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Jordan Peele doesn't want fans sending him their "Tethered" Halloween costumes.
- Thread starter Kalmakov
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Huh? I seriously don't get it. What's the difference? People are dressing as the characters because they liked the movie or like the costume or found the movie creepy. They're celebrating the movie, they're not taking these photos to send a message or something.
Look at it from his point of view? How many of y'all are as popular as him?
People acting like he's M. Night Shyamalan levels of quality just because Us wasn't the Second Coming of Christ.
Minorities working twice as hard for half as much. This shit is wack.
Era will now. How dare he use the word "iconic".
He said "iconic" about something that's not. That's like, one step away from spouting a racial slur around here.
A. He never said he doesn't want people dressing up as the characters.
B. He was not involved in the creative process of Jason or Krueger so therefore he does not have the same trauma from those characters as he does from the stalkers.
C. He does not care if people dress up as the characters, he just doesn't want people sending him pictures of it.
Doesn't mean it's not pretentious.
If it creeps him out, I get it. That's fair. But he also seems to be making assumptions that people are getting into the "mindset" and "impersonating the stalkers". Not the greatest way to characterize your fans.
It was certainly douchy. Still will watch and likely enjoy his movies. I actually liked us a lot, surprised at the hate in here, but it's not iconic in anyway.
They're literally sending the photos in a message to him on Twitter. He's not interested in seeing them for whatever reason so he politely requested that they stop sending them.
Thanks for clarifying why your first post was of the quality it was.
Iconic? The movie was bad. It sounds like he wants people to remember the movie exists before Halloween and to make the characters sound deeper than they were.
Also my friends still hate me for making them watch this movie at the theater so I kind of hate it more because of that.
Also my friends still hate me for making them watch this movie at the theater so I kind of hate it more because of that.
A. He never said he doesn't want people dressing up as the characters.
B. He was not involved in the creative process of Jason or Krueger so therefore he does not have the same trauma from those characters as he does from the stalkers.
C. He does not care if people dress up as the characters, he just doesn't want people sending him pictures of it.
I was responding to the poster implying idea that it comes across as threatening because the characters are stalkers. Nobody was sending him these photos to be a stalker or send a message, they were doing it to celebrate his movie, much like Kane Hodder taking photos with people dressed as Jason or englund with Krueger (they absolutely are involved in the creative process).
He has every right not to like it, but again the idea that it comes off as threatening is silly. Also it's not like people are texting him these photos or showing up at his doorstep.
I honestly don't understand why that comment got you so riled up. lol
Can you point to my riled emotion? I'm confused why calling out silly comments needs one to be riled. You, and others, just post some dumb stuff. That's all.
I notice some folk like to act like the other person is so emotional when called out with even when periods and regular words are used.
Dude politely asked not to send him pics of folks dressing up as his characters from the movie, not to forbid folks from dressing up or blaming said folks by sullying his movie.
Man this thread. Some of y'all need to step away from the computer for a bit.
Man this thread. Some of y'all need to step away from the computer for a bit.
I took it as him saying not to get too into character. If it scares him then it might scare someone else. I don't think he thinks less of his fans.
Pretty much what I was about to type up. The man says the character is terrifying and not something he wants messaged to him from every person dressing like this for Halloween. I don't get how this request makes him a dick.
Yeah the first two pages of this thread really got me scratching my head. Terrible responses all around.
People just waiting for a reason to attack this dude lmao
Pretty sure I get it perfectly fine. He doesn't want the photos. Again the person posting "sending a picture of you as a stalker to someone is scary" is off base here. It's a Halloween costume.
It's fine to think your work is iconic but when those words leave your lips you lost it.
I could be massively off-base but it sometimes seems to me that Jordan Peele comes off as a huge dick when his statements are transcribed, but in audio and/or video the intent of said statements is evident and inoffensive. I imagine that the tone of his comments here are similar.
Yeah I didn't know what the hell he's talking about either because at first I thought he had some new movie called tethered or something lmao. But after googling he's talking about the movie "Us" which was fantastic IMO. I just don't remember anyone being referred to as the "tethered" but then again my personal life is filled to the brim with shittiness and my memory is fading.
For fucks sake its iconic to the people that made this a fucking juggernut at the box office calm your ass down, you were really just waiting for a poorly stated statement to just go at it huh?
This isnt even what the threads about, his characters are popular costume ideas for halloween idk why your going so hard on the man for god damn.
People are dressing up as his characters for Halloween often enough for him to form an opinion on it. He gets to make that claim.
I just don't get why people are making such a big deal about him using the word iconic when he's expressing gratitude that the film resonated with enough people in such a way that they would dress up as the stalkers. He's calling it iconic in response to that, same with calling it a phenomenon.
So he is in the wrong to not want people to send him pictures? What? You're saying we shouldn't respect his request? You've lost me.
No I've said from the beginning he has a right to make that request. I'm saying the poster I quoted saying "you don't find that creepy" that they're dressing as stalkers and that makes them come across as stalkers, no I don't see it that way. I think it's very plainly obvious they're not stalking him, they're simply showing their love for the movie and the characters he's created. If it unsettles him so be it that's perfectly fine he has a right to feel that way.
I'm assuming only white directors over 45 get to use that word.
I don't even think he sounds that bad, but him talking about halloween costumes like it's impersonation is super funny
Read the OP and thought, "well, that's maybe a bit overblown."
Then I read the rest of the thread...
Then I read the rest of the thread...
Like I don't know how "it's a phenomenon, it's resonating, it's iconic" can come directly from a director's mouth and a person not think that isn't the least bit pretentious.
Yeah, as a creator, he should've been humble and said "Everything I make is terrible, you probably shouldn't consume it."
Pretty sure any Marvel director can say this and y'all wouldn't care.
Hell, fucking Scott Cawthon can say this.
