The movie “Get Out” is a movie in the genre of horror directed by, Jordan Peele. Jordan Peele is best known for his works in the comedy and horror genres.
The movie differentiates from conventional horror movies in some elements such as the entire concept of race in a horror movie. First of all, the protagonist in the movie is a black man named Chris who visits his girlfriend’s,Rose, parent’s house. When he gets there he is basically trapped in a very racist environment. Because of the overall plot of this move, I thought that the targeted audience were all horror movie lovers so that awareness of racism could be spread throughout. However, as I was doing research in the audience of “Get Out” I found that the biggest audience were millennials. Now when I think about it, it does make sense. Millennials and younger generations like to are very much aware of injustices and problems in today’s society, therefore it makes sense that a large range of the movie’s audience were millennials and younger.
The movie was produced by: Jordan Peele, Jason Blum, Sean McKittrick, Edward H, and Hamm Jr. In addition, the production budget if this movie was $4.5 million and the production company was “Blumhouse.” I found that this production company usually keeps their budgets low by “deferring compensation for talent as a percentage of profits, in exchange for smaller payments ahead of time.” The website that was talking about Blumhouse Productions described the company as a ” low-financial-risk, high-reward model.” In the process of production the directors also had to think about the actors and the soundtracks. When deciding upon the actors, the directors had to think very carefully about who to cast because they did not want anyone to be offended and because they wanted the right actors for the people. For example, Peele really wanted to cast Allison Williams, who plays Rose, because he thought that she was someone who looked incredibly trustworthy to the audience. Besides casting, the soundtracks during the editing stage were also important, the director wanted to include a lot of black references in the music and ended up using music with Swahili voices and a mix of blues.
Sundance Film Festival was the place in which the movie “Get Out” premiered. After that the movie was distributed by Universal Pictures. From there, the movie grossed around $225 worldwide and and a net profit of $124.
Sources: https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/3/7/14759756/get-out-benevolent-racism-white-feminism https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/2/24/14698632/get-out-review-jordan-peele https://www.forbes.com/sites/jmaureenhenderson/2017/02/25/why-millennial-audiences-get-get-out/#42b944e92ef2 https://qz.com/920262/get-out-how-production-company-blumhouse-maker-of-paranormal-activity-and-the-purge-landed-a-box-office-hit-with-a-horror-movie-about-race-in-america/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Out
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