Isn't this film racist?
Black Panther? What if there was a movie that had 'White' in the film yet featured all white people?
shareA strange query. It’s a shame racism has to come into anything.
Trouble is there’s the animal Black Panther - the melanistic colour variant of any Panthera, particularly of the leopard - so.....not it’s not racist?!
There are plenty of pale animals named white, for example the White Tiger, but as that’s a Bengal Tiger with a variant pigment (it’s not a melanistic/albino) it kind of defeats the purpose of having an all white cast, if it was a film based on the Indian subcontinent.
I think the name ‘Black Panther’ fits perfectly with the ethos and story of the film. However, they could have taken any African animal as their totem and it should still have similar feeling. I personally think it does have more gravitas using that word, but like I said, the story behind it could have had any well known symbolic animal; he could have been ‘White Rhino‘, ‘Wilderbeest’, ‘Leopard’ or ‘King Cheetah’ - anything.
It’s just a shame that I didn’t find the film overall very good.