This entire Wakanda situation is like if they made a fictional European country where people different from the same nation go around wearing lederhosen, clogs, ushankas, Roman legonairre armor and Celtic blue warpaint and they all spoke Slovak.
hey White Americans need some way to connect to their lost culture
….. I mean y’all know how anachronistic Braveheart is with tartan kilts being worn in the era of Wallace and Droit du Seigneur, let alone all the ridiculous accent bullshit they get up to, “infantry” in 13th century Scotland, a modern conception of Freedom in the medieval era - like I disagree with this analysis of Wakanda for other reasons but saying “It’d be like if we made up how European stuff works in movies” is kind of hilarious. (Though seriously, the woad was from 1000 years before Wallace’s time and the kilts were from 500 years after)
and the scots were legitimately victims of genocide during the clearances! who would have thought that Mel Gibson could be problematic in the extreme
Sorry I gotta reblog because literally:
Please note the dude in the
ushanka across from the dude in the lederhosen on opposing sides of their dictator, who wears Roman/Gallic inspired clothing while wandering around a village that is a mix of romanesque revival architecture, thatched huts, and Tudor houses.
This exists in the same fictional universe as Wakanda.
Doomstadt though, what an amazing name
I mean even in real life, if some Renaissance Italian dude was yanked forward to today in modern Italy he’d probably be walking around like “what’s this bullshit, you’re eating Neapolitan food listening to Milanese music wearing Florentine textiles and”
Leonardo, gazing skywards in wonder: they have perfected my helicopter!
Michelangelo, scowling at the architecture: dude this is problematic as fuck,
