@@Commander_Shepard. I figure the amount he had rendered him unable to do anything in that moment. I mean it was enough to kill him. Whiskey mentioned he couldn’t even have a drop and he had much more than a drop.
Not only does he copy Steve Jobs outfit, but his outfit when he is first introduced is directly from Tom Cruise’s sex-guru character from Magnolia. The ponytail, the red shirt, the black vest, all of it. At first I thought it was a subtle nod at his douchebag-ery but now I realize he was just copying styles still.
The Serena Williams appearance, great as it is, gets even better when you see that the book she's reading is "Gravity's Rainbow", which in "Knives Out" Benoit mentioned as a book nobody reads.
I’m sorry, but I think Benoit Blanc is Daniel Craig’s best performance. He looks like he’s just having so much fun with the character and I’m loving it!
I grew up watching James Bond (my father and I would do marathons every year) and have seen them all. It feels blasphemous in a way to say it, but I 100% agree. I really love him so much more as Blanc!
@@mahelaniarektbb he did a great Bond, but Blanc feels like it’s HIS character, you know? Bond is a role other actors get to play, but Blanc is *his* role. I really couldn’t see anybody else playing it.
glad yall recognized that the only reason the group held Miles to justice was because he was ruined. some people who watched it thought they all suddenly cared about doing the right thing just because the movie inexplicably decided A̶n̶d̶i̶ Helen was compelling enough to change their integrity. they were still “shitheads” & it was just advantageous at that point to throw him under the bus.
Eh I feel like they all wanted to change, they wanted to get out from under him. They constantly talked about how they didnt like him and how they wanted out they also felt guilt over what they had done but he was there golden titty. So when Helen started her last attempt it gave them the right push to finally let go and say F miles but also because Miles was ruined. Like it constantly showed there complexity there still shitheads but they also do have some morales.
I mean, won’t they get in trouble for lying under oath? They never wanted to do what he wanted to begin with, so ur right in that they didn’t exactly change much. But they could get in major trouble regardless
@@ma.2089 Maybe they have a case to say they misremembered? I mean, it was at a bar, and if someone told me how a memory played out my brain would probably remember it the same way. I don't actually know how well that'd hold up in court, but I do see potential logic in it.
I want to thank Calvin for pointing out Helen became a disruptor. She broke the one thing no one (not even the audience) wanted broken - The Mona Lisa. I missed that on the first watch.
The way Miles describes a Disruptor is exactly what she did. She star broking something small, and everyone start breaking, but at some point, she start breaking and crossing the line, until she break someone no one wants to break.
It was a nice nod to how these detective characters are often gay-coded, but it's also a little annoying that they tried to take credit for making the character gay when they deliberately made it as deniable as possible.
@@trickster721 I liked it better that it wasn't so obvious that they're gay. It just shows a normal couple. Doesn't need to yell in our face "They're gay!!" to show gay people.
@@trickster721 I somewhat agree but I will add this might be a practical decision, maybe the result of filming all these cameos during covid/not having room for this relationship in a movie filled with characters to remember. We know there will be sequels so I'd say it's a safe bet to believe it's not the last time we see the husband!
@@DaggerSkullery Yeah THIS !! That's the correct way to do representation instead of "Hey look guys, look, check this out, a rare gay human being, see ? we have a gay person in our show !!"
A good example is Miles murdering Duke - the film literally shows Miles giving his glass to Duke, but it's such an innocuous shot that you probably won't notice until you watch it a second time and know what to look for
Yeah you are rewarded for paying attention. I saw the glass thing the first time I watched and when I watched the movie again with my parents I clearly saw Miles taking the gun.
I wanted to write that after they said the movie gets weaker on the second rewatch. I strongly disagree. Its not only the sleight of hand things you miss but also the in-your-face stuff. The movie literally tells you that Miles can only be a suspect if hes a fning idiot multiple times. But of course we the watchers automatically think hes a genius because hes a billionaire. And of course it coming out during Elons Twitter saga is chefs kiss.
Yeah, Hugh Grant has been confirmed as his husband. I imagine the name thing is 'cause Blanc sounds snappier called out like that, and they probably met during a case or something. Fun fact! Apparently Blanc's cases don't pay very well so Phillip is the (literal) breadwinner while Blanc is a bit of a trophy husband.
My favorite thing that I saw pointed out elsewhere is that the Among Us game is actually thematic! Blanc and Helen are both "impostor" guests - Blanc uninvited, and Helen posing as Andi. By the end, everyone else voted Miles "out" by turning against him. I honestly find that so clever, and it's a detail that people just think is a gag!
Something I noticed about the Among Us game? The killer was discovered before anybody had been killed. Exactly the same way that Blanc solved the murder mystery game.
"Derol" is a friend of Rian Johnson, and appears in all his movies. In Knives Out, he's one of the detectives interviewing the family. Netflix did a viral marketing campaign where they pretended to sell the island on Zillow. Derol was the seller. The clock gong is played by Joseph Gordon levitt, another person who appears in Rian Johnson movies. In Knives out, he's a cop in the background, and you can just about hear him on screen. Ethan Hawke has a cameo in the movie as he happened to be in the area, filming Moon Knight at the time. The painting of Miles is a painting of Norton's head on Brad Pitt's body from Fight Club. Glass Onion is based on a project by Stephen Sondheim. He has a cameo due to the fact this sort of murder mystery is based on his famous Hollywood murder mystery parties. He was also great friends with Angela Landsbury, and said she'd do a cameo too as he already was. Natasha Lyone is also one of the Among Us players, as her next series was a murder mystery series created by Johnson. Netflix pushed to have A Knives Out Mystery added to the title. Johnsons wanted each movie to be a self contained story about a famous detective, like the Marple/Poitrot shows. He wanted them so disconnected, that he briefly toyed with the idea of Blanc having a different accent in every movie, just as a gag for the audience (no other characters cross over, so would never bring it up).
Derol also holds a CORONA in every scene and constantly reminds people to pretend he's not there. ;) It's entirely possible that Miles' vaccine spray is a scam as well.
@@zachgaskins3731 I thought it was a joke on billionaires already having the vaccine while publicly denying its efficiency. Edit: 30 min later it just dawned on me that they were being chipped.
It's so interesting that we can now have films and tv as a "covid period-piece", that couple of years segment where everything was different. Masks, greeting with elbows, playing Among Us to socialise with friends.
I think you got it mixed up. He didnt give France a loan in exchange for the Mona Lisa, France loaned the Mona Lisa to him in exchange for a large amount of money, but the Mona Lisa is still state property and he would have to give it back (presumably once Covid ended and the Louvre opened again). Thats why the Mona Lisa getting destroyed on his watch with his own product that he put all his companys resources into is such a devastating blow for Miles, one he will never recover from, even if they couldnt prove he committed the murders
The movie created a Medical Macguffin at the start which Ethan Hawke distributed to allow the filmmakers to ignore the pandemic for the rest of the movie -- and they make a joke with Derol representing COVID-19. He walks through the island arrival scene carrying Corona beer and says "Ignore me!" Which the film proceeds to do.
It hurt me to my soul when Calvin said Stephen Sondheim was a murder mystery writer... Sondheim is one of the most famous and prolific musical theatre writers of all time.
@@Dan_G.R.S. Thanks for mentioning that! Johnson paid a bit of homage to The Last of Sheila in this movie, by including a sequence on a luxury yacht (most of TLOS takes place on a yacht in the Mediterranean), and featuring a scene with all the characters lined up on the gangplank, just as in the poster for TLOS. (AND yes, Sondheim wrote, just to stick to things that became successful movies, the lyrics of West Side Story, and music & lyrics for Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods.)
My favorite Derol theory I saw was someone pointing out that he makes a fine metaphor for COVID. Shows up right after they get the magic throat spray that (given what we know about Miles) probably does nothing, says 'pretend I'm not here,' and hangs around in the background as they all decide to ignore him.
Also when Blanc disappears at the end and misses the "Disruption" It's because he was Getting Derol out of the building, knowing that Helen was going to burn it down
This movie is exceptional at gaslighting you and the characters. It will literally show you the truth and then turn around and tell you right to your face you're wrong and this is what actually happened and if you question it they pile more on to make you feel like you were indeed wrong.
One thing that I adore about this movie is, looking at the actors, you can tell that everyone, but specially Kate Hudson and Edward Norton, are having so much fun. And that doesn't happen a lot, similar to like...Chris Evans or Michael Shannon in Knives Out.
I just realized Mile's last word, he got from Helen. Up until the very end, he still didn't have any ideas that are his own. Also, the stark difference of Blanc's reaction to solving the murder mystery game that "Gillian Flynn" wrote to his reaction to what Miles "came up" with. He was so happy solving the first one, and then was so exasperated with Miles' actions. He does hate dumb things.
The assistant, played by the talented Jessica henwick, also played coleen wing in the Netflix iron Fist series. She was the best part of the show and i hope she comes back to the mcu in the near future.
@@hellfish2309 I agree. She was also wasted in that greyman movie as well. I wish she got leading roles in movies and TV shows. She's a really good actress.
She was considered for Xialing in Shang-Chi, but had to choose between reading for that and The Matrix: Resurrections. Apparently, she was told that getting the part of Xialing would also mean closing the door on Colleen Wing returning...which means that door is still open. I hope they put her in Shang-Chi 2 or Daredevil: Born Again. Seems like either one should be easy enough from a story standpoint, provided she's available.
And Natasha Leone is the star of Rian Johnson’s new mystery series Poker Face on Peacock. Stephen Sondheim, in addition to his prolific career in musical theater, also wrote several mysteries for the stage and screen as well.
personally, I think it gets better each time you see it. Once you're done being swept up in the mystery you can pay attention to background details, and actually see all the beats being laid down. such a fun movie!
What I love is that Duke is all about men’s rights and being an alpha male, but his mother not only slaps him for the way he spoke to her, but she made him hold the laundry basket so she could do it. 😂
The movie makes it clear he isnt actually about men's rights at all, with the whole cucking thing. Plus how he defers to the women in the film. The men's rights thing is a front, for internet clout. It's all for show. Which is a commentary in and of itself.
The visual, the soundtrack, the story. All of it is Brilliant! Even at the end Helen sitting there smiling just like the Mona Lisa. Everything was thought out and perfect. I love the first one but I adore this one more. Cant wait for more in this series.
Fun fact: The actress who plays the assistant Jessica Henwick was one of the front-runners for the role of Rey in the sequel trilogy but lost the role to Daisy Ridley. She still had a role in it, playing Jessika Pava, but was cut from Johnson's TLJ.
I think Johnson said that he didn't realise that her character survived to the end of TFA, which is why she wasn't there, and he cast her in this film as an apology
@@christianwise637 And later during the Poe Dameron comics they explained that she and the rest of Black Squadron were out of TLJ because of a mission (that almos killed them all)
as far as calling someone you are dating by their last name goes... the first thing i thought of was how emily axford calls her husband brian murphy (both are from college humor, dimension 20, naddpod) "murph" and i love that. i dated a guy i was friends with first and called him by his last name because that is what i had always called him. i think it is kinda cute lol
The 4 zoom cameos have all written or starred in murder-mysteries, plot wise it was to point out how Blanc is terrible at simple mysteries because he looks for more complex answers and misses the obvious.
As far as the cameos go, I love the way they worked the various real-life people in the story, like Stephen Sondheim and Serena Williams, in ways that seem plausible; the one exception is Yo-Yo Ma, who would be highly unlikely to attend a New York "Pod Party" like the one Birdie hosts at the beginning. (I do enjoy how he talks about Bach and fugue structure, though.)
I can’t believe none of y’all knew the name Stephen Sondheim. One of the most influential and incredible musical theatre composers. RIP Steve. Time for me to listen to Sunday in the Park with George again.
and be sad when you get to Move On again? also More red And a little more red Blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue Even, even Good Bum bum bum Bum bum bum bum bum bum
Stephen Sondheim is the single greatest musical-theater composer/lyricist that has ever lived. The ones you might be familiar with include Into the Woods and Sweeney Todd (others you may have heard of: Company, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Follies, Sunday in the Park with George, and he wrote the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy). The reason he's in the movie, however, is that he co-wrote the screenplay for a murder mystery movie called "The Last of Sheila," which this film borrows heavily from. This is both Stephen Sondheim's and Angela Lansbury's final appearance on screen.
Great reaction! Re: Hugh Grant's character using Benoit's surname: in Elizabeth Peters' series about archeologist detective Amelia Peabody, the much-in-love Emersons call each other by their last names(her maiden name) because they did so when they were first courting and therefore it evokes cherished memories. My theory is that Blanc and his boyfriend/husband have a similar situation.
I recoiled in horror at the “I think Stephen Sondheim is a producer or something” bit! It’s fine. It’s ok. Not everyone knows America’s greatest (at that time) living composer and lyricist.
Sondheim wrote musicals… Sweeney Todd, and Into the Woods are two of his most recognizable. He had a long wonderful working relationship with Angela Lansbury. He gave her her first big lead in Anyone Can Whistle and cast her as the first and definitive Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd. He wrote one stage play which was a murder mystery and I believe something of an influence on this film.
Loved Helen's Mona Lisa smile in the end there. During the whole movie I thought that Whiskey was played by Florence Pugh, but it was in fact Madelyn Cline. It's a fun movie. I think I still like watching Knives Out for repeated rewatching. The cast of both movies is totally stacked so you can rest assured that Rian's next Blanc mystery will be just as well stacked. Johnson did make a deal with Netflix for two Knives Out sequels for $400 million. I was lucky enough to see this in the theater and they definitely should run it in the theaters for longer. I do like the characters here as well and I do feel they have their own personalities. Karem Abuhl Jabar is a huge Sherlock Holmes fan and writer as well. That's why I believe he's in their group.
Watched this over Christmas with all of my family and we all had HUGE fun watching it. Such a great absorbing film, providing a good time and a compelling mystery seems to be the aim and I love that. I can't wait for more Knives Out films.
The more I watch this movie, the more I notice...interesting little tidbits...a sneaky killer hiding in plain sight, using gaslighting and misdirection to sway a crowd of innocents to go with his story (and speaking intellectually to convince others of his competence), calling the lights as a sabotage, meetings with the crew being called to vote, right down to a race between an innocent and the killer to get to the button to lead to the final meeting... Rian Johnson, you sneaky bastard...he made an Among Us movie! Even had Benoit Blanc playing it right at the beginning, in our face all along! xD
While obviously destroying the real Mona Lisa would be awful, I think for the context of Miles and the movie it’s the best possible ending. Aside from his line about being remembered in the same breath as it, he had it on loan. Everything else he could have paid for, but it both ruined his potential riches in showing how destructive the fuel is, and quite possibly ruined his current riches by having him have to pay off the loss of the Mona Lisa.
I think what I like about the Mona Lisa in this movie is that the painting itself became glass onion, no one knows who the painting was of so people then put their own ideas onto the painting of being mysterious. In reality it’s just a really good painting of some unknown lady. Also some artists have said that the painting would burn in a specific way do to how it was painted/the material it was painted on and not the way it was shown in the movie, the Louvre likely just gave Miles a good copy and he was none the wiser.
The cameos in among us all are murder mystery related. Angelia Lansbury of course for murder she wrote Stephen Sondheim wrote the mystery movie "The Last of Sheila (which I feel like inspired this movie) Natasha Lyonne stars in a mystery show called Poker face produced by Rian Johnson ( I highly recommend it, its basically hour long versions of Knives Out/Glass Onion) And Kareem Abdul Jabbar has written multiple mystery novels based on Sherlocks brother, Mycroft
Stephen Sondheim was THE father of modern American musical theater. His work includes Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, and Company. FWIW, Angela Lansbury starred in the original cast of Sweeney Todd.
I liked the first one more for several reasons, but this is also really entertaining and engaging! Bonus points for all the cameos… I was basically the Rick Dalton pointing at tv meme every time someone showed up. Hugh Grant was my favourite lmao
We had 6 "Daniel"s in our year throughout high school, at first calling them by their last names was a way to differentiate but after 4 years it became a term such of endearment I would get momentarily flustered when my friend "Avrahami" would introduce herself as "Danielle".
My favorite little fun fact about this is when he throws the ipad to Blanc, he throws an Ipad Pro meaning he didnt even realize its a Pro because later he says "Blanc deserves and Ipad Pro this time"
I freakin love these movies and I freakin love that they want to do them forever. Daniel Craig will be 95, incoherent and in a wheelchair and I'll still be sitting in a theater watching him solve murder mysteries
I like how the title is the ending. An onion has layers, and is usually used to describe something very complex. Few people seem to realize that a Glass Onion is see through, and not complex at all. A very different movie from Knives Out but both topical and on the nose. Not so much a murder mystery. I do have a tiny suggestion.. I think after movies, and perhaps the finale of TV shows.. you should go over the IMDB trivia. It's like another fun "reaction" on top of the reaction. Plus I think it would help with retention too! Right before you hit the button say "stay tuned after the video for discussion and our reaction to the IMDB trivia!" This movie especially would have been an awesome segment of going over the IMDB trivia!
Stephen Sondheim, aside from writing "The Last of Sheila", which has a very similar plot to Glass Onion, also wrote the song Benoit Blanc was singing in the car in Knives Out ("Losing My Mind" from Follies). So Benoit is obviously a fan.
Rewatching this movie is so interesting especially when you see Miles’ reaction to Andi after she arrives from the boat. Miles: Andi? You’re *here*? Andi: I am. Miles: Huh? He likely didn’t even know/remembered that Andi had a twin sister until someone else mentioned it despite the fact that he worked with Andi for awhile.
since edward nortons character does nothing for himself a lot of people think he steals his idea from the dude who’s wandering around the island. he just waits til he’s high and writes his ideas down. also the speech earlier in the movie mirrors all the glass being broken in the end. also also Young Miles is dressed almost exactly like Tom Cruise in Magnolia because he probably sees him as inspirational.
The funniest part about the Elon Musk stuff lining up with this movie is that when Rian Johnson said that the character of Miles was not based on Musk, a bunch of Musk fanboys wouldn't believe him. Basically going "what do you mean, it's about a billionaire inventor who's actully an idiot, we know our guy when we see him!"
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7:38 I love the idea that Ethan Hawke literally waltzed over from the set of Moon Knight and then waltzed back, and the only different thing about his character is no cane and a ponytail.
Strongly disagree that this movie loses rewatch value. It's SO FUN to rewatch. A) because the set up first hour drags less when you know the underlying tensions already, and B) because it's super fun to watch all the clues! The phone and gun especially were right there on screen!
This movie is incredibly fun Glass Onion is a term used to define something that appears more than it is, but is actually just what it appeared to be. Derol is the embodiment of this. Since people always think theres more to him than what we see, but in actuality he's what he appears to be.
“They reveled in breaking his shit, but not to the point of breaking ALL his shit.” Yup! And that brings it all back around very nicely to what Miles says about “disruptors”. You start off small, breaking some minor thing most people actually want gone anyway - Helen starts by smashing the glass statues, and lets be honest who wouldn’t? You’ve got a big open room meant for people to socialize and hang out in but it’s full of these dumb, fragile, precariously perched glass sculptures that you have to tiptoe around constantly for fear of knocking them over - who WOULDNT wanna smash the dumb things? But then you reach that “infraction” point where you decide to break the thing nobody else wants broken, and THATS when you have the chance to become a real disruptor. The rest of them didn’t want her destroying the Mona Lisa, cause they were ultimately just performative disruptors doing it for their own selfish benefit. Hell, *I* didn’t want her destroying the Mona Lisa either! And I don’t like that she did it, even though I understand why. But Helen didn’t flinch from crossing even that line, because she had genuine purpose to her disruption.
5:49 I wasn't expecting a mention of my fav puzzle game serious, but that was a welcome surprise! I adore The Room games, absolutely underrated masterpieces. 👌🏻
Just a point regarding the "Knives out" in the title. I hadn't watched Knives Out before, but it was in my watch list. I knew it was a good movie but just had never picked it up. When Glass Onion started showing up in my recommendations, it reminded me that I should probably watch the first movie, before watching this one. So yeah, just another perspective about it.
Rick: "There's a game called the Room..." YES! All three of them are amazing. They really drew me in and enraptured me when I first played them. I still go back from time to time and play them to rediscover them again. Love that Rick is familiar with the games!
What I loved when I was watching this movie is when I saw some mistakes and thought it's just a director's fault, like this made up words, or when they showed how Duke picked up Miles' drink from the table, when before, it was clear that Miles handed it to Duke. And then, when I think that it's important to think about such details and Rian Johnson simply fucked up, it turns out that it was an intentional decision and everything is correct. Now I fucking love Rian Johnson even more and can't wait to finally watch his recent TV mystery show, Poker Face, starring Natasha Lyonne, the girl in the top right corner in a Zoom Meeting during Among Us
ending scene: Janelle Monae Lisa Also, Natasha Lyonne (one of the 4 playing Among Us) is in another upcoming murder mystery series of Rian Johnson titled Poker Face on Peacock streaming platform.
I totally thought the Mona Lisa security door would be used to decapitate someone too, but he did say some of the clues would be red herrings. I'm pretty sure this film is rammed full of foreshadowing and easter eggs that other channels have probably covered already.
Jessica Henwick, the actress that plays Birdie's assistant Peg, was also Colleen Wing in Iron Fist, Luke Cage, and The Defenders. That could also be where Calvin recognized her from.
Watching this and Knives Out over again definitely loses something from the first watch, BUT I think that's why they stacked both movies with such memorable characters played by an amazing cast. Because even if you know the twist, it's fun to watch Jaimie Lee Curtis, Katherine Hahn, Chris Evans, Dave Bautista, etc. just really play some bastards
Not only was Peg in the Matrix movie, she was also Nimeria Sand in Game of Thrones. Derol is played by Noah Segan, who played the assistant cop in Knives Out.
Sorry, I like when people speculate. I like knowing people's theories and how they get it totally wrong, but still came up with good alternatives. I was looking forward to y'alls speculation during the film.
Netflix wanted to keep the name Knives Out because people knew the name, like Calvin said. I waited for Rick to be the one picking up Miles being the killer when they show him giving the glass to Duke and then lie about it. One reactor has got that thus far that I've seen lol
After the success of Knives Out , Netflix contracted TWO more Blanc movies, this one and the one to come. They MAY have left an open option for more, but they have not yet been approved. So for Now, we can expect only ONE more Knives Out Mystery.
19:00 did the editor skip one of the setup talks for the end? Didn't the editor himself see the movie? You skipped an important plot point! 22:10 none of the reaction channels have heard that he called her Helen.
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Damn you kids I can almost name all the blades on the wal, but the guy with the Tam keeps getting his noggin in the way . Head down. Your like sputnik
OK NM I know now
No shame. No water in my whiskey
the fact that duke kept a loaded gun on him but not an epipen is so telling
BAHAHAH
Oh shit- youre so right
He might have had an epipen but they wouldn't have thought to look for it since they didn't know he was having an allergic reaction.
@@Destiny87 If he had one on hand (in his pocket or something) he would have at least tried to reach it.
@@Commander_Shepard. I figure the amount he had rendered him unable to do anything in that moment. I mean it was enough to kill him.
Whiskey mentioned he couldn’t even have a drop and he had much more than a drop.
I love how utterly devoid of original thought Miles Bron is. Even burning the napkin at the end was an idea put into his head by Lionel.
He portrayed Steve Jobs
Also, the fact that he called the disruptors "shitheads" at the end is only because Helen said it first
Edward Norton himself said that Miles Bron has never had an original idea in his life.
@@FallenOne669my headcanon is that Miles had one original idea long ago and it went so disastrously wrong that his mind blocked it out 😂
Not only does he copy Steve Jobs outfit, but his outfit when he is first introduced is directly from Tom Cruise’s sex-guru character from Magnolia. The ponytail, the red shirt, the black vest, all of it. At first I thought it was a subtle nod at his douchebag-ery but now I realize he was just copying styles still.
The Serena Williams appearance, great as it is, gets even better when you see that the book she's reading is "Gravity's Rainbow", which in "Knives Out" Benoit mentioned as a book nobody reads.
I swear to god these movies have more references and callbacks than I’ll ever be able to discover in my lifetime!
I’m sorry, but I think Benoit Blanc is Daniel Craig’s best performance. He looks like he’s just having so much fun with the character and I’m loving it!
I grew up watching James Bond (my father and I would do marathons every year) and have seen them all. It feels blasphemous in a way to say it, but I 100% agree. I really love him so much more as Blanc!
@@mahelaniarektbb he did a great Bond, but Blanc feels like it’s HIS character, you know? Bond is a role other actors get to play, but Blanc is *his* role. I really couldn’t see anybody else playing it.
It helps that hes playing this role after having done so many 007 movies, to see him play out a different charismatic character and flex his humor
His performance in Logan Lucky too.
@@brianb-t4v funny thing is i can see benoit blanc becoming a character in the future played by future actors, and it all starts with daniel craig
glad yall recognized that the only reason the group held Miles to justice was because he was ruined. some people who watched it thought they all suddenly cared about doing the right thing just because the movie inexplicably decided A̶n̶d̶i̶ Helen was compelling enough to change their integrity. they were still “shitheads” & it was just advantageous at that point to throw him under the bus.
Eh I feel like they all wanted to change, they wanted to get out from under him. They constantly talked about how they didnt like him and how they wanted out they also felt guilt over what they had done but he was there golden titty. So when Helen started her last attempt it gave them the right push to finally let go and say F miles but also because Miles was ruined. Like it constantly showed there complexity there still shitheads but they also do have some morales.
Now people only need to recognize that Andy was a shithead too.
I mantain that my ideal version of a Knives Out series is one where blanc helps his various underlings get away with murdering rich assholes.
I mean, won’t they get in trouble for lying under oath? They never wanted to do what he wanted to begin with, so ur right in that they didn’t exactly change much. But they could get in major trouble regardless
@@ma.2089 Maybe they have a case to say they misremembered? I mean, it was at a bar, and if someone told me how a memory played out my brain would probably remember it the same way. I don't actually know how well that'd hold up in court, but I do see potential logic in it.
I want to thank Calvin for pointing out Helen became a disruptor. She broke the one thing no one (not even the audience) wanted broken - The Mona Lisa. I missed that on the first watch.
In turn becoming the only true disrupter among them
I was actually cheering her to burn it.
The way Miles describes a Disruptor is exactly what she did. She star broking something small, and everyone start breaking, but at some point, she start breaking and crossing the line, until she break someone no one wants to break.
Also, her becoming the Mona Lisa at the end shot there- same posture and angle
She was the only true disruptor from the beginning.
Ethan hawke filmed his cameo while filming Moon Knight, he took a quick flight from Budapest to Greece and that’s why he felt so Arthur Harrowy
I never knew that
I think Rick referenced that in the moon knight reaction
@@roxtechs I guess when I watched those reactions I just didn’t know what glass onion was so when it was mentioned I probably tuned it out lmao
"This is the face of a good man"
Oh! I THOUGHT his current look was very similar to "Moon Knight".
“That has to be his husband, right?”
Historians will say they were roommates.
It was a nice nod to how these detective characters are often gay-coded, but it's also a little annoying that they tried to take credit for making the character gay when they deliberately made it as deniable as possible.
Rian Johnson has done interviews saying that Blanc was queer and Hugh Grant is his husband.
@@trickster721 I liked it better that it wasn't so obvious that they're gay. It just shows a normal couple. Doesn't need to yell in our face "They're gay!!" to show gay people.
@@trickster721 I somewhat agree but I will add this might be a practical decision, maybe the result of filming all these cameos during covid/not having room for this relationship in a movie filled with characters to remember. We know there will be sequels so I'd say it's a safe bet to believe it's not the last time we see the husband!
@@DaggerSkullery Yeah THIS !! That's the correct way to do representation instead of "Hey look guys, look, check this out, a rare gay human being, see ? we have a gay person in our show !!"
Hugh Grant having flour on his face from making bread like a lot of people did in lockdown was a nice touch
This movie gets *better* on the rewatch because you can actually see everything that happened but missed because of the sleight of hand of the movie.
I was gonna type out exactly this 🤣
A good example is Miles murdering Duke - the film literally shows Miles giving his glass to Duke, but it's such an innocuous shot that you probably won't notice until you watch it a second time and know what to look for
Yeah you are rewarded for paying attention. I saw the glass thing the first time I watched and when I watched the movie again with my parents I clearly saw Miles taking the gun.
I wanted to write that after they said the movie gets weaker on the second rewatch. I strongly disagree. Its not only the sleight of hand things you miss but also the in-your-face stuff.
The movie literally tells you that Miles can only be a suspect if hes a fning idiot multiple times.
But of course we the watchers automatically think hes a genius because hes a billionaire. And of course it coming out during Elons Twitter saga is chefs kiss.
@@H8B7L what does this have to do with Elon lol
Yeah, Hugh Grant has been confirmed as his husband. I imagine the name thing is 'cause Blanc sounds snappier called out like that, and they probably met during a case or something. Fun fact! Apparently Blanc's cases don't pay very well so Phillip is the (literal) breadwinner while Blanc is a bit of a trophy husband.
22:00 I love that in all of the reactions that I've watched, no one seems to notice Blanc calls her Helen.
My favorite thing that I saw pointed out elsewhere is that the Among Us game is actually thematic! Blanc and Helen are both "impostor" guests - Blanc uninvited, and Helen posing as Andi. By the end, everyone else voted Miles "out" by turning against him. I honestly find that so clever, and it's a detail that people just think is a gag!
Something I noticed about the Among Us game? The killer was discovered before anybody had been killed. Exactly the same way that Blanc solved the murder mystery game.
"Derol" is a friend of Rian Johnson, and appears in all his movies. In Knives Out, he's one of the detectives interviewing the family. Netflix did a viral marketing campaign where they pretended to sell the island on Zillow. Derol was the seller.
The clock gong is played by Joseph Gordon levitt, another person who appears in Rian Johnson movies. In Knives out, he's a cop in the background, and you can just about hear him on screen.
Ethan Hawke has a cameo in the movie as he happened to be in the area, filming Moon Knight at the time.
The painting of Miles is a painting of Norton's head on Brad Pitt's body from Fight Club.
Glass Onion is based on a project by Stephen Sondheim. He has a cameo due to the fact this sort of murder mystery is based on his famous Hollywood murder mystery parties. He was also great friends with Angela Landsbury, and said she'd do a cameo too as he already was.
Natasha Lyone is also one of the Among Us players, as her next series was a murder mystery series created by Johnson.
Netflix pushed to have A Knives Out Mystery added to the title. Johnsons wanted each movie to be a self contained story about a famous detective, like the Marple/Poitrot shows. He wanted them so disconnected, that he briefly toyed with the idea of Blanc having a different accent in every movie, just as a gag for the audience (no other characters cross over, so would never bring it up).
jgl is a voice on the tv in marta's house in knives out.
Derol also holds a CORONA in every scene and constantly reminds people to pretend he's not there. ;) It's entirely possible that Miles' vaccine spray is a scam as well.
@@zachgaskins3731 did he just infect all of them with COVID? Lol
@@zachgaskins3731 I thought it was a joke on billionaires already having the vaccine while publicly denying its efficiency. Edit: 30 min later it just dawned on me that they were being chipped.
😂
It's so interesting that we can now have films and tv as a "covid period-piece", that couple of years segment where everything was different. Masks, greeting with elbows, playing Among Us to socialise with friends.
Glass Onion and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Two great comedies set during a very strange time period.
@@Little1Cave don't worry, times will get even stranger.
And, buying Mona Lisa because France needed loan because of Covid. It's not just a setting, but a plot point.
I think you got it mixed up. He didnt give France a loan in exchange for the Mona Lisa, France loaned the Mona Lisa to him in exchange for a large amount of money, but the Mona Lisa is still state property and he would have to give it back (presumably once Covid ended and the Louvre opened again). Thats why the Mona Lisa getting destroyed on his watch with his own product that he put all his companys resources into is such a devastating blow for Miles, one he will never recover from, even if they couldnt prove he committed the murders
@@Little1Cave Your bar for "great" comedy is set really low
The movie created a Medical Macguffin at the start which Ethan Hawke distributed to allow the filmmakers to ignore the pandemic for the rest of the movie -- and they make a joke with Derol representing COVID-19. He walks through the island arrival scene carrying Corona beer and says "Ignore me!" Which the film proceeds to do.
It hurt me to my soul when Calvin said Stephen Sondheim was a murder mystery writer... Sondheim is one of the most famous and prolific musical theatre writers of all time.
He DID write ONE mystery! The Last of Sheila! Rian Johnson is a massive fan of that movie. Benoit also sang Follies in the first movie
@@Dan_G.R.S. Thanks for mentioning that! Johnson paid a bit of homage to The Last of Sheila in this movie, by including a sequence on a luxury yacht (most of TLOS takes place on a yacht in the Mediterranean), and featuring a scene with all the characters lined up on the gangplank, just as in the poster for TLOS. (AND yes, Sondheim wrote, just to stick to things that became successful movies, the lyrics of West Side Story, and music & lyrics for Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods.)
Yeah that broke me
all right calm down they don’t have to know every single famous person in existence and have vast knowledge of everything they’ve done
Who also co -wrote “The Last of Sheila” with Anthony Perkins . Rian said that movie influenced his making of “Knives Out “
My favorite Derol theory I saw was someone pointing out that he makes a fine metaphor for COVID. Shows up right after they get the magic throat spray that (given what we know about Miles) probably does nothing, says 'pretend I'm not here,' and hangs around in the background as they all decide to ignore him.
He's also carrying Corona beer almost every time he's shown.
Also when Blanc disappears at the end and misses the "Disruption"
It's because he was Getting Derol out of the building, knowing that Helen was going to burn it down
This movie is exceptional at gaslighting you and the characters. It will literally show you the truth and then turn around and tell you right to your face you're wrong and this is what actually happened and if you question it they pile more on to make you feel like you were indeed wrong.
Except before the movie came out without a script leak everyone knew who was the bad guy and who was the "good girl" just by looking at the poster lol
Hands down the funniest line for me is when Benoit says Oh Lord, help us after seeing the missing knife 😂😂😂 the delivery is impeccable
That last shot...looking like the Mona Lisa smile is perfection ! What a nice revenge !!
According to the actors and the director, Phillip is, indeed, Benoit's husband :)
I assumed he was one of Blanc's staff/butler but it works fine either way.
@@huh4206 Hugh Grant said husband 🤷🏻♀️
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One thing that I adore about this movie is, looking at the actors, you can tell that everyone, but specially Kate Hudson and Edward Norton, are having so much fun. And that doesn't happen a lot, similar to like...Chris Evans or Michael Shannon in Knives Out.
The personal assistant was Colleen Wing on the Netflix Ironfist show. She was the best part of the series.
She was also on Game of Thrones.
She's always great to see. Wonder if she can carry a lead role.
Jessica Henwick ❤️
Jessica Henwick is great in everything I've seen her in.
I was really surprised they didn't recognize her.
The little detail of Helen finding some LSD with tabs missing and then Birdie screaming "what is reality?" when she sees her alive is amazing
When Birdie was first offered drugs, she said "All of them." (Edit: This is a joke, that wasn't in the movie.)
I just realized Mile's last word, he got from Helen. Up until the very end, he still didn't have any ideas that are his own.
Also, the stark difference of Blanc's reaction to solving the murder mystery game that "Gillian Flynn" wrote to his reaction to what Miles "came up" with. He was so happy solving the first one, and then was so exasperated with Miles' actions. He does hate dumb things.
The assistant, played by the talented Jessica henwick, also played coleen wing in the Netflix iron Fist series. She was the best part of the show and i hope she comes back to the mcu in the near future.
Totally wasted in this movie though; what little she’s given she makes sing though
@@hellfish2309 I agree. She was also wasted in that greyman movie as well. I wish she got leading roles in movies and TV shows. She's a really good actress.
She was considered for Xialing in Shang-Chi, but had to choose between reading for that and The Matrix: Resurrections. Apparently, she was told that getting the part of Xialing would also mean closing the door on Colleen Wing returning...which means that door is still open. I hope they put her in Shang-Chi 2 or Daredevil: Born Again. Seems like either one should be easy enough from a story standpoint, provided she's available.
@@Swenglish yeah I have heard about this. I hope she does come back. She is one of the best female characters in the mcu for me.
They might also recognise her from Game of Thrones as Nymeria, one of the Sand Snakes
Kareem is included in the Among Us game because he writes mystery novels about Sherlock Holmes brother
can you explain?
WTF, how have I never heard this?
@@trickster721 he was also a staff writer on the revival of the Veronica Mars tv show back in 2019
And Natasha Leone is the star of Rian Johnson’s new mystery series Poker Face on Peacock.
Stephen Sondheim, in addition to his prolific career in musical theater, also wrote several mysteries for the stage and screen as well.
The Mycroft books are really good.
personally, I think it gets better each time you see it. Once you're done being swept up in the mystery you can pay attention to background details, and actually see all the beats being laid down. such a fun movie!
Fun fact: While Kareem Abdul Jabbar is most famously known as a basketball player, he has also authored mystery novels!
I was today years old when I found this out!
What I love is that Duke is all about men’s rights and being an alpha male, but his mother not only slaps him for the way he spoke to her, but she made him hold the laundry basket so she could do it. 😂
The movie makes it clear he isnt actually about men's rights at all, with the whole cucking thing. Plus how he defers to the women in the film. The men's rights thing is a front, for internet clout. It's all for show. Which is a commentary in and of itself.
The visual, the soundtrack, the story. All of it is Brilliant! Even at the end Helen sitting there smiling just like the Mona Lisa. Everything was thought out and perfect. I love the first one but I adore this one more. Cant wait for more in this series.
Fun fact: The actress who plays the assistant Jessica Henwick was one of the front-runners for the role of Rey in the sequel trilogy but lost the role to Daisy Ridley. She still had a role in it, playing Jessika Pava, but was cut from Johnson's TLJ.
I think Johnson said that he didn't realise that her character survived to the end of TFA, which is why she wasn't there, and he cast her in this film as an apology
@@christianwise637 And later during the Poe Dameron comics they explained that she and the rest of Black Squadron were out of TLJ because of a mission (that almos killed them all)
as far as calling someone you are dating by their last name goes... the first thing i thought of was how emily axford calls her husband brian murphy (both are from college humor, dimension 20, naddpod) "murph" and i love that. i dated a guy i was friends with first and called him by his last name because that is what i had always called him. i think it is kinda cute lol
The 4 zoom cameos have all written or starred in murder-mysteries, plot wise it was to point out how Blanc is terrible at simple mysteries because he looks for more complex answers and misses the obvious.
Lets hope Rick's predictions are as bad as they were in the first Knives Out reaction!
"Everything I say is immediately proven wrong!"
As far as the cameos go, I love the way they worked the various real-life people in the story, like Stephen Sondheim and Serena Williams, in ways that seem plausible; the one exception is Yo-Yo Ma, who would be highly unlikely to attend a New York "Pod Party" like the one Birdie hosts at the beginning. (I do enjoy how he talks about Bach and fugue structure, though.)
I can’t believe none of y’all knew the name Stephen Sondheim. One of the most influential and incredible musical theatre composers. RIP Steve. Time for me to listen to Sunday in the Park with George again.
and be sad when you get to Move On again?
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Stephen Sondheim is the single greatest musical-theater composer/lyricist that has ever lived. The ones you might be familiar with include Into the Woods and Sweeney Todd (others you may have heard of: Company, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Follies, Sunday in the Park with George, and he wrote the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy). The reason he's in the movie, however, is that he co-wrote the screenplay for a murder mystery movie called "The Last of Sheila," which this film borrows heavily from. This is both Stephen Sondheim's and Angela Lansbury's final appearance on screen.
None of the things you named are great so how is he the greatest?
@@ygkemosabi8280 enjoy your ignorance and wrong opinions LOL
@@ygkemosabi8280 Into the Woods definitely is. Other than the Disney movie version.
Did you notice Derol was always holding a bottle of Corona and was always there, hanging out and passing through? Funny bit of nuance, I thought.
Great reaction! Re: Hugh Grant's character using Benoit's surname: in Elizabeth Peters' series about archeologist detective Amelia Peabody, the much-in-love Emersons call each other by their last names(her maiden name) because they did so when they were first courting and therefore it evokes cherished memories. My theory is that Blanc and his boyfriend/husband have a similar situation.
I recoiled in horror at the “I think Stephen Sondheim is a producer or something” bit! It’s fine. It’s ok. Not everyone knows America’s greatest (at that time) living composer and lyricist.
I’m pretty sure they watched Into the Woods on this Channel
@@tcshack701 I was thinking that, as well, but a search only turned up the Brooklyn 99 3x6 episode 'Into the Woods'.
Sondheim wrote musicals… Sweeney Todd, and Into the Woods are two of his most recognizable. He had a long wonderful working relationship with Angela Lansbury. He gave her her first big lead in Anyone Can Whistle and cast her as the first and definitive Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd. He wrote one stage play which was a murder mystery and I believe something of an influence on this film.
Loved Helen's Mona Lisa smile in the end there. During the whole movie I thought that Whiskey was played by Florence Pugh, but it was in fact Madelyn Cline. It's a fun movie. I think I still like watching Knives Out for repeated rewatching. The cast of both movies is totally stacked so you can rest assured that Rian's next Blanc mystery will be just as well stacked. Johnson did make a deal with Netflix for two Knives Out sequels for $400 million. I was lucky enough to see this in the theater and they definitely should run it in the theaters for longer. I do like the characters here as well and I do feel they have their own personalities.
Karem Abuhl Jabar is a huge Sherlock Holmes fan and writer as well. That's why I believe he's in their group.
Watched this over Christmas with all of my family and we all had HUGE fun watching it. Such a great absorbing film, providing a good time and a compelling mystery seems to be the aim and I love that. I can't wait for more Knives Out films.
The more I watch this movie, the more I notice...interesting little tidbits...a sneaky killer hiding in plain sight, using gaslighting and misdirection to sway a crowd of innocents to go with his story (and speaking intellectually to convince others of his competence), calling the lights as a sabotage, meetings with the crew being called to vote, right down to a race between an innocent and the killer to get to the button to lead to the final meeting...
Rian Johnson, you sneaky bastard...he made an Among Us movie! Even had Benoit Blanc playing it right at the beginning, in our face all along! xD
While obviously destroying the real Mona Lisa would be awful, I think for the context of Miles and the movie it’s the best possible ending. Aside from his line about being remembered in the same breath as it, he had it on loan. Everything else he could have paid for, but it both ruined his potential riches in showing how destructive the fuel is, and quite possibly ruined his current riches by having him have to pay off the loss of the Mona Lisa.
I think what I like about the Mona Lisa in this movie is that the painting itself became glass onion, no one knows who the painting was of so people then put their own ideas onto the painting of being mysterious. In reality it’s just a really good painting of some unknown lady.
Also some artists have said that the painting would burn in a specific way do to how it was painted/the material it was painted on and not the way it was shown in the movie, the Louvre likely just gave Miles a good copy and he was none the wiser.
one of my favourite details in the film is that at the end Helen is sitting in the same pose as the Mona Lisa
Hugh Grant’s character and Blanc are indeed together, Rian Johnson confirmed this
The cameos in among us all are murder mystery related.
Angelia Lansbury of course for murder she wrote
Stephen Sondheim wrote the mystery movie "The Last of Sheila (which I feel like inspired this movie)
Natasha Lyonne stars in a mystery show called Poker face produced by Rian Johnson ( I highly recommend it, its basically hour long versions of Knives Out/Glass Onion)
And Kareem Abdul Jabbar has written multiple mystery novels based on Sherlocks brother, Mycroft
Stephen Sondheim was THE father of modern American musical theater. His work includes Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, and Company.
FWIW, Angela Lansbury starred in the original cast of Sweeney Todd.
I liked the first one more for several reasons, but this is also really entertaining and engaging! Bonus points for all the cameos… I was basically the Rick Dalton pointing at tv meme every time someone showed up. Hugh Grant was my favourite lmao
We had 6 "Daniel"s in our year throughout high school, at first calling them by their last names was a way to differentiate but after 4 years it became a term such of endearment I would get momentarily flustered when my friend "Avrahami" would introduce herself as "Danielle".
I’d love for you guys to react to The Menu next!
The better, tighter ‘🖕the useless rich on an island’ movie
My favorite little fun fact about this is when he throws the ipad to Blanc, he throws an Ipad Pro meaning he didnt even realize its a Pro because later he says "Blanc deserves and Ipad Pro this time"
I freakin love these movies and I freakin love that they want to do them forever. Daniel Craig will be 95, incoherent and in a wheelchair and I'll still be sitting in a theater watching him solve murder mysteries
You're the first reaction channel to actually mention that Room video game. I was obsessed with that game and I loved the puzzle box in the movie.
I love that Miles goes into a Munch "The Scream" pose when the Mona Lisa goes up.
I had the EXACT same reaction to seeing Leslie I literally went “Aaron Burr, sir??” cause I was really surprised to see him😭
I like how the title is the ending. An onion has layers, and is usually used to describe something very complex. Few people seem to realize that a Glass Onion is see through, and not complex at all.
A very different movie from Knives Out but both topical and on the nose. Not so much a murder mystery.
I do have a tiny suggestion.. I think after movies, and perhaps the finale of TV shows.. you should go over the IMDB trivia. It's like another fun "reaction" on top of the reaction. Plus I think it would help with retention too! Right before you hit the button say "stay tuned after the video for discussion and our reaction to the IMDB trivia!"
This movie especially would have been an awesome segment of going over the IMDB trivia!
I can't be the only one who noticed Blanc called "Andi" Helen before the movie revealed she's Helen right??
Stephen Sondheim, aside from writing "The Last of Sheila", which has a very similar plot to Glass Onion, also wrote the song Benoit Blanc was singing in the car in Knives Out ("Losing My Mind" from Follies). So Benoit is obviously a fan.
Rewatching this movie is so interesting especially when you see Miles’ reaction to Andi after she arrives from the boat.
Miles: Andi? You’re *here*?
Andi: I am.
Miles: Huh?
He likely didn’t even know/remembered that Andi had a twin sister until someone else mentioned it despite the fact that he worked with Andi for awhile.
The assistant also played one of the sand snakes on game of thrones. That is where I seen her first.
since edward nortons character does nothing for himself a lot of people think he steals his idea from the dude who’s wandering around the island. he just waits til he’s high and writes his ideas down.
also the speech earlier in the movie mirrors all the glass being broken in the end.
also also Young Miles is dressed almost exactly like Tom Cruise in Magnolia because he probably sees him as inspirational.
The funniest part about the Elon Musk stuff lining up with this movie is that when Rian Johnson said that the character of Miles was not based on Musk, a bunch of Musk fanboys wouldn't believe him. Basically going "what do you mean, it's about a billionaire inventor who's actully an idiot, we know our guy when we see him!"
lol
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7:38 I love the idea that Ethan Hawke literally waltzed over from the set of Moon Knight and then waltzed back, and the only different thing about his character is no cane and a ponytail.
Strongly disagree that this movie loses rewatch value. It's SO FUN to rewatch. A) because the set up first hour drags less when you know the underlying tensions already, and B) because it's super fun to watch all the clues! The phone and gun especially were right there on screen!
This movie is incredibly fun
Glass Onion is a term used to define something that appears more than it is, but is actually just what it appeared to be. Derol is the embodiment of this. Since people always think theres more to him than what we see, but in actuality he's what he appears to be.
If you watch Death On the Nile (79) and Evil Under the Sun (82), you can see the clear references. The basic feel. Much more stylized and more camp.
My favorite cameo is Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the Hourly Dong.
“They reveled in breaking his shit, but not to the point of breaking ALL his shit.”
Yup! And that brings it all back around very nicely to what Miles says about “disruptors”. You start off small, breaking some minor thing most people actually want gone anyway - Helen starts by smashing the glass statues, and lets be honest who wouldn’t? You’ve got a big open room meant for people to socialize and hang out in but it’s full of these dumb, fragile, precariously perched glass sculptures that you have to tiptoe around constantly for fear of knocking them over - who WOULDNT wanna smash the dumb things?
But then you reach that “infraction” point where you decide to break the thing nobody else wants broken, and THATS when you have the chance to become a real disruptor. The rest of them didn’t want her destroying the Mona Lisa, cause they were ultimately just performative disruptors doing it for their own selfish benefit. Hell, *I* didn’t want her destroying the Mona Lisa either! And I don’t like that she did it, even though I understand why. But Helen didn’t flinch from crossing even that line, because she had genuine purpose to her disruption.
5:49 I wasn't expecting a mention of my fav puzzle game serious, but that was a welcome surprise! I adore The Room games, absolutely underrated masterpieces. 👌🏻
Hugh Grant is Blanco husband according to a Rian interview
If they do a 3rd I’d want Hugh Grant’s character accused of murder and Benoit exonerating him; tropey, but heart wants
It was great having Helen pose as the Mona Lisa in the last shot of the film.
Funny that you mentioned Netflix not having time stamps, because I’ve been frustrated with that when trying to sync full lengths
Aaron just coming in randomly reminds me of the random guy in the movie, Derol, hanging out on the sidelines, and its hilarious
Yup
The assistant I think was from Iron Fist. And then Helen sitting at the very last scene was the Mona Lisa pose.
Just a point regarding the "Knives out" in the title. I hadn't watched Knives Out before, but it was in my watch list. I knew it was a good movie but just had never picked it up. When Glass Onion started showing up in my recommendations, it reminded me that I should probably watch the first movie, before watching this one. So yeah, just another perspective about it.
Not only is Joseph Gordon-Levitt the Dong noise, but Phillip Glass actually did compose it lol
Rick: "There's a game called the Room..."
YES! All three of them are amazing. They really drew me in and enraptured me when I first played them. I still go back from time to time and play them to rediscover them again. Love that Rick is familiar with the games!
Exactly I keep waiting for someone to recognise that game!
What I loved when I was watching this movie is when I saw some mistakes and thought it's just a director's fault, like this made up words, or when they showed how Duke picked up Miles' drink from the table, when before, it was clear that Miles handed it to Duke. And then, when I think that it's important to think about such details and Rian Johnson simply fucked up, it turns out that it was an intentional decision and everything is correct. Now I fucking love Rian Johnson even more and can't wait to finally watch his recent TV mystery show, Poker Face, starring Natasha Lyonne, the girl in the top right corner in a Zoom Meeting during Among Us
The first five episodes of Poker Face are already available
@@jessicaross7288 Yeah, I know, I'm just waiting for the whole season to drop
ending scene: Janelle Monae Lisa
Also, Natasha Lyonne (one of the 4 playing Among Us) is in another upcoming murder mystery series of Rian Johnson titled Poker Face on Peacock streaming platform.
Really like both. I can highly
Recommend poker face new series another rian Johnson production. Very much a knives out meets columbo meets Tarantino 👍
Poker Face feels more OG Rian Johnson, pre-‘Looper’ … looking forward to it
I totally thought the Mona Lisa security door would be used to decapitate someone too, but he did say some of the clues would be red herrings.
I'm pretty sure this film is rammed full of foreshadowing and easter eggs that other channels have probably covered already.
They need to react to the new Puss in boots movie .
Yess that thing is great - amazing character work
Perfect timing at 19:35
- Poison?
- Allergy!
- Pineapple!
Jessica Henwick, the actress that plays Birdie's assistant Peg, was also Colleen Wing in Iron Fist, Luke Cage, and The Defenders. That could also be where Calvin recognized her from.
Watching this and Knives Out over again definitely loses something from the first watch, BUT I think that's why they stacked both movies with such memorable characters played by an amazing cast. Because even if you know the twist, it's fun to watch Jaimie Lee Curtis, Katherine Hahn, Chris Evans, Dave Bautista, etc. just really play some bastards
Batista's mom was the same lady who was in the quiet car scene in Bullet Train
Not only was Peg in the Matrix movie, she was also Nimeria Sand in Game of Thrones.
Derol is played by Noah Segan, who played the assistant cop in Knives Out.
So sad what they dod to her character in got, she could have have made something with it
Sorry, I like when people speculate. I like knowing people's theories and how they get it totally wrong, but still came up with good alternatives. I was looking forward to y'alls speculation during the film.
Netflix wanted to keep the name Knives Out because people knew the name, like Calvin said. I waited for Rick to be the one picking up Miles being the killer when they show him giving the glass to Duke and then lie about it. One reactor has got that thus far that I've seen lol
The example I wanted to give Eric of people using last names as terms of endearment: Mulder and Scully
After the success of Knives Out , Netflix contracted TWO more Blanc movies, this one and the one to come. They MAY have left an open option for more, but they have not yet been approved.
So for Now, we can expect only ONE more Knives Out Mystery.
Whoever does the outfits and interior design in these movies did such a great job
21:14 Calvin realized he was about to say something very sus and saved himself 😂
19:00 did the editor skip one of the setup talks for the end? Didn't the editor himself see the movie? You skipped an important plot point!
22:10 none of the reaction channels have heard that he called her Helen.