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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
Advance ticket sales for superhero movies are always supersized, but even accounting1 for that, Marvel's "Black Panther" is breaking records. Civic2 groups have been buying out entire screenings so that African-American children can experience the film together. Critics are singing the film's praises, a chorus to which NPR's Bob Mondello will now add his voice.
BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE3: Superhero origin story, be it spider-bit, hammer-fisted or Amazonian - you know the drill - a backstory quickly dispensed4 with so super heroics can get underway. In this case, though, the backstory isn't something you want glossed5 over.
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DANAI GURIRA: (As Okoye) We are home.
MONDELLO: Home is Wakanda, a fictional6 African kingdom that's hard to reach and, as far as the outside world is concerned, not worth reaching. Though in this sequence, we're in a Wakanda-made hovercraft, so guidebook stereotypes7...
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MARTIN FREEMAN: (As Everett K. Ross) Textiles, shepherds, cool outfits8...
MONDELLO: ...Need to be augmented9 with the things outsiders have never seen - Afrofuturist skyscrapers10 based on geologic11 forms, flying maglev12 trains and a glowing, miraculous13 substance vibranium, which makes such African treasures as gold and diamonds seem not worth the digging for. Our hero, played by Chadwick Boseman, is T'Challa, about to be installed as king and already the Black Panther - so a force to be reckoned with.
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CHADWICK BOSEMAN: (As T'Challa) Only reason I don't kill you where you stand is because I know who you are.
MONDELLO: He's surrounded by spectacular women, warriors14, thinkers and an ex who so regularly renders him speechless that his generals have taken to coaching him on romantic tactics...
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GURIRA: (As Okoye) Don't freeze.
BOSEMAN: (As T'Challa) I never freeze.
MONDELLO: ...Also a sister who teases him mercilessly.
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LETITIA WRIGHT: (As Shuri) Did he freeze?
GURIRA: (As Okoye) Like an antelope15 in headlights.
WRIGHT: (As Shuri, laughter).
BOSEMAN: (As T'Challa) Are you finished?
MONDELLO: But she also provides him with vibranium-powered gizmos.
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WRIGHT: (As Shuri) I have some new tech to show you.
MONDELLO: If he were 007, she'd be his Q.
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WRIGHT: (As Shuri) Hey, look at your suit. You've been taking bullets, charging it up with kinetic16 energy.
BOSEMAN: (As T'Challa) Pull around the truck.
MONDELLO: Filmmaker Ryan Coogler has created a world that's exciting in all the conventional superhero ways but that gives the form vibrant17, new textures18, fabrics19, rhythms to go with a leading man who for once is not melanin-deprived. Coogler's movie doesn't operate like the others, either - no lone20 wolf hero getting rid of bad guys on his own. Black Panther is part of a community, a family. And his story is about working together, as families do, with imperfect fathers, brainy sisters, uncles harboring secrets and everyone hoping against hope that that cousin who's always in trouble will straighten up and fly right.
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MICHAEL B JORDAN: (As Erik Killmonger) I'm going to burn it all.
MONDELLO: This guy played with aching intensity21 by Michael B. Jordan brings real-world fury to a Wakandan society that's been bypassed - this is a fantasy, remember - by colonialism and institutional racism22. Those poisons exist outside, though, and the aptly named Killmonger is the harrowing result.
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JORDAN: (As Erik Killmonger) I trained. I lied. I killed just to get here. I killed in America, Afghanistan, Iraq. I took life from my own brothers and sisters right here on this continent - and all this death just so I could kill you.
MONDELLO: Other superheroes fly off to do battle with alien life forms. Black Panther deals with pain that comes of real injustice23. That anchors the story, gives it heft and will make it matter to audiences in ways few superhero sagas24 even contemplate25. I'm Bob Mondello.
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