Cinema DNA
A Prophet
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Films that shaped it
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I saw Mean Streets a lot when I was growing up and it taught me how to put raw energy on screen, how to film friendship in that way.
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Films it shaped
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Black Panther Atlas note
Ryan Coogler has said he spent months studying the work of Ousmane Sembène, the Senegalese filmmaker who spent his career insisting African stories deserved their own visual language rather than a borrowed European one, before designing Wakanda's aesthetic. Sembène made his first film in 1963. He called himself the father of African cinema. Black Girl and Touki Bouki, Djibril Diop Mambéty's visionary 1973 film, are the real Wakanda.
