Jordan Peele knows how to create genuine anticipation with his latest work, until it “excite‘ in summer. The first scene shared on social media was an impressive sequence of photos of a black jockey taken by Eadweard Muybridge in 1887. Next, a small trailer where the characters are on a farm and staring at the sky in horror. The title of the movie was also alarming, ‘No!’ What is nop?
The mystery is about to be solved and the heroes are giving us some of their keys. These Daniel KaluyaHaving worked with Peele on his first film, let me outY Keke PalmerShe took part in the ‘sketches’ program ‘Key and Peele’, which also collaborated with the director on the comedy scene. In the movie, they play two brothers who are forced to take over a farm after their father’s death. In it, they tame horses to participate in movies. They are the descendants of that black jockey who took part in that founding image of cinema. OJ (Kaluuya) is reticent and hardworking. Emerald (Palmer) is the opposite, broad, lively and somewhat carefree.
big time fun
“Peele wrote the script during a pandemic in which fear and terror invaded us all,” says Daniel Kaluuya. “At the time we didn’t even know when we could leave our homes or how that would affect the cinema, so he wanted to make a movie. fun largely as we remember it from our childhood and constitutes a cinematographic experience”.
To do this, he combined an entire array. elements that take us from the west to science fiction through horror and comedy. There are contemporary cowboys, tourist farms, a predatory UFO, and killer chimpanzees. But how could it be otherwise, ‘No!’ it also spins on a metaphorical level, which is Peele’s specialty. If “let me in” spoke of the racism that had settled at the heart of American society at the time of Trump, and ‘We’ revolved around the class struggle and the gaze of the other, ‘No!’ becomes an allegory of mass culture. Hollywood constructs and swallows myths, and what role do African-Americans play in this system? from the very beginning (those Muybridge photographs) condemned them to invisibility and exploitation.
all will be seen
“Ultimately, it’s also about the image,” Kaluuya continues. “We are in the age of Instagram and an image is worth everything. we waste time looking random photosbut they are there. There is nothing that is not reflected, says the film. And they’ll be obsessed with looking for Jean Jacket [el nombre que le pondrán al platillo volante]”.
“We do whatever it takes to be seen and recognized. That’s something you learned in the entertainment industry, and I think Jordan wanted to talk about the violence at its core. How we are swallowed without realizing it,” he continues. Keke Palmer.
Jordan Peele didn’t hesitate to name a good portion of his references. ‘Signs’, M. Night Shyamalan or ‘Encounters of the Third Kind’, Steven Spielberg, In this case, his influence as a director is obvious. Also, legendary westerns such as Sergio Leone’s ‘Till the Time Comes’ or Michael Cimino’s ‘Heaven’s Gate’ for the open landscape concept. This is exactly what the director wanted, every time we go into the sea, ‘Jaws’ comes to our minds. When we look at the sky after seeing ‘No’, we get nervous if a UFO is hiding in the clouds. He also wanted to justify the underappreciated black western, as in ‘Buck and the faker’ starring Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier..
Keke Palmer admits she was ‘shocked’ when she read the script. “I knew I would be surprised because it was a Jordan Peele movie and he always has bright ideas. But he didn’t know how crazy he was going to be. I think he was really daring, he wanted to do something different, to surprise the audience, have fun and ask questions at the same time. All his works are like that, but in this case, the type of items it combines, even more and you spend the whole movie with your mouth open. I continued ‘wooow, woooowww!’
Jordan Peele’s bet has undoubtedly become an event. It was number one at the box office in its opening weekend in the United States and raised more than a hundred million dollars, forty-four by the end of the first week. “I think there is something special about the movie that connects with the audience. It’s scary, there are also moments of humor, some of which will leave you speechless [atención a la aparición del mono Gorky] And while it’s the least jarring part of the movie, we find a beautiful relationship between the two brothers, which is my favourite.”