Nope: Gordy the Chimp and His TV Show, Explained

Editor’s note: the following contains spoilers for the film Nope.With Nope, Jordan Peele has once again taken over film discourse with a challenging work of original genre filmmaking.

While the three feature films that he has directed could all be classified as “horror” in the broadest sense, they fall into very different subgenres, and deal with different themes.

Get Out is a social satire about America’s history of racism, Us is a body-swapping commentary on class disparity, and Nope is an old-fashioned alien invasion movie with something to say about the pursuit of filmmaking and stardom itself.

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