NOPE

IN PROGRESS

NOPE. Jordan Peele, director, script, producer (one of two). 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 motif in all four of those genres of surveillance, and SF 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 element follows.

Central to the film as it develops is capturing the image of a UFO (or UAP: