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Knives Out (2019) // Glass Onion (2022)
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I also think that all the "um okay knives out & glass onion were good. Wrap it up now" posts are so funny. You're tripping if you think there's not going to be at least five Benoit Blanc films lol
What part of "the detective franchise is back babey" did you not get. There were 14 Poirot films and that's not counting the show which was a standard season for most of its run. 69 Columbo episodes. Like it or hate it you are going to be seeing Benoit Blanc until the day he stops making money and then some.
He hasn't even been on a train yet for fucks sake
HE HASN'T EVEN BEEN ON A TRAIN YET!!!!
The thing about world-famous detectives that's true both in character and out of character is that it's annoyingly difficult to make them go away.
arthur conan doyle found that out the hard way
GLASS ONION: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) dir. Rian Johnson
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im obsessed with the color palette of this movie. and also his drip
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benoit blanc dress up simulator
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One of my favorite things about Benoit Blanc, and this applies to both the characters in the story AND the audience, is that he's such a brilliant detective he makes you FORGET he's a brilliant detective.
He's clearly well-known in this universe, enough that apparently Google defines him as the world's greatest detective, and Miles Bron even recognizes him on SIGHT in Glass Onion. And we the audience have, presumably, seen him in Knives Out, so we already know this isn't blowing smoke and is in fact a deserved fame. And yet his bumbling, scattered persona we see in the early film is so believable it immediately fools even people who know better than to underestimate him.
Even when he finally starts slipping the mask a little, after "solving" the botched murder mystery, we don't start seeing the real picture and his real goal until we see his interactions with Helen. His brilliance comes in his comfort with being seen as stupid, as incompetent, of letting himself be undermined and making people let their guard down around him, even when they should KNOW better.
And that works even better for the audience watching the movie. We're so focused on trying to figure him out, the movie hides the clues in plain sight. Even though we should KNOW, if we watched Knives Out, that the answer is not going to be simple and straightforward, that we should be prepared for anything. But we're so caught up in the performance and the story and the layers that it makes us forget we've been here before.
Anyway, Glass Onion is 10/10 and I hope we get more movies with Benoit as a connecting thread, because he and these movies are so brilliant and I love them.
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four EXTREMELY underrated glass onion moments:
- "child = nft"
- "it's so dumb!" "oh... it's so dumb it's brilliant..." "NO! it's just DUMB!!"
- "uh, no one traihed ta kill ya, ya vainglorious buffOON" in that stupid accent
- "you... dim-witted, brAINLESS, JACKASS! YOUR ONE MUHDUH WITH ANY PANACHE AT ALL AND YOU STOLE THE WHOLE IDEA FROM ME!!"
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everyone is out here with these fantastic theories and metaphors in glass onion
but i just can't stop laughing at miles bron's face when blanc says that he got the box with its stupid "children's puzzles" that took him less than a minute to solve like. that motherfucker was so offended and i loved every second of it
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Look into the clear center of this Glass Onion… Miles Bron is an idiot.
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Knives Out (2019) // Glass Onion (2022)
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"Un-uhlaive? UN-UHLAIVE? Ma'am, that man has been killed. He has been MUHDUHED. To DEATH."
After watching him play Benoit Blanc I think we all know that folks need to give Daniel Craig more roles he can have fun with, and by that I mean I need him to be the only human in a Muppets movie
