{"id":55805,"date":"2018-02-23T05:05:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T05:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55805"},"modified":"2018-02-23T05:05:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T05:05:21","slug":"the-first-great-movie-of-the-trump-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55805","title":{"rendered":"The First Great Movie of the Trump Era"},"content":{"rendered":"

The First Great Movie of the Trump Era<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Vulture<\/a>
\n2018-02-22<\/p>\n

Jada Yuan<\/strong><\/a> and Hunter Harris<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nDaniel Kaluuya<\/a> and Jordan Peele<\/a> filming the game-room scene of Get Out<\/em><\/a>.
\nJustin Lubin\/courtesy of Universal Pictures<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

How <\/em>Get Out<\/a> began as a rebuke to Obama<\/a>-inspired dreams of racial harmony and became a conduit for fears reignited by the rise of the new president.<\/em><\/p>\n

Get Out<\/em><\/a> was shot in just 23 days on a budget of $4.5 million, but when it opened one year ago, it quickly became clear it was not just another low-budget horror movie. There were monstrous grosses and rapturous reviews, but most important, the film instantly became a cultural phenomenon \u2014 the subject of political commentary and social-media memes. The bizarre story of a young black man lured by his white girlfriend to her family home in the country, where they plan to replace his brain with an older white person\u2019s, it immediately introduced into the lexicon terms like \u201cthe sunken place<\/a>\u201d \u2014 as in \u201cWe\u2019ve lost Kanye<\/a> to the sunken place,\u201d used to suggest the rapper has lost touch with his black identity. Racial inequity, and the failure of white liberals to adequately address it, proved powerful fodder for a horror narrative. A year later, as one of the most unlikely Oscar Best Picture nominees<\/a> in years, Get Out<\/em> is being taught in courses on racism and Afro\u00adfuturism<\/a>. It began as an insight in the brain of creator Jordan Peele<\/a> during the 2008 primary fight between Obama and Hillary Clinton<\/a> and premiered at Sundance<\/a> within a week of Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration<\/a>. This is the story of how Get Out<\/em> got out…<\/p>\n

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