![]() ridden by an unidentified but definitely Black jockey. Actually, there were multiple films the one that Peele intertwines Nope with involves a horse named Annie G. Plus, the advent of CGI means the movies just don’t require real horses on set the way they used to.Īlistair Haywood’s character is Peele’s invention, though the film in which he rode a horse, made by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878, is real. (Keith David), killed in a freak accident in which debris rained down from the sky, they’re running into hard times. But following the untimely death of their father Otis Haywood Sr. Haywood, who rode the horse in the first moving picture ever made. There, siblings OJ and Emerald Haywood (Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer) run Haywood’s Hollywood Horses, named for their great-great-great grandfather Alistair E. The action takes place in Agua Dulce, about a 40-mile drive north of Hollywood. Nope is not set in Nineveh, exactly it’s set in Hollywood. So, Nahum says, God will do the same to Nineveh. Basically, Nineveh arrogantly chews people up and spits them out. Just before this verse, Nahum describes Nineveh as a lion’s den, the “city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims,” a place with “galloping horses and jolting chariots,” full of bodies of the dead. The target of all three was Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire, which did indeed fall not long after the prophecies, taking the empire down with it. Nahum is one of the “minor” prophets of the Bible (which basically means the book he wrote is short), nestled in between Jonah - the guy who was swallowed up by a giant fish - and Zephaniah, who like Nahum mainly foretold destruction. But Peele is happy to leave some things to our imaginations. TV and movies over the past several decades have coaxed us to expect explanations and puzzle boxes in our entertainment, and to be annoyed when creators refuse to reveal the trick at the end of the show. That helps explain why some viewers may come away dissatisfied. Since the relatively straightforward Get Out, Peele’s work has moved away from simple explanation and toward discomfiting vibes, and that’s to its credit.īut that means audiences have to lean in and work harder, and have to be okay with mystery. ![]() Nope is a bloody, creepy UFO movie, unexpectedly gross in spots, with several different ideas knocking around in its head. So the text that opens Nope, the director’s follow-up to Us and Get Out, is Nahum 3:6: I will cast abominable filth upon you, make you vile, and make you a spectacle. It’s gutsy to start a movie with a verse from Nahum, which is surely one of the Bible’s least-quoted books.
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