279 – Nope

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

With another Oscar ceremony coming to a close, it’s time to crack the seal on the Class of 2022 movies and we couldn’t wait to talk about Jordan Peele’s Nope! Priming audiences for a big summer alien invasion film, Peele also delivered a film with a lot on its mind about society’s relationship to witnessing and capturing violent spectacle, the film industry’s history of disregard for Black artists, and how we package our own traumas. With a terrific ensemble led by Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as siblings who discover an unexplainable phenomena in the skies, Nope is perhaps 2022’s biggest head-scratcher among films not recognized by the Academy.

This episode, we talk about the 2022 box office dynamic that unfairly tainted Nope as a box office disappointment and its many, rich avenues for narrative interpretation. We also talk about Kaluuya’s underrated performance, Palmer’s contrasting performance that was campaigned in supporting, and what makes the movie a monster movie vs. an alien movie.

Topics also include Gordy going off, Hoyte van Hoytema’s cinematography, and breakthrough star Jean Jacket.

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0:00.0	The right house.
0:03.0	I didn't get nominated.
0:15.0	Mill and Hack.
0:17.0	And we want to talk to Mill and Hack and friends. I'm from Canada water.
0:25.0	I'm from Canada water. Dick Poohop.
0:35.0	Pooh. It's a bad miracle. They got a world for that.
0:48.0	They got a word for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
0:53.0	yeah. Yeah, nah, nah nah nah.
1:10.0	Hello and welcome to the This Had Oscar Bus podcast The Only Podcast that is a baby after all
1:15.7	Every week on This Head Oscar Buzz will be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had lofty Academy Award aspirations
1:22.1	But for some reason or another, it all went wrong.
1:26.1	The Oscar hopes died and were here to perform the autopsy.
1:30.3	I am your host, Chris File, and I'm here as always with my favorite cinematographer taking a break from his snake movies to shoot a home movie and IMAX in my backyard.
1:40.0	Joe Reed.
1:41.0	What if I told you that we are here to record a podcast?
1:47.0	I was trying to remember the whole jup spiel.
1:51.0	What if I told you? Okay, so Michael Wincott made that camera apparently in the
1:59.2	plot of the movie, but then has an IMAX logo on the can.
2:04.5	Did the man make an IMAX camera?
2:07.1	Or is he using an IMAX lens on this crank camera? Maybe I would say that's probably more likely that he sort of salvaged parts from his job and
2:20.0	I'd love that you're leading with Michael Wincop because of course you are but also like what a
2:25.6	fun performance that he just sitting there chain smoking watching old movies of snakes
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