Lets go girls…

Is it just me or is that a fingerless infinity gauntlet

im sorry but this has me cACKLING

Lmaoooo

Congratulations to Get Out for best screenplay at the 90th Academy Awards!

Get Out (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

“Even though he has more than 20 years of professional music experience, Abels had never scored a movie before “Get Out.” For that reason, he was surprised to hear that the movie’s director and writer, Jordan Peele, had asked for Abels specifically.

“I was skeptical the first time I heard that Jordan Peele had a desire to work with me,” Abels said.

And the movie is not a typical classical music vehicle. The story, about an interracial millennial couple who travel to a wealthy white community to meet her parents for the first time, toggles between horror and comedy as it explores lingering racism against a backdrop of seeming liberal acceptance.

As he worked with Peele to develop the music, Abels said he wondered if the hidden messages in the movie were a “hit or miss.”

“I didn’t really know if people would understand the entire message of the film,” he said.

As a black man, Abels wanted “the African American voice to resonate in the film.” But Peele did not want to default to gospel or blues because they were too obvious and he “felt that those genres of music have aspects of joy” that did not communicate the message of the movie, Abels said.

Ultimately, he was able to compose a theme song that fulfilled Peele’s desire to bring out the scary parts of the movie. The whispering voices in “Sikiliza Kwa Wahenga” represent dead slaves and lynching victims warning the protagonist in Swahili.

“Throughout the song, the ancestors sing, ‘Brother get out,’ because there’s layers of meaning in the word brother for our community,” Abels said…” (X)

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I will never be over this movie

Black people can just make anything so much more fun.

This was how it was when I went to see Get Out

hell yeah

Yes

This is what happened when I saw Get Out for the first time. The second time was horrible. Room full of Anglos. 

I love this.

I saw it in when I was in NYC and it was lit, the commentary was gold. I’m gonna see it again tonight and I’m worried about what crowd I’ll be in.

Towards the end of the movie when a character shot themselves a kid around 8-9 exclaimed fairly loudly “ I woulda shot myself too” there was laughter to be had.

There was a moment where after a period of suspense everyone jumped/flinched and a man in the front yelled so loud everyone in the room had to laugh

“Get Out” Is More Real than You Think - the History of "Seasoning” Slaves

Spoiler Alert, tw: rape, torture

I just watched Get Out last night and it was incredible to say the least. And definitely one of my favorite films that I’ve seen recently. 

What I found most interesting, though, was that aspects of the film were so much more fact than fiction. And many parts had a sadly very real basis in black history.

The film is a comedic psychological thriller in which black people are kidnapped, brainwashed into losing themselves and their blackness, and made into body puppets for white masters. As you watch as a black person, you can just sit there in shock and awe at just how evil it all is. 

But the film is not just a work of fiction. There is also historical precedent showing that many aspects of what happened to the black people in the film has also occurred in real life. And as I watched the movie, I immediately thought of slavery and specifically the “Seasoning” that slaves were put through to prepare them to be “proper” slaves on plantations.

The History of “Seasoning” Slaves

If you survived the slave forts known as “factories” on the African coast where hundreds of thousands died or the horrors of rape, beatings, starvation, sickness, humiliation, murder and more on the Middle Passage which killed millions more, you then were trafficked- bruised, sick, beaten and psychologically traumatized for sale to white plantation owners in the “New World.” But your journey of abuse and trauma was just beginning.

For slaves shipped to the Caribbean or South America (Over 90% of all slaves), you were then put through a process known as “Seasoning” which was intended to psychologically destroy you through torture and back-breaking physical labor in order to prepare you to be a “good” submissive, pliant slave.  

(One example of an instrument of torture used on African slaves. Image credit: Atlanta Black Star)

“Seasoning” involved torturing and breaking the person completely so that they would submit totally to your will and no longer resist or fight back. This is comparable to the practice of “breaking horses” so they will follow your commands and orders without question (x). 

The “Seasoning” period typically lasted 3 years and also occurred in large torture and forced labor camps, the most notorious ones being in Jamaica. And some reports document ~25% of new slaves dying during the 3 year “seasoning” period (x).

You were tortured, brutalized, progressively stripped of your African name and identity and anything that did not serve your purpose as a beast of burden for your white master. You were tortured for years to make you into (what they saw as) an “empty vessel” that they could pour themselves into and mold as they pleased.

Sound familiar?

Get Out embodied quite literally for me this very real history of “seasoning” slaves in action. Psychological torture and physical brutalization when you do not comply, and striving to completely break you as a black person and turn you into a submissive, pliant vessel for the wishes and orders of your white master. 

The film (intentionally or not) hit the nail on the head in depicting what a modern version of “seasoning” could look like, much like what many of our ancestors endured before. 

There is truth in every joke.

Still surprises me how in denial these people are who don’t understand the correlation of this movie to real life.

Get Out and Why It’s the Best Horror Movie of All Time

So because no one wants to talk to me about Get Out I’m going to scream about it under the cut and then y’all heifers can decided if you want to spoil yourselves!

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YEAHYEAHYEAH

Every single fucking part of this. My main critique is the lack of black women’s voices in this. We were essentially nonexistent except for the 10 minute Mammy and the Sapphire spots…

I think that the lack of Black women’s voices in this movie is like… so fucking meta that Peele probably didn’t even realize he did it. In trying to tell this story of interracial romance gone bad, a Black male writer and director totally skipped over Black women.

I saw that from the previews

my mother actually joked about this after she saw the movie: she said that the black men in the movie reflected black men in general who date white women and only tend to hang around black men and ignore black women when we warn them of insidious behavior and mistreatment when it comes to their white friends, etc. and then they and their kids end up in situations they wouldnt be in had they just LISTENED to black women in the first place. 

white people

she really needs an oscar for this performance

I’m finna kill myself

Sobbing tbh

;_______;

Once again, people are just proving that the only reason they don’t want Ichabod and Abbie together is because of their skin colors.

Or because they have zero chemistry

And ichabod still loves his wife, dead or otherwise

Soooo yeah

White supremacy is a hell of a drug. Common side effects: delusions, denial, desperation..

If I see one more post talking about:

"I’m so conflicted because I love Ichabbie as FRIENDS, but I just want Ichatrina to be resolved before they ever dive into that because, you know, he still loves her and all so…"

Ummm, so, in other words… you ship Ichatrina and you’re taking up space in the…

YES. PLEASE.

Ichabod Crane (via thegoddamazon)

who is nelly’s favorite french impressionist painter

ey must be the monet