seems like a dubious transaction; I don't ask much of horror scenarios, but the mechanics needed to be a little more, um, fleshed out.
Also once Chris started kicking ass, I anticipated each of the beats perfectly. It was too rote.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
I liked this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBvcngHRTFg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
Yeah, it's noteworthy that they weren't, like, moving to the city or something after taking possession of a black body. They remained where they knew they'd continue to be accepted as 'one of the good ones'.
It's not even that--everyone in the community knows the truth, they are accepted because they are literally the same person in a different body. And also staying within the community prevents them from accidental exposure to flashes and stuff without having Keener there to bring them back. What price immortality?
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
but why would they yearn to be groundskeepers and maids?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
I thought maybe they were only groundskeepers and maids and whatnot when outsiders were around?
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link
XP They're not always groundskeepers and maids? Remember, alot of what we see is putting on airs in reverse because of the guest.
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
Haven't seen this since it came out, but isn't the implication behind Root's character picking Chris that he will continue on in Chris's career as a photographer? Likewise Rose looking at basketball players. The groundskeeper and maid were just who was at hand when they did the switch and they're only performing those jobs while Chris is around
― rob, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
many xps - yea that video was great! thanks for sharing
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link
I didn't see that as them only playing those roles, but actually relishing the ability to do so. Grandmother get's to serve and dote on her kids and grandkids and serve them lemonade? Grandpa gets to do yardwork? Sounds like an ideal retirements scenario for any number of seniors.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
also raises less suspicions
― 龜, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
I need to rewatch this for sure, but I got the sense that part of the strain that they're under, which allows their real personalities to surface, is in having to act out uncomfortable/unwanted roles. I'd have to agree with Morbz otherwise: why would rich white people used to having servants want to retire as those servants?
― rob, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
Surprised to see Dr Morbz on the side of The Plausibles.
― Akdov Telmig (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
the other part of the equation is that black people who go missing simply don't get as much media attention as white people who go missing - i think that was explained in the film?
― 龜, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
why would rich white people used to having servants want to retire as those servants?
Because they weren't actually servants! They were only acting that way for the benefit of Chris, literally the only person there who did not know the truth.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
― dan selzer, Wednesday, January 3, 2018 1:07 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah this
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
xp yeah i know I said that in my prev post. in this one I was responding to dan selzer saying that they likely "relish" the opportunity to serve lemonade and do yardwork. I don't think that's an egregiously wrong interpretation or anything and I like that the movie doesn't spell everything out, but I think it more likely that when Chris isn't there they're not serving lemonade or doing yardwork at all.
Anyway, I think Morbius asked an interesting question (why would privileged white people want to give up that privilege in order to be black?), and I think the answer is that the form of liberal white racism that Peele is exploring here covets, fetishizes, envies black struggle, which is something they, as white people, cannot ever possess
― rob, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
That seems a good intuitive guess, but dammit again, we need to see that, somehow.
Ward, there's a difference between being a Plausible and noting details that seem thematically and narratively sloppy.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 21:30 (six years ago) link
idk I thought that was pretty obvious. and rob is otm about this particular set of upper middle class centrist liberals and how they fetishize blackness - "I would've voted for Obama a third time" is a great joke but it also tells us a lot about the kind of people they are.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link
When Rod the TSA Guy says that something's wrong because dandified Logan King/Andre is "from Brooklyn," that strikes me as a subtle joke about the New Brooklyn, bcz there are plenty of A-A guys in Fort Greene who dress like that.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link
alison williams drinking milk through a straw, eating dry froot loops & listening to Dirty Dancing .... perfect, hilarious & almost horrifyingly TOO REAL lol, like i felt kinda paranoid/embarrassed at how familiar it was
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link
xp haha yeah that line made me do a double take
― Josefa, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
This was good
I kinda think that herself might have come up as a known person of interest in the ten or w/ever missing persons cases though.
But this was good
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 February 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
Jordan Peele tells the Hollywood Reporter’s Stephen Galloway that he’s currently writing and plans to direct his next film later this year. “One thing I know is that this is genre; and playing around with the thriller, horror, action, fun genre of intrigue is my favorite. That’s my sweet spot. So I think tonally it should resemble Get Out. That said, I want to make a completely different movie. I want to address something different than race in the next one.”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rambling-reporter/jordan-peele-reveals-plans-shoot-next-movie-year-1085424
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 22:04 (six years ago) link
Can't fucking wait
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 02:22 (six years ago) link
(taking a wild guess here) excited for Peele's gun-culture movie
― Simon H., Wednesday, 21 February 2018 02:27 (six years ago) link
I hope he's better at other genre mechanics than he was in Act III of GO.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 12:23 (six years ago) link
no you don't
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
i had to look up his filmography to see if he was in Go (1999)
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
i finally watched this and liked it okay. kinda reminded me of an old tales from the crypt episode or something. wish it had been a little scarier. it definitely felt like a movie made by someone who had never made a thriller/horror movie before. and i'm still more of a Keanu fan. i loved that movie.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link
Keanu is so sick. Anna Faris omg
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
those tense close-ups of people talking definitely creepy though. the brother. the grandma. etc.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
Keanu was awful, wtf
― Simon H., Wednesday, 21 February 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
yeah keanu was pish
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
I didn't make it through Keanu.
― how's life, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
the most literally one-joke / single-sketch-brutally-extended-to-feature-length comedy in recent memory
― Simon H., Wednesday, 21 February 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
Haha, I enjoyed Keanu when it came out, but it took me several minutes to figure out why you all were suddenly talking about Keanu Reeves on this thread, which I guess shows how well that film stuck with me.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
I saw Keanu on a plane and enjoyed it, was able to rewind the bit I'd napped through
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
a good oral history on vulture about the film's genesis: http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/making-get-out-jordan-peele.html
includes this nugget:
Peele: I was trying to figure out what genre this movie was, and horror didn’t quite do it. Psychological thriller didn’t do it, and so I thought, Social thriller. The bad guy is society — these things that are innate in all of us, and provide good things, but ultimately prove that humans are always going to be barbaric, to an extent. I think I coined the term social thriller, but I definitely didn’t invent it.
Footnoted with:
To coincide with Get Out’s release, Peele curated a selection of classic thrillers that dealt with social issues for BAM: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Rosemary’s Baby made his list, along with Misery, Rear Window, The Shining, Candyman, and more.
This is kind of an interesting list:
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
i linked to that series way up dere about a year ago
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
I probably had you blocked at the time, sorry
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
I wonder if JP's seen Society.
― Simon H., Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
My buddy's been harping about Society @ me for decades now. It's streaming on Amazon Prime (in the U.S.) so I may finally check it out.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Thursday, 22 February 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
Meantime, next year...
pic.twitter.com/6j43s9YC8e— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) May 9, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link
Awesome
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 02:02 (five years ago) link
Is the last OG good?
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 02:23 (five years ago) link
I saw the first episode behind someone's head in a bar, with the sound off, which is the only time I have heard of it at all, in any way
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 07:09 (five years ago) link
Mixed feelings about this, it was very interesting and meticulous but something about the style didnt do it for me. Surprised so many people liked the TSA guy so much, I thought that fell flat. My favorite thing might have been the wonderful theme music by Michael Abels.
The most interesting plot element to me was the chosen life of the grandparents, which rang quite true to me that they might want that lifestyle.
In some of the deleted scenes commentary, Peele suggests the girlfriend has actually been hypnotized. Really? Because that changes a lot. I thought he seemed sarcastic when talking about the original/alternate ending, as if that's the one he really wanted? He talks about an interesting way that it's actually a kind of happy ending even though it's definitely worse in most ways.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 9 November 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link
Surprised so many people liked the TSA guy so much
it really was a different experience seeing this in theaters
― fred-a van vleet (voodoo chili), Friday, 9 November 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link
His YouTube show is a major misfire on every level
― Number None, Sunday, 17 February 2019 21:38 (five years ago) link
Finally got around to watching Get Out and did not enjoy it! Am I the only one? Guess I'll read the thread and find out.
― calumy (rip van wanko), Monday, 18 February 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link