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If you want to shoot at nights you have to put some lights and you have to put some smoke and you have to create silhouettes and shake the frame or you can shoot against a blue screen and then just create a completely CG environment that you can see,” Rocheron said. Take the Gordy/Ricky backstory, which showed that the concept works outside of aliens in the storyline. The adult Ricky had an actual secret shrine devoted to the most traumatic moment in his life, where people around him were brutally killed and he nearly died as well. Ricky also exploited his own childhood fame, likely elevated from the chimp incident to build his own theme park. Why do we place so much focus on ‘bigger is better’ or needing to see to believe certain things? Perhaps some things are better left not poked and prodded at and spelled out for us, including the movie’s alien, though we don’t really learn much about in Nope other than its absolutely terrifying purpose.
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Nature has already given us some pretty out-there and unusual creatures. We just don't see them, particularly the ones in the ocean, because the ocean is kind of invisible to most of us. In an interview with Thrillist, CalTech professor John O. Dabiri discussed his experience working as a consultant on UFO (or UAP) design for Nope, describing the creature as an amalgam of various terrestrial aquatic lifeforms such as jellyfish, squids, and octopuses. The ending of Nopethrows a curveball at the audience with the reveal that the UFO is actually a sentient creature of its own. The creature, nicknamed "Jean Jacket," took on the appearance of the classic UFO design for most of the film before morphing into a jellyfish-like creature at the end.
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“And as you develop the look of the shots and what each shot tries to do, you find really what functions you need and that’s how your design evolves.” This was no easy feat, especially when the flying saucer was also a character. With help from Rutledge and Dabiri, Peele created a world that looked like the one we are used to but felt like a marine environment, in which a predator above hunted smaller creatures living in the sand. To escape predation, people had to learn how to predict and deflect “Jean Jacket’s” behavior, as wild prey animals must.
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You are free to create what works for the story you are wanting to tell. The creature’s final form is unique and defies people’s expectations of what the antagonist might look like. Jean Jacket is a frightening yet oddly beautiful sight that feels almost biblical.
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Angels are otherworldly creatures that date back to the First Ancestral Race. Created by an all-powerful entity named Adam, the angels come to Earth to try and reach the Tokyo-3 geofront, or a subterranean cavity carved underneath the surface of the industrial city. If the angels achieve their goal, they can combine forces with the remnants of Adam to trigger the Third Impact, which would wipe out all life on Earth. /Film breaks down which Angels in Neon Genesis Evangelion influenced Jordan Peele's creature in Nope.
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Things have been strange at the ranch lately, with all sorts of weird power surges and outages. There’s also one particular cloud formation that’s stayed in exactly the same spot for the past six weeks. OJ could swear he saw something moving behind it the other day, and after an awfully lengthy stretch of table-setting, “Nope” finally gets rolling when he and his sister decide to try and get a picture of what looks a lot like a flying saucer.
By the time the series got to its fifth and sixth episodes, it didn't have the same amount of animators as it did in the beginning. It was a change made out of necessity, but it ended up making the creatures more iconic, inspiring Jordan Peele and countless other creators in the years that followed. A biting, meta critique on the shallow and exclusory nature of the entertainment industry, as well as humanity's stomach-turning desire for morbid spectacle, the film (originally titled Little Green Men) also serves as an unabashed love letter to culturally significant genre movies of yesteryear. This paradoxical desire to satirize Hollywood, while paying deference to its cultural impact at the same time, infused itself into every aspect of production, including the costumes designed by Emmy nominee, Alex Bovaird (Bad Education, Sorry for Your Loss, The White Lotus).
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Jean Jacket’s appearance and design most closely resemble those of Sahaquiel, the 10th Angel, which appears in the 12th episode of the original 1995 anime, “A Miracle’s Worth,” and the second film in the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy, Evangelion 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance. In the episode and film, the Angel inexplicably appears in Earth’s orbit on a crash course with the city Tokyo-3, forcing NERV and the Evangelion pilots to coordinate in a race to intercept the creature before it collides with Earth and destroys the city. The bait-and-switch of the show is not unlike the one that Peele often uses in his work. Nope, a film marketed as an alien invasion, had a lot to say about Hollywood’s abuses in the name of spectacle. While not as much of a slow burn as Evangelion, Nope is a grand project that pays homage to the classic popular culture moments in cinema and television—like the Akira motorcycle slide—while warning us of the dangers of our desire for displays beyond comprehension.
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It stars Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as horse-wrangling siblings attempting to capture evidence of an unidentified flying object in Agua Dulce, California. Appearing in supporting roles are Steven Yeun, Michael Wincott, Brandon Perea, and Keith David. It also allowed Rocheron and his team to amplify the suspense in the nighttime sequences, playing with light sources and the way your eyes will dilate when light is introduced.
"When you look at the Angels, it's like they have a purpose or a function or a way to operate and a design strictly tailored to just do that," Rocheron said in the interview. "So we started a few rounds of designs on this, and then very quickly we came in with a very 'Evangelion'-esque alien entity that looked like he was an origami, [and] at the same time, a very simple design." Jean Jacket would fit in with the anime classic's Angels perfectly, such as the octahedron-shaped Ramiel or the sea creature likeness of Gaghiel. In addition to revealing that they pulled from "Evangelion" for the design, Rocheron also noted in the interview that he and Peele came up with Jean Jacket's final form first and essentially worked backward to create its initial saucer form. Together with the movie’s main characters, Rutledge will co-author a fake scientific paper about the new species. The narrative will be that the characters reached out to Rutledge at UCLA to help them describe and name “Jean Jacket” for the scientific community. Rutledge will write it exactly as a real scientific paper — she has experience publishing about a new species, after all.
While "Us" was marketed primarily as a movie about evil clones, it also had a lot to say about classism and inequality, and with "Nope," a movie about Hollywood's abuses in the name of spectacle, was marketed as an alien invasion. Those movies might not be as slow-burning as the original "Evangelion" series, but Peele's writing has never been that dissimilar from the anime that seemingly influenced him. While we hope his next grand project isn't a full-on live-action "Evangelion" adaptation (seriously, it's perfect the way it is), we do hope that it has the ideas, scope, and ambition of one.
Considered by film historians to be the first motion picture, Eadweard Muybridge’s 1878 “The Horse in Motion” was a series of sequential photographs capturing the animal at full gallop. We know that the horse was named Sallie Gardner, and her owner’s name was recorded for posterity. But nothing is known about the Black jockey who rode Sallie in those famous photos and was, for all intents and purposes, the first movie star. (Also the first movie stuntman.) According to writer-director Jordan Peele’s rollicking alien invasion adventure “Nope,” the descendants of this mystery rider are currently running a California ranch while working as animal wranglers for commercials and movies. To hear them tell it, the Haywoods are a family of forgotten Hollywood royalty.
While the Nope alien came in part from the brilliant, imaginative mind of Jordan Peele, the writer/director also turned to real-life sea creatures for inspiration on its movement and behavior. The filmmaking team consulted animal behavior experts—including John O. Dabiri, an aeronautics and mechanical engineering professor at CalTech, who researches fluid mechanics and flow physics in ocean creatures. Peele has a grand old time riffing on “Jaws,” with Wincott’s flamboyant cinematographer a camera-toting Captain Quint. But what Peele remembers about the shark movie that other filmmakers who try to rip it off always forget is just how wonderfully specific those three central characters were, and he takes special care here to give us endearing, fully fleshed-out people running for their lives.
The visibility of the chimp and the shadows created all sorts of really challenging integration issues. I think the scene is very successful because there's a mystery to the horror that slowly reveals itself as Gordy is getting more and more threatening, and closer and closer to you." He wanted the viewer, and the cast members, to be mesmerized by the creature. And so he liked how the cuttlefish attracts prey through a form of hypnosis. But also, these animals and other cephalopods have color changing pigment cells called chromatophores. This parallels the ability of Nope‘s creature to camouflage into the clouds.
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