Spoilers forWakanda Forever
上周，瑞安·库格勒（Ryan Coogler），安吉拉·巴塞特（Angela Bassett）和莱蒂蒂亚·赖特（Letitia Wright）涵盖了数字版Variety, but I put off writing about it until more people got to seeBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever整个周末。
TheVariety个人资料重点关注Chadwick Boseman的丧失，以及如何更改脚本的脚本Wakanda Forever，而且不可能谈论Boseman，悲伤和Wakanda Foreverwithout digging into the film itself. Boseman’s loss, and by extension T’Challa’s, too, is在电影中如此重心, it directly ties into major plot elements of the story. For instance, Marvel chief Kevin Feige says of Letitia Wright and her character, Shuri,“…电影和瓦卡达王国的全部重量在下一部电影中都在她的肩膀上，显然没有人期望。”
您绝对可以说，Shuri并不是要成为主角，也不是成为新的黑豹，因为这部电影在这些发展中的速度迅速与Namor进行了第三幕对决。并不是说赖特不是一个好演员，也不是她不能锚定电影，她绝对可以（另请参阅：Small Axe: Mangrove）。只是Shuri最初是为了对更严肃的T'Challa感到欣慰，Feige无意识地承认，赖特之所以被雇用，部分原因是她“为这部电影提供了忠诚”。要求我们购买Shuri可怕，愤怒的悲伤是一回事 - 我们可以做到这一点。我们中的许多人都对失去Boseman的失落感到震惊，Boseman是一位在如此悲惨的短暂时间内产生巨大影响的艺术家。
但是Shuri是黑豹？一秒钟没有购买。没有赚钱，不说服。Shuri全天候工作以通过技术解决Wakanda的问题？完全有道理。Shuri试图调解与Namor的冲突？也可信。但是Shuri成为黑豹？当Nakia和Okoye，甚至Ayo都在那里？从字面上看，其他任何人都更有意义。 I suppose Coogler & Co. want to hold Danai Gurira and Okoye in reserve as she is going to be the protagonist of the Wakanda-set spinoff series on Disney+. But so what?! Make her Black Panther anyway. The third-act climax that actually makes sense is for Okoye to become the Black Panther and Shuri gets in her Blue Angel super-suit or whatever that was called. Without T’Challa, the entire world of Wakanda has to shift, but thrusting Shuri into the role of the Black Panther, with so little grounding for that decision, feels like taking an easy out for a difficult problem. (Yes, I know Shuri has done it in the comics, but it just was not earned in this film.)
无论如何，如果没有Boseman，这对每个人来说都很困难。库格勒显然仍在卷起，赖特谈论打电话给鲍斯曼的电话，并在发现他通过后留下消息真是太糟糕了。我突然失去了两个朋友，每次都感觉像是一个可怕的恶作剧。我只是想让每个人都停止说这些可怕的话，并透露这都是一个坏笑话。死亡真的可以感觉就像有人从您的下面拉出地毯，而您降落在一个奇怪的新世界，没有什么意义。很明显，两年后，那些爱查德威克·鲍斯曼（Chadwick Boseman）的人仍在努力寻找进入现实的道路，而没有他的话。
As for the other stuff in the profile, I like what Coogler and Bassett have to say about learning to swim and considering if Bassett could get her head wet on set. Black people and swimming in America is a loaded topic, and I like that it has been discussed as part of this film’s reality. They also talk about Wright’s on set injury, which was written off as “minor injuries” at the time, but really involved a fractured shoulder and concussion. I bring this up to emphasize a point. Well, two points. One, keep in mind when actors are taken off set, it’s always serious. There are medics on set, if it’s minor, they can handle it. If an actor is hospitalized, it is never “minor”.
And two, it goes with all the ducking and weaving around Letitia Wright’s vaccination status. Many of us were disappointed when Wright, the face of super-scientist Shuri, was揭示为抗vaxx，或至少抗VAXX相邻。在此个人资料中，制片人内特·摩尔（Nate Moore）明确指出，没有人问过赖特（Wright）有关她的疫苗接种状况，也没有在现场谈论。他说，关于赖特的报道是反vaxx，“As someone who literally is on set next to the monitor all the time, I feel like I would have heard it.”
我的家伙,她发微博。但这是为什么I bring up the “minor injuries” statement from 2021 when Wright was injured on set. The people of Marvel are masters of prevarication. No one in the industry is better at playing down problems or spinning news to their favor. A lot of it comes from Kevin Feige himself, who is a natural diplomat and not prone to tantrums or bombast. He is calm and measured and not hasty with his words. Nate Moore, one of his proteges, has clearly developed these same traits. To succeed with Feige is to become a diplomat, too. They are hardly going to give any more oxygen than strictly necessary to the furor around Wright and her anti-vaxx status. They have to discuss it, because it became such a cultural flashpoint during the height of the pandemic (which isn’t over! Get vaxxed!). But they are not going to say anything controversial themselves, or in any way make the situation worse. It’s all “minor injuries” until it’s safe to declare otherwise.
To me, it seems clear Wright still has some suspicious opinions about vaccines. She and her publicists gave theVariety记者对该主题的竞选活动，尽管赖特只会通过电子邮件说，但最终还是没有答案。最后，赖特的代表将记者指示她的2021年Instagram反驳the reports about her vaccination beliefs。
I truly hope now thatWakanda Foreveris out in the world, anda bona fide hit, Ryan Coogler et al can “break” over Boseman’s death. It’s not like the movies, like Coogler says. There is no retreating and doing all your healing off screen and only returning once you’re ready. In real life, grief comes in waves, and it never really leaves you. It just shifts in size and shape until it becomes part of you, something you can carry. And if Ryan Coogler never returns to Wakanda, let alone the wider MCU, that’s fine. He did not mean to walk this path alone, and now he must do so while carrying the weight of his grief. Whatever comes next, I just hope he finds some peace.
