Get Out will run as a Comedy in the 2018 Golden Globes because why not.
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How can it not be a comedy when...
I loved the movie.
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Please type Get Out and Satire together in Google and please post your results.
A horror-comedy satire being an Oscar frontrunner? Hah, I wish. Although there hasn't been any obvious picks for Oscar pushes although I'd love The Big Sick, The Florida Project, Good Time, Blade Runner 2049, and You Were Never Really Here to be.
I loved the movie. It was an incredibly subversive satire. That's a form of comedy.
The problem here isn't what genre Get Out is, it's people ignoring the power of comedy. Comedy is one of the most vital and important social levers. It's fucking not trivial. And it is a Comedy.
The problem here isn't what genre Get Out is, it's people ignoring the power of comedy. Comedy is one of the most vital and important social levers. It's fucking not trivial. And it is a Comedy.
Are these movies comedies?
Fargo
Kings of Comedy
After Hours
American Psycho
Fight Club
Barton Fink
Trainspotting
Bringing out the Dead
I don't think you know what a comedy is.
Aside; I watched John Wick 2 again a few days ago and that is nearly as much comedy as it is action. It's hilarious!
It...It was directly making fun of white liberals who say sus ass shit and just making fun of how we feel in this country a lot of the time
Jealous that you've seen You Were Never Really Here. I can't wait.
Also, I'm surprised at the number of people who loved Get Out and didn't catch that it was a satire.
Edit: Although I do understand that the comedy category is historically less prestigious.
Their goal was to make black people slaves in their own bodies. The villains were all about owning black bodies. The slavery metaphor would be harder to make more clear.
They were very white supremacist but also strangely not "racist" in the strictest sense (since they wanted to dominate black people by becoming black people).
I really feel like people might want to look into the classical roots of the terms "drama" and "comedy".
On the other hand, the Golden Globes could really help themselves by changing those categorical titles or finding a way to alter them into something more inclusive.
On the other hand, the Golden Globes could really help themselves by changing those categorical titles or finding a way to alter them into something more inclusive.
Hahahaha isn't a well made and creative representation of systemic racism funny?
Why aren't you laughing?
Why aren't you laughing?
I actually liked the way the movie handled its comedy more than I liked it as straight-up horror, and I think its comedic success gets downplayed a lot. That being said it's still doing a disservice to the movie. I think "Dark comedy horror," is a decent way to describe it though.
Huh
I'm black and see the movie as a satire even if I wasn't laughing out loud.
Enough to be put in the same category as a Adam Sandler movie?
Yes I think the film has a satirical nature to it, but not so much that comedy is the first genre that it comes to mind when I think of it (you're not alone there, I'm brown myself).
Sure, the first genre that comes to mind is horror, but that's not an option here. I can only speak for myself, but, going down the list of genre tags I'd apply to this movie, I'd get to comedy a long time before I got to drama.
The Room and The Shawshank Redemption are both in the same category.
If you look at the first scene in the film you notice that Jeremy is wearing a knights helmet when he kidnaps Andrew. Peele said he wanted the Armitage's to be descends of the Knights Templar. When William Joseph Simmons founded the 2nd Ku Klux Klan he was a part of the the Knights Templar fraternity and took a lot of knight iconography and verbiage from it. During the dinner scene if you listen to how Jeremy talks to his dad he puts a lot of emphasis " This guy is dating my sister." One of the main goals of the Klan was to protect "the interests of white womanhood" which would explain why Jeremy seemed to prefer to violent dispatch his victims vs Rose's honey pot method.
I don't think it betrays the message of the film to read Jeremy's characters as more overtly racist. I've met plenty of families like the Armitage's where the parents were diet- racist liberal allies but their son fell down the white supremacist/alt-right/grand wizard rabbit hole.
Ok, to me that just speaks of how terrible the categories on the golden globes are, they are worse than the freaking oscars in that regard.
Yes this is how I see it. Comedy is the best label of the available labels to apply to this movie. I would define the genre as thriller/satire.
Yes they are both dramas, is just that one is a competent film and the other was made by a alien.
Doesn't mean that comedy is the genre that should define Get Out of all movies.
At least the Golden Globes have a category for Comedy and Musicals.
No disagreement there. The separation of comedy and drama has always seemed to me like an excuse to get as many celebrities in the room as possible (everybody talks about The Martian, but remember when The Tourist got nominated as a comedy?). The Oscars have their problems, but at least they don't have a blatant "fishing for guests" category.
The Globes made rule changes after The Martian won Best Comedy or Musical.
I guess it hasn't changed much, they are still doing this wrong...
It would still count as a black comedy, so the nomination isn't entirely without merit. Sure it plays it really straight, but the actual plot is ridiculous and dark at the same time, while also hammering home a very relevant social critique.
To assume this is done as some kind of white power conspiracy is as far fetched as the body swapping in the film itself
To assume this is done as some kind of white power conspiracy is as far fetched as the body swapping in the film itself
Ah yeah I forgot about he brother too.
I also just read an article and it seems I missed that the grandfather lost the olympics to a black guy at track and that's why he was running around in his new body at night. LOL.
His grandfather lost to Jesse Owens when the Olympics was held in Nazi Germany.
Hahahahaha isn't Johnathan Swift's A Modest Proposal wherein he suggests the readers commit cannibalism of the poor hilarious?
Why yes it is. Terrible subjects can be funny. Satire is funny. Get Out is satire and it is very funny.
It was mostly drama/thriller, not a comedy/musical.
Yes, it had comedic elements to it but to classify the whole film as comedy, so much so as to nominate it as a comedy over any other genre?
Satire does not automatically mean a comedy.
We all know what constitutes a comedy - humour. Let's stop pretending like we live in the 1500s and justify something as comedy when it isn't. If you wanna go all, "I dont think you know what comedy is", then why not just use the old definition of comedies as having happy endings and run away with that?
Some hyperbole here of people laughing a lot or some other excuse. It was a thought-provoking film and i said, "damn" a lot of times but nowhere was it funny. People just like to twist definitions now. Pretty much anything can be whatever you want to be. Next thing I know, people will be justifying Planet of the Apes as comedy (if it ever nominates itself to it) because it's a satirical commentary on animal cruelty or some other bullcrap.
I love the Ikiru avatar something fierce but you're backpedaling like no other.
Well yeah id give you that but he really was the audience meta character. I thought it was clever more than it is funny - and it made sense.
or maybe it's also making fun of movie characters who are too dumb to think the first time through when something suspicious happens?
Idk.
I think a serious movie being labeled a comedy is one of the greatest praises you can give it. Wag the Dog isn't very funny but it's a comedy along with those others I listed. Calling Get Out a comedy is a greater honor than it being a simple horror or thriller/drama. Drama is easy, Comedy is hard.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/10/26/comedy-is-hard/
When people call Get Out a comedy they are doing it with respect. Given your avatar you seem like a person who will be willing to consider the power of comedy.
I mean, it is funny as fuck... like, really dark but funny.
The movie is a satire and as much a comedy as it is thriller/horror.
People saying you can't call it a comedy because it deals with serious, painful themes are missing the forest for the trees.
"We laugh because it hurts"
The movie is a satire and as much a comedy as it is thriller/horror.
People saying you can't call it a comedy because it deals with serious, painful themes are missing the forest for the trees.
"We laugh because it hurts"
