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Article Evaluation 1

-Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?

Overall, the information presented has been relevant except for citation 24 which speaks on Judy Blume's son directing a movie about her book. That should be in a "More Info" or "Fun Facts" section.

-Is any information out of date?

The information presented on this page is pretty up to date

-Is anything missing that could be added? & What else could be improved?

Should speak more about Judy Blume pioneering sexuality in children's literature and being a catalyst for others to join on this journey.

-Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?

No

-Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?

No

-Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article? Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?

Yes the citations are reliable and applicable

Talk Page

-What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?

Why her books are truly being banned

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Article Evaluation 2

Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?

-The first paragraph of the "In Film" section is unnecessary.

Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?

-Because the book "The Catcher in the Rye" was published in the 50s, a lot of the content on this page is from that time period.

What else could be improved?

-Add more recent information and the title of the book should be discussed

Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?

-Yes the article is very neutral, providing evidence from both sides

Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?

-Yes, the links work

Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?

-The sources i checked were all from reliable sources.

Talk Page

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-to discuss the title

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-B and it is at the top of the wikiprojects list

A Wrinkle in Time(2018) Film Evaluation

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Us is a 2019 American mystery/thriller film written and directed by Jordan Peele.

The film, starring Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Elisabeth Moss, and Tim Heidecker, follows a family who are confronted by mirror images of themselves known as doppelgängers or “the tethered”.

The project was first announced in February 2018, and much of the cast joined that summer. Peele produced the film alongside Jason Blum and Sean McKittrick (with the trio previously having collaborated on Get Out and BlacKkKlansman), as well as Ian Cooper. Filming occured from July to October 2018 in California.

Us had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 8, 2019 and was theatrically released in the United States on March 22, 2019, by Universal Pictures. The film was also screened on Wednesday, March  6, 2019, before its official release, at Howard University Plot

In 1986, young Adelaide Thomas vacations with her parents in Santa Cruz. At the beach, Adelaide wanders off and enters a funhouse where she encounters a doppelgänger of herself in the hall of mirrors. When Adelaide is later reunited with her parents, she is traumatized and unable to speak about her experience. The film flashes forward to present day and features a nopw adult Adelaide heading to her family's beach house in Santa Cruz with her husband Gabe Wilson and their children, Zora and Jason. Adelaide, remembering the the traumatic incident from her youth, is apprehensive about the trip; meanwhile Gabe, who is eager to impress their friends, Josh and Kitty Tyler, purchases a boat and brushes off Adelaide's concerns. Later that night, a family of doppelgangers dressed in red jumpsuits appear in the driveway of their beach home. Gabe (father) in his Howard University sweatshirt, attempts to fight back with a bat, but the dopplegangers, called "The Tethered", begin separating the family members from each other, stalking and attacking them as part of what soon reveals itself to be a demented zombie-like apocalypse. People in red jumpsuits are emerging everywhere from tunnels, searching for and murdering their surface-swelling lookalikes

Cast Production

Shooting took place at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.

After being dismayed by the "genre confusion" of Get Out, Peele opted to make Us a full-on horror film[4], which was described by Rolling Stone as "spill-your-soda scary" compared to the "existentially terrifying" Get Out.[5]

Principal photography began on July 30, 2018 in Santa Cruz, California, featuring the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Most of the film was shot in Los Angeles, and the main house featured is located in Pasadena. The Stone/Wilson house, where the team spent six weeks. Filming wrapped on October 8, 2018.[7]

The visual effects are provided by Industrial Light & Magic and supervised by Grady Cofer.[8]

Michael Abels, who previously scored Peele's Get Out, produced the soundtrack.[9]

Marketing

The official trailer was released on December 25, 2018.[14] The trailer, which featured a darker version of the song "I Got 5 on It" by Luniz, featured a similar tone, editing, and shots as Peele's Get Out, prompting speculation that the two films were set in the same universe.[15]

A second trailer was released on February 3, 2019 for Super Bowl LIII. The trailer features a narration from Lupita Nyong'o's character, Adelaide, speaking with her husband,Gabe, about the strange coincidences happening since they arrived at their beach house, describing it as a "black cloud" hanging over them. [16] Deadline Hollywood estimated the studio spent around $77 million on promotions and advertisements for the film.[17]

Release

The film had its world premiere at the South by Southwest festival on March 8, 2019.[18] The film was originally scheduled for theatrical release in the United States on March 15, 2019, but was pushed back a week to March 22, 2019, following the announcement of its South by Southwest premiere.[19]

Reception

Box office[edit]

As of March 25, 2019, Us has grossed $77.1 million in the United States and Canada, nearly doubling industry estimates and $16.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $94 million, against a production budget of $20 million.

In the United States and Canada, initial tracking predicted Us grossing $35–40 million in its opening weekend.[20] By the week of its release, estimates had risen to $45–50 million, with advance ticket sales on Fandango outpacing A Quiet Place ($50.2 million) and Get Out ($33.7 million).[21] The film made $29.1 million on its first day, including $7.4 million from Thursday night previews, one of the best-ever for a horror film and far higher than the $1.8 million made by Get Out, increasing estimates to $68 million. It went on to debut to $71.1 million, the second best opening for a live-action original film after Avatar ($77 million in 2009), as well as the third-best total for a horror film after It ($123.4 million in 2017) and Halloween ($77 million in 2018).[17][22]

Critical response[edit] -people focused on Jordan Peele as producer and director

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 95% based on 347 reviews, with an average rating of 7.94/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "With Jordan Peele's second inventive, ambitious horror film, we have seen how to beat the sophomore jinx, and it is Us."[23] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 81 out of 100, based on 54 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[24] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak gave it an overall positive score of 80% and a 58% "definite recommend".[17]

Monica Castillo of RogerEbert.com gave the film four out of four, writing that: "Us is another thrilling exploration of the past and oppression this country is still too afraid to bring up. Peele wants us to talk, and he's given audiences the material to think, to feel our way through some of the darker sides of the human condition and the American experience."[25] David Griffin of IGN gave the film 9.0/10, calling it "a very, very strange film. But that's OK because it wouldn't be a Jordan Peele joint if there wasn't a little risk involved. Peele has proven that he's not a one-hit-wonder with this truly terrifying, poignant look at one American family that goes through hell at the hands of maniacal doppelgangers".[26] John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter called Us "a fiercely scary movie whose meaning is up for grabs".[27]

Richard Brody of The New Yorker called the film a "colossal achievement," writing that, "Us is a horror film—though saying so is like offering a reminder that The Godfather is a gangster film or that 2001: A Space Odyssey is science fiction. Genre is irrelevant to the merits of a film, whether its conventions are followed or defied; what matters is that Peele cites the tropes and precedents of horror in order to deeply root his film in the terrain of pop culture—and then to pull up those roots."[28]

Conversely, Stephanie Zacharek of Time thought Peele had too many ideas and not enough answers compared to Get Out and said, "Peele goes even deeper into the conflicted territory of class and race and privilege; he also ponders the traits that make us most human. But this time, he's got so many ideas he can barely corral them, let alone connect them. He overthinks himself into a corner, and we're stuck there with him."[29]

Influences

Manohla Dargis of The New York Times notes that the Wilsons are "introduced with an aerial sweep of greenery" similar to the opening of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and sees that movie as the principal influence on Us. Describing Peele as a "true cinephile", she also identifies allusions to other films, including Jaws (1975), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and Goonies (1985), as well as one scene suggesting an influence by the Austrian film director Michael Haneke.[10]  Peele has said that an inspiration for Us was The Twilight Zone episode "Mirror Image" that was centered on a young woman and her evil doppelgänger.

Interpretations

Critic Jim Vejvoda related “The Tethered” to "urban legends" and "xenophobic paranoia about the Other", also claims they resemble the Morlocks in H. G. Wells' 1895 novel, The Time Machine.[11]Journalist Noel Ransome viewed the film as being about "the effects of classism and marginalization", writing "the Tethered are effigies of this same situational classism. They’re trapped—mentally and physically—and ignored".[12]

The Root, an online magazine, explains that Jordan Peele feels there is a deep importance in having Winston Duke,who plays Gabe, wear a Howard Sweatshirt- to showcase the family’s attachment to blackness. Although this movie is not a satirical critique on race as Jordan Peele’s past work, “Get Out” was, race and class are prevalent topics in the film because it is surrounding the lives of a wealthy black family. Symbols of wealth and seemingly the American Dream lie within the lead characters of the black family as they drive their range rover, their boat, or even the Howard University sweatshirt, a symbol of the Mecca of HBCUs.

The film contains a reference to Jeremiah 11:11, which reads: "Therefore this is what the Lord says: 'I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them'" (NIV). Critic Rosie Fletcher commented on the context, with Jeremiah warning Jerusalem was facing destruction due to false idols, and opined the film's characters also "worshipped the wrong things", such as Ophelia, the virtual assistant.[13]

Soundtrack

1995 Luniz song “I Got 5 on It" is featured in this song, first at the beginning, when the family is driving to Adelaide's family vacation home and later on in the film, when the family of tethered break into the vacation home. The once-fun song transmogrifies into an eerie “Tethered Mix”, slowing things down, and fully indulging the ominous quality of the film. Peele claimed the inspiration for this track came from the movie, Nightmare on Elm Street. Peele in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, said “I’m making a movie in Northern California, that’s a bay area hip-hop classic", referencing the use of the west coast hip hop track, "I got 5 on it".

Draft One of contributions to Wikipedia page

Us is a 2019 American mystery/thriller film written and directed by Jordan Peele. The film stars Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Elisabeth Moss, and Tim Heidecker, and follows a family who are confronted by mirror images of themselves known as  doppelgängers or “the tethered”.( proxy.library.georgetown.edu)

The project was first announced in February 2018, and much of the cast joined that summer. Peele produced the film alongside Jason Blum and Sean McKittrick (with the trio previously having collaborated on Get Out and BlacKkKlansman), as well as Ian Cooper. Filming took place from July to October 2018 in California.

Us had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 8, 2019 and was theatrically released in the United States on March 22, 2019, by Universal Pictures. The film was also screened at Howard University, the Wednesday before its national release. (proxy.library.georgetown.edu)

Plot

In 1986, young Adelaide Thomas vacations with her parents in Santa Cruz. At the beach, Adelaide wanders off and enters a funhouse, where she encounters a doppelgänger of herself in the funhouse's hall of mirrors. Adelaide is later reunited with her parents, although traumatized and unable to talk about her experience.

In the present day, a now adult Adelaide heads to her family's beach house in Santa Cruz with her husband Gabe Wilson and their children, Zora and Jason. Adelaide, remembering the traumatic incident from her youth, is apprehensive about the trip; Gabe, eager to impress their friends Josh and Kitty Tyler, purchases a boat and brushes off Adelaide's concerns. Later that night, when a family of doppelgangers appear in the driveway of the beach of home- each looking exactly like a family member (but in red jumpsuits), Gabe (father) in his Howard University sweatshirt, attempts to fight back with a bat. But, the doppelgangers, called “The Tethered,” begin separating the family members from each other, stalking and attacking them as part of what soon reveals itself to be a demented sort-of zombie apocalypse. People in red jumpsuits are emerging everywhere from tunnels, searching for and murdering their surface-dwelling lookalikes. (proxy.library.georgetown.edu) Interpretations

The Root, explains that Jordan Peele feels there is a deep importance in having Gabe, Winston Duke, wear a Howard Sweatshirt- to showcase the family’s attachment to blackness. Although this movie is not a satirical critique on race as Jordan Peele’s past work, “Get Out” was, race and class are topics prevalent in the film because it is surrounding the lives of a wealthy black family. Symbols of wealth and seemingly the American Dream lie within the lead characters of the black family as they drive their range rover, their boat, or even the Howard University sweatshirt, a symbol of the Mecca of HBCUs. ( https://www.theroot.com/heres-why-winston-duke-is-wearing-a-howard-sweatshirt-i-1833495567 )

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