#nope jordan peele

[rattsbian]

I WEAR MY SUNGLASSES AT NIGHT I WEAR MY SUNGLASSES AT NIGHT I WEAR MY SUNGLASSES AT NIGHT

[citizen-zero]

[oyesteryells]

i feel physically ill.

its 4 am...

[sunny-rants]

Angel Torres is truly a multifaceted character:

he’s The Guy In The Chair. the expert. the genre-aware character. he figured out The Cloud. but he also gives off major dude bro energy. he’s every customer service worker ever. talks like a depressed teenager who just shotgunned a red bull. overshared about his ex-girlfriend and then inserted himself into a ufo investigation. he watches the history channel after midnight. but he’s also a final girl. as soon as his car turned off he booked it to the house, grabbed a knife and hid under a table. I though my guy was a goner but dude tied himself up with barbed wire and a tarp and survived. I’m obsessed.

[thatfilmnerd]

just watched Nope

[buttlet]

the way jupe modeled the look of the aliens after the cameras used on the Gordy’s Home set and quite literally names them “The Viewers” in a film about exploiting trauma for the sake of a spectacle

[scott-summers]

spectacle

[alexxuun]

I see so many people talking about “NOPE”’s symbolism and spectacles and jean jacket but is NO ONE GONNA TALK ABOUT THE PHENOMENAL SOUND DESIGN IN THIS ENTIRE MOVIE???? One of the first thing you pick up from the beginning is just sounds of materials clanking and moving with a black screen, drawing your attention immediately before any scene even start. The use of ECHO- from the echoing around the ranch to the COSMIC HORROR SOUND OF DISTANT HORSE NOISE AND SCREAMING. THAT IS SOME DREAD FILLING SOUNDS THAT CHILL ME TO THE CORE. The sound of Jean Jacket moving around! The sound of Jean Jacket digestion scene! The use of silence enhancing the tension! And don’t even get started on the score and music choice!!! Absolutely phenomenal use and right timing. Really enhance all of the tensions this movie gives. The music played on the radio and record player were well picked, love them. Seriously, this movie have great sound design. I’m absolutely floored.

[cuddlycorvid]

What’s a bad miracle?

Everyone watch NOPE RIGHT NOW it’s bangin’

[deer-shin]

[bwooom]

ughhgghg nope is so good its so good you ever notice how every character holds on so tightly to mementos of the things that hurt them. like yeah obviously jupe’s gordy museum but OJ holding onto the coin that killed his father and em memorizing her fathers haywood horses spiel word for word to the point that the generational gap with the “greats” trips her up………. its not just jupe’s problem! EVERYONE does things like this!!!!! and jupe is like… watch out heres how this can hurt you. you might get eaten by a ufo. watch out

[poofyfysh]

☁️❗️

[spookytuesdaypod]

wait you’re telling me they filmed additional scenes of keke flirting with some honeys on hollywood blvd and it didn’t make the final cut??? we were robbed 😭😭😭

[cumulativechaos]

having seen jordan peele's three movies at this point im pretty sure the way on-screen gore and violence is used pretty sparingly is part of his style. and i like his style a lot, but the way so much of the gore is kept off-screen works SO well in Nope (2022) specifically

like for one thihg, having some of the most gruesome/terrifying parts of the movie happen just outside of the camera or blocked by something in the shot definitely elevates the horror. gordy attacking jupe's co-stars is all blocked by the set, we only see the shadows of everyone getting sucked into jean jacket, and even tho we see them inside jean jacket a little bit, it's more to show us how they were being kept alive. we don't actually see them die/get digested. and because none of these things happen on-screen, our brains connect the dots and come up with the most horrifying shit we can imagine

but even outside of just how Not Seeing The Scary Thing Makes The Scary Thing Scarier, it fits fucking thematically with the whole movie. we don't need to see the gory gruesome details of someone's death to know what happened to these characters, showing these things on-screen wouldn't add to our understanding of the plot. it would just be a spectacle of gore and pain and the whole point of Nope is condemning the act of pointing the camera at suffering to exploit people's pain

[sunny-rants]

yeah the social commentary and underlying themes were great but what really made me love NOPE was the chaotic lesbian, her quietly hilarious brother, the scrunkly little customer service worker they adopted, and the eldritch horror that followed them home like a stray cat

[axis1996]

Grimace shake