'The entertainment industry has come to the conclusion that the best way to extract dollars from all of us is to declare open season on the 1 percent.'
, the amusingly trashy horror-comedy that opens this weekend. I judge it the perfect late summer distraction, 90 minutes of hilariously grotesque mayhem and a star-making turn for Australian actor Samara Weaving who plays a bride named Grace marrying into an eccentric, board game–fortune family. The wedding held at the family estate is an ominous affair.
That’s the set up: a rich family targeting a pretty outsider. The script by Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy takes pains to establish that Grace is not to the manor born. And her transformation from delicate bride to no-frills badass who turns the tables on her murderous in-laws is the film’s calling card and comedic gimmick. “Fucking rich people,” she mutters, which sums up the movie in three words.In its small, midnight-movie way,struck me as a kind of top-of-the-rollercoaster moment.
No, this isn’t new, exactly. Rich villains are a hoary Hollywood trope. We’ve been rooting for the little guy against the big, bad corporate types for as long as we’ve been going to movies. But something has changed. We used toErin Brockovich to get her $2 million payout at the end. We used to love that Batman lived in a billionaire’s mansion.wants something different. To burn the mansion down and walk away. To see rich people explode .
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