laporcupina:M’Baku Won’t Be Called Man-Ape In ‘Black Panther’ “We don’t call him Man-Ape,” executive

laporcupina:M’Baku Won’t Be Called Man-Ape In ‘Black Panther’ “We don’t call him Man-Ape,” executive producer Nate Moore said. “We do call him M’Baku. Having a black character dress up as an ape, I think there’s a lot of racial implications that don’t sit well, if done wrong. But the idea that they worship the gorilla gods is interesting because it’s a movie about the Black Panther who, himself, is a sort of deity in his own right.” “You learn that M’Baku is essentially the head of the religious minority in Wakanda and we thought that was interesting,” Moore said. “Wakanda is not a monolithic place. They have a lot of different factions.”Director Ryan Coogler also spoke about how M’Baku evolved as a character when the writers began to treat Wakanda like it was an actual place in Africa. “A lot of the writers who did some of the most interesting work around the character, they treated Wakanda like a truly African country,” Coogler said. “When you go to countries in Africa, you’ll find several tribes, who speak their own languages, have their own culture, and have distinct food and way of dress. They live amongst each other, and together they make the identity of those countries. That’s something we tried to capture. We wanted it to feel like a country, as opposed to just one city or town.”“In M’Baku’s worldview, T’Chaka made a huge mistake going to the U.N.,” Moore says. “‘We should never engage with the outside world. That’s a terrible mistake. And if his son is anything like his father, I don’t support him being on the throne.’ Politically, he just has different ideology,” says Moore, who compares the mountain tribe to one of the deadly rival “five families” in The Godfather. “Man-Ape is a problematic character for a lot of reasons, but the idea behind Man-Ape we thought was really fascinating. … It’s a line I think we’re walking, and hopefully walking successfully.”… dare we hope that Marvel is (a) learning the value of worldbuilding and (b) losing a little of their tone-deafness? Marvel’s clearly aware that some of their older comics canon has not aged gracefully in terms of social mores, but they have at times put their foot squarely in their mouths when trying to do the right thing. Perhaps being up-front about what and why instead of doing damage control afterward is a sign of a lesson learned? -- source link

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