“Well, in Japan, they sell movie pamphlets at the theatre, and I saw that they had shot it in the daytime. They didn't have the technology to film at night back then.”
Kojima saw Jaws as a child and remembered the opening scene, the girl attacked at night; in Japan movie pamphlets are sold at cinemas, and in one pamphlet he read that the scene had been shot in daytime because at the time they did not have the technology to film at night. He found that interesting but mostly shocking — so this is how it’s done — and says that is one of the things that makes cinema great; he loves seeing behind the scenes, and NOPE, he told Peele, also conceals a lot of technique.
“I saw Jaws as a kid. And you know that first scene at night when the girl gets attacked? Well, in Japan, they sell movie pamphlets at the theatre, and I saw that they had shot it in the daytime. […] It was interesting, but I was more shocked than anything else. Like, so this is how they make it.”