Chadwick’s twitter account now has the most liked tweet in history… I had to compile this quick montage to remember him by. He really had some iconic roles but from what I understand he had an amazing personality to match.
What makes it so sad is knowing he had just tapped into his calling, landed some amazing roles and delivered some stellar performances all while battling a terminal illness. Chadwick Boseman didn’t seek pity or a handout or a break… he woke up every morning and trained, rehearsed, had his treatment and inspired the world.
With films like Da 5 Bloods and Black Panther, he always left you with a great sense of what that character was going through and felt. Then he played biographical roles of Thurgood Marshall and Jackie Robinson to further cement his work, not only into Black culture, but American culture as well. He always seemed to give you the pain and torment of the characters he played as if he was in the pain himself. We many times forget that we are watching a movie when he is acting. I wish he would have had a longer legacy of films as he was just really breaking out.
I know this isn’t the most “put-together” flow of clips but it gives you a good feeling of what he was on to:
Black Panther grossed a whopping $1.3 billion worldwide—the highest-grossing film by a black director and the ninth-highest-grossing film of all time—and became the first MCU movie to win multiple Oscars (Best Costume Design, Best Original Score, and Best Production Design). It was nominated for Best Picture, although it didn’t win. By those merits, Black Panther represents the pinnacle of mainstream achievement for black filmmakers in Hollywood (thus far), and it was Boseman’s electrifying performance as T’Challa that anchored the entire film.
RIP Stan Lee
For 4 years you struggled in silence to bring us masterpieces, now that your fight is over, your true journey revealed, another level of inspiration has begun….
Rest in Power brother. Forever. You will be truly missed.
