While nostalgia for Kid Sheriff is how Ricky markets himself, Gordy's Home is his most infamous work. Ricky now runs a theme park called Jupiter's Claim in Agua Dulce, a rural area north of Santa Clarita far outside of Los Angeles, capitalizing on his success from a movie called Kid Sheriff. The primate was the chimpanzee star of a sitcom called Gordy's Home starring Ricky "Jupe" Park, the former child actor played by Steven Yeun. The audience is left stewing in those initial images for a while before we get the full Gordy story. Gordy, in some ways, is what Peele's entire film hinges on-the notion that not every animal can be tamed for human amusement. His saga is told outside the plot, but is thematically central, sure to prompt endless theorizing. Gordy, acted in mocap by Terry Notary, is also Peele's most elusive addition to his narrative. That chimp is Gordy, the most horrifying creation in Peele's UFO spectacular-scarier than the otherworldly visitor making horses disappear. A chimp nudges her foot as if to check if she's still alive.
One of her shoes has been removed from her foot and stands up straight. It's unclear if she's dead or badly injured. A girl's body lays unmoving on the ground.
Then Peele cuts to the disaster that unfolds: The risers are bare, with jackets and bags people left behind while fleeing strewn on the seats. It's a happy image, but one that curdled almost immediately when Jordan Peele's new movie Nope began.īefore we even see a single frame of footage, audio from a (seemingly bad) '90s-style sitcom plays, its lame jokes echoing with a studio audience laughing. I'm sitting on a sitcom set couch curled up next to a baby chimpanzee, giggling as the ape leans on me. There's a photo of myself that's etched in my brain from childhood.
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