Danai Gurira and Lupita Nyong’o steal a pivotal scene from the film’s main character.
These women don’t need a man to prop them up.
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Warning: There are spoilers ahead for “Black Panther.”
Chadwick Boseman may be the star of ” Black Panther,” which has been receiving rave reviews, but it’s the women who really steal the movie along with Michael B. Jordan as the villain.
Danai Gurira and Lupita Nyong’o don’t just play background characters, they’re front and center for the majority of the movie. And there’s one scene in particular that will have women cheering.
Early in the film, Okoye (Gurira) and Nakia (Nyong’o) head to South Korea with T’Challa/Black Panther to track down Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis).
T’Challa and his squad.
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You may remember him as one of the villains in “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” He was the one who got his arm ripped off by Ultron (James Spader).
Remember Klaue, now?
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It turns out Klaue is also an enemy of T’Challa and his country of Wakanda. Years back, he stole a bunch of vibranium, the world’s strongest fictional metal. Now, he has some that he wants to sell off to the highest bidder.
The trio encounter Klaue and get involved in a high-stakes shootout in an underground casino.
Though we see T’Challa get involved in the action, the majority of the fight sequences belong to Gurira and Nyong’o’s characters.
Nobody messes with Nakia.
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Okoye can’t wait to tear off an itchy wig and start fighting.
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That’s not the most impressive part. In a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, Nakia tosses something at one of Klaue’s gang members. You’ll probably just think it’s any old item she found on the ground. However, if you’re paying close attention, you’ll notice that she took off her high heel and tossed it at one of the antagonists amid the action.
It didn’t stop there.
When Nakia and Okoye got in a car to chase after Klaue, the movie makes a point not once, but twice to emphasize that Nakia is driving barefoot. That means, not only is she driving barefoot, but she has been running around the makeshift casino and street of South Korea barefoot.
Fans are loving it.
If you’ve watched most action movies with women, they’re almost always fighting in heels and it makes little sense.
Zoe Saldana’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” character went from planet to planet in heels.
You may not have realized it, but Gamora’s shoes are heels for whatever reason.
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Jennifer Garner kicked butt wearing heels in “Elektra.” And Anne Hathaway wore them as Catwoman in “The Dark Knight Rises.”
If female characters aren’t fighting in heels, then they’re impractically running in them. No movie may have been a bigger offender of this than 2015’s “Jurassic World.” The movie was called out for showing Bryce Dallas Howards’ character run away from a T. rex in heels .
If you’ve ever tried running in heels, you know it’s next to impossible without eventually losing one or both. Any real woman running away from a T. rex would have ditched those heels in an instant to run barefoot.
This makes no sense.
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The scene looked so ridiculously unrealistic that it quickly became a meme .
It’s remarkably refreshing to see in “Black Panther” and it’s why people are excited to see one of Marvel’s upcoming characters, Captain Marvel, wearing flat and functional footwear as well .
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