The Big Picture · Discussion · Interview
February 15, 2019/ 52 min/ Sean Fennessey
Rob Harvilla and Micah Peters make the case for a 'Black Panther' Best Picture win, then costume designer Ruth E. Carter walks through building Wakanda for her Oscar-nominated work on the film.
3 films across 2 segments.
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The Case for ‘Black Panther’with Rob Harvilla and Micah Peters
Harvilla calls it the most complete of the seven Best Picture nominees; Peters, who saw it four times, traces his own arc from loving to hating to loving Michael B. Jordan's Killmonger. Both land on the ancestral-plane scene in Killmonger's Oakland apartment as the moment the film's mix of myth and real history clicked as Best Picture-worthy, even as they agree the CGI train fight at the end is the film's weak point.
In conversation
Carter, nominated for Best Costume Design, describes pitching herself to Marvel without a script, building the panther suit thin enough for the stunt team (and hiring a Boston Ballet dancer to fix the gussets), and using Dogon masks and African weaponry as reference for the Jabari armor. Discusses her long collaboration with Ryan Coogler and, before this film, twelve movies with Spike Lee.
Carter's answer to Sean's closing question — the last great movie she'd seen, for its makeup, hair, and clothes.
Also mentioned raised along the way
In passing during the Black Panther discussion Thor: RagnarokThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingBen-HurThe Dark KnightAvengers: Infinity WarBrigadoonGuardians of the GalaxyCaptain Marvel
Mentioned in the Sonos ad First ManMission: Impossible - Fallout
In the Ruth Carter interview AquamanSchool Daze
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