1. Who wrote and directed Get Out?
Jordan Peele
Peele came to it from the sketch show Key and Peele, and this was his first film as director. Blumhouse produced it on a budget of a few million dollars, and it went on to take well over two hundred million worldwide.
2. Who plays Chris Washington?
Daniel Kaluuya
Kaluuya is British, and Peele cast him after seeing him in the Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits". Samuel L. Jackson publicly questioned giving the part to a British actor, and Kaluuya ended up with a Best Actor nomination at the Oscars.
3. What is Chris's profession?
Photographer
Chris's photographs of city life hang around his apartment, and his camera comes to the party with him. Jim Hudson, the blind art dealer among the guests, tells Chris he has followed his work and admires his eye.
4. Who plays Rose Armitage?
Allison Williams
Williams was best known as Marnie on HBO's Girls, and this was her first feature film. Peele has said he cast her partly for the wholesome image she brought from the show, which does a lot of quiet work in the first hour.
5. Which Oscar did Get Out win?
Best Original Screenplay
Peele won for Best Original Screenplay, the first Black writer to take that award. The film was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, and lost all three, the Picture prize going to The Shape of Water.
6. Which president does Dean tell Chris he would have voted for a third time?
Barack Obama
Dean says it on the tour of the house, by way of putting Chris at ease, and it does the opposite. Bradley Whitford, of The West Wing, plays him, and Catherine Keener plays his wife Missy.
7. What is Missy's professional specialty?
Hypnotherapy
Missy is a psychiatrist who offers to cure Chris's smoking with hypnosis on the first afternoon, and he politely declines. She does it anyway, in her study, when he wanders back in from a cigarette in the small hours.
8. What sound helps Missy hypnotize Chris?
A spoon stirring in a teacup
Missy stirs her tea while she talks, and the sound is what sends Chris under. The ticking watch is the movie version of hypnosis, which is why the teacup is so much creepier; later a recording of it, played through a television, works on him just as well.
9. What is the hypnotic state Chris enters called?
The Sunken Place
Missy sends him there in her study, and he watches the room from the bottom of a dark pit while his body stays in the chair. Peele has said the place stands for being unheard, and it became the film's most quoted idea.
10. What is Chris's friend Rod's job?
TSA officer
Rod works airport security and treats it as a law-enforcement career. When he takes his theory to the actual police, a detective and two colleagues laugh him out of the station.
11. Who plays Rod?
Lil Rel Howery
Howery is a Chicago stand-up, and Rod's phone calls to Chris supply most of the laughs, starting with his advice against visiting a white girlfriend's parents at all. Rod is also minding Chris's dog, Sid, for the weekend.
12. What animal is hit by Rose's car on the drive?
A deer
Rose hits it on the road to her parents' house, and Chris walks back to look at the dying animal, which reminds him of his mother, killed by a hit-and-run driver when he was a boy. A state trooper then asks for Chris's license even though Rose was driving.
13. What does a camera flash do to the guest calling himself Logan?
It briefly breaks his controlled behavior
Logan's nose starts bleeding and he lunges at Chris, shouting at him to get out, which is where the title comes from. Rod later recognizes the man from Chris's photo as Andre Hayworth, who had gone missing months earlier.
14. What song plays from the car that follows a man through the suburb in the opening scene?
"Run Rabbit Run"
Flanagan and Allen's 1939 novelty song plays from the white sports car that follows Andre through the suburb. "Sikiliza Kwa Wahenga" is Michael Abels's Swahili theme that follows over the titles, and "Redbone" plays in Chris's apartment in the next scene.
15. What material does Chris use to block his ears?
Cotton from the chair
Chris is strapped into a leather armchair in the Armitage basement and picks at the stuffing in the arms while he waits. Plugging his ears means the teacup sound from the television never reaches him, so all he has to do is pretend to go under.
