Nope Movie's Real Meaning Explained
Writer/director Jordan Peele is back with his latest movie Nope, and there is a lot to unpack beyond the story told onscreen. If there is one thing most people know about Peele — outside of his success in the world of sketch comedy — it is his love of the horror genre. Peele makes no secret that he is a diehard horror devotee, widely admitting that legendary horror master John Carpenter is one of his biggest creative idols. It is also well-known how much Peele loves Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, with references even making it into several Key & Peele episodes.
While Nope is the least straightforward horror of Jordan Peele's movies to date, there are still overt horror elements in its story — most notably a giant space alien that flies down to consume human beings. Peele has said he has no plans to leave horror behind. That is a great announcement, as Jordan Peele's films so far are all much more intelligent than the average mainstream horror flick.
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Nope is no different in that regard, and, as usual for Peele's work, there is a lot more going on than what the plot outwardly boils down to. Beyond OJ and Emerald's quest to get rich in Nope via photographic evidence of UFOs lies a look at things like Hollywood's historical mistreatment of its Black performers and the modern-day societal push to create spectacles that go further and further into the realm of danger. Here's Nope's real meaning explained.
As Emerald points out in her well-rehearsed and well-delivered introductory speech when on set, the Haywood lineage traces back to the first-ever motion picture, a film of a horse in motion. According to Emerald, a Black jockey was riding atop said horse, and
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