#CHIMPANZEE HAND DRAWING MOVIE#

I stayed behind all the way through the film’s end credits like I would for an MCU or DCEU movie ( IYKYK), hoping to get a glimpse of something that would help me understand what I just watched.

And Em, ever enterprising, manages to capture it all on camera. Because it can only feed on living things, Jean Jacket meets its fateful end, exploding in the sky. Seeing the balloon as a challenge to its status as the apex predator, the alien swallows it whole without hesitation. Desperate to save her brother, Em makes a mad dash to release a giant helium balloon from Jupiter’s Claim into the sky, and thankfully, a newly- metamorphosed Jean Jacket takes the bait. After having the paparazzi as an appetiser, Jean Jacket amps up its violence, swallowing the group’s resident filmographer whole before setting its sights (does it have eyes?) on OJ. The motley crew’s plans are foiled by the sudden appearance of a TMZ photographer on a motorbike, drawing out the alien earlier than they’d anticipated and setting off a chain of unforeseen complications. But this is a Jordan Peele movie - what’s supposed to happen never actually happens. The mission, which now includes the help of famed film director Antlers Holst ( Michael Wincott) in order to capture the “Oprah shot,” unfolds rather quickly, a collaboration of carefully placed inflatable sky dancers and cameras meant to lure Jean Jacket out from behind the cloud so that it can be captured in real time. As business gets as dry as the desert they call home, the siblings are forced to sell several of their beloved horses to Ricky “Jupe” Park ( Steven Yeun), a child star turned entrepreneur now running local theme park Jupiter’s Claim, and things are bad enough that they might even have to hand over their ranch to stay afloat.

The Haywoods are horse trainers, offering up their trained animals for use on Hollywood television and film sets, and they’ve been in the game for generations their great-great-great-great grandfather, Alistair Haywood, was actually the star of the first ever moving picture, a fact that the industry has managed to erase over the years. Haywood ( Daniel Kaluuya) and his younger sister Emerald ( Keke Palmer), are horse people, born and raised, but the sudden tragic death of their father puts their livelihood and their longtime family tradition at risk. Nope is a science-fiction thriller that takes place in the sandy desert town of Agua Dulce, California.

Chimpanzee hand drawing