Tag: okoye

Branching off of this wonderful, wonderful post, coz I just caught sight of the Solo poster on the way home. 

Where is my Leia Organa origin story? Can you honestly tell me no one would be interested as fuck in that? How did Bail raise her? Did he watch her growing up outsmarting every single tutor and blowing everyone else out of the water and his heart clench in the memory of Padmé Amidala? You can’t tell me Leia never wondered about her birth parents. How much did Bail tell her? How much did he choose to reveal? How much of her history informed her future? 

And more importantly, how much would it mean for girls to see this path to emulate, knowing her future? It is, of course, entirely possible that Leia was the exception rather than the rule when it comes to women throughout her upbringing, but it takes a village to raise a child, and I don’t think Leia would be the sort of girl to ignore the absence of women around her. If we must include that shoddy excuse for a sequel, at least give me Leia’s relationship with Holdo. And as someone who pursued Obi-Wan so relentlessly during IV, I imagine she would reach out to even rumours of a Jedi. And because we’re in the Star Wars verse- there is absolutely no excuse for not having any diversity. Give me women of all shapes and sizes, creeds and cultures, religions and races. Hell, give me aliens. There should definitely be aliens, considering how she became a senator- how else was she going to learn about foreign culture? Certainly not by just reading out of a book. 

Give me life upon Themyscira, give me my Amazons movie. Bloody hell, on that note, give me my Xena movie. Give me my Black Widow movie. Give me more women to learn from, to look up to, to aspire to be, to adore, to love, to appreciate, to laugh at, to hate. 

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Marvel’s Black Panther: “UN Meet and Greet” Exclusive Deleted Scene (X)

They really, really should have included this in the movie. It’s such an important, precious show of development that has been taking place between these characters. From the man who arrogantly asked “Does she speak English?” and got cold stares and hissed answers for it to this, to Everett making the effort to learn their language and the others, while grinning at his slip-up, genuinely appreciating the effort and thanking him for it.

They learned to respect each other, heck, probably even like each other, and this whole scene would have shown this so perfectly.

(Also, who wants to bet with me that Shuri taught him the phrase and got it wrong on purpose?)  

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not to be dramatic, but Okoye telling her bitch ass husband she would end him without hesitation when he tried to manipulate her changed me as a person and cured my depression. 

“would you kill me my love?”

“for wakanda? No question.”

a woman in my theater: “oH I HEARD THAT!!!!”

Listen.  LISTEN.  *cups your face in my hands*  Listen to me.  I have never so perfectly and purely seen a Paladin depicted in a movie as I saw in Okoye.  Lawful good to her core.  Pure, unvarnished loyalty to Wakanda and her people evident in every goddamned motion.  Dignified, graceful, reverent respect for the rules of her country and its greater good.

There is something so beautiful about faith, something that just burns through with a beautiful glow that lights up someone’s eyes and every expression.  There is a confidence and a peace that is both palpable and enviable when faith has been tested and come through intact. You could so hear it in her voice.

Personal shit is great, and I’m glad she was seen in a loving relationship.  The Lone Woman Warrior trope is worn thin, and I’m sure even thinner for black women who are often not allowed to be lovable people on screen.  But the core of the Paladin is ‘there is something greater than I, and I will sacrifice everything for it’, and it was beautiful to not only see that happen on screen but see her proved right, see her win, in one case by not even raising her weapon.  She stood firm in her faith and the narrative said yes, it said this is just, it said your very faith will protect you from harm.  And she’s not seen as hard or cold edged weapon for that.  The imagery around her in that moment is more like a saint or an angel, glowing and reaching out a peaceful hand to a symbol of one of the tribes of her country.  Her country loves her back.

Okoye doesn’t just love her country.  She doesn’t just serve her country.  She doesn’t just believe in her country.  She has unshakable faith in an absolute truth: Wakanda Forever.  

She is elevated for her faith as much as her skill.  

It’s fucking breathtaking.