Really really like the fact that we never see the tmz guys face in nope. It really proves the point how inhumane the parapazzi act in their pursuit of the story and how they in that pursuit often seem to lack basic human decency and how in turn it makes them seem unhuman.

How as soon jean jacket dies all the media shows up to capitalize on the pain and tramua that em, oj and angel went through....

WHERE’S MY CAMERA?!?!?

Nope (2022) is actually a film about how show business eats people alive and spits them back out and I'm surprised no one seems to have noticed this? I'm not even being funny that's the actual plot

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Nope (2022) & the first horseman of the apocalypse (as pointed out by @maangoli)

The TMZ guy showing up like the next day or two after the Star Lasso Expierence before the news, or even the police, gives me a sinking feeling that Ricky in particular has been getting routinely harassed by them. He's seems very much like TMZ's type, a minority, reasonable popular, deeply traumatized (much like Ms.Spears). How often do they show up in Aqua Dulce? Would Jupe have even been upset, or would he have just shooed them out like always?

Remembered Nope (2022) again. Watching clips from Nope (2022) again.

shout out to tmz guy's looney toons ass scream, almost made me stop comprehending the horrors

@goldencamelias I hope you don't mind me screenshotting your comments bcus holy shit?!?

the cinema I was in while I was watching Nope was tiny. like 5 by 5 seats type of tiny and it added to the experience because I couldn’t look away. how was I meant to? even when I looked down at the floor, at my own hands, anything else, I could still see it in my periphery. the screen filled a whole wall. when they trap you in and it’s all they put in front of you - how are you meant to look away?

My one controversial nope take is that I don’t think peele writes good dialogue with any real consistency, and the reason audiences felt such strong emotional connection to the characters (loving, sympathizing, empathizing, pitying, hating, ect) is only thanks to his directing and the actors’ performances

turned ryder into a literal meow meow

Terminator 2: Judgment Day, but it’s Nope. (Also humanoid JJ au)

T-800/Terminator: (humanoid)Jean Jacket

Sarah Connor: OJ (the same age as he is in Nope, not Sarah’s age though, so he would be mid to late 20’s/early 30’s)

John Connor: Emerald (They’re still brother and sister, Em’s just much younger, obviously because John’s 10 in T2)

T-1000: I originally thought that Jupe would be the T-1000, but I think it should be TMZ guy/Ryder Muybridge. Silver helmet, y’know? And I would feel bad making Angel the bad guy XD

Miles Dyson: Jupe for sure

I’m not sure how to incorporate Angel in here, but maybe as John’s friend Tim? The one with the mullet from towards the beginning of the movie?

I’m not gonna make this a full fleged AU, it’s just for fun because I was rewatching T2 with my brother and thought it’d be cool to think of :D

Might make some doodles though! :D

NOPE Commentary - Primary Themes

I’ve had the pleasure of viewing NOPE twice, once on the big screen and once from the comfort of my own laptop, and I must say that the film showcases Jordan Peele’s versatility. While his first work, Get Out was very much centered on race relations, (he mentions realizing it was about race when he tried to create a story focused on othering, or feeling separated from the group) NOPE acknowledged race but used it to uplift a demographic in the story. Doing so prevents that idea that art produced by a Black creator has to be about how “Blackity-Black [they are],” as stated by New York Times columnist, Jamelle Bouie on his Tik Tok account.

As seen in the trailer, Peele utilizes the first piece of recorded film (which features an anonymous Black jockey riding a horse) to reinforce the narrative that Black people have always been involved in cinema despite being pushed to the sidelines. UCLA Prof. Tananarive Due mentioned, “the West was 20% Black,” after commentary about how many Western films depicted an unrealistic White world. Furthermore, there was a significant Asian population in California for example, that arrived during the Gold Rush. The point is, race is key to relating to our characters and cementing them in Peele’s story, however, the movie is not about systemic racism, racial violence, etc. Being Black influences dialogue and actions, alluding to the Black survival mindset and illustrating Black familial relationships. Race is central to the film, but again, it is not about race.

Instead, the film critiques Hollywood and the dangerous allure of spectacle. Outright, the film states a quote detesting spectacle. In creating such spectacles, there can be a lot of traumas incurred. NOPE exemplifies metaphors about how Hollywood can chew you up and spit you out, the sacrifices one must make for fame, the incentive of virality, and the use of tokenized people of color (Jupe) and animals in cinematic productions. For example, I think Jupe lived past his childhood trauma because there was a sense of kinship between him and the aggressor. He also avoided direct eye contact.

To clarify one additional thing, many do not understand the secondary plotline concerning a character named Jupe. I believe it is complementary to the main story, showing what our main protagonists should not do if you will. Jupe internalizes his trauma as a quality that makes him special and makes him capable of controlling the sublime (the beauty and horror of nature). His presumptuousness leads to his downfall.

Jordan Peele’s reputation has grown significantly, allowing him a 60-million-dollar budget for NOPE. While a significant portion of Get Out’s success was derived from tumultuous racial times within the United States, Peele released NOPE in the wake of a pandemic, the slowing of interest in Black artistry, and with an advertising campaign that left critics and the public with confusion. Yet, Peele triumphs again with over 100 million dollars in box office sales. Though the two are unrelated, NOPE has many people, me included, excited for Peele’s next film, Wendell and Wild, an animated experience.

Finally, I just loved the soundtrack in NOPE. Y'all should give it a listen on Spotify.

i think we should just start killing paparazzi

i was surprised at how much nope 2022 resonated with my experiences working for a national park, in particular dealing with a certain subset of guests who approach nature as a sanitized commodity which they can consume. the scene at the commercial shoot where oj’s trying to tell everyone how to act safely around lucky and they ignore him, causing lucky to freak out. the tmz man on the motorcycle desperate to get a picture of jean jacket despite oj telling him again and again to run away. jupe’s belief that he understands and can control jean jacket while ultimately reducing it to another part of his spectacle. it all feels very familiar to the experience of telling off a group of tourists trying to take a selfie with a bear or feed the elk.

it’s like, our society is so divorced from nature that the only way a lot of people experience it is through this diluted lens of spectacle which ultimately warps it into something palatable for the viewer. which then, of course, convinces people that nature really is like that and exists solely for our entertainment. they can’t fathom that the elk or alien or whatever poses a threat to them because they’re the viewer, they’re above that. so when they encounter those things in the real world they’re unable to treat them with the respect they deserve, reduce them to spectacle, and end up getting eaten alive