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| − | '''NOPE. Jordan Peele, director, script, producer (one of two).''' | + | '''NOPE. Jordan Peele, director, script, producer (one of two producers).''' |
Ruth De Jong, production design. USA: Monkeypaw Productions, Universal Pictures (production) / Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures International (distribution), 2022.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10954984/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0][https://pro.imdb.com/title/tt10954984/companycredits?rf=cons_tt_cocred_tt&ref_=cons_tt_cocred_tt] | Ruth De Jong, production design. USA: Monkeypaw Productions, Universal Pictures (production) / Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures International (distribution), 2022.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10954984/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0][https://pro.imdb.com/title/tt10954984/companycredits?rf=cons_tt_cocred_tt&ref_=cons_tt_cocred_tt] | ||
| − | IMDb lists the film as Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller. For SF, the film is primarily an Alien Contact movie, with strong use of the motif in all four of | + | IMDb lists the film as Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller. For SF, the film is primarily an Alien-Contact movie, with strong use of the surveillance motif common in all four of the mentioned genres, and SF-ish in NOPE in its concern with the technology of surveillance. |
NOPE is also a "Hollywood movie," or more exactly Burbank, with concern with the moving image and still photographs that can be made to appear to move (the famous precursor of movies of a running horse with jockey is featured in NOPE — with additional implications for race and class in entertainment industries).[https://newsfortoday.co/jordan-peeles-new-film-nope-explores-the-horse-in-motion/] And whether as an actual location or a reconstruction on set — the store is now out of business — Fry's electronics in Burbank is important in the film.[https://myburbank.com/frys-closes-doors-nationally-new-development-already-planned-for-burbank-site/] | NOPE is also a "Hollywood movie," or more exactly Burbank, with concern with the moving image and still photographs that can be made to appear to move (the famous precursor of movies of a running horse with jockey is featured in NOPE — with additional implications for race and class in entertainment industries).[https://newsfortoday.co/jordan-peeles-new-film-nope-explores-the-horse-in-motion/] And whether as an actual location or a reconstruction on set — the store is now out of business — Fry's electronics in Burbank is important in the film.[https://myburbank.com/frys-closes-doors-nationally-new-development-already-planned-for-burbank-site/] | ||
| − | Plot | + | Plot elements follow. |
| − | Central to | + | Central to NOPE as it develops is capturing the image of a UFO (or several images of UAP: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena),[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ufos-uaps-and-craps/] rendered more difficult since the film uses the motif that UFO contact involves dangerous magnetic phenomena and, relevant here, losing electrical power: not just the current going off (which a backup battery can handle), but a temporary loss of electricity as a form of energy that can do work, e.g., run a movie camera. So we get a hand-cranked movie camera which isn't Steampunk in design but useful for the study of such images, and we get a rather baroque combination of wishing-well, selfie-device, and generic Polaroid camera. |
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| + | Note that the alien visitors are at best careless about their magnetic effects — resulting in an important death — and somewhat fascistic, psychopathic, or arrogant in apparently observing without stopping, if not causing, dangerous behavior in at least one non-human primate. This alien disregard for Terran creatures reduces potential sympathy for the aliens vs. the photo-takers, if the human image-chasers might be perceived as an exotic variety of the paparazzi that to some extent still infest the Greater Los Angeles area. | ||
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| + | RDE, finishing, 2Aug22 | ||
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Revision as of 18:49, 2 August 2022
IN PROGRESS
NOPE. Jordan Peele, director, script, producer (one of two producers). Ruth De Jong, production design. USA: Monkeypaw Productions, Universal Pictures (production) / Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures International (distribution), 2022.[1][2]
IMDb lists the film as Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller. For SF, the film is primarily an Alien-Contact movie, with strong use of the surveillance motif common in all four of the mentioned genres, and SF-ish in NOPE in its concern with the technology of surveillance.
NOPE is also a "Hollywood movie," or more exactly Burbank, with concern with the moving image and still photographs that can be made to appear to move (the famous precursor of movies of a running horse with jockey is featured in NOPE — with additional implications for race and class in entertainment industries).[3] And whether as an actual location or a reconstruction on set — the store is now out of business — Fry's electronics in Burbank is important in the film.[4]
Plot elements follow.
Central to NOPE as it develops is capturing the image of a UFO (or several images of UAP: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena),[5] rendered more difficult since the film uses the motif that UFO contact involves dangerous magnetic phenomena and, relevant here, losing electrical power: not just the current going off (which a backup battery can handle), but a temporary loss of electricity as a form of energy that can do work, e.g., run a movie camera. So we get a hand-cranked movie camera which isn't Steampunk in design but useful for the study of such images, and we get a rather baroque combination of wishing-well, selfie-device, and generic Polaroid camera.
Note that the alien visitors are at best careless about their magnetic effects — resulting in an important death — and somewhat fascistic, psychopathic, or arrogant in apparently observing without stopping, if not causing, dangerous behavior in at least one non-human primate. This alien disregard for Terran creatures reduces potential sympathy for the aliens vs. the photo-takers, if the human image-chasers might be perceived as an exotic variety of the paparazzi that to some extent still infest the Greater Los Angeles area.
RDE, finishing, 2Aug22
