Jordan Peele is an actor, director and writer who is famous for his Comedy Central’s ‘Key & Peele’ , his masterpieces are ‘GET OUT’ and ‘US’.
— “Jordan Peele Biography”, 2017
Jordan Peele was born in February 21, 1979 in New York, USA. He is a famous script writer and actor at his early age, he became a famous director after the he wrote and directed ‘GET OUT’ (2017) which has won the best picture at the Academy Awards. He then famous for horror film, ‘US’ (2019) his wrote and directed also a high standard work. (Jordan Peele – IMDb, n.d.)
GET OUT (2017)
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When Jordan Peele was having an interview with Guardian and talking about his film ‘GET OUT’. The racial issue seems to be the main theme of the movie while there is some stereotype of black people, such as “black trading”, strong body and the white-middle-class family as Jordan Peele explained it in the interview by Anthony(2017), “The disproportionate number of black men thrown into a dark room for the rest of their lives is one of the central themes of what my movie is an allegory for”. He also talk about how the social status of black people affected him when creating the character in the interview by Anthony(2017), “There are social rules every black person understands. [In white company] we give a little nod and a bro hug, and you don’t rat each other out. These things are real. The part of the black experience that has us perceiving or looking for racism where other people probably don’t is also real. It’s what the characters in this movie use to unravel the mystery”. Jordan Peele is biracial, he was brought up by his white mother which have an influence on his racial identity(Anthony, 2017). Racism and racial identity are factors that involved in the film which considered as a way for Jordan Peele to express his experience since childhood which formed his view towards the society and the culture. He hope the racial problem could be resolved and the claims from black people could be valued by writing and directing his own film.
US (2019) (UNIVERSIAL, n.d.)
REFERENCE
Anthony, A. (2017, March 4). Jordan Peele on making a hit comedy-horror movie out of America’s racial tensions. Gurdian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/04/jordan-peele-interview-get-out-its-about-purging-our-fears-horror-film-daniel-kaluuya [Accessed 7 January 2020]
Biography.com Editors. (2019, August 23). Jordan Peele Biography. The Biography.com website. Retrieved from https://www.biography.com/actor/jordan-peele [Accessed 7 January 2020]
IMDb. n.d. Jordan Peele – Imdb. [online] Available at: <https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1443502/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm> [Accessed 4 May 2020].
IMDb, n.d. Get Out. [image] Available at: <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5052448/> [Accessed 4 May 2020].
UNIVERSIAL, n.d. US. [image] Available at: <https://www.uphe.com/movies/us> [Accessed 4 May 2020].