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Love film and TV? Join BBC Culture Film and TV Club on Facebook, a community for cinephiles all over the world. Nope is released on 22 July in the US, and on 12 August in the UK. He is still a master filmmaker, and even a mediocre Jordan Peele film is better than the strongest film of an ordinary director. And as always in Peele films, clues and echoes are so detailed and carefully planted that it's hard to spot everything the first time through. There are sandstorms and eerie special effects, some from the sky and others closer to home. The film does look spectacular at times, with ominous skies and candy-coloured inflatable tube men waving their arms on the ranch. Peele has rarely been so blunt in his social commentary. It's an eloquent, worthwhile gesture, but Emerald's mini lecture intrudes on the plot. The identity of the black man on that horse has been lost to history, and his image appears twice in Nope. In a similar way, Emerald tells a film crew a story about the famous Eadweard Muybridge photographs of a man on a horse, which when run together created what is credited as the first moving image. When the events surrounding the bloodied chimp are revealed much later, it is both horrifying and anticlimactic.Īs written, Jupe isn't a man addicted to fame, which we're meant to see him as and which Yeun could certainly have achieved, but a stick figure indicating addiction to fame. He was the young actor in the sitcom with the chimp, a story he tells us early in the film, part of a very long stretch while we're waiting for the plot to kick in. The biggest lost opportunity is Yeun's character, Jupe, a former child star who now runs an Old West theme park near the Haywood ranch. The desperate hunger for fame is a major theme handled in a facile way. When OJ sees odd moving objects and signs in the skies – there's a cloud that never seems to move – Emerald decides to get rich and famous by photographing the first genuine evidence of a UFO, whether it actually is a UFO or not. But the plot rises to match her level of mania, and Palmer shows Emerald to be tougher than she first seemed.
His sister, Emerald (Palmer), is brash and attention-seeking, bursting onto the same movie set with such manic energy you wonder where the performance can possibly go after starting at such a high pitch. This OJ is serious about honouring his father's legacy. He blankly says, "Otis Jr" no mention of the infamous OJ. "Your name is OJ?" an understandably confused actress asks him on a movie set. Kaluuya's calm but intense manner serves him well through the film. Us (2019) leaned even more into horror as it dealt with class and race. Peele's Get Out (2017) was a true instant classic, effective as horror and trenchant as a critique of racial stereotyping. But Nope turns out to be a would-be romp that often limps along instead.Įxpectations were high even before the trailer, of course. It promised a frothy, entertaining popcorn movie, infused with Peele's usual layers of social commentary. For months the trailer has been teasing us with the sight of a frightened Kaluuya and Keke Palmer looking up at the sky, Steven Yeun in a cowboy hat and hilarious bright red suit, and a glimpse of what seems to be a flying saucer. If only the rest of Nope worked nearly as well. That's the good news, and pretty much all the good news. The episode is just right, funny, frightening and mysterious. There is a spectacular scene toward the end of Jordan Peele's new sci-fi-horror-meta-extravaganza – an apocalyptic rainstorm traps Daniel Kaluuya in his truck, where he delivers a well-placed, comic "nope".
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