Jean Jacket Transformation | NOPE [2022]

[ArchTeryx]

The reason it changes was because when cut by the barbed wire, it interpreted the pain on its insides as an attack. So it immediately unfurled into a threat display. Animals' threat displays mostly involve making themselves seem much bigger, strong eye contact, making threatening vocalizations, etc. Jean Jacket's unfurling, vocalizing and the constant "shuttering" of its eye definitely qualified. It was expecting to fight.

And Emerald seemed to understand that. She released the giant balloon and sure enough, Jean Jacket took the bait and decided to fight the way most natural for it - by eating the interloper. It didn't end well.

[mholliday]

Best new monster design since the Ritual. Seriously took his idea of the typical shop trope and morphed it into the next level.

[JOEHHxFMJ]

One of the best aliens ever depicted in movie history: it's angelic, it's lovecraftian, it's inconceivable.

[Bizcuits]

I love the way JJ screams when he gets spiked by the barb wire

[stevetayler]

Loved the implications of what Jean Jacket was.
Not only is it not a spaceship, but it's probably not alien at all. It's clearly perfectly designed to hunt and move in our atmosphere.
Somehow, if it is a terrestrial animal rather than alien (that is, something that evolved here) makes it even weirder, more unknowable.
Because it’s so utterly unlike any lifeform we are familiar with.
What’s truly unique about Jean Jacket isn’t so much it’s appearance, as it’s nature.
By that I mean, it’s an aerial being.
As far as we know, there have never been any truly aerial life forms.
Of course there are birds, insects and bats that can fly and use the atmosphere for hunting/mating etc.
But they don’t live in the air.
Birds/insects are to a truly aerial animal, as penguins or otters are to truly aquatic creatures like sharks or jellyfish.
Jean Jacket seems to be a type of life that exists solely in the atmosphere.
Personal Head-canon - this is a creature left over from the Deep Past. The Pre-Cambrian era. Before the colonisation of the land, before oxygenated air.
I like to imagine that perhaps, billions of years ago, there was a whole ecosystem of aerial life forms, possibly before the land became colonised by life.
Maybe Jean Jackets distant ancestors drifted above Earths primordial oceans, sucking up the great microbial mats.
That’s why it’s anatomy and very physical composition is so bizarre, we share virtually no common ancestors. Yet it’s still an Earthly being.
It’s clearly been here for all of Man’s history.
It influenced deep-rooted legends of angels and gods in the sky.
It was the cause of the UFO/flying saucer phenomenon, particularly as those legends only began (specifically with the use of the term 'flying saucer') when Mankind began to fly and intrude into Jean Jackets biome.
Perhaps the source of ‘sky quakes’ those eerie trumpeting sounds; Jean Jackets mating calls perhaps?
We see that even in death, Jean Jacket’s physical body remains aloft, floating. But could it also be the explanation for mysterious ‘star slime’, little bits of its body eventually falling to the ground?
Is Jean Jacket the last of it's species? Or are there others, have they retreated to remote regions?
Or are they just very, very good at hiding?

[vonsworld]

The chills this whole scene gave me in theatres was crazy

[LNDUM]

I just realised that the house is destroyed at 0:33 so I guess they have a bigger reason as to needing the money now.

[cbonde]

“What if it’s not a UFO” is by far the most provoking twist I’ve ever seen in a movie, ever.

[atroyz]

I guess it took me a while to figure this out. So the barbed wire is what caused the transformation from UFO shape to the giant jellyfish form it had at the end?

[cleo]

I always assumed why it morphed inside out was because it was damaged by the barb wire at 0:20

[jtdockter]

1:02 - when I try to unfurl a sheet while making my bed in the morning.

[morningivy]

Man, they don't make movies like these anymore. Reminds me of late 2000s/early 2010s type of cinematography.

[joshjess]

0:10 When you accidentally bite the back of your own tongue when you're eating.

[Kim-engp]

Im so glad that it doesnt look like another variation of ET

[YoungIroh]

my edible peaked right when JJ started changing

[renatofelix]

0:21 esse som no cinema me arrepiou, parece o som de uma trombeta 😣

[Cruzer]

For the next movie they should have aliens who specifically hunt Jean jackets species for their skin

[JB-jtoq]

Best alien presentation I've ever seen.
It reminded me a lot of the feeling I get reading Lovecraft.

+ funny that the video is in Portuguese but all the comments are in English lol

[adamvargas_]

0:20 Is the monster roar a reference to sky trumpets from the Bible

[MixszZ]

The reason it changed it because its insides were cut by the wire and the hull was damaged when it crashed into the ground