BLACK PANTHER Is Set To Become The First Film To Publicly Screen In Saudi Arabia In Over 35 Years

This is amazing news! Saudis are going all in. And let's just give this movie every record ever I guess

@Nerdman3000 - Exactly my thoughts.

@noahthegrand - the Black Panther movie has so many elements that pleased so many people in different ways....father and son conflict, becoming a new king, boy wants girl back, 007 mission, tradition,betrayal, loyalty, mystery, tribal insurrection, revenge, celebration, family tragedy, royalty, technical advancements, social injustice, and revolutionary issues!

@MrDandy - no. black panther is much better.

I guess when you go decades without theaters you... kind of don’t know what you’re doing.

Next up? Tyler perry comedies! Want some romance?? We have these excellent new films from the American “hallmark” channel. Great stuff.

@TheRealTomServo - a lot of factors. But as a kid growing up, while I had friends like me that grew up reading comics and a lot of other stuff like video games, my dad realized that I had trouble connecting with them the same level as my peers. And my dad being the film professor and comic fan that he is, he introduced me to Black Panther comics as well as started to educate me about my family’s ancestry right around the same time. It was just something that clicked with Panther, though there were other black superheroes I loved growing up, something about him just clicked and I was hooked. And this wasn’t the only time my dad would sit down and educate me on one subject and introduce me to another source of fiction, and just that bonding we had over stories, fables and life lessons and especially as a black kid growing up with the feeling of not really belonging was really an important staple in my life.

I’m studying Theater Arts (to pursue my acting career) as well as Africana Studies due to my upbringing and interest in my culture. And when I tell you this movie is just jam packed with a combination of almost everything I love, it is not an exaggeration. I finally got that feeling of being a kid and seeing my imagination right in front of my face on the screen on an emotional level, and it wasn’t just a solid movie, it was GREAT. I’ve studied these actors man... I look up to them. And the acting, the visuals, the themes, the directing, it’s as if I actually felt that there was something made specifically for me. Not in the sense of representation (which does go hand in hand with this), but that level of an emotional attachment to things that I really love and cherish and to see it treated with care just made me veklempt.

It felt like my father was introducing me to Black Panther in a new way again... and that’s exactly what the opening scene was with N’Jobu telling his son about Wakanda, I felt that. I’ve been both Erik (a kid in California running around California believing in Fairy Tales) and T’Challa with the frustrations of dealing with responsibility, and feeling the weight of coping with the loss of a loved one while not being afraid to show some damn emotion. You just didn’t use to see that with black men in the films.

Is it a perfect movie? Well that’s a matter of preference but it just hit me to the point that this movie is too damn important cause I know that there are many others that share these same feelings towards it and how much it affected them.

@ThePanther - ...you had me at hello bro!

@ThePanther - Thanks for sharing! I appreciate the time you took to explain.It makes me like this movie even more. Oh... the actual Black Panther comics are great as well.