NOPE is not what you think - Jared's Review
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Is it just me or the 3 camera on the set of "Gordy’home" @09:10 look like the masks Jupe’s 3 children wore @00:52?
The heads look like the cameras and the body looks like Gordy making it clear how much Jupe’s past trauma is still subconsciously his focus
I think there is something to be said about how the alien transforms into what looks much more like a camera in its final form versus its original form. Maybe an evolution of single shot to video? Maybe an evolution of a singular eye to that of what all eyes do, the lens to record memory? I also think the alien in the trailer is meant to be seen as an eye, but the one in the film is distinctly different. They don't really feel like the same shot.
👍 I feel like this in the most ignored aspect in any of reviews/commentary of the film I’ve seen so far. The first look at it we get is literally the first shot of the film & then we are shown what we were looking at in context when it reveals itself at the end. We are clearly meant to make something of it but having only seen the film once so far last week I’ve been at a loss. Thanks for this as it provides an interesting place to start.
@@dkarras I'd have to see it again as well. At a certain point, I spent more time paying attention to the alien as a camera aspect and all the other cameras in the film over the actual story itself. I found myself more interested in the construction of the film and what appeared to be a love letter to not just cinema classics, but the concept of moving pictures as a whole, that I actually missed some of the stuff Jared pointed out about some of the characters, specifically Jupe.
I came here to say this; the final form (with the circular eye/lens inside a square) strongly resembles old-fashioned cameras.
Not that I’m stating a theory as to what the shoe standing means, but I do think it’s a small reference to ‘A Penny for Your Thoughts’ episode in the Twilight Zone, where the opening narration entails:
“Flip a coin and keep flipping it. What are the odds? Half the time it will come up heads, half the time tails. But in one freakish chance in a million, it'll land on its edge.”
The shoe is both a representation of a bad miracle and also meaning the other shoe will drop
"All that was once directly lived has become mere representation." - Jordan Peele, 1967
The shoe is just a “bad miracle.” It made no sense, but gave Jupe something to focus on to avoid provoking Gordy.
I got the sense that the shoe stood up because it was all in Jupes memory. For whatever reason in the actual event Jupe focuses on the shoe, and we end up seeing his memory where the shoe is dramatically emphasized and standing.
Funny enough we the audience also get extremely distracted by the shoe, so in a way, we also would be spared by the chimp.
Soo memory versus recording.
Jupe made it a point to say the event was a sort of unrecorded spectacle, and SNL is the closest thing to recreating it. Id argue his memory is actually the closest thing to recreating the event but there is no feasible way to share and profit from his memory.
@@BuNnyDuDeDaRoO I love this take on it. I think yes, it's a bad miracle. But I think looking at it as an representation of of Jupe's focus on the extraordinary to block out the horror is very insightful. It grabs attention away from what we should be paying attention to, the horrifying consequences of an animal exploited and abused for our entertainment. So in a way, Jared is right about it being a red herring. Though having seen his analysis before, I think he knew exactly what it was about, and he left that last comment out as bait to invite debate.
The one word I kept waiting for you to explore is 'exploitation'. Gordy, Jupe as a child star, the horses, Jean Jacket, the black jockey; all exploited as spectacle for the fame and fortune of others. I think that is the undercurrent of social commentary that you may have missed. I was also surprised that the concept of bad miracles OJ mentions didn't come up, at least in relation to the shoe.
It is kind of wild that nobody really talks about the themes of the objectification of animals in this movies. To me it's an even more obvious theme about the theme of spectacle. But missing that theme kind of proves the theme's point.
I watched Nope twice, the latter in an IMAX theater. but in none of them I've seen those Emerald's scenes video selfing in the walk of fame. Were those excluded from the theatrical cut?
Thank you for this analysis, Jared! I stepped out of the theater loving the film. digesting its themes and meaning. and itching to hear the analysis from you, Diego, and Wisecrack.
Now gonna go watch you on twitch. PEACE.
One star movie for sure.
I thought Keke being loud was going to pay off at some point. But it never does! Like closing a good deal with the movie set where horse went crazy or making Asian guy buy/save the farm, since Daniel is too quiet.
I love the ape killing people. The sound design and 1st person view was thrilling. I thought the ape was going to be controlled by the alien or an allegory about black people being violent because show biz treats them poorly. The Asian guy should then treat the alien better and not exploit is since he understands why the ape went crazy.
Why does the alien change shape so dramatically? Most animals (like a tiger) attack when you DONT look at them. They show too much of the monster in day light and have repetitive action.
Why did they kill the alien if the main idea is that humans use animals poorly?
They should have used the lady that got her face ripped off more. She looks like an alien in the trailer and the movie and would have been a better twist. :(
I mostly agree although I enjoyed Nope more than Us. Probably because the cinematography is just so good in some scenes. It’s a beautiful film.
I felt that "Us" was trying to do too much. I haven't seen "Nope" yet, thought it's on my to do list.
I think Peele is a bit misunderstood - he's a surrealist. In the same kind way that Nolan is the pop Kubrick, Peele is the pop Lynch. He's making blockbusters that tap into symbolism and threat that seems to form from the subconscious tumult of his characters. It's fascinating.
Perhaps the film ventures to make a distinction between spectacle and the subsequent exploitation (for bemusement, profit or both) that causes the negative stigma to become separated from the event? I don't know. Maybe its just me, but I felt that the self awareness and meta narrative of the film being a spectacle in and of itself to be a bit on the nose. Certainly a love letter to filmmaking and the cinema, but I keep running into more questions about the film and its assertions. But maybe that's the point! Either way I had a grand time, and I strongly encourage people to watch it on an IMAX screen.
In Deleuze's books on Cinema he terms the phenomenon "cliche." But the term has a more sinister meaning than the banal useage; I liken it to Baudrillard's "corruption." It's exactly as you describe, "seperation from the event." He says, "In order for people to tolerate themselves and the world (of cliches), misery has to reach the inside of consciousness, and the inside needs to become like the outside." He posits that the film tropes of Classic cinema were short-hand general signifiers. After WWII, in the post-modern era, they became cliches become people no longer related to them as parts of thier historical and cultural experience. I think that is the reaction we are having, these things seem artificial to us; even moreso because we're watching a Modern film that we expected to eschew this cinematic language.
The Alien's eye is literally a TV screen
The whole point was that they could have walked away with their lives but unnecessarily risked everything to get the shot that would get them money and fame. They decided the spectacle was worth risking death. Getting the shot was challenging because tech would malfunction whenever Jean Jacket was close. So they needed older equipment that was less susceptible that they didn’t have on hand.
I think the shoe is metaphorical in the saying "the other shoe dropped".
Maybe the image of the living thing, perceiving it even in a snapshot of life, tells us more about a thing than picking through its viscera. A single image of a living T-Rex would tell us as much if not more than all the bones, chickens, and all the oil of the world ever could. Maybe it’s “an picture is worth a thousand words, but the spectacle is priceless.”
I agree with you about the ending and the cinematographers death, what did they really accomplish from doing that?
my friend said it was just that he had done everything he wanted in life at that point. he felt this was the moment he had lived to accomplish and didnt need to keep living afterward. 🤷♂️
Woah, are there some deleted scenes in here?
He literally is the best of Kubrick and King put together. I believe the filmmaker thought the film will survive being that the animal cant digest it. If you look at the end O.J is kind of framed between those wood posts at the end of the movie. This is just like in the beginning with his family member riding the horse. Except now with all the film and that well shot he is recorded. I dunno
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Great commentary. Regarding those last critiques, I think Jordan Peele is making a very specific choice with these weird behaviors. They're not natural, and that's by design. The question is, what do we think of this choice?
This whole film, in fact all Peele's films, deliberately lock us out of their characters. They're symbolic mystery films, designed for us to infer deeper meanings from events and character choices that baffle us. But that means we spend much of the run time watching characters we don't understand, trying to piece together the ramifications of their choices. And oft-times, those ramifications lead to the thematic points rather than fleshed out character motivations.
So does this mean these are mistakes? I wouldn't call them mistakes, or even flaws. They're creative choices that Peele is making very deliberately, to make us look to the film's symbolic meaning rather than just seeing it as a thrilling adventure like Jaws. If we look at these film culture people's obsession with getting a shot over personal safety as a thin motivation, we miss the point of the film. It's like watching a Christopher Nolan movie like Inception and complaining that the bulk of the cast don't seem to have much personality or motivation. It's true, but it ignores what the film is by measuring how it fails to be what it's not.
I think more than a few of us have read a fair amount about film structure, and we've developed expectations for what a film should be. And then people like Jordan Peele or Chris Nolan come along and do something weird and different, baffling us. To be honest, I don't see Nope becoming a favorite film for the simple reason that I didn't get to know the characters well enough to just enjoy their company, the way I do with my favorite films. But that's not a mistake or a flaw. It's a choice Peele makes to say what he wants to say with his film. What a poor world we'd live in if all art followed the same formula.
Great analysis. On point and insightful.
Finally got around to watching this. Peele is absolutely one of the most skilled and thoughtful directors today, but I've never been compelled to rewatch Us and I'm afraid I might feel the same for Nope. Where Get Out was tight and efficient, Us and Nope feel bloated in spots that the prospect of rewatching them feels like homework. Get Out works as a genre film AND a cultural critique. I'm not sure the other two do.
My understanding of the ending was that the group's determination to get the shot of the alien, and subsequently killing it, would make the picture worthless, and that would be the point. If the movie condemns exploitative spectacle, than wouldn't it make sense for the great, destructive lengths they go to to get a picture of the alien ultimately result in their efforts being wasted?
The efforts aren’t really wasted. They kept the ranch and the house, they just had to sacrifice two people to do it….
I think its unethical to leave something like that shrouded behind deep interpretation. I think most are going to watch it and just see it as a triumph that they killed this amazing creature because the thing was violent.
@@Theyungcity23 The efforts being wasted as in, their desperate attempts to stall the creature for a photo end up killing it, making the photo worthless.
'Unethical' is an odd choice of words; I can't imagine anyone watching this in good faith just being excited because they "defeated the evil creature."
@@incredibleodyssey A lot of people are saying its all very clear. But no I think most people have a reading that’s just in line with that, people feel that they are justified in fighting the creature. The discourse around this ending is not like Mad Men or Watchmen where its clear that it wants people to make their own decision. Most people are saying Jupe was wrong and OJ was right.
I think reading it as this is a monster that killed Haywood senior and that OJ and Em are justified in killing it and taking back their ranch and basically setting their flag in the industry that is their birth right as they kill this thing that represent hollow spectacle as opposed to a more ethical approach to entertainment. I don’t think that’s a wild or rare reading of the story and that is unethical reading. Because they are flatly not justified at all in killing this thing. You cant just leave that as something for people to maybe figure out of they pay close attention.
Great analysis! On my third viewing I noticed Holst taking pills and wondered if this was meant to lead the audience to think that maybe his days are already numbered. But I agree that Holst's little stunt seemed mostly to serve as a way to shake up the plan and somewhat heighten the stakes of their final gambit.
I kinda wish there was an epilogue for this one. Maybe a short bit of an Oprah interview?
Isn’t Holst just what is considered the more “artistic” version of TMZ guy ? And his attempt to try and get the most “ungettable” shot for his ‘craft’ by getting as close as possible is just a shot of swirling dust.
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If you've seen Black Adam, isn't it weird that it questions Hawkman's world view but nothing comes of it?
I think the shoe is a miracle (like the bad miracles mentioned) and it caused the child actor to not make eye contact and survive the attack, misleading him into thinking he had a special connection with dangerous animals, like eventually Jean Jacket
Can we think the end of the movie as an end of a form of spectacle?
I felt that the destruction of Holst's Imax camera, destruction of Holst(the director) and among many other subjects (maybe besides our protagonists, all of the stars & background actors who stays somehow before to the camera), the destruction of the monster itself.
So that, conquering the monster can create many other beasts as all viewers claim their own spectacles by their own; hence the conventional and social media, hence all of the eyes that seen the alien. They all become the beasts, reclaiming their spectacular sight as the monster reclaims it's own territory.
That end reminds me the first couple of months of the covid quarantines, when all kinds of influencers and non influencers were broadcasting their own point of view maybe not to become the money shot, but to claim the experience.
Btw Holst might trace back to Gustave Holst. His music too carries the feel of a big spectacle too.
The alien is so clearly an Angel from Evangelion, that if you know that show, you can extrapolate so many philosophical meanings from the alien. Maybe it was just a coincidence or it feels like an Angel from Evangelion because Evangelion is the Peak of the Giant Alien Monster genre of anime. I don't know. But I'd like to think that by presenting the alien this way, maybe there is some psicological component to this. In the show the main problem is not the angels per se but the traumas and inability to communicate to each others than the humans have which essentially brings in the end of the world. The porcupine problem (two porcupines cannot make love without hurting each other)
Film is meant to transform our understanding of reality. To see deeper into reality than prior artistic mediums allowed. The magical shoe reflects the belief in the impossible shot, that miracles happen to those who seek them out. Its indicative of Peele's belief in the art of filmmaking.
Peele is by no means negative toward spectacle. He is a creator of spectacle himself, and the human characters in the film are standins for him, while the alien and horses oppose us and consider spectacle as a negative.
The disagreement is about being , radical vs conservative. Film is a radical medium intended to transform the audience, while opposing film in favor of a "natural" or "traditional" form of being, a "being from olden times", a dignified, static being is conservative.
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Edit: Did Jared move entirely to twitch or something?
I don’t want to go to imax.
Great analysis, Jared!
Started out strong but just devolved into a silly action movie by the end.
I think this movie also deals with dealing with grief and loss
Great vid. Thanks.
8:36 excuse me, have you heard about the elephant that killed the lady and then went back to her funeral to trample the grave ?
You planning on covering any of the new Rick and Morty? Been a really solid season so far
Nope was Dope
Great video man, loveit..!
Hey Jared, what are your thoughts on political centrism? I grew up in a conservative household and understand their values, but I also learned liberal values in college. Both sides have good points, but I can never really call myself truly one or the other. Sometimes, both sides make it feel like I am not welcome, its really frustrating.
jesus lizard tho?! hmmm.. idk, wardrobe..
Rings of Power comparison to LOTR or breakdown?
I wish I would've known it was about spectacle. I couldn't stand Keke Palmer's character.
I still want my quiet, boring movie about a man and his horses. With the same landscape cinematography 😂. Just take the other characters out.
I need one more thumbs up button to give Jared two thumbs up for this one.
How much does it cost for you to react to a video.
Can all in left YT, and adjacent to it, please start educating people about both: (1) the difference between right-authoritarian vs. right-libertarian; & (2) the difference between left-authoritarian vs left-libertarian? It’s long overdue. People aren’t cattle or sheep: They will understand if we educate them.
Though we need to educate (& learn) about all the nuance.
Huh? What does this have to do with the video and Nope? I think that "Left Authoritarian" is a contradiction in terms. In a way then making this distinction serves to undermine it by reinforcing the false dichotomy. 3/4 of these tendencies are Authoritarian, so it's best for Leftists to cede "Libertarian" to the Right, since they've already successfully co-opted it in the general vocabulary.
That's a wig right?
With all the hype surrounding this film, it was not worth the price of admissions.
Oh that’s simple-hot garbage 🗑 unfortunately. Like the kind you find outside the movie theater, the dumpsters.