In 2009, reportedly triggered by a red Elmo doll Sandra Herold’s friend Charla Nash was holding, Travis charged Nash in a shocking mauling attack that left the woman blinded and her hands, nose, lips and face severely injured. In 1995, in real life, a chimpanzee was taken from his mother as a baby and sold to Connecticut couple Sandra and Jerome Herold, who named him Travis and raised him to wear clothes, drink wine, eat at the dinner table and sleep in bed with them. Here’s our brief guide to several notable allusions. In his horror/sci-fi epic, Jordan Peele has a close encounter of the Spielberg kind. Movies 6 key Spielberg references to watch out for in ‘Nope’ Although brief, this link back to Ricky’s childhood nightmare also offers another clue to the horrific real-life incident that it parallels. Introducing his new attraction, Ricky shouts out to a special guest sitting in the stands: Mary Jo, the “Gordy’s Home” co-star he once had a crush on who was badly disfigured in the on-set attack and now wears a veiled hat to obscure her scars. He builds a new show to exploit the phenomenon in which the UFO is the star attraction, shored up by a false sense of confidence that, since he survived Gordy’s wrath, he shares a similar communion with the extraterrestrial predator. Just as OJ and Emerald see in the alien creature their own chance to capture their “ Oprah shot” and ride the video footage to fame and fortune, Ricky is also attempting to profit off of the unearthly spectacle. Chasing the fame he lost when the world lost interest in him, he believes that the flying object is an alien ship piloted by “Viewers” who want to watch him. Ricky has been secretly sacrificing the horses he’s bought from OJ to the flying disc for months, studying its behavior. Moments before cops arrive to shoot the animal to death, Gordy extends his bloody hand in maybe-friendship toward the terrified boy (one might call it, ahem, a “ monkey’s paw”) in what appears to be their signature fist bump. The world still harbors a ghoulish interest in the infamous “Gordy” tragedy, and Ricky has learned to cope by selling access to morbid memorabilia to deep-pocketed fans and glorying in how Chris Kattan spoofed his childhood trauma on a popular “Saturday Night Live” sketch - the apex of pop culture relevance.īut later, in an extended flashback, we see more of his memory of that fateful day: At the end of his bloody rampage, Gordy turns to the young Ricky, who is hiding underneath a table. He recounts the tabloid version of the tragedy with eerie detachment one day when OJ and Emerald visit to sell him yet another horse to keep their failing ranch afloat. Ricky, his entertainment career long behind him, now runs Jupiter’s Claim, an Old West-themed attraction named after the character he played in his one and only hit film, “Kid Sheriff,” which he now milks desperately in hopes of returning to the spotlight. The scene is later revealed to be a flashback in the memory of former kid actor Ricky “Jupe” Park ( Steven Yeun), who witnessed the brutal 1997 attack as a child and has masked his trauma from it ever since under a veneer of capitalist hustle and humor. The fictional family sitcom is “Gordy’s Home,” and it stars a trained chimp named Gordy (played via motion capture by “Planet of the Apes’” Terry Notary) who unexpectedly snaps, violently mauling several of his human co-stars. “OJ” Haywood and his extroverted sister Emerald ( Keke Palmer), who have inherited their late father’s struggling Hollywood horse ranch in Agua Dulce, just outside of Los Angeles, Peele opens on a tableau of bloody terror on the set of a seemingly unrelated ‘90s TV show. Movies Review: Say yup to Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope,’ the rare thriller Hollywood can look up toĭaniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer star in an otherworldly thriller that follows in the heady and ambitious footsteps of Peele’s ‘Get Out’ and ‘Us.’īefore we meet Daniel Kaluuya’s soft-spoken Otis Jr.
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