Black Panther

 

Black Panther

Black Panther is a Marvel Studios production movie with a setting on an African tribe rich in Vibranium and hence advanced in technology. The overall storyline of the movie revolves around the tribe’s leadership and struggle for leadership. The main actor, Chadwick Boseman, who plays Black Panther, gets the throne and becomes the king of the Wakanda people after his father, King T’Chaka, is killed. T’Chaka had a brother N’Jobu who was working undercover in California. He was compromised and accused of selling Vibranium to CIA operative, and the king killed him, leaving behind a son, Killmonger. When T’Challa assumes kingship, Killmonger comes back to the Wakanda kingdom, challenges the king in ritual combat, and defeats T’Challa. T’Challa is left to die but later saved; he returns to fight back Killmonger in the quest to protect his kingdom (Aiyesimoju, 2018).

After T’Challa was defeated, he was rescued by the Jabari tribe’s men. Nakia, Shuri, Ramonda, and Ross seeks refuge among the Jabari men and asks for their help to defeat Killmonger and prevent him from exposing Wakanda’s heritage and Vibranium. Group behaviors are depicted when all the team members, with the aid of the Jabari men, fight together against Killmonger, and in doing so, they defeated him.

In conclusion, group behaviors have been discovered as having the ability to inspire and bring massive change, which couldn’t be achieved at individual levels. It becomes easier when many people are dealing with a problem together. The psychology concept behind this fact is that the motivation factor is more effective when coming from the external environment rather than from within (Zanlungo, Yucel & Kanda, 2017). For instance, in the movie Black Panther, T’Challa couldn’t defeat Killmonger independently, but when he had help, he defeated him.

 

 

Reference

Aiyesimoju, A. B. (2018). Black Panther as Afro-complementary Cinematic Intervention: Lessons for Africa South of the Sahara Movie Industries. Journal of Pan African Studies, 11(9), 96-103.

Zanlungo, F., Yucel, Z., & Kanda, T. (2017). The effect of social roles on group behavior. arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.03081.