#jupe from nope

[kinsey3furry300]

My (very late) take on Ricky “Jupe” Park from Nope.

So, when I was a small child, my sister and I were taken to a local museum by my father and it was a wholesome and fun day out for all the family EXEPT FOR THE BADLY TAXIDERMIED WHALE SHARK HANGING FROM THE CEALLING MY GOD WHAT WAS THAT THING?! It was huge, it looked and smelt terrible, the room was poorly lit and crowded and decorated to look like the bottom of the sea and you had this thing with it’s huge open maw hanging right over you all the time. I distinctly remember that I couldn’t look. I could not look. Between the, the ocean episode of walking with dinosaurs, the underwater segment of myst, and fucking books like this that were everywhere in the 90’s!

Fuck you Nigel Marven and Jasper James, Fuck you.

…both me and my sister developed a lifelong fear of being eaten alive by giant, aquatic-type monsters. And because it was advertised and a film about a brother and sister fighting off little green men, and not advertised as a film where 40 people get fucking vored by a flying Portuguese man of war, me and my sister saw Nope together in the cinema and ohhh boy 1, did I catch shit from her about it, to this day, and 2, while I love that film, it scared the shit out of me. It scared me so badly I tried not to think about it until I plucked up the courage to re-watch it this weekend.  So I’m a little late to the party, but speaking on behalf of people terrified of being gobbled up by ever-present sky-sharks (you know they’re there prove me wrong!), I’d like to talk about Jupe.

How was this not a best Supporting Actor win? Give him all the awards!

I’ve seen a surprising amount of commentary say that he’s an idiot for endangering and getting all those people killed, and that he deserves his fate, and while there is a little element of truth to the first part, I can’t fathom the second. One, no, no one deserves that and two… Do, do you guys know how story strucure works? Jupe is a foil for OJ. His life and arc mirrors OJ to a surprising degree: they’re both people of colour working in a white-dominated Hollywood system who have been held back by, or are stereotyped because of, their race. They both witness “a bad Miracle” that’s starts with a strange popping/crunching noise (the balloon for Jupe, Jean Jacket regurgitating indigestible items above them for OJ), that results in death, where a seemingly imposable thing happens (a coin falls from an empty sky, a shoe balances perfectly on one end) and where they are spared death because they don’t look the danger in the eye (Jupe has the table cloth between him and the chimp, OJ looks around whereas Ottis senior looks up and so is hit in his unprotected eye), and are traumatized. Both deal with the trauma badly, and surround themselves with constant reminders of it (Jupe’s Gordy shrine, OJ’s horses and ranch. I mean he keeps the fucking coin!). Both try to commodify and sell their trauma for fame and fortune (the paid tours of the Gordy shrine, getting that “Oprah shot”). Both also want to use Jean Jacket to reclaim the heritage that the film and TV industry has taken from them (OJ wants to save the ranch and memorialize his family’s role in the invention of film, Jupe wants to be remembered for the Starlight Lasso and not just as that Asian kid who survived a chimp attack, for taming the beast, not just surviving it). Both unwittingly train JJ to attack humans (Jupe by teaching it to associate people and music with food, OJ by putting it off horsemeat by feeding it a decoy). Both are a bit greedy, and kind of disrespectful to the dead, and nether Get Out (couldn’t resist sorry) when they should. Both put their family, friends and strangers in danger to get their payday, and both get at least one person killed doing it.

So why does the film kill Jupe and his family in such a hilariously awful way, but spare OJ and Em (and Angel: we love you Angel)? What’s Jupes fatal flaw, that greek tragic hubris that dooms him and that separates him from OJ? Why is he the one who gets vored by an angry stetson? Is it a eat the rich narrative? A critique of the idea of Asian Americans as the “Ideal minority?”. Is it killing off the comic relif, or just done for shock value? No, I don’t think Jordan Peele would be that heavy handed or un-imaginative. I think it’s something far more clever.

It’s this: from an early age, Jupe was trained to perform, whereas OJ was trained to handle performing horses. OJ thinks about how to safely provide the spectacle, whereas Jupe was trained to be the spectacle. OJ communicates with Angel in clicks and gestures without realising: OJ’s internalised how to talk to horses, how to use body-language. But Jupe...His plan, upon finding out that there’s a UAP flying around his home is to build and stage and make it into a rodeo attraction. That’s not a sane person’s reaction, that’s how Homer Simpson would try and Monetize first contact with alien life. That’s how Peter Griffin or BoJack Horseman would treat ET…. That how a 90’s sitcom character, who never got over that one role, would treat the situation.

Every time a name is mentioned in the chapter titles of Nope, the living being it refers to dies… except the title card “Lucky.” The horse (so long as the final shot is real and not Em hallucinating) lives. It (and OJ) makes it out. But then again….

Jupe probably thought of himself as Lucky, after the Gordy incident. He was probably told time and time again that he was Lucky, until he internalized it. He learnt the wrong lessons from the experience, he learnt that he not only needed to perform, but that he was special. “You’re’ chosen.” He learnt that he needed to perform, to be a spectacle, to survive a horrible industry that swallows people whole and chews them up and spits them out and occasionally has animal control shoot its stars dead if they go of script. He was conditioned, and trained, from an early age to treat everything that ever happened to him as part of a performance, until he can only talk about his own trauma in terms of how good the SNL take on it was.

And like every other trained living being taken from their natural habitat and forced out on stage as spectacle in this film, his training fails him at the worst possible time.

He’s “Lucky”, and he’s tragic, and he’s just another victim of spectacle, and that’s the scariest part of the film. ...Other than the FUCKING MURDER PANCAKE IN THE SKY OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT!?

#nope movie #nope jordan peele #jordan peele #jupe from nope #Ricky Jupe Park #Steven Yeun #Jupe is my woobie and i would fight god for him #but i'm not fighing Jean Jacket sorry bro nope nope nope fuck that #nope spoilers

[sydmarch]

i feel like something bad is going to happen to me

read @ineedaplacetostay‘s fic & thought of that one quote immediately

#i had honestly always thought it was part of a poem did not know it was from a movie until googling it to make this #nope #nope (2022) #nope movie #sorry idk which is the main tag ppl use #jupe park #texticles

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

I kind of love this scene at the beginning of Nope where OJ and Lucky (the horse) are on set because it foreshadows the rest of the movie so well: OJ and Emerald explain to the actors and crew how to interact with Lucky — how a horse, even one trained for TV, responds to the world around them according to their instincts — and the crew ignore him. One of them says to "tell the horse we're ready to do one," like he's a human actor who speaks another language and OJ is the translator.

And it keeps happening all through the film. In the narrative of the Gordy's Home, Gordy is treated as essentially another human member of the family, albeit one who can't tell time or speak English (and I've seen some excellent commentary on how Ricky, an Asian child actor, is commodified and exoticized in the same way). But the chimp who plays Gordy is not a person; he, like Lucky, is an animal being exploited by a production company uninterested in and unwilling to accommodate his needs, and so he reacts on instinct — to the sound of balloons popping, to eye contact, to the people around him screaming.

Maybe Ricky survives because the tablecloth kept them from making eye contact, or maybe the chimp would have killed him, too, if he hadn't been shot at that moment. But Ricky doesn't process what happened as an animal reacting on instinct, at least not that final moment. He still anthropomorphizes this chimp as Gordy, his friend from his TV family with whom he has a special connection. And so years later, he assumes Jean Jacket is a ship piloted by sentient aliens. He assumes they trust him, when really all he's done is teach an ambush predator to expect a regular food source —  it's the equivalent of drawing bears to a camp ground because you forgot to put away the cooler.

#Nope #nope 2022 #nope movie #nope film #oj haywood #ricky jupe park #also the director for whatever they're shooting is antlers holst #did not notice that the first time #post very slightly edited from the version i posted at 12:30 in the morning #in the extremely unlikely event anyone noticed and is wondering #kvetch oc

[tiredgn0me]

the fact that jupe literally tried to train jean jacket by playing the whole spectacle speech and turning on the lights every time it came to eat at his park at night, preparing it for the lights and sounds at the actual performance, thinking he can do it right this time, unlike with gordy...........

#i saw someone mention how he even invited his old co star because he wanted to prove it to her too #to prove its not their fault #the fact he has to laugh at his own trauma bc everyone else does #so he doesnt learn from that experience at all #he still thinks a wild animal can be tamed and trained and exploited #and he suffers for it #: ( #nope #jupe #nope 2022 #nope movie #jordan peele

[ghostsessioned]

i’ve been silently stalking the nope tag here and have been sitting on Something since i watched the film a few days ago. the digestion scene. how it relates back to spectacle and the inability for people to look away. i had seen a post stating how the digestion scene seemed almost “sexual”, in a non NSFW - way, like we were seeing something we weren’t Supposed to be seeing. how it seemed intimate. private. how, though it left so many uncomfortable and uneasy, it was made for us to see, to consume and digest ( no pun intended ). much akin to curiosity via social media, especially when disaster strikes, you can’t help but look. you can’t keep your eyes off of what you’re seeing, even if you know it’s bad. those forty viewers were made a spectacle, as jupe was trying to make of jean jacket, and we, as an audience, did what spectators do best. watch, and do nothing.

#txt.png #shut up tage #nope #nope movie #nope 2022 #jean jacket #oj haywood #em haywood #jupe park #jupiter's claim #star lasso experience #fucking rubbing my heeeaaaddd #this movie gives me a headache because it forces my brain to think about the things it doesn't want to think about #i was so overwhelmed after seeing the movie that i cried once i got home. in part because of what i had seen ; but also the affect it had #consumerism. exploitation. erasure. spectacle #what IS a bad miracle #and how does it differentiate from what we Think a bad miracle is in comparison to what it actually is #also. i fully believe the biblically accurate angel theory #my fiance and i dubbed UAP 'unidentified angelic presence' since so much of what's happened would be seen as from the divine #uUUGHHHHHHH JORDAN PEELE YOU ARE A GENIUS #ABSOLUTE GENIUS

[johndoe-lesbo]

✨☁️✨

#just a random meme I had fun making #(I deleted Angel from the photos and had to handmake it my photos and not the photo editor lol) #I honestly think I’m right on this one #anyways #here ya go #emerald haywood #oj haywood #angel torres #antlers holst #ricky jupe park #amber park #jean jacket #(don’t feel the need to tag TMZ guy) #nope 2022 #jordan peele #cinematography #aliens #area 51 #area 51 memes #meme #pic #me post #🖤🖤🖤

[rassilon-imprimatur]

In Nope, after The Scene and right before Jean Jacket grossly squelches and then goes “Mom I Threw Up” all over the Haywood house, a woman trapped in the digestive tract screams “BURNING ME-” but for all the world I’m sure she says “YOU’RE BURNING ME-,” begging and pleading to something, and I kind’ve can’t help... how many of those people were still coherent and expecting aliens? Processing the nightmarish death around them, still, as an intelligence “beaming them up.” Begging, threatening, sobbing, pleading with the creatures who abducted them “Why are you doing this? What’s happening?” All of it coldly watched, “filmed,” by the camera eye. 

#Not showing Jupe or his wife inside is actually such a striking choice? #We just spend a few miserable seconds with random people he got digested. #It's fucking awful I love it a lot. I'd rewatch the scene a few times to make sure I heard correctly but I... still can't lmao #It's awesome I don't think any piece of horror has hit me like this in years? #I wonder if they considered focusing on any of the kids in the audience or Jupe's sons or if that was a big Too Much from word go #Nope 2022 #Jean Jacket

[romanromulus]

re Jupe. it’s about the horror reaching out from the past, it’s about the lamp shade foreshadowing, it’s about learning the wrong lesson from the worst thing that ever happened to you, it’s about pain as entertainment, it’s about blindness—willful and accidental, it’s about predators versus prey, it’s about being swallowed up and taking years and years to digest!

#nope 2022 #ricky jupe park #jupe park #this whole movie felt like such a fucking victory lap from peele. hes at the top of his fucking game #mine

[tornasundertoha]

nope is a movie that really makes you sit in your seat and think the first time you watch it. and then you watch it the second time around and you know the context now, you've pieced together all the pieces scattered around in the film before the big reveal, and you notice the tiny details and you're like OH. OH MY GOD. and every time you keep rewatching it it all comes back to you like raindrops amalgamating into one big puddle on the ground. every single scene clicks into place.

#nope movie #nope 2022 #nope spoilers #i am so insane about this movie #the thing with gordy and jupe and jupe being the lone survivor being the exact reason everyone in the Star Lasso Experience got eaten #the stuffies jupe sold at the SLE looking exactly like the cameras from the gordy set #the eye imagery #the fact that jupe's arena is shaped like an eye #the fact that jj's whole shtick is that she doesn't want to be percieved #OJ surviving the whole 6 months that jj camped out in the mountains near his place bc he never once looked up at the sky #i will not stop talking about this movie so help me god

[haterlain]

My 2 seconds of screen time together besties

#nope if they didn’t kill off Jupe and then and then they gay kissed or something #i just think #i think they’d be cute #jupe was done dirty and that’s not even just from a gay perspective #i think his narrative was so interesting and it was cut short before his character could have been rlly explored #also OJ was my fave #but I think everythjng ?? kind of felt undercooked #nope 2022 #oj haywood #I think that was his name sweats #jupe park #Jupe nope #Blinks cutely

[the-acid-pear]

Hands of hips looking down shaking my head I don't know how to sugarcoat this so I won't but signs is so much better than nope. I don't know how people even say the movie aged bad. I think the feelings they have for the director cloud their view (I don't even know how either of his names). You got a 1:30hs movie vs a 2hs movie (I'm cutting the 10 minutes of credit for both) where in one you are never bored and are gripped by emotions and the other where you sit waiting for anything to happen. Like I'm sorry but there's no fight here. Hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby.

#luly talks #like i never questioned a thing ppl did during i got dizzy #holy fuck #um. fuck was i saying thst was a lot um #ah yeah. no aside from jupe everyone else is weak as fuck in nope writing wise. when angel was almodt getting killed i was there like 😐 #while i went thru a whole back and froth w Merrill from hating to loving him #signs has a lot of soul. AND A SOLID FUCKING MESSAGE. UNLIKE SOMEONEEE TELLING YOU TO KILL ONE OF A KID NON INVASIVE SPECIES #I'M SO MAD ABOUT WHAT THEY DID TO MY GIRL #AT LEAST THE ONE ALIEN THEY KILLED IN SIGNS WAS LIKE. *ONE*. #the rest of his kind just fucked off and also he was a PETTY ASSHOLE #so you know it's justified. bc whah they did in nope wasn't #im so mad i dont wanna be mad i wanna be happy thinking of a family who is shown to deeply love each other #nope wishes. #also the later has nothing scary at all like. it's a bit uncomfortable but 2002 alien man had me jumping in place screaming man. #saw a shadow outside its the fucking birthday alien coming to. touch my neck with his fingers or something. #last time this happened was when i watched the first evil desf #and before that it was the second coming #thah one fucked me up good #the bigger public is just wrong about horror movies but i get it. i get it like no one gets it.

[midnightdemonhunter]

Backstage view

#nope #nope movie #nope 2022 #ricky jupe park #midnight draws #so normal about this guy and this movie if you couldnt tell. #star lasso experience #gordy's home #resisting the urge to tag it with all the thoughts tied to the piece. JUST TAKE IT #anyway this movie is very fun and all the art is amazing. #tragedy fans when their fav characters never recover from trauma and let their flaws and said trauma lead to a horrifying death #that is so remiscient of the original trauma.....god.

[thisquietafteryou]

I can’t explain it but these 3 characters are on the same spectrum but with varying levels of being unhinged

#they range from ‘guy who means well but makes bad choices’ to ‘straight up manipulative’ #they’re all hot and miserable tho #mob psycho 100 #nope 2022 #squid game #reigen arakata #jupe park #cho sangwoo

[cursed-iris]

"what if i told you, that in about an hour, you will leave here different..."

wasn't gonna make art for this movie (and tbh it's not my best), but the brainrot got to me, okay? it's so good, i need to see it again asap. AND NOW WE GOT BONUS CONTENT TOO, LIKE,,?!?!?

//nope spoilers ig

he wasn't lying tho, they left different.

scariest scene i've ever watched in my life oh my god.

#nope #nope movie #nope film #nope spoilers #ricky jupe park #ricky park #jupe #jupe park #why does he have so many tags #jean jacket #star lasso experience #man got sucked up like boba in a boba straw he is dEAD #jean jacket was just kinda hungry yk #the second picture is really stupid and i only spent like 5 minutes on it but i had to #illustration #see you space cowboy ✌🏽😔 #or something idk #i cant draw from this angle why did i do this to myself #steven yeun

[fridjitzu]

How I'm taking the fact Nope didn't get one :) single 8) nomination 8)

#EVEN IN DEATH JUPE GETS NO RESPECT FROM THE FILM INDUSTRY #nope movie #jordan peele #nope 2022 #Gordy's Home #robbed worse than psychonauts 2 at the game awards 2021 #disclaimer: i know the oscars don't actually mean shit but it's the principle of the thing

[romanceyourdemons]

also?? genre aware characters who try to outsmart the genre and just end up playing into it my fucking beloved

#hamlet from hamlet my beloved #jupe from nope my beloved #van helsing from dracula my beloved #meng yao from the untamed my beloved #that german bitch from the queen of spades my beloved #ask me about any one of these guys i’ll talk your fucking ear off #ryddles