Jordan Peele as Auteur of the Film Nope — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #131

Jor­dan Peele’s launch from a sol­id com­e­dy base with Com­e­dy Cen­tral’s Key & Peele show to the unex­pect­ed hor­ror film Get Out was so impres­sive that he’s gen­er­at­ed a huge amount of good will that allows him to play the full-on auteur with huge bud­gets. Did that pay off with his third film, the mon­ster movie Nope?

Your Pret­ty Much Pop host Mark Lin­sen­may­er is joined by Lawrence Ware (phi­los­o­phy prof. and enter­tain­ment writer), Sarahlyn Bruck (nov­el­ist and writ­ing prof.), and Nicole Pomet­ti (media artist and pod­cast­er) to sec­ond guess Peele’s var­i­ous cre­ative deci­sions.

A few arti­cles we reviewed include:

• “Jor­dan Peele and Keke Palmer Look to the Sky” by Ger­rick Kennedy
• “Jor­dan Peele Talks Being A Black Auteur And Dis­prov­ing Myths Of Rep­re­sen­ta­tion In Hol­ly­wood” by Dino-Ray Ramos
• “The Bloody His­to­ry Behind Those Mov­ing Pic­tures in Nope” by Jason Bai­ley
• “Jor­dan Peele’s Nope, Explained” by Alis­sa Wilkin­son
• “Jor­dan Peele’s Nope Calls Back to This Greek Myth” by Rebec­ca Radil­lo
• “Jupe is the biggest tragedy in Nope, a movie full of tragedies” by Tasha Robin­son

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