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- These are all the easter eggs, killer clues & call-backs + secret cameos that even Benoit Blanc missed in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery!
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0:00 Intro
0:23 Cain's Jawbone
1:07 Evil Eye
1:46 Phoney Beatles Blackbird
2:36 Revealing Artwork
3:54 Thirty Seconds To Mars
4:05 Wheel of Knives
4:20 Dead Man's Folly
5:00 Anonymous Invitation
5:21 Anti-Bond Swimwear
5:42 Gravity's Rainbow
6:09 The Mirror Crack'd
6:26 Miss Marple
6:53 Among Us Cameos
7:22 Death On The Nile
7:38 Red Herring Cameo
8:14 Brick Midnight Tunnel
8:25 Joseph Gordon-Levitt Dong
9:06 Pandemic Particulars
9:31 Peg's Personal Cup
9:50 Duke's Little Blue Pills
10:10 Mona Lisa Smile
10:45 Beatles Glass Onion Credits
11:34 Glass Onion Twist Clues
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Benoit Blanc returns to peel back the layers in a new Rian Johnson whodunit. This fresh adventure finds the intrepid detective at a lavish private estate on a Greek island, but how and why he comes to be there is only the first of many puzzles. Blanc soon meets a distinctly disparate group of friends gathering at the invitation of billionaire Miles Bron for their yearly reunion. Among those on the guest list are Miles’ former business partner Andi Brand, current Connecticut governor Claire Debella, cutting-edge scientist Lionel Toussaint, fashion designer and former model Birdie Jay and her conscientious assistant Peg, and influencer Duke Cody and his sidekick girlfriend Whiskey. As in all the best murder mysteries, each character harbors their own secrets, lies and motivations. When someone turns up dead, everyone is a suspect. Returning to the franchise he began, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Rian Johnson writes and directs Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and assembles another all-star cast that includes a returning Daniel Craig alongside Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline with Kate Hudson and Dave Bautista.
Starring: Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline with Kate Hudson and Dave Bautista
Director: Rian Johnson
Written by: Rian Johnson
Producers: Ram Bergman, Rian Johnson
Co-producers: Nikos Karamigos, Leopold Hughes
Executive Producer: Tom Karnowski
Director of Photography: Steve Yedlin
Production Designer: Rick Heinrichs
Costume Designer: Jenny Eagan
Editor: Bob Ducsay
Composer: Nathan Johnson
Visual Effects Supervisor: Giles Harding
Supervising Sound Editor: Matthew Wood
Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer: Josh Gold - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Thanks to you Movie Lovers for spotting the Andi/Helen hair parting clue!! 🕵♀🕵♂👍
BUT - YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED: IN A SCENE OF A GUN SHOT A MURDERER HAS BLACK GLOVES, AND IN A SCENE WHEN EDWARD NORTON POINTS A GUN HE HAS NO GLOVES. I HATE THIS KIND OF MISTAKES IN MOVIES
I love that Peg was writing her name with a sharpie on a red cup while everyone else has their own personalized expensive glass.
Yeah, she didn't even get a plain glass from Miles! What a douchebag!
This reminds me that non-Americans are confused by the ubiquitous red plastic cup used at parties in our movies.
@@SPORT2932 so what is that about?
@@simongregory3114 Many people outside of the US are curious about the ubiquitous red cup in our movies.
@@SPORT2932 How many?
Did the Louvre rip off Myles? You see the Mona Lisa painting burning, the canvas curling up...but the Mona Lisa was painted on wood, not canvas.
They gave him a fake and he’s so dumb he wouldn’t know
That’s the layer of paint burning. Underneath you can see the wood for a split second before the camera moves away
@@metalbrock57Paint doesn't curl up.
It's also way larger than the actual Mona Lisa
Nailed it! Rian Johnson said they filmed it to be a fake, but then didn't use the clip proving it.
The override switch is hidden in a "Fool on a Hill" because that's what Miles is.
And "Fool on the Hill" is a Beatles song! 😲
But the whole point of that song is that the "fool" on the hill is really a visionary.
Argh came here to post that.
🎵I told you 'bout the fool on the hill
I tell you man he's living there still 🎵
Thank you!!! I had been wondering a out the significance of that dumb little figurine.
Nice catch, BUT. Fool on the Hill is a callback in Glass Onion, which is why it's there. The character in the song itself is as unlike Miles as it's possible to be.
It's funny how in the game of Among Us, nobody dies (as you can see while Blanc gets voted out, everyone's still alive) but Angela Lansbury solved the case of who is the killer anyway, just like Blanc solves Miles' case even before he gets shot by the bolt 😁👌
It also speaks to how bad Blanc is at the game lol. As I saw on Tumblr, it means that he’s either being super sus or he vented in front of them
That’s just a coincidence
If you watch knives out again, when Blanc and the detectives go to get the security footage to see if anybody has drove away from the house that night, murder she wrote is playing on the little portable TV
Ah yes, I remember that thanks!
And Marta and her mother are watching something with Angela Lansbury in it at one point, but dubbed into Spanish. I assumed it was also Murder She Wrote.
In the flash back where Helen finds the napkin after tipping over the book shelf, she finds it in the book “The Innovators Dilemma” by Clayton Christiansen, which is all about disruption theory
Andi, not Helen
Christensen, not “Christiansen”
working in tech, I immediately noticed this - and the fact that it's not just a book about disruption, but about why companies can do everything right and still fail, if they don't understand disruption. Christiansen is a major researcher and author out of Harvard Business School. He has advised my own employer's Board, and delivered a TED-style talk at one of our customer events that I'd rank as one of the most useful and insightful tech talks I've heard in 20 years in the industry. So makes total sense Andi would have been reading this when she came up with the idea!
Also that the sisters are named Helen and Cassandra...nice nod to the fall of Troy. Cassandra foretold it and Helen brought it about; in a roundabout way.
Helen's vs Andi's hair part stood out prominently for me during the movie. Also, Helen's inscrutable Mona Lisa like pose occurred far more often than during the last scene of the movie-- that was just the most obvious.
I caught an interesting reference that I don’t think anyone else has noted in a video yet.
Duke Cody’s pistol is introduced in the first act as a blatant and literal reference to famous Russian Author Anton Chekhov’s “Chekhov’s Gun” but it goes a level deeper. The gun is shown up close at the beginning of the third act, revealing it is a custom engraved Zastava M57… what’s interesting about that is that the pistol is a design copy of a very famous Russian pistol, the Tokarev TT33. So in the same way Rian Johnson’s films are homages to famous murder mysteries, his Chekhov’s Gun is a metaphor for copying a famous literary device.
Nice pickup.
I haven’t seen anyone say that Miles’ invitation to the island says “love miles xo” n the red envelope says “love andi xo”
Yeah it's another reference to him not having an original idea about anything. She likely signed stuff to them like this all the time. Good catch.
I think my favorite artwork detail is that Miles has the Rothko painting hung upside down on the wall.
do they even have a right way up?
@@roberts5539 If there is a signature on the painting, yes, they have.
@@Dave1507 a lot of his larger abstracts like the one here look unsigned in photos. on the front anyway.
@@roberts5539 yeah, a lot of his larger abstracts are also not the originals.
@@Dave1507 whhhaaaattt!!! mind blown.
I loved the Yo Yo Ma cameo, and how many times the Fugue in G minor is played at pivotal points in the soundtrack, layering as it goes.
I think the Angela Lansbury cameo might also be a nod back to the fact that Marta's mother is watching Murder She Wrote in the first movie (in Spanish) which Angela stars in (and we do see her on the TV screen).
I think the image of Miles looking weirdly and intensely at the diagram on the napkin is a allusion to an iconic image of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, who is, like Miles, a pathological liar, con artist, rabid self-promotor and narcissistic ego-maniac, and a "disruptive" "inventor".
8:28 I thought the Phillip Glass sound was a nod to Microsoft hiring Brian Eno and later Robert Fripp to compose Windows 95/ Vista startup chimes….
That's a good point, and I think that's another level to that reference as well.
It totally was. There's references to different tech leaders all throughout the movie.
Had no idea! Cool.
Philip GLASS is most likely mentioned because of his name, highlighting the recurring “glass” theme of the movie
He composed for the movie "the hours" and on this island for a Gong that sounds every hour... it's stupid. NO, not genious, just stupid...
Did you notice that Mile’s photo posing with the Alpha company idea on the napkin is a nod to the ill-fated Forbes’ magazine cover featuring Elizabeth Holmes?
He looks very Steve Jobs to me.
@@toddgaak422 he definitely did the black turtleneck thing when arguing with Andi about Klear when she said she'd leave the company.
This was great, as was your first video! The only reference you and others missed, imo, is the shout out to one of the very first detective stories ever: Poe’s The Purloined Letter, about finding a stolen letter which is hidden in plain sight. ✌🏼
Ah yes, fantastic and thanks for pointing it out!
There are more connections as well. Enjoy!!
I saw that as well, but was so distracted by all the drama, as intended!!
I love how you have to be pretty well-read, art knowledgeable, pop culture savvy and a movie fan to catch many of Rian Johnson's references.
Example:
Rothko painting is hung upside down.
Please add others. I want to create a list
Did anyone notice that the way Mile's invitational was signed JUST like Andi's signature on the red envelope?
This lends to the idea that Miles doesn't have (many, if any) original thoughts during the film. He only thinks to burn the napkin after being given the idea, same with calling people shitheads. He didn't even write the mystery he claims he did.
Speaking of Agatha Christie, the whole plot of Miles pretending that someone’s trying to kill him reminds me of a ton of Poirot novels mostly the first Poirot book that I ever read: Peril at End House which is how I immediately knew Miles was the killer
Yep. And also I haven't trusted Ed Norton since Fight Club
@@mushmouf1400 Fight Club? What about Primal Fear? Never trust Eddie!
@@fabischoler9456 lol. I don't remember if I saw it.
Well how about another One?
Dude's an Illusionist.
Seeing this was uploaded an hour ago, and having already seen a slew of Easter egg videos about Glass Onion, I was afraid I'd be hearing all the same things I already knew. However this was chock full of new and interesting things I'd never noticed nor heard of. Great work!
Thank you and so glad you enjoyed it. I always look to find extra things beyond the most obvious!
Blanc’s arrival at the pool and his bathing costume reminded me of Peter Ustinov’s Poirot in Evil Under the Sun.
You can also see Miles carrying the gun in the hallway when looking for "Andi"
I watched the film last night and immediately began thinking about anagrams of “Miles Bron”. I’ve come up with three possibilities so far: (1) most obviously, ones that involve the name, Elon. My favorite is “Mr B is Elon”; (2) the more general “born slime”; and most intriguingly, (3) “bromelins”.
Quite a few people have addressed the first; the second is straightforward; but what about the third? It’s obscure but also chillingly appropriate because bromelin (also called bromelain) is an enzyme in pineapples that, when consumed by people severely allergic to the fruit, can lead rapidly from breathing problems to loss of consciousness and even death - i.e. exactly what Miles Bron (bromelins) induces in Duke by putting pineapple juice in his own glass and then tricking his “old friend” into drinking from it.
If we want to be more obsessive, something the film both encourages and mocks (like the Beatles’ song, “Glass Onion”, that accompanies the credits), the brand name on the can of juice that Miles uses is “Vitala”. In the notes for the Sleepy Hollow TV series, a vitala is described as “an undead human being of Hindu lore that serves Kali, Goddess of death and regeneration”.
This seems like an alternative spelling of “vetala” which, in Hindu folklore, according to Wikipedia, is an evil spirit that haunts cemeteries, takes demonic possession of corpses, and has an uncanny knowledge of the past, present, and future, a theme Miles highlights when he first describes the Glass Onion structure for his guests (just before his casual appropriation of Hinduism in his reference to their chakras).
Finally, if we want to obsess even more, we might note that bromelin is sometimes used in the food industry to tenderize meat, something that chefs and people cooking at home often do by using onions.
None of these possibilities excludes the others, of course. I’ve no idea if Rian Johnson had any of them in mind as he was writing the screenplay but given his overall approach, he was probably thinking about most if not all of them, and many others that I’ve failed to spot.
I wouldn't be surprised if every glass statue is a reference to something. I noticed that one is possibly identical to the Maltese Falcon. Also, the override button being a jester is a nice touch because only a fool would have something like that installed.
A fool on a hill, even. Like the Beatles song.
I noticed Jeff Koons' Balloon Dog there. I think you can spot it in this video around 4:10
As someone who’s read all of Agatha Christie and frequently rereads her books I’m so grateful for these movies bringing that typical Christie vibe. The best thing in her books and in these is that you get the mystery element, intrigue and thrill without having to be subject to the grotesque violent scenes that are often part of modern mysteries and thrillers.
yessssss! thank you for saying this. so many movies rely on shock value than storytelling, assuming audiences will be bored by well-crafted and complex stories. Turns out, it's just a lot harder to write a good story and then translate it onto the screen, than to write a college term paper outline and throw in a bunch of explosions (and usually also boobs) to make up for it.
Yes! A totally chill feel good krimi!
Still no comparison to Christie's work though.. but the element is there
@@sofiyarini I agree!
Nothing will surpass the atmosphere of A Caribbean Mystery or The mysterious affair at Styles for eg :)
Great video! The "hourly dong" also seems to be an homage to the "noonday gun" in Evil Under the Sun--the cannon that is fired every day at noon and is a key element in the timing of the murder.
There’s also the Poirot short story “The Second Gong“ in which the gong helps solve the murder - the murder of a rich family tyrant who annoys the heck out of everybody he meets. 😁
Regarding the “anti-Bond” swimwear I was instantly reminded of Roddy McDowall in the 1982 adaptation of Evil Under The Sun which was on TV this very afternoon and raised a smile at the recollection. Possibly unintended but I kinda doubt it’s totally coincidental!
Something I noticed the first time I watched was when Miles says he assigned colors/chakras to each person based on 'how I feel about them' or something like that. Blanc later points out Birdie's is yellow for guilt or some such. However, in that first scene where Miles says it, you can see Andi's is red - the first or base chakra, thoughtless passion, devoid of higher thought. - Seeing it at first, I thought it might mean he was attracted to her, but it's a reference to his snap decision to kill her (after getting the red envelope fax) without higher order thinking which is represented by the other chakras.
I’m intrigued by that “ Cain’s Jawbone”. I’m gonna look it up and see what’s the fuss is all about!
You should probably get two copies so you can remove the pages from one of them
It's the Finnegan's Wake -- or, if you like, Gravity's Rainbow -- of Mystery/Puzzle books.
It was such a lovely movie, with unexpected laughs, that I can’t stop watching videos about it. If you love mysteries, this film is a dessert.
Cassandra in Greek mythology was a Trojan priestess dedicated to the god Apollo and fated by him . In modern usage her name is employed as a rhetorical device to indicate a person whose accurate prophecies, generally of impending disaster, are not believed. Wikipedia
Yes, good point!
Yes, and Helen caused, through no fault of her own, the fall of Troy.
I found this one: In the scene where Claire Debella tells Helen, who she thinks is Andi, "Do you wanna know why we did it..." she follows it up by saying, "So you come here, in your Gucci flats...," the movie then cuts to Birdie quietly saying "Valentino." Since Claire assumed that Andi wears Gucci while Birdie looked at Helen's feet to see that she was actually wearing Valentino's, this is a hint to the eventual reveal that Andi is in fact Helen, who might not have known about Andi's preference in designer footwear.
I don't think that Claire "assumed" anything, she just doesn't know anything about fashion. Birdie on the other hand is former model who knows brands etc. Also: I think that Helen took some clothes and accessories from Andi house, she definitely haven't bought shoes from a designer for that trip - she was a teacher, she can't afford them
They were Andis shoes. The whole wardrobe was hers
@@MaraMara89 If Helen can't afford designer shoes, then how on Earth can she afford Benoit Blanc's fee??
@@nbartlett6538 he was borel, so he could do it for free. If not: she probably would inherit her sister money, but that need time for formalities. Also: buying new clothes don't make sense, she probably don't have enough fashion knowledge to pull it off, so taking her sister things would be safer anyway
@@nbartlett6538 her inheritance from Andi, probably
In a movie full of what I call casual cameos I found Serena's cameo the best one as it just looked like a video portrait till she asked if they wanted to use the work out time or not. One of many laugh out loud moments for me in this movie.
Regarding the artwork, the red and black square painting is surely a nod to Radiohead’s album Amnesiac, which has the track Knives Out and is where the name of the first move came from. The working title for the first film was Morning Bell, another Radiohead song from that album.
Also the bullet hole through the glass is very reminiscent of James Bond movie, Spectre
Awesome insight, thank you for that! ❤
It's also a Rothko painting that is hung upside down because Miles doesn't know or care enough to hang properly. It is titled 'Number 207 (Red over Dark Blue on Dark Gray)' so anyone who'd put even minimal attention to the painting's selection would have known which way it hangs. A visual malapropism.
Maybe the hourly "dong" sound is a nod to Morning Bell.
Nice share!
The statue Whiskey smashes at 4:07, is a glass version of "The Maltese Falcon", maybe another "Blackbird" reference.
Great spot, thanks!
Also “bird in space” by Brancusi
I noticed that The white yacht was based on Steve Job’s yatch design.
Also miles wore a black turtleneck n blue jeans (ala Job’s signature outfit) when he was talking with Andi in their boardroom.
And in that scene Andi refers to Miles' "reality distortion field," a phrase which was commonly used in Apple's early days to talk about Jobs.
I wanted to add two more hints if you ever rewatch the scene where Blanc and Miles talk after the former "ruins" the mystery, where it focuses on the picture of the gang at the Glass Onion- if you look closely, you see Miles in the center, which hints at the metaphor that Blanc is referring to- "the center is in plain sight" and "I was staring right at it". This is also a clever parallel to the same idea in "the Last of Sheila" where the gang pose underneath the name "SHEILA" which is a clue to the central mystery itself (which I'm not going to spoil).
Another one is when Miles talks about Andi, and how no one speaks the truth anymore, and it's all fake smiles and agendas and people wanting what they think they're owed. This is in reference to Miles doing this to the gang instead of what is thought to be each of the other suspect's motive- he wants Klear to become public which is seen in the scene prior to dinner, wanting to cover his ass for funding the sweatshops with Birdie as a shield and his dignity which could be uprooted due to putting Duke on Alpha News.
The guitar on which Miles plays Blackbird is a right-handed Martin D-28. Paul did indeed write Blackbird on a right-handed Martin D-28, with a custom-cut nut to allow it to be strung left-handed (a very simple modification). It is possible that this could have been the same guitar, although I doubt Paul would sell it; it's not like he needs the money.
Another cool detail: once the lights turn out and blanc is in the kitchen, you can see that one of the knives is missing. Later, when all the lights turn on again and all of the characters discover Gelens „dead“ body. You can see and hear Birdy drop the knife.
Janelle Monae was definitely a standout performance in this movie
She was definitely the best, but I have to say I was surprised by how well some of the other cast pulled off funny! Edward Norton has never been funnier!
You're kidding, right? She is awful.
There are also several nods to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. They are stuck on an island, the first death is by a spiked drink, the gunshot victim is faking their death. I’m sure there are more but that is all I’m coming up with right now.
I’m really hoping at some point there will be a version with Ryan’s comments on the. I loved those in knives out. ❤️
There's a part after everyone arrives to the island and Miles shows them to the house (around the time you hear the "Dong") where Whiskey is making sure to only step on the loose stones between the walkway slabs on the ground. She stands by Duke and notices his feet are touching the walkway, tells him to only step on the stones and he moves his feet. I haven't seen anyone reference this and I'm so curious what the heck they were doing!
Ya what is the deal with that.
true! :O
I thinks... that was just left.... she propably was showing where his mark is....
Perhaps like children when they say "don't step on the cracks"? ...to illustrate that Whiskey is not the most mature or worldly of people. This is referenced as an idea of childhood innocence for example in the lyrics of "It was So Easy" by Carly Simon
@@paulhardy4846 Sure maybe, but wouldn't the loose stones be considered the "cracks", not the other way around?
Could mentioning Philip Glass also have been a nod to The Illusionist, in which Edward Norton plays the main character? Glass did that soundtrack.
Or The Truman Show?
a thin I noticed: when Helen was there with a Box for Blanc, the guy who opened it said to Plan (who was in the Bathroom) : there is a PERSON with a Box. if it would have been a postman it would be unlikely to say that. SO it was clear Blanc lied to Miles, when he said he didn't know who gave him the Box...
4:08 the painting with red and blue (Number 207) in this scene is display up-side down, it supposed to be red on top and blue at the bottom, which is another hint at Miles' phony, he doesn't understand any of these arts.
I'm sure EVERYONE noticed this, but:
When the random guest guy is sitting smoking with Blanc near the end, he responds "Fuckin' A" after smoking a joint in a very Dude-esque cardigan!
When they were on the dock, Claire referred to Blanc as the detective who solved the mystery with the ballerina. Adjacent to the Knives Out glass sculpture was a sculpture of 3 ballerinas
There’s a theory going around that the Mona Lisa wasn’t actually the real painting itself - obviously in the context of the movie, I don’t think the Louvre lends it out - but basically, the Mona Lisa was painted on wood, not canvas. And yet what do we see burning up in the film? Not wood, that’s for certain.
Miles would certainly be stoopid enough to not know that about the Mona Lisa and therefore be duped by a fake. (Stoopid with two "o"s 😂)
The real Mona Lisa is much much smaller in size as well.
Then the French would have played Miles' for a fool. Miles does believe it's real or he wouldn't have raced to blocked Helen from pressing the fool. And his reaction is "real" compared to his "fake" reaction to the "my glass was poisoned" scene.
The wood is beneath the burning and bubbling paint. You can see if ever so briefly. That layer of paint burns off first and then the camera goes away so we never see the wood start to burn
Just saw a piece from Rian Johnson a few days ago. He admits they filmed a post credit scene, where Blanc calls the Louvre and the Mona Lisa is still there. Miles was fooled. He said they didn't run it because it would lessen the impact of the story.
Blanc's monologue about looking at centre reminds me of his monologue in Knives Out about a donut inside a donut hole with a smaller hole😄
Did you mention the appearance of YoYo Ma, the famous cellist?
You actually see the gun in Edward Nortons hand as he’s ‘running from Helen’ when the lights go out, before shooting her.
So if you were eagle eyed enough; you would’ve known who had the gun before the attempted murder even happened.
I caught that too and if you watch closely enough when Miles and Duke hug you can see the article of Andi's death on his phone.
Likewise, there's a brief glimpse of him stashing the gun in the ice bucket and later a slight rustling of ice when the lights are out.
I have yet to see a video point this out… One of the glass statues they smash, is the “Maltese Falcon”. This was the same statue Humphrey Bogart was trying to find in the 1941 film “The Maltese Falcon”. Madelyn Cline from “Outer Banks” breaks it.
There is one thing I don't understand, the detective tells Helen on the terrace that " the killer will know who she is when she arrives " , yes Miles seems surprised when she arrives, but at the end when Blanc introduces her to everyone he seems surprised !!! would he have been too stupid not to make the connection between Helen and Blanc .... hence his reaction at the end?
I had thought, and Jan's previous video agreed with me, that Miles didn't know about Helen and simply thought Andi had survived the murder attempt. Because he's that stupid. Also when Blanc introduces Helen to everyone they're surprised not just because she isn't Andi but also because they'd just seen Helen's "dead" body lying on the ground with blood hot-sauce on her chest.
@@worriedpikachu174 I think the only way to really know, would be to see what was indicated on the script of the film!
Blanc thinking that the killer will immediately know that Helen is an imposter was based on Blanc thinking that the killer would be smart enough to put two and two together. But Blanc was wrong because, as he said, he's "bad at dumb things".
@@joanhall9381 So did Miles really think he'd missed his shot at Andi's ? Someone needs to explain this to me clearly because I'm totally confused on this point
@@MarionCMS62 Yes, the theory would be that Miles thought Andi had survived the murder attempt and decided that he had better kill her again. Under this theory, Miles either figured things out once Duke showed him the news stories about Andi's death, OR he was just so dense that it didn't come together for him until he was plainly told, "This is Helen".
The picture of Miles wearing a turtle neck and holding the napkin is identical to the picture of Elizabeth Holmes holding a tiny blood sample.
i don't recall if you covered it or if maybe it's just too obvious to mention, but Helen's actions at the climax exactly mirrored Miles' explanation to Blonc about what a true "Disrupter" does.
I caught that too. The overlay of Blonc telling her to stop as we also hear Miles say that a distuptor will push on was perfectly done in my opinion. She showed who the true disruptor was.
She showed she was the real disrupter when we first see her. Everyone else is trying to play the box game by the rules and she gets a hammer and smashes it.
Also she does the double middle finger with arms crossed gesture right before running to hit the button destroying the Mona Lisa mimicking the gesture Miles did after his disrupter speech
Excellent catches , Flicks. Thanks for sharing. All the best in the New Year.
Thanks so much Martin and have a great New Year too!
Nailed it! Commented 2 weeks ago that it was possible the Mona Lisa was fake. Rian Johnson just made a comment that they filmed a post credit scene where Blanc is on the phone speaking French and then you see who he's speaking with and guess what you see still at the Louvre? They didn't use it though as it took the impact away from the finale.
The poster behind Hugh Grant in the flashback is for a Sondheim musical called Merrily We Roll Along - which is itself a story told in a flashback. Some song titles also appear in the film's script.
Noones mentioned yet that the musical puzzle from the box is a fugue, and so is the movie. Watch the same story again in a different format to tell a different story.
The hourly Dong reminds me of the Noonday Gun (I think it was from Evil Under the Sun)
According to imdb, Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim used to host murder mystery parties, which lead H. Ross to encourage them to write a script about it.
Hence they wrote last of shiela which is great. And secretly outs Antony Perkins but no one acknowledges it
At 11:39, talking about Helen's vs Andi's hair-parts, I was sure she was going to mention this clever audio-visual pun:
Visible behind Helen as she sits on Benoit Blanc's terrace w/him, is an architectural feature commonly found on gothic cathedrals, but very rare in NYC apartment buildings -- a freestanding brick column that then joins the main building at the top. Blanc repeatedly tells her she must "buttress her feelings" of reverence, respect, & trust for him; "buttress them!" The name for that architectural feature -- you can easily google this or find it in any art-history text -- is a *flying buttress.*
Phillip Glass also composed the music for the Illusionist, my personal favorite Ed Norton movie.
When Peg is talking with Miles on the stairs, as she's begging him to not push Birdie to give a statement, she is saying that it will destroy her name and as a result, hers as well, because she was only pretty much working at the position of her manager/assistant. Well, she used exact words "destroyed", and then adds her name which is Peg. Add last couple of letters to her name, and connect that with what could be destoyed, as you watch Belont Blanc hiding behind some statue as he listens to this conversation. :D
A fourth person solved _Cain's Jawbone_ after the republication in 2019. (So said the Washington Post article about the book.)
The guitar one doesn't matter much since I've seen Paul acoustic guitars that are right handed which make the pickguard upside for Paul and the guitar can be strung either way with another nut.
Both of Noah Segan’s bit characters in the first two films are hilarious and I hope he’s back for the third.
Thank you for your video. An interesting connection between the two films is that in both of them, someone who considers himself safe forgets to burn the evidence or accusations against him. In the first film, Richard Drysdale does not burn the note written in invisible ink and in the second film Miles Bron decides not to burn the original napkin.
On a re watch I thought the Puzzle with the N with a Red square, could also signify: Red Note. They even turned the N upside down like the Red Note was able to turn all their worlds upside down ;p
Here is another thing that some missed. When Andi Brand was introducing Miles Bron to her group of friends at the bar Miles Bron was dressed in a button-up shirt sleeves rolled up and a black leather vest, and his hair was pulled back in a ponytail. Just like Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise) in the movie Magnolia. what do you think?
I said to my wife, "why is he dressed like Tom Cruise in Magnolia". She's never seen it, so she had no idea what I was talking about.
@@toddgaak422 The exact same thing happened to me too.
He was. Behind the scenes said that was intentional. Miles invariably copies other people in his wardrobe, whether the Tom Cruise character or Steve Jobs.
I Am not sure about a lot of that, but the scene with the swimm suit just walking trough the water, would be more the same scene like „evil under the sun“ with Ustinov
Daniel Craig wearing an Omega Seamaster watch. Homage to 007.
All the songs he played on the guitar (2 songs) has bird in the song title... secretely telling that birdie is the murderer for his planned game murder!
I've watched it 3 times now and spot new things every time. People who don't enjoy this movie are weird.
People who look for ways to call other people weird are self-absorbed.
The movie is full of references - but it is largely void of originality or quality itself. All the things it references are more interesting than the movie itself!
We’re just more critical and understand the fundamentals of story writing
@Mike G yeah that's what everyone says when they don't understand movies like this
@@davidalexander3320 Please do inform us what there is to understand beyond the where's-waldo visual gimmickry and cheesy zinger dialogue.
Wondered if we’d get a post-credits update that everyone ended up getting (mild) Covid - since, like everything, the strange shot in their mouths would have turned out to be a fraud.
I'm not too sure it would be though... Miles was a fraud but he had at his disposal a fortune and it is stated that he gets others to do the thinking and solving (hence the puzzleboxes/invites). I would think his outsourced labs would've really come up with a cure/prevention, possibly tempory, and I don't think Miles would risk getting sick.
Maybe it's a stretch but find interesting the parallel in what Benoit said about Miles copying his idea about loaded gun and darkness being stolen from him, because he asked them to join him not for anything else but solving a murder mystery game, while he was the one responsible for Andi's death. Really it being in plain sight
Since everyone is sharing their thoughts on a movie, maybe you can explain me one thing i don't understand. The scene, when Duke received notification about Andi's death and showed it to Miles, makes me confused. I mean, right away Duke was kinda blackmailing him and Miles hop on that train, promising him promotion (or whatever). But, like, why? They both saw 'Andi' alive like a minute ago, do they know it's not her? Am i missing something?
Anyways, loved the movie from the first to last minute
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We think Miles always knew. Duke figured it out once he saw the death notice.
Benoit Blanc is wearing an Omega watch like in Casino Royale...
Leslie Odom Jr., who starred in Glass Onion, also played Aaron Burr in the musical Hamilton - which was hilariously referenced in Knives Out!
During when Miles was pouring the drink, you can see a jar of pineapple juice in the background signifying Dukes eventual death when he sips the drink with pineapple juice, unknowing that it was in there with him being allergic that he mentions
Why is the pineapple juice even there when Miles specifically asked about the dietary requirements of all the guests? Surely Duke informed him about his allergy?
@@sapphiroBirdie’s signature drink contains pineapple juice so it was in the bar cart.
And of course Duke carries a gun all the time ("You never know when shit's gonna go down.") when an epipen could have saved him.
@@alexandrakonigsburg6474 Oh, I thought the gun was a Chekov's Gun reference that was a setup to the gun Miles used to shoot Andi/Helen.
In Miles Bron’s defence, Gillian Flynn pronounces her own name wrong. Gillian is pronounced exactly like Jillian, except if you’re Gillian Flynn I guess.
Oh geez! To intertwine all those clever odes to previous mystery movies.
I was just amazed that he had glass block in his mansion.... and a lot of it lol
2010 The Year We Made Contact sculpture is actually called 80" Icosahedron by Anthony James dated 2019.
Thank you!
I saw it and another one he made a year ago at the Palm Springs Museum of Art. Strange seeing it as part of a movie set :)
@@KaritKtana Yeah. I made a recording in my channel too. Search for Singapore and Anthony James
Hi, I was hoping to say this- but the cast names on the poster parallel that of the first movie where the "killer" is right after Blanc, followed by the innocent. That's how I guessed before I watched the movie that Edward Norton's character is the killer. Also, one more thing - another inspiration from Death on the Nile would be the details of suspects who would want to kill the victim being arranged by the killer, just like Glass Onion's suspects who were set up with motives for killing Miles, and an odd man out/stalker who elicits discomfort for everyone (Andi).
Great spot! I think the poster credits order may also line up with the credits order in the movie
I think that might be just a coincidence. Movie stars on posters are usually arranged by how much they get payed for the role. Daniel Craig taking the top spot is obvious. Then another famous actor that is in a lot of pivotal scenes (The murderer). Then the protagonist of the story. Although you could say that the murderer is most likely a famous actor In a lot of scenes which would place them close to Daniel Craig in terms of billing.
@@jonaslinter Agreed. Given that it is the second movie, this can ruled as a mere coincidence. But you kind of also draw lines between Miles and Ransom- both have a douchebag-ish charm and both have this ego problem where it's their way and no one else's.
Hopefully, Rian Johnson changes the formula where the villain/killer is someone who looks too sweet, less douchebag-y and seems caring, but in actuality is the killer.
Actually concerning the guitar, if you compare closely with Paul's photo you used, Mile's is playing it upside down with the strings in reverse order. So it can actually be legit making him an even bigger jerk when he drops it to the floor (and the scene funnier).
I still laugh at how Blanc is bad at Among Us because he’s bad at stupid things.
You forgot that Natasha Lyonne also was in the series "Russian Doll" and a russian doll has layers just like an onion.
One of the glass sculptures broken in the finale is a copy of Bird in Space by Brâncuși. The original was part of a court case over what is art? The US government charged import taxes on a metal object so the artist had to get experts to state that it is art and not taxable for import. An interesting addition to a movie that explores values in people who have none apart from their wealth.
Nice work
I almost didn’t click this because I already watched a “things you missed” video, but I’m glad I did because this had actually more that the other videos didn’t catch
Hugh grant is also wearing a tie dyed apron- very lock down
One thing that I haven't seen anyone mention yet is that the entire plot of this movie is basically 'move fast and break things'.
If you watch closely Whiskey is pretty much disinterested in whatever miles was talking, you can see her yawn multiple times in the movie when he talks.
The one I remember the most is actually a dig at Birdie. Whiskey is yawning while Birdie talks about her sweatpants I think. The rivalry between the two women is really obvious, Whiskey being like the younger version of Birdie in Miles' life which both are acutely aware of.
Loved the movie. Loved this video. Excellent job.
In the intro scene at the pier, where all characters meet for the first time, Duke gets almost pancaked by a car (the small open carrier thingy, that brought the phone-less lady and her assistant).
Paul McCartney did write and record Blackbird on a right-handed Martin D-28. There’s even a video of him recording the song. The one in the film looks very much to be of a similar vintage.
There's a brief shot of the book "Innovator's Dilemma" by Clayton Christensen - the grounding work on the theory of disruptive innovation that Miles so badly espouses.
when everyone is smashing the glass things, the first thing Wiskey grabs is a glass version of the maltese falcon statue.