Is there an American filmmaker working today who is more in tune with the blockbusters of the past, the movies he is building on, than Jordan Peele? I’m not sure there is. I’m even more confident that no one is doing anything like what Peele has been up to with the three films he’s given us so far: he’s actively reexamining genre tropes, reframing the cultural contexts in which they exist, refocusing their perspective — reconsidering, well, everything about the kinds of stories they’re telling.
Peele keeps giving us more of the stuff we’ve loved for the past 50-plus years without simply xeroxing what has come before. He put a racially aware spin on paranoid science fiction and body horror with 2017’s Get Out. With 2019’s Us, he consciously called up 80s Spielbergian wonders, then interrogated and replied to those fantasies. Now, with Nope, he...
Peele keeps giving us more of the stuff we’ve loved for the past 50-plus years without simply xeroxing what has come before. He put a racially aware spin on paranoid science fiction and body horror with 2017’s Get Out. With 2019’s Us, he consciously called up 80s Spielbergian wonders, then interrogated and replied to those fantasies. Now, with Nope, he...
- 8/26/2022
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, Brandon Perea, Michael Wincott | Written and Directed by Jordan Peele
“What’s a bad miracle? They got a word for that?”
When Jordan Peele was about to release Get Out to the world in 2017, there were a ton of people who thought it was going to be absolutely awful, including myself. This was mainly because at the time, Peele was exclusively known for starring in and being involved with comedic projects. So, naturally, many folks thought the idea of a comedian trying to make a super-serious and gloomy horror film would end up being unintentionally hilarious.
Boy were we wrong.
Get Out is one of the best horror films, possibly ever. It’s a legitimately terrifying film that follows a black man who goes over to meet his white girlfriend’s parents for the first time, which doesn’t exactly go as planned.
“What’s a bad miracle? They got a word for that?”
When Jordan Peele was about to release Get Out to the world in 2017, there were a ton of people who thought it was going to be absolutely awful, including myself. This was mainly because at the time, Peele was exclusively known for starring in and being involved with comedic projects. So, naturally, many folks thought the idea of a comedian trying to make a super-serious and gloomy horror film would end up being unintentionally hilarious.
Boy were we wrong.
Get Out is one of the best horror films, possibly ever. It’s a legitimately terrifying film that follows a black man who goes over to meet his white girlfriend’s parents for the first time, which doesn’t exactly go as planned.
- 7/25/2022
- by Caillou Pettis
- Nerdly
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