The newest Marvel film is Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Review Here) and it is a direct sequel to the 2018 Black Panther that was lead by Chadwick Boseman. The film’s events are set sometime after Endgame. Ryan Coogler has returned to write and direct the sequel. The film stars Letitia Wright, Angela Basset, Lupita Nyong’o, Martin Freeman, Winston Duke, Tenoch Huerta, Danai Gurira, etc. Letitia Wright’s Shuri is the real protagonist of the film as Chadwick Boseman has tragically passed away. The film was pretty much marketed as something that addresses grief everyone was experiencing after Boseman’s passing. The film just like any other Marvel had great first reactions but more than anything the one that caught my attention was that it was a mature film unlike other MCU ventures.
The last few Marvel films have deeply disappointed me to the point where I questioned my choice of films. However, I deeply respect and believe in Ryan Coogler as a filmmaker. So, I wanted to see what he had to bring in this array of disappointments that Marvel is churning out. The trailers for the film looked absolutely stunning and heart pounding. I conjured a lot of hope as I stepped into the theatres to watch Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, hoping that the film is good, as I knew this would be my breaking point if I saw another mediocre venture from Marvel and it seems like Ryan Coogler has just managed to make this film work, without losing his voice as a filmmaker. However, it seems like some nations are just too regressed to adapt to the new world.
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The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Disney has removed the very minor gay scene in Wakanda Forever in the Kuwait cut of the film. The scene I’m referring to is towards the later half of the movie where Aneka- a member of the Dora Milaje kisses Ayo who is also part of the Dora Milaje on her forehead and says, “okay my love.” This little scene that has not profanity, nudity, curses or anything offensive to anyone is a problem for the Kuwaiti censor board as they’ve asked Disney to remove this scene if the film is supposed to release in Kuwait.
Disney like any other production company has succumbed to these demands as they have no spine and cut the scene out. In this day and age if such scenes have to be cut out then we as a civilization have really failed in understand each other. We have to adapt to the new world and ideas. We can’t ourselves in closets of our own believes and ideals which have long passed their expiration dates. It breaks my heart to see this happen as this wasn’t even as prominent as some of the other scenes in MCU like in Eternals or Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Thankfully, this scene is only cut in Kuwait but everywhere else in the world this scene will play. This scene from Black Panther 2 made through countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, and Qatar as it will be screened there is its unedited form but Kuwait is the strictest country from that area. I can only hope that I don’t have to cover news like this ever again.
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