Jordan Peele

  Jordan Peele used his movies and shows as an effective ground to spread awareness of societal issues in the USA in an educational manner to people who are uneducated on the topics. Peele’s movies are honored for the ideas they pose upon the audience. Movie critic Jason Di Rosso of ABC Radio National stated the following about the messaging of Peele’s films: “Peele uses his films to pose important questions about where to draw certain ethical lines. What is the difference between depiction & exploitation, between opportunism & collaboration?” This quote reveals that Jordan Peele’s movies explore problems that are shunned away from public sight. We can tell that his films suggest these ideas so that they are able to stay within the mind of the audience. This allows for people to possibly become more educated on the topics so they can fight for a cause against them. In addition to his ideas being praised he uses them to impact each individual person. Jordan Peele uses his films to try and make everyone feel at least somewhat affected by the underlying message. Peele spoke about how his film Us was made with the intention of showing every individual being afraid or combative of one another has made us both the villains (O’Falt). This anecdote can convey that the message is not just a small part of the film but its own summary of the entirety of the story. This can also show a majority of the events and characters in this movie are allegories for the current real world. These stories instill new values and ideas in the audience. Even before creating films with underlying issues Peele created comedies that also exposed injustice. One thing that has stayed mostly consistent throughout the acting and directing career of Peele is the use of themes and morals. This has been evident through the structure of both his films and movies (Lee). This evidence from movie critic Kole Lyndon Lee shows that Jordan Peel's true intention with his projects is to inspire the reader to stand up to societal norms and problems. Overall, Jordan Peele’s main focus with his work is to push the audience and world into a less judgemental and happy place.

  Jordan Peele has innovated the movie industry and developed entire genres through the use of creative abilities. Jordan Peele uses his genius when he flips the cliches: “Cleverly using tropes, not coming across as too cliché, allowing the audience to recognize something important (whether it be comedy or horror), then subverting those tropes with some kind of thematic twist…is extremely hard, but Peele does it with eloquence” (Lee). Jordan Peele is able to combine all these hard techniques together and make an innovative movie that doesn’t come across as cliche. This is an effective way of directing and conveying emotions to people who have a harder time picking up on a person’s emotions. One of his useful strategies that positively impacted his movies was his use of personal experiences in his movies: “Jordan Peele got his idea for the movie Us by his own experience from going to a small dark lonely town. From this he felt the sense of a doppelganger which gave him the idea to make a film similar to the event” (Rose).This quote shows that Jordan Peele uses his mind to create expansive ideas. The ability for Jordan to use his surroundings to come up with completely new movies allows for him to change the movie industry. Many movie directors try to accomplish this but it is difficult to implement into movies. Jordan Peele, on the other hand, does this in an effective manner. Connecting back to Peele’s way of spreading social issues, he uses techniques to give a modern view on problems to educate people: “I argue that Peele's work provides a modern representation of the southern gothic genre but Peele manipulates this genre in order to show how the scars of slavery and the southern gothic can speak to contemporary representations of socio-political ideologies in America'' (Brooke).This testimony shows that his movies have deep meanings that talk about serious problems in American history and ideologies. He uses his work to spread and educate people on this.This modernization of these topics provides a rejuvenating view to people who were unaware of the problem. This is just one of his many techniques used.