Jordan Peele doesn’t like to reveal any secrets about his movies, but he did a new interview where he talked about some of the themes driving his latest movie. “Nope,” saying that it’s a movie about our fascination and even “addiction”To spectacle.
The latest trailer “Nope” provided a little more plot details and insight into Peele’s latest, revealing that it’s about a pair of siblings who witness the ominous presence of a UFO on their ranch. Like? “Get Out” “Us,”This horror movie will be more thought-provoking and purposeful than it already is.
“I wanted to make a spectacle, something that would promote my favorite art form and my favorite way of watching that art form: the theatrical experience,”Peele spoke in an interview with Empire. “As I started writing the script, I started to dig into the nature of spectacle, our addiction to spectacle, and the insidious nature of attention. So that’s what it’s about. And it’s about a brother and sister and healing their relationship.”
Peele also explained his reasoning behind the Eadweard Muybridge piece that he used for the opening of the first trailer. This clip features a Black man riding on a horse. It is the first ever sequence of sequentially arranged photographs to create a moving image. In the film, Keke Palmer’s character claims that from the very start, Black people had “skin in the game” in the movie business – but Peele had a reason beyond trivia reason for including it.
“We know who Eadweard Muybridge is, the man who created the clip, but we don’t know who this guy on the horse is. He’s the first movie star, the first animal trainer, the first stunt rider ever on film, and no one knows who he is,” Peele said. “That erasure is part of what the lead characters in this movie are trying to correct. They’re trying to claim their rightful place as part of the spectacle. And what the film also deals with is the toxic nature of attention and the insidiousness of our human addiction to spectacle.”
“Nope”Opening in theaters July 22, with Daniel Kaluuya starring alongside Steven Yeun.
