FILM · 2018 · USA
Black Panther
- Directed by
- Ryan Coogler
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Studio
- Marvel Studios
176 archived facts 7 topics 2 sources Last reviewed Nov 2026
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister…
176 Interesting Facts About Black Panther
Interesting Facts (121)
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In an interview on the radio program "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, Danai Gurira (Okoye) said that the language spoken by the Wakandans is a real language, Xhosa, a South African language characterized by clicks and glottal stops: "It's the same language that is native to Nelson Mandela. It's from the Cape region of South Africa. And Mr. John Kani, who plays T'Challa's father, T'Chaka, he's Xhosa. And so he - they started and agreed to that language being the language of Wakanda in Captain America: Civil War (2016)."
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When Chadwick Boseman received the Best Hero award at the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards, he invited James Shaw Jr., whom the media called the Waffle House Hero, onto the stage and gave him the award, believing he deserved it more. Shaw subdued a gunman at a Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee. The gunman killed four people, but Shaw managed to prevent others from being killed. Shaw was humbled by Boseman's gesture.
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While promoting the film in London (United Kingdom), Martin Freeman introduced his young son Joseph to his co-star Danai Gurira, who plays Okoye, the child's favorite character in the film. According to Danai, the boy was so affected by the experience that he would not let go of her hand. Danai was deeply moved that the film captured the imagination of someone so young so completely.
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Director Ryan Coogler compared Wakanda's vibranium mines to the real-life situation of the Congo's mines, where the valuable mineral coltan (found only in the Congo region and used in the production of digital products) is extracted. In addition, the Shinkolobwe mine in the Congo's Haut-Katanga Province contained the world's richest uranium deposit. In 1939, Albert Einstein wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt about the weapon potential of uranium and stated that "The most important source of uranium is in the Belgian Congo," and that uranium from Shinkolobwe was used in the American nuclear program during World War II, including in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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Composer Ludwig Göransson traveled to South Africa to listen to the music archives of "thousands of different tribes in Africa" and visited the International Library of African Music in Grahamstown. He also went to Senegal and South Africa to record local musicians to create the "base" of the music.
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The Dora Milaje (the female warriors who protect the king) were cast from a pool of actresses, female stunt performers and Broadway dancers so that each Dora could have the particular skills she brought to the table. The process of finding these women was so long and difficult that people on the cast humorously called the search "Finding Dora."
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While explaining the VFX parameters for the sonic explosive arm cannon as if his real arm were not there, Andy Serkis impressed director Ryan Coogler with his ability to dive, fall and throw his body around.
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Comic book writer Jonathan Maberry, who wrote the DOOMWAR story, first learned about apartheid as a young teenager thanks to Black Panther's appearance in a Fantastic Four comic (issue #119). This encouraged him to break away from the upbringing of his racist father (a KKK member in Philadelphia). Marvel's editors did not know this when they offered him the job of writing the Panther comic. Maberry often states that Panther was one of the most important positive influences in his life.
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When Killmonger breaks the spear he is holding to turn it into a handheld weapon before beginning his fight against T'Challa, it is a tribute to the African warrior Shaka Zulu, one of the most famous military leaders in history. He could not understand why the Zulus threw their spears in battle, so he developed a short-handled spear.
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While scouting in South Africa, the filmmakers encountered a rhino named M-20 at a game reserve. They were so impressed by it that they named W'Kabi's rhino after it in the film and gave it an equally impressive horn. They later learned that M-20's horn had to be cut off to protect it from poachers, but its horn lives on in the film.
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Screenings at the Alamo Drafthouse included a PSA in which Chadwick Boseman looks directly into the camera and warns the audience not to talk or use their phones during the film, saying he is always watching. After the credits came and the post-credits scenes played, the screen went dark for a few seconds, then suddenly cut to an extreme close-up of Boseman shouting at the audience, "I am still watching!"
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Ryan Coogler insisted on bringing in collaborators from his previous films to put his own stamp on the film and make it different from other MCU films; "shot, composed, and edited by the same house people." He hired cinematographer Rachel Morrison, production designer Hannah Beachler and composer Ludwig Göransson, who had worked with him on Fruitvale Station (2013). Michael B. Jordan, with whom he works often, also took on the role of the film's main villain, Erik Killmonger.
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(Around 1 hour 26 minutes) When Killmonger returns to his childhood home and leafs through his father's notebook, a handwritten map is briefly shown along with some coordinates and the text "if you can reach these coordinates you have a chance to make it to Wakanda." The coordinates (2 39'30.19" S; 29 0'29.36" E) are actually in the southwestern part of the Republic of Rwanda, near where the borders of the DR Congo, Burundi and Rwanda meet.
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One of the most powerful moments, and perhaps something you would not normally expect to hear in a superhero film. Black Panther co-writers Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole included it assuming Marvel executives would cut it. Instead, they did the opposite. In fact, they not only kept it in, they said the whole film should be about that choice. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige recalls reading those lines in the first draft of Black Panther. The exchange is: T'Challa: "I can try to heal you." Killmonger: "Why, so you can lock me up? Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, because they knew death was better than bondage." "It was one of the best lines we ever read," Feige told THR. "We said, 'There's going to be a lot of revisions, but don't touch that line.' And Ryan said, 'I thought this was the line you were going to tell me to cut.' We said, 'On the contrary, keep it and build more of the film around it.'".
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The Black Panther suits seen in the film come from various designs in the character's comic book history: T'Chaka's suit comes from the "Black Panther: Man Without Fear" story. The nanite suits come from Ta-Nehisi Coates's Black Panther comic. Killmonger's black and gold suit was the Panther costume in Christopher Priest's Black Panther comic.
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Sterling K. Brown said security around script leaks required script pages to be returned immediately on the day of shooting. One day, when he accidentally left his copy in his hotel room, he was taken straight back to his hotel and followed to his room, where he handed over the pages for accounting.
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The Dora Milaje wear neck rings. These are known as dzilla and come from the Ndebele people of southern African regions, where wives wear these rings as a sign of marital fidelity. This is a tribute to the comics, in which the Dora Milaje were intended to serve as Black Panther's training wives.
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(At about 1 hour 13 minutes) For the scene in which Killmonger bursts into Wakanda's throne room and challenges T'Challa, Michael B. Jordan said his mental approach to playing the scene was as if he came from a low-income neighborhood and had been invited to his rich cousin's house for Thanksgiving.
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On the columns of the throne room there is an inscription carved in an ancient Nigerian language, noticed by one of the actresses on the film set who was from Nigeria. Production designer Hannah Beachler recounts that this experience confirmed her work: "She looked at it and said she knew what it said and that it was really beautiful. It's a 5th-century text in a high-tech environment, and it worked."
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The Warrior Falls set scene shot in Atlanta became quite problematic, as filming that lasted 10 hours a day left the actors' eyes seriously bloodshot. The production team initially thought the cause might be the chlorine in the water, but this was not confirmed. Ultimately, it was determined to be prolonged exposure to the sun's rays overhead, worsened by the sun's reflection off all the water. Between takes, UV-protective sunglasses eventually became mandatory for all the actors.
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Killmonger's line "The sun will never set on the Wakandan empire" is taken directly from what was said about the British in the 19th century. The British Empire had colonies on nearly every continent in the world (Antarctica is a continent), and the sun was always shining somewhere in the empire's territory. When T'Challa says, "You want to see us become just like the people you hate so much! Divide and conquer, just as they did!" he is pointing Killmonger directly to this fallacy.
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At the end of the chase scene in Busan, Klaue uses his weapon repeatedly to cause impressive damage and destruction. Each time he does so, it makes the same sound as one of Iron Man's repulsor weapons. Given that Klaue did business with Tony Stark during his weapons-manufacturing days and may have reverse-engineered Iron Man technology to operate his weapon cannon, the sound effect may well be intentional.
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(At about 1 hour 14 minutes) Erik Killmonger's ideologies are closely compared to those of Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims), as he believes that the persecution of and racial discrimination against people of African descent must be retaliated against with a violent revolution. His father N'Jobu also complains that the local black men of his time were "overly policed and incarcerated," reflecting the grievances of the Black Panther Party, which began in 1966.
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Inspired by Christopher Priest's Black Panther comics, Ryan Coogler wanted Kraven the Hunter to be the villain. However, the character is primarily a Spider-Man enemy, and Sony did not grant Marvel the rights. Coincidentally, Sony had owned the rights to Black Panther before selling them back to Marvel in 2005. Kraven finally made his cinematic debut with Kraven the Hunter (2024).
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Composer Ludwig Göransson spent a month in Senegal researching and making music with musicians in the region. Instruments such as the "talking drums," the Fula flute, the kora (an African harp) and the vuvuzela (an African horn often used by fans at sporting events) can be heard throughout the film's score.
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Unlike the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which uses holograms (Iron Man, Asgard) or viewing screens (Guardians of the Galaxy), the Wakandans use nanite displays (millions of microscopic machines that form different shapes). This is the third major superhero film to use nanite displays, after X-Men (2000) and Man of Steel (2013).
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In the commentary, Ryan Coogler praises almost every actor who appears on screen but seems especially impressed by Andy Serkis (Ulysses Klaue). "Man, what an actor's actor. He would do crazy physical things. Just to have that kind of body control and to know the parameters of visual effects, I'd never seen anything like that before. Every day was very impressive."
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They used costumes and production design to tell a "color story" for the characters. For example, Zuri, both young and old, wears purple because it "represents spirituality, royalty, high rank." Blue is the color of colonization, so almost everyone in the London sequence wears it, and there is even a blue tint in the image.
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While exploring landscapes and regions in South Africa, Ryan Coogler was introduced to a rhino named M20 at a wildlife conservation area. "and he was the most impressive thing I've ever seen in my life." He later heard that they had to remove the animal's horn to protect it from poachers. W'Kabi's rhino is named M20 after the real-life rhino, but in the film it is actually a horse that he feeds an apple to, with a CG rhino later layered over it.
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Ryan Coogler sees the challenge ending with T'Challa diving to his death over the waterfall as "paying for sins he didn't commit," and while that is true, there is something to be said for his silence after learning the truth about his cousin. He could have spoken to Killmonger privately, shown compassion and apologized, but instead he treats Killmonger like an invader. T'Challa may not have committed the original sin, but he allows it to continue.
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The producers studied numerous third-act battle scenes, including the Battle of Endor in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), one of Kevin Feige's favorites, but for director Ryan Coogler the most important thing was sustaining the emotional relationship from beginning to end.
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Ryan Coogler spoke about his former colleague, the late Chadwick Boseman, and the Black Panther star's commitment to the superhero role. Promoting the vampire film Sinners (2025) on The Breakfast Show, Coogler explained that Boseman's influence continues even now on Michael B. Jordan, the director and star of his new film, who played Kilmonger, one of the MCU's best villains, alongside Boseman. "He changed my life. He was the kind of teacher who you never knew you was getting a lesson when he taught," Coogler explained. "All of it was by example, and what he gave me and Michael was patience. He moved at an old-school pace and didn't rush. He always came in early. He was that kind of man. And Mike will tell you, I told him, man, I said 'Hey bro, what would Chad do in this role? If this were the role, what would he do?' Because Chad never stopped the action." Recalling how committed Boseman was to the role when he made his own solo Black Panther film in 2018, Coogler said his dedication to the character of T'Challa seemed like it would never end. "He was talking in an African accent," Coogler recalled. "Disney executives came to see us on Panther. It was the second week and they stood up, it was the T'Challa accent, and they got scared. I said 'Don't be scared. He's working on it, man. He won't turn it off until we're done.'".
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At around 1 hour 4 minutes, Ryan Coogler considers this one of the most important scenes in the film. He had the chance to show an early cut of the film to Francis Ford Coppola, whose work inspired him. When the film ended, Coppola said, "Rewind it back to the scene when everything changed," and Coogler knew exactly what he was talking about.
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(at around 1h 40 mins) The crew built this set with poured concrete. They sliced the top off a hill and dug a giant hole in it. It's about 100 feet in diameter and about 8 feet from the platform to the top of the steps, and they built about 30 feet of the actual building with the rest added in VFX.
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Ryan Coogler described his relationship with Chadwick Boseman as follows: "It meant a lot to me, but I learned from his family and friends after his passing how much I meant to him, and that wrecked me quite a bit. I wondered whether he knew how much he meant to me. I wondered, but he protected me from a lot of things; our relationship was one of many protections. During Panther's hardest days I was convinced I was going to be fired… It was like this: 'I will never let that happen to you.'".
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(At about 1 hour 55 minutes) This scene reminded Ryan Coogler of his childhood and of fighting with his siblings; when you reach that moment in a fight, you might hit them too hard and they go down. Here, when we see Killmonger returning to childhood and T'Challa not wanting to leave him there to die, he wanted to capture the darkest version of that.
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Production Story (3)
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During post-production, editor Debbie Berman told Ryan Coogler that having the all-female Dora Milaje rescued entirely by the all-male Jabari undermined, in her view, the film's focus on strong female characters. Coogler agreed and later added female Jabari warriors to the scene through additional photography, including the first Jabari warrior in the scene. Berman felt this was an important change that a male editor might not have noticed.
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The producers initially intended to use Wakanda designs based on the art of Marvel artist Jack Kirby, but they objected because Kirby's work had already been used in Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and that influence would have made the Wakandans feel too alien. Instead they opted for African modernist and futuristic styles for Wakanda.
Behind the Scenes (9)
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Asked how it felt to be one of the few non-black actors on the film's set (and sometimes the only non-black actor on set), Martin Freeman said, "You think, 'Right, this is what black actors feel like all the time?'" Freeman said that he and Andy Serkis, who also appeared together in the Hobbit films, were known on set as the "Tolkien white guys."
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For the Jabari tribe's costumes, costume designer Ruth E. Carter drew inspiration from the clothing of the Dogon people, a tribe living in the central plateau region of Mali in West Africa. Her design approach for the film was to keep the costumes rich in African traditions by looking at the entire continent and a wide range of its peoples, but to elevate them to reflect the fantastic elements inherent in the nature of the mysterious country and culture.
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Characters & Cast (14)
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Black Panther was created in July 1966, two months before the founding of the Black Panther Party. Many people mistakenly assumed the name referred to the Party, so the character's name was changed to Black Leopard. However, neither readers nor the creators cared for this title and it did not last long. Still, the name Black Leopard pays homage to the war paint in T'Challa's struggle for the throne.
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Lead actors Lupita Nyong'o and Winston Duke, who play the rival characters Nakia and M'Baku, were also students at the Yale School of Drama (Nyong'o was Class of '12 and Duke was Class of '13). They watched Avengers (2012) together when it was released and were so impressed that they said they hoped to get the chance to appear in a similar film one day. In fact, Duke would later return as M'Baku in Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the sequel to Avengers. Nyong'o and Duke went on to appear together as husband and wife in Us (2019).
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Black Panther was the first Marvel character whose film rights returned to Marvel. The character had previously belonged to Artisan Entertainment and Columbia Pictures, and Marvel regained the rights in 2005. Reportedly, because former Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter believed this film and Captain Marvel (2019) would not be profitable, it still took 13 years for the character to appear on screen. Following allegations of racism (Perlmutter was reported to have recast the role of Colonel Rhoades in Iron Man 2 (2010) with the comment "all black actors look the same"), Kevin Feige replaced Perlmutter as Marvel's supervisor in 2015 and immediately put Black Panther into development. Perlmutter was fired by Disney in 2023 during Robert A. Iger's restructuring of the company.
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In the script, Erik had one more line before dying: "It's beautiful, but what are you going to do for everybody in the world who can't see this?" The UN post-credits scene was originally planned as the film's ending and would have followed immediately after. Co-editor Michael P. Shawver, however, said the line caused problems and had to be removed because it did not fit the character. To solve this, the current Oakland ending, which concludes with T'Challa's decision to launch a Wakanda outreach program, was added as a bookend to the opening and in spirit to the cut line Killmonger says to him. Ryan Coogler and Shawver looked at a top 10 list of the best film endings and found that the closing scene of The Godfather (1972) came closest to the problem of properly closing the film.
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Wesley Snipes was a Black Panther fan and explains: "I think he spoke to me because he was noble and was the antithesis of the stereotypes presented and portrayed about Africans, African history and Africa's great kingdoms." He first announced in 1992 that he planned to produce and star in a film adaptation, and Mario Van Peebles and John Singleton were approached to direct. Snipes developed the project for more than a decade, but it never came to fruition due to creative differences, technical limitations and confusion among some that the film was about the Black Panther Party.
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Michael B. Jordan wanted to fully immerse himself in the role of Killmonger, so while preparing he "isolated" himself from his family and "didn't really speak" to them. He explained: "Erik didn't really know love. I don't think Erik experienced that. There were so many betrayals, so many failed systems around him that shaped him, his anger and his frustration." Jordan admitted he was so committed to his role that he had difficulty coming out of it after filming was completed. He said: "After the film, it stayed with me for a while. I went to therapy, I talked about it, I found a way to relax a bit. And I think at that point I was still learning that I needed to relieve the stress of a character. Acting is often a lonely journey. Auditioning alone, practicing alone. There's so much preparation, experience and journey. So as I went along I learned, 'Oh man, I still have a little something on me, I need to get rid of it.' You know, talking is really important."
Easter Eggs & References (6)
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(At about 39 minutes) When Shuri takes T'Challa to test his new "sneakers," you can briefly see a series of characters written in Wakandan glyphs on the surfaces, corresponding to the 26 letters of the Roman alphabet. When deciphered, the letters read "Heir Tchaka," a reference to T'Challa's lineage (his father is T'Chaka) as well as a joking nod to a popular basketball shoe brand ("Air Jordan").
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N'Jadaka plans for Wakanda to send weapons to London, New York and Hong Kong, the cities where extraterrestrial attacks took place. In The Avengers (2012), the Chitauri attacked New York; in Thor: The Dark World (2013), the Dark Elves attacked London; and in Doctor Strange (2016), Dormammu invaded Hong Kong. There is also a sanctum in each of the 3 cities named in Doctor Strange.
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(At about 38 minutes) Although Shuri does not leave Wakanda very often, with the "What are those!?" exclamation she uses for T'Challa's sandals, she reminds us that she is young and connected to the outside world via the internet. This line references a viral Vine meme and is used to call out someone with bad shoes.
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Deeper Meaning (22)
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Ryan Coogler describes the film's main theme as responsibility and identity: "What do the powerful owe to those in need? It separates the good guys from the bad guys. What is the value of power unless you use it to help someone? Wakanda looks like another African country that is struggling, but some of its neighbors are truly struggling. If the Wakandans don't stand up for themselves, who will stand up? But if they only stand up for themselves, then who are they?"
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Director Ryan Coogler brought in consultants who were experts on African history and politics to define Wakanda: "There are many African countries, each with a different history, mythology and culture. There are several tribes living among one another, and together they form their country's identity. We focused on some of the historical/cultural influences of African countries and then made extrapolations."
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To create the sense that the country is a mixture of different tribes, the producers built a unique culture for each of the Wakandan tribes: * The Golden Tribe (the royal family) uses a black motif found throughout Africa and a continental symbol for the sun. It also has panther-themed designs. * The Border Tribe drew inspiration from Lesotho's architecture and language. The tribe's symbol is the word for "horsemen" in the Lesotho language. Its motifs are blue (a national Lesotho color) and wood. They use rhinoceros-themed weapons: attacks on rhinos, shields and horn-shaped blades. They frequently wear Basotho blankets (the Basotho are the majority in Lesotho). * The River Tribe was inspired by the Surma and Mursi of Ethiopia, Nilotic peoples from the Nile River. Its motifs are green and seashells. They wear crocodile skin and leather. * The Mining Tribe was inspired by the Himba and Maasai peoples of southern Africa. Its motifs are red and orange. They wear lion-themed designs. * The Merchant Tribe was inspired by the Tuareg of the Sahara. Its motifs are purple. * The Jabari Tribe was inspired by the Bari, Igbo and Dogon of West Africans, who are shamanistic nature-worshipping tribes. They wear fur and wood to honor their sacred animal, the gorilla.
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The scars on Erik Killmonger's body are a form of body modification called scarification, a dying tradition practiced by some African tribes. Some tribes use it as a form of identity/social status, while others use it to mark milestones achieved in life; according to Killmonger, each scar represented a person he had killed. Doing this to his body can also be seen as a misguided way of connecting with his African ancestors.
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The Wakandan amphitheater was built on a backlot in Atlanta. It was about 120 feet wide and 40 feet high, with 150,000 gallons of water flowing through it, and a tunnel system at the back that allowed more than 100 extras to reach various heights. The inspiration for the amphitheater came from Oribi Gorge in KwaZulu-Natal in southern South Africa, a canyon with beautiful colors and layered rocks.
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(At about 24 minutes) In the film, Black Panther's rival M'Baku says, "Glory to Hanuman." He states that Hanuman belongs to Hindu mythology, a powerful heroic monkey god. In the comics, M'Baku worships the gorilla god of judgment, Ghekre; the change was likely made to symbolize that M'Baku is a heroic ally and to signal that he will come to T'Challa's aid in the film. During the film's premiere in India, the name was removed to ensure Hindu sensitivities were not offended.
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While on the Ancestral Plane, Erik finds himself in a version of his father's apartment, looking at the real Ancestral Plane where King T'Chaka and his ancestors reside. The apartment has blinds resembling the traditional iron bars of prison cells, implying that N'Jobu's spirit is imprisoned on the Ancestral Plane and forbidden from connecting with the other ancestors.
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To create the film's score, Ludwig Göransson had a 92-piece live orchestra, a 40-person choir and more than 40 different musicians playing traditional African instruments. Just as the filmmakers had a color story woven throughout the film, there are also leitmotifs, which are musical cues representing the characters throughout the film's narrative and which develop alongside them.
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The film predominantly uses black, red and green, the traditional colors of African culture. In addition, blue, a color widely used in Western/European culture, is used to represent foreigners or out-of-place elements in Wakanda: * The alien metal vibranium has a blue glow. * Klaue, Ross and Killmonger, who are foreign to Wakanda, wear blue clothing at some point in the film. * W'Kabi and the Border Tribe have blue uniforms. W'Kabi turns his back on T'Challa and leads his tribe against him. * MBaku's lair is located among the mountains, in the middle of the blue sky. MBaku begins as T'Challa's rival but later becomes his ally. * Shuri's laboratory has blue screens. She stands out as an engineering genius. * Ramonda wears a blue cloth when she goes to the Jabari for refuge.
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The Wakandan theme sung by musician Baaba Maal describes a metaphor. This metaphor is significant and foreshadows what is to come. In the sequel film, this metaphor is revisited during T'Challa's funeral march. The movie's composer explained that the song refers to an elephant/fallen monarch. In WF, Princess Shuri wears elephant-tusk-like earrings after her brother's death. This detail indicates she's destined to take his place sooner than she may think. Baaba Maal also cameos behind her, further solidifying the character's future arc.
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Life & Family (1)
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The movie opens with a scene of kids playing basketball in Oakland in the year 1992. In 1992, screenwriter Joe Robert Cole was a student at the University of California in nearby Berkeley and played on Cal's "Club" or "Blue" basketball team, the university's version of a JV team. He started at point guard for three years.
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- Avengers: Infinity War — Black Panther comes up in the facts on that page
- Sinners — Black Panther comes up in the facts on that page
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