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Originally Posted by icecube
The plot would not still play out the same if you changed it from race to class. It would be a RADICALLY different movie. Of all the dumb takes on Get Out, this might be the dumbest.
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Nah, they could still hit all the same beats and tell the same story, 'outsider who's adopted into uncomfortable new environment' is an old trope that works with a lot of different groups and cultures. Make him a poor white boy and the script would only need minor revisions.
The path they took gave the movie a unique flavour that certainly elevated it, but they didn't make a masterpiece. The ending was bat#### crazy (which I loved), but it all ended up a whole lot cornier than you'd expect to see in an award winning movie. It kind of felt like a Key & Peele sketch that Peele blew up into a really good horror movie. If identity politics wasn't an issue that Hollywood endlessly blows itself over, this movie doesn't get a hint of a nomination.