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Get Out | February 24th | Under Comedy/Musical Category at Golden Globes

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Apparently, actors and directors at the Governor's Awards named Get Out as one of their top films of the year when asked (also Lady Bird and The Florida Project.) Not a statistical sample, of course, but still:

 

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/hollywoods-early-oscar-picks-actors-directors-governors-awards-loving-get-florida-project-lady-bird-184045642.html

 

there's an embed code on the video but I can't seem to copy it.

 

 

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11 minutes ago, BoxOfficeChica said:

So, it's actually a real Twitter outrage, about the Golden Globes being "racist" for putting Get Out in Musical/Comedy. Can't say I saw this awards season controversy coming!

real ?

 

Saying the globe are racist to have respected the distributor (Blumhouse) choice of a comedy sound a bit made up outrage to me. At least that what the trade are sating, it is much harder now for the Globe to go against the distributor choice, they need 66% of the vote to reverse a category placement decision.

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48 minutes ago, Barnack said:

real ?

 

Saying the globe are racist to have respected the distributor (Blumhouse) choice of a comedy sound a bit made up outrage to me. At least that what the trade are sating, it is much harder now for the Globe to go against the distributor choice, they need 66% of the vote to reverse a category placement decision.

They're most upset about the classification, whether the HFPA or Blumhouse is responsible is secondary really :

 

Fans Outraged at ‘Get Out’ Golden Globes Comedy Category, Jordan Peele Jokes: It’s a ‘Documentary (The Wrap)

“Get Out” will compete as a comedy at Golden Globes and people have feelings (Salon)

‘Get Out’ Will Compete As A Comedy At The Golden Globes and Twitter Managed To Be Mad About It On Both Sides (Decider)

Golden Globes ignores horror of racism by categorizing ‘Get Out’ as a comedy (Rolling Out)

Get Out Is Being Submitted to The Golden Globes As a Comedy? I Guess That’s a Choice. (The Mary Sue)

Racial thriller ‘Get Out’ is labeled a comedy for Golden Globes: What a joke (Kansas City Star):
 

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Sometimes a Golden Globe win can drive momentum for the more coveted, more competitive Oscars, which don’t separate comedy and drama. But in this case, remixing a serious film into a comedy to pursue some sort of legitimization just hurts.

 

This is a movie about racism, marginalization, stereotypes, interracial dating. And yes, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock and even Peele have found ways to use comedy to expose the injustice of these things. But “Get Out” was not a laugh-out-loud, good time. LOL? Nah.

 

While other Golden Globe moves can be shrugged off as Hollywood shenanigans, this miscategorization is more troubling.

 

The film came out a month after President Donald Trump was sworn into office, when a scab had been rubbed raw and exposed the Divided States of America. Black people weren’t surprised at this election: We’d long known the climate was ripe for a president stoking racial tensions.

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When you grow up constantly facing the fact that your very humanity is scrutinized and people see your existence as a threat, you live with a certain fear.

 

“Get Out” digs into that terror. So, yeah, it’s not easy to see it treated as a comedy. Especially when black people have historically been made to shuck and jive for white validation. This movie is critically acclaimed — 99 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Yet, the studio wants to play the game, hedge its bets and enter the film as a comedy in hopes of scoring that win for both best film and, perhaps, for star Daniel Kaluuya. We’d like to believe that’s a win they can get on their own, no sleight-of-hand needed.

 

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21 minutes ago, BoxOfficeChica said:

They're most upset about the classification, whether the HPFA or Blumhouse is responsible is secondary really:

 

Fans Outraged at ‘Get Out’ Golden Globes Comedy Category, Jordan Peele Jokes: It’s a ‘Documentary (The Wrap)

“Get Out” will compete as a comedy at Golden Globes and people have feelings (Salon)

‘Get Out’ Will Compete As A Comedy At The Golden Globes and Twitter Managed To Be Mad About It On Both Sides (Decider)

Golden Globes ignores horror of racism by categorizing ‘Get Out’ as a comedy (Rolling Out)

Get Out Is Being Submitted to The Golden Globes As a Comedy? I Guess That’s a Choice. (The Mary Sue)

 

 

 

Reporting really seem strange:

Nonetheless, Universal Pictures, the film's distributor, submitted it as a comedy with Peele's reported blessing. It appears that the Hollywood Foreign Press, the governing body behind the Globes, offered the option and Universal took it.

And, let’s be clear here, it was submitted as a comedy. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association won’t just be voting for it in that category for kicks. It’s also important to consider that the only other alternative at the Globes would be to call it a drama — and the 2017 sleeper hit doesn’t quite seem to fit that descriptor either.

 

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http://www.indiewire.com/2017/11/jordan-peele-response-get-out-golden-globes-comedy-1201897841/

The director had no input in submitting the film to the HFPA in the comedy category and explained why he felt no genre could do it justice.

 

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Does feel forced a bit, because there is no category really for movie like that. Peele is a credited producer on the movie, is production company is credited as a production partner on it, I imagine if he wanted it to be drama he would have said so to Universal, never seem to say he would have preferred a drama placement outright, sound like he just want to sound like he understand people complain and see how those movies does not mach being put in a category for those stuff.

 
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Basically Get Out will probably win and get the positive momentum from it, regardless that it is in the comedy category which the director possibly gave his blessing to do so

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Basically Get Out will probably win and get the positive momentum from it, regardless that it is in the comedy category which the director possibly gave his blessing to do so

Peele is actually challenging their decision by asking them what they think is so funny about the movie.

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2 hours ago, Lucas said:

Peele is actually challenging their decision by asking them what they think is so funny about the movie.

Well, most of Lil Rel Howery's lines were hilarious ("I told you not to go into that house"). And it was hard not to laugh at...

 

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Allison Williams going full Gone Girl after her big reveal.

 

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