While the real meaning of Nope may be difficult to understand on its first viewing, the movie does give viewers clues to the fate of its protagonist, secretly proving in a twist that OJ survives the Nope ending. Jordan Peele’s 2022 sci-fi horror movie, seems to conclude with Daniel Kaluuya's Nope character OJ Haywood, in an act of self-sacrifice, succumbing to the living UFO that has been terrorizing his family's ranch, but there is good reason to believe that the character survives in the end. Nope is about exploitation, fame, spectacle, and nature in its Spielbergian story of Emerald (Keke Palmer) and OJ's quest to catch a flying saucer on film.
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