It’s a similar theory as to training horses… “Don’t look him in the eye!” And with that bit of trivia sorted, OJ thinks he will be able to get his killer shot… the one that will set them up for life. And so much so, that whoever looks at the alien will die… so he refuses to look at it in order to try and remain alive. Interestingly, OJ realizes that the “ship” isn’t a UFO at all. Well, it works, because the UFO arrives and eats the audience, Jupe, his family… everything. Jupe’s show, turns out to be an attraction where he uses one of OJ’s horses as bait, in order to call down the aliens for the paying audience. (Not extraordinarily smart aliens I’d say.) But they have an epiphany when they realize that the UFO is hiding behind a stationary cloud… aka, it literally never moves. But their first attempt at a recording is thwarting when an enormous Praying Mantis covers one camera and the other camera fritzes out. Heading to Fry’s (which was a decidedly Californian experience… up there with Pic N’ Save, or maybe 5 Points Car Washes? Was there more than one 5 points? I don’t even know! hahah.) the brother and sister bring Angel Torres in on the adventure when they ask him to setup their video equipment they just purchased. Well, the duo decide the next obvious course of action isn’t to run like hell, but rather to get a shot of this bizarre phenomenon that is plaguing their ancestral home. Which, is how OJ’s father died… a quarter hit him in the eye and lodged in his brain. is to eat whatever it can devour, and then spit back any non-organic materials. Soon after, OJ and Em begin noticing that the electricity on the property is freaking out, and horses begin to vanish, they witness a UFO that has been chomping on their horses. But soon, he is going to reveal a new show… a show about aliens. Jupiter’s Claim is Jupe’s “attraction” business where he charges people to learn more about his childhood, and Gordy’s murderous rampage. He basically has spent his life milking the tragedy of his experience for cash. Who’s Jupe? Please, 3 paragraphs up, I reminded you who he was! Pay attention people! He was the youngest character on the show, Gordy’s Home, and it’s obvious he never really recovered from the death and chaos that took place on the set that day. In order to continue paying off the steep bills on the ranch, OJ is forced to sell horses to Jupe. OJ doesn’t have the people skills for it, and his sister, Em, is two feet out the door. We’ll get back to this idea later – seeing as though I think it’s the entire point of the whole movie as I mentioned earlier… but, like I said, patience!) But six months later, when they are fired from a prominent gig that their father had worked previously, their gig is pretty much up. (This frames the idea of catching that one infinitely perfect video – the unicorn that will set them up for life. Em and the family tell others on the set that they are related to the person riding a horse in the very first moving picture. Em on the other hand, is seeking fame and fortune in Hollywood as an actor, stunt double, etc. They attempt to keep the business going, but things are not going well. is killed when mysterious objects start raining from the sky, his two kids, OJ and Em take over the ranch. Otis believes they are the cusp of being financially independent if they can just close this last Hollywood gig. Leaping forward to the present day, Otis Haywood Sr., trains stunt horses for Hollywood movies and TV. The attack is only hinted at obliquely at the beginning of the movie – but don’t worry – we get all the that later in the movie when it is revealed that Gordy was actually very friendly to Jupe, right before Gordy is shot in the head. Jupe, the youngest character on the show, played by Ricky Park (Steven Yeun, from I, Origins) survives the attack. The movie opens when, during a ’90’s sitcom named Gordy’s Home, a chimp, appropriately named Gordy, suddenly, and out of the blue, violently attacks the cast, crew, and audience on the recording stage. I’ll be moving through the movie chronologically – and reassembling various fragmented portions of the movie to make it a little more clear what actually happened when. So maybe we should walk through the basics of the movie in order to see if we can explain it. Could it be we didn’t actually understand everything going on when you originally watched Nope? That’s actually a pretty high probability for this particular movie.
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