Akira slide
At one point, Jordan Peele was thinking about doing a live-action version of iconic anime Akira. It’s probably not happening, but at the end of Nope, he had a perfect homage to it as Em (Keke Palmer) races to try and get a picture of Jean Jacket and stops her bike with the iconic Akira slide, right in the middle of the big finale.
Jean Jacket reveal
Once it’s established that an alien situation is definitely at play in Nope, everyone—the characters and the audience—assumes the approximately disc-shaped object that emerges from cloud cover to make its rounds is a UFO. But you can forget what sci-fi has taught you, because there’s no ship. There’s no little green men. There’s just Jean Jacket, a hungry extraterrestrial predator that eventually does show off its shape-changing abilities… but initially, at least, uses its Close Encounters camouflage to fool us all.
Gordy’s Home
Probably one of the most chilling openers in recent cinema, Jordan Peele’s Nope uses a when-animals-attack moment as the film’s framing device, cleverly hinting at its thematic undertones about tempting things with uncontrollable nature. The imagery, the sounds, and the damn shoe standing straight up remain seared in our minds.
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