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NOPE CREATURE/ PREDATORY CLOUD FLOWER

REALM/HABITAT: Clean Skies, devoid of pollution or heavy air traffic.

MEDIA ORIGIN: The 2022 film "NOPE" by Jordan Peele

In terms of speculative evolution...

First off, the entity is probably not an alien in extraterrestrial terms, even though it sometimes appears in flying saucer mode.

The fact that it is killed quite easily from conventional means, suggests it could not possibly withstand the rigors of space, let alone interstellar travel.

In fact, there are several hints the lean toward it being a cryptid - meaning an unknown creature from earth, as of yet undiscovered by science.

The Nope creature mainly feeds on large mammals, including horses and humans.

The creature is seen carrying its prey afloat and digesting them alive, making a very grisly death of the victims inside, which can actually be heard screaming in the sky, as its acidic juices dissolve their flesh.

This method of eating prey is very similar to carnivorous plants, such as the Honey Dew or Venus Flytrap, and indeed, the other forms of this creature do indeed suggest a plant-like organism, as it's often seen unfolding, just like a blooming flower!

In fact, you can safely say that this creature in indeed a giant predatory flower.

This is no doubt a hint from the director that Jean Jacket is an intelligent plant species that can float in the clouds, just as ballooning plants do in the summer seasons.

This creature is also similar in convergent fashion to a jellyfish in some regard, and probably is the plant version of that.

What is to note, is that it has a habitat, which does NOT include cities, this is because the rampant traffic of airplanes and helicopters in urban areas would certainly spell doom for such a fragile predator.

This is why the creature stays in rural areas with wide open skies, far less interrupted by airplanes and the like.

It is far most likely that this creature evolved on earth, and for millennia, its entire species camouflaged themselves in the clouds, to which in history, upon spotting them from time to time, people mistook them for Angels and later UFOs.

There is also the hinted probability that they are also prevalent overseas and oceans and may be attributed to such incidents in places like the Bermuda triangle, where small boats and small planes regularly went missing without a trace.

As far as the analogy about the Chimp and this alien; the chimp in the movie was subjected to abuse and was put in an unnatural environment, in the same sense, people have been continuously polluting the skies, filling its air with poisons, smog filled fog, and trafficking its ariel habitats with jet liners, and unnatural light during the night.

It's very clear, that this creature was pushed into the rare areas where the air is clean, and the skies are clear.

And in some credible fashion, this creature might have even evolved to very sneakily deal with human over population on earth.

Indeed, there are many organisms that do just this, but with other over populating species.
One can think of how an ant lion, hides underground camouflaged in the sand, only to reveal itself in flash, when it lures ants down its slippery slope of sand.

In this same manner, the Nope creature hunts humans, as well.

-- Dark Riddle

Jordan Peele's Nope includes a major twist in its alien reveal, with its predatorial nature and surprising design making it all the more terrifying.

Aliens in Nope take on an unexpected form, adding to the insightful addition to the sci-fi horror genre.

Jordan Peele's movie is a compelling horror ride especially in regard to its mysterious alien UFO monster, and the ambiguous origins and its motivations the creature has.

Nope is the third directorial venture in Jordan Peele's horror movie roster, following the critically acclaimed horror-thriller movies Get Out and Us.

Peele's films are often notable for their underlying social commentaries, with Nope seeing the director break out from his typical horror approach as he comments on the widespread obsession with spectacles, which certainly applies to the unique nature of Nope’s alien.

Nope's main characters, siblings OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) and Emerald Haywood (Keke Palmer), run their family’s Haywood Ranch.

After a series of odd occurrences, OJ and Emerald suspect a UFO is hovering over their ranch, with their surveillance camera installer, Angel (Brandon Perea), helping them detect the object. Eventually, it’s deduced that the UFO isn’t a spacecraft, but rather the alien itself, which the characters in Jordan Peele's movie nickname “Jean Jacket.”

The movie keeps many aspects of the alien secret for much of the movie but what is revealed makes the alien in Nope a totally unique cinematic creation.

While the creature is nicknamed “Jean Jacket,” Nope never explains exactly what the alien is or the nature of its origins.

The alien at first takes on the form of a saucer reminiscent of stereotypical UFOs, only for it to shift into its true form of a more parachute-like, flowing being evoking the imagery of biblical angels. It’s typically seen as dark gray at night, but has a lighter appearance when attacking OJ and Emerald during the day.

The alien in Nope also has an impressive camouflaging ability, as it remains in the sky disguised behind a cloud that never moves. When feeding, the alien in Nope opens its “mouth” and sucks up horses, people, and any object in its path through a large area that reflects the design of very early cameras.

The alien also has a great impact on electricity and technology when nearby, making them inoperable when in the alien’s path.

At the ending of Nope, the alien was killed by Emerald when she untied the giant helium balloon mascot from Jupiter’s Claim, which exploded inside of the alien’s mouth and ripped it apart. It’s unclear whether there were more aliens around and, if so, whether they exhibited the same physical and temperamental traits as Jean Jacket.

It’s difficult to judge the entire species based on one example, but it's likely the movie also leaves certain details of the creature ambiguous intentionally, as introducing more than one of these alien creature in the film would have allowed audiences to potentially extrapolate more details about them, sabotaging some of the mystery.

The main characters in Nope suggest that Jean Jacket is extremely territorial, which is part of why the alien has become so intent on feeding on those in the area near Jupiter’s Claim and Haywood Ranch.

While its primary motivation is likely to establish dominance over the area, it also has the primal need to eat, which is why it moves from Jupiter’s Claim over to Haywood Ranch to feed on the horses.

OJ describes the alien as a "bad miracle," but doesn't seem to believe that it had any other purpose on Earth than to eat and claim its own territory.

The alien in Nope doesn’t necessarily seem to have a sinister motivation for preying on humanity like the villains in various other sci-fi films, as it appears to just be an unidentified predatory entity that settles on Earth in order to feed.

While its original motivations for landing on Earth aren't explained, Nope’s alien seemed to have become angrier and more predatory after Ricky “Jupe” Park (Steven Yeun) tried to tame it, which connects to Nope’s scenes with Gordy the Chimp, who went on a murderous rampage on the set of a 1990s sitcom.

As OJ and Emerald’s father had said, some things aren’t meant to be tamed, so the alien may have lashed back at Jupe and humanity's attempt to control it.

The alien in Nope is frequently seen eating horses and humans, and perhaps any organic matter that is found near Jupiter’s Claim and Haywood Ranch.

REMARKS:

Nope makes it clear that the alien cannot digest anything inorganic, which is why it spits out metals, fake horses, and coins, such as the nickel that killed OJ and Emerald’s father. Connecting to the movie's core theme of spectacles, Nope's mysterious alien doesn’t feed on those who don’t look directly at it.

Society has an obsession with needing to see and understand every moment, especially those that are particularly bizarre, but only those that can manage to ignore the spectacle are the ones that survive in Nope.

Nope’s alien would have found far more food closer to the heart of Los Angeles, but chose to stay in the remote area near Jupiter’s Claim and Haywood Ranch. The reason for this seems to be that Jupe had been regularly feeding the alien for months in an attempt to tame it as a spectacle for his theme park show, “Star Lasso Experience,” with the horses at the nearby Haywood Ranch in offering plenty of food.

Since the alien in the Nope movie had already eaten Jupe, his family, and all of the audience members at the theme park before the film's ending, it had to move over to Haywood Ranch where it knew there would still be food.

Had the Nope movie protagonists been unsuccessful in killing it, the alien likely would have moved into more populous areas to feed on other humans and wildlife.

In taking on the alien invasion movie, Jordan Peele created a truly exciting and entertaining summer blockbuster. However, as with Peele's other movies, he is able to insert underlining social commentary amidst all the genre fun giving fun hints about what the true meaning of Nope is.

As Peele has talked about and what is very evident in the movie is that it is a story about the obsession with spectacle and the need for society to look at the spectacle no matter how dangerous it might be. The alien in Nope is directly tied to this idea.

Peele flips the idea of the characters looking up in the sky to understand this alien and presents the alien as the much bigger threat that is looking down on them.

Just as OJ and Emerald set up cameras to spot the alien, the alien itself looks like a camera staring right back at them.

Even more eerie, there are times when the alien takes flight that it looks like a giant eye, hovering over the characters and daring them to meet its gaze.

Such details are part of the fun of revisiting Nope and seeing that every decision Peele makes is part of the bigger picture.

by Colin McCormick & Jordan Williams

Description
NOPE CREATURE/ PREDATORY CLOUD FLOWER

REALM/HABITAT: Clean Skies, devoid of pollution or heavy air traffic.

MEDIA ORIGIN: The 2022 film "NOPE" by Jordan Peele

In terms of speculative evolution...

First off, the entity is probably not an alien in extraterrestrial terms, even though it sometimes appears in flying saucer mode.

The fact that it is killed quite easily from conventional means, suggests it could not possibly withstand the rigors of space, let alone interstellar travel.

In fact, there are several hints the lean toward it being a cryptid - meaning an unknown creature from earth, as of yet undiscovered by science.

The Nope creature mainly feeds on large mammals, including horses and humans.

The creature is seen carrying its prey afloat and digesting them alive, making a very grisly death of the victims inside, which can actually be heard screaming in the sky, as its acidic juices dissolve their flesh.

This method of eating prey is very similar to carnivorous plants, such as the Honey Dew or Venus Flytrap, and indeed, the other forms of this creature do indeed suggest a plant-like organism, as it's often seen unfolding, just like a blooming flower!

In fact, you can safely say that this creature in indeed a giant predatory flower.

This is no doubt a hint from the director that Jean Jacket is an intelligent plant species that can float in the clouds, just as ballooning plants do in the summer seasons.

This creature is also similar in convergent fashion to a jellyfish in some regard, and probably is the plant version of that.

What is to note, is that it has a habitat, which does NOT include cities, this is because the rampant traffic of airplanes and helicopters in urban areas would certainly spell doom for such a fragile predator.

This is why the creature stays in rural areas with wide open skies, far less interrupted by airplanes and the like.

It is far most likely that this creature evolved on earth, and for millennia, its entire species camouflaged themselves in the clouds, to which in history, upon spotting them from time to time, people mistook them for Angels and later UFOs.

There is also the hinted probability that they are also prevalent overseas and oceans and may be attributed to such incidents in places like the Bermuda triangle, where small boats and small planes regularly went missing without a trace.

As far as the analogy about the Chimp and this alien; the chimp in the movie was subjected to abuse and was put in an unnatural environment, in the same sense, people have been continuously polluting the skies, filling its air with poisons, smog filled fog, and trafficking its ariel habitats with jet liners, and unnatural light during the night.

It's very clear, that this creature was pushed into the rare areas where the air is clean, and the skies are clear.

And in some credible fashion, this creature might have even evolved to very sneakily deal with human over population on earth.

Indeed, there are many organisms that do just this, but with other over populating species.
One can think of how an ant lion, hides underground camouflaged in the sand, only to reveal itself in flash, when it lures ants down its slippery slope of sand.

In this same manner, the Nope creature hunts humans, as well.

-- Dark Riddle

Jordan Peele's Nope includes a major twist in its alien reveal, with its predatorial nature and surprising design making it all the more terrifying.

Aliens in Nope take on an unexpected form, adding to the insightful addition to the sci-fi horror genre.

Jordan Peele's movie is a compelling horror ride especially in regard to its mysterious alien UFO monster, and the ambiguous origins and its motivations the creature has.

Nope is the third directorial venture in Jordan Peele's horror movie roster, following the critically acclaimed horror-thriller movies Get Out and Us.

Peele's films are often notable for their underlying social commentaries, with Nope seeing the director break out from his typical horror approach as he comments on the widespread obsession with spectacles, which certainly applies to the unique nature of Nope’s alien.

Nope's main characters, siblings OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) and Emerald Haywood (Keke Palmer), run their family’s Haywood Ranch.

After a series of odd occurrences, OJ and Emerald suspect a UFO is hovering over their ranch, with their surveillance camera installer, Angel (Brandon Perea), helping them detect the object. Eventually, it’s deduced that the UFO isn’t a spacecraft, but rather the alien itself, which the characters in Jordan Peele's movie nickname “Jean Jacket.”

The movie keeps many aspects of the alien secret for much of the movie but what is revealed makes the alien in Nope a totally unique cinematic creation.

While the creature is nicknamed “Jean Jacket,” Nope never explains exactly what the alien is or the nature of its origins.

The alien at first takes on the form of a saucer reminiscent of stereotypical UFOs, only for it to shift into its true form of a more parachute-like, flowing being evoking the imagery of biblical angels. It’s typically seen as dark gray at night, but has a lighter appearance when attacking OJ and Emerald during the day.

The alien in Nope also has an impressive camouflaging ability, as it remains in the sky disguised behind a cloud that never moves. When feeding, the alien in Nope opens its “mouth” and sucks up horses, people, and any object in its path through a large area that reflects the design of very early cameras.

The alien also has a great impact on electricity and technology when nearby, making them inoperable when in the alien’s path.

At the ending of Nope, the alien was killed by Emerald when she untied the giant helium balloon mascot from Jupiter’s Claim, which exploded inside of the alien’s mouth and ripped it apart. It’s unclear whether there were more aliens around and, if so, whether they exhibited the same physical and temperamental traits as Jean Jacket.

It’s difficult to judge the entire species based on one example, but it's likely the movie also leaves certain details of the creature ambiguous intentionally, as introducing more than one of these alien creature in the film would have allowed audiences to potentially extrapolate more details about them, sabotaging some of the mystery.

The main characters in Nope suggest that Jean Jacket is extremely territorial, which is part of why the alien has become so intent on feeding on those in the area near Jupiter’s Claim and Haywood Ranch.

While its primary motivation is likely to establish dominance over the area, it also has the primal need to eat, which is why it moves from Jupiter’s Claim over to Haywood Ranch to feed on the horses.

OJ describes the alien as a "bad miracle," but doesn't seem to believe that it had any other purpose on Earth than to eat and claim its own territory.

The alien in Nope doesn’t necessarily seem to have a sinister motivation for preying on humanity like the villains in various other sci-fi films, as it appears to just be an unidentified predatory entity that settles on Earth in order to feed.

While its original motivations for landing on Earth aren't explained, Nope’s alien seemed to have become angrier and more predatory after Ricky “Jupe” Park (Steven Yeun) tried to tame it, which connects to Nope’s scenes with Gordy the Chimp, who went on a murderous rampage on the set of a 1990s sitcom.

As OJ and Emerald’s father had said, some things aren’t meant to be tamed, so the alien may have lashed back at Jupe and humanity's attempt to control it.

The alien in Nope is frequently seen eating horses and humans, and perhaps any organic matter that is found near Jupiter’s Claim and Haywood Ranch.

REMARKS:

Nope makes it clear that the alien cannot digest anything inorganic, which is why it spits out metals, fake horses, and coins, such as the nickel that killed OJ and Emerald’s father. Connecting to the movie's core theme of spectacles, Nope's mysterious alien doesn’t feed on those who don’t look directly at it.

Society has an obsession with needing to see and understand every moment, especially those that are particularly bizarre, but only those that can manage to ignore the spectacle are the ones that survive in Nope.

Nope’s alien would have found far more food closer to the heart of Los Angeles, but chose to stay in the remote area near Jupiter’s Claim and Haywood Ranch. The reason for this seems to be that Jupe had been regularly feeding the alien for months in an attempt to tame it as a spectacle for his theme park show, “Star Lasso Experience,” with the horses at the nearby Haywood Ranch in offering plenty of food.

Since the alien in the Nope movie had already eaten Jupe, his family, and all of the audience members at the theme park before the film's ending, it had to move over to Haywood Ranch where it knew there would still be food.

Had the Nope movie protagonists been unsuccessful in killing it, the alien likely would have moved into more populous areas to feed on other humans and wildlife.

In taking on the alien invasion movie, Jordan Peele created a truly exciting and entertaining summer blockbuster. However, as with Peele's other movies, he is able to insert underlining social commentary amidst all the genre fun giving fun hints about what the true meaning of Nope is.

As Peele has talked about and what is very evident in the movie is that it is a story about the obsession with spectacle and the need for society to look at the spectacle no matter how dangerous it might be. The alien in Nope is directly tied to this idea.

Peele flips the idea of the characters looking up in the sky to understand this alien and presents the alien as the much bigger threat that is looking down on them.

Just as OJ and Emerald set up cameras to spot the alien, the alien itself looks like a camera staring right back at them.

Even more eerie, there are times when the alien takes flight that it looks like a giant eye, hovering over the characters and daring them to meet its gaze.

Such details are part of the fun of revisiting Nope and seeing that every decision Peele makes is part of the bigger picture.

by Colin McCormick & Jordan Williams