get out (2017, dir. jordan peele)

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.

also raises less suspicions

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?

Surprised to see Dr Morbz on the side of The Plausibles.

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?

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.

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, January 3, 2018 1:07 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this

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

I thought maybe they were only groundskeepers and maids and whatnot when outsiders were around?

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.

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.

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.

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

xp haha yeah that line made me do a double take

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

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

Can't fucking wait

(taking a wild guess here) excited for Peele's gun-culture movie

I hope he's better at other genre mechanics than he was in Act III of GO.

no you don't

i had to look up his filmography to see if he was in Go (1999)

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.

Keanu is so sick. Anna Faris omg

those tense close-ups of people talking definitely creepy though. the brother. the grandma. etc.

Keanu was awful, wtf

yeah keanu was pish

I didn't make it through Keanu.

the most literally one-joke / single-sketch-brutally-extended-to-feature-length comedy in recent memory

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.

I saw Keanu on a plane and enjoyed it, was able to rewind the bit I'd napped through

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:

• Rosemary's Baby
• Night of The Living Dead
• The People Under The Stairs
• Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
• Get Out
• Funny Games
• Candyman
• Scream
• Rear Window
• The Silence of The Lambs
• Misery
• The Shining
• The 'Burbs

i linked to that series way up dere about a year ago

I probably had you blocked at the time, sorry

I wonder if JP's seen Society.

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.

Meantime, next year...

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— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) May 9, 2018

Awesome

Is the last OG good?

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

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.

Surprised so many people liked the TSA guy so much

it really was a different experience seeing this in theaters

His YouTube show is a major misfire on every level

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.

I only just watched it. I liked it though!

The Us commercial running looks scary. (Joining It and Them! in the ever-expanding pronoun-horror genre.) I wonder if Jordan Peele wants to make horror films, or if he just had a fluke hit (that had lots else on its mind) and it was hard to turn down all the money that was thrown at him.

I'll let y'all know next week.

I fear it's both. he's not pivoting with this movie, afaik this one had at least a rough draft before Get Out even came out. But I think this one is going to lean harder on horror and people will be disappointed and hold it against him, OR he might've felt compelled to amp up the "social horror" angle post-Get Out. I don't know, I'm really rooting for him because it's so hard to pull off a follow-up to the sort of surprise, semi-fluke hit that Get Out was.

I was somewhat lukewarm on Get Out (while admiring its audacity), so there's a decent chance I'll like this one better. I notice, though, that they use the "From the mind of..." come-on in the trailer, a red flag that makes me think of Cronenberg and Lynch at their silliest.

not that much money! he's sticking with Blumhouse rather than chasing cash

(listened to an interview with Leigh Whanne1 this week where he talked about Blum's extreme resistance to raise his usual $5m budget for Upgrade: Get Out was 4.5, BlacKkKlansman was 15, Upgrade was 16, Us is on wikip at $20m.)

will also say the trailers are too long/give too much away - then again I haven't seen it

early festival reviews were SUPER positive so I'm approaching this with some excitement