July 13th, 2012 at 7:30PM
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Anonymous asked: Saw your poster for The Last Black Panther and wondered if you'd seen The Last Samurai and realized that Tom Cruise was not the titular character in that film, but rather Ken Watanabe's character was instead.

I have seen the film, and my understanding is the title was referencing the plural form of “Samurai,” in reference to the whole clan. But your reading or mine would both equally illustrate how silly/misleading/inaccurate the movie’s framing and promotion was, in its continuation of the “present white character as central to POC stories” Hollywood tradition..

  1. melancholywise said: Please please could you make those two posters rebloggable. They’re awesome.
  2. michelle-my-belle said: i’m not sure if anon is clueless and didn’t get the point of the poster or they’re just being condescending.
  3. thatdudefromnewyork said: literally Tom Cruise was the protagonist. He was the only one to undergo a heroic quest for enlightenment and come out having learned something. The intention doesn’t matter when the film decides to focus on some irrelevant white guy.
  4. dulciusexasperis said: Thank you, come again.
  5. irresistible-revolution said: OMFG at ‘the last Black Panther’. But Katniss being a WOC is TOTALLY out of the question of course because oliveskin!
  6. tashabilities said: THANK YOU. YES. White centrality.
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