Nope True Story: Is Haywood Hollywood Horses Real?
Warning: This article contains major spoilers for Nope.
Nope, the latest of Jordan Peele's horror movies, focuses on the Haywood family, who operate Haywood Hollywood Horses, which trains horses for movies and other entertainment purposes. During a safety brief in the film, Em Haywood (Keke Palmer) reveals that she and her brother OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) are the descendants of «Alistair E. Haywood,» the first Black actor and animal trainer shown on film. It all leads to questions of whether the Haywoods are an actual family, and if Haywood Hollywood Horses actually exists.
Nope marks Peele's third consecutive domestic #1 film theatrically. It is a very impressive statistic, and even more impressive that it incorporates just as much social commentary as his first two movies, albeit in a different way. It's unclear what Jordan Peele's next movie after Nope is, but so far, he's three for three with thought-provoking themes in his films. This time, he tackles not only Blackness, but his own Hollywood industry with the Haywood family.
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Ultimately, both the Haywood family history and business are fictional properties created for the movie. Peele took some liberties with «The Horse in Motion»origin story. For starters, the sequence used in the film is actually called Animal Locomotion and features a horse called Annie G. Unfortunately, the identity of the jockey is lost to history. It is known that many jockeys during the late 1800s were Black, however, and that could've paved the way for Nope's Haywood family narrative.
While the Haywood family is not based on a real family, they are symbolic of important contributors lost to history. Nope continuesUs and Get Out's social commentary
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