Professional Project Review

Director: Ryan Coogler 

    My knowledge of different directors of big time movies is rather slim (more like nonexistent if I'm being honest), so I decided that I should start to look up who directs certain movies that I have seen and loved or seen trailers for and in return wanted to see the movie. Recently I saw the trailer for the movie Creed. What first caught my eye about this movie was I recognized the main actor, Michael B. Jordan, from a TV show that I loved. Creed seems to be an action packed, empowering, and motivating film and more often than not I find movies like that to be extremely intriguing. Creed hits theaters in a few days so I decided to check out who the director is since I've been feeling like I need to gain more knowledge of those who play such a big part in constructing a movie.

    After checking IMDb I found out that the director of Creed is Ryan Coogler, and since Creed has yet to hit theatres I looked at what other movies Coogler has directed to see if I had happened to have watched any of them. I had not seen or heard of any of his movies, because there was only a few short films and one fairly new movie titled Fruitvale Station that he had directed. I decided to watch Fruitvale Station and to my surprise Michael  B. Jordan is the main actor in that movie as well as Creed. Fruitvale Station is inspired by a crime that occurred on New Years several years ago involving a 22 year-old black man,  his friends, family, and ultimately his enemies. The film is right up my alley, because there is action that leaves you feeling empowered and motivated to take a stand and to overcome what ever it is that you are battling. 

    I have a feeling Ryan Coogler is going to be a director whose films I thoroughly enjoy. Rotten Tomatoes rated Creed very well and I have read a lot of comments from critics comparing it to Rocky. I look forward to seeing how this movie compares to Coogler's work with Fruitvale Station, especially since Michael B. Jordan is the main actor in both of his recent works.