
Spill the tea, sis!
Before proving he wasn't a one-hit-wonder with Us, Jordan Peele's
breakout success was Get Out. If you're familiar with Peele's oeuvre, it won't surprise you that it starts out as a horror movie but then ends up an allegory about racism. And while, yes, the movie is incredibly good, at least part of the appeal had to be how unexpected it was: you have to remember that until that point, Jordan Peele was known as a broad comedic actor, so him directing a striking "social thriller" his first time out would be like one of the guys from Dude, Where's My Car? suddenly revealing themselves as a better director of Shakespeare than Kenneth Branagh.
Get Out stars Daniel Kaluuya as Chris Washington, a man who goes to visit his girlfriend's parents at their upstate New York home - with sexy results! Sorry, scary: with scary results! The iconic image of the film is Chris sitting in a chair with tears running down his cheeks, and that's what the Mystery Mini gives us.
This is actually a bit of a mixed representation: in the famous "crying" scene, Chris is wearing a gray hoodie; this one is from later in the film, near the end when the spoilers come in, so he's wearing his light blue shirt. Also he's strapped to the chair
by his wrists and ankles.
Chris Getout is not the first seated Mystery Mini - in fact, thanks to a 2016 Professor X, he's not even the first one in a chair! But it's still cool. The chair was designed especially for the film, and it's re-created fairly well for this figurine. The film version was a mission-style chair with padding on the arms, vertical slats on the side, and wider legs in the front than in the back; this one has all four legs the same, and the rear of the chair is flat rather than having open horizontal slats. In a great attention to detail, the padding on the left arm of the chair has split open, and Chris is carefully picking the stuffing out. Great work!
Chris is available in a 1:12 ratio, which means he's in every case, but having four 1:6 figures means he's still kind of hard to get.
