Black Panther
Where the DNA of Black Panther travels
Films that shaped it
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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.
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The Battle of Algiers 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.
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Touki Bouki 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.
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Xala 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.
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Yeelen 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.
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City of God 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.
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A Prophet 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.
Films it shaped
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I don't know that Woman King would be made if you didn't do what you did with Black Panther.
