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  1. theme (thematic): Nope → The Fabelmans. Sean says Nope, like The Fabelmans, explores self and what you do in the act of making movies.
    “similar to the Fablemans, like exploration of self and like what you do in the act of making movies”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:41:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. career (filmography progression): Nope → Get Out. Get Out is a neat, legible, pop statement while Us and Nope are messier with more strands, which Sean likes.
    “The get out is such a complete statement. Like, it's a movie that is very legible.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:43:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. career (filmography progression): Nope → Us. Us and Nope are described as messier and less neat than Get Out, with more strands.
    “But us and Nope, or like a little messier, have a lot of strands around them.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:43:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Nope: Sean saw it in 70mm at the Egyptian for his birthday, loud and amazing, and plans to rewatch it every couple of years until he dies.
    “I probably will watch this movie every couple years till I die.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:43:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  5. verdict (ranking): Decision to Leave → Nope. Adam places two genre films at four and three, both praised as perfectly directed for what they are.
    “for the kind of genre film they are, this is my number 3 film, they are perfectly directed.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:44:38 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Nope: Adam notes Peele's humility when told he's made three great horror movies in a row: he asks about John Carpenter.
    “Peel's like, what about John Carpenter?”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:59:36 · Adam Nayman (0.80 sure it was them)
  7. people (same director): Nope → Us. Adam thought Peele could have gone either way after Us, and now rates Nope above his other two horror films.
    “But I mean, this film, I think, is better than the other two.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:59:47 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)
  8. verdict (ranking): Tár → Nope. Chris puts Tar at three and Banshees at two; Adam has Nope at three; the four lists overlap on Tar (Chris 3, Amanda 2, Sean 2) and on Nope (Adam 3, Sean 1).
    “Number 3 is for me is tar.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:00:01 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
  9. verdict (ranking): Top Gun: Maverick → Nope. Sean puts Nope at number one over his number three Top Gun, arguing Nope makes you think while Maverick deliberately does not; he says you can love one without knocking the other.
    “It is like, I loved Top Gun Maverick, but it doesn't ask you to think about a single goddamn thing.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:30:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  10. craft (craft): Nope → Hoyte van Hoytema. Sean praises Hoyte van Hoytema's cinematography on Nope as out of this world.
    “Hoyt von Hoytzmo cinematography is out of this world.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  11. lineage (influence): Nope → Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Sean says Nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any he has seen in a long time, with Close Encounters the usual touchstone, and notes the shared theme of looking up and trying to see.
    “nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any movie I've seen in a long, long time.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  12. programming (same-year pairing): Nope → The Fabelmans. Sean finds it fascinating that in one year Spielberg made a movie about why he makes movies and Peele made the most Spielbergian movie in ages.
    “it's fascinating that this is a year in which Spielberg made a movie about how he figured out why he wanted to make movies”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  13. lineage (lineage): Nope → Eadweard Muybridge. Sean reads Nope as launching from the black jockey in Muybridge's original film strip, an invented family tied to a hundred years of film history.
    “related to the black jockey that we see in the Edward Weybridge, you know, original film strip, and then use that as the launch point for 100 years of film history”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:33:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Nope: Sean admires the premise: an invented family that may be descended from the Black jockey in Muybridge's film strip, launching 100 years of film history and people whose names we don't know.
    “that's a genius idea for a drama, let alone a UFO movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:33:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  15. career (career fork): Nope → Phantom Thread. Sean wonders if Peele will go the Phantom Thread route, the Visit route, or keep making Inception-scale films, and hopes for a Spielbergian approach.
    “in 10 or 15 years whether or not Jordan Peele is making his phantom thread.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:34:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  16. craft (craft): Nope → Gowan. Adam says Gowan's Strange Animal on Nope's soundtrack is his favorite thing about the movie and asks Peele why 80s Canadian rock is on it.
    “not just Corey Hart, but Gowan's strange animal, which is my favorite thing about the movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:35:17 · Adam Nayman (0.90 sure it was them)
  17. craft (craft): Nope → Corey Hart. Adam notes Corey Hart is among the 80s Canadian rock staples on Nope's soundtrack.
    “not just Corey Hart, but Gowan's strange animal, which is my favorite thing about the movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:35:17 · Adam Nayman (0.90 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Nope: Adam wants Jordan Peele to explain the 80s Canadian rock on the soundtrack, especially Gowan's Strange Animal, his favorite thing about the movie, and wonders if Peele got trapped at a cottage on Canada Day.
    “was he trapped at someone's cottage on Canada day?”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:35:30 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)
  19. unmapped (over-read puzzle): Nope → The Shining. Kubrick was not leaving breadcrumbs, unlike filmmakers like Peele who now construct puzzle movies.
    “Whereas I think Kubrick was not intentionally like leaving a trail of breadcrumbs”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:51:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. unmapped (off-screen events): Lolita → Nope. Both films put their biggest events off screen and tell them in talk.
    “the nope thing where you're like, oh, like the biggest events are happening off screen and you're both telling us and not.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:22:07 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)