Black Panther: 10 Reasons Why It's The Most Important Marvel Film Yet
7. It's The Most Beautiful Marvel Film Yet
Marvel Studios
The only other Marvel film that really got experimental with its visuals was Doctor Strange, but in terms of sheer visual splendour, Black Panther is by far the best looking MCU feature yet.
Rachel Morrison, who previously received an Academy Award nod for Mudbound, is the woman responsible for making the film look as good as it does. The scenes on the Ancestral Plane - where T'Challa reunites with his father, T'Chaka - all boast this wonderful purple aesthetic, and it's a colour that ebbs throughout the film, right down to T'Challa's new Black Panther suit itself.
The film might get a little bit too CGI-y at times, but there's no denying the beauty on the screen. Wakanda looks incredible, the fight scenes are fast and frenetic, and there's a wide array of settings to ogle at too.
Beautifully shot, choreographed and displayed, Black Panther is gorgeous top to bottom.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
