I blow stately mansions sky-high” in the Ilgaz woods in 1920 I tied an embroidered linen handkerchief to a pine bough for luck I didn’t know I loved the sky cloudy or clear the blue vault Andrei studied on his back at Borodino in prison I translated both volumes of War and Peace into Turkish I hear voices not from the blue vault but from the yard the guards are beating someone again I didn’t know I loved trees bare beeches near Moscow in Peredelkino they come upon me in winter noble and modest beeches are Russian the way poplars are Turkish “the poplars of Izmir losing their leaves. I didn’t know I loved the earth can someone who hasn’t worked the earth love it I’ve never worked the earth it must be my only Platonic loveĪnd here I’ve loved rivers all this time whether motionless like this they curl skirting the hills European hills crowned with chateaus or whether stretched out flat as far as the eye can see I know you can’t wash in the same river even once I know the river will bring new lights you'll never see I know we live slightly longer than a horse but not nearly as long as a crow I know this has troubled people before and will trouble those after me I know all this has been said a thousand times before and will be said after me Nope's world is ruled by the desire for showmanship, and, sadly, it appears to speak mostly truth regarding contemporary Hollywood.It’s 1962 March 28th I’m sitting by the window on the Prague-Berlin train night is falling I never knew I liked night descending like a tired bird on a smoky wet plain I don’t like comparing nightfall to a tired bird Then there are all the news reporters that stay camped outside Jupiter's Claim in the hopes of doing live coverage of something unusual. Most egregiously of all, the TMZ reporter gets in a motorcycle accident but is too busy worrying about getting images of the alien that he is entirely unconcerned with his own health. Antlers' pursuit of the impossible shot in Nope accomplished nothing, but he was compelled to try all the same. Related: Nope's Easter Eggs & References ExplainedĪntlers is so obsessed with getting the perfect shot that he puts himself in the path of the alien to try and do so, even though he dies and his camera is also destroyed. Jupe wants to wow the customers of Jupiter's Claim, so he essentially serves up a buffet of fresh humans - which includes his own family - to the alien while ridiculously thinking he had some kind of deal with the creature. All three of these demises occur because the characters are willing to put their lives on the line to create a spectacle. at Nope's start, Jordan Peele's film contains three more major deaths: Ricky "Jupe" Park, cinematographer Antlers Holst, and a motorcycle-riding reporter for TMZ. The fact that Jupe was set to likely spend the rest of his life coasting on his childhood accomplishments is just downright sad, but he cannot bring himself to move on.įollowing the death of Otis Sr. Jupe so badly wants to perform and wants the adulation of a crowd that he started the Jupiter's Claim attraction based largely on his childhood role of Kid Sheriff and the notoriety of the Gordy incident. That is even though he once witnessed Gordy the chimp turn homicidal on his co-stars, an event Jupe clearly has deep unresolved trauma with. Related: What Jordan Peele's Next Movie Is (After Nope) Like many child actors, Jupe's fame did not last, and he has seemingly been chasing that high ever since. OJ and Emerald deciding to risk being devoured by a monster to earn fame and money is the most straightforward example of this, but there is also Jupe. Beyond the trials of the Haywood family specifically, Nope as a whole can arguably be read as a slam of both the fleeting nature of Hollywood success and the lengths with which people who have experienced that lifestyle will go to try and maintain it.
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