Although Nope is less cryptic than Jordan Peele’s last film, Us, it still leaves a bread-crumb trail of influences and Easter eggs to enrich the experience for observant viewers. RifewithKatie writes
Jordan Peele is in Twilight Zone mode on Nope. For his third feature film, the writer-director spins a tale of high strangeness in inland California that doubles as a deconstruction of the summer blockbuster and triples as a parable — either about Hollywood or about humanity’s relationship with nature, depending on who you ask. Early teasers for the film hinted that UFOs would be a key element of the story, and Nope more than delivers on that promise.
The Horse In Motion The Haywoods’ assertion that the first motion picture featured a Black man on a horse, and that the jockey in the film remains unidentified to this day, is mostly correct. Pedants can quibble over whether the three-second clip in question is actually the first moving picture — photographer Edward Muybridge shot multiple series of photographs capturing a galloping horse’s gait in 1878, and it’s unclear which of them was executed first.
The Wizard of Oz Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by MGM and Universal Another signature move of the Haywood phenomenon is cyclones of swirling dust that suck up everyone and everything in their path before belching out the indigestible metal and plastic bits hours, or even days, later. This combines the strange but natural phenomenon of weird shit raining from the sky with a hint of The Wizard of Oz, whose influence is especially noticeable in a shot where O.J.
O.J.’s The Scorpion King hoodie O.J.’s first real job as an animal trainer was on 2002’s The Scorpion King, a spin-off of the ’00s Mummy series that also happened to mark the first starring film role for one Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Being a humble, practical sort, O.J. has hung on to his official Scorpion King crew sweatshirt for the past 20 years, and wears it for his heroic final confrontation with the creature at the end of the film.
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