face her fifteen loved ones. "Y'all went through my book and spied on me to see my secret! I just wanna be left alone...like I'm always been."

The Boy Wonder begun climbing up the tree, seeing Catgirl as a domestic white feline heal herself with her mana to close the scars and burns away. Robin sees the burns on the cloak and knew they accidentally hurt her during their chase, which led to her using her magic for a portal as a transportation route to Central Park. Not only that, Catgirl took off the cloak and left it behind after it made her feel uncomfortable.

He kept his eyes alert while she shifts out of that form and reveals something...beautiful. The Lucky Girl was looking extraordinary within her final alien form and was trying not to have another anxiety attack. Catgirl felt a familiar presence close to her space, which meant her crush and destined mate have found her.

The younger vigilante slowly turns and grew scared to see Robin staring at her form. She saw his hand reaching out for her and flinches out of fear. The Boy Wonder shushes her soft whimpers as he pulls her in a hug and she breaks down into tears.

"Shhh, it's okay Cat, we're not hurt, you're not alone." Robin said, comforting the Lucky Girl as she hiccups and sobs in his chest. "We're sorry for what we've done...please, just come home with us."

Catgirl closes her eyes and lets the Boy Wonder carry her out of the cherry blossom tree. The rest of the Team freezes to see the Lucky Girl went through her final transformation and became her true form. Robin cradles her close while she cries softly in his chest and clung onto him tight.

Catgirl slowly relaxes and turns to face the Team with her head down. When she raises her head up, Miss Martian was shocked to see an Anodite for the very first time and realized that bedtime stories about that alien species from her uncle were true...the Lucky Girl was one of them. The female Martian walks over to the shy girl and hugs her tight, causing Catgirl to freeze with shock and accidentally release a wave of mana from her body that made the rest of the Team relaxed.

'Oh you poor little thing,' the female Martian said to Catgirl in a telepathic link while holding Catgirl.

'Why M'gann,' the Lucky Girl whined while blushing and hugging her back. 'Conner, help me...she won't let me go now.'

Superboy joins the hug with the rest of their friends, Catgirl pouts at the alien couple in betrayal for their friendly affections on her and how it spread towards them. The Lucky Girl's inner felt the trust and safety within all fifteen sidekicks, leading for the shy girl to close her eyes in content. As soon as the Team pulled away, Catgirl opens her eyes and felt somebody holding her hand in theirs.

Robin squeezes it in reassurance before kissing her forehead and she squeaks, flustering madly while the rest smiles at the two vigilantes. Catgirl crosses her arms and grew a bit confident. The Boy Wonder sees the mischievous smile written on her lips and was suddenly floating around her cyan mana hair, staring at his crush in amazement for pulling that trick while their loved ones watched the two from above.

"You're beautiful Cat, I wish I could've help you with your pain." Robin told her softly while she hugs him and hums with a bright grin on his face.

"You and the Team did that, I can actually sense the genuine worry and concern y'all have for me. I finally realized that I wasn't alone anymore, I have all of you...especially you pretty bird." Catgirl replied before kissing him passionately and smiling when Robin kisses her back.

The two pulled away as the Lucky Girl helped them both safely on lower ground and smiled at each other, chuckling at the romantic scenario with amusement. Robin was about to kiss her again when Kid Flash cheekily takes Catgirl and zooms away from his best friend. The Boy Wonder gawks at the speedster in shock as he storms after him and tries to grab his Black Cat back.

"Did you get your picture now Artie?" Artemis nodded with a victorious smirk and sends it to Roy with the money signs on it.

"Told that jerk Robin will be her first kiss, he lost big time." Her four comrades chuckled before heading into the Bio-Ship with their female archer.

Robin came back with Catgirl over his shoulder and back in her human form at last, setting her down by his side. Kid Flash sped up and went in the ship next. The two vigilantes smile before stepping into there and holding hands together...as a young couple.

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WARNING: FLUFF, ANGST, MUSH, HURT, COMFORT.

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[thatonecurlygirl]

Biology of Billy Hargrove [11]

Fandom: Stranger Things Pairing: Billy x Reader Word Count: 1.7k Warning: none Read more: Biology of Billy Hargrove Masterlist

“Language!” Your father yells, peeking his head out of the front door.

“Sorry,” You drop your head, watching your feet as you walk back to the door, stopping before you walk in and turning to Max. You open your mouth, but before you say anything you shake your head and walk inside closing the door tightly behind you.

“What’s going on young lady?” Dad asks, eyebrows raised and arms folded across his chest. “I’ve never heard you use words like that.”

“Just frustrated and tired, it won’t happen again, I promise.”

“I doubt that,” He chuckles, “Just watch what you say around your mother, you know how she gets.” His eyes widen dramatically as he pats your shoulder and walks past you.

Your parents are polar opposites and most days you wonder how in the world they have been together. Your dad is laid back and goofy, and always was, as he would say ‘the class clown of Hawkins High’ which your mother would agree was a fact and likely holds the record. Your dad is also a hard-working business man outside of the home. He is basically an older, male version of his sister, Lottie.

Your mother is kind, but no-nonsense woman with a love of literature and sewing, which is probably where you got your determination for doing well in classes and love for reading. Your parents purchased an old video store in which they turned into a bookstore that your mother has been managing for the past four years. You normally work there during the summers to help out, but once you graduate, you’ve agreed to take over the bookstore as she has grown tired of it. She is the kind of mother that would sing lullabies and bake cupcakes for your class, but would also ground you for a week for getting a ‘C’ on a spelling test. She would set up beautiful parties for your birthday, but leave someone else to watch over you and your friends.

“…Y/n?” Your dad’s voice calls out from behind you.

“Yeah?” You turn to face him.

“You having trouble with that Hargrove kid?” He asks, eyebrow raised.

“Kind of, but it’s nothing that I cannot handle.” You shrug it off. “Thanks, Dad.”

“You let me know if you need me to…” He draws his finger across his throat as he crosses his eyes and sticks out his tongue.

“You’ll have to get in line behind Gary and Lottie.”

“Hey, I’m your dad, I think I deserve first in line.” He playfully boxes the air.

“I love you, Dad.” You laugh, wrapping your arms around him in a hug.

“I love you too, kiddo.” His deep chuckles vibrate his chest. “Now you better go make sure you have everything together for school tomorrow.”

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At school the next day you are walking the hallways with Angie, books held tight to your chest as the two of you walk to your class together. She’s going on about her boyfriend, Joseph, who moved an hour away for college and how he is going to be back in town this week as college classes had just ended for the summer. She’s ecstatic because they actually get to spend some quality time together, especially with the school year coming to an end in a week and a half.

“…And his cousin Davey, the hot one, is going to be staying with him for a week or two and Joe said Davey thinks you’re cute. You should go to Vickie’s party with Davey on Wednesday.” Angie rambles.

“Wait, Angie is having a party in the middle of the week?” You ask, confused.

“Oh, yeah! Thursday is senior skip day. You think your mom’ll let you skip?”

“Mom would rather walk through hell in heels before she lets me skip school after being suspended.” You scoff. “I may be able to get away with going to the party and work something out with Dad, he’d understand.”

“I would die if you couldn’t!” Angie says dramatically.

“Angela, we are in English not theatre, please tone it down and take your seat.” Mr. Jordan glares over the thick brim of his glasses.

“Tone it down and take your seat. Blah, blah, blah.” She mocks him under her breath as the two of you walk to your normal seats.

The class slowly fills and right before the bell signals the start of class, Billy strolls in smirk playing across his face eating up all the attention from being back to school after being suspended. The popular, empty-headed girls warmly welcome him, calling him to a spot they save especially for him. As he stalks up to them, he glances over at you, face unreadable. It feels like the two of you are caught in a staring battle before one of the girls break it by grabbing Billy by the shirt and pulling him into the seat next to her.

“What was that about?” Angie leans across the aisle and whispers.

“I told you we aren’t on the best of terms right now. He’s just trying to intimidate me.” You open up your book.

“Y/n, that wasn’t a ‘fuck you’ look, but a ‘I want to fuck you’ look.” Angie nudges you, eyebrows raised.

“Whatever.” You scoff quietly.

“Y/n, you’ve just returned to school after your lengthy suspension, is being in my class today an issue?” Mr. Jordan call out in front of the class.

“No, sir.” You shake your head.

“And I trust you can act like a proper lady in the class room and keep quiet?” He looks down at you, arms folded across his chest.

“Yes, sir.” You say simple, biting your tongue in order to refrain from calling him out for talking to you like that.

“Thank you.” He smirks, turning back to the chalkboard.

With your head ducked like a scolded puppy, you glance over at Angie who mouths a guilty ‘sorry’ and you catch Billy looking at you, small smirk playing at his lips. You want to smack that smirk right off his devilishly handsome face. You want to not think he is so handsome, that his lips are so soft and kissable. You sigh, looking back at the chalkboard and your teacher accepting the idea that today is going to suck.

Class continues per usual, Mr. Jordan going on about whatever the hell he is talking about, normally you’d be paying attention, eating up every bit of knowledge that comes from his mouth, but you find yourself zoning out, staring down at your hands and just letting the world continue without you, until Angie nudges you with wide eyes, nodding toward the front of the class.

“Please bring your brain back to Earth, Ms. Y/L/N. Also if I could have you and Mr. Hargrove speak with me after class, I have some things to discuss.” Mr Jordan says with that normal sour-look on his face.

“Yes, Mr. Jordan. My apologies.” You nod, tucking your hands under the desk and tuning into what he is saying, despite the fact that it’s just going through one ear and out the other.

When the bell rings you hang back, slowly gathering your things and standing up to walk to Mr. Jordan’s desk in the front once everyone has filed out and to their next class. Billy slowly swaggers over, a look of disinterest on his face and a subtle glare at you before Mr. Jordan speaks.

“I received your final project while the two of you were out suspended. You had another week to work on it are you sure you are ready for it to be graded?” He asks.

“Yes sir, we worked hard on the project while we were out and I made sure to triple-check it before turning it in.” You nod, refusing to look at Billy as you hold your books close.

“Okay, I just wanted to make sure I spoke with you and give you the opportunity before moving forward. Another thing I wanted to mention is the fact that the two of you were suspended and now you are at school, make sure your brains are on the work and not each other.”

“Sir, I know I was a little distracted today, but it has nothing to do with Mr. Hargrove.” You defend yourself, but Billy stays quiet.

“Please, Ms. Y/L/N, I am not a fool.” He shakes his head and nods to the door. “The two of you received a 96% on the project. Now I will see you both here and mentally ready for class tomorrow.”

“Absolutely, thank you!” You smile wide and turn, exiting the class.

“Absolutely, thank you.” Billy mocks after the two of you make it into the hallway. “Why are you avoiding me Y/L/N?”

“Oh no stupid nickname? Why the hell have you been avoiding me, Hargrove?” You whip around, eyebrows furrowed and jaw set.

“What gives you that idea?” He chuckles, leaning against some lockers.

“Oh I don’t know, maybe playing drag race on our street every time you see me. Can’t get away from me quick enough? It doesn’t matter anyway, we have no reason that we need to associate with each other anymore so don’t worry about it.” You go to turn around but he catches you by the arm.

“What are you doing Wednesday?” He asks in a low, sultry voice.

“Besides school, I have plans and you aren’t part of it. The only reason I talked to you that day in the first place was because Max asked me to. I was civil with you because we had a project together-”

“Is that what you call making out and wearing my clothes?” He cuts you off.

“I have no desire to speak with you about this anymore or at all. So fuck completely off.” You turn around so quickly you’re surprised that you didn’t give yourself whiplash and march over to Angie who is waiting at your locker, eyes wide.

“Well shit.” She says astonished.

“Tell Davey I’m excited to see him again.” You shove your books in your locker and slam it closed before walking to your next class.

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[tessaxjanelle]

Janelle Monáe and Tessa Thompson: 2015-2018 Timeline

2014/2015:

Tessa's dad introduced her to Janelle's music. 

Janelle and Tessa officially met while auditioning for a part in the movie Joy.

April 13 2015:

Tessa was featured in Janelle’s music video as a background dancer for “Yoga” (x)

May 30 2015:

Janelle performed at the MOCA charity gala in LA  - Tessa attended as well. (x)

August 22 2015:

Issa Rae, Justin Simien, Tessa, Janelle, and Angela Bassett hang out backstage at the Eephus Tour. (x)

November 7 2015:

Janelle received the “Equality Award” at the 18th Annual Women’s Event hosted by the Center in New York (NYC’s LGBT Community Center). Tessa presented her with the award that night. (x) (x) (x)

November 20 2015:

Janelle surprised Tessa on the red carpet at the Creed premiere - the film that really launched Tessa’s career. (x) (x)

November 27 2015: 

In an interview, Tessa talked about Creed and her favorite singers. She talked about Janelle first: (x)

“I’m going to give a shout out to my friend Janelle Monáe. She is fantastically talented. I got the chance to give her an award. She sang her a capella rendition of “Smile” in a room for some friends, and she just killed it.”

December 2015:

Janelle, Tessa, and other friends took a trip to Mexico for Janelle’s birthday. 

For the most part, Janelle and Tessa were very quiet in 2016, most likely due to the fact Tessa was on location for most of the year filming Thor: Ragnarok and Annihilation.

December 7 2016:

Tessa posts a pic on instagram and Janelle comments with hearts emojis (link is broken).

February 25 2017:

Tessa and Janelle both attended the annual Oscars Week “Sistah’s Soiree” at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. (x) (x) 

February 26 2017:

The night of the Oscar’s. (x)

August 6 2017:

Tessa posts a picture on Instagram, and Janelle comments a heart eyes emoji. (x)

August 22 2017: 

Out with Rowan Blanchard. (x)

August 24 2017:

Boots Riley out with Tessa, Janelle, Carrie Brownstein, and Nate. (x)

August 26 2017:

Tessa and Janelle at Ava DuVernay’s birthday party. (x) (x) (x) 

September 9 2017:

Tessa and Janelle at an outdoor music/film event in LA. (x) (x) (x) (x)

September 15/16 2017:

Tessa tweeted about Janelle. (x) 

Later it was found out that Janelle did an impromptu performance and said the line Tessa tweeted about. You can see Tessa off to the right in the second linked video around the 1 minute mark. (x) (x) 

September 16 2017: 

Tessa and Janelle attended the annual Equality California Awards (EQCA’s), an award show that honors individuals who work to help create a more equal society for the LGBT community. (x) (x) (x) 

September 17 2017:

The pair were seen cuddled up at the HBO Emmy’s after party. (x) (x) 

Janelle later posted about it. (x)

October 4 2017: 

Tessa quoted Janelle birthday wishes on Twitter. (x) 

October 5 2017:

Tessa posted on Instagram pictures of the flowers she received for her birthday. Janelle just so happens to send flowers exactly like the ones Tessa posted about. (x) (x)

October 8 2017:

Issa Rae threw a last minute “Lemon Pepper Kickback” house party in Atlanta - Tessa and Janelle attended. (x) (x) (x) 

Earlier in the night, Tessa, Janelle, and Amandla Stenberg attended a Nick Hakim concert. (x) (x) (x) 

According to another concert go-er that attended Nick’s show that night, Tessa and Janelle were touching each other a lot and were calling each other baby. (x)

October 12 2017:

On Instagram, Janelle posted a screenshot of a conversation between her and “the love of [her] life” and referred to this person as her “partner”. She deleted quickly. 

Many think Tessa sent the message because she had used the same phrasing regarding the Time’s Up movement in an interview (specifically the word endured), and worked closely with the Time’s Up movement that year. 

Also from other receipts, we know they call each other baby/babe a lot.

October 20 2017:

Twitter user __theluckyyyone tweeted: @janellemonae is definitely next to @tessamaethompson.

October 22 2017:

Someone verified received an email from Janelle. Janelle mentions Tessa in the email. (x)

October 27 2017:

Janelle and Tessa were seen with friends for dinner, sitting next to each other (links are broken).

November 8 2017:

Janelle tweets about Tessa, her "talented friend” (x) 

December 9 2017:

Out with Lena Waithe. (x)

December 14 2017:

Some mentioned that Tessa was in Atlanta.

December 15/16 2017:

During these two days, Janelle tweeted a lot. However, the tweet linked was the only tweet Tessa liked. (x)

Nobody is knows exactly when Tessa left ATL, but she was in LA the 17th for West World’s season 2 wrap a party. 

January 3 2018: 

Tessa was spotted in Atlanta. January 5 2018:

Both spotted at a café in Atlanta. The Twitter user who posted about it now has their tweets protected so I can’t link the tweet. 

January 28 2018: 

Janelle gave a Time’s Up speech on The Grammys stage, and a tweet storm from Tessa “supportive gf” Thompson followed. 

January 29 2018:

Tessa and Janelle were seen at the Black Panther premiere together. (x) (x)

They later left together as well (you can see Janelle by Nate in the first video, and then Tessa running to catch up with Nate in the second video). (x) (x) 

January 30 2018:

They were spotted having dinner together. (x)

February 5 2018:

Janelle and Tessa went live on Instagram.

Here are some of the best moments in gif form. (x) (x) (x) (x)

Zoe Kravitz also spilled some tea. (x)

February 5 2018:

2 Dope Queens premiere. (x)

February 11/12 2018: 

Tessa posted Instagram stories with Janelle and Nate. No one saved the video.

February 13 2018:

Tessa and Janelle attended the Annihilation premiere, and were photographed with on another on the actual red carpet. (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)

Lip readers were able to decipher some of what they said to each other on the read carpet. Note the the gif where Janelle says sorry babe. (x) (x) 

February 16 2018:

The trailer for Dirty Computer was released. (x) 

Here are two clips from it: 

February 20 2018:

Janelle’s cover spread for W Magazine dropped. Jordan Peele directed, and Tessa approved. 

February 22 2018:

Janelle released her first two singles off of Dirty Computer. Make Me Feel has been coined a bisexual anthem (Tessa’s words, not mine), and up until this point, it had been the closest thing we’ve seen to a coming out from Janelle. 

Tessa also stars in the music video: 

Credit for the next two gifs (x)

Credit for the next two gifs (x)

Tessa posted about it as well. (x)

February 23 2018:

Tessa did an interview with Entertainment Tonight, and in that interview she pretended she didn’t know what shipping meant, even though we know she’s familiar with different Internet lingo.

She was also heavily stumbled over her words before she was able to get a "we’re really good friends" out. (x)

February 24 2018:

Janelle tweeted about Annihilation. Peep Wondaland liking the second tweet. (x)

February 26 2018:

Janelle tweeted something romantic the same day they both attended the Wrinkle in Time premiere (no pictures were taken together). 

Here are the tweets: (x) (x)

February 28 2018:

Tessa and Janelle both attended Alfre Woodard’s 2018 Pre-Oscars Soiree (x)

March 2 2018: 

Tessa attends Janelle’s Fem the Future event. (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)

Janelle went live on Instagram, and it appeared throughout the whole event that wherever Tessa was, Janelle was right by her. 

March 3 2018:

Janelle and Tessa attended the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Event.

Pictures: (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)

Janelle revealing how her and Tessa first met. (x)

Janelle interrupted an interview Tessa was doing on the red carpet (and proceeded to hold Tessa’s hand) and presented Tessa with an award.

Watch Tessa try to contain her smitten smile from 2:25 and on after Janelle walks away... So cute. 

March 10 2018:

Tessa was in Miami for VCCarnaval Event.

A instagram story was posted that showed she was talking about Janelle with her friends. (x)

She left Miami that day. 

March 13 2018:

Tessa tweeted about "Paddington 2 and chill."

Janelle was in London at the time doing promo for Dirty Computer, and later we found out that Tessa was also in London at the same time. (x)

March 18 2018:

Janelle wants her own Josie Radek (Tessa’s character from Annihilation). She later deleted the Instagram story. (x)

March 19 2018:

The twitter page @tessasgoats comes to life, and both Tessa and Janelle follow it. Janelle was liking many of the pictures the twitter page was posting.  March 25 2018:

This is more so speculation, but there was an article/interview about Janelle that basically said that Janelle was the truth. After a short time, Tessa tweeted "the truth is so cute" - Janelle liked. (x)

There's also a response to the tweet too from Tessa. (x)

March 30 2018:

Tessa commented on Janelle's Instagram post with a rose emoji. Janelle replied to Tessa with a rose emoji. (x) (x)

Tessa also liked this picture within 3 minutes of Janelle posting it. 

April 1 2018:

Tessa posts about an artist. Janelle followed it. (x) (x)

April 3 2018:

What Janelle’s Twitter page looked like that day. (x)

April 6-8 2018:

Tessa went out of her way to be at Nate’s birthday bash in Miami. She left the 8th, and tweeted about delayed flights. 

April 10 2018:

PYNK dropped and Lena Waithe commented on Janelle’s Instagram, “That’s how you feel? Perfect.”

April 11 2018:

Ava DuVernay gave us some good tea when she posted this on her Instagram story. (x)

April 26 2018:

The day before Dirty Computer dropped, Janelle came out as pansexual the Rolling Stone. (x)

April 27 2018:

Dirty Computer’s emotion picture dropped. In Janelle's note to Tessa in the album booklet, she called Tessa her muse. (x) (x)

April 28 2018:

Justin Simien (creator of Dear White People) made a post on Instagram where he called them "wives" with a screen-cap of the PYNK video. He deleted it, and uploaded a new one with different caption.

May 2 2018: 

Janelle arrived in Philly for Michele Obama's College Signing Day. Tessa was in Philly filming for Creed II. 

They were spotted by 2 different people late at night. (x) (x)

After Tessa came out, this receipt dropped from that night as well. (x)

May 5 2018:

They were both in NYC but were staying in different hotels. Janelle was at The Mark, and Tessa was at The Bowery. 

This was also the day of Janelle's 'Dirty Computer' NYC album release party. They arrived separately, and Tessa stayed for an hour. (x) (x) (x)

May 7 2018:

They both attended the Met Gala and the after parties. They were by each other the whole time. (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)

May 9 2018:

They went to see the play Angels in America, and had dinner at Chez Josephine restaurant. (x) 

People tweeted about it. (x) (x)

May 15 2018:

Janelle followed @thombrowneny (the guy who designed Tessa's outfits for the Met Gala). 

May 17 2018:

Janelle followed Marc Anthony Thompson (Tessa’s dad). (x) 

May 20 2018: 

Janelle was seen in Philly.

May 21 2018:

Janelle tweeted about Sorry to Bother You, and Tessa retweeted it. (x)

May 23 2018:

Tessa posted a birthday video to her dad on Instagram. Janelle commented with a heart and Tessa responded with a rose. (x)

Janelle also commented on Tessa’s dad’s picture. (x)

May 24 2018:

Janelle posted a picture on Instagram with Michelle Obama, and Tessa commented on it. Jane replied with a rose emoji. (x)

May 25 2018:

Tessa being supportive on Twitter. (x)

May 28 2018:

Tessa’s friend’s dog dancing to PYNK on her story. (x)

May 31 2018:

Speculation so make what you want of this - While in LA (where Tessa lives) Janelle posted on her story saying "it's just not the same without you.” (x)

While in Philly shooting Creed II, Tessa then proceeded to post on her story, "misery loves company" while fake crying. (x)

Janelle then deleted her story after Tessa posted her’s.

June 3 2018:

Janelle liked a drawing with both of them from PYNK on Twitter. (x)

June 8 2018:

Spotted in LA. (x)

June 11 2018:

Janelle’s tour started in Seattle. 

Tessa posted flamingoes on her Instagram story before it. (x)

June 14 2018:

There was a special screening of Sorry to Bother You in LA. Janelle came straight from Portland (she had a show there the 13th) just to support Tessa. (x) 

There was an Instagram story (that no one saved) where you can see Janelle and Tessa by each other mingling at the after party. Janelle apparently also greeted Tessa with a hug and kiss on the cheek before she went in to the viewing.

June 15 2018:

Janelle tweeted about Tessa and Sorry to Bother You. (x) (x)

June 19 2018:

Tessa liked these pictures of Janelle on Instagram. (x) (x)

June 20 2018:

Tessa was in NYC promoting Sorry to Bother You, but two days later Janelle unarchived a photo where she’s wearing the same outfit Tessa was wearing while in NYC. (x) 

June 26 2018:

Tessa put a pride flag in her bio on Instagram. (x)

June 29 2018:

Tessa came out as bisexual in an interview she did for Net-a-Porter. (x)

She also said this about her and Janelle: “We love each other deeply, we’re so close. We vibrate on the same frequency.”

It’s already been added previously, but this receipt came a day after Tessa came out. It has to do with the dinner date they had in Philly back in May. (x)

July 14 & 15 2018:

Janelle continued to promote Sorry to Bother You. (x) (x)

July 22 2018:

Tessa posted two stories on Instagram showing the crowd going crazy over her being featured on the screen while Janelle performs PYNK. (x) (x)

July 27 2018:

The two songs Janelle was featured on for Sorry to Bother You were released. (x) (x)

July 31 2018:

Tessa posted two flamingos on her Instagram story. Flamingos are gay symbol, specifically a symbol for lesbian marriage ( I’m not saying Tessa and Janelle are married). Flamingos also mate for life. 

August 4 2018:

Janelle liked the last 3 pictures Tessa had posted (at the time) and unarchived an old picture of them with Zoe. (x)

August 22 2018:

Janelle’s hairstylist posted a picture of Janelle from her spread with Bustle. Tessa liked it. (x)

September 4 2018:

Tessa liked Janelle's video on Instagram. (x)

September 9 2018:

Tessa liked Janelle’s tweet. (x)

September 11 2018: 

Tessa attended Janelle’s first show in London. There were a lot of tweets about her and Janelle. (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)

People were also reporting that Tessa cried. (x) (x) 

On TLC, an anon who was at the show posted this:

So I was in the London crowd tonight and had a pretty good view of both Tessa and Janelle. What a night! Really didn’t expect this. Tessa seemed to stand on top of a step or something so she was pretty visible. Nate was maybe 4 meters away from her by the mixing booth. A couple of things I noticed:

Tessa did not look at the screen when the audience cheered for her video clip appearance during PYNK. She kept looking away during moments like this throughout the evening. A couple of people took selfies with her so she must have been aware of people watching. She laughed a lot during I Got the Juice, particularly when Janelle told the crowd: ‘If I point at you - you will come on stage and you will dance!’ … 

Tessa seemed to giggle and repeated Janelle’s pointing motion followed by a simulated lasso into Janelle’s direction. She was on the phone throughout the rhythm dance intro in the beginning of Make me Feel… We all know what happened next - she must have gone live soon after

There were a couple of moments where she was flat out beaming.

Tessa was laughing really hard when Janelle did the microphone dildo pose…

Note how Janelle snuck in an 'I see you baby’ at the end… Not sure if she meant the crowd or someone particular there  

Tessa was watching the whole thing with her bright, beaming smile - that was definitely one of those moments when you could see that they have a connection. It was a great thing to see the two across from each other.

I remember watching Tessa’s reaction to the 'If I’m gonna sin it’s with you line’ and she was definitely singing / speaking along with the lyrics… and then Janelle inserted 'London’." 

September 13 2018:

Tessa, Janelle, and Zoe caught dinner at Sketch (a restaurant in London). (x)

September 14 2018:

Janelle traveled to Berlin, but posted an Instagram story showing her new flamingo rings. (x) 

A couple of hours later Tessa posted an Instagram story with a picture of a flamingo as well. 

September 17 2018:

Janelle’s a Revolution of Love documentary was released on Youtube. It included bloopers and unseen footage from the PYNK music video. (x) (x)

It also featured Tessa talking about what she loves about Janelle. Kehlani, who’s friends with Janelle, liked the tweet. (x)

September 26 2018:

Janelle retweeted Tessa’s tweet regarding the Creed II trailer that dropped the same day. (x)

October 2 2018:

The night before Tessa’s birthday, Janelle tweeted this. (x)

On the 3rd (her birthday), Tessa posted a video on her story of her dancing. 

October 3 2018:

Janelle started the day off by posting two images of flamingos on her story.

Janelle then proceeded to post this.

Lastly, she commented on Tessa’s post.

October 4 2018:

The day after her birthday, Tessa tweeted this in direct reference to Janelle’s tweet on the second that said, “Dance like a goat.” (x)

Dance like a Goat ended up being an actual song that Janelle and Wondaland created specifically for Tessa and her birthday. (x)

Janelle commented on Tessa’s post of her dancing. 

October 5 2018:

Dance like a Goat finally dropped! (x)

News that Janelle had been cast in Disney’s ‘Lady And The Tramp’ reboot was announced as well.

When it was announced that Tessa was going to be in the movie she tweeted the following:

When it was announced Janelle was going to be in it as well, she tweeted the same: 

Janelle had initially tweeted “woof woof” but then deleted it so she could match Tessa’s.

October 6 2018:

Some of Janelle’s likes regarding Dance like a Goat.

#janessa #janelle x tessa #janelle monae #tessa thompson #lgbt #make me feel #dirty computer #tessa x janelle

[01sentencereviews]

“new-to-me” : mar 2018

the queen (1968, frank simon)

kaili blues (2015, bi gan)

angels in america (2003, mike nichols)

the road to love (2001, rémi lange)

tr@n$f0rm3r$: the premake (2014, kevin b. lee)

honorable mentions:

the book of henry (2017, colin trevorrow)

british sounds (1970, jean-luc godard + jean-henri roger + groupe dziga vertov)

coco (2017, lee unkrich)

gender troubles: the butches (2016, lisa plourde)

a mighty wind (2003, christopher guest)

ocean’s eleven (2001) + ocean’s twelve (2004) + ocean’s thirteen (2007) (steven soderbergh)

professor marston and the wonder women (2017, angela robinson)

queer china, ‘comrade’ china (2009, zi’en cui)

you've got mail (1998, nora ephron)

new releases:

atlanta, “alligator man” (hiro murai)

a.w.: a portrait of apichatpong weerasethakul (connor jessup)*

“chloe x halle - the kids are alright film” (cara stricker)*

claire’s camera (hong sang-soo)

gabriel and the mountain (fellipe barbosa)

high maintenance, “hbd” (eliza hittman)

isle of dogs (wes anderson)

“serpentwithfeet - bless ur heart (Official Video)” (andrew thomas huang)

thoroughbreds (cory finley)

together (terrence malick)

unsane (steven soderbergh)

“WHEN YOU'RE CARSICK” (brian jordan alvarez)

a wrinkle in time (ava duvernay)

readings:

william r clark, “review: ‘annihilation’ alliteration” (mubi notebook)

kelley dong, “'annihilation' and alex garland’s wrestlings with asian bodies” (the village voice)*

tatum dooley, “cost of simplicity” (real life mag)*

rooney elmi, "interview: khalik allah" (film comment)

willow maclay + caden gardner, “body talk: conversations on transgender cinema with caden gardner” (curtsiesandhandgrenades.blogspot)

morgan parker, "i think about this a lot: kanye west at the katrina telethon" (the cut)

tiana reid, "crushed..." (the new inquiry)

philippa snow, "an ode to cameron diaz, an underrated actress who deserves better" (vaniety fair)

*must watch/read

#best of 2018 #lists #new to me #the queen #kaili blues #angels in america #the road to love #ocean's eleven #ocean’s twelve #ocean's thirteen #tr@n$f0rm3r$: the premake #a.w.: a portrait of apichatpong weerasethakul #the kids are alright #claire’s camera #isle of dogs #gabriel and the mountain #thoroughbreds #unsane #WHEN YOU'RE CARSICK #a wrinkle in time #the book of henry #you've got mail #queer china ‘comrade’ china #professor marston and the wonder women #a mighty wind #gender troubles: the butches #coco #british sounds #bless ur heart #together

[gwynnew]

Behind 'Black Panther': The hidden meanings of those stunning Wakanda costumes

Danai Gurira, Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong’o, and Florence Kasumba (Photo: Marvel Studios)

Oscar-nominated designer Ruth Carter takes us on a guided tour of her exquisite fashions and explains their authentic African origins.

Even before Black Panther premiered in theaters, costume designer Ruth Carter saw her Instagram feed blowing up with fans emulating the film’s style. That’s unlikely to change anytime soon. Director Ryan Coogler’s record-breaking film is easily the best-looking Marvel movie to date, in large part because of Carter’s dazzling vision of fashion in Wakanda. Carter’s prestigious résumé includes Oscar-nominated designs for Malcolm X and Amistad, along with costumes for beloved films like Selma, Serenity, and Love & Basketball. But Black Panther presented a unique challenge: creating the look of an African society that was both untouched by Western influences and more technologically advanced than any nation in the world. As Carter told Yahoo Entertainment, she turned to ancient African tribal designs for her inspiration, then remixed those elements to create a futuristic, cutting-edge fashion aesthetic that, not incidentally, makes everyone in the movie look fabulous. It’s no wonder the film is already showing its influence on the fashion world. Carter spoke to Yahoo about creating the film’s many distinct tribal looks, her source for the royal family’s stunning jewelry, the inspiration behind Michael B. Jordan’s sexy Killmonger street look, and the secret superhero element she worked into Letitia Wright’s Shuri wardrobe.

Yahoo Entertainment: The concept of Wakanda as an African nation that was never colonized by the Dutch or British is so powerful. How did that inform your design choices? Ruth Carter: I discovered so many things about Africa that I didn’t know — like, the cloth that we normally see in many African-inspired things, the wax cloth, was brought in from the Dutch. There are influences of the British; when you see a Nigerian wedding, you’ll see a Nigerian traditional drape and a guy with a top hat on. [laughs] So you have to dig deeper and go to the indigenous tribes of Africa. You’re not a real historian, you’re just kind of the temporary historian for the picture, so you’re looking at beadwork and you’re looking at carvings and you’re looking at masks. And you’re being inspired by patterns. There are a couple of patterns that I saw repeated throughout the continent: one is like a checkerboard, another one is a triangle.

And I looked at books on African ceremonies, since ceremonies reminded me of pre-colonization. So for example, the Dogon tribe were the first astronomers. They do a ceremony once a year where they adorn themselves in these brilliant raffia skirts and wood-carving masks that shoot up to the stars — they’re really tall. And they do these moves that sweep the earth. I was fascinated by that. So Ryan wanted the Jabari to wear grass skirts during battle, and the Dogon was the perfect place to start with the inspiration. We used the wood carving design for the armor for the Jabari. So when we see Winston Duke (as M’Baku), he really is representing the Dogon tribe of ancient Africa.

Winston Duke as M’Baku (Photo: Marvel Studios)

And then the Dora Milaje were inspired by many indigenous tribes of Africa. The color was the brilliant red of the Maasai. When you see these pictures of them with their beadwork, you see this red that is just so prominent and so strong, and really beautiful with these bald heads, and they stack beads, and it’s just phenomenal. So I upped the color of the design to be a much more brilliant red so they could have this part of Africa that was undeniable in its brilliance and in its color. Also their neck rings were inspired by the Ndbele tribe of South Africa. Ryan really wanted to use them, and it was his idea to have these neck rings and these arm bands to represent this form of adornment that we see throughout Africa. Using them as armor just felt very natural. But Ryan also said he wanted them to feel like jewelry, especially Danai [Gurira]’s. When you see Danai in the opening scene in Nigeria and she impales the guy behind her and she walks straight [towards the camera] — you see this gold just glimmering, and it’s very regal.

Okoye (Danai Gurira, left) with the Dora Milaje (Photo: Marvel Studios)

So those are kinds of ways that the costumes represented the ancient indigenous tribes of Africa. And I used so many books — I think everybody loves African art, I don’t know anybody who doesn’t, but we didn’t want to approach it from an anthropological point of view. Like the man with the lip plate. You see him with this lip plate, and you mostly see that in National Geographic, on a woman who’s bare-chested in her village, you know, cooking outside on a fire. But this way we honored it, and we made it classy and regal, and we gave the actor a beautiful suit to wear that represented the tribe, and we painted the lip plate to match the color of the suits, and we made it an outfit. So in those ways we gave it honor.

Forest Whitaker (right) as the royal adviser Zuri (Photo: Marvel Studios)

Can you talk about how you used fashion to express the cultures and beliefs of the different tribes of Wakanda: the Border Tribe, the Panther Tribe, the River Tribe, the Mining Tribe, the Merchant Tribe, and the Jabari?   There was a color theory that Ryan set out. It was pretty basic: he wanted the River Tribe to be green, the royal palace is purple, the Border Tribe is blue — they represent the police, they patrol the border of Wakanda — and the Merchant Tribe is this aubergine with lots of metal.

Daniel Kaluuya’s W’Kabi is a member of the Border Tribe. (Photo: Marvel Studios)

So I just took it from there. And once I divided my research by the different tribes of Africa — the Merchant Tribe representing the Tuareg, the River Tribe representing the Surma and the Kongo, the Mining Tribe representing the Himba — I was able to apply it.

The Mining Tribe (Photo: Marvel Studios)

And I wanted to apply the art of the tribes to their costumes. For example, silver is a precious metal for the Tuareg, and that fit within the Wakandan ideology of vibranium, because vibranium is also silver. So I combined the silver from the Tuareg look with that aubergine-baby blue kind of mixture for the Merchant Tribe of Wakanda.

The same goes for the River Tribe. The cowry shell was a form of commerce [in West Africa], it was how they traded. And so I used a lot of the cowry shell on Lupita’s costume, and a lot of beads and shells because she represented the river and the water and the grass. So I had a wealth of resources of artistry to pick from.

Lupita Nyong’o, Chadwick Boseman, and Letitia Wright (Photo: Marvel Studios)

You mentioned metal, which reminded me how amazing the jewelry is. Were those all custom pieces? Ramonda’s earrings are bought from this man in Atlanta, and I’ve been looking for his name since then. He came into my shop, this old guy chewing on a licorice root.

Chadwick Boseman and Angela Bassett as Ramonda (Photo: Marvel Studios)

He had everything rolled up in a black cloth, and he unrolled it, and then there those earrings were! And I just bought some things from him. But much of the jewelry was handcrafted by Douriean [Fletcher], who I hired — she’s a jewelry designer who I met and I really liked her aesthetic, I liked her work ethic, and I felt that the jewelry of Wakanda needed to have this hand-tooled look that would also be reminiscent of the craftsmanship of Africa and of ancient Africa. So I started everything with a prototype that was made of metal, and then we molded it and were able to recreate the jewelry in rubber and paint it to look like metal.

Angela Bassett (Photo: Marvel Studios)

I want to talk about a couple specific characters.  Wakandan princess Shuri (played by Letitia Wright) has such a distinctive fashion sense. What was your inspiration for her? When when we first meet Shuri, the tradition is uncomfortable for her — she says, “Can we get this over with? This corset is really tight.” So that informed the rest of the story. When we first meet her at the airstrip and she asks T’Challa if he froze — she’s the one who’s wearing the cape! She has a little cape on her costume. All of her costumes were inspired by fashion, were inspired by new technology. When we see her in her lab, I didn’t want to use a lab coat.

Shuri (Letitia Wright) in her lab (Photo: Marvel Studios)

I wanted to present these overlays — everything was overlaid, and I wanted the overlays to feel as if they were different recycled fabrics. So I chose carefully whether it was a mesh, or a sheer white kind of a sweatshirt-y feel. Also, I wanted her colors to be young and fresh, and her look to be that of, not a 15-year-old, not a preteen, but of a girl who’s going from teenage to womanhood.

Chadwick Boseman and Letitia Wright (Photo: Marvel Studios)

I also want to talk about Erik Killmonger’s street look when he first see him in the museum, with the denim jacket. It’s such an unexpected look for a villain, sexy and geeky and cool.  In one of the first versions that we read, Killmonger was an anthropologist. And we thought, when you think of the stereotype of an anthropologist, you think of a tweed coat and slacks, like he’s coming from the university. And Ryan really wanted him to feel like he was basically urban, he was unapologetic about his look. He was learned, which is where the glasses come in, but we gave him drop-crotch pants, Balmain boots, a shearling denim jacket, and an oversized T-shirt.

Michael B. Jordan and Killmonger and Andy Serkis as Klaue (Photo: Marvel Studios)

He’s also wearing some kind of African beads, so there’s a little bit of culture there. There are signs that he has a connection to his past but it’s not overt. He is representing the Lost Tribe, so we needed to make him really feel like an African-American urban cat, you know, an urban guy, and have the security surround him as if they don’t really know what to make of him — is he a thug? What is he? And so it just really plays him against T’Challa really great, because T’Challa comes from a place that’s never been colonized, he was raised a prince, and so his look is completely the opposite.

This movie is looking to be hugely influential in the fashion world. You’ve done so many iconic films; is that an experience you’ve had before, of seeing designs inspired by your films on the runway or in stores?  I have not had this experience before. I feel like we’ve got an opportunity here to have a voice and shape the world in a sense, and that’s where fashion comes in. If that’s what people want to buy, the fashion industry usually provides that. And if the Panther film has influenced people to want to wear these things — I see it on my Twitter feed all day long, I see it on my Instagram all day long. People are re-creating the fashions because they feel a connection to the story, they love the story so much, and so I feel like the H&Ms and all those people will have their Wakandan vibe in some of their clothes. And hopefully it won’t go out of style like most things in fashion sometimes do. Because it’s a movement more than a fashion statement.

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best-ofs, 2017

putting in a break here, this is real long

best book I read: The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

It seems trite to pick this in a year where every Tom, Dick, and Harry was comparing the Trump administration to Atwood’s novel and when Amazon was putting on a big-budget adaptation (which, for the record, I have not seen). The effect that this had on me, though, cannot be understated. Sad, wry, and all-too-familiar in places, this is a masterpiece that deserves to be up there with 1984 and the rest of the great nightmares.

honorable mention: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell

I’m not much of a historical fiction person, but this masterfully wrought story of a Dutch clerk and a Japanese midwife in early-1800s Japan is well worth your time.

best comic: Batman, Volume 1: I Am Gotham, Tom King, Mikel Janin, et al.

King and his collaborators’ work on Batman since DC’s most recent relaunch seems to be on a trajectory to match or even surpass the Grant Morrison era in the pre-New 52 era, a reshuffling of the core cast that will pay huge dividends down the line (if DC actually makes a wise long-term decision for once, which, who knows). Despite his tendency to learn a little too hard on certain stylistic tics, I think King might be the best writer working in superhero comics today.

honorable mention: Detective Comics, Volume 1: Rise of the Batmen, James Tynion IV, Eddy Barrows, et al.

Yes, two Batman titles in one year is a bit of a cheat, but this is so fun that it’s hard to pick something else. Tynion turned up on a panel discussion on the great comics podcast Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men where he was introduced as the writer of “DC’s new X-Men title, Detective Comics”, which is exactly what this is - a team of misfits and outcasts cobbled together by a reticent, demanding mentor...who in this case is Batman. This is easy to miss out on with all the fireworks over King’s work, but give it a shot.

best comic (non-2017): MIND MGMT, Volume 2: The Futurist, Matt Kindt

Kindt’s work on the beginning of his psychic-X-Files saga MIND MGMT was good, but the second collection reveals it as a ship-in-a-bottle in the middle of a much weirder, wilder museum - there are few volume 2s that build on the success of the first as much as this one does.

honorable mention: BPRD, Volume 3: Plague of Frogs, Mike Mignola, Guy Davis, et al.

The first few collections of this series, following Hellboy’s teammates after he quits the secret BPRD organization, kind of flounder, but Davis and Mignola really hit their stride here with this sequel to an earlier Hellboy story that grows into a hybridization of Mignola’s earlier work and a Stephen King novel.

best movie: Blade Runner 2049

This also feels like kind of a cheat given my love for the original, but there was simply no other movie that had my gears turning after I walked out of the theater like this one did. The plot elements of this, of course, have been speculated on endlessly since Ridley Scott released the Final Cut of the original film, but My Guy Dennis Villeneuve manages to introduce enough new elements and uncertainty in the mix to keep you guessing - I found myself continually questioning what I really knew about anything that had happened or was happening. It was always going to be impossible to make a movie as good as Blade Runner, but Villeneuve came closer than anyone could dare.

honorable mention: Star Wars: The Last Jedi

I have my misgivings about the Finn and Poe portions of this, which feel like they mishandled the two more than a little, but the Rey/Luke Skywalker storyline is, as a whole, a barn-burner, building on both Rey and Luke’s characters in extremely satisfying ways. It was easy to imagine where they might go from Rey and Luke on the island at the end of The Force Awakens, but I don’t know if I imagined they’d go here, which is what makes this so great.

best album: I See You, The xx

I gave this a pretty casual listen on Spotify when it came out as I was kind of a marginal xx fan - I enjoyed their first album but didn’t really care for Coexist. I was totally blown away and listened to it all the way through several times (this is something I rarely, if ever, do with big pop/pop-ish releases). Virtually every track on here except for the extremely forgettable closer is perfectly performed and produced, from the playful, somewhat taunting “Dangerous” to the self-doubt-as-anthem “On Hold”. Should go down as their best album to date.

honorable mentions: Piety of Ashes, The Flashbulb / Sleep Well, Beast, The National

I couldn’t decide between these two, so here’s a twofer for you. Benn Jordan’s style as The Flashbulb has shifted along a spectrum of sweet spots between acoustic music and electronic music, and he seems to have somehow found the sweetest one yet in Piety of Ashes, which alternates between intimate material you might have expected on Arboreal or Love as a Dark Hallway (”Starlight”, “Goodbye Bastion”) and big, broad electronic pieces that feel like Jordan uncovered something he could always do that was just off-camera (”Hypothesis”, “As Water”).

When I first heard Sleep Well, Beast my comment to a coworker was “I only like some of it now, but I think I’ll like it more as time goes on”. This was a rare example of me actually showing some predictive ability, because this has really grown on me with time (maybe its intent as commentary on life in the Trump world as something to do with this). Highlights are the sad, sweet “Nobody Else Will Be There”, also-sad-and-sweet, but in a different way “Carin at the Liquor Store”, and the driving dark heart of the entire thing, “The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness”, which has been a constant play for me this fall/winter.

best TV show: Twin Peaks/Twin Peaks: The Return

A triumph for David Lynch and Mark Frost in every sense of the word. The era of “prestige TV” feels like a cheap trick by HBO, AMC, et al. to get us to watch the same old stuff with a slightly higher budget after 18 hours(!!!!!) in, around, and beyond (and I mean beyond) Lynch’s little town in the Pacific Northwest. Kyle MacLachlan deserves about 400 awards for his triple (quadruple?) role here.

honorable mention: Mr. Robot

I think Sam Esmail failed to stick the landing again (I wasn’t a fan of season 2), but the earlier parts of this season are maybe the highest highs the show has ever hit - Elliott and Mr. Robot fighting over his body in the bowels of the ECorp fortress from the end of season 2, Darlene struggling to extricate herself from the FBI, and the terrifying-yet-awe-inspiring scene of Angela laying out her plans to Mr. Robot as New York comes back to life at the end of the first episode. This isn’t always the best show, but boy, can it ever be good.

best video game: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

This is to video games as Lynch’s third season of Twin Peaks was to television: a throwing of the gauntlet to every competitor to dare and match this. Where other games would put physics puzzles in their own little sandboxes, BOTW applies its physics to just about everything and lets you see how far your tools can take you. Where other games would put everything on the map in perfectly zoomable, filterable control for you, BOTW challenges you to build the map yourself and actually get out there and explore. I’ve gone back to this in the harder Master Mode with the release of the last DLC, and there’s still nothing that can touch this. This is destined to be a touchstone for decades to come.

honorable mentions: The Talos Principle/Batman: The Telltale Series

The Talos Principle is everything I wanted The Witness to be that The Witness wasn’t: thoughtful without being heavy, clever without being impossible (well, mostly not impossible, there are a few of those puzzles I don’t think I could have cracked on my own). The writing is sharp as a tack, featuring a variety of philosophical discussions between your character and a whip-smart AI. A really excellent puzzler.

Batman: The Telltale Series marks yet another appearance of the Batman on this list, but what an appearance! Telltale throws out several sacred cows of the Batman behemoth, but instead of making something malformed and uninteresting, it feels like the freshest Batman has been in ages. I eagerly await every new episode of this, because I never know where they will go next.

best podcast: Important If True

This is yet another “feels like I cheated” entry, but the Idle Thumbs guys’ work on Important If True deserves to be recognized. They could have simply recycled the Robot News segments from Idle Thumbs for this, but instead they went for something much wilder, taking people’s advice on what wishes to ask for from a genie, going through breakdown procedures for old Chuck E. Cheese competitor restaurants, and speculating on a Jessica Fletcher vs. Jaws matchup (as in the shark). The most wildly funny podcast going now. Recommended episodes: “Fight Garbage With Garbage”, “Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins”, “A Wish Upon a Star”

honorable mention: Waypoint Radio

With the Idle Thumbs guys winding down to a monthly schedule (sorta), Vice’s Waypoint staff’s podcast has readily stepped into the hole left behind by the Thumbs for regular doses of industry coverage. It’s great to see Danielle Riendeau and Rob Zacny getting more exposure outside of the Thumbs ecosystem, and Austin Walker, Patrick Klepek, and Danika Harrod are this sort of perfect perpetual motion machine at the heart of everything. Recommended episodes: “The Orange Casket”, “R.I.P. A.I.M.”, “Someone Explain To Me The Alien Alloys Before I F'ing Explode”

#best-of #2017

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In the last weeks as I’ve found myself rereading George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel 1984, a work I never took to in high school yet felt even then, all the same, that the context of how the work was being taught had eluded the experiment of my sophomore English class. Orwell’s gray fantasia had been reduced to a Cold War allegory (if even that) about the joys and necessities of unlimited self-expression. In short, what happened in the world before or outside America in the late 1990s. This time round, more than 15 years later, after three presidents and two imperialist wars and so very much else, Orwell’s text strikes me less as science fiction or totalitarian parable. It describes a world I know, today, intimately. It renders the temperature of our corporatized media and the destabilizing rhetoric of the incoming administration under President-elect Trump.

On page 101, Winston wanders into a shop in the prole district forbidden to all Party members such as himself, in part to revisit the scene of his great crime some 50 pages earlier where he purchased a blank diary with the intent of recording language freed from the trappings of ubiquitous Newspeak. Orwell writes:

There was a small bookcase in the other corner, and Winston had already gravitated towards it. It contained nothing but rubbish. The hunting-down and destruction of books had been done with the same thoroughness in the prole quarters as everywhere else. It was very unlikely that there existed anywhere in Oceania a copy of a book printed before 1960.

This ever-eerie image of the destruction of knowledge compresses and resonances with so much of imperialist, colonialist, genocidal and fascist history: The book burning by the Nazis in May 1933 and then even further back to the criminalization of literacy for African slaves and indigenous peoples in colonial America. As Paula Gunn Allen reminds us: “The root of oppression is the loss of memory.”

Today’s inauguration signals the emboldened resurgence of fascism and white supremacy under the banner of global populism. I am chilled by yesterday’s news of how the Trump administration plans to completely gut and cut the National Endowment for the Arts as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities. In response, I asked a few dozens writers over text and email to respond to the following question.

“What book is necessary reading in the face of today’s inauguration?”

I am thankful for their generosity and fortitude, hopeful for the renewed commitment to staying informed as well as informing others. Perhaps such a task is the principle service upon which all of teaching, literature, the arts—not to mention our democracy and civil rights—relies. May we take root in these voices and texts, may we honor their differences, end the persistence of the distinct oppressions they point to and are drawn from, be ever vigilant to preserve the rites of their memories.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander ·Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua · Confessions by St. Augustine

Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara · Collected Essays by James Baldwin · The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin · Meditations by Sister Wendy Beckett · The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America by Daniel Boorstin

The Performance of Being Human by Daniel Borzutsky · Pillars of Fire: America and the King Years by Taylor Branch · Utopia Minus by Susan Briante

Heart of the Breath by Jim Brodey · Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti · Collected Poems by C.P. Cavafy

Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron · The Laugh of the Medusa by Hélène Cixous ·Liberation Imagination and the Black Panther Party: A New Look At the Panthers and Their Legacy edited by Kathleen Cleaver and George N. Katsiaficas

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates · Journal of an Ordinary Grief by Mahmoud Darwish · Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin

White by Richard Dyer · The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon · Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

White Blight by Athena Farrokhzad · As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner · Discipline & Punish by Michel Foucault

The Activist by Renee Gladman · Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings by Joy Harjo ·Barbarian in the Garden by Zbigniew Herbert

Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks · Collected Poems by June Jordan · Reappraisals by Tony Judt

It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis · Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney López · Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Humanimal: A Project for Future Children by Bhanu Kapil · Mess and Mess and by Douglas Kearney · Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam · Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez · Selected Writings by Agnes Martin 

The Road by Cormac McCarthy · The Method of Hope by Hirokazu Miyazaki · Beloved by Toni Morrison

Collected Poems by George Oppen · Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin · Apology by Plato

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon · The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser ·Methodology of the Oppressed by Chela Sandoval

The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence and the Will of the People by Jonathan Schell · Look by Solmaz Sharif · A Door Into Ocean by Joan Sloczewski

Hope in the Dark: Untold Stories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit · Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau · Memoirs of an Anti-Semite by Gregor Von Rezzori

Manatee/Humanity by Anne Waldman · Anything We Love Can Be Saved by Alice Walker · The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward

Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X ·A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn · Utopia by Bernadette Mayer

The New Testament by Jericho Brown · The Third Reich of Dreams by Charlotte Beradt · I, Too, Dislike It by Mia You

CHOPPER! CHOPPER!: Poetry from Bordered Lives by Verónica Reyes · Savage Coast by Muriel Rukeyser · Whisper Louise by Douglas Oliver

The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord · This Bridge Called My Back edited by Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherrie Moraga · Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay

Posada by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo · The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama · Words Like Love by Tanaya Winder

Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths by Elizabeth Acevedo · The Undercommons by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten · Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis

#trump2017 #notmypresident #whattoreadnext #booksnotbombs

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Titre Black Panther Titre VO – Réalisateur Ryan Coogler Scénaristes Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole Acteurs Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Andy Serkis, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke Date de sortie 14 / 02 / 2018 Durée 2h 15 Genre Action, Aventure, Science fiction Budget –

Après les événements qui se sont déroulés dans Captain America : Civil War, T’Challa revient chez lui prendre sa place sur le trône du Wakanda, une nation africaine technologiquement très avancée. Mais lorsqu’un vieil ennemi resurgit, le courage de T’Challa est mis à rude épreuve, aussi bien en tant que souverain qu’en tant que Black Panther. Il se retrouve entraîné dans un conflit qui menace non seulement le destin du Wakanda, mais celui du monde entier…

Critique

Attention, cette critique contient des spoilers…

Avant de commencer à lire cet article, je t’invite à observer une minute de silence pour le décès du DCEU mort sur la croix des fans pécheurs. Si tu es fan de Batman, en lisant cet article, tu comprendras que sa carrière est foutue.

Rappel Historique

Photo de Huey P.Newton sur le siège de King en comparaison avec T’Challa.

Le « Black Panther Party » pour l’autodéfense est créé en octobre 1966 par Huey Newton et Bobby Seale. S’inspirant de Malcolm « X », se réclamant également du marxisme et du maoïsme, les « Panthers » croient à l’existence d’une classe de travailleurs dont l’unité dépasse les barrières de la couleur et s’allient avec d’autres groupes ou organisations représentant les minorités et les organisations révolutionnaires blanches. Leur programme en 10 points comporte une série de revendications politiques et sociale et réclame le droit à l’autodéfense. Les Black Panthers s’intéressent à l’histoire de l’Afrique et sont considéré comme un parti raciste noir qui n’aime pas les blancs. Le racisme anti-blanc est à prendre avec beaucoup d’humour quand on connaît le sort qui était réservé aux africains qui étaient tous des érudits et éminents scientifiques incluant des rois et des reines enchaînés dans des cales de bateaux négriers suite à des guerres de coalition européennes. Fouettés, mutilés et violés de l’enfant à l’adulte, coupés de leurs racines jusqu’à leurs noms d’origines. Fred Hampton fonda la section « Black Panthers » de la ville de Chicago en 1968 à 20 ans. Charismatique et dévoué à la communauté noire de Chicago, il a mis en place des actions sociales telles que les petits-déjeuners et les soins médicaux gratuits pour les enfants défavorisés de la ville de Chicago. Exécuté dans son sommeil par le FBI dans le cadre du « Cointelpro » au cours de l’année 1969.

Hoover (1895-1972) était noir et n’avait visiblement pas l’esprit ouvert. Visiblement, c’était un chien dressé contre son peuple de concert avec le FBI. Hoover déclara que les « Panthers » représentaient « la plus grande menace existante pour la sécurité intérieure des Etats-Unis » ; Hoover fut l’un des hommes les plus puissants des Etats-Unis et fut président du FBI pendant 48 ans de mai 1924 jusqu’à sa mort le 2 mai 1972. Il fut craint de tous les présidents qui se succédèrent à la Maison Blanche pendant son règne. Hoover est mort et le Black Panther party existe toujours. Ça l’a visiblement tué.

Le Black Panther party influence le cinéma avec la Blaxploitation et notamment Bruce Lee qui travaille avec ses membres et développe ses arts martiaux grâce à l’échange culturel africain.

Le Black Panther party, c’est aussi et un peu l’univers de la musique rap en ciblant Tupac qui en est un des héritiers. On peut aussi qualifier Mickael Jackson de Panther et l’un des rares artistes à avoir représenté l’Égypte nègre et fervent défenseur de la liberté du peuple noir. Le Black Panther party influence Paris avec la création des Black Dragons dans les années 80 qui luttent contre les violences d’anciens militaires néo nazi qui revenaient d’Afrique.

Le Black Panther party est une des sources d’inspiration africaine de Marvel qui crée un personnage de comics inspiré de ce parti. Black Panther apparaît pour la première fois en 1966 dans Fantastic Four #52–53 sous la plume de Stan Lee et Jack Kirby où le royaume secret africain le Wakanda est soumis à une série d’épreuves qui s’avèrent être en fait destinées à tester leur valeur. La nation du Wakanda tire sa richesse du fait qu’elle abrite un métal rare connu sous le nom de Vibranium.

Le Black Panther effect

Réunion de famille pas très agréable.

Malgré le fait que Black Panther soit une franchise Marvel Studios, il a dû traverser un petit désert. Car eh oui, le casting est 99% mélanoderme et 1% leucoderme. Ce qui est très bien en soi pour un peuple bâché depuis des siècles et qui récolte toutes les formes de négativités les plus improbables. C’est surprenant quand on sait que l’Afrique est le premier civilisateur de l’humanité tout entière et que si diverses couleurs ont prit forme, c’est grâce à la copulation de l’homme et la femme africaine même si certains peuples ne savent pas d’où ils viennent, ils ont tous du génome africain, mais ne sont pas tous africains surtout du fait de la cassure ancestrale qui a été provoqué par les guerres incessantes qui durent jusqu’à maintenant. L’Afrique est un continent en guerre contre l’occident depuis plus de 10 siècles et aujourd’hui une période de trêve se met en place avec une production américaine avec des acteurs africains. Beaucoup clament le fait que la presse ne voyait que très peu des personnages de super-héros africains dans les comics, mais en fait l’Afrique a toujours continué d’exister dans les comics surtout quand il s’agit de super-héros, il est fait mention de la mélanine à chaque fois. L’Afrique est une source d’inspiration pour les comics tels que Marvel ou DC et elle aussi leur gagne-pain. Ça s’est vérifié avec les X-Men,.. et maintenant Black Panther. L’Afrique sauve Marvel 20 ans plus tôt quand il avait été question de vendre les personnages en exploitation grand écran, la Fox confie à Wesley Snipes la mission salvatrice d’incarner un vampire raciste tueur de vampires albinos : Blade. Fort du succès salvateur, vont se lancer les X-Men et les studios Marvel puis le Cinematic Universe. Il ne faut pas oublier Nick Fury qui est devenu noir et qui par la présence de Samuel Jackson suivi de Stellan Skarsgard puis Robert Downey Jr., le film Avengers a attiré plus de foule. Marvel enchaîne les succès et malgré le fait de peser plus de 10 milliard se retrouve acculé avec des super-héros au scénarii répétitifs et des méchants un peu fade et des personnages mourant au bon vouloir du producteur. Marvel est très manichéen et les méchants doivent mourir, mais pas comme ça. Les gens se plaignent.

Marvel a conscience de ce défaut depuis longtemps et malgré tout, fait la com du Wakanda depuis très longtemps plus longtemps qu’Avengers. Kevin préparait le remède anti-rébarbatif en sortant la pilule Wakanda. À peine sorti, le film connaît un succès phénoménal et un public cette fois majoritairement africain se déplace dans l’espoir de retrouver une fierté perdue.

C’est quoi la sauce à succès du Black Panther

Photo du casting.

Qu’est-ce qui donne tant de fierté d’être africain dans ce film. Pendant deux heures de film des africains ont le droit de porter leurs noms et prénoms d’origines. Chose qui était interdite pendant la razzia négrière d’où le fait qu’aujourd’hui beaucoup d’africains porte des noms européens; problème de paradigme. On retrouve une Afrique noire, pacifique sans occupant européen avec une architecture africaine qui est la source d’inspiration et du vol par beaucoup d’architectes européens. Des costumes traditionnels portés fièrement par les acteurs et un paradigme africain mettant en exergue le matriarcat. Les acteurs sont à 100% de leurs capacités dû au fait qu’ils sont dans leur paradigme originel ce qui les rend plus légers et plus fluide dans leur jeu. Un esprit communautaire est entre eux pendant ce tournage et ça les maintient soudés quelque peu. Les danses africaines explosent l’écran avec le gwara gwara (BP challenge), la culture vaudoue tradition ancestrale de l’Afrique est là et règne en maître. Absence totale de religions abrahamiques “révélées”. Aucune trace de pollution et la faune et la flore sont en paix avec les bantu du Wakanda. Absence de pauvreté et une société juste, car on ne voit pas un seul voleur ou une tentative de vol. Absence de slave trade, une pratique faussement attribuée à l’Afrique par l’opération du saint esprit. Absence du contrôle de caca du roi comme on faisait pour Louis XIV. Absence de droit de cuissage typiquement européen. La langue africaine xhosa est parlée avec l’anglais en maintenant un accent africain. On flirte avec l’authenticité. La toute puissance de l’Afrique est mise en images sous les projecteurs d’une production américaine avec des africains. Les relations homme/femme sont respectueuses de la tradition originelle. On ne connaît pas le féminisme ni le machisme propre à la culture occidentale.

Les personnages de Black Panther dans le Bountyland

Chadwick Boseman (T’Challa)

T’Challa (ou Inch allah) un personnage très mystique, prince héritier dû aux circonstances de la mort de son père que je trouve discutable après avoir vu les rites traditionnels appliqués au Wakanda. C’est un homme plein de droiture et d’honneur prêt à tout pour protéger les intérêts du Wakanda. Wakanda qui n’a jamais été envahi par l’occident, car le pays demeure caché par les voies de la magie africaine ce qui est bien. T’Challa est le super héros Marvel bio car il possède en lui toutes les facultés requises pour être ce super-héros. Il est chargé en mélanine et est connecté avec le monde spirituel et il possède un totem en la personne de la panthère. Ces particularités font de lui le héros le plus puissant de tous les héros Marvel et le plus crédible. Il explique la raison du symbole de chaque super-héros. Il est certes puissant, mais pas forcément le plus malin. Il est aussi une balle dans le pied de Marvel car sa prestance dénonce la supercherie au sujet de l’acquisition de pouvoirs par certains super-héros. C’est très courant de voir des super-héros avec des pouvoirs et être cartésiens. T’Challa n’est rien de tous ceux-là. T’Challa est aussi la preuve que l’on ne naît pas roi comme en Europe, on le devient à travers une longue période d’initiation. Par contre, soit il connaît à peine l’histoire de son continent dans le film, soit il l’ignore et en tout cas, le king ne se sent pas concerné par le sort de l’Afrique. En gros, c’est un bounty. Pourquoi, c’est un bounty?

Michael B. Jordan (Erik Killmonger)

Erik Killmonger alias N’Jadaka, fils héritier du trône de Wakanda et cousin de T’Challa, vient au Wakanda pour se venger de la mort de son père et il est tellement aveuglé par la haine qu’il est prêt à tuer tous ceux qui s’opposent à sa vision. C’est un personnage qui revient de loin, de très loin. Pour le comprendre, il faut avoir étudié les guerres de coalition européennes en Afrique qui ont provoqué 800 millions de morts si on inclut les invasions arabes qui toutes ont conduit à une déshumanisation de l’africain et l’africaine père et mère porteurs de la civilisation soumis jusqu’à aujourd’hui au code noir. La séquence du musée de Londres dans la section consacrée au continent africain est très bien expliquée. Le dommage de ce musée, c’est l’absence de l’Égypte dans la même pièce. On dirait que c’est un accident géographique pour l’Europe. L’occident voleur qui connaît mieux l’Afrique que l’africain lui-même sous le couvert d’une aryenne directrice du musée (une référence à la conférence de Berlin). La souffrance qu’il possède en lui est justifiée. Mais le mécanisme de sa vengeance est démesuré. Il a tellement croisé des traîtres parmi les siens qu’il est prêt à tuer tout être qui s’oppose à lui, même sa go qui l’a trahi avec Klaue. Cette haine en lui l’empêche d’avoir les idées claires. Il est persuadé qu’il peut battre l’ennemi en utilisant ses méthodes contre lui. Il n’a pas lu le passage de la guerre froide celui-là. Ce qui fait de lui un bounty de première même si le désir de vengeance est justifié. Si je paraphrase Frantz Fanon qui dit ceci : “On n’humilie pas le peuple. Car si cela vient à se produire, les générations qui vont succéder vont se venger.” Killmonger est le reflet de cette vengeance. Vengeance aveugle qui le conduit à sa perte. Il déclenche à lui tout seul une guerre intestine du fait de sa formation militaire quelque peu abrutissante. Ces guerres intestines sont du même type que celles qu’ont provoqué les portugais quand ils ont attaqué l’Afrique pour obtenir des esclaves. Et il prétend connaître les méthodes de l’ennemi.

Le Wakanda dans toute sa splendeur.

Le Wakanda et sa capitale Birnin Zana. Très convoité pour son métal précieux le vibranium qui n’est autre que la mélanine. La mélanine coûte très cher dans les marchés financiers, soit 300 dollars le gramme contre 10 dollars le coltan. La mélanine, tu la retrouves partout, dans les fruits, les arbres, etc, et dans les antidépresseurs, et même ta crème solaire. À son arrivée, Killmonger expose un problème profond et de fond. Le conflit entre les sociétés secrètes africaines et le reste du peuple africain dans le monde. Quand on a attaqué l’Afrique, on s’en est d’abord pris au peuple afin d’atteindre les sociétés secrètes. Le Wakanda est le reflet le plus révélateur que toute l’Afrique n’a pas pu être envahie. Le Wakanda est caché de manière à préserver la culture africaine d’origine, mais aussi afin d’y préserver les secrets spirituels de l’Afrique les plus convoités, car si ces secrets tombent entre de mauvaises mains, on pourrait aller jusqu’à détruire des galaxies. Personne ne connaissait le Wakanda jusqu’à ce que le frère du roi précédent ne soit parti aux USA. La souffrance du peuple noir l’a révolté, mais l’a aussi rendu bounty. Il a trahi la localisation du Wakanda en vendant du vibranium à Klaue (dans le comic, c’est un peu différent : c’est T’Chaka qu donne le vibranium à Rogers pour son bouclier et Klaue vient ensuite). Le Wakanda est une synthèse de toutes les plus grandes civilisations africaines qui ont existé quand on étudie le concept architecturale. On y retrouve l’Égypte, le Soudan, le Mali et le Grand Zimbabwe, … Les danses rappellent la culture Massaï. Les vêtements traditionnels exit le wax. Les plateaux labiaux code esthétique issu des mursi et suri d’Éthiopie. Le rouge porté par la garde royale est inspiré des Massaï. L’écriture inspirée du nsibidi du Nigéria. On célèbre les ancêtres, c’est un rituel, pas une religion. La mort n’existe pas dans la philosophie africaine, on parle de voyage dans l’au-delà pour un retour sur terre. Le symbole X des bras croisés est souvent retrouvé dans les tombes des rois et reines égyptiens est utilisé pour retrouver ses ancêtres. Par contre, est à déplorer l’absence de la panthère dans le monde physique bien que représentée en égrégore. L’absence de zoo est un point fort, car en Afrique, on n’enferme pas les animaux. C’est une forme d’esclavage animalier. En Éthiopie, il était courant de voir les rois et reines traîner avec les lions sans laisse. On ne voit malheureusement pas les alocos, le mdolé…, si tu n’es pas content, va au resto africain le plus proche.

Danai Gurira (Okoye)

Okoye, la générale en chef des Dora Milaje du royaume et épouse de W’Kabi qui est une véritable guerrière et qui reflète la réalité africaine. Les femmes africaines dans l’histoire sont de redoutables guerrières. Elles sont féroces comme les hommes du fait de leur proximité avec leurs enfants. Okoye est la nostalgique Afrique qui connaissait des femmes douées en cuisine qui savaient aussi égorger le mouton. On ne connaît pas son âge véritable, mais elle servait déjà le roi précédent. Comme on dit : Black don’t crack. Okoyé est un personnage LGBT dans le comic, mais ce passage avec Ayo a été supprimé, car il ne reflétait aucunement les besoins du film. Et si cela sortait, ça n’aurait pas été cohérent, car l’homosexualité n’est pas propre au paradigme africain. Cela va en contradiction avec les bases matriarcales /prééminence de la mère mystiques. Son intégration est récente du fait des invasions. On est plus dans une logique de complémentarité homme-femme dans l’histoire de l’Afrique. L’Afrique, c’est plus de 200 civilisations qui y ont émergé. C’est très dur de devenir un homme et à plus forte raison d’être une femme. C’est aussi pour cela que les africains font beaucoup d’enfants. C’est une culture propre au continent.

Martin Freeman (Everett K. Ross)

Everett K. Ross est l’agent de la C.I.A qui remplace le S.H.I.E.L.D . Personnage raciste au même titre que Klaue, il incarne la parfaite dualité entre l’Afrique et l’occident. Il est insidieux. Il gère les Avengers et n’affectionne pas beaucoup T’Challa et pourtant est vibraniumophile. Il est toujours à vouloir faire le colon en voulant faire l’éducation des africains et ça ne marche pas de trop. Lui et Klaue ne sont pas du tout différent à ce sujet. Il est plus subtil, plus diplomate et il risque même sa vie pour sauver la princesse Nakia peu de temps après l’interrogatoire avec Klaue. Son comportement est suspect. Blessé, il arrive au Wakanda pour se soigner et se mêle déjà des affaires politiques du roi et devient son conseiller et sauve in extremis le Wakanda de son “compatriote” Killmonger qu’il connaît parfaitement bien. C’est le loup dans la bergerie. Il s’invite dans les rituels qui sont depuis lors maintenus secrets et qui protègent l’Afrique. Même Okoye s’oppose à ce qu’il soit au Wakanda pour éviter ce genre de situation. Ce genre de personnage s’est vu déjà dans le monde réel et c’est le même type qui a fait chuter le Black Panther Party. C’est le pompier pyromane un peu quand bien même j’affectionne cet acteur, il n’a pas le bon rôle ici. Son personnage amène à plein de rebondissements pour le Wakanda. Si on raisonne par l’absurde, Ross est un Joker (The Dark Knight) . C’est le type qui débarque après la chute du Shield et qui subitement au moment de son apparition se mettent en place des coups montés que l’on n’avait pas vu venir. Ross veut à tout prix rentrer au Wakanda et se sert de Helmut Zemo pour fomenter l’assassinat du roi T’Chaka au cours des accords de Sokovie. Il a au préalable suivi le dossier de Killmonger de très près, et ce, depuis le début . Il deale secrètement avec Killmonger dont le père avait déjà dealé avec Klaue et Klaue deal avec Ross alors que Killmonger a sûrement infiltré la bande à Klaue. Il se sert de Killmonger qui ne pense qu’à se venger et le plus beau coup qu’il puisse faire, c’est d’enfermer Klaue dans un pauvre bureau de ville alors que pour Bucky la prison était bien plus barricadée que ça . Ross se serait pris une balle volontairement pour sauver une princesse à l’épreuve des balles. C’est comment. C’est ce que l’on appelle un complot trigonométrique. Killmonger tue Klaue et T’Challa tue Killmonger qui n’est autre qu’une victime collatérale et Ross reste en vie et mission accomplie le Wakanda est grillé. Si mon hypothèse est juste, cela explique l’absence de Nick Fury dans les films précédents et ça présage un potentiel conflit entre les deux. Au-dessus du Shield, c’est l’armée et au-dessus de l’armée, c’est la CIA et au-dessus, il y a le Blog de Marvelll et tout au-dessus c’est le soleil. Le reste, tu fais à pied. Si tu croises la reine, fais demi-tour. Cependant, la présence de Martin Freeman et Andy Serkis n’est peut-être pas le fruit du hasard quand on sait que tous deux ont participé au plus grand opus Lord of Rings de Tolkien qui lui-même s’est inspiré des africains et de leurs légendes pendant son séjour en Afrique du sud.

Winston Duke (M’Baku)

M’Baku flirte entre le Kongo et le Zulu dans son style. Il fait penser au général Shaka Zulu. Il vit dans le froid et n’en souffre pas du tout ; ce qui vient casser toute théorie selon le fait que la peau noire ne tient pas à la neige. C’est un traditionaliste pur. Il est plus à même de diriger le Wakanda, mais il perd le combat rituel dignement et reste roi de sa contrée Jabari dont le totem est le primate. C’est aussi un homme d’honneur. Quand ça pète au Wakanda, T’Challa qui est presque enfermé dans la technologie retourne vers la tradition pour combiner technologie et tradition pour reprendre son trône. M’Baku a surtout plein d’humour et c’est mon préféré. C’est en quelque sorte le seul vrai africain dans l’histoire tout à fait opposé aux bounties qui sont mis en avant dans le film. Il ne ménage pas Ross et c’est avec raison et il est le seul à le faire.

Lupita Nyong’o (Nakia)

Nakia, une espionne hors pair qui est aussi le grand amour de T’Challa est en fait une bounty de plus. Elle infiltre un groupe terroriste pour sauver les filles chibok. Ce qui montre que le Wakanda reste connecté aux problèmes liés au continent. Le retour de Killmonger l’affole, malgré le fait qu’elle connaisse la vérité sur lui. Elle veut faire un coup d’État pour protéger le Wakanda et essaie d’allier Okoye avec elle. Mais une fois de plus Okoye est raisonnable et dit non car fidèle à sa mission de préserver le royaume. Nakia veut juste venger son chéri déchu, l’Afrique, elle s’en fout. Cela fait d’elle une personne dangereuse pour le Wakanda. Elle est aussi espionne, mais a la langue pendue. Elle trahi le secret royal de T’Challa à Ross un européen d’Amérique de la CIA au Wakanda. Très bonne actrice, mais critiquée pour son coréen jugé robotique.

Letitia Wright (Shuri)

Shuri, la petite sœur de T’Challa, c’est le génie scientifique du royaume. Il est très courant parmi les Africains de voir émerger des génies très jeunes. C’est loin d’être une nouveauté de voir une femme au département scientifique. Pesechet et Merit-Ptah étaient déjà à la tête de départements scientifiques de l’Égypte antique. Les sciences viennent d’Afrique et quand les découvertes sont fait-maison, c’est plus authentique et plus durable. La preuve en est avec internet, la lumière, ton téléphone, ta voiture, ton train, ton ascenseur,… Inventés par des africains par exemple. Elle est un peu insolente et fun, passionnée de films américains et pourtant elle a l’air de bien connaître l’histoire obscure de l’Afrique et l’exprime quand elle croise Ross. Mais petit bémol chez elle qui fait que M’Baku se plaigne de son implication dans le département scientifique, c’est son aliénation quant à la tradition africaine qui est à l’origine des sciences. La magie et la science ont la même base spirituelle, et même Thor le dit à Jane dans son premier opus.

Angela Bassett (Ramonda)

Ramonda, la reine-mère et mère de T’Challa, a toute son importance. Elle perpétue sa mission de reine et règne avec son fils T’Challa. Son autorité est incontestée et sa coiffe bien que sortie par imprimante 3D pour le film montre sa grandeur. Ça peut arriver qu’avec leurs cheveux les rois et reines d’Afrique se forment une couronne sans avoir à porter de coiffe. Car les cheveux crépus sont les seuls types à aller à l’encontre de la gravité. C’est une force, car le cheveu est vu comme une antenne pour réceptionner les informations du soleil et des étoiles. Le cheveu crépu par sa forme spirale aurait inspiré la création de la bobine et l’ampoule longue durée. C’est aussi la forme du nombre d’or. La réaction de Okoye par rapport à la perruque n’est pas anodine car pendant l’esclavage on a forcé les africaines à se couvrir leurs cheveux du fait de la jalousie violente des femmes européennes qui perdaient leurs maris. Aujourd’hui c’est devenu une habitude. Après avoir perdu le trône, la mère ne porte plus sa couronne et porte des dreadlocks, coiffure très prisée par les rastafaris et beaucoup d’africains en général. Le dreadlocks représente la royauté perdue.Dans son cas, c’est peut-être la coiffe qu’elle cachait. Souvent, il est porté par instinct par les africains, car ils sont pour la plupart des descendants de rois et de reines. Mais c’est aussi un symbole de l’insoumission à l’impérialisme occidental du point de vue africain. Tout comme Jack Sparrow qui porte des dreadlocks et se révèle être l’histoire d’un célèbre pirate africain.

Les trucs bien et moins bien

Photo de Captain America: Civil War avec l’égrégore de la panthère.

Il faut se souvenir que Black Panther/Le cold tiger a fait ses débuts en tapant sur les Ku Klux Klan. Et ce film sort dans un contexte politique tendu aux USA concernant les liens du président actuel avec ce groupe.Cependant, aux États-Unis, son succès est spectaculaire, avec 403 millions de dollars de recettes en dix jours. Le film a réalisé le 5ème meilleur score de tous les temps pour son premier week-end, et le 4ème score pour son second week-end. En France, le film est en tête du box-office depuis sa sortie, engrangeant 1,7 million d’entrées en douze jours, selon JP Box office. La Chine a fait parler d’elle en cachant le visage de T’Challa voire même jusqu’à mettre Ross en tête d’affiche. Ils peuvent se permettre de tels écart, d’une du fait de leur ignorance concernant leurs ancêtres noirs bushmen tout droit d’Afrique du Sud en plus et surtout qu’ils n’ont pas la loi Jim Crow ouvertement écrite. Jugé comme un film avec trop de noirs, tout est noir, il n’y a plus d’espoir. Toutefois du fait de son épiderme mélaninée ça n’a pas empêché son succès atteignant les 720 millions de Yuan. Attention ! Ce sont des comportements politiques, le peuple quant à lui a très bien aimé le film et a tenu à réagir sur le web. Tout comme en Russie qui en a résulté d’un Black Panther Challenge.

Le soldat Ryan vient nous sauver

Photo du film Black Panther avec Ryan Coogler et Chadwick Boseman.

Ryan Coogler est un talentueux réal pour réussir un pari musclé comme Black Panther. C’est son troisième film et il fait déjà le milliard et le dépasse. Sa recette, c’est juste la rigueur dans sa réalisation. Il a coscénarisé le film avec Joe Robert Cole et a fait appel à KendriK Lamar un artiste engagé pour finaliser l’image par la musique. Il a dû voyager plusieurs fois au continent, notamment en Afrique du Sud. Faire 54 pays pour ce film, ce n’était pas nécessaire, car quand on va en Afrique et qu’on connaît bien le continent, on se rend compte que malgré les frontières coloniales, les traditions sont quasi les mêmes si on se réfère aux recherches du professeur historiographe Lascony. Tu manges aloco pareil, même les langues à quelques mots près, on peut éventuellement se comprendre. Cheikh Anta Diop l’a prouvé dans son livre Nation Nègre et Culture en comparant le Wolof avec le Medu Neter (Hiéroglyphes) et d’autres africains le diront. Jusqu’au créole ou médukam aux caraïbes on retrouve les similitudes frappantes. Par ces voyages multiples, Ryan Coogler va à l’opposé des romans graphiques de Ta-Nehisi et Roxane Gay qui avaient développé une dimension plus LGBTQ au comic. On comprend l’agacement du lobby qui a vu son GPS tomber en panne lors de son survol du paysage Africain pour trouver le Wakanda. Technologie quand tu nous tiens. Ryan Coogler fait la passerelle entre la Corée et l’Amérique. Un possible clin d’œil à Paekché (Korée) de son ancien nom et n’hésite pas à faire intervenir des codes panafricain de Marcus Garvey. On retrouve la thèse et l’antithèse Malcom X/Martin Luther King à travers les personnages de T’Challa et N’Jadaka. Ryan Coogler est un passionné de culture manga au point de retrouver des similitudes avec le costume de Killmonger à celui de Végéta de Dragon Ball Z (Merci Noir et Fière). Au travers de ce film, il nous explique comment l’Afrique est tombée entre de mauvaises mains du fait de l’ignorance des rois et reines, pensant que tout le monde, il est beau, il est gentil. Il dépeint les méthodes utilisées pour infiltrer l’Afrique. Le réal ici, n’est pour personne et on sent bien que son héros est celui qui est le plus détendu M’Baku et son héroïne est Okoye. Par la présente, Coogler nous fait voir subtilement comment le caca de l’occident sent mauvais. T’as les narines bouchées en sortant. Tu comptes avec les cinq doigts de la main le temps qu’il te reste pour respirer. Il signe un coup de maître. Si on devait remplacer Heath Ledger en tant que Joker, je pense que Coogler ferait l’affaire. Quand il fait un plan sur l’Afrique pour situer le Wakanda, l’Afrique est inversé de sens. Il profite de la venue N’Jadaka sur le trône pour faire un plan inversé pour remettre l’Afrique dans le bon sens. Il y inscrit des codes que seuls ceux qui connaissent l’histoire du peuple noir peuvent décoder. Je remercie Noir et Fier pour ce petit décodage. Il fait référence à Marcus Garvey le premier président des États-Unis d’Afrique mort hélas dans d’étranges circonstances. Jusqu’à l’abolition de l’esclavage par les africains eux-mêmes, les noirs avaient le « luxe » de mourir dans d’atroces souffrances et après l’abolition, ils ont eu la « promotion » de mourir dans d’étranges circonstances juste parce qu’ils veulent libérer les leurs d’une crise suffocante.

Photo du film Black Panther avec Lupita Nyong’o, Chadwick Boseman et Danai Gurira.

La première scène de fin avec Ross est vraiment fortuite. T’Challa change sa façon de voir les choses après son expérience avec N’Jadaka et décide de s’occuper des africains du reste du monde en passant par la case ONU. La question pertinente du diplomate européen : qu’est-ce qu’un pays du tiers-monde peut apporter l’occident ? C’est très marrant comme question quand on sait que l’européen à l’âge des ténèbres était dans un état de pauvreté extrême sur beaucoup de plans. Ils voyaient une éclipse solaire, ils prenaient la fuite. Quand les africains ont apporté la patate en Europe, le peuple s’est ouvertement moqué. Aujourd’hui, ils veulent la frite. La scène de fin avec Bucky est juste parfaite. Bucky est réveillé par des enfants et sort comme le Christ qui a perdu un bras après s’être branlé de trop. Cette séquence est un clin d’œil à l’entrée du Christiannisme en Afrique et la case d’où il sort est du même type que fabriquait les africains dans les eaux pour fuir les colons.

Par Nick Songs, le 29 Mars 2018.

Conclusion

Black Panther a fait couler beaucoup d’encre. C’est peu surprenant. Car inconsciemment, les gens savent que l’Afrique est le Patron de la planète malgré le fait que les africains, pour la plupart, ignorent qu’ils sont les Patrons car volontairement coupés de leur histoire par leurs oppresseurs. Nous sommes tous descendants de nègres, et cela, du plus nègre au plus décoloré. Le mot nègre dans le paradigme africain veut dire Éminence d’après le professeur Bilolo. Si tu viens à mépriser plus foncé que toi, c’est que tu renies tes racines. Tu te coupes les chances de voir pousser quelque chose de plus beau en toi, une éminence. Le racisme institutionnel frustre le monde entier et ça se ressent à travers le passage de T’Challa à l’ONU qui est une organisation mondiale qui occupe l’Afrique. Le problème fondamental du raciste, c’est que la nuit, il rêve d’être noir et le jour quand il croise le soleil… Faut faire comme Martina Big. Elle a tout compris. Le Black Panther Party a inspiré le comic et continue toujours d’exister à travers plusieurs déclinaisons que l’on peut retrouver même en France. C’est une réalité parce que le code noir n’a jamais été abrogé tout comme la bulle papale de Nicolas V, donc le noir est toujours un bien meuble. Black Panther est venu donner un peu d’oxygène à cette partie du peuple de la planète qui a tout donné, mais aussi à qui on a tout prit. Le fait qu’il dépasse le milliard ne m’étonne peu, voire pas du tout. C’est le plus authentique de Marvel et ça change des films de voleurs en tête d’affiche et les pauvres flics qui les voient se faire la malle (Hurricane). Je recommande à tous ceux qui veulent comprendre l’histoire de l’Afrique d’aller voir ce film. Il y a beaucoup de codes africains, c’est normal. C’est un autre paradigme, mais ça vaut vraiment le détour.

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Réalisation est très recherchée

Plans badass

Jeu d’acteur à son paroxysme

Scènes de combats bien maîtrisées

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La 3D, au secours

Prix Bounty d’or de l’année décerné à T’Challa

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