{"id":3585,"date":"2018-02-23T10:10:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3585"},"modified":"2018-02-23T10:10:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:10:20","slug":"black-panther-makes-its-mark-in-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3585","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Black Panther&#8221; Makes Its Mark In Theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Alexandra Gautier<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Movie goers everywhere were collectively holding their breath in anticipation of the arrival of \u201cBlack Panther.\u201d The film not only brought in hordes of dedicated Marvel fans, but also, according to the Hollywood Reporter, a greater percentage of the African-American and female communities, who were represented by the actors and actresses who played the strong, complex characters known and loved from the original cartoon comics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chadwick Boseman plays the main character, King T\u2019Challa, who must protect his technologically advanced country of Wakanda from Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan). T\u2019Challa goes by the superhero alter ego Black Panther, and uses suits and weapons made of the mineral substance Vibranium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Audiences and critics heralded this film as a turning point for the superhero film industry as it is one of the first of its kind: a \u201cblack superhero film\u201d, according to Huffington Post. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI think the plot is really relevant to everything that\u2019s going on in our country right now. This movie really drives home the point to help others, even if they don\u2019t personally mean anything to you, even if they\u2019re not \u2018your people\u2019. Not everyone is given the same opportunities, so we should think about that, and reach out to those who we can help,\u201d junior Mckenna Fernandini said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Alexandra Gautier Movie goers everywhere were collectively holding their breath in anticipation of the arrival of \u201cBlack Panther.\u201d The film not only brought in hordes of dedicated Marvel fans, but also, according to the Hollywood Reporter, a greater percentage of the African-American and female communities, who were represented by the actors and actresses&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}