Racism horror movie "Get Out" just got an award at the Academy Awards netting an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, making writer Jordan Peele the first African-American filmmaker to win in the said award category.
During his acceptance speech though, Peele admitted that the movie almost never came to be since he found it too difficult to execute as a screenplay. At the process of writing the movie, Peele revealed that he nearly stopped working on "Get Out" nearly 20 times thinking that it was an impossible film to write and that he also wouldn't have gotten it made even if he had finished it.
It is a good thing Peele never quit since "Get Out" is actually one of — if not the best — horror movie for 2017 with both the critics and the audience agreeing in unison that the film was good. It is also perhaps the highest critic-rated horror movie in Rotten Tomatoes with an aggregate critic score of 99 percent positive. The film owes much of its success to how it blends together racism and excellent horror into one package, as well as how it executes the element of surprise. Most of the viewers actually had no idea and never saw the twist coming.
Peele then thanked everyone involved in making the movie possible after he got the award, including whom "my mother, who taught me to love even in the face of hate," as well as every audience member who "shouted out in the theater." Afterward, Peele took to Twitter and posted a less formal celebratory message.
For those unfamiliar with the Academy award-winning horror movie, "Get Out" is about an African-American photographer named Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) who has a Caucasian girlfriend named Rose (Allison Williams) who introduces him to her family. Things started becoming weird when Chris starts noticing what initially comes off as racist behavior from Rose's family, only to find out something much more sinister and horrifying than racism.
Those who have not watched the movie should definitely see it now, regardless of what genre they are looking for since the film executes all its blended genre's well.
