Why Was The Shoe Standing Up In Nope? What It Really Means
Warning: This post contains SPOILERS for Nope!
Jordan Peele's Nope includes a mysterious shoe multiple times, and audiences may wonder why it was standing upright in the movie. The latest from the director of Get Out, Nope primarilyfocuses on an attempt to capture a UFO on camera, yet there's another element of the story that receives ample screentime. Nope repeatedly mentions and shows an incident from Ricky's (Steven Yeun) past when a chimpanzee performer went on a violent rampage during the filming of a sitcom. Amid the ape's assault on his co-stars, there's great emphasis put on a young woman's shoe standing upright in the middle of the set.
The importance of Nope's standing shoe is clear, as it is part of one of the movie's earliest sequences, revisited again later in more detail. The movie shows the blue and white shoe standing upright with a few drops of blood on it. Ricky is later revealed to have kept the shoe and included it as part of a collection of artifacts from the sitcom. The mystery of why the shoe was standing is not revealed by the ending of Nope, not even during the second depiction of the horrifying tragedy, which ended in the chimpanzee being shot dead. This lack of explanation leaves the audience to decipher Jordan Peele's intentions with the shoe.
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Since there is no reason given for why the shoe is standing up in Nope, the natural instinct is to link the shoe phenomenon and the chimpanzee's attack to the UFO plot of the movie. The UFO creates multiple anomalies in Nope, and the shoe standing up in Nope could seem to be the result of another supernatural anomaly decades earlier. There is also the possibility that Nope's
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