The representation of the French army in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever appears to be a bone of contention. According to France 24, Sebastien Lecornu, Minister of the Armed Forces of France, is complaining about how the French army is portrayed in the film office blockbuster.
In a social media post on Twitter, Lecornu wrote that he “strongly condemned” the way the fictional French soldiers were depicted in the movie. In the film, the group of mercenaries was caught trying to steal resources from Wakanda, the fictional country portrayed in Wakanda Forever. He called the scene a “misleading representation of our Armed Forces.”
He included a scene from the movie that shows warriors from Wakanda leading the captured soldiers into an assembly of world leaders and making them kneel in front of the assembly.
Translated by Google:
“I strongly condemn this misleading and misleading representation of our Armed Forces.
“I think and pay tribute to the 58 French soldiers who died defending Mali at its request against Islamist terrorist groups.”
According to AFP, Lecornu told the news agency that France was not pushing for the film to be pulled or censored. France is concerned about its image in West Africa after military juntas in Mali and Burkina Faso pushed France to evacuate its troops, which had been stationed in the Sahel region since 2013 to combat Islamists.
Lecornu is “angry at seeing the film.” The defence ministry stated that “no revisionism can be allowed about France’s recent actions in Mali: we intervened at the county’s own request to fight armed terrorist groups, far from the story told in the film, namely a French army coming to pillage natural resources.”