Agent Ross did say something about textiles when he was giving a rundown of Wakanda to Klaue. I assume that Wakanda maintains unofficial trade of the sort of items expected of a small "Third World" African nation in order to have capital they can use abroad. Even an allegedly poor African nation can probably buy some condemned apartment buildings in the ghetto without much difficulty.
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Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 18, 2018 1:31:52 pm PST #1838 of 4009
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Tom Scola - Feb 18, 2018 1:35:34 pm PST #1839 of 4009
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Jess, M'Baku did say they were vegetarians, but he also said that a fisherman rescued T'Challa.
Connie Neil - Feb 18, 2018 1:58:02 pm PST #1840 of 4009
brillig
M'Baku is a troll.
Strix - Feb 18, 2018 2:03:07 pm PST #1841 of 4009
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
WRT economy, I betcha vibranium is not the only natural resource Wakanda is rich in, and if unethical rich people and countries can use layers of shell companies and off-shore accounts to protect their nefarious evil, Wakanda had been using their considerable intelligence and political savvy to have a booming secret trade set up for centuries.
...guys I loved it so so so much. I cried I was so excited.
Steph L. - Feb 18, 2018 2:47:07 pm PST #1842 of 4009
I look more rad than Lutheranism
M'Baku is a troll.
M'Baku is the BIGGEST troll.
And Shuri is a memelord.
askye - Feb 18, 2018 2:50:34 pm PST #1843 of 4009
Thrive to spite them
I haven't seen Black Panther yet but Civil War is on tv and I have been switching between that and Olympics and Mom is getting into it.
She really needs to watch it but at one point she was got kinda upset "doesn't he have a name?" (Meaning Sam). When I said Sam she was like...no does he have a special name too? I told her Falcon she was happy.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 18, 2018 3:17:47 pm PST #1844 of 4009
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
It's interesting to me that for all that we've had multiple movies with Asgard's cosmology plus the other dimensions in Dr. Strange, this is the first movie that actually showed a spiritual afterlife in the MCU. It makes me wonder what Bast is in relation to "gods" like the Asgardians. (Also Hanuman I guess; isn't he supposed to be a south Asian deity from Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism rather than an African one? Or are they using Robert E. Howard's version from the Conan stories?)
Connie Neil - Feb 18, 2018 4:07:49 pm PST #1845 of 4009
brillig
Was there anything in the movie itself that said Shuri was T'Challa's half-sister?
Strix - Feb 18, 2018 4:20:15 pm PST #1846 of 4009
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Hanuman is definitely a monkey god, so I can see done kind of cross-cultural theology going on there.
I do not recall Shuri being specifically mentioned as a half-sister in the film, no.
Nora Deirdre - Feb 18, 2018 5:13:31 pm PST #1847 of 4009
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
And Shuri is a memelord.
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