"Get Real"

The most important phrase in the video is “Get Real.” 

Searcy uses the word “real” 10 times in his address (which is 42 seconds). That is an average of once every 4 seconds. He uses the phrase in a statement that it “is time for America to get real” and look at Herman Cain as a leader. The shooting continues and Searcy enters the frame again. “No more than once, guys…let’s get this right” he shouts to the crew, and resumes action in character. “Okay punk” he threatens, then pauses, and turns out and yells for the line, which is “Okay punk, get real.”

     “No more than once” can not only mean on the first take, which is what they say in movies, but can also apply to the current political situation. It can also refer to the Obama presidency, with no more than one term, especially after slandering empty phrases like hope and change, which were Obama’s political slogans that won him the first elections. This argument can make sense as another political dig…if he didn’t call for the line he just spoke about. “Get Real” is a wakeup call, a call to get back to reality, a statement to really pay attention to the candidates around you, and what people are saying. 

“Get real” is a statement from the youth, it is what punks say in songs, gossiping girls to an unbelievable statement, high-schoolers and college students when they brush something off as inconceivable. “Get real” is what we say when we don’t believe something, with the added implication that it might in fact be plausible, a phrase that means to accept the truth and don’t deceive yourself. Is Herman Cain’s campaign video about an actor playing a period western cowboy bringing yellow flowers to a girl whose only close up is a chicken to her breasts a real shot at the Republican candidacy for president? Get real.