Questions and cameras
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The plot of “Nope” involves two siblings, OJ and Emerald Haywood (Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer), having close encounters of the third kind on their Hollywood horse ranch. Michael Wincott plays the impressively named Antlers Holst, a cinematographer who gets caught up in the action with them and utilizes IMAX cameras of his own at one point. This speaks to what Peele said about using such cameras to film the movie, but also featuring them in the movie “in the meta way.”
/Film’s Erin Brady called “Nope” a “love and hate letter to Hollywood,” one that “questions if the spectacle of show business is really worth the mistreatment inflicted upon those involved.” There’s a sense in which any movie that gets green-lit and makes it across the finish line from production to release is a miracle for even being made. Yet the tagline of “Nope” — that question, “What’s a bad miracle?” — puts an entirely different spin on that, reframing movie magic as something that might necessarily come with human casualties. “Nope” raises a lot of questions, but we know the answer to one of them now, at least. If you want to capture a UFO on film, you’ve got to do it on an IMAX camera.
“Nope” is in theaters now.
Jordan Peele Had A Question For Nope’s Cinematographer That Only IMAX Could Answer
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By Joshua Meyer/July 22, 2022 9:40 pm EST
“When I first sort of uttered this thought of making a totally immersive UFO film, I talked to [Hoyte van Hoytema]. Obviously scope was a big thing, and I wanted to push myself, and I asked him, ‘How would you capture actual UFO? If you had to get, you’ve had one chance, what camera would you use? And that’s what we should use in the movie, both in the movie and in the meta way.’ And he said the IMAX cameras. I don’t know if he just really wanted to make an IMAX movie, but obviously he has so much experience in that realm, and what he told me is true. There’s a different kind of immersion that happens with IMAX, and there’s a different kind of resolution. So for posterity alone, they send these cameras up to space, you know?”
Questions and cameras
The plot of “Nope” involves two siblings, OJ and Emerald Haywood (Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer), having close encounters of the third kind on their Hollywood horse ranch. Michael Wincott plays the impressively named Antlers Holst, a cinematographer who gets caught up in the action with them and utilizes IMAX cameras of his own at one point. This speaks to what Peele said about using such cameras to film the movie, but also featuring them in the movie “in the meta way.”
/Film’s Erin Brady called “Nope” a “love and hate letter to Hollywood,” one that “questions if the spectacle of show business is really worth the mistreatment inflicted upon those involved.” There’s a sense in which any movie that gets green-lit and makes it across the finish line from production to release is a miracle for even being made. Yet the tagline of “Nope” — that question, “What’s a bad miracle?” — puts an entirely different spin on that, reframing movie magic as something that might necessarily come with human casualties. “Nope” raises a lot of questions, but we know the answer to one of them now, at least. If you want to capture a UFO on film, you’ve got to do it on an IMAX camera.
“Nope” is in theaters now.
/Film’s Erin Brady called “Nope” a “love and hate letter to Hollywood,” one that “questions if the spectacle of show business is really worth the mistreatment inflicted upon those involved.” There’s a sense in which any movie that gets green-lit and makes it across the finish line from production to release is a miracle for even being made. Yet the tagline of “Nope” — that question, “What’s a bad miracle?” — puts an entirely different spin on that, reframing movie magic as something that might necessarily come with human casualties.
“Nope” raises a lot of questions, but we know the answer to one of them now, at least. If you want to capture a UFO on film, you’ve got to do it on an IMAX camera.
“Nope” is in theaters now.
