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bird-wells214 · 2 years
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i will make you a spectacle
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gentleindigo · 2 years
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I am once again thinking about the movie Nope and I just realized that a seemingly throwaway line actually has a lot more depth behind it than I anticipated. Tech support worker Angel makes a comment about the TV show "Ancient Aliens", which seems like a comic relief moment at first, but actually really highlights some of the film's underlying themes.
For those unfamiliar with the show, Ancient Aliens is a History channel show in America that basically promotes the "ancient aliens" hypothesis, i.e. that some past extraterrestrial race must have come to earth and is secretly behind technological marvels like the Egyptian pyramids. It focuses a lot on things built by non-Western cultures, from Native Americans to Africans to South Americans, with the heavily implied undertone that people of color couldn't possibly have been advanced enough to create things without the help of aliens. The show has been rightfully criticized for racism and its extremely pseudoscientific content with sparse and misleading evidence. Not only does Ancient Aliens perfectly encompass the concept of spectacle in pop culture, but it constantly erases and downplays the scientific and artistic advancements of whole cultures.
The concept of cultural erasure came up earlier in Nope with Em's speech about being descended from the first Black stuntman, who despite his contributions to film history was overlooked by Hollywood. The Haywood family are some of the only Black horse trainers in the industry, but struggle to keep their business afloat as predominantly white filmmakers dismiss and disrespect them. Em and OJ spend much of the film striving to get the perfect "Oprah shot" that will finally launch them from obscurity and earn them fame and fortune.
Angel's casual reference seems too on-the-nose to be a coincidence. Even as he joins the search for aliens, his whole frame of reference is a clickbaity show that promotes conspiracy theories undermining the achievements and contributions of people of color.
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iriscloud · 2 years
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Angel Torres being called literally Angel and being the guy who sets up a lot of cameras and is always watching them, thus having many eyes. that fact is interesting
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postingjustwhatever · 2 years
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The alien from Nope and the creature from The Ritual are dating.
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pansexual-chocolate · 2 years
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veryvaughnny · 1 year
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NEED I SAY MORE??!
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fuCK i just realised the 'viewer' costumes/toys look like the cameras on the set of the gordy massacre
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tirednapentity · 1 year
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What fucking gets me about the chimp subplot in nope is that unlike jean jacket, unlike flying saucers or aliens, it’s real. Let me elaborate. I wasn’t scared of jean jacket. I looked at her with wonder. I was awed at her, enraptured by how clever and how cool her concept and design was. I made jokes about her spitting out the blood over the haywood house. The digestion made me wince, but it didn’t scare me. 
Gordy, on the other hand. I couldn’t stand it. I couldn’t look at the screen while it happened. I had to leave the room. I am writing this post right now trying to get that all out because if i don’t I’ll end up having nightmares tonight. Jean jacket isn’t scary to me because she’s not real. Tragedies like the one Jupe experiences are. They have happened before and we continue to repeat them. The system that allowed it to happen is still in place. We see that at the end of the movie, too, the reporters closing in at the entrance. People killed because someone tried to exploit a wild animal and it backfired, ready to be turned into a spectacle. The snl sketch.  This is something devoid of the influence of any alien creature. The chimp attack happened because of humans. It is devoid of any fantastical element. It is a stark reminder that the issues the movie comments on are real. Am i making sense. 
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tefmiles · 1 year
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idk if we’re talking about nope again but we should because there’s still so much more to unpack, especially about jupe. i’ve been thinking about his name, and how “ jupe “ is a shortened version of “ jupiter “, which is known for having symbolism to do with luck, which is so fucking important. jupe is haunted by luck his whole life. it is luck that allows him to survive the gordy’s home incident, it is luck that keeps the shoe from falling. it is pure luck that jupe toys with until luck is no longer in his favor, until the wait for the shoe to drop is over and he is dead. 
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cgspirl · 2 years
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Regarding Antlers (Spoilers for NOPE [2022])
Working on a video essay for 'Nope' and I ended up ranting on Discord about Antlers, so I'm gonna post it here, unedited for the Full Effect™️ of the brain damage Mr. Jordan Peele has inflicted on my churning little brain:
ALSO. antlers. antlers is such an interesting character because he comes off as like. the apathetic, jaded remains of someone who is a hollywood legend, who never wanted to be a hollywood legend, who just. now has to live with that because that's just how it is.
and on the surface? yeah! that's antlers holst. but frankly there's more to him than just. grizzled jaded cinematographer who was going to fuck everything up for everyone because he's a selfish artistic prick.
to make a long comparison short he's like o.j. down to earth (heh), no-nonsense, straightfoward type of guy who knows what to do within his field of expertise and only wants to do his job and be left alone to do that job
unfortunately, because he is someone that can be commodified by hollywood (cinematographer), unlike o.j. who can't (animal-wrangler), he's stuck in the claws of the fame machine even though he doesn't want to be.
a big thing i noticed on my rewatch was the purple people eater scene. at first, it comes off as threatening and ominous, like a warning; and then you put it in perspective of who the fuck he's actually talking to. these 'kids' (grown adults but antlers is old n therefore probably refers to anyone younger than him as 'kids') have already been through the worst of it. all that's left to do it pull it off. think about it in perspective of the lyrics, specifically the verse he chose to recite:
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'tree' of course. not being an obvious tree but rather being a reference to the mountains jj resides in; but the specific one is the "i wouldn't eat you / 'cause you're too tough" because. because they're quite literally the protagonists. they are too tough to eat because of plot armor. this was quite literally antlers' strange artistic way of saying how much he believes in them because he sees them as 'too tough' for jean jacket to eat. they'll outsmart it. they'll outpace it. n by god they'll get the impossible shot.
also extremely important to me that antlers a) predicts his own death and b) always stands away from the group, which can symbolize both him being an outsider AND his foreshadowed death. i also think it's very important to mention (because so many people have been so quick to write it off as 'selfish' or 'stupid') how antlers dies.
if you watch the scene before the run, antlers takes. some sort of cocktail of medication while angel watches both vaguely concerned and confused but ultimately chooses not to say anything because frankly. well frankly it's none of his business whatever they've got shit to do.
now they get the shot! they get the shot, everyone's celebrating, overjoyed they got it! except antlers. antlers comments on the light, how it's going to be magic soon.
remember he joined this operation late; to him, he hadn't done enough to fully like. constitute his contribution (despite bringing the equipment that actually allowed this come to fruition but to him that isn't enough. it's not enough. he has to get the impossible shot. the shot that will finally, finally prove to himself that he is, in fact, the artistic genius hollywood claims he is. but instead of getting it right there, with angel and the equipment near by, he chooses to walk away, to distance himself from angel, the equipment, and essentially the rest of the group. why? he didn't want to put them in danger.
what he was about to do was essentially suicide! fuck he even leaves angel with a warning before he goes: "Don't worry Angel, it's gonna be alright. We don't deserve the impossible."
|now a lot of people have imposed this 'we' as antlers referring to the group, but frankly? i 100% he was talking about himself and hollywood as a whole. they don't deserve the impossible; they'd just squander it. these kids? these kids do. these kids have put their asses on the line far more than any big wig hollywood anybody has in his lifetime; they deserve the impossible.
granted, if he'd been less cryptic, angel's stupid ass probably wouldn't have followed him up and nearly gotten himself killed by that's neither here nor there at this point tbh THE POINT IS. antlers knew exactly what he was doing (give or take on account of The Meds:tm:) and wasn't going to let those kids get hurt for him to do so because, at the end of the day, it wasn't them who had anything to prove to hollywood; it was him.
tl;dr antlers is a weird cryptic old man who might've been on a lot of drugs but his heart was (kinda) in the right place
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certifiedmapletree · 1 year
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there is something so simple yet intricate about the idea of being ‘seen’ in Nope. like i still can’t fully articulate it but it’s just so fascinating to be seen as a spectacle or seen only by your brother when you wanted it to be your father too or seen only by your horses or seen on television or seen as your trauma or seen as a celebrity or seen as a monster or seen as an animal or seen or seen or seen
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maevesweirdart · 2 years
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thinking about this juxtaposition between the human characters and the animal characters in Nope. the animals (jj, the chimp, the horses) are simple, as is natural. they instinctively know what makes them uncomfortable (sudden loud noises, eye contact, getting tricked into eating shit that isn’t food), and when their boundaries are violated, they are understandably angered. jj isn’t capable of understanding the profit-seeking machinations of the humans in its territory. it isn’t capable of signing a contract with jupe. when a crowd of humans appears inside an eye-shaped arena, it doesn’t know that jupe is expecting it to perform for them. it just goes “oh hey, it’s food!” and this isn’t a flaw on jj’s part—it’s a feature. oj and em know this. they’re trained animal handlers, who have spent their whole lives working with creatures that could kill them. they know better than to disrespect a horse or try to force it to meet human expectations. in order to get a horse to listen to you, you have to get on the horse’s level. so why did jupe expect a flying vore roomba from outer space to understand that it was morally wrong to eat people? because capitalism. we Live In A Society (bottom text) in which we’re trained to do unnatural things. we don’t run away from dangerous predators anymore—instead, we run towards them, cameras in hand, because if we survive, we might be able to sell the footage to some rich people in exchange for money. capitalism trains some—the working class—to disregard our own survival instincts and gamble with our lives, and it also trains others—the wealthy bourgeoisie—to expect others to do that for them. that’s not healthy, is it?
maybe it’s time we all returned to monke. (figuratively that is. i’m not an anarcho primitivist lol)
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robbyrobinson · 2 years
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Nope: Jean Jacket is An Angel (SPOILERS)
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As my Ricky theory was wrong, thought of a new one after watching Nope for the first time. It is on the UFO itself. Nicknamed Jean Jacket.
Nope is Jordan Peele's latest horror film about siblings OJ and Emerald Haywood struggling to keep their ranch from going under after their father is killed in a seeming freak accident. When they begin to notice that there appeared to be an unidentified flying object going around, they decide that taking an "Oprah shot" of it will give them great publicity.
The UFO first appears to be the generic alien spacecraft that you'd see in a B-movie. However, the film reveals that the UFO, christened Jean Jacket, is actually the extraterrestrial being who is an apex predator that consumes whatever it sucks up rather than traditionally abducting people in alien invasion films. There is no explanation of where Jean Jacket came from, but I believe that there is some reason to believe that the UFO is actually an angel.
The movie has several biblical themes and allusions such as quoting the Book of Nahum 3:6 about making the person into a horrific spectacle. OJ himself also asks what accounts for a "bad miracle."
But the most compelling piece of evidence for why I think Jean Jacket is an angel comes from the Book of Ezekiel itself often being the go-to for ancient alien enthusiasts by introducing the Wheels, or Ophanims, multi-eyed inter-looping wheels that carry the Throne of God. Jean Jacket's first form would match the "circular" shape of the Wheels. As angels are often represented with wings, Jean Jacket's true form appears to have wing-like appendages and the square eye could reference the eyes of an Ophanim.
So, if the UFO/Jean Jacket is an angel, why is it on Earth? Going back to Nahum 3 about making mankind vile, I take that as meaning that God, according to this film, has lost favor with mankind and is now going to cleanse the Earth of its filth. Ergo, Jean Jacket's whole purpose before being stopped is eradicating mankind.
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campybara · 1 year
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Okay so I just finished watching Nope and...
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I'm obsessed with this design. What can I say? It's gorgeous. Everything about it. I'm so glad that they made it more than just the saucer, and actually made it a whole being instead of just an alien craft.
It's transformation? Even more gorgeous, like it genuinely looks ethereal. Like a godly being.
Its no doubt that these designs were based off some sort of sea creature, which makes the most sense.
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I love these little soft ridges on the sides, which kind of gives it a sting ray type of vibe, especially by the way it glides on its side.
Meanwhile the last transformation looks more like a jellyfish, or something of that sort.
I love the design of the mouth opening, and how soft and feathery it looks.
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I love how it just opens wider and wider just to consume its prey. And when we got to see the inside of it?? It was actually quite disgusting, and I loved that.
The reason why I adore these designs so much is BECAUSE of the fact it's unique, it genuinely looks unreal and unhuman, and that's the point. It's an alien, it's not supposed to look like us. That's why I was never afraid of the idea of aliens existing as a kid, because let's be honest- who would be afraid of this shit?
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I just never cared about the idea of aliens looking anything like us. Alien horror movies were always god awful. I think if people wanted to make decent and appealing alien designs, they should look quite the opposite. I mean, who even knows right?
I just despise the huge eyeballs/huge egg head and the thin short bodies, it never sparked any joy from me. The designs definitely lacked. The "Alien" movie franchise are definitely interesting however, those designs are clearly more unique compared to other alien movies back then- but still had arms and legs. I feel like when it comes to creating a theorized being, humans always want to make them.. well, humanized. To be completely honest, I think a sea like creature would give you a variety of options (considering how fucking wild it is down there) which is what made this design look SO GOOD.
Like when I heard about this movie I was like "ugh... alien movie... how original," but honestly? Peele's take on the entire concept of aliens changes everything for cinema in my personal view. He opened a lot more doors, maybe enough to get people to be more creative?? Hopefully?
Anyways, I thought this movie was genuinely great. Everything about the creature was truly interesting, I just wanted to rant a lil. Okay peace
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Oj: this is jean jacket it's a predator who will eat anything in it's path that looks directly at it
Jupe:*raises hand*
Oj: no you can't pet it
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normalworldart · 1 year
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"OJ"
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