FILM · 2022
Glass Onion
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- #001
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Ethan Hawke's small role was not planned in advance, but Hawke was nearby in Budapest for the filming of Moon Knight (2022) and came to Greece for a day to shoot his scene.
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Rothko's painting "Number 207" hangs in Miles Bron's living room. However, the painting is deliberately displayed upside down to show the character's superficial appreciation of art. The painting's actual full title is "Number 207 (Red over Dark Blue on Dark Gray)", which, as the name suggests, even gives instructions on its correct hanging orientation; the film suggests Bron is too stupid to notice.
- #003
The sound of Miles's watch is the "Hourly Dong". It has appeared in all of Rian Johnson's films.
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One of the paintings in Miles Bron's living room is Edward Norton's head and Brad Pitt's corpse from Fight Club (1999).
- #005
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The idea that the Mona Lisa was painted on canvas is a very common misconception in film and television. The Mona Lisa was actually painted on wood. When the painting burns, it appears as if it were painted on wood, with the paint peeling away and the glowing wooden structure visible behind it.
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Rian Johnson said that, without making any announcement, he briefly considered the joke of having Daniel Craig play Benoit Blanc with a different accent in each film, but abandoned the idea.
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While solving the box's puzzles, a party guest (classical musician Yo-Yo Ma, in a cameo role) identifies the melody of the wooden boxes and explains the concept of a fugue, in which a musical theme is repeated to create a complex new melody. Later in the film, much of the story is repeated once more to build a more complex, explanatory version of events.
- #008
When Netflix bought the rights to the film, a third film also began development, with Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig returning once again.
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While Benoit and Helen talk with Serena Williams in front of the screen in the gym, she is reading Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Blanc had previously mentioned this book in Knives Out (2019), saying he had "never read it but likes the title".
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Costume designer Jenny Eagan borrowed notes from an Old Hollywood tailor for Benoit Blanc's vintage-inspired swimsuit. Blanc's trousers were created using a custom stitching pattern originally designed for Frank Sinatra.
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This is the last film of Stephen Sondheim and Dame Angela Lansbury, who briefly appear in a Zoom video call in Blanc's first scene. Rian Johnson is a fan of The Last of Sheila (1973), another mystery written by Sondheim and Anthony Perkins about a multimillionaire who invites his friends to a party to play parlor games. Dyan Cannon's character in that film influenced Kate Hudson's character Birdie.
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In an interview with The Atlantic, director Rian Johnson expressed frustration at having to add "A Knives Out Mystery" to the film's title for marketing purposes, since he wanted each film to be standalone apart from Daniel Craig's appearance. "Honestly, I'm pissed off that we have 'A Knives Out Mystery' in the title. You know? I want it to just be called 'Glass Onion'." He adds, "I get it, and I want everyone who liked the first movie to know that this is the next one in the series, but also, the whole appeal to me is that it's a new novel off the shelf every time." However, the subtitle is only used in the film's marketing. In the film itself, the title cards say simply "Glass Onion".
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Rian Johnson had previously stated in an interview that Apple has a rule that villains in films cannot use an iPhone (or any other Apple product). In Knives Out (2019), a character is seen using an Android while everyone else has an iPhone, which somewhat gives away who the villain is. In this film, not only are not all the phones used iPhones, but Miles also lacks a phone device, preserving the mystery. Only two characters are shown with Apple products: Duke, who is introduced via a livestream on an Apple-branded screen, an early hint that he is not the killer. And Blanc — first in the bathroom, then when he catches the iPad. Note that Miles throws it to him from off-screen and is never seen in contact with it.
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Dame Angela Lansbury did not know how to play Among Us (2018). Rian Johnson said, "She was very patient while I explained the rules of Among Us up to a point. At that point she said, 'You know what? Just tell me what the lines are. I'll trust you.'".
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During their pre-island meetings, Helen (in the role of Andi) correctly guesses who the killer is, offering an early indication that her uncomplicated, direct reasoning is the right approach to solving the mystery. However, she is persuaded to abandon the idea by the more experienced Blanc. Without realizing it, he leads them both to assume that a person famous for their intelligence could not be stupid enough for this.
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Early in the film, Blanc plays Among Us with some famous friends. When the film is paused, Angela Lansbury's username is revealed to be "MSheSolved", and Stephen Sondheim's username is "FleetSt".
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The song "Glass Onion", which inspired the title and plays at the end, also fits the film's main theme. John Lennon wrote "Glass Onion" to confuse fans who went to great lengths to find hidden layers in the Beatles' music that did not exist, a trend he found irritating. By combining random lyrics from some of the group's other well-known songs, he gave it the outward appearance of containing deep hidden meanings, when it was nonsense with no meaning at all. The song itself is a glass onion.
- #018
Daniel Craig worked with a dialect coach to re-familiarize himself with Benoit Blanc's distinctive New Orleans accent.
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In the puzzle box scene, Duke's mother recognizes almost every puzzle and casually explains the answers ("It's a stereogram!"); she even knows how to open the box before anyone else. This suggests both that Miles's "genius" is mostly easily understood nonsense, and hints at the difficulties Blanc and Helen face in solving Andi's murder: they are looking for an extremely complex motive and opportunity planned by a brilliant brain, but the real answer is obvious and probably easily guessed by someone outside Miles's inner circle. In the same scene, the chess puzzle the Disruptors must solve is Fool's Mate, the fastest possible end to a match, named that way because winning this way is nearly impossible unless the losing player is ignorant or careless enough not to prepare for it.
- #020
Despite playing his mother, Jackie Hoffman is only eight years older than Dave Bautista.
- #021
The title Glass Onion refers to the song on The Beatles' The White Album. The song is enigmatic and mocks various myths about the band (especially John Lennon, who wrote it), making it a fitting title for a mystery film. Knives Out (2019) also took its name from a song, specifically the Radiohead track on the album Amnesiac.
- #022
Miles says that Ricky Jay mentored his "puzzle guy." Jay was supposed to appear in Knives Out (2019) but died before his scenes could be shot. M. Emmet Walsh was brought in to replace him, though a photo of Jay stuck to a refrigerator was briefly visible.
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The yacht's captain is played by the real captain, who did not want to appear in the film. "I had to beg him," said Rian Johnson.
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When Benoit warns Helen that he may not be able to solve the crime, he says, "I'm not Batman." A minute later, as he begins to formulate his plan, a phrase from Danny Elfman's Batman theme plays in the music. The joke was lost in the Latin American dubbed version, where Batman was changed to James Bond, except in the Brazilian version, where the joke stays the same because Benoit claims he is not Batman.
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During a December 2022 New York Times interview, Dave Itzkoff asked Natasha Lyonne how she felt about being part of a scene that featured theater legends Stephen Sondheim and Angela Lansbury shortly before their deaths. Displaying her offbeat sense of humor, Lyonne quipped, "Honey, I know what you're getting at and it wasn't me. I have alibis for both." She then answered the question seriously: "Needless to say, these are enormous losses of two incredibly well-lived lives. I suppose we'll only know if I make it to 90 whether I was truly worthy of being there with them."
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The book Andi is seen with when she gets an idea at the bar, and where she later finds the napkin, is "The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail." It is widely regarded as one of the best business books ever written and, partly as in the film, highlights how larger, established companies can inevitably be toppled by unexpected, newer and smaller players or "disruptive" forces.
- #027
Kathryn Hahn was excited to be part of a big mystery film in which everyone dresses stylishly, but she discovered that her character was a slob dressed in beige.
- #028
Dame Angela Lansbury and Stephen Sondheim appear in the same game session as Benoit Blanc. Lansbury and Sondheim had been good friends for decades before this scene was shot, and Lansbury created the role of Cora Hoover Hooper in "Anyone Can Whistle" (1964) and the role of Mrs. Lovett in the original Broadway production of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982). According to Rian Johnson, it was Sondheim who secured Lansbury's guest appearance in this film: "Oh, Angie… I'm friends with her. Tell her I'm doing it. She'll do it."
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Just as in the first film, the actor receiving second billing is the killer, and the one receiving the "and" billing is the murder victim.
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During the climate glass-breaking scene, the shocked expression on Jessica Henwick's face was real: she thought director Rian Johnson's explanation about the countdown was real and broke the glass on the floor ahead of time; the cameras were already rolling and accidentally caught her with her horrified face. In an interview with EW, Johnson called it "one of my favorite moments," and when he decided to use it in the film, Henwick remarked, "I still have nightmares about that moment."
- #031
The loud hourly "Dong" marking the passage of time on the island is a nod to the Agatha Christie adaptation Evil Under the Sun (1982), which is set at an island resort where a cannon is fired every day at noon.
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According to Rian Johnson, the idea of the puzzle boxes was an integral part of the film's opening: "one thing with a whodunnit that can be kind of deadly is the introductions." He adds: "You have to introduce everybody at the beginning, you have to get a sense of who they all are, and you have to kind of set the groundwork for the mystery." Knives Out did this through opening interviews, but Johnson here enjoyed seeing each character first in their own home environment.
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The film implies that Benoit Blanc is a gay man in the flashback scene where a man in an apron (Phillip, played in a cameo by Hugh Grant) opens Blanc's apartment door while Blanc is in the bathtub. Daniel Craig said this was deliberately touched on in the script. Asked about the cameo in a "Collider" interview with Steve Weintraub, Hugh Grant wittily replied: "It is true, I'm married to James Bond."
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In the flashback where Andi explains the dangers of Klear to Miles, Miles wears jeans and the black turtleneck sweater Steve Jobs often wore. In that scene Andi says, "The reality distortion field ends here," and Apple software developer Bud Tribble used the term "reality distortion field" to describe Jobs's ability to make others believe whatever he wanted. The term originated in The Menagerie: Part I (1966).
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Minutes before receiving Miles's invitation, Blanc says directly, "I don't need puzzles or games, the last thing I need is a vacation," implying that a box containing children's puzzles and an invitation to a fake murder game on a private island does not interest Blanc, and that what actually arrived at his door that day was a real mystery that needed solving.
- #036
When Helen checks her phone to see if there are any text messages (1:41), everyone who sent a message is actually a member of the film's editing/production crew.
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Although Miles plants a false memory of the glass onion in a flashback showing his own version of events, the real onion can be seen in real time. So can the moments when he steals Duke's gun (his hands are hidden, but not what he does with them) and then hides it (the gun is visible in his right hand just above the bar, followed by a clear sound effect of it dropping into the ice bucket). This runs counter to most film and TV mysteries, which usually hide such details until the summary but then fully reveal through flashbacks how a clever killer fooled everyone. Glass Onion continues and shows the killer; it manages to fool the character and the audience's expectations along with them.
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Benoit later describes himself as "very bad at dumb things" while discussing the board game Clue (or Cluedo). In the end, the "simple" mystery may confuse Benoit and Helen, who expected a much more complex murder mystery while investigating Andi's death.
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Rian Johnson likes to play fair with the audience by telling them what his plan is and then carrying it out. "It's something that Christopher Nolan does incredibly well. One of his favorite films, The Prestige, tells you to watch carefully, to listen closely, and the first thirty seconds of the film explain what the whole film is going to be."
- #040
Noah Segan plays Derol in this film. He previously played Trooper Wagner in Knives Out (2019). He is a regular in Rian Johnson's films.
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Miles plays The Beatles' "Blackbird" on guitar just before his guests arrive. Like "Glass Onion," the song comes from their 1968 "White Album."
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Blanc's invitation to Miles's party is somewhat risky. He was leaning over when Helen broke apart the puzzle box to retrieve it.
- #043
Rian Johnson thinks it is important to remember that Blanc is not the protagonist of the Knives Out films, and stated: "Digging into his past, his life, or all of that is not that interesting to me. I want him to continue his job as a detective, but getting a little glimpse into Blanc's life with his partner Philip is quite fun, and when I think about who would make me happiest as Blanc's partner, Hugh Grant, you can't beat that."
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While Helen is writing in her notebook to prepare for the investigation on the island, she writes Claire's name with an A that matches the Alpha logo. It is very likely that Andi and Helen write their A's the same way. This does not mean it will be used in the case, but it shows that the intellectual property belongs entirely to Andi, down to the logo.
- #045
Janelle Monae's introduction on the dock was choreographed "like a dance," and Rian Johnson told her that the inspiration for the turn toward the door and the camera resembled a duel in a western. Her performance in the first half of the film takes Mia Farrow in Death on the Nile (1978) as a model.
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The puzzle box is a practical creation, courtesy of the film's propmaster Chris Peck. The hinges, puppetry rods and similar elements were digitally painted, but the box and the puzzles were real.
- #047
Duke Cody's introduction was originally panned to the right in a way that would reveal the garage backdrop to be a blue-screen fake.
- #048
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At 1 hour 41 minutes: while Helen is searching the rooms she throws out a bag, and it is clearly visible that it is a sheet of LSD missing a few squares. Chronologically, after this search Birdie gave exaggerated reactions (as if she were on something) and wore her trippy-hippie dress that appears to change color (something someone using LSD might enjoy). She even shouts "What is reality!?" (around 1 hour 52 minutes).
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Rian Johnson points out that he played fair with the audience in the scene that ends with Duke's murder. You can clearly see Miles take Duke's gun, you can see him switch their drinks, and you can see the phone on the table in front of him disappear from one shot to the next. He leans into the genre's tropes, adding "if you're going to a murder mystery, having these beats you recognize as murder mystery beats, I love those."
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The reset begins with a long scene between Helen and Blanc, and Rian Johnson felt that after a rather crazy section of the film it was fine to slow things down, since the audience would be mentally recalibrating everything they had seen before. The director stated "We wanted to be totally clear to the audience what's happening watching forward."
- #051
In the flashback to the friend group first meeting Miles, Miles appears dressed like Tom Cruise's character in Magnolia (1999). This was Edward Norton's choice, and he did not tell Rian Johnson about it in advance. The director stated "The idea behind it is that Miles has never had an original thought in his life." Johnson's only concern was that this would get him in trouble with Paul Thomas Anderson.
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Cassandra "Andi" Brand and her sister Helen share their names with prominent women in the myth of the Trojan War. This is not only fitting for a story set in Greece, but the names are also portentous. The Trojan princess Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy by the god Apollo but was also cursed by him never to be believed, so her attempt to warn her fellow citizens against the Trojan Horse was ignored; likewise, Andi's co-ownership of Alpha Industries and her concerns about Klear were dismissed. Helen of Troy was said to have started the Trojan War either by leaving her husband Menelaus, King of Sparta, for the Trojan prince Paris or by being abducted by him, ultimately causing the fall of Troy. But with regard to the film's plot, the seeds of the war had been sown long before. When Menelaus won his marriage, all the other suitors agreed to provide him with military aid should she be "stolen." Paris lit a match that was already there and set his own destruction in motion. Helen's namesake takes a more active role in the destruction of Miles Bron's financial empire. Also note the family name Brand, as in firebrand.
- #053
One of the displayed pieces is a glass (or crystal) version of the falcon statuette from The Maltese Falcon (1941).
- #054
Stephen Sondheim appearing as himself is a tribute to the murder mystery parties he hosted, which inspired the entire Knives Out series. (See also The Last of Sheila, written by Sondheim/Perkins; that film was particularly influential on this one.) This film follows a scene from the previous film in which Blanc sings a song from Follies, written by Sondheim/James Goldman.
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Benoit Blanc's introduction was a reshoot. Bringing this colorful group together for Benoit's Zoom call was exciting because the idea of them being a circle of friends was appealing. They initially shot the scene in Blanc's office, but decided to punish him a little more and reshoot it in the bathtub. "And I love that hat." Rian Johnson said.
- #056
Kate Hudson's character owns a designer athleisure brand. In real life, Hudson owns Fabletics, a successful premium activewear brand.
- #057
In his letter to his friends, Miles uses the word "normalcy." This is a word that entered common usage only after Warren G. Harding used it in the 1920s, and it is a malapropism of "normality." Harding himself was known for his linguistic errors and was often said to have been elected only because he "looked presidential."
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Other artworks that form part of the collection in Miles's house include Matisse - "Icarus, Plate VIII From the Illustrated Book 'Jazz'" (1947); Picasso - "Still Life With Stone" (1924); Klimt - "Goldfish" (1902); Degas - "L'absinthe" (1875-76); Hockney - "Nichols Canyon" (1980); Basquiat - "In This Case" (1983); Mondrian - "Composition No. II with Red and Blue" (1929). Numerous art galleries and foundations, as well as the owners of the original pieces, took part in and were consulted on the curation of Miles's collection.
- #059
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The "glass onion" motif is the inverse of the "donut within a donut hole" discussion in the first film; in the second, Blanc describes a crime hidden inside a seemingly solved crime, while in the first he states that Miles's plan, despite appearing complex, is exactly as crudely simple as it looks.
- #060
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The Disruptors have to be extremely clever movers and shakers. Be careful when trying to solve the box: they get a great deal of help from people who are not themselves disruptors. Without that help they could not solve the puzzle. It is all the funnier that Blanc calls the box a set of "simple children's puzzles."
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There is a handkerchief over Duke's dead face, both out of respect for the dead and so that Dave Bautista's stunt double, rather than the actor, could be the one lying there.
- #062
Kate Hudson's view of Birdie was that she is someone who "understands every third word."
- #063
A painting hanging in the corridor shows pop icons whose nicknames rhymed with one another throughout their careers: Iggy (Pop), Biggie (Smalls), Twiggy and Ziggy (Stardust).
- #064
The film's predecessor, Knives Out (2019), referenced both Dame Angela Lansbury and Stephen Sondheim. The Spanish-dubbed version of Lansbury's series Murder, She Wrote (1984) appears on television, and Blanc can be heard singing "Losing My Mind" from Sondheim's musical Follies.
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At the 33rd minute: in Miles's grand speech, he asks whether anyone wants to break the one thing no one, including his partners, wants to break, and that is the end of him. Helen does this before burning down the whole house and the Mona Lisa, when she throws away his art and moves on to bigger things. She is now a disruptor, because in her own words she has disrupted the system herself. He even said no one would be on the same side, but ironically the woman's actions turn everyone against him rather than against her. It is also shown that, contrary to what Miles says about partners, Blanc does not stop or abandon her. He offered a suggestion on how to proceed and genuinely supported her by stepping back, giving her the freedom to act as she wished and giving himself plausible deniability. He is later shown to still be on her side in the end.
- #066
Yo-Yo Ma's brief cameo was filmed months after the party scene in which he appears was shot.
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When Blanc asks Miles how he could get a box when only enough boxes were made for the Disruptors, a prototype problem comes up. Miles dismisses it, explaining that he did not make the boxes and later that he did not write the murder mystery. He argues that his real "talent" is essentially using his great wealth to bring the half-baked ideas of genuine innovators to life, or at least to make himself look like a genius.
- #068
The pier where the characters meet is on the Greek island of Spetses. Behind them is the famous, recently renovated Poseidonion hotel. When the camera turns toward the mainland, you can see the ferry that brings vehicles between Kosta on the mainland and Spetses four times a day.
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Miles Bron's house contains paintings and pictures of David Bowie. Near the end of the film Miles says to a character, "Are you an alligator?!" This is probably a reference to Bowie's 1971 song "Moonage Daydream," in which the alligator is thought to symbolize the power of words and a guilty conscience.
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In the scene where Miles plays billiards, there is a sign behind him reading HAVUZ. It is positioned so that the "L" is covered, leaving the remaining letters to spell "POO" in neon lights beside his head. This fits Helen's description of her own group as "shitheads" and implies that he is the head "shithead."
- #071
Rian Johnson praised Dave Bautista's vulnerability, depth and talent, adding how excited he is to see more filmmakers give him dramatic roles.
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As Benoit Blanc sits in the bathtub with his laptop, the wide shot of the room produces the same composition as Jacques-Louis David's 1793 painting "The Death of Marat." In that painting, the French revolutionary and genius Jean-Paul Marat is shown murdered in his bathtub with his arm wrapped around the edge, holding a note from the female assassin who tricked him by asking for help in exposing a conspiracy. This reference is a deliberate misdirection, suggesting that Blanc might be the target or victim of the person who sent him the invitation (who later turns out to be the entirely innocent Helen).
- #073
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Some key moments and character insights, including the killer's identity, are genuinely shown in plain sight, as Blanc says at the end: * In the first version of events, when Birdie talks about her relationship with Miles, her bag is seen swaying slightly as Helen throws the recording device. A minute later, a piece of the fabric of Helen's dress flutters briefly into view as she strikes the pose that seems to have been there all along. * While a character is in the same place as they are, the envelope they are looking for is shown exactly where it is, only nominally hidden, even in close-up twice. * Helen is holding a notebook containing a page that states exactly who the killer is. She later held it with X's beside all the names but one, which meant something to both her and Blanc, but she was also reading the notebook underlining the previous time, where the X's can also mean "it's not them." * Helen's direct approach to the puzzle box produces the same result as solving the puzzle, but faster. Duke's mother is able to open it a few minutes after arriving. Birdie does not decipher anything at all. * The captain describes the pier directly. * A "secret" meeting takes place in a ground-floor room beside a floor-to-ceiling window facing a public road. * The poplars sway and broadcast from exactly where someone is eavesdropping. * The killer steals the gun on screen and in real time, hides the gun (with a matching sound effect), poisons the drink and swaps the drink. * The killer pulls the stolen phone out of a pocket that is far too small, its top visible and its outline pressing against the thin fabric of the pocket. * The glass onion itself is actually a dome or sphere, because it has no layers, because it is hollow.
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In the flashback scene, Philip (Hugh Grant) opens the door holding what looks like a jar of sourdough starter. Baking sourdough bread became a major trend in the middle of the first Covid-19 lockdown.
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The name "Miles Bron" is an anagram of "bromelins," the protease enzymes found in pineapples and one of the causes of allergic reactions to pineapple.
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Blanc describes the glass onion as a metaphor, "an object that seems densely layered, but in reality the center is in plain sight." Excluding the credits, the killer is clearly visible and audible almost exactly at the midpoint of the film's running time.
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Before the flashback, Helen's identity is actually revealed to the audience by Blanc, though it is easy to miss. After the lights go out and everyone runs around, Andi is shown looking for Blanc, and when she bumps into him she gives him the name Helen.
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The well-known paintings in Miles's house are clearly reproductions, but apparently the problem with these licensed images is that you have to destroy them after filming ends. This was sad news for Edward Norton.
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Most of the interiors, including the dining room, the courtyard and Miles's office, were shot on sets in Belgrade.
- #080
Rian Johnson is very pleased with the pool conversation between Claire and Lionel. "I am off to the side directing from the pool. I got in the pool to direct. I'm directing from the pool, I made it!" he said.
- #081
Rian Johnson found himself insecure during the editing stage when he realized how long the film runs before the murder. He went on iTunes and re-examined films such as Death on the Nile (1978) and The Last of Sheila (1973), and noticed that they too run for more than an hour before a body hits the floor. "If you're engaging the audience and giving them interesting things and interesting characters, there's a natural amount of time the audience will give you. If you earn their trust, they'll stay with you for a while. But then you'd better deliver, or they'll kill you," the director stated.
- #082
Had this film been given a standard theatrical release like its predecessor, it would have grossed around 300 million dollars worldwide, a healthy profit for distributors. However, Netflix allowed the film only a limited theatrical run to build promotion and word of mouth before it went to streaming. To sweeten the deal with the cinema chains, they agreed to leave 60% of ticket revenue to the theaters (it is usually around 40%).
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The Mackey outfit and haircut Frank T. J. Miles wears in one of the flashback scenes was Edward Norton's idea, which he came up with with the help of costume designer Jenny Eagan. Rian Johnson, who was not involved, approved the look when Norton arrived on set one day wearing the outfit.
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Blanc and Bron are positioned as opposites. Blanc (whose name means "white") is a compassionate, quick-witted and understanding problem solver who centers, protects and encourages the people he helps. Bron (whose name means "brown" or "dark") is an idea-stealing, manipulative, selfish credit-taker who shifts blame onto others. Blanc sincerely apologizes if he has to disappoint someone. Bron apologizes for nothing. Bron craves the spotlight, while Blanc graciously steps out of it when he sees that is what is needed. Both are even represented by images of race cars. At the start Blanc describes his mind as like a race car with nowhere to go, a metaphor showing that his spirit has gone stagnant from forced idleness and a lack of challenges. Bron has a real race car kept on his roof, "'Cause there's nowhere to drive it on the island," a concrete symbol of how he uses his own mind (he feels or cares about no lack, and is only seen using it in emergencies). Blanc initially plays a sycophantic, jerk-like fanboy. Bron comes across as a flashy, charismatic and magnanimous eccentric genius. When the perspectives shift, the characters "cross positions." Blanc goes from fake fool to real genius, Bron from fake genius to real fool.
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Blanc takes off his jacket after Andi/Helen is shot, partly because there is a visible "dot of Jeremy Renner's hot sauce" in the pocket.
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Miles tries to look like Tom Cruise's character in Magnolia. This also reveals that Miles himself is inept at generating ideas and really tries hard to appear as one. Among other instances, he tries to appear as if he can play the guitar when people visit his island, or of course hires people to create the murder mystery but takes the credit for part of the film.
- #087
Kaley Cuoco auditioned for the role that ultimately went to Kate Hudson.
- #088
Rian Johnson and Jessica Henwick thought Peg would be so angry with Birdie Jay that her wardrobe had to be as outdated as possible, so there would be fanny packs.
- #089
At a point in the film where time becomes meaningful, the camera moves in close on Daniel Craig wearing an Omega Seamaster. Craig wore and advertised the Omega Seamaster throughout his tenure as Bond.
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The various paintings hung around the main atrium, including the Mona Lisa, were made by local artists in Belgrade.
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Miles's car was a 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder.
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As in Knives Out (2019), the eye-catching set points to an important plot point: the glass chandelier above the dining table contains numerous red squares, indicating where Andi's red envelope is hidden.
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The film's "fugue structure," playing the film and then simply rewinding and replaying it from a different perspective, was the first idea that came to Rian Johnson when he began designing the sequel. Part of it was seeing Blanc solve the crime in the first act before the event even happens, thereby deflating the host's mood.
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When Benoit describes the box he received to Miles, he dismisses the puzzles used to unlock it as simple riddles for children. Although we later learn that Benoit never had to solve them, this line puts forward the idea that Bron's "genius intellect" is not what it should be. A real genius would not find his puzzles impressive.
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Miles dresses the way he wants to be perceived. In the flashback, his outfit and haircut are the same as "Frank T. J. Mackey" in Magnolia (1999), a wealthy, misogynistic "alpha male"-style life coach and pickup artist. Later, as a tech boss, he wears a black turtleneck imitating Steve Jobs and positions himself as a visionary. Like Mackey, he hides his true nature behind a flashy appearance. And like Jobs, he is better at making ruthless business moves, exploiting smarter people to grow his brand and marketing his company than at designing new technology.
- #096
The lighthouse beam passes through the interior of the set after the other lights go out, achieved using extremely powerful lights inside a rotating drum with a slit in it. They had to rotate the shell immediately after switching the light on, otherwise the bulb could have caught fire from its intensity.
- #097
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The "secret button" that lets Miles disable the security shield over the Mona Lisa takes the form of a court jester in the style of a Hummel figurine (the characteristic childlike figure with wide eyes and an open-mouthed expression). This carries a double meaning. Jester is another word for "fool," and as a profession it has two types: the quick-witted one trained to play the entertainer, cunning or sharp and an instant political satirist while pretending to be ridiculous; and the other, a person of limited intelligence used as an object of mockery because of mental disabilities. Hummel figurines were inspired by the art of German Franciscan nun Maria Innocentia "Berta" Hummel, who created most of her works under the Nazi regime. One of her paintings drew Hitler's attention and anger, leading to a ban on selling her work in Germany. She nevertheless continued to paint, including pieces that openly displayed the Star of David. She was reluctant to have her art copied or turned into figurines, but agreed both to support her convent and to help provide employment for workers. Despite being incredibly popular and successful, the Nazi regime claimed half of her income, and she later died at 37 after living in a confiscated convent where the remaining nuns were denied heating or easy access to food.
- #098
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What It Foreshadows: Alongside Alpha (beginning), Omega (end) also appears throughout the film. The Omega symbol is on the side of Blanc's ship and the Disruptors travel on it (where the ship's name is), Helen-as-Andi is positioned next to two pillows bearing the ship's symbol, Claire wears a robe with the same design, and of course Blanc's Omega Seamaster watch is shown in close-up. While everyone anticipates the final end of Alpha and Miles (and eventually all the Disruptors), it especially emphasizes that Helen and Blanc will be the key to finishing things.
- #099
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Body count: 2, exactly the same as Knives Out.
- #100
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When Claire and Duke confront Andi/Helen and start calling her pathetic, the tension rises just before the clock signal. Rian Johnson had shown early cuts of the film to friends and family, and one of them cited the fireworks scene in Boogie Nights (1997) to suggest the tension here could be tuned. In post-production he took the opportunity to add these "Mona Lisa pops" phone rings and the closing/opening of the safe.
- #101
In various scenes Daniel Craig's character wears a soft hat with the brim turned up at the back. This is a nod to Jacques Tati's famous "Monsieur Hulot" character. Hulot is a good-natured but naive figure who frequently clashes with advancing technology and struggles to navigate that world.
- #102
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Rian Johnson did indeed have Janelle Monáe sit and smile like the Mona Lisa in the final shot.
- #103
Claire Debella's assistant is played by Rian Johnson's assistant Adele Franck. The people in the Zoom call with Leslie Odom Jr. are all friends of Johnson.
- #104
Miles tells Benoit Blanc that he hired Gillian Flynn to write the story of his own (unsolved) murder, and that she doesn't come cheap. Flynn is the author of the bestselling thriller "Gone Girl" as well as the screenplay for the cinematic version of Gone Girl (2014).
- #105
The film's first scene was the pier in Greece. "A big part of an ensemble working in a movie like this is tonally everyone playing it about the same level," and Johnson enjoyed watching talented actors observe and size each other up. The scene was originally much longer, but they condensed it to its essential elements in order to reach the island faster. After the short solo introductions, the ensemble gathering on a pier in the south of France still feels like a piece of The Last of Sheila (1973).
- #106
In both Knives Out and Glass Onion, money is put forward as the motive for murder, and although the wealthy elite fall with a few nails, Rian Johnson doesn't find that so interesting on its own. "To me, what's interesting about it is the concept of power structures within groups of people and what people will do to maintain that structure and what needs to be done to break that structure. To me, that's much more interesting than a concept as simple as 'eat the rich.'".
- #107
A closer look at Miles's various glass sculptures reveals many references to The Beatles.
- #108
This detail was also confirmed by the film's editor, and musician Yo-Yo Ma explains what a fugue is: "A fugue is a beautiful musical puzzle based on a single melody. And when you fold that melody over on itself, it starts to change and turns into a new, beautiful structure." This reflects the film's screenplay very well.
- #109
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As Blanc lays out in the finale, Miles Bron's entire life and career are based on other people's ideas, including attracting Andi/Helen. Most importantly, however, it seems it hadn't even occurred to him to burn the napkin until Lionel asked him why he hadn't.
- #110
Duke's character is clearly inspired by far-right online personalities such as Alex Jones and Andrew Tate and is portrayed as a Paper Tiger at best. The film came out between Jones losing a defamation and harassment lawsuit he brought for a large sum of money and Tate's arrest. Moreover, both of these happened because of very stupid mistakes — Jones's lawyer emailing the entire contents of his phone to the other side and carelessly letting them use the phone, and Tate uploading a video showing a pizza box from a chain that only operates in Romania, thereby giving the Romanian police evidence that he was in the country so they could get a search warrant to raid his home — they wouldn't be out of place in a film like this.
- #111
Rian Johnson nearly cut the close-up of the (CG) hot sauce dripping onto Helen's face and nose, but it stayed in because the first preview audiences liked it.
- #112
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Miles describes the beauty of the Mona Lisa as the illusion that the painting changes every time you look at it; her smile shifts subtly each time. This resembles the plot, in which every major development and character interaction is recontextualized when looked at again from other perspectives.
- #113
Two other Bron idea faxes visible in the close-up of the box in Lionel's office: "Nootropic Nasal Spray" and "Nano-Bot Collagen Activator Injections - Wear at Night".
- #114
The island shoot is a mix of composites and was actually filmed at a place called Villa 20 at Amanzoe on the Greek mainland. The villa's owners wanted Rian Johnson to add that everything flashy was added to the film.
- #115
The symbol on the notes the Disruptors receive after opening the puzzle box is the Greek "Mati," which means eye in Greek and is worn by many people as a symbol of protection from evil. The evil eye is in fact a symbol used to ward off the bad energy a person can pass to another.
- #116
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Miles finishes his description of the Mona Lisa with the line "it gives you vertigo," and the film cuts on that line to Janelle Monáe's character looking at the painting. Vertigo (1958) also features a character playing another character (Kim Novak as Madeleine/Judy), and here Monáe plays Helen Brand, who is playing her sister Andi.
- #117
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On the boat ride to the island, viewed from the upper deck, Andi can be seen standing next to the 'Omega' symbol on a seat cushion. This may foreshadow her role in the demise of Alpha, the company Miles founded.
- #118
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Rian Johnson felt that part of the appeal of making a film with a fugue structure that resets halfway through was keeping events interesting for the audience in the back half. He knew that showing the same scenes from a different perspective would not be enough on its own, so he wanted to add something stronger. "Where I landed was on heart, on empathy. Basically, in this wasteland of terrible characters, there's one you're going to root for."
- #119
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Regarding the death of the Mona Lisa, Rian Johnson refers to a quote from John Cleese about a section of A Fish Called Wanda (1988) in which a character kills some dogs. Cleese was asked how he would get away with it without the entire audience turning against him, and his answer was that it depended largely on the dogs. "And that's kind of how I felt about the Mona Lisa. It needed to feel like a sacred cow," and Da Vinci's famous painting fits that purpose exactly.
- #120
The artwork with geometric shapes in Miles Bron's office is by the British/American artist Anthony James, who lives in Los Angeles.
- #121
She plays Among Us (2018) with Benoit Blanc as herself. She suggests puzzles to Blanc to keep his mind occupied. Lyonne is a well-known puzzle enthusiast and has even co-authored a crossword for the New York Times. Rian Johnson had to reshoot her cameo because he changed Blanc's dialogue, and they reshot it in Lyonne's trailer while working on Poker Face (2023).
- #122
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At 1 hour 8 minutes: in the alternating shot after Andi/Helen is shot, Miles was initially not included, but Rian Johnson felt this made him look too suspicious, so they added him digitally.
- #123
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Even if Miles escaped the murder charge, maintained his hold over the others and weathered the legal bind he was in, the loss of the Mona Lisa would truly destroy his reputation, power and wealth. Along with being directly responsible for the events leading to its destruction, he also invalidated the terms and insurance of the deal by setting up the mechanism that would open and close on specific noise cues, including a surprisingly reckless lighter flick. France and his other creditors could lay claim to every asset he left behind. He could also never again be mistaken for an eccentric genius, because it was an undeniably stupid move.
- #124
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If you look carefully, you can see the exact moment Miles steals Duke's gun. When they hug just before Duke dies, Miles's left hand reaches down and, although it is out of frame, it is clear he takes the gun. When they separate, you can see the holster is empty and Miles puts both hands behind his back and tucks the gun into his waistband. A second or two later, when you see him from behind, you can see a small bulge under his sweater where he is hiding the gun.
- #125
She plays Among Us (2018) with Benoit Blanc as herself.
- #126
For Joseph Gordon-Levitt's daily dong role, Rian Johnson asked him to say the word "dong" into the microphone. This is also a nod to the noon gun in Evil Under the Sun (1982).
- #127
At 2 hours 3 minutes: Jessica Henwick accidentally looks into the camera lens, since the camera has to tilt downward along with the glass sculpture that hits the floor. However, this was only a rehearsal; at a point where she was not supposed to break it, she looked at the lens at the exact moment she realized her mistake.
- #128
When Helen bursts into her room, the tunnel symbol from Brick can be seen drawn on Derol's surfboard.
- #129
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Blanc plays Among Us in the opening scene, and the video game has several similarities to the later plot: the film and the game share casual mystery elements such as moving around an enclosed space, trying to interpret people's behavior, and a killer trying to cover their tracks as more bodies pile up. Both works feature an impostor who can change their appearance to look like someone else. Blanc (White Crewmate) is quickly revealed to be the impostor. Brand is introduced in white clothing, with her outfit remaining predominantly white throughout the film. Blanc turns out to be the impostor because impostors have no specific tasks to do on the ship. Most impostors pretend to do them to avoid suspicion, but Blanc gives himself away by just standing there doing nothing. What reveals Miles to be the killer is that Blanc realizes Miles is an idiot who does no real work.
- #130
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The first hour and forty-five minutes of the film tell the same part of the story twice from different perspectives, with pieces of dialogue and information missing from one or the other.
- #131
In both this film and "The Italian Job," Edward Norton plays a character who thinks he is smart but is ultimately criticized by others as lacking imagination and originality in his planning.
- #132
Miles gives almost everyone an expensive, personalized glass designed for and filled with their favorite drink. The two exceptions are his unexpected guest Blanc and Peg, to whom he offers free choice in drink and crystal. Without speaking to her, looking at her or telling her what is in it, he hands her an ordinary red plastic Solo cup. In a later scene (from earlier in the day), he acts as if she is so far beneath his attention that he cannot remember or care who she is. However, the presence of this single Solo cup at the bar means he timed this moment well enough to design it as a deliberate act of hostility and aggression toward Peg (and her role in protecting Birdie from himself and thus from Miles's influence).
- #133
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Miles's choice to play "Blackbird" when the guests arrive at the dock is very fitting (and doubly ironic). It is a setup for the murder mystery he has planned - Birdie mentions that it is "her song." This is probably the first clue. The guitar accompaniment of Blackbird is a reharmonized adaptation of Johann Sebastian Bach's Bourrée in E minor, referencing Bron's tendency to take other people's ideas and adopt them as his own. Paul McCartney and John Lennon also tried to learn the song as a "show-off" piece, reinforcing Miles's desire to appear cultured without making any real effort. According to Paul McCartney, the song's subject at least partly reflected the Civil Rights unrest of 1968, which can also be linked to Bron (a white man) defrauding Andi (a black woman) out of his company.
- #134
Rian Johnson asked composer Nathan Johnson (the director's cousin, who scored his previous four films) to draw inspiration from Nino Rota's music for Death on the Nile (1978). "It's an amazing, beautiful, lush theme," and the composer took it seriously, writing a big, romantic score of his own.
- #135
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Miles shows off the illegal key he had made so he can raise the shield over the Mona Lisa whenever he wants. Yet throughout the film the shield is heard slamming shut repeatedly without anyone pressing a button to raise it. So Miles tampered with the mechanism further, so that the protective cover defaults to being off unless something triggers the sensors, in which case it probably only lasts until the sound fades.
- #136
There was initially a subplot involving Helen's children in several scenes, including a panicked phone call about the blue kayak (because of Blueberry PopTarts). It was meant to help the audience look at Helen's side, but Rian Johnson quickly realized the audience was already there.
- #137
Natasha Lyonne had partnered with director Rian Johnson on the mystery comedy series Poker Face (2023), which was in production when the film was released.
- #138
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Miles's company/brand is called Alpha because he is the leader of the pack that everyone obeys without question. In other words, the Alpha of the Disruptors. However, the idea of "alphas" in a wolf pack is an outdated scientific concept that reflects wolf hierarchies in captivity rather than in the wild (where the power balance is more community-focused and egalitarian). Similarly, Bron's leadership of the group was stolen from Andi and maintained through money and implicit threats, not through any meaningful level of personal charisma, authority or friendship. This talk of "alphas" also links him to MRAs like Duke and to the dubious scientific claims about biology or hierarchy the movement often adopts, showing that although he appears on paper to be a leftist (he funds Claire's campaign focused on green energy and her fear of being associated with an MRA), he is in many ways comparable to Duke; both men ultimately pursue ideas about being revolutionary and powerful that turn out to be fake.
- #139
Touissant wears a lapel pin shaped like a solid wishbone. Beyond its association with wishes, wishbones represent good luck, looking to the future and untapped potential. Although Touissant is a brilliant and perceptive scientist who weighs both immediate and long-term consequences, he has to spend a significant amount of time and mental energy mediating between Bron, Bron's absurd ideas, and other scientists and investors instead of making his own scientific or technological innovations, and he bears the burden of pressure and criticism from every side.
- #140
Alpha is shown to be involved in both cryptocurrency and NFTs, which boomed during the film's timeframe (May 2020). FTX head Sam Bankman-Fried had a similarly shining reputation in financial markets as a techbro CEO. Just weeks before the film's release, FTX collapsed and the general view shifted to Bankman-Fried being a fraud.
- #141
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Andi sends her email from a domain called "imbermail.com". Imber is a Latin word that can mean rain, storm or storm cloud, among other things. Paired with the surname Brand, which one commenter also noted can refer to firearms, there is a subtle pun extending to "firestorm", which resembles the descriptive statements with which she threatens the Disruptors and the way Helen outwits Bron.
- #142
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Duke's gun appears to be a heavily engraved and re-gripped Zastava M57, the Yugoslav copy of the Soviet Tokarev T-33, chambered in 7.62x25mm Tokarev. Because it is single-action, it is an odd choice for concealed carry; this means the hammer must be manually cocked for the first shot, but it also lacks a manual safety. The attacker is seen manually cocking the hammer before firing at Andi/Helen.
- #143
Two people who inspired Blanc's appearance and manner are the great French filmmaker Jacques Tati and Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief (1955).
- #144
Rian Johnson mentioned several deleted scenes in the commentary and added: "someday we'll figure how to get it out there." This is, of course, one of the downsides of publishers not releasing their original content on physical media.
- #145
"It's so, so hard to know that you're shooting in slow motion and not act in slow motion." According to Rian Johnson, this made shooting the slow-motion scene somewhat difficult.
- #146
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Regardless of Bron's personal definition of Disruption Theory, Bron himself works well as a hands-on example of it; he accelerates his company's innovation to slow down his competition, which ultimately leads to his downfall.
- #147
Miles Bron has a "Fool on a Hill" statue. This is a reference to the Beatles song of the same name. The film contains several other Beatles Easter eggs. The film's title, "Glass Onion", is a reference to the Beatles song of the same name on the White Album. The song also contains other Beatles Easter eggs such as Strawberry Fields Forever, I Am the Walrus, Paul McCartney, Lady Madonna, Fool on the Hill, Fixing a Hole and so on. Glass onions are a bottle shape developed and used in the 17th and 18th centuries to store wine and spirits. And much of the action takes place under a large, vaguely onion-shaped glass dome.
- #148
Derol's room has tour posters for Phish, Rush's Moon Walking Tour, Pink Floyd and Steely Dan's Two Against Nature tour. Donald Fagen references Birdie Jay's drink, the Cuban Breeze, in one of his songs.
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More connections to the color red. Miles personalizes Andi's bracelet to glow red for the Root chakra, which symbolizes power, survival and stability. In Western color symbolism, red can also symbolize anger, revenge and fire. In Greek mythology, red was also used in transitional life events such as weddings and funerals, as well as being a symbol of fire and renewal, especially since much of the story takes place in Greece.
- #150
Janelle Monae's character scolds Birdie for comparing herself to Harriet Tubman. Monae had appeared in a film about Tubman.
- #151
The boxes are delivered on May 13, 2020. The journey to the island takes place on May 22.
- #152
The plastic duck seen in the scene where Benoit Blanc plays Among Us in the bathtub is a Munchkin brand hot/cold water temperature test duck.
- #153
In the scene where Benoit Blanc makes a Batman reference, you can hear a sample of the Batman theme playing underneath. Not only that, but one of the tattoos on Duke's hand is the Superman logo.
- #154
The painful sauce made by Jeremy Renner is mentioned. Renner will appear in the next Knives Out film, Wake Up Dead Man.
- #155
Daniel Craig was paid a total of 100 million dollars for this film and Wake Up Dead Man (2025).
- #156
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Helen destroys the Mona Lisa in a magnificent blaze, both to make an undeniable point about the dangers of Klear and to stick it to the rich scumbag Miles Bron. In the months before the film's release, damaging famous paintings to protest fossil fuels had become a common tactic (non-permanently; the Louvre, unlike Miles, is smart enough to always keep a glass panel over its paintings); earlier that year the Mona Lisa itself had been the target of such a demonstration.
- #157
The watch Benoit wears throughout the film is an Omega Seamaster. It belongs to the same family of watches that Daniel Craig's James Bond has worn since GoldenEye. In real life, Craig is an Omega ambassador.
- #158
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In one of the shots inside Miles's house, a copy of Clayton Christensen's book "The Innovator's Dilemma," one of the most important books on disruptive technologies, is visible.
- #159
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When Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is introduced, he is playing an online match of Among Us, a multiplayer game in which the goal is to find the impostor or impostors before they kill the other players, depending on the number of players. In the game, the Impostor's name is in red (visible only to the Impostors during the match). Red matters in the film because the envelope containing Andi's real napkin is that color.
- #160
At the 52nd minute: Miles leans into the darkness, leaving Blanc in the light. This is a reminder of a moment in Citizen Kane (1941) in which Orson Welles's character speaks intimately in the dark while those around him are lit. "It's very easy, in the middle of shooting, just because of the process of doing your shots, doing your days, to get distracted by the carpentry of a film set. It's very easy for me to lose track of what the power of that thing is going to be when it's put together as a film," Rian Johnson said. Making films that inspired him reminds him to stay open to discovery and to look for things that will surprise you.
- #161
At 1 hour 18 minutes: the restaurant scene between Blanc and Helen is initially interrupted by the arrival of Birdie and Peg. They almost see each other, and Rian Johnson added that this was a fun bit that was cut to move things forward. This scene was shot on the Greek island where filming for Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Lost Daughter (2022) had just finished.
- #162
While working on this film, Jessica Henwick was preparing her own short film, and Rian Johnson was endlessly (and understandably) impressed by her.
- #163
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Helen's initial choice to smash the puzzle box is a slight foreshadowing of the ending, in which she chooses to smash everything in the mansion.
- #164
It is the only Knives Out film that includes its title song after the credits roll.
- #165
At 1 hour 41 minutes: the 'A' symbol on the surfboard is taken from Rian Johnson's first feature film, Brick (2005).
- #166
This film and Top Gun: Maverick (2022) are the eighth and ninth sequels ever nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, after After the Thin Man (1936), The Godfather Part II (1974), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Before Sunset (2004), Toy Story 3 (2010), Before Midnight (2013) and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020). Of these nine, only The Godfather Part II and The Return of the King won, and only Before Sunset and Top Gun: Maverick had predecessors that were not nominated.
- #167
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At 1 hour 47 minutes: the person who fires the gun is Edward Norton's silhouette.
- #168
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A glass onion is a type of bottle used for wine or spirits, invented in the late 17th century using new techniques. It was sturdier than earlier types that protected it for export, and its color was very dark (almost black) to keep out light. The Glass Onion bar where the group meets probably takes its name from a bottle of liquor. But the Glass Onion is also a clear, fragile glass dome made of many layers created by Miles. Another simple concept he misunderstood.
- #169
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"This is a scene where we kind of put it all on the table," Rian Johnson said, just as we see Andi's body on the morgue table/floor.
- #170
It is the second film Kate Hudson and Leslie Odom Jr. made together after "Music" (2021).
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