{"id":38408,"date":"2023-01-03T18:39:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T23:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=38408"},"modified":"2023-01-03T18:39:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T23:39:56","slug":"nope-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/03\/nope-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Nope (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cNope\u201d explores the idea of fame, and sensationalism among other things. Much of \u201cNope\u201d involves Haywood and Emerald looking for that one big shot that can acquire dreams of wealth and notice. But when they contact an acclaimed wildlife filmmaker, he warns that sometimes fame is \u201ca dream you can\u2019t wait up from.\u201d Keke Palmer and Daniel Kaluuya are wonderful in their respective roles as a pair of ranchers anxiously trying to keep their family\u2019s ranch afloat after the inexplicable death of their dad (Keith David has a welcome cameo). Fate inevitably comes knocking down their doors, as they begin witnessing strange phenomenon in the skies.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s worse is despite what they think, there are others out there anxiously trying to find a way to use this extraordinary series of events for their own benefit. \u201cNope\u201d inevitably transforms in to a movie about voyeurism and technology. It\u2019s about how, in a world where everything is video tapes, and everyone has to be the first to deliver a scoop, we\u2019re faced with an enemy we\u2019re not supposed to see. \u201cNope\u201d is tailored in commenting on the gaping maw that is public consumption. We have to see, we have to be the first to offer the breaking news, the big bulletin, and the gossip whether it\u2019s right or wrong. The characters don\u2019t know it, but they\u2019re racing to be the first to see and experience the entity, no matter what the cost.<\/p>\n

And like them, audiences in America had to be the first to know what \u201cNope\u201d is about. With a brilliantly deceptive ad campaign and series of trailers, Jordan Peele turned America in to the very thing he\u2019s commenting on. Movie fans spent months theorizing what the poster, and title meant, and what the actual beings were in the trailer. We had to be the first to see what was going on, and many rushed to theaters to see it firsthand. Like OJ, we can\u2019t look away, and for once we\u2019re faced with a being that demands to be seen. It\u2019s so spectacular, it\u2019s such a once in a lifetime experience that you want to look. But if you do look at it in all of its glory, you\u2019re going to be swallowed up in its gaping maw.<\/p>\n

Peele wonderfully exemplifies that by also turning the film\u2019s entity in to something of a living and moving camera. It\u2019s something that focuses in on its victims with tendrils that move like film strips, and the only way to ensure survival is, to quote \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d: Just don\u2019t look. \u201cNope\u201d is bound to be yet another of Peele\u2019s genre entries that\u2019ll be dissected, and analyzed for years by film buffs alike. It\u2019s a great science fiction horror film packed with disturbing dark humor, and a timely message about how our need to see, might be the thing that gets us all killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cNope\u201d explores the idea of fame, and sensationalism among other things. Much of \u201cNope\u201d involves Haywood and Emerald looking for that one big shot that can acquire dreams of wealth and notice. But when they contact an acclaimed wildlife filmmaker, he warns that sometimes fame is \u201ca dream you can\u2019t wait up from.\u201d Keke Palmer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[88,259,349,477,703,906,1087],"class_list":["post-38408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-aliens","tag-dark-comedy","tag-fantasy","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-science-fiction","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38410,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38408\/revisions\/38410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}