The best action scene in Ryan Coogler’s record-breaking Marvel movie “Black Panther” occurs fairly early on in the movie’s runtime.
T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), Okoye (Danai Gurira), and Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o) infiltrate an underground casino game in Busan, South Korea on a mission to apprehend the black-market arms dealer Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis).
A shootout erupts when Okoye’s cover is blown, but all the chaos taking place becomes thrilling clear as the camera glides through the casino to the many different action beats all taking place at once.
It’s a moment so pure in its delivery you might not even notice the camera never cuts.Coogler has been rightfully hailed as one of the most humanist storytellers working today, but he’s also become a technical wizard as displayed by his love for one-take action scenes.
Coogler is not a showboat; his “Black Panther” one-take
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