As a director, Jordan Peele has forced the horror genre to go beyond its traditional limitations and asked audiences to see the deeper meanings in some of its scariest films. Nope was a great example of this as it asked audiences to see the horror and beauty in spectacle while keeping a unique story that subverted the tropes common with UFOs. Part of what made the film such a powerful experience was also the mystery of why the UFO was present and what it meant for the cast; however, some may notice that this mystery was already teased in the film's poster.

Aside from a sci-fi/horror film, Nope could also be described as an intergalactic version of Jaws. In fact, the film's big reveal completely shifted the movie's tone to better fit the Steven Spielberg classic. Much like the poster for Jaws, the simplicity in Nope's teaser poster helped tell fans everything they needed to know in terms of what type of film it would be, but how did this hidden reveal impact the larger narrative early on, and why was Jaws such a big factor in its tone?

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What's Nope's Big Twist?

The cloud from Nope.

For the majority of the film, the Haywood siblings are on a mission to capture a shot of a UFO that parked itself outside their ranch. For six months, it seemingly abducted horses from the nearby tourist attraction, Jupiter's Claim, but something about it revealed a more hostile and primal intention. It took horse trainer OJ to realize that what they were dealing with wasn't a ship but a living entity feeding on the horses and humans it abducted.

From that point on, the stakes changed completely, and the film was about getting a shot of the creature to prove to everyone aliens exist while also trying to finish it once and for all. To do this, they had to outsmart the creature by using scare tactics and clever lures to trap it. This moment especially felt similar to Jaws, as it was the ingenuity of average people who were trying to tame and defeat a mythic creature people have only read about.

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How Did Nope and Jaws' Posters Tease the Reveal?

Woman swimming above a shark on the Jaws poster.

The theme of a looming threat hidden just out of sight permeated Jaws from beginning to end. For many moviegoers, this sense of hopelessness was felt from its theatrical poster. The poster only showed the film's title, a swimmer above the surface and the massive shark approaching below her. Nope's poster evoked the same feeling but in reverse. In the poster, a cloud was shown looming over Jupiter's Claim with nothing but a colorful ribbon hanging off of it. While it was initially mysterious, the poster was just as straightforward as Jaws'.

Essentially, the cloud is the shark, looming just out of sight. Jupiter's Claim just below was the young swimmer, living her life unaware of the danger just outside their personal bubble. It's a looming threat that is so well hidden, and the realization that it's there is too late and equally as hopeless as being caught by a shark. Nevertheless, unlike the other posters for Peele's film, Nope's showed viewers the truth of everything in one shot. However, much like the characters in the movie and in Jaws, the audiences would have to survive many attacks before understanding exactly what they're dealing with.