Post Horror Assignment #1 Post #3

Horror is a gigantic genre in film and has been around since forever. The ability to scare the audience is its one main element and its gradually changed overtime into various subgenres which could include slasher films, ghost stories and even religious horrors. Horror has adapted so quickly over the years that in this present time a new genre has portrayed audiences to new levels with the help from a special someone.  The reason i chose this specific individual as he was one of the main reasons why i chose this class, his implements into this genre as a new filmmaker inspired myself to launch myself into this type of area for my future. The man im talking about it none other than Jordan Peel. Peele has been a long admirer for me due to his history on Key and Peele, his past career has been mainly in acting alongside fellow actor Keegan-Michael Key in which the two performed sketch comedy through comedy central and it was just really entertaining. The reason why this specific filmmaker is so special to myself and just in general is that he switched genres completely from comedy into serious horror. In 2017, His first film he directed, produced and wrote won him an oscar and was critically acclaimed around the world for its post horror elements including racism, thriller, mystery and experimental elements that involve hypnotising and what could be happening around the world in which we may not know. This specific film was Get Out and it stared Daniel Kaluuya and in my opinion changed the horror genre into films we see today which explore social issues which may involve racism but twist it to turn them into horror films.  Peele has also made two other films one called ‘Us’ which involves an African American family and their clones of themselves fighting for a spot in their life and it gets really close and sentimental with identity, who you are as a person and grief. His newest film he made was called ‘Nope’ and it follows a western sort of atmosphere where it connects the plains of Hollywood to a UFO and alien sort of event which has various plot twists that involve grief and post traumatic stress disorder for various characters and just the outstanding tension he brings provides the story and the audience to change throughout the film. The idea of post horror involves different tropes that similarly impact the real world and its frontrunner filmmaker and succeeder, Jordan Peele clearly understands and translates major opportunities of themes that are not likely seen in horror movies and each film he creates, new themes are present alongside new inspiration. Jordan Peele like other filmmakers takes inspiration from all around the history of cinema and wants to sort of celebrate it in  a way and shape it into his own films to sort of reimagine it. An example of this is George Romero’s zombie classic ‘Night of the Living Dead’ way back in 1968, in which Peele has stated that the main lead and the whole story can be viewed as social commentary on racism, the main character, as he is shot by humans instead of the zombies with no intention of doing any hard, it made him realise this was impactful. This was just one example of his inspiration, but it clearly shows the true talent behind this young mind in the horror cinematic directing atmosphere. Other filmmakers like Robert Eggers and Ari Aster have many impacts in common, they are new and have bright ideas for not so bright events (in a good way). To this day, the story of Jordan Peele influences myself and many of my peers to the future of filmmaking and the ability to change a genre into various ways that no one would even think about.

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