by Blender Dumbass

Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film "Moria's Race" and the lead developer of it's game sequel "Dani's Race".

I was avoiding Nope for a few reasons. One of them was because people kept saying that it is very disturbing. It has a scene which I thought was to traumatize me. Now that I actually saw the film I can tell you that Jordan Peele, the director of Nope is not Lars Von Trier and therefor the scene is not actually that bad. To be quite frank, it seems like shooting that scene the way Lars Von Trier would have done it probably goes against the message of the movie.



You know this meme of a guy sweating so hard that it looks like water squirts out of him? Well this is Jordan Peele, the writer and director of Nope. He is phenomenal. You can kind of draw a similarity between Jordan Peele's style to somebody like Denis Villeneuve. A lot of breathable slow shots. A good understanding of the size of the screen in the cinema. And the proportion of things on screen in relation to that. He isn't too Spielbergian, but can go quite Spielbergian if he wants to. And Nope has a few good Spielbergian moments in it. Including a few good Spielberg oners. Or should I say Peele oners? Though unlike Villeneuve, Peele is more playful. He lets the movie be silly if that's gonna make it better. While Villeneuve seems to never allow it.

Story-wise it is rather interesting. It doesn't seem to have any kind of structure. The main character is not the main hero. Even though I'm not sure who is the main character, or even if there is a main character in the movie. There is no clear bad and good. And it seems like the movie is even conflicted about its own message at times. And the message is - spectacle is not cool. While the film indulges in spectacle quite a bit. But non-the-less the movie works. And the silly thing is, because it's called Nope it can pretty much get away with characters saying the title of the movie all the time without it being cringe.

There are parts of this film that make you feel scared, but they are done is such an entertaining way that they are quite a ride. There is one scene, which I was scared to see. Which is less than anything Lars Von Trier would do. So it's not scary. But I can see how it could be very disturbing to a lot of people. I think apart from that scene, the rest of the scares in this movie are taken not very seriously by Peele. And they are there to entertain ideas more than to make you scary. Which makes the movie strangely chill, even though gripping.

I really enjoyed the chillness of the character named Oj played by Daniel Kaluuya. And it was an interesting contrast to the cool vibe coming off from his sister Em player by Kiki Palmer.

I was kind of avoiding Peele's films for another reason. I had this feeling that because he is black I now have to watch his movies for political reasons. And it felt forced, so I didn't take a chance to look at those films. Today I realized that I'm kind of begging people to see Moria's Race and using the fact that I worked on it so hard alone to score points against how poorly some of it looks. Don't get me wrong, Moria's Race is leagues ahead the kind of stuff I did on I'm Not Even Human. So I'm still very proud of it. But if we compare it to anything done with 300 million dollars, it's shit. So I am trying to compensate the shitness by using the fact that I was alone. And this made me think that now I even more need to see something from Jordan Peele. And yes. Because he is black. But than, damn it. He doesn't need to use his blackness as compensation for anything. Because the movie is actually damn good. So I think I had a little roller coaster of envy, watching it today.

I wish I ( Blender Dumbass ) could be a funny meme first. And then grow into an amazing and respectable director like Jordan Peele. Having unrealistic dreams is not yet against the law.

Happy Hacking!!!


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