Why do a lot of director's use the 'chin angle' nowadays?

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harmonica44

If you watch movies like Drive, or lots of movies by Michael Bay, the director does shots from under the actors pointed up at their faces. This sets the emotion that that person is larger than life, but it's being done so often now, it seems to have lost it's emotional meaning that the shot makes you feel. In Drive it was done in quite a few shots. I got why they did it for the villain but why did they do it for other characters? It is also often done in a car.

The director will have the shot from a low angle, pointed up at the driver. Now why is this a good car angle exactly? I don't know, but it's become quite common. It hasn't been done near as often if you go back to the 90s it seems, compared to now, so what's with the change that directors have followed?
 
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just a common thing in the movie drive, i guess. I rarely ever see it, though, unless there's a helicopter overhead they're looking at, like in bad boys, though that was a while ago. I avoid Michael Bay's stuff religiously.
 
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It was in the first Transformers I recall, quite frequently, and in The Rock I think. Especially in the shots in the fighter of the pilots, and of driver's in chases. Green Zone did it as well.
 
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