Except that the latter category is potentially bigger than ever this time around (for a Marvel movie, at least), since there has never in the history of cinema been a film that allows an
ensemble of black characters to take charge on a global scale quite like this — and many have waited their entire lives to witness just such a feat (the way that «Wonder Woman» was a hugely empowering game changer for women).
In a brilliant critique of Three Billboards in BuzzFeed's Reader, Alison Willmore articulates the elephant in the room: «It forces you, as a viewer, to decide whether its desultory
treatment of the black characters on the movie's sidelines is worth tolerating in exchange for the satisfaction of its protagonist's burn - it - all - to - the - ground fury.»
This is because «Get Out,» which gets its title because one
of its black characters shouts this out a few times, is the most exciting film of its type in many years.
In 1977, Romare Bearden reimagined Homer's Odyssey as a series of collages with a
cast of black characters, a meditation on war and the search for a home that resonated with themes of the Great Migration.
He added that he felt entitled to create the Woolford work because «there is a long
history of black characters created by white authors... I don't understand needing permission to do it.»