Rest in Peace: Chadwick Boseman

 

Rest in Peace: Chadwick Boseman

 

I still get tears in my eyes when I think about it.  He isn’t supposed to be gone.  Not someone who is a year and 28 days younger than I am.  Not someone who meant so much to the world.  Not someone who was an Icon.  I loved watching his movies.  I loved hearing about what a great person he was.

 

I think five days later I am still in disbelief.  When my nephew sent me, a text saying that Blank Panther died.  I was thinking he must be watching End Game.   Never in a million years did I think Chadwick Boseman could be dead.  That he could die from cancer.  It had to be a death hoax, right?  I went searching the net.  I was happy it was on IMDb when I checked.  I only found one article on it.  I was sure it had to be a hoax, I wanted it to be a hoax.  Then the other news agencies started reporting it.  Slowly but surely the internet light up with news of his untimely passing. 

 

As the news sank in my eyes filled with tears and I sat there speechless.  I felt like I had been punched in the stomach and lost a friend.  Funny how much impact a few great movies can have on you.  Between 42 and the Marvel Movies I had developed some type of bond with this man.  In my mind he was the future of the MCU.  He would carry the torch that Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr were leaving behind.  It was ok if you killed those characters off because Chadwick would carry the torch.  I don’t know why those movies are so important to me, but they are.  I still remember going to see Infinity War and being a nervous wreck.  I think time stopped that day, as I sat and waited for my showing.  I cared more about what was going to happen in the MCU than I ever did about the Star Wars sequel trilogy.  I believe Infinity War and Endgame (I view them as one movie) is the greatest superhero movie of all time.  It takes a lot to move The Dark Knight off that pedestal I had it sitting on, but they did it.  A lot of that was because of my love for Chadwick and his work as Black Panther. 

 

I hope they don’t recast Black Panther.  I hope Marvel and Disney do the right thing and put it on the shelf for a while, I am thinking at least 5 or 10 years because Chadwick is just to amazing to replace.  You just can’t replace him.  I guess if you just have to put a BP movie out you can do it with Shuri but still, but as a die-hard fan, I saw wait.  You just have to give this prince of men the respect he deserves.  He was a game changing actor, in a game changing movie, and he deserves all the respect you can give him. 

 

I watched Da Five Bloods on Saturday to pay tribute to him.  My eyes full of tears, and nearly lost it a couple of times.  I think the end when he is coming off the plane is the hardest.  It was almost to real.  21 Bridges and Marshall have shot up the viewing list. 

 

I fucking hate cancer.  This man was to young to die.  It just goes to show you our time here isn’t guaranteed, and we must make the most of the time we are given.  It sounds like to me Chadwick lived his life just like that.  He was a great man.  He was the King of Wakanda.  He will be missed and it hurts and I think it will for a long while. 

Wakanda Forever!