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While Jordan Peele’s horror film has been named the best movie of the year (including by Decider’s own Joe Reid), Get Out was introduced to a whole new audience when it landed on VOD last week. If you watched on Amazon Video, you were treated to an alternate ending of the film as well, which has got people buzzing, to say the least.
Spoilers! Lots of spoilers!
The theatrical version of the film ends with Chris’s (Daniel Kaluuya) pal Rod (Lil Rel Howery) coming to save him, a moment that is both relieving and a release for audiences, as it provides essentially the happiest of endings and some more laughs before the very end. In the alternate ending, that’s not quite the case: Rod visits Chris who is locked up in prison for all that went down with the creepy Armitage family.
In the director’s commentary over the 3-minute clip, Peele explains, of the ��first ending,” that he wrote the film during the Obama-era when we were in a “post-racial lie.” He goes on to say, “This movie was meant to call out the fact that racism is still simmering underneath the surface, and so this ending to the movie felt like it was the gut punch that the world needed because something about it rings very true. When something rings true in your core, you have to deal with it. I think it’s what attracted Daniel to the script, by the way.”
Peele continues, “The idea here is he’s been through such mental shock and torment and the house and everything, all the evidence is burnt down. And of course this is a system that values the rich white people, it takes their side. My feeling is, what would happen in this movie is Chris would end up in jail just because of how it looks.”
He also explained of the process, “By the time I was shooting it, it was quite clear that world had shifted. Racism was being dealt with, people were woke, and people needed a release and a hero which is why I changed the ending.”
Peele also spoke to Hardwick about a super intense ending he had in mind that never made it to the screen:
