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Oscars 2019: Black Panther, Roma may be on opposite sides of the spectrum, but both stand true to their milieus
FirstpostWhat sets the two Best Picture nominees at Oscars 2019 apart was the intent to not water down the cultural markers of the minorities/places they represent. Ryan Coogler’s superhero movie Black Panther and Alfonso Cuaron’s neorealist slice-of-life film Roma will make history at the Oscars this Sunday as they are the first Marvel film and the first Netflix film respectively to be nominated in the Best Picture category. While Roma revolves around Cleo, an indigenous domestic help in a middle-class family, Black Panther is a long delayed Marvel Cinematic Universe movie with a black superhero. Also, with the same move, Coogler consciously ensured that the superhero film is not another victim of ‘Blaxploitation’ — a film with superficial black characters subservient to or at the mercy of supreme white powers. Besides the diversity that Roma and Black Panther bring to the Best Picture, one must also celebrate what made these films equally enriching and groundbreaking, and give those technicians the spotlight they deserve.
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