when a director colour-codes his horror

What are some of the sneaky subtextual colours/themes I've missed?? Also...what did everyone think of NOPE? P.s. I know, I know, it's COAGULA, not CALIGULA......Roman Emperor's clearly on the brain.

17:33 The fact she was wearing green in front of a green screen while trying to do self promotion gave some hints about her character and the society she was trying to impress. She was trying to be seen and get noticed, but her color blended into the background.

Nope colours: OJ in orange because orange juice; Emerald in green because emeralds are green

I love how this director went fron "one of the guys from that funny sketch show" to "this is the director of some of the most interesting horror media in recent years"

I have a feeling the rainbow-colored stuff plays into the theme of spectacles and how it contradicts how it's usually treated in nature. While we would see something multi-colored as something to marvel at, predators typically avoid them because they are usually something that you shouldn't eat. Jean Jacket clearly learned this the hard way after choking on a horse with multi-colored flags, as evident with it avoiding the rainbow colored parachute.

I'm not sure I agree with your take on jupe. I think the story with the monkey is to demonstrate how he felt that because it didnt kill him like the others, he had some sort of mastery of nature that made him arrogant enough to create the show using the alien, which of course backfired spectacularly. Edit: what I mean is that I don't think it's a misunderstanding of the danger of animals, I think it's the arrogance of believing he is special

Not strictly about the colour but what I got from Jean Jacket's design and shading was a human eye. When I walked out of the theatre that's the thought I was left with: Jean Jacket is us - the viewer. We have the voracious appetite to consume content without end. But, we don't want to become content ourselves. And, like Jean Jacket did to Jupe, the audience turns on every performer eventually. Like you, I've only seen it once. Really need to watch this one a few more times to unpack everything. The race dynamics. The monkey being a modern King Kong metaphor for black entertainers. It's genius. There's always so much Jordan Peele's work.

Neither orange nor green are typically the colors of a hero. The good guys who save the day (and come out alive at the end) are represented with the primary colors most of the times. Secondary colors are usually restricted for the villains and/or the side characters, and also the "weirdos". It is soon established in this movie, that the OJ and Emerald are outcasts with a dying business. I think that Emerald was proudly expressing this from the beginning with her saturated outfits and bold patterns, but OJ was feeling anxious and ashamed about it, trying to stay grey and invisible. By the end of the story, he embraced the weirdness - and also the madness of their plan - as well as his sister. This is why their bold colors were so similar to the inflatable tube men, because they did something incredibly crazy. This also increased the tension, because their "sidekick colors" did not promise us a happy ending.

OJs colours start out very muted as he is very introverted and inactive but over the course of the film he opens to things and gets more involved in life and action his colours shift into vibrancy. However this may just be a coincidence

To me, the use of color in this film was a direct and deliberate reference to Technicolor -- which "saved" the film industry by saturating the screen with color. (the whole "saved" thing is arguable, but I won't get into that here.) Having those colors against the browns and greens and blues of the western genre was also a deliberate choice. It tied the movie's themes with both the real villian (the need for spectable at any cost) as well as the Film industry itself. Nope is my favorite of Peele's films! It's such a masterclass in storytelling!

i think the bright colors of nope are more significant than they're given credit for. the movie critiques the entertainment industry and it's capitalist purpose. so it makes sense that the colors are bright, and distracting, because they are made to grab our attention, and maybe even make us momentary satisfaction, which is often what a product's goal is. the marketing, color and design a company uses are carefully picked depending on what they want us to want or think. perhaps it wasn't intentional but i still think it adds to the message.

i think in Nope color language is used far less than shape language—dark/shiny circles and spheres are the main throughline, representing an eye/camera (also the chrome ball used in the opening scene on the movie set later reappears as the cyclist’s chrome helmet)

the level of detail and unique interpretations in these videos are insane. love it.

8:46 I believe the scene is not about her not actually caring about the racism, she doesn't want the cop to ID Chris, because a black person (matching his description) went missing. And because she already plans to make Chris go missing as well, him being ID'd shortly before would throw a major wrench in keeping things under wraps for the operation.

The flowers on Jupe's red suit are white daylilies also known as Ambrosia flowers. Ambrosia loosely translates to "food of the gods" which is what Jupe ultimately became.

Not to mention that OJ wears orange and Emerald wears green at the end of the movie, not only as a callback to the first scene to show that they have grown their relationship from being strained to being a team but also to show that they are literally the scene and the moment now. They are now the frame for Jean Jacket to be filmed on. They are Jean Jacket's green screen .

The only gripe I have is you calling the family in Get Out “Middle Class” like woah woah woah hold your horses…. That’s most certainly upper class if I’ve ever seen it.

8:35 I think it’s important to point out how Rose… (Rose’s are red)… Wears a BRIGHT blue jacket. Like she’s screaming “I’m blue, I’m good!” While Rod wears bright blue it’s under a coat so it’s not showing off and Chris is wearing a muted blue maybe showing his disillusionment of the world and his acceptance of the redness around him

I would say the ending for NOPE in terms of the shirts Emerald and OJ are wearing are also a reference to horse jockeys. Jockeys often wear very bright colourful and distracting shirts. My best guess would be that it is also used to symbolize the sibling's connection to the horses? Emerald is riding on a bike, a more modern form of horse( as she's a more modern girl than OJ) while OJ rides Lucky

Here's one you missed: in NOPE jeanjacket reveals a green box from inside itself. Notice how almost every scene with jupe has a green box? The balloons that scare Gordy come from a green box. Behind him in his office (or it's on his desk I forgot) there is a green box. They hold Lucky in a box covered in green cloth during the scene where they all get eaten