#onion leaves

[krasnyel]

regular ascot-loving-mystery-solving family

[lostrealities0]

everyone is talking about Blanc calling Marta after Glass Onion, but can we imagine him coming home and telling Philip everything.

like

"darling, i have just experienced the dumbest case ever. good lord, it was worse then playing clue. goddamn pineapple..."

[amandamadeathing]

@theonion headline paired with Crosshair.

[whetstonefires]

more substantive thing about Glass Onion and then i think this is all my thoughts: i really liked something i feel was clearly shown in the flashbacks but not outright stated, which was that andi knew damn well miles bron was a dumb huckster.

that's what she wanted him for. she needed that ability to throw himself into his latest shill with total commitment, because of his need to believe in his own hype. the 'reality distortion' of his hard sell.

she knew that to get what she wanted out of life, she needed to harness that confidence of a mediocre white man we all talk about.

that it would open doors that would stay unmoved in the face of all her brilliance, and polish, and perfected rich bitch voice.

there's a lot of these guys out there, and she picked a dumb one because she planned for him to be the front man to her mastermind. (apologies to paul mccartney lol i don't mean to impugn your intelligence.) a smarter man would have had his own plans, would be harder to use as a mouthpiece for her better ones. she would have needed to find an actual partner and not a tool, and she didn't trust like that.

duke wasn't actually wrong to say they were all playing the same shitty game and andi lost. i mean, he was morally wrong but he wasn't incorrect.

like blanc says, she thought that because she was better than bron, because she was the genius and he was the cheap con artist, he wasn't dangerous. and in the end that was where it all fell apart.

[darkblueboxs]

Glass Onion Spoilers - Foreshadowing and Among Us

I’ve seen a few posts dunking on glass onion for being “cringe” because of the Among Us scene and a few praising it for accurately reflecting the fact that this is all everyone was playing in 2020, but I haven’t seen anyone really talk about how brilliantly Among Us works as a foreshadowing/storytelling device.

On the surface - as the film itself points out! - the game is a neat little parallel of the island: one murderer hidden among us, with the objective being to find them out. But this comparison goes far deeper than the basic premise of the film.

Firstly, Benoit appears as the game’s imposter, and then, it is later revealed, is literally an imposter, arriving on the island uninvited under false pretences - one of the first major twists of the film spelled out to the audience in the opening act. And he isn’t alone - just as two imposters generally work together to deceive the other players, so Benoit and Helen work together to infiltrate the group. BUT, and this is the bit that really drives me wild, the endgame format of Among Us perfectly reflects the endgame of the film. The way to win Among Us isn’t necessarily a case of killing everyone or surviving every round - the way to win is by convincing your fellow players to believe you, and to vote accordingly.

During the trial Andi loses because the imposter - the billionaire impersonating a genius - convinces the other players that she should be voted out; she is as effectively thrown out of the airlock as she is the business, and then literally killed to protect the [fortune of] the “crew.”

But, Andi was not the imposter, and so the game continues.

The imposter kills again, and when Miles confesses to causing the lights to go out, this is another excellent hint - only the imposter can sabotage the lights!

Then, with all the characters assembled much like an “Emergency Meeting,” we reach the climax of the film: Miles burns the napkin evidence, and immediately the ensemble is back to the voting booth as Helen, like her sister, fights for the players’ support in voting out the imposter. Any Among Us player will recognise the infuriating feeling when you literally just saw them vent for the love of god you were all there vote them OFF- and that frustration - of speaking the truth and not being believed - is evident in this scene.

But these players don’t care about the truth; they care about surviving (ie staying rich), and so they will vote off an innocent person to placate the shark. Which is absolutely not how you win the game.

Then, then, the game’s final round: the imposter has lost his tools, is revealed for the useless fraud he is, and it’s when he has nothing left to offer the other players that one more vote is held - the characters literally raise their hands as they pledge their support to Helen, in part to give the appearance of swearing in upon the witness stand, but also in part to give the visual of a literal vote... such as that of an Among Us emergency meeting vote.

And it’s when Miles is finally, rightfully ejected that at last, the game is won.

Among Us is a game of social engineering, of lying and convincing others of your lies to prolong your survival, deception, and the malleability of truth. Presenting this game in the opening of the film is more than a gimmick or scene-setter: it illustrates the social structures at the heart of the story.

TLDR: Among Us foreshadows the film’s premise, but also plot twists, character choices, and significantly the film’s resolution by way of group vote.

[dreamingofnoreality]

Benoit Blanc thinking back on Ransom after Glass Onion

[keingleichgewicht]

what's house of leaves?

the short version is, it's a book about a book about a book about a book about a movie that never existed about a house that's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. it is probably the single most famous/notorious existing work of "ergodic fiction", meaning basically fiction which exists in such a complex relationship with its medium that it takes nontrivial effort just to consume, meaning uhhhh a lot of it looks like this,

or worse!

it's like, fifty percent an extremely high-effort mockery of modern academia, it's often doing its active best to be completely incomprehensible to you, its and i cannot emphasize this enough A Space With A Beast In It. its awfully dear to my heart also. or as mark z danielewsky who wrote it puts it:

"I had one woman come up to me in a bookstore and say, 'You know, everyone told me it was a horror book, but when I finished it, I realized that it was a love story.' And she's absolutely right.

[housewifebuck]

Eddie trying to score pussy while wearing the ultimate dick hunting ensembles: a compilation

[icewindandboringhorror]

What would you choose? :0c

(note: original image is from HERE (link) - but I edited it to add a wider variety of options.. also added $3 extra to the total, even though I know that makes it more uneven lol, I thought if you're adding 10 whole extra items, the money to spend should at least be increased slightly, if that makes sense..)

[milk-lover]

Something I love immediately about Glass Onion is that on a basic level it looks and feels So different than Knives Out. Most obviously is the setting and the colors. Both the Thrombey house and the Glass Onion are characters in their own right—Rian Johnson does an amazing job telling story through setting—but they are not at all similar. One is warm and cozy, autumnal, cramped, the home of a man obsessive murder mystery author. The other is bright, sleek, loud, summery, the ostentatious mansion of an indulgent billionaire. Browns and oranges and sepia vs white and blues and yellows. Wood accents vs glass. They feel completely different.

The easy, boring, lazy thing to do would have been to bank on the success and love for the original film, and stay in that comfortable autumnal coloring. Play on the positive associations of that feel of the first movie, and hope that it tricks the audience into loving this one too. Sooo many film makers would have done this. So many sequels do this. And it would have Ruined the film. I am So Happy Rian Johnson didn’t.

[tethered-heartstrings]

stew for dinner!!!!

[oceans-beloved]

Meme dump yayyy🥳✨️

(off to make more now muhahaha >:3)

[morethansalad]

Vegan Butter Chicken Bao

[garden-ghoul]

let's all admire bagels together. you can tell me about your favorite bagel place if u want!!

[saprophytetoyshop]

mfs with autism will see a psychological horror/ thriller with “house” in the name and go absolutely batshit insane

[marconiandcheese]

i want at some point to see a knives out bottle episode film. like, a murder happens on a plane and blanc has eight hours to solve it while everyone's still on the plane kinda thing. a big gala goes on lockdown after some priceless artifact is stolen and nobody's allowed to leave the room until the robber's caught. i just think bottle episodes allow for so much creativity in a limited setting and i think the showrunners could do a lot with that