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Jordan Peele is on his third movie, and we’re already throwing around the word auteur. That’s because he has a distinctive way of layering genre and social issues across his work, pulling apart race in modern society. The imagery he’s created with films like Get Out and Us is iconic, and a lot of it has to do with the way he uses close-ups. Peele has the uncanny ability to make us look deeper, and today I want to examine how his use of close-ups emphasizes that point.
Check out this video from CineFix, and let’s talk after.
How Does Jordan Peele Compose His Close-Ups?
I am a massive fan of Peele. Through sheer happenstance, I was at the movie premiere of Get Out in Los Angeles. I walked in with medium expectations, and I walked out thinking about how I was witnessing the debut of a filmmaker I’d probably hear about for the rest of my life. As a fan of his follow-up, Us, and as someone who is rabidly waiting for the premiere of Nope, this is a fun article for me to write.
Author: Jason Hellerman
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
