Jordan Peele’s film has been submitted in the comedy/musical category at the Golden Globes, prompting debate over which genre it belongs to. What’s inarguable is the significance of its race-relations messageOne of the most striking images from Get Out is a closeup of British actor Daniel Kaluuya wide-eyed in shock as tears stream down his face. As the $4.5m indie horror evolved this year from buzzed-about Sundance hit to $250m-grossing global phenomenon, this image increasingly became the go-to visual to accompany admiring features and reviews, because it effectively communicates something of the movie’s unsettling nature. (Spoiler: Kaluuya’s tears are not a byproduct of mirth.) Which makes it all the stranger that much of this week has been given over to a wide-ranging discussion as to whether Jordan Peele’s high-tension satirical horror should be classified as a comedy.It is all because of the baked-in eccentricities of the Golden Globes. The gong-dispensing offshoot of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) essentially hands out two best picture awards every January, one for drama and one for comedy/musical. If Get Out can smuggle itself into the latter category, it arguably has more of a fighting chance: instead of going head-to-head with Christopher Nolan’s war epic Dunkirk, a likely drama frontrunner, it can compete against more modestly budgeted fare such as romcom The Big Sick or tennis tale Battle of the Sexes. Despite being voted on by only 90 international journalists, the Globes are viewed as a bellwether for the Oscars. If Peele’s film can carve out a win, the thinking goes, it might fuel an underdog narrative all the way to the Academy Awards. Continue reading…
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