Interview With "Nope" Composer, Michael Abels

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Composer Michael Abels has had a fruitful collaboration with Academy Award-winner Jordan Peele, having created the scores for all three of his films, "Get Out," "Us," and now, "Nope." Each has been released to critical acclaim, but "Nope" may be the composer's most ambitious work yet, combining elements from the horror, sci-fi, and western genres to create a soundscape that is unshakable as it leaves a lasting impact on you as you walk out of the theater. Michael was kind enough to return to the podcast (we previously interviewed him for "Us") to talk about his work on the film, working with Peele, what he has coming up next (an opera!?), and more! Please take a listen down below and enjoy! Thank you. Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the composer for Nope, Michael Ables.
0:07.7	Did you know that the very first assembly of photographs to create a motion picture was a two-second clip of a black man on a horse?
0:14.0	And that man is my great-great-grandfather.
0:17.5	Great.
0:17.9	There's another great-grandfather.
0:26.7	But that's why back at the Haywood Ranch as the only black-owned horse trainers in Hollywood, we like to say since the moment pictures could move, yeah, skin in the game. The
0:40.3	The No. Oh.......
0:55.0	... What's a bad miracle?
1:24.6	They got a word for that? What's a bad miracle?
1:31.3	They got a word for that? Come on.
1:32.3	Yeah.
1:33.3	See you. Yeah Yeah Yeah
1:46.0	Yeah
1:47.0	Nah
1:49.0	Yeah
1:50.0	Uh
1:51.0	Uh
1:52.0	Michael, can you hear me?
1:53.0	Yeah, I can hear you great
1:54.0	It's no words
1:55.0	Good, good technology
1:56.0	You know how it is
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