![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dabiri, an engineering professor at CalTech whose research studies animal behavior and fluid dynamics to create new technologies. It was our planet's own jellyfish, along with squid and octopi and various other sea creatures, that provided the inspiration for Jean Jacket's otherworldly appearance, thanks to John O. It's a creature, a floating predator with a giant mouth hole that, as the film races toward its conclusion, gradually unfurls its diaphanous body to reveal its jellyfish-like true form. Our heroes soon discover that the floating saucer-like shape, which they nickname Jean Jacket, tearing through the sky and sucking up everything in its wake isn't a spaceship, or a vehicle of any kind. The thing that shows up in Nope to menace a ranch full of horses could be more accurately described as a UAP rather than a UFO: "Object" calls to mind a machine "phenomenon" opens the door to all kinds of other possibilities. ![]() About halfway through the film, tech store employee Angel (Brandon Perea) mentions the fact that, at a certain point, "they" stopped using the term Unidentified Flying Object to refer to the floating saucers people see in the sky, and replaced it with the duller acronym UAP, or Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon. Until, that is, it isn't a UFO movie-not in the ways in which we expect. Jordan Peele's third feature film Nope is, at first, a classic UFO movie, like something out of an X-Files episode, or an unused Close Encounters of the Third Kind sequel. This piece contains major spoilers for Nope. ![]()
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