Is anyone here mourning the passing of Chadwick Boseman?

[Ursus Chainus]

I rarely mourn the death of celebrities, but this has thrown me for a loop.

I love Black Panther and I loved his acting in many roles. When I saw the trailer for Black Panther before it come out, I felt tears rolling down my face. The movie was so amazing... even if it gave my Vietnamese wife the idea to call me "Colonizer" (Probably better than when she called me "Thor" when she saw how fat he had gotten).

When I was a kid, BP was my favorite Marvel comic. He brought the Black Panther to life for me in a way I could have never imagined.

I am really sad about this.

 

[AGXStarseed]

I rarely mourn the death of celebrities, but this has thrown me for a loop.

I love Black Panther and I loved his acting in many roles. When I saw the trailer for Black Panther before it come out, I felt tears rolling down my face. The movie was so amazing... even if it gave my Vietnamese wife the idea to call me "Colonizer" (Probably better than when she called me "Thor" when she saw how fat he had gotten).

When I was a kid, BP was my favorite Marvel comic. He brought the Black Panther to life for me in a way I could have never imagined.

I am really sad about this.

I have sympathies for his family and friends and losing anyone is always upsetting, although I wouldn't say I'm actively mourning for him.
It still is sad that he's gone, though - while I thought Black Panther was a bit overrated, I did enjoy the character in Civil War and Infinity War as well as seeing him in Endgame. May he rest in peace.

Seems a bit rude that your wife calls you "colonizer", but I don't know what your married life is like so what do I know.

 

[Ursus Chainus]

I have sympathies for his family and friends and losing anyone is always upsetting, although I wouldn't say I'm actively mourning for him.
It still is sad that he's gone, though - while I thought Black Panther was a bit overrated, I did enjoy the character in Civil War and Infinity War as well as seeing him in Endgame. May he rest in peace.

Seems a bit rude that your wife calls you "colonizer", but I don't know what your married life is like so what do I know.

Her name is Thu (pronounced "2"). I have soooo many Thu jokes that I deserve being called colonizer (or "Thor") I think it is funny. I don't have an issue around people making white guy jokes at my expense either. If anything... there needs to be more white guy jokes .

The movie meant a lot to me in ways many people who look like me would not understand. When I was a child, I thought so differently and felt so differently that an amazing the comic book character who looked so different than the people around me and was so powerful... inspired me. Chadwick Boseman and his great acting opened that character up. I am also selfishly sad that I will never see him as the Black Panther again.
I am most like Shuri from the movie... dang I love her character!

 

[Raggamuffin]

I've personally never been moved by a celebrity death - even one's who I was fond of. Probably because I never knew them on any personal level. If anything, the typical reaction of the media and society towards celebrity deaths tends to irk me.

Ed

 

[oregano]

Black Panther, as a movie, was pretty unique. Most superhero movies tend toward all or mostly White casts, even when the comic books have become more diverse the movies are still lily White. Having a superhero movie have an all Black cast was and is a novelty. Sadly, it should not have taken until 2018 for an all Black superhero movie to come out, but it did. I'd never heard of the BP character before the movie, and neither had most anybody else. The movie was extremely popular among Blacks, as you'd expect, and unlike the "blaxploitation" movies of the 70s it featured a Black hero who did NOT get that way through illicit means. ("Supafly", anyone?) Boseman hid his cancer fight until the very end, unlike most celebrities who try to get maximum press mileage from something like that. He visited Black kids in cancer wards while never mentioning his own fight. Boseman was well on his way to A List status. BP without Boseman will be like Superman without Christopher Reeve.

 

[Au Naturel]

He died young but he had an incredible life. Sad for the loss but happy for what we all have.

 

[Ursus Chainus]

I've personally never been moved by a celebrity death - even one's who I was fond of. Probably because I never knew them on any personal level. If anything, the typical reaction of the media and society towards celebrity deaths tends to irk me.

Ed

This is the case with me as well... but in this case I feel very sad.

 

[Ursus Chainus]

Black Panther, as a movie, was pretty unique. Most superhero movies tend toward all or mostly White casts, even when the comic books have become more diverse the movies are still lily White. Having a superhero movie have an all Black cast was and is a novelty. Sadly, it should not have taken until 2018 for an all Black superhero movie to come out, but it did. I'd never heard of the BP character before the movie, and neither had most anybody else. The movie was extremely popular among Blacks, as you'd expect, and unlike the "blaxploitation" movies of the 70s it featured a Black hero who did NOT get that way through illicit means. ("Supafly", anyone?) Boseman hid his cancer fight until the very end, unlike most celebrities who try to get maximum press mileage from something like that. He visited Black kids in cancer wards while never mentioning his own fight. Boseman was well on his way to A List status. BP without Boseman will be like Superman without Christopher Reeve.

I agree!

I am looking forward to seeing a movie with Monica Rambeau. She was introduced in Captain Marvel.

 

[kettenkrad]

I don't watch superhero movies and didn't know who he is, but everything I've read about him in the past few days has been very moving - he was obviously a courageous person of great integrity.

 

[kettenkrad]

Black Panther, as a movie, was pretty unique.

Have you ever read the comics that Milestone published? That's where Static Shock came from, before they merged with DC.

BP without Boseman will be like Superman without Christopher Reeve.

Let's not mention "The Quest For Peace"...

 

[AGXStarseed]

Boseman was well on his way to A List status. BP without Boseman will be like Superman without Christopher Reeve.

Funny you say that; seven months ago, I read rumours that Disney was planning to replace T'Challa with his sister Shuri in the role of Black Panther; an action that happened in the comics but which Boseman was reportedly angry about: Chadwick Boseman Reportedly Unhappy About Marvel's Plans For A New Black Panther

Whether those rumours were true and - if so - whether Disney will carry it out with the passing of Chadwick Boseman remains to be seen.

 

[Nervous Rex]

My wife and I recently watched a Tonight Show video with Jimmy Fallon and Chadwick Boseman. It made us want to rewatch Black Panther, so we did this weekend.

I'm okay if the Black Panther franchise stops with Chadwick Boseman - I think that would be better than getting a new actor.

...Although I think Letitia Wright would rock it if Shuri became the next Black Panther.

 

[Ursus Chainus]

Funny you say that; seven months ago, I read rumours that Disney was planning to replace T'Challa with his sister Shuri in the role of Black Panther; an action that happened in the comics but which Boseman was reportedly angry about: Chadwick Boseman Reportedly Unhappy About Marvel's Plans For A New Black Panther

Whether those rumours were true and - if so - whether Disney will carry it out with the passing of Chadwick Boseman remains to be seen.

Man, That would be awesome

 

[AGXStarseed]

Man, That would be awesome

From what I understand, it wasn't supposed to happen for a while yet and with the current situation (the news story came out beforehand), I don't know what Disney intends to do. Personally, I would have at least liked to see T'Challa meet, fall in love with and marry Storm - after all, that happened in the comics and Disney does own the X-men now.

 

[Jumpback]

I don’t really grasp the idea of mourning the deaths of successful celebrities. First of all, they have had successful, fulfilling lives and second they already have many thousands of people already mourning for them.

To me, it seems like classicism or like treating famous people better, where good person who died young and poor who had traumas block their chances in life but was misunderstood might have almost no mourners

I see inequalities rather than feel sympathetic when famous people die, but I am weird

 

[Ursus Chainus]

I don’t really grasp the idea of mourning the deaths of successful celebrities. First of all, they have had successful, fulfilling lives and second they already have many thousands of people already mourning for them.

To me, it seems like classicism or like treating famous people better, where good person who died young and poor who had traumas block their chances in life but was misunderstood might have almost no mourners

I see inequalities rather than feel sympathetic when famous people die, but I am weird

In this case, I am mourning a talent that I will miss. I certainly do not mourn people just because they are celebrities. BP means a lot to not only me but many communities that often are lacking in positive depictions in movies. I think we all mourn we we loose something we personally feel is meaningful. It is not a rational response and that is ok. I would say that as an actor, he rose up against many inequalities.

Mourning is a personal experience... it does not matter to me how many other people are mourning. I feel what I feel. In this case, I am not used to feeling this about celebrities so I posted about it.

 

[Jumpback]

I would say that as an actor, he rose up against many inequalities.

I read that he was immediately taken under the wing, as an undergraduate, by Phylicia Rashad who helped raise funds for him through her connections with her friend Denzel Washington. He hardly seems to have had to struggle against inequalities

But I give him endless credit for how he dealt with knowingly having cancer

 

[Streetwise]

Im still slightly disbelieving that he is dead ,I take a long time to grasp it ,I saw the coffin on a news channel ,better if I'd gone to the funeral ,need face to face to fully grasp it,death comes like a thief in the night,it's more like he's slowly disappearing same in a way for my mam(mom) but she had Lou Gehrig's disease and I had no idea if it killed you we knew nothing!!! about it at the time.