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Lessons from the Screenplay
Black Panther — Creating an Empathetic Villain
Black Panther — Creating an Empathetic Villain
Lessons from the Screenplay
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hi I'm Michael this is lessons from the screenplay
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in the weeks following Black
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Panthers release I noticed that one character
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seemed to be receiving a lot of attention
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Michael B Jordans Eric
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kill monger in particular
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I kept encountering articles and conversations
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saying he was the best antagonist
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since Heath Ledger's Joker in
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the Dark Knight when
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looking at the design of the two characters it's clear that they have several
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similarities but it's their differences
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that are really interesting
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the character of the Joker is designed to directly
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attack Batman Batman must take off his mask and
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turn himself in every
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day he doesn't people will die kill
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monger on the other hand is designed to attack two challahs weakness
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and a more indirect
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and complex way is if you cousin so
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today I want to look at the ways kill monger challenges
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two challahs deeply held beliefs
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to examine why an opponent
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with an empathetic perspective
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can be so impactful and
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explore a unique aspect of kill mongers design that makes him such an emotionally
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powerful character let's take a look at
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Black Panther as the
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story begins to chala believes that Wakanda
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should remain hidden from the world he
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wants to be a great King like his father and he thinks the best
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way to do this is to uphold tradition
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if the world found out what we truly are what
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we possess we could lose our way of life because
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this is the decision to chawla we'll be wrestling with in the film the
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writers surround him with characters that have varying opinions on wakanda's
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isolationism at one end of the spectrum is equaiiy who
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believes the secret of a Conda must be protected even
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if it means sacrificing the
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lives of others how
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do we justify bringing him into our body it took a bullet
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for me that was his choice at
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the other end of the spectrum is Nakia who
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refuses to stay in Wakanda because
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she can't accept a living and comfort while there are so many others and
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need I can't be happy here knowing
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that there's people out there who have nothing we
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could provide aid and access
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to technology and refuge
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to those who need it other countries
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do it we could do it better but
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even Nakia who to Chava is in love with can't
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force him to change his beliefs
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that's a job for the antagonist
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as kill monger arrives he starts affecting the protagonist
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in the same way as I outlined in
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my video on the Joker two years ago come
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on gar is competing for the same goals too Chawla I want to throw
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I'm exercising my blood right the
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challenge for the medals of King and
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black panther and pressuring
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him into difficult choices I accept
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a charge but what makes him such a powerful antagonist
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is the way he attacks - Chavez weakness
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just like the other characters
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surrounding T'Challa kill monger has an opinion on whether or not Wakanda
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should hide from the world and most
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importantly it's a perspective the audience can empathize with in
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an interview Joe Robert Cole co-writer
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of black panther said I think
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the best villains are ones that have a point of view that's relatable
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and that you can empathize with sometimes
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it's how far you take things that makes you a villain and not necessarily
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the perspective kill mongers perspective
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is influenced by his father's experience
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in the United States served
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for as long as I could
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the leaders have been assassinated
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communities flooded with drugs and weapons they are overly
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policed and incarcerated all
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over the planet our people suffer because they don't have the tools to fight
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back this outrage passed to young Eric who points out that Wakanda has sat
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idly by while so many have suffered I'll
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sitting up here comfortable
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must feel good it's
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about two billion people all over the world it looks like us but
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their lives are a lot
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Wakanda has the tools that liberate them all the
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foundation of Eric's perspective
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is essentially identical to
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nakiya's Wakanda a nation
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of extreme wealth and knowledge should
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be doing more for those in need around the world up
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to this point his
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argument is one I think most of us could get behind but
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what makes kill monger the villain is the way he wants Wakanda
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to do more for those in need we're
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gonna send by brainian weapons outside our war dogs they'll
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arm oppressed people all over the world so
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they can finally rise up and kill those in power and their
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children and anyone else who takes their side so
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if the antagonist perspective
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has become so radical
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how can they successfully change
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the protagonists beliefs this
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in my opinion is the most brilliant part of kill mongers design not
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only does kill monger effect - Chavez beliefs intellectually
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he also affects the protagonist beliefs
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emotionally returning briefly to the Joker comparison
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one of the biggest differences between him and kill monger is how
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much we know about who
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they are the Joker has no backstory at all and we
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never fully understand why he's doing what he's doing that's
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part of what makes him so powerful
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with kill monger the exact opposite
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is true he isn't some stranger who has come to wreak havoc he's
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two challahs family your
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uncle fell in love with an American woman
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they had chai tea
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and in learning more about who Eric really is T'Challa
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discovers the ugly truth about his father and
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the real cost of Wakanda
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secrecy killed his own brother
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and after a child behind
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nothing what kind of King
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what kind of man does that
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in this way Eric
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is the embodiment of the FA's and the protagonists
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beliefs a walking reminder of
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his father's failings an example
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of the people who have needlessly suffered because of wakanda's
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isolationism and living proof that shutting
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out the rest of the world will
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not keep them safe and it
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is only when T'Challa is confronted
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with all of this that
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his beliefs finally change
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to turn your backs on the rest of the world
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we let the fear of how a discovery
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stop us from doing what is right
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no more just as the Joker pushes Batman to become the Dark Knight through
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pressure and chaos kill
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monger pushes the cella to truly become Black Panther through both confrontation
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you set up this safe and protected
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you want to see us become just like the people you hate so much
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you have become that and empathy
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the world took everything away from me
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everything I ever loved
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the writers let us see the young boy inside
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of kill monger a child
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who had everything unfairly
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taken from him and for
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whom the world of Wakanda
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was merely a fantasy
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you believe it tear
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from Oakland around believe in a fairy tale
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after battling with and learning from the antagonist
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T'Challa decides what kind of a king he
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be what conga will no longer watch from the shadows we
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must find a way to look
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after one another as
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if we were one
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single dragon kill manga and the Joker are both brilliantly
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designed to push their respective
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protagonists to change but
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their differences demonstrate how the specifics
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of the plot and the hero can
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demand different qualities from the antagonist
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this further underscores why the antagonist
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should grow from the protagonist
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why a pathetic villains are often more impactful than generically
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evil ones and why
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the dark knight and black panther are both great examples
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of how to create the
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