The overarching plot of this movie of how Blanc is just overcomplicating things in his head, because he has trouble understanding dumb people, is such a fresh take on a detective movie.
I agree, but it also feels a little bit like a crutch. For Knives Out, Rian had come up with a really clever, subversive murder mystery plot that felt so well-developed, whereas this one felt like he didn't really have that many ideas, or at least enough time to really develop his ideas, so he had to "cheat" on the premise of writing an actual murder mystery. I wonder what he'll do with the next movie, since he certainly can't do the "the twist is that there is no mystery" again.
@@its_elkku135 EXACTLY. After watching the movie I was honestly dissatisfied. There was no good murder mystery in the murder mystery movie. But that’s honeslty because Glass onion is a dark satirical post covid comedy hidden as a murder mystery.
In regard to the Duke Pineapple setup, the first time I saw the movie when Duke started choking my FIRST thought was "Someone get the epipen! Surely he's got an epipen on his person at all times, right?" But at the same time it is also so totally in character for this man who literally takes a pistol into the pool because "you never know when s**t will go down" to neglect to keep an epipen with him despite having a life-threatening food allergy.
Not only that, we can assume the entire reason that there's no staff there is because Miles was planning on killing Duke all along and didn't want any medical staff on hand who could save him. The linchpin in both Knives Out movies so far has been inadequate medical procedure, lmfao
@@lilithhiddenvillain5086 it really took him being threatened with losing everything before he even tried to kill them. Personally I thought the pineapple was brilliant for being so quick, even though that would also probably be traced back to him. But he actually had a little time to plan to kill Andi and still made it look like a really suspicious suicide. I mean, dying (with sleeping pills in your system!?) from your car blowing up in your own garage??
Miles throwing the IPad from off screen is another funny callback. In an interview, Rian mentioned that Apple will not allow the bad guy of a movie to handle Apple products on camera. So the ipad has to get thrown from offscreen
There’s also the “dot” of red that reveals the mystery to Blanc early on. In knives out it was the blood on the shoe and this one the envelope peaking through
The scene in the bathtub, on the floor is a book called Cain's Jawbone. It's a literal puzzle that required you to re-order all the pages into the right order and solve the murders.And its only been solved three times in 100 years. The fact that it's abandoned on the bathroom floor but intact means Blanc solved it, without needing to take the pages apart, and was so bored that gaming the bathtub was a better option. I saw it at the cinema and full on lost it. Excellent.
"only been solved three times in 100 years" is overselling it a little. 3 people solved it the year after it was released, the first two got money prices and the third did not, discuraging further solvers to submit answers, also the first edition only printed about 4000 copies, so there weren't too many eyes on it. The 2019 edition was solved a bit over a year after release, the solver said it took him 6 months. I think it's reasonable to assume that the puzzle is just incredibly time consuming, and not neccesarily very hard.
Something that just occurred to me: Miles does understand that Klear is dangerous, which is why the alarms went off when Blanc was smoking in the garden. He knows it's highly flammable. That would also be another great allusion to the ending of the movie.
Or maybe he has detectors in his garden, because his ideal picture of "billonaire island" is a place where the garden can detect if you are smoking or not. Just like his "awesome" and "cool" pier, which turns out to only allow ships to dock at certain times. It is "concept" over function. But in case of the smoke detectors, it is potentially another red herring.
he was carrying a lighter around and even playing with it flicking it on and off by the end of the film. Seems more likely hes just a billionaire tech guy who doesnt want his perfect garden messed up by smokers
@@theunloadedrpg1376 well you could also think of it this way, he has people under him that think this is a bad idea and he also has the people who let him borrow the mona lisa who want to protect the mona lisa that made him put those in, but miles being miles had them put them in a place as to not disrupt him, aka the garden or the most out of the way place. They're most likely over expensive too because they talk and have lights and and seem very sensitive so he has a talking point and can brag about the money he spent on them. There's also the logic that if a fire starts its gonna be in the garden, but it also ignores like everywhere else a fire can start like electrical and kitchen fire. Like the fact that klear is a fuel and he had fires and all kinds of electricity going is kinda shows how dumb he is. Like you didn't even need the lighter in the scene she could of knocked down a light and you would have had the same outcome. The lighter just hammers in how dumb miles truly is.
Something I love is how the Disruptors stop smashing things after a bit but Helen just keeps going. It reflects the idea that some people just say “down with the system” but the only way to actually tear it down is to tear it down. Helen going further is representative of that.
Performative protest vs actual activism is a barely subtextual social critique Rian Johnson has of the current age. He has no love of keyboard warring from any ideological sphere, even in his interactions on Twitter. So, now that you've pointed it out in that scene, I can't unseen it.
It's the perfect translation of Miles' early definition of disruptors. He literally said, word for word, what she does. The shitheads are the ones telling her to stop and Helen's the one disrupting their system, showing how all of them are full of crap and she's the only real legend. Best writing Win for me right there
yes i didnt know if this was intentional but i saw it as the others, especially birdie, seeing breaking the glass as something fun/cathartic while helen had a purpose to it
One thing I love about this film is that Peg and Whiskey are both more "down-to-earth" than the main rich ones, but they're still, in their own way, clinging to someone richer than them. There's a lot that Peg is overlooking just to have a job with Birdie. They're sympathetic, but still complicit in their own ways.
Peg even took a moment to take Miles aside and beg him not to make Birdie sign that statement - because if she does, Birdie's social cache goes down, and so does all the value in Peg having Birdie's name on her resume. That would leave her with no opportunities and starting from the bottom again once Birdie loses everything.
My personal favourite "win" was Helen and Andi's names. Firstly, the story takes place in Greece, and they're both named after characters from the Iliad. Andi, aka Cassandra, was named after the Trojan princess who prophesized the city's downfall but who nobody listened to, mirroring how none of the shitheads listened to Andi when she said Klear was a bad idea. Helen was the name of the cause of Troy's downfall, and not only that, the name's literal meaning can be "torch". Going even further, the twins last name, "Brand", also means fire/burning.
I love how Helen lashing out near the end perfectly parallels Miles' "remedial" explanation of disruption. The others are fine with her breaking little things, and even join in, but then she breaks some things that they don't want her to (the piano, the Mona Lisa) and then proceeds to break the system itself (the Glass Onion, but also Miles' support structure for all of them.) She's the only real disruptor out of all of them. Also, this quality isn't all violence and punk rock. When she has a genuine heart-to-heart with Whiskey and treats her like a person, that also breaks part of the status quo that everyone else was content leaving as is, with Whiskey just being a pawn for Duke and Miles to move around. She's a great hidden protagonist, and you don't even know it til halfway through.
I agree with your interpretation of the theme of disruption here, I really liked how it was done because I feel like it managed to comment on something real. I've heard a lot of people criticize the ending because of arguments like "well that's just disrespectul to Da Vinci's legacy", which in my eyes just validates the entire point the movie is making. Nobody wants real progress because it's inherently uncomfortable and often requires destroying things, even if that would lead to a better outcome in the end.
@@its_elkku135 the funniest thing about the Di Vichi argument is that it made by people who doesn’t understand the painting legacy. Mona Lisa is a paint that had a legacy about being stolen both pre-WW2 and during it and is partly famous because of it.
Because they're just two sides of the same oppressive binary, and as much as they may act better-than their conservative counterparts they still want the system that benefits them to remain largely intact.
honestly i thought i was insane bc i thought that exact thing??? and also how the 'elites' in general like to disrupt things to a certain point but when it gets too far they refuse to acknowledge it
15:43 I love the "I'm not Batman" line, because it's specifically in relation to her saying "Google said you were the World's greatest detective," because if you actually google that phrase, Batman is the first hit. This is very meta, but it also tells us that Blanc must have googled "worlds greatest detective" at some point.
Not necessarily. The reason Batman comes up as the first hit is because in the character’s lore he is known and referred to as the worlds greatest detective, so this just means that Blanc is more than likely a Batman fan, or at least has knowledge of him and his lore.
My favorite aspect of the wood box is that, on first viewing, it seems really clever and the 'disruptors' seem really smart. But then you realize that these are just, as Blanc puts it, "simple children's puzzles". Hell, the harder aspects are solved by non-disruptors!
@@lawrencecalablaster568 well knowing this world ability to cash cow everything and take all the idea possible of merch maybe try to wrote a letter to netflix asking for one of the set ( if they made several cause maybe there is only one break by helen ) or just beg them to sell it as child game
Even funnier is that was probably not even the real Mona Lisa. Since the real Mona Lisa is painted on wood, not paper. And everyone there was too stupid to know this.
On my first viewing of this movie, I actually noticed that whenever Andi dresses as Helen, she actually parts her hair the opposite way that Helen did. So subtle and yet so satisfying to find.
My absolute favorite part is when helen begins smashing everything because it's perfectly reflective of Miles's speech about disruptors. Start with something small, and keep going with bigger and bigger things, and then break THE thing no one expects you to break. She took his stupid speech and spun it so it bit him in the ass. it's so GENIUS UGH
Another small detail about the "mate in one" puzzle is: the name for it is the fool's mate, and it's the fastest possible checkmate in chess. (called a fool's mate because you have to be a fool to let it happen)
All the puzzles were brilliant for their secret stupidity, though. 1) Duke's mother solved a lot of the puzzles with a casual glance as if they were obvious, because it is obvious if you're not suckered into Miles' narrative of brilliance. 2) Blanc called them children's puzzles, but hadn't solved them. He just saw the box and assumed that's what it was. Miles didn't get offended or try to correct him because he didn't come up with them in the first place. He probably didn't even try to solve them, so he doesn't know how hard they even are. 3) Miles blacklisted Andi and killed her, but still decided to send a box to her because he just never thought to cancel it.
@@LordSusaga to address your third point, I think Pillar of Garbage made a good point about Miles sending Andi a box. He probably thought he was a genius for sending her a box. ("The cops will never suspect me! I sent her an invitation to my private island, and if only it had arrived sooner, she wouldn't have committed suicide.")
I always hate it being described as “you have to be a fool to let it happen” because it’s that move specifically that made me quit chess as a hobby as a kid. Nothing hurts like being told your kid self was a fool for daring to be tricked by something you were never taught about.
"Endgame" line gives it away that they have only a surface-level knowledge of what they're "solving". This isn't a brilliant puzzle to test intelligence; it's a Mensa test, that checks for the Tropes of Intelligence. That's why nearly all the puzzles are solved by working-class people jumping in to notice (but don't get any of the credit cause they're in the background).
The moment at 16:16 is what really got me. When Blanc says Miles isn't an idiot, I completely threw Miles off the suspect list since the detective said it wouldn't be him.
Me too. He was the obvious suspect because he had the most to gain (and lose). But he was too obvious. It couldn't be him, because everyone will suspect him. In real life most murders are committed by the person you most suspect. Usually an acquaintance or family member. So this is true to life. (Serial killers or random gang drive-bys are notable specifically *because* of how unusual it is to die that way. Because it's rare it's unpredictable, and unpredictable means scary.)
I actually thought it was him, sheerly by the look on his face when he sees "Andi." I didn't know why, or what he did, but I knew it marked him as the sus one.
Fun fact, this film was Angela Lansbury's last acting role before she passed away last October. That's right, Angela Lansbury, winner of six Tony Awards, an Olive Reward, six Golden Globes, the Academy Honorary Award, 18 Emmy awards, a Grammy, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, National Medal of the Arts, Kennedy Center Honor and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire from a film, theater, and television career spanning seven decades ended her career in a cameo in which she caught Daniel Craig being the imposter in a game of Among Us. Take from that what you will.
@@nataliecameron career is incredible I am just saying that even if it s fun it is not a marvelous last role for someone of her level At lest she saw DC nipples
One of my favorite tiny little details is the consistency on Helen’s hair. I was confused when ‘Andi’ showed up at the ship, and had to reckon that it must have been the last woman we saw. But… something was wrong. I couldn’t put my finger on it exactly, but on a rewatch I spotted it: in her intro scene, Helen has her hair up in a towel in a way that would be absolutely unnecessary for short, straight hair.
I'm very proud that I noticed Miles give Dave Bautista's character (I forgot his name) the poisoned glass on my first watch. I was so confused and gaslit when the movie showed the false narrative that he took Miles's cup.
Me too I saw it happen and then when he said Duke took it and they showed the slightly changed shot for the flashback, even I was like "oh yeah, that must have been what I saw." Fooled again!
ME TOO! I was literally focusing on their movements and was like “oh sweet Miles handed Duke a drink what a nice move” and then I just let myself believe the lie for the rest of the movie.
I saw it too and knew miles was gaslighting everyone but i thought someone else shot Helen later. I thought there would be more to it. Bit I had already pegged Miles as a dumbass from Child = NFT lol
I LOVE the comment about how we judge intelligence based on language skills. This was the exact topic of my graduate research in linguistics. I found that people with less fluent English were perceived to be less knowledgeable than a native speaker, despite both speakers providing identical information. It’s so important to call attention to these biases because we often don’t even realize we have them.
Unfortunately language is one of the only ways we can interface with other people's minds, in the absence of the interface you have no idea what's going on there. You can assume they're a genius or an idiot, but most will assume they're an idiot
My family watched Glass Onion at dinner and since we tend to get tired early, opted to watch it over the course of two nights. Coincidentally, the stopping point for night 1 was the shot of Helen knocking on Benoit’s apartment door.
Thats exactly how my family did it! We spent another hour after we stopped discussing theories of what we thought would happen, from Andy and Miles working together from the beginning for some greater goal to her faking her death
A really neat win I noticed is in Blanc's first scene, he's outed as the impostor while playing the white Among Us crewmate, and "Andi" is revealed to be Helen while she's wearing a white suit.
Another Win you somewhat missed: ALL of the characters' masks reflect them; Blancs' is custom made and classy, Birdie's is completely useless, and Claire's isn't worn properly as you pointed out, but Lionel's is a proper medical mask, Duke and Whiskey are Anti-Mask, and Helen uses a cheap disposable one because that's what she could afford.
I love how Miles being stupid is shown from the very beginning by Duke’s mum solving the puzzles straight away. At First you’d assume that she’s just really smart. But on re-watch, you’d realise that she’s just a normal person and everyone else just wasn’t smart.
@@selonianth I mostly agree but it depends a bit on the person. A Dan Brown fan, for example, would notice it almost immediately, but that isn’t a clear indication of intelligence, and I say that as a Dan Brown fan (though I admit I consider it a guilty pleasure)
He also said that the murder mystery was supposed to take them all three entire days to solve, when the clues made no sense and no one would've ever figured them out.
Lionel and Claire seem reasonably smart. I think the issue is that they both approach it as "this has to be next level super smart stuff", and so they are trying too hard.
14:22 I never noticed you can actually SEE Miles putting away the gun. Granted, it's a few frames, but Rian is so good at giving you everything and you just wanting to not see it.
Yes all the evidence is visible on screen, if you just pay attention. BUT if he does it again in part 3 people will be prepared for it. Might backfire, because people will be looking at the screen in a diffent way, now that it has been done once. In first movie, there wasn't clues like this (maybe the dogs, and "back again already" but way less obvious)
Can we talk about the peak fashion in this movie? Blanc's mix of Cary Grant/Jacques Tati, Birdie's gleaming rainbow dress, Claire's sad beige suits, and Helen's everything. Edit: I can't believe I forgot about Lionel's slick emerald suit. I can't wait to see how the next movie one ups the fashion sense.
I know!! I'm not even much of a fashion person, but I immediately noticed the styles and even looked to see if I could get a replica of one of Helen's dresses!
One of my favourite things in Glass Onion is Helen smashing the puzzle box bc I never once doubted it was Andy who did it bc she was no longer willing to play Miles' games. But when he realized it's Helen it also makes perfect sense.
LOL. I *love* your joke where you blurted out, “Sleeping pills!” when it was, in fact, the red envelope that was missing. The reason I love it so much is because I watched a *lot* of “first time watching” reaction videos to *Glass Onion* (They really comforted me, for whatever reason, for like a month. lol.) when it first came to streaming and the amount of reactors who also exclaimed, “The sleeping pills!” followed shortly by, “Oh.” was truly staggering! Hahaha. So you absolutely *nailed” that one!
My absolute favorite part of the ending for me personally because I've been wanting it Helen relishes her victory and rubs it in Miles' face. Not enough cathartic, "I told you so" from heroes in fiction because it's being a "sore winner" but sometimes, sometimes I just want the villain to be grabbed by the collar and asked "are you fucking sorry yet?"
How is it a great parody when it's basically just, "I can't tell the difference between Joe Rogan and Alex Jones, but I know that I hate them because of all the bad things people have told me about them"?
One of my favourite details (that my Mum pointed out) was that when Trooper Wagner/ Derol walks past and says "ignore me" the first time he goes past, He's holding a case of Corona, essentially telling us, the audience, to ignore the other Corona that was happening off of the island. Obviously it could have just been a coincidence but it tickled me when she pointed it out to me. I just really love the Knives Out films so far. Thank you for the video!
@@hanswurst6742 um yeah no I hadn’t seen the first movie when I watched this and I needed 0% information from it to understand this movie. It absolutely stands on its own.
I love the fact that, when Blanc first meets Helen he was in a bathrobe because he was in the bath but... He had to put on a dress shirt and tie(and presumably pants) and THEN put on the bathrobe on top!
I love how the entire theme of the movie is shown the first time Andi is shown. It's a Gordian Knot, something that seems complex but has a simple answer.
oh my gosh i just realized why claire slathered herself in sunscreen like butter on a turkey and that's because if she got a tan people would speculate that she went vacationing, possibly losing her a seat as governor thats such a detail
I agree, birdie actually being quite knowledgeable and intelligent, but choosing to only know things that relate to herself is so much worse than just being dumb.
Bonus art detail: Miles has some Jeff Koons (the balloon dog) and Damian Hirst pieces. Two artists who are famous for selling flashy and hideously expensive pieces that they 'conceptualize' rather than make themselves. Exactly the kind of people Miles would consider to be disruptors!
I dearly love CinemaWins because it's always a great thing to acknowledge things that don't work, but to CELEBRATE things that do. I appreciate that you do just that. Also, I have watched Glass Onion probably 8 or 9 times, and each time after the first, I've been looking for Miles taking the gun from Duke. Never saw it until your video, so thank you for that! There is a moment when the lights are out and Miles goes down the hall calling Andi, and the gun is clearly (for a second) in his hand, but I never saw him Take It. Anyhoo, I love this movie and appreciate you!!!
I've seen a lot of reaction videos to this movie and it's amazing to see even reactors who catch Miles handing his glass to Duke the first time and COMMENT on it too, always second guess themselves or just outright forget what they saw when the movie shows a repeat of Miles' version of the events. Really does an excellent job of showing how someone like Miles could twist things so completely to get everyone on his side with confidence and being a talented liar.
Study after study shows how unreliable human memory is. You start modifying and changing memories literally within seconds of making them, and that process never stops. Almost nothing you remember is accurate, and much of it isn't even true. Our memories are not recordings; they're story tellers, creating an internal narrative of the world. That works just fine for "that animal bad, this plant good", but it doesn't work well for our present day world.
I'd like to point out Angela Lansbury's name in the Among Us game is "Mshesolved" +1 win. Also, during the denouement Blanc says "you expected a puzzle. You expected a mystery," and it perfectly sums up the ENTIRE MOVIE! We DID expect a puzzle, we expected a mystery as complicated and twisty as Knives Out, but instead we get a guy who looks so much like a red herring we discard him, even though he did it!
My favorite moment in the movie is after all the buildup of the murder mystery when Benoit just solves it off-handedly the moment the contest starts like someone had asked "Hey guys, what's one plus one?" Seeing Miles' face when he realizes how easy it was for Benoit after all that work and expense is just priceless.
17:26 I love that the napkin is in “The Innovator’s Dilemma” bc that means that Andi was the only true disruptor. Miles shows he doesn’t understand what a disruptor actually is when talking to Blanc. I LOVED this detail of how Andi actually has the book where Clayton Christensen defined the phenomenon of a disruptor which means she’s the only one who actually knows what a disruptor is. Helen later becomes a “disruptor” by Miles’s incorrect definition.
I mean, the blip coincidentally happened for the MCU right over the pandemic. But this really is the only film I've seen actually address it in some way
@@Bahr-im7pn I realize that. My reference is more that the Blip was a five year timeframe, and it happened in 2019. Immediately afterwards we went through our own "blip" and it's taken us a similar timeframe to return to normal. Funny coincidence.
I think the whodunnit itself is different from Knives out. Because the family in that movie had a mystery author at its center, so they would all have some knowledge of how a murder could have been commited. Ransom even said he was a research assistant for Harlan one summer when he was younger. While in Glass Onion, Blanc is the only one who has any experience around a mystery, and the fact that he is dealing with a flock of selfimportant and stupid rich people(mostly). That puts him in a place where he needs to reassess his own view of who he’s dealing with, even after Helen outright told him that they’re full of shit.
One little detail I love (props to costume and hair departments I guess!) is Andi/Helen's hair. When it's actually Andi in the flashbacks, her hair is parted to her right. Helen parts her hair to the left when see her meet Blanc at the beginning and still when she's pretending to be Andi. Just a nice little detail that shows how much effort this movie put to continuity and helping you find clues yourself
I actually did notice that Norton handed his glass off to Bautista, but I didn't think of the pineapple until the reveal. Gotta love when all the hints are actually there, that's just good writing.
I had the exact opposite thought process- I remembered that Duke had a pineapple allergy, but didn't see the initial glass switcheroo, so my first thought was that Duke had been killed by accident- it never occured to me that Miles had killed him on purpose.
9:07 Also, cool camera/editing trick: When Blanc says that line, the camera is closer to his face, indicating critical, comprehensive thinking, and when the camera returns to Birdie, there's more distance, indicating that the meaning of his words aren't really registering in her brain-place. Also, I love who the "Disruptors" are portrayed as pretty crummy people, but still as people. Sure, they aren't likable, or nice, or particularly high on morals, but they also get depicted as having really human emotions, too, and you could probably find something about each of them to sincerely give a compliment about.
I think that praise should also go to the various set decoration and design on this film. Things like - The Mona Lisa being visibly on canvas when it burns, meaning it's a fake, because The Mona Lisa is painted directly on a wood panel - but getting a fake and just lying about the Louvre loaning it to him is something he would do(or a scam he'd be easily taken by). The glass statues replicating the style and some pieces of a famous glass artist, but with pieces he never made included, indicating fakes. The guitar is mirrored from what it should be(Harrison played that brand of guitar, bit it was a left-hand model, not a right hand model), indicating it's a fake. There's famous impressionist paintings hung upside down despite the name clearly telling you the correct orientation(Red over dark blue on dark grey), because miles is an idiot and it has no more purpose than to make him look like he knows art, just an ugly display of status. Almost every single piece of the set and the decoration does the same thing - it makes him look rich and smart superficially, but when you look even a little bit closer, makes clear that he's just an idiot.
It's kinda the opposite of Knives Out. If you look at the set design in _that_ movie, it leaves the impression that even things in the background are meaningful to the author who died, as opposed to how superficial everything is in Glass Onion.
the glass balloon animal statue being there is what really sells it for me tbh its absolutely on point for a rich dumbass who wants to seem like an art lover
Spot on observations, though I have one nit to pick. Paul was actually the left-handed Beatle that wrote Blackbird, and, if you look at recordings of Paul playing during the Beatles' last couple of years together, he does use a right-handed Martin D-28 (as evidenced by the pickguard being above the soundhole), so this could credibly have been something Miles wasn't lying about.
i think the Mona Lisa isn't supposed to be a fake, because if it IS a fake and he KNEW it was a fake, the entire like...ending of the movie would be pointless, no? he'd get away with the murder and not be ruined,
@willnelson9906 He still could be dragged for the near miss and the potential danger of Klear is still on display. Also the others are going down for supporting Klear anyways, so they might as well burn his empire with them.
9:25 another thing about this moment! Miles knows how dangerous/flammable Klear is so he doesn’t fire anywhere near it, hence ‘smokeless garden’, it’s just an easy cover to pretend it’s to protect the environment or cuz he’s anti-smoking.
8:17 Peg is actually my favorite character in the film. She's the most ordinary of the cast similar to Whiskey (hence why, at the climax, the two are standing close together, I suppose).
I just wanted to add (to the stuff at about 25:30), that Peg, while she can (sorta at least) see past all their lies and such, she still goes along with it because she either doesn't want to rock the boat or she doesn't want to lose whatever position she has. She's a representation of us. We're sitting right there with her, cheering on Helen when she's dressing them down. We're right there, rolling our eyes at Miles' incorrect words. We're right there, our dread rising when Birdie starts talking about sweatpants. And yet. And *yet* . We do nothing. We do nothing, like Peg, because our resumes, just like Peg's, are reliant on the "elite" still being there. Still having power. So we sit there. Feeling like we aren't as bad as other people because at *least* we believe the people who are fighting for change are right, but still doing nothing to help them. And then, if/when it inevitably fails because they didn't have enough support, we shake our heads and go "shame it didn't work, but thank god I didn't join them. If I did, where would I be?" So we just *sit there* . Cheering in our heads, rolling our eyes at the rich's stupidity, predicting what's going to happen, but doing nothing to disrupt the status quo. (I could also do a whole thing about Whiskey and what she's trying to do, or Andi and why (even though she's better than Miles) she's still not a good person. There's definitely something to explore with Helen, but I can't quite put my finger on it, so oh well lmao)
@@DeathnoteBB Exactly. That's my point. Peg, even though she sorta recognized she was supporting a corrupt system, and was happy about *other* people taking it down, she was ignoring that in favor of keeping herself safe. Like, she's known these people for *years* at this point. She probably knows way more stuff than she lets on. She just doesn't want to *disrupt* for fear of exactly that: being blacklisted.
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)
There’s a confirmed third one in the works and Daniel Craig said as long as Rian Johnson is the one writing and directing future films, he’s willing to come back and play Benoit Blanc as many times as the two of them can come up with story ideas, he loves playing that sort of Poirot/JD Fletcher fusion character and working with Johnson. And honestly, I’m here for it, he’s probably the most standout and unique modern “detective” character of the past decade
I know it’s sort of a blink and you’ll miss it joke but I love when they all take the “medicine” and most of them start gagging and Blanc has almost no gag reflex 😳😆
What I love about this movie is that, like Knives Out, it tricked me. In fact while thia is a totally separate story from Knives Out and can be watched without having seen the first one i believe this movie works best if you have seen Knives Out first. In Knives Out I knew it was a murder mystery going in so I prepared myself to deduce stuff. But halfway through and suddenly new info pops up that totally changes what I thought the movie was gonna be. And just when I had it all figured out the ending happened and gave one final twist. Going into Glass Onion I was preparing myself to be duped again. Once again halfway through new info changed what I thought the film was about and what was going down. Even though I wasn't sure how I knew that the film was going to do some crazy shit that would fool me again. And I fell right into Rian Johnson's trap. I was so focused on the big mystery that I missed the shit right in front of me. Damn this movie was good.
I like how an overarching thing in these movies is Blanc making a friend , specifically one of a lower social class than the other members of the cast . He just gets a bestie in the leading lady to solve the murder with its great
I like how a possible interpretation of the ending is that Miles is so dumb he wouldn’t notice if the Louvre just gave him a copy of the Mona Lisa. And that the real Mona Lisa was fine and Miles is still remembered as the idiot who almost destroyed the Mona Lisa. But I get why Thematically Helen has to destroy the real thing. It’s neat that both are valid.
Allegedly a scene *was* filmed that showed that the real Mona Lisa was still in the Louvre, but Johnson decided that it would lessen the impact of the climax if they reveal that it was just a fake. So as far as the final movie is concerned, that *was* the real painting. Even if it is painted on the wrong surface. When I first saw that detail pointed out I just chalked it up to either "RJ didn't *know* it was painted on wood and nobody considered that it might not actually be on canvas" or "they knew it was wrong but decided to fudge the detail because the image of the canvas burning away was just too good".
I’m pretty sure it is accurate in the film, that splitting and flaking away when it burns is because it’s painted on wood. It’s because the paint forms a layer on top of the wood, so when it burns that layer burns and flakes away. At least that what I think happened
They could do it both ways. Let the world be traumatized that the Mona Lisa was destroyed, then reveal it was a fake, and the Louvre are the heroes. I'm not thrilled with the idea that the real one got destroyed either. I'm not thrilled with the 'real ML got destroyed' ending either.
I’ve seen so many videos on Glass Onion and I’m absolutely in love with how I’m still learning new hidden details Rian Johnson put into the movie while still making it all make sense. Saw both Knives Out and Glass Onion in theaters and those have both been two of the most reactive audience I’ve been in, it’s insane how funny yet sadly realistic the dialogue in these movies are. Also watching this in theaters meant I saw it in November which was right in the thick of Elon buying Twitter and seeing this predict that whole situation 2 YEARS PRIOR is a new definition of “aging well”
Really? I don't remember Edward Norton's character taking over a business that was swarming with political corruption and unchecked child pornography, and rooting out the worst of it while still keeping the site functional. Did Twitter blow up and cease to exist while I wasn't looking? Or is it all pretty much the same despite everybody hanging on every small problem they had after they fired all the staff members who were committing heinous crimes?
One thing I love that foreshadows Miles idiocy is his phrase/aspiration 'I want to be mentioned in the same breath as the Mona Lisa' when that's a completely nonsense statement. He's a person, thus a creator; the Mona Lisa is an art piece, a creation. The proper phrase would have been either 'I want to be mentioned in the same breath as Leonardo DaVinci'(creator) or 'This(maybe Klear for example) is going to be as famous as the Mona Lisa'(creation)
As totally not someone else also from Connecticut, I knew EXACTLY what Claire was gonna be like once they specified she was from Connecticut. There's only one reason why you make a fictional character from Connecticut.
Another interesting thing is that the real Mona Lisa is painted on wood, which hints that the Louvre realised Miles was liable to do dumb stuff and gave him a reproduction.
There was a deleted scene where Blanc calls the Louvre and it's revealed that the Mona Lisa in Miles' house is indeed fake, but it was cut because the ending was more impactful if Helen destroyed the real Mona Lisa.
Also when Miles is playing Birdie's song on Paul's Guitar, Miles is playing it right-handed which sounds off, then you recall that Paul McCartney is Left-handed and it makes a lot more sense why the song sounds out of tune.
If you look though, when the paint bubbles up and peels off, it's old cracked wood underneath. Doesn't mean it's not a reproduction, because anyone reproducing it faithfully would paint it on wood. I like to imagine the Louvre said "This dumbass wants to pay us to lend him THE Mona Lisa to...sit in his living room? Cha-ching! Send him one of the one's even art insurance appraisers can't tell the difference."
A win you missed- Rian already told us after Knives Out that you can always spot a twist villain bc they legally cannot be shown with apple products. In Glass Onion, Miles tosses Blanc an ipad.... but he does it from offscreen, so hes never actually shown holding it!
I feel like I can easily excuse the "its because it's dumb" writing thing because we know how brilliant Knives Out was so clearly this isn't Johnson just covering up poor writing skills. It works well because we know how convoluted the true answer was in the last movie, so this one being so clear and obvious from the get go felt like an obvious red herring. and then it wasn't! really spectacular in my opinion
It also works because Ransom was the black sheep of the family, but was arguably the most cunning of that family, being able to quickly devise a new plan to frame Martha that almost worked up until the end. Ransom is the true heir to Harlon's cleverness, Harlon even says so himself, whereas Miles is hailed by everyone as this genius god who, in actuality, couldn't think of a smart plan given enough time and to save his life. He is hailed as the true heir to the genius that was actually Cassandra.
It also ties in to the idea of the glass onion. The center (the solution) is in plain sight, so instead, the movie focuses on the layers that aren't so easy to see.
This movie, all the layers upon layers, the little things just prove, once again, how amazingly talented Rian Johnson is. This is a movie you can watch a hundred times and still see tiny things you missed.
Your genuine appreciation and positivity actually made me feel good while in a phase during which my depression is affecting me more than usual and I've just felt powerless and unable to do things so I just wanna say thank you
The chemistry Monae and Craig brought to Helen and Benoit just crackled with electricity. I would be quite happy if the next 5 movies were entitled "{title}: A Blanc/Brand Mystery"
13:25 I LOVE that I Noticed it literally when it happened on my first viewing, but I was still enjoying the film as if I hadn't noticed. Really shows how well made the film is
I was really hoping you would call out the fact that right when Helen bumps into Duke and storms off, his phone dings with the notification of Andi's death, and then he says, "*There's* the Andi that I know!"
I watched the movie once with my partner then a second time with my family who were all watching it the first time and when Blanc calls "Andi" Helen during the blackout my jaw literally dropped when I realized that my partner and I hadn't noticed, and that I was now sitting in a room full of people and no one even blinked at it! I don't know if it was the chaos of the scene or what but that was so smooth to, right before revealing the twist, show us the twist in a way that no one I know noticed it on first watch.
Another little fun tidbit: Rian Johnson mentioned in an interview for Knives Out that "bad guys" aren't allowed to use Apple products. Which is why in this movie, Miles actually throws Blanc his iPad offscreen. Kinda neat! Love the satirical office campaign as well, good luck Mr. Cinemawins!
I'm curious as to what Apple are going to do if a bad guy hands someone an Apple device? Sue? That'd go nowhere. Withhold their funding? They weren't funding this movie. Brick the devices of everyone on the production team? Like seriously, who the fuck does Apple think that it is, and what power do they *really* have against another large company? Sure they can screw over you or me by suing us until we can't afford to defend ourselves even if it's a SLAAP suit, but another company can defend themselves against that tactic.
@@jasonwalker9471 it's probably in the contract for apple product placement in movies, you think they just had a ten minute segment about an iPad without apple paying for it?
@@artyb27 My point is that it doesn't *need* to be product placement. If they're trying to get a few tens of thousands of dollars out of Apple for product placement, then sure, Apple can dictate the terms of the iPad's use. But that's peanuts on a movie with a budget in the hundreds of millions (500 million for the two Knives Out sequels). If they felt it necessary to have Miles give Blanc an iPad and Apple objected, they should have just withdrawn the advertising request given how inconsequential that one, single product placement was compared to the whole budget of the film. And there would have been nothing Apple could do.
One thing you didn’t notice on the dock: the hotel employee who drops off birdie knew Blanc. The employee said “stranger danger mr. blanc?”. That’s because Benoit stayed in the hotel the night before with Helen- but he told the other guests that he had just arrived.
What I appreciate about these movies is the rewatchability. Looking out for clues and things you missed in the first viewing after the twist is revealred.
Another thing I like is during the dinner scene, you can just see how much no one wants to be there or take part in the mystery. They're just there to keep Miles happy and supporting them.
something i also noticed on rewatches is that both peg AND whiskey kinda see through some of the bullshit, they just go with it bc they’re betting their career in it. i think you mentioned most of peg’s in the video, and whiskey outright smiles when andi comes out of the car and seems uncomfortable and rolls her eyes at miles’ disruptor speech. i did notice this bc she’s very pretty and i was looking, yeah, but i’m choosing to believe it’s on purpose
Whiskey seemed kind of over their BS, and it seemed like she was only there because she works with Duke. I wanted to like her but when she tries to kill Helen just over a misunderstanding it sort of ruined any sympathy I had.
@DeathnoteBB I mean, her misunderstanding was thinking that Helen had just committed murder and is now in thier room looking for something, so for her its a case of self defense to keep herself from being murdered too
Oh my God I am SO glad you pointed this out, because it made me realise another amazing moment the director made us think a character was one thing when really they were another. She a buff guy's blond girlfriend so we all assume she's just that, and that her eye rolling at the rest of the people is because she's just there to f around. But going back after seeing the end, you can catch into the fact that she's genuinely just seeing thru all their bs and is so done
18:18 The best thing about the Matisse in the bathroom is that it has no glass in front of it, like the Mona Lisa. That artwork is made of cut paper and Miles put it right next to the sink. If there's a shower in that bathroom, the steam would ruin the paper.
This movie blew my mind. I was just like Blanc, pouring over every hidden detail in the movie and every line of dialogue to find out what happened. Only to find out the murder was literally just straight up shown to you super early on. As Blanc stood up and ranted about how stupid it all was I was losing my mind thinking the same things. Just like Blanc and the case, I too to a stupid simple situation an overcomplicated mess of a mystery because I couldn’t imagine someone would be so dumb. Truly a revolutionary murder mystery movie. I will never forget it.
What really strikes me about the Benoit Blanc films is how visually distinct each film is. Knives Out! falls into a warm and homey gothic style, cluttered in an eccentric yet human way with a dark color scheme to it all. Glass Onion meanwhile is distinctly a modern twist on art deco. It's all angular and grand, colorful in an incredibly calculated way. It makes both films to be an incredibly enjoyable viewing experience even if the story doesn't particularly appeal to the specific individual.
I think Knives Out was a better written mystery that will hold up better in the long run, but Glass Onion was way more viscerally satisfying and was released at the exact right moment. Still holding out hope for a muppets Benoit Blanc mystery
One thing I noticed after repeat viewings, is that there is an extremely subtle hint that the one who is presented as Andi isn't actually Andi. It was something that I noticed only because I was in deep hyperfixation mode 😂 We see in multiple shots throughout the film that Andi is wearing light/nude neutral polish on her fingernails. This is a really effective choice of colour symbolism to represent her nature as a very blunt and pragmatic individual who stands by her morals without question. And yet, when we are introduced to her in the opening puzzle box scene, what colour nail polish is she wearing? Bright red. Which itself is a representation of the inherent fierceness that Helen has. She often describes herself as being the more reserved of the two but begets her nature as the more tempermental of the two by relaying her opinions of Andi's former friends without hesitation. Idk, just something I noticed 🤣
The guitar he’s playing when they arrive on the beach supposedly belonged to Paul MCcartney who is a left handed player. But Miles played it right handed (upside down)
I saw a video of Rian analysing the dock scene, and even he was point out how good Kathryn Hahn staying in character with all her little quirks in the background was great. Hell of a cast. Also my dad noticed that if Edward Norton was playing Paul McCartney guitar is should be left handed, so he knew he was a phony lol.
21:13 It would be genuinely hilarious that he only burned it after it became an idea in someone else's head that he could steal *if* it weren't so frustrating that she stupidly carried it up to him as if he wouldn't destroy it the moment he got his hands on it.
something I noticed when I first watched the movie is that "Helen"s hair is roughly chopped in the back, and a woman like her would never let her hair be done so unprofessionally. adding with the fact that the first scene with her had no hair, I knew someone wasn't who they said they were lol
I genuinely fell in love with this movie on the first watch through. Maybe it's only because I watched it right after watching Knives Out for the first time, but it was genuinely just so enjoyable for me to watch through the first half, just waiting for that turning point, and then it hits. Also, that glass breaking scene is so iconic, easily one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. God I love this movie so much.
a layer that i dont see a lot of people talk about is the names and location! Andys full name being cassandra the same name if the troyan princess whose predicitons were ignored (a gift-curse) and helen, the very woman whose arrival to troye brought the war, the DISRUPTION. and well you know these names from greek myth/legend for women with similair roles in a murder mystery that takes place on a greek island? LAYERS
This has become my new comfort movie. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched it because sometimes it’s 2-3 times in a day. Rian is a genius. And before I retire in 15 months some surgeon is gonna be called a “Vainglorious Bafoon”!
i hope you haven’t told em yet because it’s spelled “buffoon” so if you’re doing it through text try to keep that in mind -sincerely, someone who has had a good argument be ruined by a minor spelling error
@@trickster80 I plan on saying it to their face. :) Although, when they write me up, I’ll be sure they spell it right. :) Twenty four shifts left till I retire.
Something great about this movie and the others in the same universe is that even when only having watched this one movie with Blanc in it, you are given everything you need to know about his character and personality, but there are still little thing you notice and understand from watching others. A great movie down to making the audience believe “it’s so obvious it couldn’t possibly be him” and then having it be him.
Not sure if anyone else has brought this up in the comments yet, but in the scene that plays at 15:59, there is a musical quote: Danny Elfman’s Batman theme from 1989. This comes just after Blanc says “I’m not Batman,” but then comes up with a scheme that Bruce Wayne would be proud of!
Fun fact! In the shot of the Mona Lisa burning, we get a close-up where it's very clear that the burning painting is some sort of parchment or paper. But the Mona List was painted directly onto a piece of poplar wood! Meaning the Louvre didn't even trust Miles with the real thing, and he was too ignorant to notice!
The overarching plot of this movie of how Blanc is just overcomplicating things in his head, because he has trouble understanding dumb people, is such a fresh take on a detective movie.
i love that. hes just so dumbfounded as to why someone would be that stupid.
I agree, but it also feels a little bit like a crutch. For Knives Out, Rian had come up with a really clever, subversive murder mystery plot that felt so well-developed, whereas this one felt like he didn't really have that many ideas, or at least enough time to really develop his ideas, so he had to "cheat" on the premise of writing an actual murder mystery. I wonder what he'll do with the next movie, since he certainly can't do the "the twist is that there is no mystery" again.
@@its_elkku135 Thanks, this helps explains why I didn't find the movie very interesting.
@@its_elkku135 EXACTLY. After watching the movie I was honestly dissatisfied. There was no good murder mystery in the murder mystery movie. But that’s honeslty because Glass onion is a dark satirical post covid comedy hidden as a murder mystery.
It feels like the Mystery Genre version of the Greater Good scene from Hot Fuzz.
In regard to the Duke Pineapple setup, the first time I saw the movie when Duke started choking my FIRST thought was "Someone get the epipen! Surely he's got an epipen on his person at all times, right?" But at the same time it is also so totally in character for this man who literally takes a pistol into the pool because "you never know when s**t will go down" to neglect to keep an epipen with him despite having a life-threatening food allergy.
Not only that, we can assume the entire reason that there's no staff there is because Miles was planning on killing Duke all along and didn't want any medical staff on hand who could save him. The linchpin in both Knives Out movies so far has been inadequate medical procedure, lmfao
@@jdk2535he wasn’t always planning on it, he only killed Duke because he knew Andi was dead
@@Nyx_404hell, I'd say killing Andi and Duke are the only 2 actual ideas he has the whole film
@@lilithhiddenvillain5086He is dumb enough to send away all the staff
@@lilithhiddenvillain5086 it really took him being threatened with losing everything before he even tried to kill them. Personally I thought the pineapple was brilliant for being so quick, even though that would also probably be traced back to him. But he actually had a little time to plan to kill Andi and still made it look like a really suspicious suicide. I mean, dying (with sleeping pills in your system!?) from your car blowing up in your own garage??
Miles throwing the IPad from off screen is another funny callback. In an interview, Rian mentioned that Apple will not allow the bad guy of a movie to handle Apple products on camera. So the ipad has to get thrown from offscreen
Oh thats an AWESOME point.
There’s also the “dot” of red that reveals the mystery to Blanc early on. In knives out it was the blood on the shoe and this one the envelope peaking through
That explains why all the shitheads have Samsung or LG phones; Blanc and Andi are the only ones we see in this movie handling Apple products
Gotta love those loopholes one can exploit
Jeez, Apple needs to grow a pair
The scene in the bathtub, on the floor is a book called Cain's Jawbone. It's a literal puzzle that required you to re-order all the pages into the right order and solve the murders.And its only been solved three times in 100 years. The fact that it's abandoned on the bathroom floor but intact means Blanc solved it, without needing to take the pages apart, and was so bored that gaming the bathtub was a better option. I saw it at the cinema and full on lost it. Excellent.
I need to get this book now, do you know where I could get it??
@@moondots It's been recently reprinted, so it pretty readily available online. Even my local bookstore stocks them now.
@@e.a.s6633 thanks for telling me that I’m going check a bookstore when I have the time now, thanks :)
I take it the people who solve it don’t give the solution out?
"only been solved three times in 100 years" is overselling it a little. 3 people solved it the year after it was released, the first two got money prices and the third did not, discuraging further solvers to submit answers, also the first edition only printed about 4000 copies, so there weren't too many eyes on it. The 2019 edition was solved a bit over a year after release, the solver said it took him 6 months. I think it's reasonable to assume that the puzzle is just incredibly time consuming, and not neccesarily very hard.
Something that just occurred to me: Miles does understand that Klear is dangerous, which is why the alarms went off when Blanc was smoking in the garden. He knows it's highly flammable. That would also be another great allusion to the ending of the movie.
Dang I didn’t even catch that
Or maybe he has detectors in his garden, because his ideal picture of "billonaire island" is a place where the garden can detect if you are smoking or not. Just like his "awesome" and "cool" pier, which turns out to only allow ships to dock at certain times.
It is "concept" over function.
But in case of the smoke detectors, it is potentially another red herring.
he was carrying a lighter around and even playing with it flicking it on and off by the end of the film. Seems more likely hes just a billionaire tech guy who doesnt want his perfect garden messed up by smokers
@@theunloadedrpg1376 well you could also think of it this way, he has people under him that think this is a bad idea and he also has the people who let him borrow the mona lisa who want to protect the mona lisa that made him put those in, but miles being miles had them put them in a place as to not disrupt him, aka the garden or the most out of the way place. They're most likely over expensive too because they talk and have lights and and seem very sensitive so he has a talking point and can brag about the money he spent on them. There's also the logic that if a fire starts its gonna be in the garden, but it also ignores like everywhere else a fire can start like electrical and kitchen fire. Like the fact that klear is a fuel and he had fires and all kinds of electricity going is kinda shows how dumb he is. Like you didn't even need the lighter in the scene she could of knocked down a light and you would have had the same outcome. The lighter just hammers in how dumb miles truly is.
I think it might be more that he can't put the pieces together even when they're right in front of him
Something I love is how the Disruptors stop smashing things after a bit but Helen just keeps going. It reflects the idea that some people just say “down with the system” but the only way to actually tear it down is to tear it down. Helen going further is representative of that.
Performative protest vs actual activism is a barely subtextual social critique Rian Johnson has of the current age. He has no love of keyboard warring from any ideological sphere, even in his interactions on Twitter.
So, now that you've pointed it out in that scene, I can't unseen it.
It's the perfect translation of Miles' early definition of disruptors. He literally said, word for word, what she does. The shitheads are the ones telling her to stop and Helen's the one disrupting their system, showing how all of them are full of crap and she's the only real legend. Best writing Win for me right there
yes i didnt know if this was intentional but i saw it as the others, especially birdie, seeing breaking the glass as something fun/cathartic while helen had a purpose to it
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when they stopped i was like “oh come on seriously” and then they helen kept going and i just went “Yes! thank you!”
One thing I love about this film is that Peg and Whiskey are both more "down-to-earth" than the main rich ones, but they're still, in their own way, clinging to someone richer than them. There's a lot that Peg is overlooking just to have a job with Birdie. They're sympathetic, but still complicit in their own ways.
Peg even took a moment to take Miles aside and beg him not to make Birdie sign that statement - because if she does, Birdie's social cache goes down, and so does all the value in Peg having Birdie's name on her resume. That would leave her with no opportunities and starting from the bottom again once Birdie loses everything.
My personal favourite "win" was Helen and Andi's names. Firstly, the story takes place in Greece, and they're both named after characters from the Iliad. Andi, aka Cassandra, was named after the Trojan princess who prophesized the city's downfall but who nobody listened to, mirroring how none of the shitheads listened to Andi when she said Klear was a bad idea. Helen was the name of the cause of Troy's downfall, and not only that, the name's literal meaning can be "torch". Going even further, the twins last name, "Brand", also means fire/burning.
Wow, I absolutely _adore_ mythology, and I didn't notice that.
Me too
Cassandra also had a twin, named 'Helenus', that also had the gift of prophecy
@@daviddaugherty2816 same
"Brand" is LITERALLY the german word for "Big fire" :D
I love how Helen lashing out near the end perfectly parallels Miles' "remedial" explanation of disruption. The others are fine with her breaking little things, and even join in, but then she breaks some things that they don't want her to (the piano, the Mona Lisa) and then proceeds to break the system itself (the Glass Onion, but also Miles' support structure for all of them.) She's the only real disruptor out of all of them.
Also, this quality isn't all violence and punk rock. When she has a genuine heart-to-heart with Whiskey and treats her like a person, that also breaks part of the status quo that everyone else was content leaving as is, with Whiskey just being a pawn for Duke and Miles to move around. She's a great hidden protagonist, and you don't even know it til halfway through.
I agree with your interpretation of the theme of disruption here, I really liked how it was done because I feel like it managed to comment on something real. I've heard a lot of people criticize the ending because of arguments like "well that's just disrespectul to Da Vinci's legacy", which in my eyes just validates the entire point the movie is making. Nobody wants real progress because it's inherently uncomfortable and often requires destroying things, even if that would lead to a better outcome in the end.
@@its_elkku135 the funniest thing about the Di Vichi argument is that it made by people who doesn’t understand the painting legacy.
Mona Lisa is a paint that had a legacy about being stolen both pre-WW2 and during it and is partly famous because of it.
Nice observations. Definitely checks out
Because they're just two sides of the same oppressive binary, and as much as they may act better-than their conservative counterparts they still want the system that benefits them to remain largely intact.
honestly i thought i was insane bc i thought that exact thing??? and also how the 'elites' in general like to disrupt things to a certain point but when it gets too far they refuse to acknowledge it
15:43 I love the "I'm not Batman" line, because it's specifically in relation to her saying "Google said you were the World's greatest detective," because if you actually google that phrase, Batman is the first hit.
This is very meta, but it also tells us that Blanc must have googled "worlds greatest detective" at some point.
Not necessarily. The reason Batman comes up as the first hit is because in the character’s lore he is known and referred to as the worlds greatest detective, so this just means that Blanc is more than likely a Batman fan, or at least has knowledge of him and his lore.
you know when you try to google yourself? that’s what blanc was doing
Also fun fact, in the spanish version he says "i'm not James Bond"
@@manufigola8433 lmao
Weird, I googled it and it said Sherlock Holmes, but the images were Batman comic panels
My favorite aspect of the wood box is that, on first viewing, it seems really clever and the 'disruptors' seem really smart. But then you realize that these are just, as Blanc puts it, "simple children's puzzles". Hell, the harder aspects are solved by non-disruptors!
That said, I absolutely fell for the charm of the boxes & really wanted one.
@@lawrencecalablaster568 Oh same. They still look really cool and I'm a sucker for simple children's puzzles
@@lawrencecalablaster568 well knowing this world ability to cash cow everything and take all the idea possible of merch maybe try to wrote a letter to netflix asking for one of the set ( if they made several cause maybe there is only one break by helen ) or just beg them to sell it as child game
fun fact: the 'chess' puzzle in the box is called "Fool's Mate"
Same, I know I would have a blast solving one of those
It always saddened me that everyone would freak out about the Mona Lisa's loss but nobody even flinched with Andy's death. Priorities....
Yeah, a major theme of the movie is the idea of lip service. Not actually caring, but pretending as if you do.
Even funnier is that was probably not even the real Mona Lisa. Since the real Mona Lisa is painted on wood, not paper. And everyone there was too stupid to know this.
Unfortunately it reflects the real world.... When have you heard about the families that passed away in the submarine not to long ago
i was sad about her dying
That's the point; the immortal art, the status, and the symbol of wealth, are more important than human life to the "Disruptors", but not to Helen.
On my first viewing of this movie, I actually noticed that whenever Andi dresses as Helen, she actually parts her hair the opposite way that Helen did. So subtle and yet so satisfying to find.
So like how a kimono is reversed for the dead or the Beatle on the opposite stride on the Abbey Road cover?
@@lordsergal8783 i never went that far
do you mean when Helen dresses as Andi?
@@ser132 I'd guess do, yea
@@lordsergal8783 Probably more like seeing someone all the time, then you replicate the look in a mirror and accidentally do it backwards
My absolute favorite part is when helen begins smashing everything because it's perfectly reflective of Miles's speech about disruptors. Start with something small, and keep going with bigger and bigger things, and then break THE thing no one expects you to break. She took his stupid speech and spun it so it bit him in the ass. it's so GENIUS UGH
Another small detail about the "mate in one" puzzle is: the name for it is the fool's mate, and it's the fastest possible checkmate in chess. (called a fool's mate because you have to be a fool to let it happen)
All the puzzles were brilliant for their secret stupidity, though.
1) Duke's mother solved a lot of the puzzles with a casual glance as if they were obvious, because it is obvious if you're not suckered into Miles' narrative of brilliance.
2) Blanc called them children's puzzles, but hadn't solved them. He just saw the box and assumed that's what it was. Miles didn't get offended or try to correct him because he didn't come up with them in the first place. He probably didn't even try to solve them, so he doesn't know how hard they even are.
3) Miles blacklisted Andi and killed her, but still decided to send a box to her because he just never thought to cancel it.
@@LordSusaga to address your third point, I think Pillar of Garbage made a good point about Miles sending Andi a box. He probably thought he was a genius for sending her a box. ("The cops will never suspect me! I sent her an invitation to my private island, and if only it had arrived sooner, she wouldn't have committed suicide.")
I always hate it being described as “you have to be a fool to let it happen” because it’s that move specifically that made me quit chess as a hobby as a kid. Nothing hurts like being told your kid self was a fool for daring to be tricked by something you were never taught about.
@@LordSusaga Blanc never saw a box. He was brought the pieces of one
"Endgame" line gives it away that they have only a surface-level knowledge of what they're "solving". This isn't a brilliant puzzle to test intelligence; it's a Mensa test, that checks for the Tropes of Intelligence. That's why nearly all the puzzles are solved by working-class people jumping in to notice (but don't get any of the credit cause they're in the background).
The moment at 16:16 is what really got me. When Blanc says Miles isn't an idiot, I completely threw Miles off the suspect list since the detective said it wouldn't be him.
Me too. He was the obvious suspect because he had the most to gain (and lose). But he was too obvious. It couldn't be him, because everyone will suspect him.
In real life most murders are committed by the person you most suspect. Usually an acquaintance or family member. So this is true to life. (Serial killers or random gang drive-bys are notable specifically *because* of how unusual it is to die that way. Because it's rare it's unpredictable, and unpredictable means scary.)
It's this movie's "We all know Ransom is an asshole, then we forget, then we are reminded" moment.
I actually thought it was him, sheerly by the look on his face when he sees "Andi." I didn't know why, or what he did, but I knew it marked him as the sus one.
Fun fact, this film was Angela Lansbury's last acting role before she passed away last October. That's right, Angela Lansbury, winner of six Tony Awards, an Olive Reward, six Golden Globes, the Academy Honorary Award, 18 Emmy awards, a Grammy, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, National Medal of the Arts, Kennedy Center Honor and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire from a film, theater, and television career spanning seven decades ended her career in a cameo in which she caught Daniel Craig being the imposter in a game of Among Us. Take from that what you will.
Orson Wells’ final role was a planet-eating robot planet called Unicron in Transformers: The Movie.
Same with Steven Sondheim. This was his last acting role.
ouch that what i called dying for nothing that a shitty last role
"dying for nothing" did you not read how incredible her career was? I bet it was a fun last role to film
@@nataliecameron career is incredible I am just saying that even if it s fun it is not a marvelous last role for someone of her level
At lest she saw DC nipples
One of my favorite tiny little details is the consistency on Helen’s hair. I was confused when ‘Andi’ showed up at the ship, and had to reckon that it must have been the last woman we saw. But… something was wrong. I couldn’t put my finger on it exactly, but on a rewatch I spotted it: in her intro scene, Helen has her hair up in a towel in a way that would be absolutely unnecessary for short, straight hair.
I'm very proud that I noticed Miles give Dave Bautista's character (I forgot his name) the poisoned glass on my first watch. I was so confused and gaslit when the movie showed the false narrative that he took Miles's cup.
Me too I saw it happen and then when he said Duke took it and they showed the slightly changed shot for the flashback, even I was like "oh yeah, that must have been what I saw." Fooled again!
ME TOO! I was literally focusing on their movements and was like “oh sweet Miles handed Duke a drink what a nice move” and then I just let myself believe the lie for the rest of the movie.
I saw it too and knew miles was gaslighting everyone but i thought someone else shot Helen later. I thought there would be more to it. Bit I had already pegged Miles as a dumbass from Child = NFT lol
Me too! I was like "oh, something must be wrong with my eyes or they messed up the cut or something"
Nope, just gullible
I noticed it too on my first watch, but I refused to believe that gaslight move Miles pulled. I know what I saw!
I LOVE the comment about how we judge intelligence based on language skills. This was the exact topic of my graduate research in linguistics. I found that people with less fluent English were perceived to be less knowledgeable than a native speaker, despite both speakers providing identical information. It’s so important to call attention to these biases because we often don’t even realize we have them.
Unfortunately language is one of the only ways we can interface with other people's minds, in the absence of the interface you have no idea what's going on there. You can assume they're a genius or an idiot, but most will assume they're an idiot
My family watched Glass Onion at dinner and since we tend to get tired early, opted to watch it over the course of two nights. Coincidentally, the stopping point for night 1 was the shot of Helen knocking on Benoit’s apartment door.
I kind of want to watch Glass Onion like this now
Thats exactly how my family did it! We spent another hour after we stopped discussing theories of what we thought would happen, from Andy and Miles working together from the beginning for some greater goal to her faking her death
@@shadowrealm4206 dang it sounds like u guys have fun with murder mysteries that's awesome I should try that too.
Thats so funny cause I did the same thing unintentionally!! I stopped at little earlier for the same reasons.
A really neat win I noticed is in Blanc's first scene, he's outed as the impostor while playing the white Among Us crewmate, and "Andi" is revealed to be Helen while she's wearing a white suit.
Somehow, a movie that unites Greek Mythology (Cassandra/Andi, Helen) and Among Us with a Musk-adjacent. That's clever intertextuality.
Nice
@@amesstarline5482Among us is truly the goal of everything.
Another Win you somewhat missed: ALL of the characters' masks reflect them; Blancs' is custom made and classy, Birdie's is completely useless, and Claire's isn't worn properly as you pointed out, but Lionel's is a proper medical mask, Duke and Whiskey are Anti-Mask, and Helen uses a cheap disposable one because that's what she could afford.
Do you mean Peg? I can't remember 'Andi' wearing a mask.
@@FallenOne669not when she's andi, it's towards the middle when she first comes to benoit as herself
Yeah I think that was obvious in the character introduction. It didn’t seem necessary to beat a dead horse.
@@emmahitchcock3259 Ah, that's true.
And the reason Helen isn’t wearing a mask at the pier is because she’s already wearing one by pretending to be Andi
I love how Miles being stupid is shown from the very beginning by Duke’s mum solving the puzzles straight away. At First you’d assume that she’s just really smart. But on re-watch, you’d realise that she’s just a normal person and everyone else just wasn’t smart.
I mean, her realizing something was a Fibonacci sequence that fast is more of an indication of intelligence than it isn't.
@@selonianth I mostly agree but it depends a bit on the person. A Dan Brown fan, for example, would notice it almost immediately, but that isn’t a clear indication of intelligence, and I say that as a Dan Brown fan (though I admit I consider it a guilty pleasure)
@OscarGomez-hg8cb this is fair, but the point is that there's nothing saying she's *not* very smart.
He also said that the murder mystery was supposed to take them all three entire days to solve, when the clues made no sense and no one would've ever figured them out.
Lionel and Claire seem reasonably smart. I think the issue is that they both approach it as "this has to be next level super smart stuff", and so they are trying too hard.
My mom was freaking out about the Rothko painting being upside-down in this film and seeing someone else point it out is amazing.
14:22 I never noticed you can actually SEE Miles putting away the gun. Granted, it's a few frames, but Rian is so good at giving you everything and you just wanting to not see it.
Yes all the evidence is visible on screen, if you just pay attention. BUT if he does it again in part 3 people will be prepared for it. Might backfire, because people will be looking at the screen in a diffent way, now that it has been done once. In first movie, there wasn't clues like this (maybe the dogs, and "back again already" but way less obvious)
@@shredd5705 ain’t nothing wrong with people being prepared to look for clues in a mystery story, that’s half the fun
@@trickster80 woosh
Can we talk about the peak fashion in this movie? Blanc's mix of Cary Grant/Jacques Tati, Birdie's gleaming rainbow dress, Claire's sad beige suits, and Helen's everything.
Edit: I can't believe I forgot about Lionel's slick emerald suit.
I can't wait to see how the next movie one ups the fashion sense.
Yeah this def one upped megs t shirt in the interrogation scene in knives out 1
You forgot Lionel
@@afoolishfopdoodle3284
Can't forget someone with some of the hardest drip in the entire film lmao
Even the blasé or frumpy fashion is a testament to the Costume Design in this movie. Perfect choices for everyone in every scene.
I know!! I'm not even much of a fashion person, but I immediately noticed the styles and even looked to see if I could get a replica of one of Helen's dresses!
One of my favourite things in Glass Onion is Helen smashing the puzzle box bc I never once doubted it was Andy who did it bc she was no longer willing to play Miles' games. But when he realized it's Helen it also makes perfect sense.
I love these movies, there's something to be said about Rian's ability to create these incredibly rewatchable pieces of art.
LOL. I *love* your joke where you blurted out, “Sleeping pills!” when it was, in fact, the red envelope that was missing. The reason I love it so much is because I watched a *lot* of “first time watching” reaction videos to *Glass Onion* (They really comforted me, for whatever reason, for like a month. lol.) when it first came to streaming and the amount of reactors who also exclaimed, “The sleeping pills!” followed shortly by, “Oh.” was truly staggering! Hahaha. So you absolutely *nailed” that one!
My absolute favorite part of the ending for me personally because I've been wanting it
Helen relishes her victory and rubs it in Miles' face. Not enough cathartic, "I told you so" from heroes in fiction because it's being a "sore winner" but sometimes, sometimes I just want the villain to be grabbed by the collar and asked "are you fucking sorry yet?"
23:20 I would like to point out that Miles takes on the same pose as the painting “The Scream”, similar to how Helen later mimics the Mona Lisa.
the entire character of duke is just hilarious and a great parody of the podcast bros. dave is becoming a great actor!
He was a great actor since blade runner 2049
Dave is perfect, totally highlights what a grifter all those people are.
I loved him in Hotel Artemis.😀
How is it a great parody when it's basically just, "I can't tell the difference between Joe Rogan and Alex Jones, but I know that I hate them because of all the bad things people have told me about them"?
@@AlexReynard It's an archetypal parody, Alex, not an identifiable analogue.
One of my favourite details (that my Mum pointed out) was that when Trooper Wagner/ Derol walks past and says "ignore me" the first time he goes past, He's holding a case of Corona, essentially telling us, the audience, to ignore the other Corona that was happening off of the island. Obviously it could have just been a coincidence but it tickled me when she pointed it out to me. I just really love the Knives Out films so far.
Thank you for the video!
This was such an awesome movie! Felt like a story set in the same universe, but still managed to stand on its own!
Only if you were raised on a farm, far away from civilization, you would think that this was a story that stood on its own XD
@@hanswurst6742 In what way did it not stand on it's own? It's completely unnecessary to watch Knives Out for this movie.
agreed, I do hope we'll see more Benoît Blanc mysteries, he's such a fun character to follow!
@@hanswurst6742 um yeah no I hadn’t seen the first movie when I watched this and I needed 0% information from it to understand this movie. It absolutely stands on its own.
Was anyone else waiting for this vid forever
I love the fact that, when Blanc first meets Helen he was in a bathrobe because he was in the bath but... He had to put on a dress shirt and tie(and presumably pants) and THEN put on the bathrobe on top!
Maybe he's using the bathrobe as a housecoat/dressing gown?
I love how the entire theme of the movie is shown the first time Andi is shown. It's a Gordian Knot, something that seems complex but has a simple answer.
It's Helen though...
@@Itcouldbebunnies dun dun duuuuuuuunnnn bingo! As soon as you learn andi is dead it’s possible to devise just about everything
oh my gosh i just realized why claire slathered herself in sunscreen like butter on a turkey and that's because if she got a tan people would speculate that she went vacationing, possibly losing her a seat as governor thats such a detail
I agree, birdie actually being quite knowledgeable and intelligent, but choosing to only know things that relate to herself is so much worse than just being dumb.
So, in other words…
“It’s so dumb, it’s brilliant!”
“NO! It’s just dumb!”
In all seriousness, I can agree with that.
Someone being purposefully ignorant is far more dangerous and insulting than someone truly ignorant
I wonder if in the past year it clicked that everyone only chooses to learn things that relate to themselves and their interests.
Bonus art detail: Miles has some Jeff Koons (the balloon dog) and Damian Hirst pieces. Two artists who are famous for selling flashy and hideously expensive pieces that they 'conceptualize' rather than make themselves. Exactly the kind of people Miles would consider to be disruptors!
I dearly love CinemaWins because it's always a great thing to acknowledge things that don't work, but to CELEBRATE things that do. I appreciate that you do just that. Also, I have watched Glass Onion probably 8 or 9 times, and each time after the first, I've been looking for Miles taking the gun from Duke. Never saw it until your video, so thank you for that! There is a moment when the lights are out and Miles goes down the hall calling Andi, and the gun is clearly (for a second) in his hand, but I never saw him Take It. Anyhoo, I love this movie and appreciate you!!!
I've seen a lot of reaction videos to this movie and it's amazing to see even reactors who catch Miles handing his glass to Duke the first time and COMMENT on it too, always second guess themselves or just outright forget what they saw when the movie shows a repeat of Miles' version of the events. Really does an excellent job of showing how someone like Miles could twist things so completely to get everyone on his side with confidence and being a talented liar.
Study after study shows how unreliable human memory is. You start modifying and changing memories literally within seconds of making them, and that process never stops. Almost nothing you remember is accurate, and much of it isn't even true.
Our memories are not recordings; they're story tellers, creating an internal narrative of the world. That works just fine for "that animal bad, this plant good", but it doesn't work well for our present day world.
I'd like to point out Angela Lansbury's name in the Among Us game is "Mshesolved" +1 win.
Also, during the denouement Blanc says "you expected a puzzle. You expected a mystery," and it perfectly sums up the ENTIRE MOVIE! We DID expect a puzzle, we expected a mystery as complicated and twisty as Knives Out, but instead we get a guy who looks so much like a red herring we discard him, even though he did it!
Yeah I kind of both love and hate the movie for that.
My favorite moment in the movie is after all the buildup of the murder mystery when Benoit just solves it off-handedly the moment the contest starts like someone had asked "Hey guys, what's one plus one?" Seeing Miles' face when he realizes how easy it was for Benoit after all that work and expense is just priceless.
17:26 I love that the napkin is in “The Innovator’s Dilemma” bc that means that Andi was the only true disruptor. Miles shows he doesn’t understand what a disruptor actually is when talking to Blanc. I LOVED this detail of how Andi actually has the book where Clayton Christensen defined the phenomenon of a disruptor which means she’s the only one who actually knows what a disruptor is. Helen later becomes a “disruptor” by Miles’s incorrect definition.
This is the first film I ever saw that actually addressed the pandemic, it was weirdly shocking to have that happen.
I mean, the blip coincidentally happened for the MCU right over the pandemic. But this really is the only film I've seen actually address it in some way
@@elijahalbiston The blip occurred in a movie that came out before the pandemic began.
@@Bahr-im7pn I realize that. My reference is more that the Blip was a five year timeframe, and it happened in 2019. Immediately afterwards we went through our own "blip" and it's taken us a similar timeframe to return to normal. Funny coincidence.
@@elijahalbiston Oh. I guess it is.
I think the whodunnit itself is different from Knives out. Because the family in that movie had a mystery author at its center, so they would all have some knowledge of how a murder could have been commited. Ransom even said he was a research assistant for Harlan one summer when he was younger.
While in Glass Onion, Blanc is the only one who has any experience around a mystery, and the fact that he is dealing with a flock of selfimportant and stupid rich people(mostly). That puts him in a place where he needs to reassess his own view of who he’s dealing with, even after Helen outright told him that they’re full of shit.
One little detail I love (props to costume and hair departments I guess!) is Andi/Helen's hair. When it's actually Andi in the flashbacks, her hair is parted to her right. Helen parts her hair to the left when see her meet Blanc at the beginning and still when she's pretending to be Andi. Just a nice little detail that shows how much effort this movie put to continuity and helping you find clues yourself
I actually did notice that Norton handed his glass off to Bautista, but I didn't think of the pineapple until the reveal. Gotta love when all the hints are actually there, that's just good writing.
Yeah I saw that and was extremely confused until they revealed the news the one guy saw. Then I was like “Ohhh”
I didn't see it but my uncle did. He mumbled it as we watchd. None of us caught the pineapple.
I had the exact opposite thought process- I remembered that Duke had a pineapple allergy, but didn't see the initial glass switcheroo, so my first thought was that Duke had been killed by accident- it never occured to me that Miles had killed him on purpose.
9:07 Also, cool camera/editing trick: When Blanc says that line, the camera is closer to his face, indicating critical, comprehensive thinking, and when the camera returns to Birdie, there's more distance, indicating that the meaning of his words aren't really registering in her brain-place.
Also, I love who the "Disruptors" are portrayed as pretty crummy people, but still as people. Sure, they aren't likable, or nice, or particularly high on morals, but they also get depicted as having really human emotions, too, and you could probably find something about each of them to sincerely give a compliment about.
I think that praise should also go to the various set decoration and design on this film. Things like - The Mona Lisa being visibly on canvas when it burns, meaning it's a fake, because The Mona Lisa is painted directly on a wood panel - but getting a fake and just lying about the Louvre loaning it to him is something he would do(or a scam he'd be easily taken by). The glass statues replicating the style and some pieces of a famous glass artist, but with pieces he never made included, indicating fakes. The guitar is mirrored from what it should be(Harrison played that brand of guitar, bit it was a left-hand model, not a right hand model), indicating it's a fake. There's famous impressionist paintings hung upside down despite the name clearly telling you the correct orientation(Red over dark blue on dark grey), because miles is an idiot and it has no more purpose than to make him look like he knows art, just an ugly display of status.
Almost every single piece of the set and the decoration does the same thing - it makes him look rich and smart superficially, but when you look even a little bit closer, makes clear that he's just an idiot.
It's kinda the opposite of Knives Out. If you look at the set design in _that_ movie, it leaves the impression that even things in the background are meaningful to the author who died, as opposed to how superficial everything is in Glass Onion.
the glass balloon animal statue being there is what really sells it for me tbh its absolutely on point for a rich dumbass who wants to seem like an art lover
Spot on observations, though I have one nit to pick. Paul was actually the left-handed Beatle that wrote Blackbird, and, if you look at recordings of Paul playing during the Beatles' last couple of years together, he does use a right-handed Martin D-28 (as evidenced by the pickguard being above the soundhole), so this could credibly have been something Miles wasn't lying about.
i think the Mona Lisa isn't supposed to be a fake, because if it IS a fake and he KNEW it was a fake, the entire like...ending of the movie would be pointless, no? he'd get away with the murder and not be ruined,
@willnelson9906 He still could be dragged for the near miss and the potential danger of Klear is still on display. Also the others are going down for supporting Klear anyways, so they might as well burn his empire with them.
9:25 another thing about this moment! Miles knows how dangerous/flammable Klear is so he doesn’t fire anywhere near it, hence ‘smokeless garden’, it’s just an easy cover to pretend it’s to protect the environment or cuz he’s anti-smoking.
8:17 Peg is actually my favorite character in the film. She's the most ordinary of the cast similar to Whiskey (hence why, at the climax, the two are standing close together, I suppose).
I just wanted to add (to the stuff at about 25:30), that Peg, while she can (sorta at least) see past all their lies and such, she still goes along with it because she either doesn't want to rock the boat or she doesn't want to lose whatever position she has. She's a representation of us. We're sitting right there with her, cheering on Helen when she's dressing them down. We're right there, rolling our eyes at Miles' incorrect words. We're right there, our dread rising when Birdie starts talking about sweatpants.
And yet. And *yet* . We do nothing. We do nothing, like Peg, because our resumes, just like Peg's, are reliant on the "elite" still being there. Still having power. So we sit there. Feeling like we aren't as bad as other people because at *least* we believe the people who are fighting for change are right, but still doing nothing to help them.
And then, if/when it inevitably fails because they didn't have enough support, we shake our heads and go "shame it didn't work, but thank god I didn't join them. If I did, where would I be?" So we just *sit there* . Cheering in our heads, rolling our eyes at the rich's stupidity, predicting what's going to happen, but doing nothing to disrupt the status quo.
(I could also do a whole thing about Whiskey and what she's trying to do, or Andi and why (even though she's better than Miles) she's still not a good person. There's definitely something to explore with Helen, but I can't quite put my finger on it, so oh well lmao)
I mean, it was literally Peg’s job. Helen’s job is being a schoolteacher. Peg probably didn’t want to be blacklisted.
@@DeathnoteBB Exactly. That's my point. Peg, even though she sorta recognized she was supporting a corrupt system, and was happy about *other* people taking it down, she was ignoring that in favor of keeping herself safe. Like, she's known these people for *years* at this point. She probably knows way more stuff than she lets on. She just doesn't want to *disrupt* for fear of exactly that: being blacklisted.
@@llsilvertail561 I just disagree that she’s supporting the system
@@DeathnoteBB Yeah that's definitely a fair perspective. But she isn't trying to take it down either.
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)
This movie was so good. I love the mystery and humor. Hope they make a third one.
They are, Netflix paid him for a whole bunch more after Knives Out
They've signed a deal for at least one more to come out on Netflix
Hopefully the third one has the Muppets like Rian Johnson wants
There’s a confirmed third one in the works and Daniel Craig said as long as Rian Johnson is the one writing and directing future films, he’s willing to come back and play Benoit Blanc as many times as the two of them can come up with story ideas, he loves playing that sort of Poirot/JD Fletcher fusion character and working with Johnson. And honestly, I’m here for it, he’s probably the most standout and unique modern “detective” character of the past decade
The Corona cure joke killed me. That was a much needed joke. Even more ironic that I caught it a month after the movie was released.
I know it’s sort of a blink and you’ll miss it joke but I love when they all take the “medicine” and most of them start gagging and Blanc has almost no gag reflex 😳😆
Well he does have a husband…
@@DeathnoteBB yes that is the joke
@@DeathnoteBBIt’s why his husband is so willing to tolerate Blanc’s eccentricities.
What I love about this movie is that, like Knives Out, it tricked me. In fact while thia is a totally separate story from Knives Out and can be watched without having seen the first one i believe this movie works best if you have seen Knives Out first.
In Knives Out I knew it was a murder mystery going in so I prepared myself to deduce stuff. But halfway through and suddenly new info pops up that totally changes what I thought the movie was gonna be. And just when I had it all figured out the ending happened and gave one final twist.
Going into Glass Onion I was preparing myself to be duped again. Once again halfway through new info changed what I thought the film was about and what was going down. Even though I wasn't sure how I knew that the film was going to do some crazy shit that would fool me again.
And I fell right into Rian Johnson's trap. I was so focused on the big mystery that I missed the shit right in front of me. Damn this movie was good.
I like how an overarching thing in these movies is Blanc making a friend , specifically one of a lower social class than the other members of the cast . He just gets a bestie in the leading lady to solve the murder with its great
I like how a possible interpretation of the ending is that Miles is so dumb he wouldn’t notice if the Louvre just gave him a copy of the Mona Lisa. And that the real Mona Lisa was fine and Miles is still remembered as the idiot who almost destroyed the Mona Lisa. But I get why Thematically Helen has to destroy the real thing. It’s neat that both are valid.
The real Mona Lisa is a wood panel, not a canvas. And Miles was already established as falling for hucksters.
Allegedly a scene *was* filmed that showed that the real Mona Lisa was still in the Louvre, but Johnson decided that it would lessen the impact of the climax if they reveal that it was just a fake. So as far as the final movie is concerned, that *was* the real painting. Even if it is painted on the wrong surface. When I first saw that detail pointed out I just chalked it up to either "RJ didn't *know* it was painted on wood and nobody considered that it might not actually be on canvas" or "they knew it was wrong but decided to fudge the detail because the image of the canvas burning away was just too good".
I’m pretty sure it is accurate in the film, that splitting and flaking away when it burns is because it’s painted on wood. It’s because the paint forms a layer on top of the wood, so when it burns that layer burns and flakes away. At least that what I think happened
@@Janoha17 the material looked like a wooden surface underneath the paint, hence why it’s not burning away as the paint breaks down
They could do it both ways. Let the world be traumatized that the Mona Lisa was destroyed, then reveal it was a fake, and the Louvre are the heroes. I'm not thrilled with the idea that the real one got destroyed either. I'm not thrilled with the 'real ML got destroyed' ending either.
It is a testament to how detailed Glass Onion is that I’ve seen it dozens of times, and I’m still picking up on new things. God, I love this movie.
I’ve seen so many videos on Glass Onion and I’m absolutely in love with how I’m still learning new hidden details Rian Johnson put into the movie while still making it all make sense. Saw both Knives Out and Glass Onion in theaters and those have both been two of the most reactive audience I’ve been in, it’s insane how funny yet sadly realistic the dialogue in these movies are. Also watching this in theaters meant I saw it in November which was right in the thick of Elon buying Twitter and seeing this predict that whole situation 2 YEARS PRIOR is a new definition of “aging well”
Really? I don't remember Edward Norton's character taking over a business that was swarming with political corruption and unchecked child pornography, and rooting out the worst of it while still keeping the site functional. Did Twitter blow up and cease to exist while I wasn't looking? Or is it all pretty much the same despite everybody hanging on every small problem they had after they fired all the staff members who were committing heinous crimes?
One thing I love that foreshadows Miles idiocy is his phrase/aspiration 'I want to be mentioned in the same breath as the Mona Lisa' when that's a completely nonsense statement. He's a person, thus a creator; the Mona Lisa is an art piece, a creation. The proper phrase would have been either 'I want to be mentioned in the same breath as Leonardo DaVinci'(creator) or 'This(maybe Klear for example) is going to be as famous as the Mona Lisa'(creation)
I liked how even in this movie Blanc when he's recognized it's for other cases that are vague and not related to Knives Out.
As totally not someone else also from Connecticut, I knew EXACTLY what Claire was gonna be like once they specified she was from Connecticut. There's only one reason why you make a fictional character from Connecticut.
Another interesting thing is that the real Mona Lisa is painted on wood, which hints that the Louvre realised Miles was liable to do dumb stuff and gave him a reproduction.
it could also mean that miles is so stupid he doesnt even know what the worlds most famous painting (which he rented out) is painted on lol
I think it's more likely they didn't extensively research the Mona Lisa before making this film.
There was a deleted scene where Blanc calls the Louvre and it's revealed that the Mona Lisa in Miles' house is indeed fake, but it was cut because the ending was more impactful if Helen destroyed the real Mona Lisa.
Also when Miles is playing Birdie's song on Paul's Guitar, Miles is playing it right-handed which sounds off, then you recall that Paul McCartney is Left-handed and it makes a lot more sense why the song sounds out of tune.
If you look though, when the paint bubbles up and peels off, it's old cracked wood underneath.
Doesn't mean it's not a reproduction, because anyone reproducing it faithfully would paint it on wood. I like to imagine the Louvre said "This dumbass wants to pay us to lend him THE Mona Lisa to...sit in his living room? Cha-ching! Send him one of the one's even art insurance appraisers can't tell the difference."
A win you missed- Rian already told us after Knives Out that you can always spot a twist villain bc they legally cannot be shown with apple products. In Glass Onion, Miles tosses Blanc an ipad.... but he does it from offscreen, so hes never actually shown holding it!
I feel like I can easily excuse the "its because it's dumb" writing thing because we know how brilliant Knives Out was so clearly this isn't Johnson just covering up poor writing skills. It works well because we know how convoluted the true answer was in the last movie, so this one being so clear and obvious from the get go felt like an obvious red herring. and then it wasn't! really spectacular in my opinion
It also works because Ransom was the black sheep of the family, but was arguably the most cunning of that family, being able to quickly devise a new plan to frame Martha that almost worked up until the end.
Ransom is the true heir to Harlon's cleverness, Harlon even says so himself, whereas Miles is hailed by everyone as this genius god who, in actuality, couldn't think of a smart plan given enough time and to save his life. He is hailed as the true heir to the genius that was actually Cassandra.
It also ties in to the idea of the glass onion. The center (the solution) is in plain sight, so instead, the movie focuses on the layers that aren't so easy to see.
This movie, all the layers upon layers, the little things just prove, once again, how amazingly talented Rian Johnson is. This is a movie you can watch a hundred times and still see tiny things you missed.
One of my favorite details is Helen still clearly holding the rock while throwing all the glassware. 22:13
Your genuine appreciation and positivity actually made me feel good while in a phase during which my depression is affecting me more than usual and I've just felt powerless and unable to do things so I just wanna say thank you
The chemistry Monae and Craig brought to Helen and Benoit just crackled with electricity. I would be quite happy if the next 5 movies were entitled "{title}: A Blanc/Brand Mystery"
Craig's and De Armas were like a thousand times better
Helen could always come back as Benoît's partner during school holidays to boost up her income!
He had great chemistry with De Armas too.
Hopefully the next one shakes it up a bit.
13:25 I LOVE that I Noticed it literally when it happened on my first viewing, but I was still enjoying the film as if I hadn't noticed. Really shows how well made the film is
I was really hoping you would call out the fact that right when Helen bumps into Duke and storms off, his phone dings with the notification of Andi's death, and then he says, "*There's* the Andi that I know!"
I watched the movie once with my partner then a second time with my family who were all watching it the first time and when Blanc calls "Andi" Helen during the blackout my jaw literally dropped when I realized that my partner and I hadn't noticed, and that I was now sitting in a room full of people and no one even blinked at it! I don't know if it was the chaos of the scene or what but that was so smooth to, right before revealing the twist, show us the twist in a way that no one I know noticed it on first watch.
Another little fun tidbit: Rian Johnson mentioned in an interview for Knives Out that "bad guys" aren't allowed to use Apple products. Which is why in this movie, Miles actually throws Blanc his iPad offscreen. Kinda neat!
Love the satirical office campaign as well, good luck Mr. Cinemawins!
I'm curious as to what Apple are going to do if a bad guy hands someone an Apple device? Sue? That'd go nowhere. Withhold their funding? They weren't funding this movie. Brick the devices of everyone on the production team?
Like seriously, who the fuck does Apple think that it is, and what power do they *really* have against another large company? Sure they can screw over you or me by suing us until we can't afford to defend ourselves even if it's a SLAAP suit, but another company can defend themselves against that tactic.
@@jasonwalker9471 it's probably in the contract for apple product placement in movies, you think they just had a ten minute segment about an iPad without apple paying for it?
@@jasonwalker9471 considering they have to contractually approve the use of their product in film, sue is *exactly* what they could do.
@@jasonwalker9471 you seem to fundamentally misunderstand how product placement works.
@@artyb27 My point is that it doesn't *need* to be product placement. If they're trying to get a few tens of thousands of dollars out of Apple for product placement, then sure, Apple can dictate the terms of the iPad's use.
But that's peanuts on a movie with a budget in the hundreds of millions (500 million for the two Knives Out sequels). If they felt it necessary to have Miles give Blanc an iPad and Apple objected, they should have just withdrawn the advertising request given how inconsequential that one, single product placement was compared to the whole budget of the film. And there would have been nothing Apple could do.
One thing you didn’t notice on the dock: the hotel employee who drops off birdie knew Blanc. The employee said “stranger danger mr. blanc?”. That’s because Benoit stayed in the hotel the night before with Helen- but he told the other guests that he had just arrived.
What I appreciate about these movies is the rewatchability. Looking out for clues and things you missed in the first viewing after the twist is revealred.
Another thing I like is during the dinner scene, you can just see how much no one wants to be there or take part in the mystery. They're just there to keep Miles happy and supporting them.
I also think it's pretty clear that Miles was already wealthy, or else he wouldn't have been able to help get them started.
something i also noticed on rewatches is that both peg AND whiskey kinda see through some of the bullshit, they just go with it bc they’re betting their career in it. i think you mentioned most of peg’s in the video, and whiskey outright smiles when andi comes out of the car and seems uncomfortable and rolls her eyes at miles’ disruptor speech. i did notice this bc she’s very pretty and i was looking, yeah, but i’m choosing to believe it’s on purpose
Whiskey seemed kind of over their BS, and it seemed like she was only there because she works with Duke. I wanted to like her but when she tries to kill Helen just over a misunderstanding it sort of ruined any sympathy I had.
@DeathnoteBB I mean, her misunderstanding was thinking that Helen had just committed murder and is now in thier room looking for something, so for her its a case of self defense to keep herself from being murdered too
@@gothicbutterfly013 Self-defense isn’t chasing someone with a harpoon gun, if I remember what happened right.
Oh my God I am SO glad you pointed this out, because it made me realise another amazing moment the director made us think a character was one thing when really they were another. She a buff guy's blond girlfriend so we all assume she's just that, and that her eye rolling at the rest of the people is because she's just there to f around. But going back after seeing the end, you can catch into the fact that she's genuinely just seeing thru all their bs and is so done
18:18 The best thing about the Matisse in the bathroom is that it has no glass in front of it, like the Mona Lisa. That artwork is made of cut paper and Miles put it right next to the sink. If there's a shower in that bathroom, the steam would ruin the paper.
This movie blew my mind. I was just like Blanc, pouring over every hidden detail in the movie and every line of dialogue to find out what happened. Only to find out the murder was literally just straight up shown to you super early on. As Blanc stood up and ranted about how stupid it all was I was losing my mind thinking the same things. Just like Blanc and the case, I too to a stupid simple situation an overcomplicated mess of a mystery because I couldn’t imagine someone would be so dumb. Truly a revolutionary murder mystery movie. I will never forget it.
It surprised me a lot but overall was happy to be validated about then all being ignorant
What really strikes me about the Benoit Blanc films is how visually distinct each film is. Knives Out! falls into a warm and homey gothic style, cluttered in an eccentric yet human way with a dark color scheme to it all. Glass Onion meanwhile is distinctly a modern twist on art deco. It's all angular and grand, colorful in an incredibly calculated way.
It makes both films to be an incredibly enjoyable viewing experience even if the story doesn't particularly appeal to the specific individual.
I think Knives Out was a better written mystery that will hold up better in the long run, but Glass Onion was way more viscerally satisfying and was released at the exact right moment. Still holding out hope for a muppets Benoit Blanc mystery
Yes!!!
One thing I noticed after repeat viewings, is that there is an extremely subtle hint that the one who is presented as Andi isn't actually Andi. It was something that I noticed only because I was in deep hyperfixation mode 😂 We see in multiple shots throughout the film that Andi is wearing light/nude neutral polish on her fingernails. This is a really effective choice of colour symbolism to represent her nature as a very blunt and pragmatic individual who stands by her morals without question.
And yet, when we are introduced to her in the opening puzzle box scene, what colour nail polish is she wearing? Bright red. Which itself is a representation of the inherent fierceness that Helen has. She often describes herself as being the more reserved of the two but begets her nature as the more tempermental of the two by relaying her opinions of Andi's former friends without hesitation.
Idk, just something I noticed 🤣
Also, we can see Helen is wearing the exact same color polish when she goes to talk to Blanc
The guitar he’s playing when they arrive on the beach supposedly belonged to Paul MCcartney who is a left handed player. But Miles played it right handed (upside down)
12:42 birdie casually petting peg
Thought you wrote "pegging" 😅
I really love seeing Daniel Craig act in a movie he actually wants to be in and have so much fun!
I saw a video of Rian analysing the dock scene, and even he was point out how good Kathryn Hahn staying in character with all her little quirks in the background was great. Hell of a cast. Also my dad noticed that if Edward Norton was playing Paul McCartney guitar is should be left handed, so he knew he was a phony lol.
Something I like about Blanc is that he's a good detective, but he's realistically good, not a Sherlock Holmes.
21:13 It would be genuinely hilarious that he only burned it after it became an idea in someone else's head that he could steal *if* it weren't so frustrating that she stupidly carried it up to him as if he wouldn't destroy it the moment he got his hands on it.
I don't think she knew he had a lighter on him
something I noticed when I first watched the movie is that "Helen"s hair is roughly chopped in the back, and a woman like her would never let her hair be done so unprofessionally. adding with the fact that the first scene with her had no hair, I knew someone wasn't who they said they were lol
I genuinely fell in love with this movie on the first watch through. Maybe it's only because I watched it right after watching Knives Out for the first time, but it was genuinely just so enjoyable for me to watch through the first half, just waiting for that turning point, and then it hits. Also, that glass breaking scene is so iconic, easily one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. God I love this movie so much.
a layer that i dont see a lot of people talk about is the names and location! Andys full name being cassandra the same name if the troyan princess whose predicitons were ignored (a gift-curse) and helen, the very woman whose arrival to troye brought the war, the DISRUPTION. and well you know these names from greek myth/legend for women with similair roles in a murder mystery that takes place on a greek island? LAYERS
I love when we first see Blanc he's playing among us and Miles invites them for a murder mystery party which is basically... among us
This has become my new comfort movie. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched it because sometimes it’s 2-3 times in a day. Rian is a genius. And before I retire in 15 months some surgeon is gonna be called a “Vainglorious Bafoon”!
i hope you haven’t told em yet because it’s spelled “buffoon” so if you’re doing it through text try to keep that in mind
-sincerely, someone who has had a good argument be ruined by a minor spelling error
@@trickster80 I plan on saying it to their face. :) Although, when they write me up, I’ll be sure they spell it right. :) Twenty four shifts left till I retire.
Something great about this movie and the others in the same universe is that even when only having watched this one movie with Blanc in it, you are given everything you need to know about his character and personality, but there are still little thing you notice and understand from watching others. A great movie down to making the audience believe “it’s so obvious it couldn’t possibly be him” and then having it be him.
Not sure if anyone else has brought this up in the comments yet, but in the scene that plays at 15:59, there is a musical quote: Danny Elfman’s Batman theme from 1989. This comes just after Blanc says “I’m not Batman,” but then comes up with a scheme that Bruce Wayne would be proud of!
27:41 That's a beautiful beard win, right there
You gotta do Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron. Give it the CinemaWins treatment. It's a movie that deserves it.
I really want that! 🥳
A win counter solely for horse eyebrows.
@@ASpaceOstrich exactly 😂👍🏼
Not only is it an amazing movie but it also quite literally constructed my ideology about the world at age 5 lol
Fun fact! In the shot of the Mona Lisa burning, we get a close-up where it's very clear that the burning painting is some sort of parchment or paper. But the Mona List was painted directly onto a piece of poplar wood! Meaning the Louvre didn't even trust Miles with the real thing, and he was too ignorant to notice!