Star Member Recursion (50,600 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/118760490
Just saw "Get Out". Some thoughts. (Spoilers)
1. It's really important that the family was white liberals. That's in fact the entire point. That wasn't an act on their part; that was part of the allegory.
2. While the comparison to slavery is apt fewer people have talked about how much it's also about cultural appropriation -- these are white people who want what they perceive as the "advantages" of blackness (in the art dealer's case specifically, the ability to create art).
2a. Bradley Whitford's spiel about going to Bali and how awesome it is to experience another culture gets to that.
3. I spent the first half of the movie convinced there was an Armitage/Amistad connection, but I think I gave up on that when I remembered "Armitage" means "hermitage" or "temporary home for itinerants". Still not sure.
4. There's something very chilling about when Rod describes the situation to the detective, and is literally describing how slavery happened in the US
5. Stephen Root (the blind guy, also Milton on Office Space and the boss on News Radio) is the greatest character actor of all time. This is also his second role as a blind person; he played one in "O Brother Where Art Thou" as well.
6. Why do we cast black British actors much more readily than black American actors? Nothing at all against Kaluuya (his performance was epic) but it's something Hollywood should think about.
7. I have never in my life seen a sip of milk as creepy as Rose's
8. Not sure why the one person who was neither white nor black was East Asian, unless it's about yet another ethnic group cutting in line to achieve whiteness in the US
Ironically on a different blog a right leaning review asked the same question about using a british 'black' person rather than an African American black person...
It is supposedly a very good horror movie.
Star Member JustAnotherGen (23,139 posts)
4. We saw it Saturday
This -
2. While the comparison to slavery is apt fewer people have talked about how much it's also about cultural appropriation -- these are white people who want what they perceive as the "advantages" of blackness (in the art dealer's case specifically, the ability to create art).
This was my husband's biggest "creep out factor". The talent/gifts are what makes their victims - victims.
Kind of quoting him here - not exact words . . .
In the aftermath of Obama - the love/hate with black Americans who are "winners" was well done.
remember- this is a movie made in Hollywood- that vast bastion of Right Wing Conservatism...
AND the main bad guys are LIBERALS...
Kind of Blue (6,804 posts)
6. As an African who grew up here and a movie fiend, #6 is bothersome.
It's been so rare to see an African portraying a person of the continent. My earliest memory is of Paul Robeson in Sanders of the River, Ossie Davis, The Hill, Sidney Poitier, Cry the Beloved Country, Morgan Freeman, Invictus, Whoopie Goldberg, Angela Bassett, Alfre Woodard, to Will Smith featuring the worst Nigerian accent I've heard. The list is long.
As for Samuel L. Jackson, echoing your point 6, I think Mr. Jackson should check himself after starring in yet another ridiculous Tarzan remake myth.
Forgot to include it was a joke growing up that Hollywood always cast British actors as Greeks and Romans, but I don't remember ever hearing about using real Greek and Italian actors instead of Richard Burton or Joaquin Phoenix.
