spectacle

NOPE (Jordan Peele) / Blind Spot (Teju Cole)

NOPE doodles 🛸

devil house by john darnielle / nope dir. jordan peele

S2 epX: Gordy's Birthday

NOPE (Jordan Peele) / personal essay / Blind Spot (Teju Cole) / The Writing of the Disaster (Maurice Blanchot) 

As someone who knows apparently a lot about the media spectacle around Charla Nash's attack. One of the things that happened was that her pre surgery face was shown on the Oprah Winfrey show. Oprah's interview is largely commended, but the fact is her face became a shock image, people would clip that part so you could skip the humanity element and just see her "weird gross face". In Nope Mary Jo's face is kept behind a veil. We only get a "good look" at her face when JJ starts rolling in. The main "face" we see is of herself pre attack displayed prominently on her sweatshirt. A reminder that she not only didn't always look like she does now, but was previously considered Beautiful by Hollywood standards. She was obviously not just a child actress but also probably among the first generation of "tween stars". Which meant that there was A LOT of focus on her looks at an age where kids are generally very vulnerable about their appearance. To go from being one of The Pretty People in the country if not the world to "hideously disfigured" was probably just as psychologically damaging as the attack itself.

Nope did a great job of NOT using Mary Jo's face for shock value, you saw little glimpses of the reality behind the veil, then the feeding started and the veil lifted and suddenly the truth was undeniable.

There's also a meta element of how we as the audience are likely to spend every shot on her ignoring the sweatshirt and desperately trying to peak at her face Now. We know it's wrong, but we still want to know. Her entire appearance is a metaphor for how the public treats retired child stars. We see her and are mainly shown her child self, but there are glimpses that remind you she's no longer that child.

you don't have to go home but you can't stay here... ⭐️🐎🛸☁️

Gordy’s home 👽 🙊

Jupe showing Em and OJ his trauma museum

the way that Jupe would rather talk about his trauma and Gordy than have to talk to OJ about selling back the horses that he had been feeding to Jean Jacket for the last 6 months

Reading the Villains Wiki entry for Nope (2022) characters and just... I think this image has unlimited meme potential:

Also, please go see Nope. It's an amazing film.

Do you guys think Jordan Peele had like a deep rooted fear of those parachutes in gym class you went under and decided to just manifest it now into a film

One thing I super enjoyed about NOPE (2022) is the unintentional parallel between gordy and jean jacket and how immoral it is to try to domesticate/train/make a show of an animal that clearly cannot be domesticated. Like how travis the chimp and sigfried and roy's lions are not domesticated like a dog or a housecat which then lead to their tragedies because they were still very much wild animals who lineage wise weren't as domesticated as dogs and cats so they act in ways unlike an actual pet does (yes a dog can still maul you, but the chance like is way way lower than say, a lion)

devil house by john darnielle // nope dir. jordan peele

someone might’ve already made this, but I just kept picturing this meme as I watched that scene