One thing I feel like not enough people talk about is that Jean Jacket really acts like an actual predator with its biology would. If you were Jean Jacket, you'd take eye contact as a threat because the only way other Jean Jackets can make eye contact with you is through their mouth, when they're trying to attack. And OJ survives because Jean Jacket is a predator, and predators don't actually pick fights unless they're sure they can win. When OJ stares it down, in his own territory, Jean Jacket balks and performs a threat display. Because the last human it tried to eat was spiky, and OJ already looked like the indigestible horse sculpture earlier, what if he's secretly poisonous or spiky or dangerous? So it freaks out and tries to scare him into running, which would prove he was prey and Jean Jacket could eat him. But Em runs instead, so it chases her, leaving the obviously dangerous OJ alone. And also, Jean Jacket is obviously territorial, and it considers its territory the sky, so the only reason that it went after the balloon is because it was invading its actual territory, and because it misjudged the balloon as a fight it could win, because it resembled the non-dangerous human it had already eaten. OJ wasn't in its territory, it was in his, so it retreated. Basically, I'm a bit of a predator apologist and a biology nerd, but predators are actually less dangerous than the high-strung, defensive herbivores. Predators won't attack you unless they are convinced they will win. And OJ managed to convince Jean Jacket that it wouldn't win.
@@bootyman261 the neat thing about JJ is that it's not even a monster, it's just...an animal. a large animal but still an animal that can be tricked by a smart person who understands its behaviors
One thing a lot of people miss: When the dad is bleeding out in the truck, he's not saying random words. He's saying the names of his horses so his son has a good grasp of his cognitive abilities & has a way to keep track of his consciousness with his quickly worsening brain injury.
Another little factoid is that the edge of JJ's saucer-mode "wings" has a little divet that moves around. You can see it most clearly when its chasing OJ on the horse where he releases the flags to scare it away. But what reveals its function is when Angel is staring at it in the distance while he's stuck in the barbwire. You can see the "dot" rotate around to face him and it stays trained on him when it flies past along his side to double back and ambush him from above. Its how it see's people who arent directly under it, it creates a small opening to peak through.
Oh yea, I absolutely knew he was doing that and it was so damn heartbreaking. Trying to get his dad to Emergency as fast as possible, but also trying to keep him conscious was nerve wracking, even though I was fairly certain this wasn't going to be any sort of happy rescue/recovery D:
My favorite fun fact for this movie is that the scream of the people were recorded twice, once where they were directed to scream as if eaten by an alien, and the second time to scream as if on a rollercoaster. Those two noises blended together when Jean Jacket is flying about makes us not know how to interpret the screams until we know for a fact that they are the scream of digestion
at first you don't even know they ARE screams. could be just the the wind, or the sound JJ makes as it travels around. Just like the sounds of the horses inside it. i think learning later that the sounds you've been hearing all along were the sounds of people/animals screaming in terror and pain makes it all the more disturbing then if you knew from the start.
Yes! Such a cool piece of sound design. Add in a little wind audio, and it's both disquieting on a deep lizard-brain level but also possibly nothing at all - until the realization.
Nope: such a visceral experience and technically Jordan Peel’s best work. He adopted a kind of Hitchcock/Kubrick style to this film which I love. The visual storytelling on display here is immaculate. Daniel Kaluella is brilliant in delivering a stoic performance. He conveyed so much emotion with his eyes I love it. The film is light on exposition regarding the creature. No unnecessary government/military plot devices Peele respects the audiences intelligence to interpret the story for themselves. The film is also a love letter to many classic UFO movies. The cinematography of this film is breathtaking. Every frame is meticulously crafted. It’s not a Jordan Peel movie if it’s not filled to the brim with social commentary and profound metaphors. The film takes a keen dive into the transparency of the film industry, whilst also interpreting the symbiotic relationship between animals and prey which is so intricately conveyed. This film is so multilayered no doubt it will be studied for years to come. Seen it twice, took my gf to see it a second time, initially she wasn’t thrilled but a few days later she watched it again because it peaked her curiosity. This is the power of film; watching something that sticks in your mind, challenges your beliefs and preconceptions on reality. Can’t wait to watch this again.
I think how intense OJ gets when they slap hands five times was one of my favorite moments - like he's so completely stoic the whole film, but when it's time to get pumped up and do his and his sister's "get pumped" high five, he's all in for it. They really are an all-time film-sibling duo.
Especially in contrast to the earlier line before they enter Jupe's office to negotiate horses. Emerald says something along the lines of OJ not "talking black", and OJ is like "this is a business partner...!" implying he has to act, so it's a showcase of change when, in front of their business partner filmmaker, he's willing to share the genuine emotion and communication his sister displays and he intimately knows.
I totally agree: the symbosis and accuracy of this moment is so special at capturing what being siblings mean. You get to speak a languga that no one else does with your family
I love Jordan Peele because of his absolute foreshadowing and the fact no one noticed this until now | in "Get out" Chris places cotton in his ears to avoid the hypnotism (hear no evil) In "Us" the difference between the tethered and real humans was the slurred speech (speak no evil) and in "Nope" to avoid challenging Jean Jacket you cannot look it in the eyes (see no evil) AMAZING!!!
Only Jordan Peele could come up with a western, sci-fi, horror, Kaiju movie with a pretty cerebral commentary about how exploitative the entertainment industry really is, and I love him for it, and love that he's successful for it as well.
@@THEMADBOMBER it was really split, me and my gf saw this and were like it’s genuinely the best thing we’ve ever seen, I told my parents and they said it was the worst things they’ve ever seen, people hear that and don’t give it a chance, im so glad I got out of my comfort zone and saw this though
@@THEMADBOMBER 2.5x production budget at the box office (it was a success). 82% RT score (It was a success) By what measure are we talking here? Because it succeeded both critically and commercially. If you didn't like it, that's fine. But don't pretend it wasn't successful.
I found the Gordy storyline to be so captivating. Like, the guy romanticizes his trauma, which is a degree of psyche movies hardly touch on. Like you could tell that he is obsessed with it and probably dreams about it constantly. He probably never really got help for it, because he's good at acting like he's fine.
Oh I did not read it that way at all. To me it was almost too traumatizing for him to even think of. Like the only way he could talk about it was through an SNL sketch. He detached himself from the event so wholly so that it would never hurt him again. By trying to control this new animal he's almost attempting to rewrite the past, to show that if HE had the control it wouldn't have happened. Which ends up the same way. That's what I thought anyway.
It didn’t captivate me as much! But what I will say is that scene where he’s just killed those people and you see him from under the table, Complete silence, just waiting for him to turn and spot you, Was one of the most chilling scenes I’ve ever seen at the cinema it was amazing
I love that the main character actually backs away from the dressed up kids in the stable, and punches the one dangling from the ceiling. Smartest and most defensive horror character, not just screaming and running or standing still and staring.
In the horror genre, we really don't get to see a lot of fight. Mostly flight. Obviously because punching the ghost/magic serial killer/whatever really demystifies the horror. But for comedic relief like that scene in Nope, it was just a nice change of pace and really funny.
@@BoxyDoxxy more like man uses self defense against an unidentifiable intruder who got too close to him in the dark with unknown intentions. also, they were provoking him by trying to scare him. so they really cant blame him for socking one.
My favorite detail nobody is talking about has got to be Em calling herself "Nobody" to the TMZ guy, who has a completely reflective helmet with one eye hole. Like the myth of Odysseus and the man-eating cyclops Polyphemus, when Odysseus introduced himself by the name "Nobody". Excellent foreshadowing of not only TMZ's demise (and him being upset he doesn't have a camera pointed at him to record his "spectacle" like Polyphemus pleading after being blinded by Odysseus), but also how they eventually outmaneuver Jean Jacket by making it point it's one eye in different directions, and Em "Nobody" kills it by blowing a balloon up in that eye.
I’m not gonna lie, if I was in the movie I probably would have gotten swallowed by Jean Jacket. When it opened up and looked like an angel, I was in awe. I said “Oh wow, it’s so beautiful!” It was hypnotizing almost. Part of me was sad when it exploded; I wanted to continue looking at it in full form. And in that moment, I realized that was Peele’s point of the movie.
yeesss it's amazing how the design is stunningly beautiful in the way only nature can be, to the point where it literally works on viewers, and it leaves you with the knowledge that if this was a real animal it WOULD be dangerous. because you would look.
Same. Jean Jacket would place my arms one by one in his little denim jacket, then I go upward peristalsis to my utter doom, lol. Curiosity would kill this cat, lol
Something I love is that when Emerald gets that picture of Jean Jacket, she uses a coin operated camera. Since a coin is what killed her father, a man intent on reclaiming the spotlight and spectacle through the claim that the jockey was his great great grandfather, it kinda came full circle for them reclaiming that spectacle as the jockey while the filmmaker (the TMZ dude) is the one that gets killed.
Yes! Plus the fact that the coins were discarded there by Jean Jacket. She has to scramble and fight using scraps cast off as "useless" by the same thing destroying her family and legacy.
esp since the tmz guy has the circle on the same side as the father's eye that got shredded by the coin. love all the parallels in this movie, they pay off so satisfyingly 💕
The one thing I noticed while watching “Nope” was in the beginning, OJ would avoid making eye contact with people showing he was probably uncomfortable and shy with it, but at the end he was able to look at the monster in the eyes to show he’s not shy nor afraid anymore. I don’t know if it’s just me who thought of that but I loved that detail since I’m in his shoes when it comes to eye contact
I felt like it's more that he doesn't really like interacting with humans, but has a real connection to animals and, in a way, is able to speak their language, which also applies to the alien, since it is basically an animal. So, similarly to him not being shy when interacting with horses, he's also not shy when interacting with the alien.
I kinda interpreted OJ as autistic. I'm autistic myself so I saw a lot of checkmarks in him. Being unable to maintain eye contact with people but not with animals is a big one.
I honestly read his discomfort making eye contact as OJ being somewhere on the Autism spectrum. Having trouble making/keeping eye contact, being closer to animals than people.
I didn't catch it at the time but I also think it's a cool detail that OJ is wearing his baseball cap the first couple of times he encounters Jean Jacket. The brim of the hat obscured OJ's face so that JJ couldn't tell he was looking at them, which explains why OJ was able to look at the sky when JJ was around without being targeted.
@@Dexter2017 JJ was supposed to be Emerald's horse but their dad ended up giving him to OJ to train instead. Think naming the alien JJ was her bro's way of saying this is her chance to be included in working with an animal with her family
I love that Brandon did such an amazing job with his role as Angel that Jordan actually changed the script for Angel to survive instead of dying like he originally had written
Ya know, it was VERY smart for Emerald to take JJ's picture on a polaroid. You can fake an image on a phone, but you can't fake an image on a polaroid. Unless your like, a REALLY good artist.
I mean, they're gonna find J.J.'s corpse. The noodly muscle ribbons plus that picture plus _dozens_ of eyewitness accounts? Yeah, SETI's getting a new department.
People always throw around the "you can fake X on Y" stuff... do any of your realise how easy it is to discover if you did fake a picture, and/or how hard it is to fake something so perfectly that nobody can find out it's fake? Never mind that, with something like JJ, you'd have a part of the public declaring it's real even if someone debunked the picture, and a part of the public who would die before accepting it as a real picture even if the FBI and CIA cleared the picture as real.
Jean Jacket is one of the best examples of cosmic horror I have seen recently. Beautiful and irreconcilable in its true form. Like one of those biblically accurate angels.
Y'know...Thank you VERY much for this comment, because...I've once again fallen into the trap of expecting "cosmic" horror to inherently have OUTSIZED "cosmic" powers/abilities, when all the term reeeeeally implies is the being ORIGIN being extraterrestrial/out in the cosmos, somewhere.
He has said that that and Evangelion were some of the influences. but it also fits even from a natural/scientific point of view. If you look up the theory of solar sails (IE a ship traveling thru space on the solar winds) you can see it would make sense that a space born entity might evolve that as a means of interplanetary, even possibly interstellar, travel. infact, the bajoran lightship from Deep Space Nine bares a bit of a resemblance to JJ's unfurled form.
@@RaptorNX01 the obvious EVA influence makes me wish someone would do an edit of the action sequence of OJ baiting JJ with the "Decisive Battle" theme from the EVA soundtrack.
Something I want to add is when Gordi signs. He is asking “where family?” he didn’t understand himself what had happened. There’s something there that I can’t tap but it’s just chilling either way.
I guess you could say it's the fact that what happened that day was inevitable. Sooner or later, the environment in which he was raised would have made him snap and succumb to his own instincts because that's what he was wired to do after years and years of evolution. One could argue the same happens with Jean Jacket, we actively see it as our villain instead of seeing it as just another part of its wicked cosmic food chain. Neither of them killed just because.
It’s because he was confused and abused and incidentally harmed his “family” by creating a violent scenario due to the stress of stardom that did more harm to him than good in the end In other words, Gordy and Jupe aren’t so different
Fun fact about chimps: they can’t ask questions. It’s one of the very few dividing lines between homo sapien and other intelligent animals. That makes me wonder, was it simply a mistake on Peele’s part? Something he overlooked because the scene hits a lot harder by ignoring that fact? Or did he intentionally leave it in, maybe as a way of saying that we’re not as smart as we think we are?
Another layer to Jupe's story that I find so interesting is that he may have gotten 'stuck' on his trauma not just because, obviously, it was deeply traumatic and life-changing, but also because it probably made him really famous, at least for a little while. How do you move on from something that defined you at such a young age? Something that may have made you rich, or famous, when as a child actor that may have been what you always wanted? I just find it really interesting that he continues to chase that fame. Such a good movie.
Really plays into the theme of Hollywood exploitation, and how it inevitably chews up and traumatizes the people being used. He "made it through," and then perpetuated that same exploitation by using OJ's trained horses as a disposable thing he can profit off of. He succeeded as a non-white child actor in the 90's, which is huge, but he doesn't remember the name of his co-star in the movie his entire theme park is based on. The film poster is right there in his office. He became the things that hurt him, both as someone in the entertainment industry, and as Jean Jacket food.
Self exploitation is a real addiction these days. Everyone wants to be seen and be heard. There are a lot of social platforms that study this very need….and they exploit it.
Idk why no one’s pointing it out yet and I may be wrong, but when I first watched it I noticed a balloon would pop every time the chimp would take a life. You can also hear popping noises coming from the alien as it flies around, which means that it presumably kills its prey by squishing em. That also explains why it expelled so much blood during that one scene- but that’s just my observation. Edit: Forgot to mention that it’s also clever that the alien is also DEFEATED by a balloon. Hmm
I think the difference between the TMZ reporter and Antlers is Antlers was _invited_ The siblings invited him and he was given consent to film on _their_ property. The TMZ reporter was not. They showed up, unannounced, without consent, immediately started grilling Emerald while shoving a camera in her face while hiding their own, and then sped off to exploit whatever they could find. Also, in my opinion, the siblings don’t just want fame by the end. This is proof 1. Aliens/unknown flying objects EXIST, and 2. Proof that they are not the reason people are going missing. I mean shit, their house was covered in now missing people’s blood. That would not go over well with anyone without proof of JJ’s existence.
steven yeun's "thousand yard stare" as jupe is an image i haven't gotten out of my mind since seeing this at its midnight release. i have NEVER seen such a nuanced, accurate trauma survivor depiction, and he hardly has much screen time or dialogue compared to everyone else!! this role truly elevated yeun's acting talent to me, definitely a favorite role
I really felt bad for him. His delusion cost innocent lives, but he truly believed because it was the only way he could attempt to cope. But...the horses he sacrificed? If JJ had just taken him, that'd have been fair.
Also it’s nuanced as to why he could be doing it. Does he think it’s gonna bring him back to fame? Does he want to sacrifice himself because of survivors guilt? Or has he made a fantasy where he can tame this thing, like he seemingly believes he did with Gordy?
@@TantrumCouture at first I didn’t get why people thought that scene was terrifying (I didn’t watch the movie I just saw the clip) but then when you compared it to the bouncy house, I get it now
to this day that scene where you hear everyone scream help from inside jean jacket only to be instantly silenced with small sounds of some kind of gore haunts me, something about the fact all those people were killed that suddenly was unnerving
I imagine that if it can generate that kind of air pressure by inhaling, then it can probably also exert that kind of pressure internally- meaning it just squeezes its meals into a pulp before digesting them. What a way to go.
That scene was definitely the most disturbing thing I've ever seen in a movie, but what really unnerved me about it was as soon as I realized what was happening, all I could think about was the screaming sounds we'd been hearing earlier in the movie whenever we saw Jean Jacket flying around in the clouds. I'd initially assumed we were hearing the engine of the UFO and they'd designed it to sound like a crowd screaming in terror just to make it extra creepy. But nope...
I was wondering if the screams above the house were of Peele's other movies available at home to watch- Help US. GET us OUT of here. Did I only here that or was that what was said?
Here’s a fun catch in case you missed it the first time, Jupe’s wife grabs his “fist bump” hand and massages it to pull him out of his memory. He clenches that fist when he goes back, and he probably does it so frequently that she already knows when he gets quiet and still like that. It’s just an extra nice touch and shows how good their relationship is. She also supports him fully, even if it is partly for fame and exploiting their family (did you see the poster of the reality show about them in his office?). Just really nice subtle and realistic moments from Mr. “I said biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii…”
Almost as if there’s something much more larger and/or threatening to JJ. It’s even more terrifying to think that JJ could very well be terrestrial. (Home to Earth)
There's a potebtial for cosmic horror biology creatures that act like sea creatures in some way creatures that, normally, live and evolve in space itself, and only ever reach down to planets with lifeforms when really scarce of food that is probably already very rare in space similar to how deep sea creatures evolve their large sizes so they can last longer witohut food This also would mean there likely is more JJs out there
It's from the solar system's gas giants, and occasionally one ends up in the inner solar system. It hunts like a big cat. Those _are_ apex predators. But get enough elephants/space whales together, and they'll kick the EM jellyfish's ass.
What makes the digestion scene even worse is that they're being blocked in its digestive tract by the statue horse, so OJ and Em may have either spared them an even worse end passing into what this thing has in place of a proper stomach before it had fully killed them, *or* made it way way way worse for them by trapping them in a relatively slow digesting part of JJ's GI system
I think that’s also why it stayed around the house till morning. It ate this huge meal the had to throw it up and was possibly hoping to eat something else before it gave up and flew away just before Emerald and Angel got out of the house.
I kept going back and for on what that thing was, at first I thought it was a muscle in JJ's body, then maybe one of the kids alien masks. it's only now I realized you're totally right and it's the fake horse!
Someone on another video pointed out the possibility that JJ only ate that whole crowd of people in order to dislodge the statue stuck in it's throat. Edit: Having now watched the movie (shameful of me tbh) This is absolutely what happened. You can see JJ the whole time between it eating the statue and when it rains blood on the house it's "coughing" trying to dislodge the decoy.
I think it’s not as typical but unique because it’s been so long and it doesn’t effect him the same because he’s been hiding it and turning it into a fun party story, maybe as a coping mechanism.
I don't think it was mentioned, but I love the detail that JJ grabbed the fake horse, not getting one of his meals, and then showed up early to the show because it was just hungry, it wasn't random, but it was fully because they set up bait and JJ took it.
also i swear oj said it was mad about not being able to eat the decoy and so with all those people staring at it, it lashed out, just like gordy when the balloons started popping
@@dankerbellThe fake horse was stuck in its guts, when it sucked all the spectators and Jupe it can't digest them properly so it just releases the mashed up melted bodies all over the house then drops the decoy horse through OJ's windscreen.
I had a theory too, that JJ, wanting to get rid of the "obstruction"in his/its throat, swallowed way more food than it usually would to try to dislodge it. When that didn't work, it just contracted its body and vomited out everything.
During the scene where Jean Jacket spills out all the blood onto the house, Angel says something along the lines of “something really bad is happening” and that line is so deeply unsettling and almost sad
4:28 ah man this is so good: "crushing it", "killing", and "a force of nature" are all descriptions of a comedian doing great on stage - but also literally describe Gordy's rampage. shouts out to JP for having the self-control to not also use the phrase "murdering" lmao
I think the terms used describe doing well in any field, not specifically comedy. They also describe JJ’s behavior in addition to Gordy’s, and it leaves open the discussion of whether these creatures are committing murder - people may see it as such but given the strong POV of animal trainers, we are encouraged to see their behaviors as animals doing what animals naturally do (especially JJ, who is just hunting and eating to survive). The words are certainly chosen carefully though, as you say.
@@nimue325 You’re absolutely right about those terms being pretty general, but in comedy specifically “killing” as a descriptor for success is the only field I can think of that specifically has the counterpart term “dying” to describe doing extremely poorly. That could be more common than I’m aware, though!
At the beginning of Jupe's intro to the show, he says "In about an hour, you'll never be the same again" or something like that, and there's an hour left of the film. Peele's attention to detail is gorgeous.
So one minor correction, Jordan Peele already confirmed that the square thing isn’t Jean Jacket’s mouth, it’s its eye. I think that makes more sense thematically, it has a square eye like a camera lens
11:21 fun fact that scene where Jupe is staring off disassociating, recalling the Gordy Gourge, his wife comes over and does a grounding technique by squeezing his hand and checking in with him. He's been down playing his PTSD the whole time (because monetization baby) so it's really cool to see the fruits of their research come off as realistic and not cartoon-ish. And man.. OJ's whole character? Idk if they knew there's like a whole slice of audience that is filled with neurodivergent POC animal caretakers but here we are.
I love how they show in the trailer Jupe's kids dressed in costumes, and Gordy's hand reaching under the table, to make a red herring about "aliens". Cause it hides the biggest plot twist: the aliens aren't in the ship, the ship itself is the alien!
The biology of JJ is what sold this movie for me, especially by the end. Understanding that JJ is an animal fighting for territory and food makes us want to humanize it, like humans do, you want to sympathize with JJ and even maybe wish that it could somehow be tamed and coexisted with, despite what its capable of. Its not a hyper-intelligent creature, we know this because its not immediately capable of differenciating food from foreign objects until the statue bait actively clogs its throat. And yet, its intelligent enough in its display of threats, the way it looms over the family basically all night, using the screams of victims to draw more victims to it, dumping blood over the house (we never see it do this otherwise, which I assume implies it was intentional and probably meant to provoke the people, or a marking of territory), dropping the statue right on OJ after failing to provoke him to look at it, and of course the way it fights for dominance in the climax of the movie. Having been threatened and injured far too many times, even accidentally by Angel, Jean Jacket unwravels itself in the ultimate threat display of a complicated predator, like unfurling the plumage of a peacock, less capable of mobility and attack in this "form" but you know its doing this because its been pushed to its limit. I was so giddy seeing its behavior in the end, the way it was trying to choose who of the two siblings to "pick on" and which of them was provoking JJ more with their eye contact, which of the siblings was challenging it and which was probably worth engaging in an effort to assert territory. And when it picked OJ, it unfurled its eye(?) and tassles whip out over and over, and I immediately knew it was its own threat display, almost a "what are you gonna do against me?" It reminds me of the scene from Godzilla: King of the Monsters, the "light show" Godzilla puts on in the ocean, described to be "an intimidation display, like a gorilla beating its chest." Its magnificent, and I just love how this creature is portrayed, and how weirdly familiar it felt for me, considering its connections with real-world predators and marine life. The design of the creature was extremely clever, its hard to interpret WHAT Jean Jacket even is for majority of the movie, even after the internal look as it eats people, its a mass of biological tissue that you can't quite comprehend. When it finally unfurls at the end of the movie, it becomes both MORE and LESS alien, more because of how obviously otherworldly it looks and acts, but also less alien because it still follows a set of "rules;" it has biology, its vulnerable in an unfurled state because it cant eat or travel at high speeds, and it exchanges this in favor of an appearance that's probably using to save its life and its territory. It's not magical or godly, it eats and dies like all other animals do. And now that you've described it, I am realizing how tragic JJ's death is, the irony of a creature that doesn't know any better, dying to "litter" much like many animals do today. JJ only fought for things it understood, and coughed up things it didn't understand, and died to something it would never comprehend. Just like we couldn't comprehend JJ. Poetic to see a creature in media have emphasis that it is just alien to us as we are to it.
One thing I loved but I haven’t noticed anyone talk about is the moment where OJ finds the flyer in the horse poo and the subtle acting from Daniel as he puts it all together in his head, realizes what Ricky has been doing and decides to go save Lucky no matter what. He was definitely planning to whoop some ass and take his horse back if Ricky didn’t get eaten. The subtle mental math that turns into a calm rage is incredible. Kaluuya killed it in this role with his subtlety and facial performance. I hope he continues to work with Jordan!
I just realized that the movie Starts in Horror with balloons popping but ends victorious and hopeful when a giant balloon popped, talk about bringing it full circle, Jordan peele is a genius I absolutely love this movie
Two scenes in particular hit me harder then any horror movie has ever hit me before. The first scene was when Gordy attacks the cast. The second scene is when we see the people get stuck in the monster. There’s only a couple of scenes in media that make me feel my claustrophobia as much as that one did
I've been watching copious amounts of horror since I was a little kid (I don't say I was a fan since then because they terrified me for a while), and I have to say that the Gordy's Home sequence is some of the best written horror I've ever seen. It's all in what you don't see and in what you hear. Peele practicing restraint both made the scene respectful (by not making a spectacle of their injuries) and brutal (by leaving us to fill in the blanks with our imagination). Excellent filmmaking.
I remember those days fondly haha. Just got to build your tolerance up. I started off watching Doctor who as a teenager, got more comfortable by watching 1930s horror and other stuff known to be mildly scary, then took a few more leaps with classics like Alien and Halloween. Now I'm at the point where nothing really scares me and it's one of my favourite genres
This movie unlocked fears within me that I didn't know I had. I was paranoid and avoiding eye contact with... ANY part of the sky for days. I hate when you're confronted with a horror entity that can't be reasoned with. I mean you can't reason with chucky but you can at least hold a conversation. This is just an animal. It operates on instinct that only it truly understands. Gives me chills.
@@joeyb5399 You should honestly always fear Chimps. They get a lot of good PR, but compared to other apes they're bloodthirsty little bastards made of pure muscle-
Actually, in this very comment section there is a guy breaking down why it does the things it does. This works because JJ acts just like an actual predator of earth. It may not be reasoned with, but it sure can be understood. And if it can be understood, it can be manipulated. And if I understand correctly, this is even used against it in the film! Horror entities that can't be reasoned with are some of the most terrifying, that's for certain. But to me it's even more terrifying if it CAN'T BE UNDERSTOOD.
One detail that may not have been purposeful, but I still love: In the Gordy scene, the co-stars and crew are calling him "Gordy" even as he has "broken character" and is going on a rampage. But earlier, Jupe says the chimpanzee that day was "one of the chips that play Gordy". They were trying to talk to & calm the chimp, but using the wrong name. It reminds me of the scene with Lucky on set; they didn't see the chimp as an animal or an individual, but as "Gordy", a prop, something they manipulate.
When I first saw this movie I noticed a lot of references to the Wizard of Oz; one of the first big movie spectacles in Hollywood. Emerald's name being a reference to the Emerald City, the way Jean-jacket sucks up people like a tornado, Angel kind of reminded me of the cowardly lion, and even the imagery of a blue standing up shoe with a drop of blood on it. There's probably a lot more references that I didn't notice, this movie is just so detailed! I fell in love with this movie immediately, and it's the first movie I watched in the theater that scared the crap out of me. Great job 11/10
That is the way I watched the movie the 3rd time is a retelling of Wizard of Oz Antler is the Tin Man with the gears and has a change of heart OJ is the Cowardly lion as he gets his courage from being shy at the beginning Em is Dorthy as she has no home and finds one in the people she does this with Angel is the Scarecrow as he has the brains of doing things as well as gets that one scene where he stares Jupe is the wizard with a showing of things not as they really are but how they want to show it to be bigger than life
What's also interesting is that during the production of the wizard of oz that included Judy Garland there was a lot of horrific, traumatic and abusive things that happened to some of the cast members while filming. That connects to some of Nope's underlying messages that point out problems with the entertainment industry and the way animals and people can be mistreated behind the scenes
TMZ is the tin man, Angel is the scarecrow. “It really was no miracle; what happened was just this:” -Dorothy Gale There is a frightening monkey A shoe behaves in a magical way Jean Jacket is both a tornado and a hot air balloon, two methods of travel between the magical and mundane worlds The siblings have a neighbor who desires the death of their beloved animal(s) The people inside Jean Jacket were probably saying things like “i’m melting” and “oh what a world” the characters do not end up dancing The Jitterbug the parallels are endless
there's a scene where Emerald is watching tv and there's an Oprah interview that goes like this: OPRAH [on TV]: I'm talking today to women who say they have been abducted by aliens from another planet. WOMAN [on TV]: May I briefly say, I don't know for a fact that they're from another planet. OPRAH: Well, you know you weren't -in Kansas anymore, Toto. -[laughter on TV] WOMAN: And I wasn't wearing red shoes -that I could click together, either. -Yeah, yeah.
The incredible chemistry and characterization with OJ and Em blew my mind. Also, I love the fact that Jordan made a whole movie basically about filmmaking - they literally spend the whole movie trying to get a shot, a spectacle. It's almost a self-criticism, with the way the spectacle is not worth it, not actually worth the price we pay
Though it's also the only way they can reclaim their family history. I feel like the movie intentionally pushes that plot point aside - they're fighting back against centuries of exploitation and erasure, but in the process all we in the audience are focused on is that spectacle.
It’s crazy how nobody ever gets the clue after OJ’s dad dies and he goes back to the ranch and finds the key in the horse. As in the “key is in the horses” and that’s always been kinda funny to me
That is how I watched this movie the 4th time is looking at it from the viewpoint of the horses We get told that Jupe has been feeding the horses to JJ and at first, we hear the sounds of the hiking people that went missing by JJ at the beginning Then as it some time later, we know the horses have been fed to JJ and their screams would be heard by the remaining horses. This explains the reason the one horse goes out to challenge JJ as well as Lucky behavior - doesn't leave the box at the show or when OJ calls him. Comes to OJ to figure out how to fight this thing together such as in a contract with the human
The digestion scene was the most horrifying part of the movie just because you realize they are trapped, they are doomed, how many hours will they spend trapped together and unable to move all tightly packed together as everyone above you slowly dies as you wait in line for your turn
this movies sound design is PERFECT and the individual screams of the people in jean jeacket haunted me for two weeks after watching it. you can hear a child screaming for their mother, people throwing up, a woman shouts IM BURNING! and the very last thing a victim of the star lasso experience said was "please, somebody, help us!". it all blends into each other while still staying viscerally clear.
And considering NGE is about the symbiotic relationship between deeply traumatized and broken human beings and lovecraftian monsters they can only just barely control or interface with, it fits.
Yuen is the master of subtle acting, and its so overlooked. Most acting only gets attention in big outburst scenes, but that man can fucking act! The subtle facial expressions, mannerisms etc.
I had a thought, and I know nothing about trauma so I'm completely talking from literary analysis... but when Jupe was telling the story of the events through the filter of the SNL sketch, and he has a flashback to the day and backs off, you notice there's blood on his face in the flashback. Child Jupe doesn't have blood flecks on his face until Gordy got shot. It interested me that the part that made him break wasn't the "Gordy going savage on the cast members" part, it was "Gordy's head exploding right in front of me." Almost as if Gordy's death was more traumatizing for him than the brutalization of the cast members? And maybe that was why he was so favorable to Jean Jacket's appearance, not just because he thought he was chosen or somehow immune, but because he thought "The animal deserved better." Although did he actually know JJ was an animal or not? "Trained animals can be unpredictable!" Was that referring to Lucky the horse, or JJ? Did he realize JJ was an animal right at the end there, and smile at the irony of being spared by a psychotic animal only to come full circle and being eaten by another psychotic animal he became involved with... due to the trauma of being spared...? Anyway thank you for reading my essay.
No way don't be apologizing, I loved this! Though it does depend on if he realized JJ was an animal or not at the end, this is still a cool way to interpret it. I'd like to think at the very end when he's looking up at JJ, he does realize it. I think the 'trained animals can be unpredictable' part is aimed at the horse, but an irony for the audience when we already know thru OJ that JJ is an animal hunting, and cause we figure out thru Jupe's speech he thinks he's trained JJ to appear at 6:13 everyday. Also, in his speech he seemed to think JJ was a ship cause he mentions about how they haven't emerged from their ship yet, so it sounded like he hoped as the show went on they would finally emerge to him, as though prove he has been Chosen. Well dang, now I want to write an analysis essay of this... Us English nerds I swear 😂
I adore this movie so much. When you watch it over and over, you always see something new. But I never realised how soon you see Jean Jacket! You blew my mind. The one thing really MESSED me up was when Ricky does his speech saying "In one hour you will leave here having witnessed a spectacle", and that moment is 60 minutes until the end credits. It's just terrifying. This film has lived under my skin since I watched it. Love it so much but also had me hiding when JJ ate everyone and the house scene... nightmares for days
It wasn't until i watched a reaction to this film that had subtitles playing that I realized what was actually being said by jupe off in the distance in that night shot during the "Ghost" segment. i completely missed that he was saying the speech he gives later to the crowd.
another detail, i've seen in numerous places it said that Gordy uses sign language after the rampage is over asking what happened to the family. implying he didn't remember anything.
I like how OJ is probably one of the more realistic cowboys I’ve ever seen. Like the whole silent type thing kind of being more comfortable around animals that’s what real cowboys are like.
I haven’t seen anyone mention this but I really really appreciated the scene where OJ is in the training room with those other people and seeing the world through his eyes as someone with Shyness/Social Anxiety. I could feel his panic on a higher level as he waited for his sister to show up. Watching that anxiety dissolve when she took things over made me feel relieved right with him. As someone with social anxiety I have never seen it depicted in such an accurate way in any movie before. It brought a smile to my face when I watched it in theaters and I felt a stronger connection to OJ as a character so early on in the movie because of it.
As far as horror movies go, this one had the most Lovecraftian horror twist. Jordan Peele took a common trope with aliens, and twisted it in an incredibly terrifying way. He deserves an award for this. Also NOPE= Not Of Planet Earth
Jean Jacket is very much sea creature inspired, which makes sense as it seems to have the right bouyancy to swim through air as though it was water. Its open form is inspired by jellyfish that feed using oral arms (and potentially Sahaquiel from Evangelion) and its closed form is almost literally just a stingray without the tail (slightly widened/ flattened front and everything) and with a giant vortex mouth/eye. And it looks like the iris and pupil of an eye when it's above you. Also need to point out that director man ended up in the exact place he talked about - on top of the mountain, all eyes (well, eye) on him. Also also, while it's not confirmed what exactly the creature is, I'd hazard a guess that it's not a regular part of Earth's ecosystem as a) it has a form of threat management and display that is entirely different to anything else on earth, which it would only need if it actually comes across threats frequently, and b) it's stealth heavy lifestyle implies that either it would need to hide for safety or has prey that could escape it, neither of which are the case. The only things on earth that would give it reason to evolve those are us humans, and we straight up don't know about it so it can't have evolved those to deal with us.
yes, antlers ended up on top of the mountain, all eyes on him, and it was the dream he never woke up from! there's also the fact that his initial delivery of that line was when attempting to warn/scold em about the nature of the film industry back when he saw her as just another fame-chaser. yet he was ultimately the person engrained within the film industry, not her, and he was the one who succumbed to the very thing he was warning about.
When I saw how its skin flapped (ew) while it was chasing oj near the end I definitely got stingray vibes from it. Still don't know how I didn't price together that it was organic until they explicitly said it
I love that it stays afloat with an electromagnetic spout. It explains the high-velocity metal being ejected (it wouldn't eat metal normally on, like, Saturn) It also explains the creepy woowoo electronics shorting out. They're being blasted by the underside of a magnetic field.
Someone posited that Jean Jacket is actually the result of generational evolution when its kind first touched down on Earth from space. Its origin is not native but after probably millennia of evolution it technically is native to Earth now because its characteristics doesn't seem to fit for space travel anymore.
I love all the subtle hints Peele adds in some I didn’t even recognize like the Gordy’s jacket and the alien merch. It still amazes me how we went from being the funny comedian guy to a horror film director! Also the ending was sick 🤘
There are some intensely horrorific sketches from The Key and Peele Show. The one that stands out most in my mind is the Make a Wish sketch. Jordan Peele always had horror chops, and I'm so happy he's getting to exercise those terrifying muscles.
It's also important to remember that most comedy is intensely cerebral. To be really good at comedy, you have to be aware of things going on around you. Peele has a lot of experience in Hollywood too, so this lines right up.
That, and the way they don't show *_anything_* outside of small glimpses, oftentimes it's the human imagination that's scarier than anything one could put on film.
Fun fact (I mean, not that fun): the Gordy incident is most likely to be inspired by the real life story of Travis, a chimp that went ape shit (pun intended) on a woman friend of his owners, he destroyed her face aswell. That Casual Geographic dude covered this in a video about wild animals being... well... wild.
@@gabrielmalaguti5512 and it also again plays on that sense of wanting to see the spectacle. You know the audience wants to see what's happening but it never shows you.
16:46 apparently there's a chance it isn't the victims' blood. Last time JJ spat out the objects from its victims it was clean (no blood), which was when Otis Sr. was unalived. Now the last time JJ spat out the contents of its victims, there was blood, which meant JJ was hurt. And in the scene right after, the horse Em stole from Jupe was spat out by JJ. So what I'm trying to say is that the reason why Lucky wasn't eaten but everyone else was, is because Jj was previously hurt by a horse (not knowing it was fake) and learned to not eat horses in case it doesn't happen again. idk, I recently learned that and my mom helped me point it out.
The audio for the scene inside Jean Jacket when all of Jupe's audience is screaming was recorded in two parts. First, Jordan Peele got actors to scream like they were terrified and then got them to scream like they were on a roller coaster. That extra layer literally haunts me
Yes this movie definitely gave me lovecraftian vibes. Also like the fact that the creature had a flying saucer shape but it wasn't Little Green Men it was actual a predatory creature.
it's actually the opposite of lovecraftian. lovecraftian, or cosmic, horror emphasizes the fear of the unknowable and incomprehensible. NOPE completely subverts this, because despite jean jacket's immensity and the incredible dread it imparts, it is entirely knowable and understandable. it is a large animal, but it is still an animal. it has comprehensible patterns of behavior similar to other earth animals, and that allows the protagonists to understand and ultimately survive it. the events of the film are fully explainable and possible to grasp at the end. it's definitely not anywhere near the definition of lovecraftian (you may be asking: why the pedantic paragraph about the definition of lovecraftian? because having specific language to analyze horror with is neat, and that includes knowing when something Isn't applicable terminology)
the way I actually cried during the Jupe/Jean Jacket buffet scene bc the screams/visuals disturbed me so much... Jordan Peele is truly a master at horror and suspense. he doesn't need excessive gore and loud cheap jump scares. I love his style, stories and characters.
Keith David voicing King Andrias (Amphibia, also voicing Dr. Facilier from Princess and the Frog, Tombstone from Spider-man and others) recently definitely sets the image on my head where he sits on the horse and has the coin shot into his head. I should've seen that image coming in the theater
I love how Jean Jacket sightings ramp up as the movie goes on. First its like a shark knifing through the clouds and we only catch glimpses of it, but as the characters start to understand it more, we see more and more of it. It becomes less horrifying from the unknown to the terrifying known habits of a predator. Like seeing glowing eyes in the forest at night and being scared stiff, only to reveal those eyes belonged to a hungry lion. I also love how much we see Jean Jacket. Many movies about aliens are scared to show us the alien, and Jordan knows this too because he sets it up in the beginning like a typical "just missed it" alien sighting movie, and then we get the incomprehensible evangelical jellyfish at the end.
The moment that sold this for me was the moment I realized that the shrieking sound of Jean Jacket wasn't Jean Jacket but his prey still alive inside him. I remember throwing my hand over my mouth so hard in the theater I damn near knocked myself out.
So glad I watched this unspoiled, I've enjoyed every single movie this man has made on different levels and the more I learn about the themes and thought behind it the more I love it.
I love how OJ at the end is framed similar to how their great great great grandfather was in the first motion picture. And also this movie, especially JJ’s end really feels like an homage to Jaws as well. It’s fantastic
The reveal at 13:00 was literally a nightmare shot for me when I watched this. I had a reoccurring dream as a child where I was hunted in an open desert that would culminate with a giant ‘thing’ appearing from the sky with a similar look and scream. I would know I was in a dream when I saw where I was and would let out a silent scream and jolt awake after my vision went black. Watching that on the screen genuinely terrified me and instantly made this a contemporary classic. I’d argue that Peele’s three films are American horror classics and this trilogy is up there with the best.
What I love about this movie is that there are things that I don’t yet realize I realize. I rewatch and I’m like “I knew it was something about “that” Love it
I didn‘t realize when Jupe stares at JJ, there are shadow flitting about the ground, indicating he sees his audience and FAMILY get sucked up. Big oof.
I'm not sure if the reveal that the UFO is a living creature makes it more or less scary. On one hand, what made the scene with the aliens, actually Jupe's kids, so scary was the idea that there were these things inside a vehicle, watching and ready to take us and do something to us, like experimentation. That up close kind of terror resonates because you'd be scared to what an intelligent curious being would do to you if they viewed you as something just to collect and that they could get inside your hiding places as a result. On the other hand, the idea of being eaten alive is also absolutely horrifying. It's slow, confusing and painful, as you either die from lack of oxygen, getting crushed or being burned away. And its massive size still works to be scary because of how easily it could bulldoze any opposition, not to mention that as a predator animal, it knows how to hunt and hunt well.
I don’t care what other people say, I loved this movie. The Gordy scenes and the scene in Jean Jacket’s stomach were horrifying. I finally got the chance to watch it this week and I’ve watched it like 5 times. There are so many little Easter eggs and references in the movie and I love being able to rewatch a movie and find new things that I missed during previous viewings.
I made my husband watch it with me after I’d already watched it multiple times and now it’s something he’s requested to rewatch with me. This movie was phenomenal to me
I also feel like Jupe wasn't really allowed to experience his trauma. Because he was a part of a beloved show and his trauma unfortunately just got in the way of people's nostalgia. He would've felt forced to perform for others during interviews or press releases, because he was addressing them as a star to fans. Even when they talked about it, people would've expected a show. His trauma was ultimately a spectacle. It makes sense why child stars are never allowed to heal. Their tragedy is pushed to the side for the sake of entertainment. He only really showed emotion with them, as they didn't really have much knowledge of it, and so he was able to let down his guard.
Especially since he was the only one of the main cast implied to survive unscathed (the adult actors died, Mary Jo was scarred forever), meaning people might’ve discounted his trauma compared to Mary Jo’s
when watching nope my mom pointed out that Jean Jacket's form at the end of the movie was JJ making itself bigger/more intimidating, something that animals in the wild do frequently when challenged. her (almost) exact quote was "it turned into flags because flags are scary to it" neither one of us were sure if it was intentional, most likely not, but I thought it was pretty cool
Another fun as movie to watch and loved seeing you cover it. Think my fave part was when JJ is floating over their house, right before his covers it in blood. You can still hear them people screaming and then just one loud pop and all the screams go silent. Also, totally requesting a CW for Spirited Away or Howl's Moving Castle
Someone on another video pointed out that JJ ejecting everything it can't digest is similar to the way films and other media will feature a real person or event, but strip away and discard any parts that they find inconvenient. They end up presenting an inaccurate, sensationalized story meant to be "easier to digest" for their target audience. Also yeah, I loved everything they did with that scene - even the sound of rain stopping was terrifying.
GREAT movie! The placement of the “nope” lines in it were flawless. As soon as I heard Jordan was releasing a horror movie called Nope I was on board. Didn’t disappoint.
I like to think that the pig seen on the roof right after the attack was also intentional, because of the whole thing about pigs not being able to look up at the sky, which looking back makes sense now that we know Jean jacket is most dangerous when he’s been seen.
The Gordy scene is easily the best part of the movie. Not only does it scare you shitless in the perfect way with limited vision and the best execution of “Show don’t tell,” it captures the theme of the movie flawlessly. You can’t tame nature. You can work as hard as you can to make it work, but you can’t reverse and control a creature’s instincts. It’s just like you can’t control an alien by feeding it horses. You’ll be screwed one way or another.
Seriously! You're shown the body's reactions to Gordy's strikes, the pain in their voices, and the aftermath of their attack a good 30-something years later, after probably years and years of plastic surgery and it is so much more effective than even the best special effects could make it.
@@scailliet I can only speak from experience so I'm not sure about that but if you get on a plane with an anxiety person they'll be tense the whole time if the plane crashes they will seem way less freaked than everyone else because they have been expecting it.
I’ve got to say in my opinion the scariest scene for me ( that wasn’t a jump scare ) was the people being eaten by Jean jacket, just the sound design mixed with the claustrophobia and a more personal thing of ordinary people in a situation anyone could be in ( to an extent of course) and I physically couldn’t bring myself to watch it. That was truly horrifying ( it didn’t help that in the tense moments the cinema light were flickering and I’m sure that the employees were fucking with us)
100%!! As someone with claustrophobia this is one the list of the top worst ways to go out in a movie. It gets me shaking every time. (I would not be the same acting in that scene frfr, like just being told 'Hey! Can you act like you're getting slowly digested by a cosmic predator with 50 other audience members?')
The fact that the creature generates an electromagnetic field so strong it causes electronics to go haywire made me think that the reason the metallic objects were so deadly were because they were being repelled, and were not simply dropping.
i watched this movie for the first time with my mom a few days ago and after her explaining to me that the noises the jean jacket was making were its victims screaming I was just in silence realizing that these peoples last words were used as tool of fear for jean jacket... and then they were used to repaint a house a nice maroon.
Yeah but she didn't learn her lesson. She could've chosen to refuse to be part of a spectacle. Instead she embraced it and was still trying to cling to whatever fame she once had with her sweatshirt.
What I find funny and pretty cool is while you look at it's shape and think "alien", there's plenty of hints JJ is actually a local boy albeit something that should rightfully be cruising through the stratosphere and not be this far down.
This was a theory that I recently saw: the shoe that jupe saw wasn't actually standing on its own, it was uh... to say the least still had a foot in it. And Jupe was mentally blocking the gore
@@playfulpanthress i very much disagree! i mean of course he learned some things about making movies, but to come out and be one of the best in the industry? thats really impressive
@@1draigon I don't argue that Peele isn't amazing. He is. My point is when you do something incredibly difficult, like comedy, anything else (horror especially), is much easier. Not that it doesn't have its own challenges, it is just Hardee to make people laugh.
@@playfulpanthress while yes, it is harder to be a good comedian, I don’t think just because you’re one of the best in one field it means that you’re one of the best in another.
@@1draigon Well, that's where we disagree. The horror genre is easy. Anyone can make a horror movie. And if you understand the set up and pay off of comedy, you can make an excellent horror movie.
my big theory is that emerald wanted desperately to work with horses but was too energetic and impulsive, and that OJ was so bad with people that he excelled with them. it's why emerald memorized her dad's intro, was hurt by her father not training her, and seeks to be noticed and seen because she felt so unseen by her father. NO one sees her like OJ does and no one can bring OJ out of his shell like she can. they're polar opposites but what makes them solid is their ability to recognize each other in a deep and profound way.
"Kodlak says I have Ysgramor's strength. And my brother has his smarts." Together, they can do better than their father. Em does the management, OJ the horses. And that's what they're trying in the beginning of the movie, only Em is still not committed yet. At the start anyway.
i saw this movie in a lecture hall full of rowdy college students and it was legitimately one of the most fun viewing experiences i’ve ever had. there was yelling. i was whisper screaming “WHAT THE FUCK” with a girl i’d never talked to in my life. i’ll never forget that shit
I wouldn't have gotten over the anxiety this movie's trailers and all that put on me, so thank you CinemaWins for being a nice person and a kind voice to make movies designed to be hard to watch possible for someone with anxiety problems to push through and overcome! Thank you!
yeah, I did have a panic attack during the movie, unfortunately, as I have in every peele movie but it is seriously one of the best movies I have ever seen even with the panic attack.
@@herb_rolls yeah Us and Nope fully freaked me out and even when watching Nope for the second time, I debated leaving the cinema because I just kept noticing even more horrifying tiny details 😂 it's weird when you really love and appreciate something but also can hardly bear to watch it lmao
I remember one of the most chilling moments in this movie was when we suddenly jump-cut back to Steven Yeun after the flashback and he maintains a thousand -yard stare, UNBLINKING for what feels like a solid minute. He barely moves his face and his performance plus the camera angle and the music convey so goddamn much.
I thought it was a nice touch that Antler's death is portrayed quietly, through his film reel running out. Cinema _was_ his life. He's yelling and jubilant, sacrificing himself for a shot he knows will never be seen, and then the second his camera stops, he's gone.
One thing I feel like not enough people talk about is that Jean Jacket really acts like an actual predator with its biology would. If you were Jean Jacket, you'd take eye contact as a threat because the only way other Jean Jackets can make eye contact with you is through their mouth, when they're trying to attack. And OJ survives because Jean Jacket is a predator, and predators don't actually pick fights unless they're sure they can win. When OJ stares it down, in his own territory, Jean Jacket balks and performs a threat display. Because the last human it tried to eat was spiky, and OJ already looked like the indigestible horse sculpture earlier, what if he's secretly poisonous or spiky or dangerous? So it freaks out and tries to scare him into running, which would prove he was prey and Jean Jacket could eat him. But Em runs instead, so it chases her, leaving the obviously dangerous OJ alone. And also, Jean Jacket is obviously territorial, and it considers its territory the sky, so the only reason that it went after the balloon is because it was invading its actual territory, and because it misjudged the balloon as a fight it could win, because it resembled the non-dangerous human it had already eaten. OJ wasn't in its territory, it was in his, so it retreated.
Basically, I'm a bit of a predator apologist and a biology nerd, but predators are actually less dangerous than the high-strung, defensive herbivores. Predators won't attack you unless they are convinced they will win. And OJ managed to convince Jean Jacket that it wouldn't win.
That's an incredible breakdown, I love it. :o
This is probably one of the most interesting things I've ever read in a TH-cam comment section.
GOOD ass analysis. jean jacket is fantastic speculative biology design and i love any and all careful thought about its behaviors
Imagine being such a badass that a monster the size of a large apartment complex, thinks that it can’t win in a fight against you.
@@bootyman261 the neat thing about JJ is that it's not even a monster, it's just...an animal. a large animal but still an animal that can be tricked by a smart person who understands its behaviors
One thing a lot of people miss: When the dad is bleeding out in the truck, he's not saying random words. He's saying the names of his horses so his son has a good grasp of his cognitive abilities & has a way to keep track of his consciousness with his quickly worsening brain injury.
I caught that too
Another little factoid is that the edge of JJ's saucer-mode "wings" has a little divet that moves around. You can see it most clearly when its chasing OJ on the horse where he releases the flags to scare it away. But what reveals its function is when Angel is staring at it in the distance while he's stuck in the barbwire. You can see the "dot" rotate around to face him and it stays trained on him when it flies past along his side to double back and ambush him from above. Its how it see's people who arent directly under it, it creates a small opening to peak through.
Oh yea, I absolutely knew he was doing that and it was so damn heartbreaking. Trying to get his dad to Emergency as fast as possible, but also trying to keep him conscious was nerve wracking, even though I was fairly certain this wasn't going to be any sort of happy rescue/recovery D:
And, based on his fathers injury he was looking up at the sky when it hit him
I noticed this as well
My favorite fun fact for this movie is that the scream of the people were recorded twice, once where they were directed to scream as if eaten by an alien, and the second time to scream as if on a rollercoaster. Those two noises blended together when Jean Jacket is flying about makes us not know how to interpret the screams until we know for a fact that they are the scream of digestion
at first you don't even know they ARE screams. could be just the the wind, or the sound JJ makes as it travels around. Just like the sounds of the horses inside it. i think learning later that the sounds you've been hearing all along were the sounds of people/animals screaming in terror and pain makes it all the more disturbing then if you knew from the start.
i remember thinking in the theater that i couldnt tell what the screams were, that was such a good effect
Yes! Such a cool piece of sound design. Add in a little wind audio, and it's both disquieting on a deep lizard-brain level but also possibly nothing at all - until the realization.
@@RaptorNX01 if only your mom screamed like that when she was riding the horse 🍆
Nope: such a visceral experience and technically Jordan Peel’s best work.
He adopted a kind of Hitchcock/Kubrick style to this film which I love. The visual storytelling on display here is immaculate.
Daniel Kaluella is brilliant in delivering a stoic performance. He conveyed so much emotion with his eyes I love it. The film is light on exposition regarding the creature. No unnecessary government/military plot devices Peele respects the audiences intelligence to interpret the story for themselves. The film is also a love letter to many classic UFO movies.
The cinematography of this film is breathtaking. Every frame is meticulously crafted. It’s not a Jordan Peel movie if it’s not filled to the brim with social commentary and profound metaphors.
The film takes a keen dive into the transparency of the film industry, whilst also interpreting the symbiotic relationship between animals and prey which is so intricately conveyed.
This film is so multilayered no doubt it will be studied for years to come. Seen it twice, took my gf to see it a second time, initially she wasn’t thrilled but a few days later she watched it again because it peaked her curiosity. This is the power of film; watching something that sticks in your mind, challenges your beliefs and preconceptions on reality. Can’t wait to watch this again.
I think how intense OJ gets when they slap hands five times was one of my favorite moments - like he's so completely stoic the whole film, but when it's time to get pumped up and do his and his sister's "get pumped" high five, he's all in for it. They really are an all-time film-sibling duo.
I loved that part too. Their chemistry was perfect.
Especially in contrast to the earlier line before they enter Jupe's office to negotiate horses. Emerald says something along the lines of OJ not "talking black", and OJ is like "this is a business partner...!" implying he has to act, so it's a showcase of change when, in front of their business partner filmmaker, he's willing to share the genuine emotion and communication his sister displays and he intimately knows.
I totally agree: the symbosis and accuracy of this moment is so special at capturing what being siblings mean. You get to speak a languga that no one else does with your family
I think that actor won Oscars i remember..for his performance in get out
Farm sibling
I love Jordan Peele because of his absolute foreshadowing and the fact no one noticed this until now | in "Get out" Chris places cotton in his ears to avoid the hypnotism (hear no evil) In "Us" the difference between the tethered and real humans was the slurred speech (speak no evil) and in "Nope" to avoid challenging Jean Jacket you cannot look it in the eyes (see no evil) AMAZING!!!
Hmmm....makes ya wonder what the "do no evil" film will be
I never thought of it like that, that's amazing!
@@couchpotato2222 hypnotization!
I had that same thought, yet at the same time, he might not do that one, since most people don't know about it.
Oooohhh MY GOSH genius man, genius.
Only Jordan Peele could come up with a western, sci-fi, horror, Kaiju movie with a pretty cerebral commentary about how exploitative the entertainment industry really is, and I love him for it, and love that he's successful for it as well.
Hearing Kaiju makes me wanna see Jordan Peele make a classic kaiju movie like the older Godzilla films. Man can work in both horror and comedy well
The movie bombed tho. And did awful in ratings.
@@THEMADBOMBER it was really split, me and my gf saw this and were like it’s genuinely the best thing we’ve ever seen, I told my parents and they said it was the worst things they’ve ever seen, people hear that and don’t give it a chance, im so glad I got out of my comfort zone and saw this though
@@youngbutthead7719 I'm glad i saw it blind, and didn't even know about till just before seeing it. it's become my favorite of his films.
@@THEMADBOMBER 2.5x production budget at the box office (it was a success). 82% RT score (It was a success) By what measure are we talking here? Because it succeeded both critically and commercially.
If you didn't like it, that's fine. But don't pretend it wasn't successful.
I found the Gordy storyline to be so captivating. Like, the guy romanticizes his trauma, which is a degree of psyche movies hardly touch on. Like you could tell that he is obsessed with it and probably dreams about it constantly. He probably never really got help for it, because he's good at acting like he's fine.
Same
Oh I did not read it that way at all. To me it was almost too traumatizing for him to even think of. Like the only way he could talk about it was through an SNL sketch. He detached himself from the event so wholly so that it would never hurt him again. By trying to control this new animal he's almost attempting to rewrite the past, to show that if HE had the control it wouldn't have happened. Which ends up the same way. That's what I thought anyway.
It’s a very different take on the “scarred person in a horror movie” and I’m very much into it.
Best part of the movie
It didn’t captivate me as much! But what I will say is that scene where he’s just killed those people and you see him from under the table,
Complete silence, just waiting for him to turn and spot you,
Was one of the most chilling scenes I’ve ever seen at the cinema it was amazing
I love that the main character actually backs away from the dressed up kids in the stable, and punches the one dangling from the ceiling. Smartest and most defensive horror character, not just screaming and running or standing still and staring.
Yes!! finally a horror movie character who hears our screaming & reacts to our warnings🤣😂
Lawsuit pending. Man punches child dressed in alien costume, claims "I did nothing!"
In the horror genre, we really don't get to see a lot of fight. Mostly flight. Obviously because punching the ghost/magic serial killer/whatever really demystifies the horror. But for comedic relief like that scene in Nope, it was just a nice change of pace and really funny.
@@BoxyDoxxy Man punches violent unknown home intruder.
@@BoxyDoxxy more like man uses self defense against an unidentifiable intruder who got too close to him in the dark with unknown intentions. also, they were provoking him by trying to scare him. so they really cant blame him for socking one.
My favorite detail nobody is talking about has got to be Em calling herself "Nobody" to the TMZ guy, who has a completely reflective helmet with one eye hole. Like the myth of Odysseus and the man-eating cyclops Polyphemus, when Odysseus introduced himself by the name "Nobody".
Excellent foreshadowing of not only TMZ's demise (and him being upset he doesn't have a camera pointed at him to record his "spectacle" like Polyphemus pleading after being blinded by Odysseus), but also how they eventually outmaneuver Jean Jacket by making it point it's one eye in different directions, and Em "Nobody" kills it by blowing a balloon up in that eye.
That's actually a really good comparison, nice catch!
YES YES YES!!!! the Odysseus/Polyphemus reference was what immediately popped in my head when watching it for the first time!!!
I’m not gonna lie, if I was in the movie I probably would have gotten swallowed by Jean Jacket. When it opened up and looked like an angel, I was in awe. I said “Oh wow, it’s so beautiful!” It was hypnotizing almost. Part of me was sad when it exploded; I wanted to continue looking at it in full form. And in that moment, I realized that was Peele’s point of the movie.
yeesss it's amazing how the design is stunningly beautiful in the way only nature can be, to the point where it literally works on viewers, and it leaves you with the knowledge that if this was a real animal it WOULD be dangerous. because you would look.
Every time I saw the aliens' mouth and when it changed forms i kept looking away because of how immersed i was
yep, that and it being a threat display is probably why it opens up like that
Same. Jean Jacket would place my arms one by one in his little denim jacket, then I go upward peristalsis to my utter doom, lol. Curiosity would kill this cat, lol
@@JamieBarringtonbeauty always kills. Everything beautiful can kill.
Something I love is that when Emerald gets that picture of Jean Jacket, she uses a coin operated camera. Since a coin is what killed her father, a man intent on reclaiming the spotlight and spectacle through the claim that the jockey was his great great grandfather, it kinda came full circle for them reclaiming that spectacle as the jockey while the filmmaker (the TMZ dude) is the one that gets killed.
*Emerald (not Emily) 🙂
Yes! Plus the fact that the coins were discarded there by Jean Jacket. She has to scramble and fight using scraps cast off as "useless" by the same thing destroying her family and legacy.
what a COINcidence
this is so good
esp since the tmz guy has the circle on the same side as the father's eye that got shredded by the coin. love all the parallels in this movie, they pay off so satisfyingly 💕
The one thing I noticed while watching “Nope” was in the beginning, OJ would avoid making eye contact with people showing he was probably uncomfortable and shy with it, but at the end he was able to look at the monster in the eyes to show he’s not shy nor afraid anymore. I don’t know if it’s just me who thought of that but I loved that detail since I’m in his shoes when it comes to eye contact
I love that observation!
I think it’s because he might have a TSA passionate about animal can be socially weird and hate eye contact but I might be wrong
I felt like it's more that he doesn't really like interacting with humans, but has a real connection to animals and, in a way, is able to speak their language, which also applies to the alien, since it is basically an animal.
So, similarly to him not being shy when interacting with horses, he's also not shy when interacting with the alien.
I kinda interpreted OJ as autistic. I'm autistic myself so I saw a lot of checkmarks in him. Being unable to maintain eye contact with people but not with animals is a big one.
I honestly read his discomfort making eye contact as OJ being somewhere on the Autism spectrum. Having trouble making/keeping eye contact, being closer to animals than people.
I didn't catch it at the time but I also think it's a cool detail that OJ is wearing his baseball cap the first couple of times he encounters Jean Jacket. The brim of the hat obscured OJ's face so that JJ couldn't tell he was looking at them, which explains why OJ was able to look at the sky when JJ was around without being targeted.
I was so confused at first because I thought Jean Jacket was the name of one the horses? How did they come up with that name for the monster?
@@Dexter2017 JJ was supposed to be Emerald's horse but their dad ended up giving him to OJ to train instead. Think naming the alien JJ was her bro's way of saying this is her chance to be included in working with an animal with her family
Oh holy shit yeah
I love that Brandon did such an amazing job with his role as Angel that Jordan actually changed the script for Angel to survive instead of dying like he originally had written
i thought that was because brandon asked him to keep angel alive in case there's a sequel so he can be in it
@@dankerbellnah, someone posted his callback where he gets the part and Peele tells Brandon he rewrote the script for him
How would he have died to jean jacket
@@Solaries23 Probably in the barbed wire scene, if I had to guess
Ya know, it was VERY smart for Emerald to take JJ's picture on a polaroid.
You can fake an image on a phone, but you can't fake an image on a polaroid.
Unless your like, a REALLY good artist.
I mean, they're gonna find J.J.'s corpse.
The noodly muscle ribbons plus that picture plus _dozens_ of eyewitness accounts?
Yeah, SETI's getting a new department.
@@JoshSweetvale SETI?
@@justaghostinthesea search for extra terrrestrial intelligence
@@justaghostinthesea Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence
People always throw around the "you can fake X on Y" stuff... do any of your realise how easy it is to discover if you did fake a picture, and/or how hard it is to fake something so perfectly that nobody can find out it's fake?
Never mind that, with something like JJ, you'd have a part of the public declaring it's real even if someone debunked the picture, and a part of the public who would die before accepting it as a real picture even if the FBI and CIA cleared the picture as real.
Jean Jacket is one of the best examples of cosmic horror I have seen recently. Beautiful and irreconcilable in its true form. Like one of those biblically accurate angels.
Y'know...Thank you VERY much for this comment, because...I've once again fallen into the trap of expecting "cosmic" horror to inherently have OUTSIZED "cosmic" powers/abilities, when all the term reeeeeally implies is the being ORIGIN being extraterrestrial/out in the cosmos, somewhere.
If you read up on Flying Polyps from H.P Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time," you'll see some similarities.
@@mattpluzhnikov519 The core of cosmic horror, more so than cosmic origins, is the idea that humanity is meaningless in the face of such horrors
He has said that that and Evangelion were some of the influences.
but it also fits even from a natural/scientific point of view. If you look up the theory of solar sails (IE a ship traveling thru space on the solar winds) you can see it would make sense that a space born entity might evolve that as a means of interplanetary, even possibly interstellar, travel.
infact, the bajoran lightship from Deep Space Nine bares a bit of a resemblance to JJ's unfurled form.
@@RaptorNX01 the obvious EVA influence makes me wish someone would do an edit of the action sequence of OJ baiting JJ with the "Decisive Battle" theme from the EVA soundtrack.
Something I want to add is when Gordi signs. He is asking “where family?” he didn’t understand himself what had happened. There’s something there that I can’t tap but it’s just chilling either way.
I guess you could say it's the fact that what happened that day was inevitable. Sooner or later, the environment in which he was raised would have made him snap and succumb to his own instincts because that's what he was wired to do after years and years of evolution. One could argue the same happens with Jean Jacket, we actively see it as our villain instead of seeing it as just another part of its wicked cosmic food chain. Neither of them killed just because.
It’s because he was confused and abused and incidentally harmed his “family” by creating a violent scenario due to the stress of stardom that did more harm to him than good in the end
In other words, Gordy and Jupe aren’t so different
WHOA. I did not know this.
Huh, I always read those signs as "what happen family". I may be off. Thanks man
Fun fact about chimps: they can’t ask questions. It’s one of the very few dividing lines between homo sapien and other intelligent animals.
That makes me wonder, was it simply a mistake on Peele’s part? Something he overlooked because the scene hits a lot harder by ignoring that fact? Or did he intentionally leave it in, maybe as a way of saying that we’re not as smart as we think we are?
Another layer to Jupe's story that I find so interesting is that he may have gotten 'stuck' on his trauma not just because, obviously, it was deeply traumatic and life-changing, but also because it probably made him really famous, at least for a little while.
How do you move on from something that defined you at such a young age? Something that may have made you rich, or famous, when as a child actor that may have been what you always wanted? I just find it really interesting that he continues to chase that fame. Such a good movie.
Really plays into the theme of Hollywood exploitation, and how it inevitably chews up and traumatizes the people being used. He "made it through," and then perpetuated that same exploitation by using OJ's trained horses as a disposable thing he can profit off of. He succeeded as a non-white child actor in the 90's, which is huge, but he doesn't remember the name of his co-star in the movie his entire theme park is based on. The film poster is right there in his office. He became the things that hurt him, both as someone in the entertainment industry, and as Jean Jacket food.
Self exploitation is a real addiction these days. Everyone wants to be seen and be heard. There are a lot of social platforms that study this very need….and they exploit it.
I did notice that the wifes office looks very much like the glass cases he keeps the things from "Gordie's Home"in.
Idk why no one’s pointing it out yet and I may be wrong, but when I first watched it I noticed a balloon would pop every time the chimp would take a life. You can also hear popping noises coming from the alien as it flies around, which means that it presumably kills its prey by squishing em. That also explains why it expelled so much blood during that one scene- but that’s just my observation.
Edit: Forgot to mention that it’s also clever that the alien is also DEFEATED by a balloon. Hmm
It so seems to pretty much be a balloon itself. And balloons are associated with spectacles.
See I take the popping noises as JJ’s eye or the green thing trying to get its prey to look up at it so it will attack
I think the difference between the TMZ reporter and Antlers is Antlers was _invited_
The siblings invited him and he was given consent to film on _their_ property.
The TMZ reporter was not. They showed up, unannounced, without consent, immediately started grilling Emerald while shoving a camera in her face while hiding their own, and then sped off to exploit whatever they could find.
Also, in my opinion, the siblings don’t just want fame by the end. This is proof 1. Aliens/unknown flying objects EXIST, and 2. Proof that they are not the reason people are going missing. I mean shit, their house was covered in now missing people’s blood. That would not go over well with anyone without proof of JJ’s existence.
JJ wasn't an alien. It was a never-seen-before Earth animal.
@@NeroCMthat big?
@@Tevin-MKWhat do you mean "that big"?
steven yeun's "thousand yard stare" as jupe is an image i haven't gotten out of my mind since seeing this at its midnight release. i have NEVER seen such a nuanced, accurate trauma survivor depiction, and he hardly has much screen time or dialogue compared to everyone else!! this role truly elevated yeun's acting talent to me, definitely a favorite role
I really felt bad for him. His delusion cost innocent lives, but he truly believed because it was the only way he could attempt to cope. But...the horses he sacrificed? If JJ had just taken him, that'd have been fair.
When you look in his eyes you can tell mentally he's still under that table
That scene drove me to tears. As someone with PTSD, that’s a perfect representation
Yeun was a revelation.
Also it’s nuanced as to why he could be doing it. Does he think it’s gonna bring him back to fame? Does he want to sacrifice himself because of survivors guilt? Or has he made a fantasy where he can tame this thing, like he seemingly believes he did with Gordy?
I still haven’t gotten over how frightening the scene in the alien’s stomach is. It’s like a bouncy house from hell.
Neither
when i was a kid i got stuck in a bouncy house cause they turned it off while i was still in it so i can confirm JJ is like a bouncy house from hell
@@junior_silva-qx5jm Fuck off moron. You obviously never saw the movie in theater.
@@junior_silva-qx5jm You're definitly a jerkass alright.
@@TantrumCouture at first I didn’t get why people thought that scene was terrifying (I didn’t watch the movie I just saw the clip) but then when you compared it to the bouncy house, I get it now
to this day that scene where you hear everyone scream help from inside jean jacket only to be instantly silenced with small sounds of some kind of gore haunts me, something about the fact all those people were killed that suddenly was unnerving
I imagine that if it can generate that kind of air pressure by inhaling, then it can probably also exert that kind of pressure internally- meaning it just squeezes its meals into a pulp before digesting them. What a way to go.
That scene was definitely the most disturbing thing I've ever seen in a movie, but what really unnerved me about it was as soon as I realized what was happening, all I could think about was the screaming sounds we'd been hearing earlier in the movie whenever we saw Jean Jacket flying around in the clouds. I'd initially assumed we were hearing the engine of the UFO and they'd designed it to sound like a crowd screaming in terror just to make it extra creepy. But nope...
I was wondering if the screams above the house were of Peele's other movies available at home to watch- Help US. GET us OUT of here.
Did I only here that or was that what was said?
@@Dishinshoryuken ooh that would also tie into the spectacle of entertainment being our death theme!
@@NevTheDeranged Roanoke did a video on this movie about the creature. Your right on
Here’s a fun catch in case you missed it the first time, Jupe’s wife grabs his “fist bump” hand and massages it to pull him out of his memory. He clenches that fist when he goes back, and he probably does it so frequently that she already knows when he gets quiet and still like that. It’s just an extra nice touch and shows how good their relationship is. She also supports him fully, even if it is partly for fame and exploiting their family (did you see the poster of the reality show about them in his office?). Just really nice subtle and realistic moments from Mr. “I said biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii…”
I love the subtle implications that JJ is not the apex predator and itself displays tactics like hiding or using intimidation. Makes you wonder.
Almost as if there’s something much more larger and/or threatening to JJ. It’s even more terrifying to think that JJ could very well be terrestrial. (Home to Earth)
Nope
There's a potebtial for cosmic horror biology creatures that act like sea creatures in some way
creatures that, normally, live and evolve in space itself, and only ever reach down to planets with lifeforms when really scarce of food that is probably already very rare in space similar to how deep sea creatures evolve their large sizes so they can last longer witohut food
This also would mean there likely is more JJs out there
It's from the solar system's gas giants, and occasionally one ends up in the inner solar system. It hunts like a big cat. Those _are_ apex predators. But get enough elephants/space whales together, and they'll kick the EM jellyfish's ass.
bro
OJ closing the car and telling himself "Nope" was the first time I ever had a full cinema laughing
Shit didnt make me laugh. I was like AHHHHHH
One thing Steven Yuen doesn't get credit for: *his incredible voice acting!!!*
THINK MARK!!
@@roboguy75 Mind your own problems, buttsnack.
And playing characters that get beaten down to a pulp. (Too soon?)
@@Juggninja24 😭
@@roboguy75 funny enough, that was J Jonah Jameson's line in the show.
What makes the digestion scene even worse is that they're being blocked in its digestive tract by the statue horse, so OJ and Em may have either spared them an even worse end passing into what this thing has in place of a proper stomach before it had fully killed them, *or* made it way way way worse for them by trapping them in a relatively slow digesting part of JJ's GI system
I think that’s also why it stayed around the house till morning. It ate this huge meal the had to throw it up and was possibly hoping to eat something else before it gave up and flew away just before Emerald and Angel got out of the house.
I kept going back and for on what that thing was, at first I thought it was a muscle in JJ's body, then maybe one of the kids alien masks. it's only now I realized you're totally right and it's the fake horse!
Someone on another video pointed out the possibility that JJ only ate that whole crowd of people in order to dislodge the statue stuck in it's throat.
Edit: Having now watched the movie (shameful of me tbh) This is absolutely what happened. You can see JJ the whole time between it eating the statue and when it rains blood on the house it's "coughing" trying to dislodge the decoy.
as someone with PTSD, Yeun's portrayal of someone with PTSD was so achingly spot-on.
I think it’s not as typical but unique because it’s been so long and it doesn’t effect him the same because he’s been hiding it and turning it into a fun party story, maybe as a coping mechanism.
It’s a perfect mix of joking about it and genuinly being terrified of it
especially that he could only approach it through a sort of metaphorical lens... it's like that for a lot of us. @@mattgroening8872
Yup
I don't think it was mentioned, but I love the detail that JJ grabbed the fake horse, not getting one of his meals, and then showed up early to the show because it was just hungry, it wasn't random, but it was fully because they set up bait and JJ took it.
also i swear oj said it was mad about not being able to eat the decoy and so with all those people staring at it, it lashed out, just like gordy when the balloons started popping
@@dankerbellThe fake horse was stuck in its guts, when it sucked all the spectators and Jupe it can't digest them properly so it just releases the mashed up melted bodies all over the house then drops the decoy horse through OJ's windscreen.
I had a theory too, that JJ, wanting to get rid of the "obstruction"in his/its throat, swallowed way more food than it usually would to try to dislodge it. When that didn't work, it just contracted its body and vomited out everything.
During the scene where Jean Jacket spills out all the blood onto the house, Angel says something along the lines of “something really bad is happening” and that line is so deeply unsettling and almost sad
It's almost like he's babbling, he's so scared he can't really articulate what's coming out of his mouth.
Angel was highkey relatable. But also incredibly smart.
@@madam-mint honestly thought I wouldn’t like him in the beginning of the movie but to my surprise he became a memorable character.
4:28 ah man this is so good: "crushing it", "killing", and "a force of nature" are all descriptions of a comedian doing great on stage - but also literally describe Gordy's rampage. shouts out to JP for having the self-control to not also use the phrase "murdering" lmao
Your videos are epic :)
I think the terms used describe doing well in any field, not specifically comedy. They also describe JJ’s behavior in addition to Gordy’s, and it leaves open the discussion of whether these creatures are committing murder - people may see it as such but given the strong POV of animal trainers, we are encouraged to see their behaviors as animals doing what animals naturally do (especially JJ, who is just hunting and eating to survive). The words are certainly chosen carefully though, as you say.
Yoo it’s nick!
@@nimue325 You’re absolutely right about those terms being pretty general, but in comedy specifically “killing” as a descriptor for success is the only field I can think of that specifically has the counterpart term “dying” to describe doing extremely poorly. That could be more common than I’m aware, though!
Literally describes JJ too.
At the beginning of Jupe's intro to the show, he says "In about an hour, you'll never be the same again" or something like that, and there's an hour left of the film. Peele's attention to detail is gorgeous.
So one minor correction, Jordan Peele already confirmed that the square thing isn’t Jean Jacket’s mouth, it’s its eye. I think that makes more sense thematically, it has a square eye like a camera lens
11:21 fun fact that scene where Jupe is staring off disassociating, recalling the Gordy Gourge, his wife comes over and does a grounding technique by squeezing his hand and checking in with him. He's been down playing his PTSD the whole time (because monetization baby) so it's really cool to see the fruits of their research come off as realistic and not cartoon-ish. And man.. OJ's whole character? Idk if they knew there's like a whole slice of audience that is filled with neurodivergent POC animal caretakers but here we are.
I love how they show in the trailer Jupe's kids dressed in costumes, and Gordy's hand reaching under the table, to make a red herring about "aliens".
Cause it hides the biggest plot twist: the aliens aren't in the ship, the ship itself is the alien!
Very "Metal Gear Solid 2" level marketing.
The biology of JJ is what sold this movie for me, especially by the end. Understanding that JJ is an animal fighting for territory and food makes us want to humanize it, like humans do, you want to sympathize with JJ and even maybe wish that it could somehow be tamed and coexisted with, despite what its capable of. Its not a hyper-intelligent creature, we know this because its not immediately capable of differenciating food from foreign objects until the statue bait actively clogs its throat.
And yet, its intelligent enough in its display of threats, the way it looms over the family basically all night, using the screams of victims to draw more victims to it, dumping blood over the house (we never see it do this otherwise, which I assume implies it was intentional and probably meant to provoke the people, or a marking of territory), dropping the statue right on OJ after failing to provoke him to look at it, and of course the way it fights for dominance in the climax of the movie. Having been threatened and injured far too many times, even accidentally by Angel, Jean Jacket unwravels itself in the ultimate threat display of a complicated predator, like unfurling the plumage of a peacock, less capable of mobility and attack in this "form" but you know its doing this because its been pushed to its limit.
I was so giddy seeing its behavior in the end, the way it was trying to choose who of the two siblings to "pick on" and which of them was provoking JJ more with their eye contact, which of the siblings was challenging it and which was probably worth engaging in an effort to assert territory. And when it picked OJ, it unfurled its eye(?) and tassles whip out over and over, and I immediately knew it was its own threat display, almost a "what are you gonna do against me?" It reminds me of the scene from Godzilla: King of the Monsters, the "light show" Godzilla puts on in the ocean, described to be "an intimidation display, like a gorilla beating its chest."
Its magnificent, and I just love how this creature is portrayed, and how weirdly familiar it felt for me, considering its connections with real-world predators and marine life.
The design of the creature was extremely clever, its hard to interpret WHAT Jean Jacket even is for majority of the movie, even after the internal look as it eats people, its a mass of biological tissue that you can't quite comprehend. When it finally unfurls at the end of the movie, it becomes both MORE and LESS alien, more because of how obviously otherworldly it looks and acts, but also less alien because it still follows a set of "rules;" it has biology, its vulnerable in an unfurled state because it cant eat or travel at high speeds, and it exchanges this in favor of an appearance that's probably using to save its life and its territory.
It's not magical or godly, it eats and dies like all other animals do. And now that you've described it, I am realizing how tragic JJ's death is, the irony of a creature that doesn't know any better, dying to "litter" much like many animals do today. JJ only fought for things it understood, and coughed up things it didn't understand, and died to something it would never comprehend. Just like we couldn't comprehend JJ.
Poetic to see a creature in media have emphasis that it is just alien to us as we are to it.
The kid who played young Jupe was really good too, his fear so realistic
One thing I loved but I haven’t noticed anyone talk about is the moment where OJ finds the flyer in the horse poo and the subtle acting from Daniel as he puts it all together in his head, realizes what Ricky has been doing and decides to go save Lucky no matter what. He was definitely planning to whoop some ass and take his horse back if Ricky didn’t get eaten.
The subtle mental math that turns into a calm rage is incredible. Kaluuya killed it in this role with his subtlety and facial performance. I hope he continues to work with Jordan!
They're definitely going to do more films together, Jordan Peele has called Kaluuya "the DeNiro to my Scorsese"
After JJ dumped blood all over the house I realized that the flyer landing in a pile of manure was also foreshadowing the fate of Jupe's audience.
I just realized that the movie Starts in Horror with balloons popping but ends victorious and hopeful when a giant balloon popped, talk about bringing it full circle, Jordan peele is a genius I absolutely love this movie
Two scenes in particular hit me harder then any horror movie has ever hit me before. The first scene was when Gordy attacks the cast. The second scene is when we see the people get stuck in the monster. There’s only a couple of scenes in media that make me feel my claustrophobia as much as that one did
same
I've been watching copious amounts of horror since I was a little kid (I don't say I was a fan since then because they terrified me for a while), and I have to say that the Gordy's Home sequence is some of the best written horror I've ever seen. It's all in what you don't see and in what you hear. Peele practicing restraint both made the scene respectful (by not making a spectacle of their injuries) and brutal (by leaving us to fill in the blanks with our imagination). Excellent filmmaking.
It's so visceral
Hard same.
If you want that feeling, there is a scene in Dr. Who, S5 ep. 9 "Cold Blood"
Can we all agree that Nope is the best name for a horror movie?
Yep
2nd to Chopping Mall
@@bugdomrulez 3rd
Nope
I can!
Both you and DeadMeat are basically my gateways to the horror films that I can't watch due to my squeamishness
i cannot WAIT for the nope kill count
Never have I related to someone in the comments section so hard before
@@pink_moose991 really because these comments are on every single horror related video on youtube
I remember those days fondly haha. Just got to build your tolerance up. I started off watching Doctor who as a teenager, got more comfortable by watching 1930s horror and other stuff known to be mildly scary, then took a few more leaps with classics like Alien and Halloween. Now I'm at the point where nothing really scares me and it's one of my favourite genres
@@mullaoslo bad day?
This movie unlocked fears within me that I didn't know I had. I was paranoid and avoiding eye contact with... ANY part of the sky for days.
I hate when you're confronted with a horror entity that can't be reasoned with. I mean you can't reason with chucky but you can at least hold a conversation. This is just an animal. It operates on instinct that only it truly understands. Gives me chills.
Same but like this movie also made me afraid of monkeys for the same reasons 😭
@@joeyb5399
You should honestly always fear Chimps. They get a lot of good PR, but compared to other apes they're bloodthirsty little bastards made of pure muscle-
Actually, in this very comment section there is a guy breaking down why it does the things it does. This works because JJ acts just like an actual predator of earth. It may not be reasoned with, but it sure can be understood. And if it can be understood, it can be manipulated. And if I understand correctly, this is even used against it in the film!
Horror entities that can't be reasoned with are some of the most terrifying, that's for certain. But to me it's even more terrifying if it CAN'T BE UNDERSTOOD.
One detail that may not have been purposeful, but I still love: In the Gordy scene, the co-stars and crew are calling him "Gordy" even as he has "broken character" and is going on a rampage. But earlier, Jupe says the chimpanzee that day was "one of the chips that play Gordy".
They were trying to talk to & calm the chimp, but using the wrong name. It reminds me of the scene with Lucky on set; they didn't see the chimp as an animal or an individual, but as "Gordy", a prop, something they manipulate.
When I first saw this movie I noticed a lot of references to the Wizard of Oz; one of the first big movie spectacles in Hollywood. Emerald's name being a reference to the Emerald City, the way Jean-jacket sucks up people like a tornado, Angel kind of reminded me of the cowardly lion, and even the imagery of a blue standing up shoe with a drop of blood on it. There's probably a lot more references that I didn't notice, this movie is just so detailed! I fell in love with this movie immediately, and it's the first movie I watched in the theater that scared the crap out of me. Great job 11/10
That is the way I watched the movie the 3rd time is a retelling of Wizard of Oz
Antler is the Tin Man with the gears and has a change of heart
OJ is the Cowardly lion as he gets his courage from being shy at the beginning
Em is Dorthy as she has no home and finds one in the people she does this with
Angel is the Scarecrow as he has the brains of doing things as well as gets that one scene where he stares
Jupe is the wizard with a showing of things not as they really are but how they want to show it to be bigger than life
What's also interesting is that during the production of the wizard of oz that included Judy Garland there was a lot of horrific, traumatic and abusive things that happened to some of the cast members while filming. That connects to some of Nope's underlying messages that point out problems with the entertainment industry and the way animals and people can be mistreated behind the scenes
TMZ is the tin man, Angel is the scarecrow.
“It really was no miracle; what happened was just this:” -Dorothy Gale
There is a frightening monkey
A shoe behaves in a magical way
Jean Jacket is both a tornado and a hot air balloon, two methods of travel between the magical and mundane worlds
The siblings have a neighbor who desires the death of their beloved animal(s)
The people inside Jean Jacket were probably saying things like “i’m melting” and “oh what a world”
the characters do not end up dancing The Jitterbug
the parallels are endless
there's a scene where Emerald is watching tv and there's an Oprah interview that goes like this:
OPRAH [on TV]: I'm talking
today to women who say
they have been abducted
by aliens from another planet.
WOMAN [on TV]: May I briefly
say, I don't know for a fact
that they're from
another planet.
OPRAH:
Well, you know you weren't
-in Kansas anymore, Toto.
-[laughter on TV]
WOMAN:
And I wasn't wearing red shoes
-that I could click together,
either. -Yeah, yeah.
The incredible chemistry and characterization with OJ and Em blew my mind. Also, I love the fact that Jordan made a whole movie basically about filmmaking - they literally spend the whole movie trying to get a shot, a spectacle. It's almost a self-criticism, with the way the spectacle is not worth it, not actually worth the price we pay
Though it's also the only way they can reclaim their family history. I feel like the movie intentionally pushes that plot point aside - they're fighting back against centuries of exploitation and erasure, but in the process all we in the audience are focused on is that spectacle.
It’s crazy how nobody ever gets the clue after OJ’s dad dies and he goes back to the ranch and finds the key in the horse. As in the “key is in the horses” and that’s always been kinda funny to me
That is how I watched this movie the 4th time is looking at it from the viewpoint of the horses
We get told that Jupe has been feeding the horses to JJ and at first, we hear the sounds of the hiking people that went missing by JJ at the beginning
Then as it some time later, we know the horses have been fed to JJ and their screams would be heard by the remaining horses. This explains the reason the one horse goes out to challenge JJ as well as Lucky behavior - doesn't leave the box at the show or when OJ calls him. Comes to OJ to figure out how to fight this thing together such as in a contract with the human
The digestion scene was the most horrifying part of the movie just because you realize they are trapped, they are doomed, how many hours will they spend trapped together and unable to move all tightly packed together as everyone above you slowly dies as you wait in line for your turn
this movies sound design is PERFECT and the individual screams of the people in jean jeacket haunted me for two weeks after watching it. you can hear a child screaming for their mother, people throwing up, a woman shouts IM BURNING! and the very last thing a victim of the star lasso experience said was "please, somebody, help us!". it all blends into each other while still staying viscerally clear.
I haven't been in a cinema for years but randomly decided to watch this movie with a friend on the big screen and it was spectacular.
Heh. "Spectacular." Wonder how much, or little, Peele WANTED to come away with that reaction. 😛
I haven’t been since 2019
IKR my friend dragged me and one other ti watch. I dont regret
The sound was definitely designed to be experienced in the theater it was spine chilling in Dolby
I’m so upset at myself that I missed it in theaters
It’s also pretty fitting how the biggest threat to a ranch training real horses for movies is a giant CGI monster
I love how this movie went from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" to an episode of "Neon Genesis Evangelion"
Really though I’m so here for it
And considering NGE is about the symbiotic relationship between deeply traumatized and broken human beings and lovecraftian monsters they can only just barely control or interface with, it fits.
Legit, you can look at the Wiki for Nope and they credit the design of the creature to be like Evangelion's apace creatures!!
The Akira slide
Neon Genesis Evangelion, with a Mix of AKIRA.
Yuen is the master of subtle acting, and its so overlooked.
Most acting only gets attention in big outburst scenes, but that man can fucking act! The subtle facial expressions, mannerisms etc.
I had a thought, and I know nothing about trauma so I'm completely talking from literary analysis... but when Jupe was telling the story of the events through the filter of the SNL sketch, and he has a flashback to the day and backs off, you notice there's blood on his face in the flashback. Child Jupe doesn't have blood flecks on his face until Gordy got shot. It interested me that the part that made him break wasn't the "Gordy going savage on the cast members" part, it was "Gordy's head exploding right in front of me." Almost as if Gordy's death was more traumatizing for him than the brutalization of the cast members? And maybe that was why he was so favorable to Jean Jacket's appearance, not just because he thought he was chosen or somehow immune, but because he thought "The animal deserved better." Although did he actually know JJ was an animal or not? "Trained animals can be unpredictable!" Was that referring to Lucky the horse, or JJ? Did he realize JJ was an animal right at the end there, and smile at the irony of being spared by a psychotic animal only to come full circle and being eaten by another psychotic animal he became involved with... due to the trauma of being spared...?
Anyway thank you for reading my essay.
No way don't be apologizing, I loved this! Though it does depend on if he realized JJ was an animal or not at the end, this is still a cool way to interpret it. I'd like to think at the very end when he's looking up at JJ, he does realize it. I think the 'trained animals can be unpredictable' part is aimed at the horse, but an irony for the audience when we already know thru OJ that JJ is an animal hunting, and cause we figure out thru Jupe's speech he thinks he's trained JJ to appear at 6:13 everyday. Also, in his speech he seemed to think JJ was a ship cause he mentions about how they haven't emerged from their ship yet, so it sounded like he hoped as the show went on they would finally emerge to him, as though prove he has been Chosen.
Well dang, now I want to write an analysis essay of this... Us English nerds I swear 😂
I adore this movie so much. When you watch it over and over, you always see something new. But I never realised how soon you see Jean Jacket! You blew my mind. The one thing really MESSED me up was when Ricky does his speech saying "In one hour you will leave here having witnessed a spectacle", and that moment is 60 minutes until the end credits. It's just terrifying. This film has lived under my skin since I watched it. Love it so much but also had me hiding when JJ ate everyone and the house scene... nightmares for days
I watched this at home and when he said that "one hour" line I IMMEDIATELY paused to look at the remaining time and laughed my ass off when I saw it.
exactly! I've watched it twice and I know if I watch it again, there's so much to catch. it's amazing.
It wasn't until i watched a reaction to this film that had subtitles playing that I realized what was actually being said by jupe off in the distance in that night shot during the "Ghost" segment. i completely missed that he was saying the speech he gives later to the crowd.
another detail, i've seen in numerous places it said that Gordy uses sign language after the rampage is over asking what happened to the family. implying he didn't remember anything.
@@RaptorNX01 YES! Someone told me that is what he was asking Jupe in sign. The poor thing had no understanding about what had happened.
I like how OJ is probably one of the more realistic cowboys I’ve ever seen. Like the whole silent type thing kind of being more comfortable around animals that’s what real cowboys are like.
The scariest part for me, hands down, was when Jupe’s kids were pranking O.J.
absolutely, made my skin crawl....
Especially when it's completely dark and you don't know what your up against
Gordy scene is scarier
But that’s my opinion
@@Baller-2007
I think it’s scarier because stuff like that has actually happened
I haven’t seen anyone mention this but I really really appreciated the scene where OJ is in the training room with those other people and seeing the world through his eyes as someone with Shyness/Social Anxiety. I could feel his panic on a higher level as he waited for his sister to show up. Watching that anxiety dissolve when she took things over made me feel relieved right with him. As someone with social anxiety I have never seen it depicted in such an accurate way in any movie before. It brought a smile to my face when I watched it in theaters and I felt a stronger connection to OJ as a character so early on in the movie because of it.
As far as horror movies go, this one had the most Lovecraftian horror twist. Jordan Peele took a common trope with aliens, and twisted it in an incredibly terrifying way. He deserves an award for this.
Also NOPE= Not Of Planet Earth
Peele has confirmed that the Not Of Planet Earth thing isn't accurate. Like that wasn't his intention. The movie is just called Nope.
Dunwich Horror. It’s like the the Dunwich Horror
Jean Jacket is very much sea creature inspired, which makes sense as it seems to have the right bouyancy to swim through air as though it was water. Its open form is inspired by jellyfish that feed using oral arms (and potentially Sahaquiel from Evangelion) and its closed form is almost literally just a stingray without the tail (slightly widened/ flattened front and everything) and with a giant vortex mouth/eye. And it looks like the iris and pupil of an eye when it's above you.
Also need to point out that director man ended up in the exact place he talked about - on top of the mountain, all eyes (well, eye) on him.
Also also, while it's not confirmed what exactly the creature is, I'd hazard a guess that it's not a regular part of Earth's ecosystem as a) it has a form of threat management and display that is entirely different to anything else on earth, which it would only need if it actually comes across threats frequently, and b) it's stealth heavy lifestyle implies that either it would need to hide for safety or has prey that could escape it, neither of which are the case. The only things on earth that would give it reason to evolve those are us humans, and we straight up don't know about it so it can't have evolved those to deal with us.
yes, antlers ended up on top of the mountain, all eyes on him, and it was the dream he never woke up from! there's also the fact that his initial delivery of that line was when attempting to warn/scold em about the nature of the film industry back when he saw her as just another fame-chaser. yet he was ultimately the person engrained within the film industry, not her, and he was the one who succumbed to the very thing he was warning about.
Did you also notice how it’s final form started disturbing the sand around it to make itself look bigger? I thought that was a cool touvh
When I saw how its skin flapped (ew) while it was chasing oj near the end I definitely got stingray vibes from it. Still don't know how I didn't price together that it was organic until they explicitly said it
I love that it stays afloat with an electromagnetic spout.
It explains the high-velocity metal being ejected (it wouldn't eat metal normally on, like, Saturn)
It also explains the creepy woowoo electronics shorting out. They're being blasted by the underside of a magnetic field.
Someone posited that Jean Jacket is actually the result of generational evolution when its kind first touched down on Earth from space. Its origin is not native but after probably millennia of evolution it technically is native to Earth now because its characteristics doesn't seem to fit for space travel anymore.
I love all the subtle hints Peele adds in some I didn’t even recognize like the Gordy’s jacket and the alien merch. It still amazes me how we went from being the funny comedian guy to a horror film director!
Also the ending was sick 🤘
There are some intensely horrorific sketches from The Key and Peele Show. The one that stands out most in my mind is the Make a Wish sketch. Jordan Peele always had horror chops, and I'm so happy he's getting to exercise those terrifying muscles.
It's also important to remember that most comedy is intensely cerebral. To be really good at comedy, you have to be aware of things going on around you. Peele has a lot of experience in Hollywood too, so this lines right up.
The Gordy scene will always be the scariest part of the movie. Especially because of the travis story.
That, and the way they don't show *_anything_* outside of small glimpses, oftentimes it's the human imagination that's scarier than anything one could put on film.
Fun fact (I mean, not that fun): the Gordy incident is most likely to be inspired by the real life story of Travis, a chimp that went ape shit (pun intended) on a woman friend of his owners, he destroyed her face aswell. That Casual Geographic dude covered this in a video about wild animals being... well... wild.
That bit where it shows everyone inside the creature tops it for me
@@DoctorXander that made me very uncomfortable way more than any other horror stuff I’ve seen
@@gabrielmalaguti5512 and it also again plays on that sense of wanting to see the spectacle. You know the audience wants to see what's happening but it never shows you.
16:46 apparently there's a chance it isn't the victims' blood. Last time JJ spat out the objects from its victims it was clean (no blood), which was when Otis Sr. was unalived. Now the last time JJ spat out the contents of its victims, there was blood, which meant JJ was hurt. And in the scene right after, the horse Em stole from Jupe was spat out by JJ.
So what I'm trying to say is that the reason why Lucky wasn't eaten but everyone else was, is because Jj was previously hurt by a horse (not knowing it was fake) and learned to not eat horses in case it doesn't happen again.
idk, I recently learned that and my mom helped me point it out.
Correct..i missed it too
The audio for the scene inside Jean Jacket when all of Jupe's audience is screaming was recorded in two parts. First, Jordan Peele got actors to scream like they were terrified and then got them to scream like they were on a roller coaster. That extra layer literally haunts me
Yes this movie definitely gave me lovecraftian vibes. Also like the fact that the creature had a flying saucer shape but it wasn't Little Green Men it was actual a predatory creature.
it's actually the opposite of lovecraftian. lovecraftian, or cosmic, horror emphasizes the fear of the unknowable and incomprehensible. NOPE completely subverts this, because despite jean jacket's immensity and the incredible dread it imparts, it is entirely knowable and understandable. it is a large animal, but it is still an animal. it has comprehensible patterns of behavior similar to other earth animals, and that allows the protagonists to understand and ultimately survive it. the events of the film are fully explainable and possible to grasp at the end. it's definitely not anywhere near the definition of lovecraftian
(you may be asking: why the pedantic paragraph about the definition of lovecraftian? because having specific language to analyze horror with is neat, and that includes knowing when something Isn't applicable terminology)
the way I actually cried during the Jupe/Jean Jacket buffet scene bc the screams/visuals disturbed me so much... Jordan Peele is truly a master at horror and suspense. he doesn't need excessive gore and loud cheap jump scares. I love his style, stories and characters.
Keith David voicing King Andrias (Amphibia, also voicing Dr. Facilier from Princess and the Frog, Tombstone from Spider-man and others) recently definitely sets the image on my head where he sits on the horse and has the coin shot into his head. I should've seen that image coming in the theater
He'll always be Goliath for me :D
Nothing about the Arbiter from halo? Cmon man his voice is iconic in that game!
Goliath and spawn will always be nr 1 &2 but he to good to nummer down
He got the money shot his kids want to capture on film
Captain Anderson in Mass Effect. SUCH good work, even in those times when the writers gave him next to nothing to work with. **chef's kiss**
I love how Jean Jacket sightings ramp up as the movie goes on. First its like a shark knifing through the clouds and we only catch glimpses of it, but as the characters start to understand it more, we see more and more of it. It becomes less horrifying from the unknown to the terrifying known habits of a predator. Like seeing glowing eyes in the forest at night and being scared stiff, only to reveal those eyes belonged to a hungry lion. I also love how much we see Jean Jacket. Many movies about aliens are scared to show us the alien, and Jordan knows this too because he sets it up in the beginning like a typical "just missed it" alien sighting movie, and then we get the incomprehensible evangelical jellyfish at the end.
The moment that sold this for me was the moment I realized that the shrieking sound of Jean Jacket wasn't Jean Jacket but his prey still alive inside him. I remember throwing my hand over my mouth so hard in the theater I damn near knocked myself out.
So glad I watched this unspoiled, I've enjoyed every single movie this man has made on different levels and the more I learn about the themes and thought behind it the more I love it.
I love how OJ at the end is framed similar to how their great great great grandfather was in the first motion picture. And also this movie, especially JJ’s end really feels like an homage to Jaws as well. It’s fantastic
The reveal at 13:00 was literally a nightmare shot for me when I watched this. I had a reoccurring dream as a child where I was hunted in an open desert that would culminate with a giant ‘thing’ appearing from the sky with a similar look and scream. I would know I was in a dream when I saw where I was and would let out a silent scream and jolt awake after my vision went black. Watching that on the screen genuinely terrified me and instantly made this a contemporary classic.
I’d argue that Peele’s three films are American horror classics and this trilogy is up there with the best.
i legit cried during the end, i just love emerald so much and im so happy both she and oj survived. and angel too! ride off into the sunset final girl
What I love about this movie is that there are things that I don’t yet realize I realize. I rewatch and I’m like “I knew it was something about “that” Love it
I didn‘t realize when Jupe stares at JJ, there are shadow flitting about the ground, indicating he sees his audience and FAMILY get sucked up. Big oof.
I'm not sure if the reveal that the UFO is a living creature makes it more or less scary.
On one hand, what made the scene with the aliens, actually Jupe's kids, so scary was the idea that there were these things inside a vehicle, watching and ready to take us and do something to us, like experimentation. That up close kind of terror resonates because you'd be scared to what an intelligent curious being would do to you if they viewed you as something just to collect and that they could get inside your hiding places as a result.
On the other hand, the idea of being eaten alive is also absolutely horrifying. It's slow, confusing and painful, as you either die from lack of oxygen, getting crushed or being burned away. And its massive size still works to be scary because of how easily it could bulldoze any opposition, not to mention that as a predator animal, it knows how to hunt and hunt well.
also, being an animal means you can't negotiate or reason with it. your ONLY options is to either learn its rules, or try to hide.
I don’t care what other people say, I loved this movie. The Gordy scenes and the scene in Jean Jacket’s stomach were horrifying. I finally got the chance to watch it this week and I’ve watched it like 5 times. There are so many little Easter eggs and references in the movie and I love being able to rewatch a movie and find new things that I missed during previous viewings.
I made my husband watch it with me after I’d already watched it multiple times and now it’s something he’s requested to rewatch with me. This movie was phenomenal to me
I also like how the colors of the clothes match the character. OJ= orange, Em=green
I also feel like Jupe wasn't really allowed to experience his trauma. Because he was a part of a beloved show and his trauma unfortunately just got in the way of people's nostalgia. He would've felt forced to perform for others during interviews or press releases, because he was addressing them as a star to fans. Even when they talked about it, people would've expected a show. His trauma was ultimately a spectacle. It makes sense why child stars are never allowed to heal. Their tragedy is pushed to the side for the sake of entertainment. He only really showed emotion with them, as they didn't really have much knowledge of it, and so he was able to let down his guard.
Especially since he was the only one of the main cast implied to survive unscathed (the adult actors died, Mary Jo was scarred forever), meaning people might’ve discounted his trauma compared to Mary Jo’s
when watching nope my mom pointed out that Jean Jacket's form at the end of the movie was JJ making itself bigger/more intimidating, something that animals in the wild do frequently when challenged. her (almost) exact quote was "it turned into flags because flags are scary to it"
neither one of us were sure if it was intentional, most likely not, but I thought it was pretty cool
Another fun as movie to watch and loved seeing you cover it. Think my fave part was when JJ is floating over their house, right before his covers it in blood. You can still hear them people screaming and then just one loud pop and all the screams go silent. Also, totally requesting a CW for Spirited Away or Howl's Moving Castle
Someone on another video pointed out that JJ ejecting everything it can't digest is similar to the way films and other media will feature a real person or event, but strip away and discard any parts that they find inconvenient. They end up presenting an inaccurate, sensationalized story meant to be "easier to digest" for their target audience.
Also yeah, I loved everything they did with that scene - even the sound of rain stopping was terrifying.
(20:47) I love how the "Out Yonder" sign frames OJ just like their great (etc.) grandfather in the first motion picture.
GREAT movie! The placement of the “nope” lines in it were flawless. As soon as I heard Jordan was releasing a horror movie called Nope I was on board. Didn’t disappoint.
I like to think that the pig seen on the roof right after the attack was also intentional, because of the whole thing about pigs not being able to look up at the sky, which looking back makes sense now that we know Jean jacket is most dangerous when he’s been seen.
The Gordy scene is easily the best part of the movie. Not only does it scare you shitless in the perfect way with limited vision and the best execution of “Show don’t tell,” it captures the theme of the movie flawlessly. You can’t tame nature. You can work as hard as you can to make it work, but you can’t reverse and control a creature’s instincts. It’s just like you can’t control an alien by feeding it horses. You’ll be screwed one way or another.
Seriously! You're shown the body's reactions to Gordy's strikes, the pain in their voices, and the aftermath of their attack a good 30-something years later, after probably years and years of plastic surgery and it is so much more effective than even the best special effects could make it.
I feel like OJ has anxiety which is why he is so calm in these absolutely horrifying situations
I would have thought someone with clinical depression, would be one who would be super calm in these situations.
@@scailliet I can only speak from experience so I'm not sure about that but if you get on a plane with an anxiety person they'll be tense the whole time if the plane crashes they will seem way less freaked than everyone else because they have been expecting it.
@@TheMoonchild06 Yes, perhaps.
@@scailliet when you have an anxiety disorder, every day is an opportunity to practice “acting you aren’t freaking tf out.”
no cap
I’ve got to say in my opinion the scariest scene for me ( that wasn’t a jump scare ) was the people being eaten by Jean jacket, just the sound design mixed with the claustrophobia and a more personal thing of ordinary people in a situation anyone could be in ( to an extent of course) and I physically couldn’t bring myself to watch it. That was truly horrifying ( it didn’t help that in the tense moments the cinema light were flickering and I’m sure that the employees were fucking with us)
100%!! As someone with claustrophobia this is one the list of the top worst ways to go out in a movie. It gets me shaking every time. (I would not be the same acting in that scene frfr, like just being told 'Hey! Can you act like you're getting slowly digested by a cosmic predator with 50 other audience members?')
The fact that the creature generates an electromagnetic field so strong it causes electronics to go haywire made me think that the reason the metallic objects were so deadly were because they were being repelled, and were not simply dropping.
Railgun.
i watched this movie for the first time with my mom a few days ago and after her explaining to me that the noises the jean jacket was making were its victims screaming I was just in silence realizing that these peoples last words were used as tool of fear for jean jacket... and then they were used to repaint a house a nice maroon.
My soul hurts for the lady so wounded by gordys attack only to die in such a horrific way... she didn't deserve that man
Yeah but she didn't learn her lesson. She could've chosen to refuse to be part of a spectacle. Instead she embraced it and was still trying to cling to whatever fame she once had with her sweatshirt.
Jean-J really gave me vibes of being a Jovian/Saturnian sci-fi sort of creature since it would've fit perfectly into that sort of biosphere
What I find funny and pretty cool is while you look at it's shape and think "alien", there's plenty of hints JJ is actually a local boy albeit something that should rightfully be cruising through the stratosphere and not be this far down.
This was a theory that I recently saw: the shoe that jupe saw wasn't actually standing on its own, it was uh... to say the least still had a foot in it. And Jupe was mentally blocking the gore
I am really impressed by peele no matter what he does! he was amazing with comedy; and my god is he amazing with horror/thriller !
Comedy and horror are different sides to the same coin (lol). And comedy is the hardest to be good at. So if you're great at comedy...
@@playfulpanthress i very much disagree! i mean of course he learned some things about making movies, but to come out and be one of the best in the industry? thats really impressive
@@1draigon I don't argue that Peele isn't amazing. He is. My point is when you do something incredibly difficult, like comedy, anything else (horror especially), is much easier. Not that it doesn't have its own challenges, it is just Hardee to make people laugh.
@@playfulpanthress while yes, it is harder to be a good comedian, I don’t think just because you’re one of the best in one field it means that you’re one of the best in another.
@@1draigon Well, that's where we disagree. The horror genre is easy. Anyone can make a horror movie. And if you understand the set up and pay off of comedy, you can make an excellent horror movie.
The movie poster observation at 13:21 might be the craziest thing I never noticed
my big theory is that emerald wanted desperately to work with horses but was too energetic and impulsive, and that OJ was so bad with people that he excelled with them. it's why emerald memorized her dad's intro, was hurt by her father not training her, and seeks to be noticed and seen because she felt so unseen by her father. NO one sees her like OJ does and no one can bring OJ out of his shell like she can. they're polar opposites but what makes them solid is their ability to recognize each other in a deep and profound way.
"Kodlak says I have Ysgramor's strength. And my brother has his smarts."
Together, they can do better than their father. Em does the management, OJ the horses. And that's what they're trying in the beginning of the movie, only Em is still not committed yet. At the start anyway.
i saw this movie in a lecture hall full of rowdy college students and it was legitimately one of the most fun viewing experiences i’ve ever had. there was yelling. i was whisper screaming “WHAT THE FUCK” with a girl i’d never talked to in my life. i’ll never forget that shit
You pointed out so many things about Jupe that make it endlessly more horrifying. Thanks!
I wouldn't have gotten over the anxiety this movie's trailers and all that put on me, so thank you CinemaWins for being a nice person and a kind voice to make movies designed to be hard to watch possible for someone with anxiety problems to push through and overcome! Thank you!
yeah, I did have a panic attack during the movie, unfortunately, as I have in every peele movie but it is seriously one of the best movies I have ever seen even with the panic attack.
@@herb_rolls yeah Us and Nope fully freaked me out and even when watching Nope for the second time, I debated leaving the cinema because I just kept noticing even more horrifying tiny details 😂 it's weird when you really love and appreciate something but also can hardly bear to watch it lmao
@Seras Lain Watching horror movies can actually help with anxiety
@@captainbitsy1235 not for everyone
I remember one of the most chilling moments in this movie was when we suddenly jump-cut back to Steven Yeun after the flashback and he maintains a thousand -yard stare, UNBLINKING for what feels like a solid minute. He barely moves his face and his performance plus the camera angle and the music convey so goddamn much.
I thought it was a nice touch that Antler's death is portrayed quietly, through his film reel running out. Cinema _was_ his life. He's yelling and jubilant, sacrificing himself for a shot he knows will never be seen, and then the second his camera stops, he's gone.