Hi Movie Fans!
It's been a while since Valerie or I last opined on a flick, but I saw a FANTASTIC one, so I would like to make a few comments.
The film is GET OUT! Strange title, I know. Get out of what? Who? Where?
Here's the challenge: I want to sell this flick but not give away any of it! How can I do that?
I came up with a brainstorm! I can best describe the film as having elements of THREE other films. It will be up to you, the viewer, to try to figure out how the three themes apply to GET OUT!
Please go straight to Netflix or some other film outlet and watch these films...they're all fun and provide a background for GET OUT!
Film #1: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. OK, this one is dated, I admit. Remember the basic plot? White woman brings black man to the house to meet her parents. Guess what? They want to get married! Uh oh...parents are bigots...so now what? Watch Katharine Hepburn , Sidney Poitier, and Spencer Tracy wow you!
HINT#1: GET OUT involves a white woman inviting her black boyfriend to dinner to meet her parents. But the parents are not all that accepting, in spite of their “sweet” comments that are racial clichés. Trouble is brewing!
Film #2: The Stepford Wives. Be sure to watch the original 1975 version with Paula Prentiss and Katherine Ross. The basic plot? Couple moves to a new town and finds out that all the folks there are like zombies! Is it brainwashing? Why is everyone so machine-like? Who has put these folks in the trance?
HINT #2: GET OUT involves a similar situation. Not exactly the same, but pretty darn close. Our bi-racial couple must now deal with parent issues AND people who, well, just don't seem themselves!
Film #3: Surviving the Game. This little-known cult classic is MUST viewing to really get the full flavor of GET OUT. Made in '94, and starring Rutger Hauer, Gary Busy, Charles S Dutton, F Murray Abraham, and Ice-T, the film is about whites pursing a black man. NO details, sorry, because I would give away the GET OUT plot line.
HINT #3: The kind and intelligent black man who is meeting the parents had better watch out! It just could be that people, that is, white people, are after him!
Here's why the film is a MUST SEE:
Over the years, so many films have dealt with race relations. This one is unique! It does way more than any other film in its treatment of common feelings concerning African Americans and Whites. It takes feelings of uncertainty about race, particularly, fear and hatred, to a whole new level!
Be sure to listen for the clichés, with expressions that sound like: Some of my best friends are black…or similar lines you’ve heard.
Watch Daniel Kaluuya portray the innocent black man who rises to the challenge of managing bigotry with dignity and grace.
Watch Allison Williams brilliantly play the white girlfriend, who is WAY more than we expect!
Got your interest? Hope so! Please...GET OUT and see GET OUT!
It's simply in a class of its own.
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