#the murderer is the actor playing blanc

[egobuzz]

benoit blanc is famous in the knives out universe, which means one day we could get a movie about blanc solving a murder at a film set where they’re filming a benoit blanc biopic

[hotvintagepoll]

If I can defend Knives Out as being actually not that boring of a pick: Maybe genre wise it’s referencing classic detective stories, but! There’s still things about it that would be fun to reimagine in a vintage setting

Casting is the big one; because for me it’s not just that the all star cast, it’s the mix of types of actors. A few younger actors who aren’t really household names; a few people who are currently enjoying a big wave of popularity/are in other really big projects; extremely well respected actors who most people know; and extremely well respected veteran actors who also aren’t necessarily household names. Like you cover pretty much the whole range with the film. So it presents a fun challenge of not only having to cast for character type, but seeing if you can’t match actor type, too.

And then there’s Blanc specifically- for me, it’s not just about picking someone who would be a fun classic PI character, but trying to find someone who matches Daniel Craig’s specific relationship to the character- is there an equivalent person who is just coming out of/about to come out of being a bit type cast in a somewhat serious, not all that emotive, action-star role who gets a chance through this to loosen up, have fun, and show they also have great comedic chops and character-work abilities?

The other big component for me is that Knives Out and Glass Onion both have some relevant social commentary/issue running as an undercurrent to the murder mystery. Both deal with issues of class, but then KO has Marta’s status as an undocumented immigrant be an important theme throughout, and GO has its take on an Elon Musk type (among other modern archetypes). So what specific contemporary issue(s) are we picking for vintage Knives Out? And how will that affect what our hypothetical movie’s plot and cast looks like?

this ask is making me weep because a movie with “a few younger actors [and] a few people who are currently enjoying a big wave of popularity/are in other really big projects; extremely well respected actors who most people know; and extremely well respected veteran actors who also aren’t necessarily household names” and a lead actor playing the detective who gets to “have fun, and show they also have great comedic chops and character-work abilities” already exists—Murder on the Orient Express from 1974 is one of my favorite movies ever and is apparently now required viewing for this blog. It’s got Lauren Bacall! Ingrid Bergman! Wendy Hiller! John Gielgud! Anthony Perkins! Michael York! Jacqueline Bisset! And Albert Finney eating the shit out of the scenery as Hercule Poirot. It is SUCH a good time and will hit so many of the Knives Out buttons for so many of you. (Admittedly it does not have the same style of social commentary as a Knives Out film, though just like in Christie’s novel it is crucial that the travelers on the train represent diverse intersections of class, and a major touchstone is how justice is meted out based on wealth, class, and who makes those choices.)

Anyway please watch Murder on the Orient Express (1974).

[ignis--fatuus]

I have a theory about the celebrity cameos in Glass Onion

SO- we all know about the scene wherein Benoir Blanc is playing Among Us in the bathtub. He's playing with the stars Angela Lansbury, Natasha Lyonne, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I have a theory as to why those four are playing

Starting off strong with Angela Lansbury: The Queen of Daytime TV Mystery! Murder, She Wrote ran from 1984 to 1996. It is still referenced in this day and age just because of how much influence it had on the mystery genre and the idea of a "Female Detective" (not just a female detective- an elderly female detective). She is a Modern Miss Marple in a sense, and her mysteries still hold up to this day. Next is Natasha Lyonne: In 2021 Lyonne announced she would be the lead in an upcoming mystery series: Poker Face. This show too is huge in the modern mystery genre. For starters, it is reinventing a Columbo'-style "Howcatchem" format, and does it well. Secondly, it too is a "Female Detective" lead story. It is carrying the torch of stories like Murder, She Wrote and Miss Marple, and using the tools of famous and innovative shows like Columbo to do it. Glass Onion was released in 2022. The timelines fit perfectly. Then there's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Now, at first glance it doesn't make much sense. He was in movies like Airplane, sure, the man is an actor just as much as he is a basketball player. BUT he is also the writer of a Sherlock Holmes pastiche centered around Mycroft and has been a self-proclaimed fan of the Holmes series for a very long time! There's even pictures of him outside the Sherlock Holmes museum!

Finally, Stephen Sondheim: Once again, its a bit hard to see at first. He's a composer and lyricist. Why is he here? The man is the musician behind Sweeney Todd! A MYSTERY AND CRIME MUSICAL. Sondheim also was involved with West Side Story and the musical Assassins- both of which center around crime. The reason these four were chosen is because they are lovers and participators of the mystery genre. That's why Blanc likes them. Thats why they’re playing Among Us (as well as the fact that it was a popular game during Covid). That's why the directors picked them for the cameos. Its always been about the mystery!

[s-che]

“you are a good nurse” (knives out and great men)

***(this is extremely spoilery for both knives out and glass onion. read with caution)***

In quarantine, in a smaller apartment than you might expect, Benoit Blanc is playing Among Us. This is a game—like Clue—which the celebrity detective hates. It’s too simple, too obvious, and too easy to resolve. Although he holds himself to be better than these “stupid things,” they are also a weakness—later, we will be told that he nearly failed to solve a case because it was too simple all along. For now, the gentleman sleuth is doing poorly in isolation, suffering from an all-consuming boredom which descends between cases (a trait he shares with his literary antecedents in Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes). This is, all in all, a tremendous reintroduction to Blanc, the detective who, in 2019’s Knives Out, solved the murder of James PattersoHarlan Thrombey and who—in 2022’s Glass Onion—will attend a murder-mystery themed weekend getaway of the innermost circle of tech billionaire Elon MusMiles Bron. Blanc shares DNA with the classic sleuths—but he is both more and less of a hero than they were. Much of that has to do with the communities he finds himself in. Murder mysteries have always run on high-energy casts of colorful characters—most especially in the works of Agatha Christie, whose Mousetrap, Murder on the Orient Express, and And Then There Were None feel like important steps on the road to Knives Out. Working with big tropes and cliches makes sense in a genre which is, in many ways, about developing and subverting reader expectations, and the two Knives Out films certainly build on that mold, establishing a set of stock characters drawn from the here and the now. Whether we’re dealing with a wealthy college student who sets her political beliefs aside to bow to the demands of her family (Katherine Langford as Meg Thrombey, Knives Out) or an internet micro-influencer about to explode into the mainstream screaming about the downfall of western masculinity (Dave Bautista as Duke Cody, Glass Onion), the supporting casts of both Benoit Blanc murder-flicks are fresh tropes for a fresh culture. They’re also—critically—all drawn from a particular world. Children of wealthy families, publishing executives, influencers, lifestyle models—these are people given a huge privilege, not only in the quality of their lifestyles but in the degree of their control over the direction of their lives. Although Knives Out and Glass Onion both  depict circles dependent on the charity of individual, powerful men—Harlan Thrombey and Miles Bron, respectively—they are also circles made up of people who society grants decision-making power, imbuing them with the belief that they are the protagonists of life granted the god-given right to personhood in contrast to those in sidelined roles—the help, medical staff, and “Derol.” The heroes of both films, however, are the odd ones out. They are neither the suspects (the colorful ensembles of those who “could have done it”) nor the celebrity sleuth himself (on whom everyone depends to solve the mystery and straighten things out), but rather those who are pushed to the side—assumed to be objects, not actors. Marta and Helen are the Watsons of both movies—the characters through whom we view the story, whose experiences frame and color our own (Helen takes on this role predominantly in the second half of the movie, once her true identity has been revealed to the audience). Unlike Holmes’s Watson or Poirot’s Arthur Hastings, however, these two characters are not neutral “straight characters” but individuals who suffer an active isolation, people who—however “normal” they might be in comparison to the cast—are marginalized and assumed to occupy a passive space. This positioning impacts their perspective, skewing things for viewers, reminding us that there is no apolitical way to view these events—and not to normalize the antics of the elite. In both cases—as Marta is Harlan’s long-term nurse and Helen is dedicated to seeking justice for her sister—they are presumed to, and in many cases do, act without ego, functioning solely as objects and in the ecosystem which surrounds the powerful decision makers (Harlan Thrombey and Miles Bron) and support systems on which the protagonists of life can lean. Although the films work to counteract this assumption—reminding us of the fundamental personhood of both Helen and Marta—it is also partially through their dedication to serving others that both Helen and Marta succeed. Blanc puts this clearly in Knives Out when he reveals that he knew Marta was involved in the murder from the start: “I want you to remember something very important:” he says “You won not by playing the game Harlan's way, but yours.” The heroes of these films do not succeed by using their invisible status to their advantage in playing “the game Harlan’s way,” getting one up on everybody by being the cleverest person in the room. Rather, they succeed by staying true to their values and doing what they know is right—even if that means sacrificing themself to the cause of another because it is right. For Marta this is attempting to save Fran—for Helen it is running out of clever ways to seek justice for her sister, and setting fire to theb building instead. By working against their own self-interest in the “game” or “puzzle” of a murder mystery, both Helen and Marta defeat their antagonists. In Knives Out, the Thrombey family spends much of their time bickering over who really deserves to inherit Harlan’s legacy—and the film is clear that none of them can truly claim to have built success themselves, as each was granted the privilege and security of their family’s wealth. None are truly as independent—we might say, “protagonal” —as they believe. Glass Onion takes this a step further, attacking the “source” of the cycle of  wealth. While Harlan Thrombey seems to have been a generally good man, a skilled storyteller, and a strong judge of character—it was his decision to reward Marta, and not his kin, with the inheritance—Glass Onion’s counterpart in Miles Bron is explicitly framed as lacking substance (being a “Glass Onion,” which appears deep but is in fact easy to see through) and having simply been in the right place in the right time to steal someone else’s work. There is no “self-made man” or “good billionaire” in Glass Onion—only people who were lucky enough to be given the opportunity to step on someone else on their way up the ladder. This developed critique of “great men” plays directly into the events of Glass Onion’s climax. Unlike Knives Out, where the police are presented as broadly interested in justice and glad to work alongside Blanc although their investigation has already ended, Glass Onion demonstrates explicitly how systems of power—the courts and the police, but also social dynamics and community pressures—can be bent to the defense of those assumed to be powerful decision makers (like Miles Bron or Ransom Thrombey). There were allusions to this in Knives—where Ransom claims that Benoit solving the murder means nothing, since he has good lawyers and will avoid a significant sentence—but they are eventually unsubstantial, as Marta tricks Ransom into confessing in front of two officers and he is arrested as a result. When, in Glass Onion, when the only evidence to Bron’s crime is burned, Blanc himself seems to surrender, claiming that “This is where my jurisdiction ends” before leaving the room (though not before handing Helen the physical and emotional material she needs to literally burn Miles Bron’s island home to the ground). Although Helen eventually manages to set fire to the Mona Lisa—defeating Bron by ruining his public image, not through criminal prosecution—this does not seem to be her intention when she begins destroying the mansion. In this, Glass Onion seems to develop a second critique of Knives Out—not only do we come to question the validity of the narrative of “good” billionaires, we are shown that, faced with hostile powers insulating  themselves within systems of law and order, the only path to justice may be working outside the law and our basic (i.e. carceral) assumptions of what “justice” is. As the emergency  services arrive to pick up a body, Benoit sits on the beach, smoking a cigar. His hands are clean, and he has inspired Helen to the heroic action that she must take. He is as smart as any Holmes, but he did not do his part in this adventure in the way Holmes would, by playing the game, solving the puzzle, and handing things over to the police. Rather, Benoit has himself taken on a supportive role—supportive to Helen, who has, in turn, taken action and found justice for her sister. He understands the limits of his jurisdiction—in other words, he knows when it is actually his turn to be the protagonist, and when it is his role to inspire others. In a world full of people who claim to have risen to power by their skill and focus, Blanc actually has remarkable skill—but he uses them, ultimately, to ends of uplifting the meek, not simply restoration of order.

[bittersweetresilience]

miraculous masterpost 🦚

writing

sentitwin soulmate au (Félix and Adrien are soulmates. Amélie and Emilie used to be just as close. On hiatus.) ghost félix au (Félix just wanted it to stop hurting. On hiatus.) sentitwin omori au (Adrien wakes up. Emilie is home. On hiatus.)

never been in love (Félix comes to terms with being aromantic.) metempsychosis (Félix is in a time loop.) i've drowned and dreamt this (Adrien has a problem.) no one listens to the dead (Félix and Adrien switch places.) oh, no, not again (For Félix, time travel is a dangerous thing.) band-aid (Adrien helps Félix through a panic attack.) for what we've done (During Emotion, Marinette chooses differently.) garden of dreams (Adrien takes care of Félix when he dissociates.) i want to hold the hand inside you (Félix gives Marinette his ring.) loose leaves (Marinette shares a morning with Félix and Kagami.) come alive when the light dies (Ladybug remembers Patte de Velours in the Burrow.) in certain light, i can plainly see (Félix lets Marinette kiss his hand.) handle with care (Félix takes Adrien to meet his horse.) aftertaste (Ladybug brings Adrien to a picnic date.)

better left unsaid (Snake Noir visits Félix after Réplique.) brave, truthful, and unselfish (Five times Félix lied to Adrien.) ephialtes / reverie (Félix survives the night of the Diamonds' Dance.) sleep (Runaway Chat Noir and Félix have a conversation.)

and a couple others i haven't made posts for which you can find here!

analysis

why félix makes me insane why i read félix as aromantic why félix would go by his father's last name random félix defenses in my stash timeline of félix events

félix and flairmidable as pandora's myth félix as a classical or method actor sentitwin sun and moon symbolism

sentitwin soulmate au meta / more / more

every scene where the miraculous theme song plays in minor definitely not every scene where in the rain plays

parallels between marinette, adrien, gabriel, and émilie parallels between exaltation and chat blanc parallels between gabemilie and feligami

french history and gabriel's color palette plikki at the end of the world

adrien agreste and borderline personality disorder

webweaves

félix fathom amélie graham de vanily felinette / more / more philosophy / more the whiteness of the whale hearth and thirteen paris special chat blanc twins / more feligami ladyvelours team is a four letter word

amvs

how far we've come / miraculous ladybug i could fight on a wall / ladynoir end credits / felinette emperor's new clothes / félix fathom i can't decide / félix fathom this side of paradise / ladrien savior / ladyblanc tightrope / djwifi are you bored yet? / kuro neko way down we go / félix fathom

playlists

émilie agreste kitty section

gifs

sentitwins felinette / more / more / more feligami / more félix fathom the wish

fic recs

félix sentitwins feligami ladynoir

other

miraculous frozen au miraculous infinity train au

murder at the graham de vanily dinner party birds of a feather

as time goes by podfic

thirteen poem félix poem

in the rain a capella

[the-fandom-journal]

ok. hear me out. thoughts for future KNIVES OUT movies:

- possible actors and actresses to cast: (1) daniel radcliffe. he would have so much fun with this. let him be someone silly. a lovable idiot. maybe give him a cat on his lap to cuddle with, just him and the cat as a prop in the back-ground. or he can be an assistant to benoit blanc. just making notes and following him. (2) antonio banderas. because he rocked it in spy kids. he can play, like, the personal painter of some rich dude that got murdered and he has some cryptic messages in his art or something. would be 10/10. (3) lucy liu!! she could be like the lesbian bestie of hugh grant’s philip, or she plays like a starlet that shadows blanc’s work because she’s going to play a detective in a movie and she wants to make it authentic, you know. (4) doug jones. as a professor or scholar or MAYBE HE COULD BE THE VICTIM that dies in the start but he has statues and sculptures of himself all around so we see versions of him all throughout the movie. like life resembles art and art resembles life. 

- possible murder mystery tropes to play with: (1) amnesiac hero/villain. no help at all. looks at you and goes “maybe? could be me? would i do that? huh?”. just as surprised as you at every new revelation, like “wow, i’m a bad person” or “sucks to be me, huh”. (2) everybody did it. everybody had some part in the crime without knowing. like a chain reaction. snowball effect. like, someone left the door open. another person accidentally takes the victims phone because they look alike so when the victim tries to open it it’s not the correct code or something. just small things adding up. (3) “scooby-doo hoax” where someone disguises the crime as someone supernatural or paranormal so he won’t get caught. 

[erasermist]

One Piece Live Action Season 1 Stream of Consciousness (Spoilers):

This will be a suuuuper long post and will literally be a random string of thoughts and will probably make no sense as a lot will be without context. Maybe just random lines that I enjoy and random gifs that just showcase the random points I like but enjoy

Episode 1

I love this. I love that they didn’t make it the exact same. And having watched the anime, it just makes the subtle hints amazing and when they mention something that wasn’t brought up till later *chefs kiss*. Like they showed Zoro being recruited by Baroque Works when they didn’t even mention that till they were in the grand line I think.

And all of the small hints to the characters like when you saw Cabaji in the scene before he was actually introduced. That’s one of my favorite types of foreshadowing.

Luffy supporting Koby’s dream will always be awesome. And Luffy comforting Koby after see the bad marines is so kind of him. I love him.

The casting is perfect. Luffy. Zoro. Nami.

Nami is me. Everything goes wrong “This is fine.”

OH MY GOD!! Buggy!!

Episode 2

Buggy is just a great performer!

This is gonna get repetitive I know, but they are all such amazing actors and actresses!!

“Cut you down to size.” 😂😂

SHANKS!!!

Episode 3

“Stupid clown” Zoro’s hate of Buggy is hilarious

Already the crew (“not a crew”) are supporting Luffy’s whims haha

“Fans have gotten so toxic” I love this characterization of Buggy

I’m liking how this is a little darker than the anime was. And I love how they are introducing bounty characters. It’s so cool!

Zoro gets thrown in the well 😂😂 And Koby popping up at the end like that was very cool. Love the music they play throughout everything. It’s really making the show better

Episode 4

Zoro is my favorite. He already was in the anime, but it’s definitely true for the live action as well 🥰

MURDER MANSION!!!

Zoro’s lack of direction sense has finally been shown!

The grandpa revel being much earlier in this version 😂😂😂

Episode 5

“You just call that guy grandpa?” Oh Zoro, just wait for it 😭😭 and then his “talk” with Luffy after the fight.

Luffy sniffing his way to the good!!

Omg! This Sanji has so much class and the immediate jokes the rest pull on Nami after he leaves 😂 I feel bad for those who haven’t watched the anime. They are gonna think Sanji is this slick cool character (and he is) but they are gonna realize he isn’t that… smooth. But look at him… I forgive him and support all his decisions

Mihawk is just so bored. “You woke me from my nap”

Koby is playing a much bigger part than I thought he was gonna. And standing up to Garp like that.

Mihawk “though I do like your hat” 😍 I love this man!

Episode 6

Luffy just wants Zoro to get better 😌

Poor baby Sanji screaming for the ship

And again with the foreshadowing with the story of Mont Blanc Noland

They really have changed the way this goes. Arming came to them and Don Krieg died by Mihawk earlier. Not too mad about it though. I think it flows better with the way they made the show. Like I said it’s a little darker and I’m liking it. It’s different but a good different.

Also yum! lookie! Very respectfully of course but still

And there Zoro is being a great first mate vowing to stand by Luffy’s side!!! Done differently but still so beautiful! Tears!!!

Zoro: “Why are we bringing the waiter?” Usopp: “Cause we can’t boil water” 😂😂 Zoro so much happened while you were asleep

Luffy just pulls out Buggy’s head for a bag!!

Episode 7

The chains in Nani’s map room… this is gonna be sad

Nami is trying so hard to mean all the mean things. I’m gonna cry just like when I watch the anime. I just know it.

Zoro’s constant side eye of Sanji is awesome and very in character

Oh lovely. I somehow didn’t realize I would have to watch all the sad things in another format. It didn’t really connect that

And Zoro being first mate again. That’s always gonna be my favorite thing. Even when it’s for sad moments

Nami’s screams… that was so real and heart wrenching and that “help me” scene was so on point. The one scene that was practically the same and it was the one that causes tears 🥲

Episode 8

The blood and chains and pain little Nami had to go through

“Finally I get to cut something” Zoro is so done with emotions 😂 he just wants to do what he does best

So I’ve thought this from the first time I watched Arlong, but why would he think a revolution started from the “weakest” sea have any traction. I get “plot” reasons, but still….

“Round Two, Arlong.” Yes Luffy! Go!

Buggy! That was so funny! I love this Buggy!!

And Zoro’s immediate response “Fucking clown” 😂😂😂😂 I love this so much y’all

Go Usopp!!! “No one’s around to see it. It’s okay. They’ll believe me” loved it the first time I saw it, love it now too.

Sanji gets kicked backwards and Zoro just casually walks out of the way and around him. I’m so glad they are still the same Zoro and Sanji as ever 😭

Sanji says that all the best fighters call out their finishing moves and Zoro immediately gets flashbacks to Luffy saying the exact same thing!!

The Garp and Luffy confrontation!!!

“Be a good Marine.” “Be a good Pirate.” Love them.

The barrel scene!!! Yes!!!

And the sneak peak at Smoker!!

I absolutely loved this!!! I need a full adaptation of the entire show and I need them to keep the same cast for them all!!

[idkman-ijustwannamakeatournament]

Loser's Bracket

Round 1: Match 8

"Two Sides of the Same Coin"- Two things that are regarded as part of the same thing. Even if they're very different, they have at least one common thread that helps them fit into this trope.

Propaganda (under the cut):

Chikage Utsuki and Hisoka Mikage:

"For context, Hisoka and Chikage are family. They were taken in by someone named August, and raised together. August brought them into the spy organisation where he worked, but when he got older, he regretted his decision as it obviously hurt them. August made a plan to get both Hisoka and Chikage out of the organisation, which neither of them knew about, but August was caught.

August was killed on a mission in front of Hisoka, while Chikage was far away. Due to events that took place while August was dying, Hisoka fell off a cliff and swam to shore, and in the incident, lost his memory. With amnesia, Hisoka wandered into Mankai Company, where A3! is set. In Mankai, he was saved and looked after. August’s plan worked sort of, as Hisoka was safe, but Chikage was left behind.

While Hisoka forgot, Chikage remembered everything, and because of the nature of the Organisation, he wasn’t allowed to grieve August’s death. He was also told it was Hisoka who killed August, and was made to get revenge on him. When he finds him at Mankai, safe and free, Chikage is enraged as he is stuck here suffering while Hisoka gets to live a life of comfort. Chikage is forced to suffer the death of the person most important to him, while Hisoka didn’t even remember what he did in Chikage’s eyes.

The game very deliberately contrasts Hisoka being free and forgetting, to Chikage being stuck and remembering. They are very literally two sides of the same coin (Chikage even loved coin tricks :DD) as they were raised as family, but turned out very differently from the same trauma. Even when Hisoka remembers, and manages to prove his innocence, Chikage vows to keep Hisoka a secret from the Organisation so he can live a free life like August wanted. (But August wanted them both to be free. :(( )

Hisoka gets his “character development” before Chikage, as his life in the Organisation is in the past. He can move on from his life as “December” (secret agent name) in a way Chikage can’t, because he is still presently “April.”

The Scarlet Mirror event uses a pair of biological siblings to parallel Hisoka and Chikage’s relationship. The event emphasises how Hisoka and Chikage mirror each other, as they play Holmes and Moriarty in the event’s play. One of Moriarty Chikage’s lines in this play starts “You’re my mirror Holmes.”

In the event, Hisoka reflects on what he cannot remember still about the Organisation, while Chikage is shown doing work for the Organisation. When they encounter the agent July (who turns out to be August’s true murderer) Hisoka tries to help, but Chikage won’t let him because again, Chikage is still an agent, and Hisoka is not. Hisoka has to fight to join his brother, because Chikage no longer sees him as an agent despite their shared past.

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Chikage: For that to happen, I’ll eliminate any danger. Anything beyond this is my job; the actor Mikage Hisoka should focus on the performance. Hisoka: Chikage, you’re an actor too. Chikage: I’d resolved that next time, I’d protect my family at all costs. Hisoka: Well, I’m the same way. Chikage: Our situations are different now. Hisoka: No they’re not. Chikage: They are. You’re no longer “December”.

While two of Hisoka's focus events: Risky Game and Sunny Blanc focus on Hisoka's amnesia and grief, Chikage's focus event: Moon Traveller focuses on Chikage's life and vivid memories, answering questions about his life with August, as he still struggles to grieve healthily. Chikage's memories are vivid and intense, while Hisoka's are messy and very much separated by the past of being in the Organisation, and the present of being away from it.

Also, their personalities are opposites too! Hisoka is very sleepy, you can find him sleeping all over Mankai, while Chikage hardly sleeps. Hisoka is a sweet tooth, while Chikage dislikes sweets and loves spicy food. Hisoka loves cats, while Chikage hates animals.

They are very sad but also very silly. They bicker a lot, but ultimately they really love each other and want to protect each other. They were raised as family, but are shaped differently by their shared trauma."

Batman and Joker:

(no propaganda)

[thestalwartheart]

Hellooooo a bit of a random question but I came across a tweet that said they should just fill the knives out 3 cast with Daniel’s former Bond costars. Sooo I’m throwing it out to you and your followers- which actors from the last five Bond films would you like to see in knives out 3?

Oooooooh great question!

I think it would be amazing to see Ben Whishaw so many of them in Knives Out 3! Who was the mutual I was chatting to that mentioned making it a London-based film so Daniel Craig had to maintain that accent around Ben Whishaw a bunch of his own countrymen and women? That was a truly galaxy-brained take.

Rory Kinnear along with Ben Whishaw would be so interesting to see in the cast list. He was a truly wonderful petty villain in Our Flag Means Death. I would love to see more of that energy from him.

Lashana Lynch seems like a no-brainer for the disaster woman sidekick role. Though, you know, if they were ever to go with a man for that role I rcckon Ben Whishaw could do it justice.

I would love to see Ben Whishaw Monica Belluci hitting on Benoit Blanc instead of James Bond.

And we all know Ben Whishaw Christoph Waltz can play anything he sets his mind to.

Seriously, though, Bond cast or not...someone please cast Judi Dench. She needs to be free of the Kenneth Branagh murder mystery shackles and to know what it's like to star in a real whodunnit again.

There are honestly so many other actors like Ben Whishaw I could have listed here, but these are the ones that come to mind.

Oh, wait, did I mention Ben Whishaw? Gosh, must have totally slipped my mind. Give that man a really sexy darkly comedic role I am begging.

[denimbex1986]

'Andrew Scott joining the cast of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, or Knives Out 3, will circle back to one of his most prolific television characters. Scott is one of the latest additions to the highly anticipated Knives Out and Glass Onion sequel from Rian Johnson...

Andrew Scott In A Benoit Blanc Movie Is Perfect After Sherlock’s Moriarty Role

Moriarty was a great enemy of the prolific detective

Andrew Scott is poised to be the perfect addition to the Knives Out universe following his legendary role as Professor Moriarty in the celebrated series Sherlock. A crucial character in the Benedict Cumberbatch-led series, Professor Moriarty, as played by Andrew Scott, first appeared in season one, episode three titled "The Great Game." He would go on to become the greatest enemy of Sherlock Holmes and the man who infamously bested him in the Sherlock series finale "The Final Problem". As one of Scott's earliest television characters, which he last appeared as in 2017, Moriarty is a great indication of Scott's potential in Knives Out 3.

While Sherlock Holmes was considered a prolific detective, Moriarty was a criminal mastermind who proved to be the only one who could match, elude, and eventually beat Sherlock at his own game. It would be somewhat symbolic if Scott's character in Knives Out 3 turned out to be the key suspect or culprit in the anticipated murder that Wake Up Dead Man is expected to center on. While there are virtually no details that are currently available about the plot of the upcoming Rian Johnson film, Scott, as well as the characters played by O'Connor, Spaeny, and Washington, will likely all be potential killers.

Why Andrew Scott Is Such A Great Addition To Knives Out 3’s Cast

Scott is a phenomenal actor with a wide comedic and dramatic range

Scott has only gotten better at his craft since starring as Moriarty in Sherlock and has emerged in recent years as one of the most versatile and in-demand actors working today. His performance as The Priest in Fleabag season 2 is one of his most notable roles alongside Phoebe Waller-Bridge. He starred in one of the better episodes of Black Mirror season 5 titled "Smithereens" as a ride-share driver who had gone rogue to send a message to a giant tech guru. He appeared in the Oscar-winning WWII film 1917 in 2019 and starred alongside Paul Mescal (Aftersun, Gladiator 2) in the celebrated 2023 film All of Us Strangers.

Scott also starred as the titular protagonist in Netflix's 2024 limited series Ripley, written and directed by Steven Zallian and based on The Talented Mr. Ripley novel by Patricia Highsmith. Even just by viewing his roles in All of Us Strangers and Ripley alone, it's blatantly clear that Scott's range as an actor is essentially as good as it gets. Scott can not only capture a sinister coldness in his antagonists and a relatable vulnerability in his protagonists, but he can also combine these elements into a singular role. Ripley is arguably Scott's best overall performance because it showcases his incredible versatility.

Knives Out 3 Won't Be Andrew Scott & Daniel Craig's First Movie Together

Both actors starred in Spectre (2015)

Another great aspect of Scott joining the cast of Wake Up Dead Man is that it will reunite him with Craig after they both starred in 2015's James Bond blockbuster Spectre. Scott played Max Denbigh, better known as C, in Spectre, a corrupt Director of the Joint Security Service who ends up being Bond's antagonist. Given that Scott is one of the first actors to be cast in Knives Out 3, and considering that he has a history of playing unsuspecting villains, it could very well be that his character in Wake Up Dead Man will turn out to be the one guilty of the anticipated murder.'

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for the sleepover asks !!

give me an unpopular opinion you have about knives out, what you would like to see in knives out 3 and lastly can i please have some film recs (it can be whatever genre you want just films you think i should watchhh) 🩷🩷🩷

unpopular opinion about knives out: i literally do not think i have any. i guess i completely understand why the scenes with donna and jacob explaining the walt/loan shark subplot were cut, if that even counts as unpopular? it definitely fills out that branch of the family more but i think if they HAD to cut anything it really had to be that; it didn't really contribute to the actual mystery, and i would rather spend spare minutes getting to know the cabreras than the least interesting thrombey sect

what i would like in knives out 3: this is not going to happen but i would give my right arm for elliot and wagner to come back in some capacity. i LOVE them. from a more serious standpoint, i'd like at least a little more philip, and it would make me very happy if we did a big city mystery now and went to london. maybe blanc and philip are visiting philip's family or something when shit goes down i don't know. what i DON'T want is anything that pulls blanc's personal life into the mystery. if philip or his family gets involved, fine! but i DO NOT want a benoit blanc backstory. he's compelling enough as is he doesn't need one <3

film recs (you have asked the right person; i love reccing things):

little miss sunshine (2006) is a black comedy about a dysfunctional family attempting to drive their volkswagen van from new mexico to california to enroll their 6yo in a beauty pageant. if knives out didn't exist this would be my favorite film of all time. it's SO good

tick tick boom (2021) is a musical drama about a young composer trying to make his way in the nyc theatre world in the 1990s. bring tissues for this one

galaxy quest (1999) is a loving parody of the star trek franchise that revolves around the ex-cast of a popular sci-fi show being abducted by aliens who think the show is real. possibly the funniest film of all time methinks

clue (1985)... i do not know how to describe this film. it's a murder comedy and tim curry is the lead. please watch this movie

it's a wonderful life (1947) is a theoretically-christmas film that you've likely heard of. if not, the first two-thirds of this film are a heartwarming dramedy about a young man's relationship with his small town and the last third is an existential horror film. it's a classic for a reason!

much ado about nothing (2011) is technically a proshot of a play but i don't fucking care. david tennant in That Scene is the greatest performance an actor has ever given

sleepover asks!!!

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KNIVES OUT 3 CASTING IDEA!!

Spoilers below!!!!! I don't know how to make a cut so... BEWARE!!!

I had a thought... You know how there is a POPBUZZ interview with the cast of Glass Onion and the last question is "If you had the power to cast anyone in the next Knives Out mystery (actors, musicians, legends), who would you want to see in the next one?" Which obviously started a debate between my sisters and I on who we'd cast for the next movie. My older sister suggested Dylan O'Brian (very similar to his character on Teen Wolf (Stiles Stilinski)) as the ADHD nephew of Phillip and Blanc's apprentice on the behest of his husband (much to the annoyance of the detective). And my idea was that every actor who played a famous detective before should be in the next movie, like Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock Holmes), Robert Downey Jr. (Sherlock Holmes), Ashley Jensen (Agatha Raisin), Kenneth Branagh (Hercules Poirot), Millie Bobby Brown (Enola Holmes), or a bunch of other detectives that either didn't have a film adaptation before or I simply can't remember at the moment. Now, I have 2 ideas for this,

They are coincidentally all in the same place trying to solve the same murder faster than the other ones

They all just play ordinary people and the whole movie is filled with puns and jokes from every different detective story the actors were in, while the murderer uses a different alias of each different detective while killing several people (hope this makes sense)

On a different note my mom suggested Jack Black which is a magnificent 👌🏼 idea!

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Emma Mackey

Emma Mackey

Emma Mackey: The Trailblazing Rising Star You Can’t Miss!

Emma Mackey is a French-British actress who is quickly making a name for herself in the film and television industry. Her amazing talent and magnetic charisma have swept the entertainment industry by storm. She has built a unique journey in Hollywood, from her breakout role in “Sex Education”and “Barbie” to her stunning fashion statements, making her a trailblazing rising star that you can’t afford to miss.

Introduction: Emma Mackey

Emma Margaret Marie Tachard-Mackey was born on 4 January 1996 Le Mans, France. Her mother is British and her father is French. Her father is headmaster of the school. She grew up in Sablé-sur-Sarthe (commonly referred to as Sablé) at western region of France. She received herbaccalauréatDegree(French national academic qualification that students can obtain at the completion of their secondary education) in 2013. She moved to the UK when she was 17 to attend Leeds University to study English language and literature. She started her playing career in theater following her graduation in 2016.

According to ELLE Australia, She is dating aspiring actor Dan Whitlam. The two started seeing each other in 2018.

Early career

At the college, she made her theatrical debut. She made an appearance in The Workshop Theater shows. She participated in the play Table in 2014 along with ten other classmates.

After completing her theatre studies in Leeds, Emma Mackey temporarily worked as a model. Before pursuing acting, she worked as a model for a renowned English clothing line AIDA Shoreditch.

In 2016, Mackey had an appearance in “Badger Lane,” a horror movie, which was directed by Shay Nicole Collins. At the National Student Television Association Awards in 2016, movie earned the Best Film Drama award. Critics gave it very favorable reviews and appreciated its creative directing.

Her next role was in the 2018 drama movie “Summit Fever,” which is about two mountain climbers who attempt to conquer the Matterhorn, Eiger, and Mont Blanc in the Alps.

Landing the Breakthrough Role

As part of the Netflix original series “Sex Education“, Mackey was cast as one of the principal characters in 2018. In Laurie Nunn’s web television comedy drama series set in the UK, she plays the part of “Maeve Wiley.” On the video streaming service Netflix, the show debuted on January 11, 2019 and has since enjoyed a moderate amount of success. The focus of the plot is the three core characters, played by Asa Butterfield, Gillian Anderson and Emma Mackey. Mackey plays the part of a “bad girl,” a social outcast, in the television series.

She was nominated for a British Academy Television Award in 2021 and won a National Comedy Award in 2022 for the role.

In 2021, Mackey starred in the independent romantic drama movie Eiffel, which earned over $13 million globally and had its world premiere at the Alliance Française French Film Festival.

The following same year, she starred in the mystery thriller film “Death on the Nile“, a sequel to 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express.

In 2022, Mackey had her first lead film role as the novelist Emily Brontë in the partly fictional film Emily. She made an appearance in the fantasy comedy Barbie.

[mzannthropy]

From time to time I like to muse about what book adaptations I'd like to see Sam Claflin star in (like, there is no law that say he can't do more of them, is there). More under the cut:

Of course, the first one I will say is Agatha Christie. There are quite a few suitable characters that he could play, be it murderers or heroes. Remember Chris Evans in Knives Out, particularly that scene when the will is read out, where he goes "eat shit" at everyone--Sam would totally kill it playing someone similar. Benoit Blanc films are Agatha Christie derivative and Ransome is a very typical Agatha Christie character, so he could be one of those. As for the heroic ones, there's still plenty, for example I've just thought about Angus from Towards Zero. The good thing about Agatha's books, aside from them being fantastic mysteries, is that there is almost always a love story (usually two people who met thanks to the crime and may have been suspects but are innocent getting together), so there'd be that too.

My second favourite author is L.M. Montgomery, and you know who I'm gonna suggest as a character for Sam to play--it's got to be the one and the only Barney Snaith from The Blue Castle. (For those unfamiliar, he's the swoon worthiest of all swoon worthy romantic heroes, also go read the book, it's in the public domain.) That is if people are okay with a British actor playing a Canadian. Sam would have no problem getting the accent right, but seeing as LMM is such a cultural treasure, they might prefer a Canadian actor.

Anne Bronte's Tenant of Wildfell Hall surely needs a new adaptation. I'd like to see Sam playing Gilbert Markham, the main male character of the story. Anne doesn't get as much recognition as her sisters bc Charlotte cancelled her, but she deserves it as much as them. The book is about a woman escaping from her abusive husband, undoubtedly an important topic.

Dracula, if we could finally get a proper accurate adaptation. Sam could play any of the suitor squad (Jonathan should be someone younger, imo), but the one I think he'd capture best is Jack Seward.

These are the main ones I thought about. Not much, but then my reading has been... tragic for the last decade or so. I like Daphne du Maurier, though I've only read some of her works and Sam's already done My Cousin Rachel. But the other day I imagined Sam as Jem Merlyn in Jamaica Inn and got myself all hot and worked up.

[sleepymarmot]

Glass Onion

Yes, I had been waiting for this movie for a while and dropped everything to watch it the day of release. What about it?

Liveblog

Is it bad that I’m already like “I want all of these people to die”? Well, maybe not Lionel I guess.

Lol a bit of sci-fi to justify the actors not wearing masks for the entire movie

Is the bad CGI robot some kind of Star Wars legacy? :D

Aww, poor Benoit Soo, one of the guests plans to murder the host for real, and invites a detective to frame another guest?

It’s been 30 minutes, can people start dying please (Not Andi though, that’d be uncool)

Love the scenery, and Craig’s outfit is nice

Cool shot where Andi has the same expression as the Mona Lisa

“This is reckless. And you’re gonna get somebody killed.”

Okay, so far we’ve established the motive for: Peg, Duke, Lionel, maybe Claire. What about Birdie? And the random guy hanging around? And Andi? Is Andi automatically disqualified because we saw her destroy the box? That could be a real alibi or a red herring.

Nooo, so awkward, I can’t watch this Oh, he did it on purpose, that makes it a bit less painful

Huh, he didn’t mention Andi in the monologue...

Oh good, exactly an hour into a murder mystery, someone finally died! Yes, yes, of course it was an attempt on Miles’ life, I thought we’ve already established he’s who everyone wants dead. Cool trick to keep Norton among the active cast, I thought it was weird for the most famous actor to play the victim. (It’s nice to see Norton again btw, I wondered a while ago why I hadn’t seen him in new movies recently.)

Lmao the lights! Now this is fun

Oh no, Andi! :(

Plot twist!! Well now he's responsible for an innocent woman’s death, that’s going to give him a motive to find the killer

This shit is wild

Hell yeah she’s alive!!!

Is she going to attack the Mona Lisa?..

I feel bad about the painting. The way this was framed as a triumphant moment has the same energy as that Tumblr post about destroying famous paintings because rich people like them.

Review

[Additional spoilers for Knives Out, The Last Jedi, Midsommar, and The Handmaiden]

The film takes too much time to get started. The characters are too flat to carry it until the plot actually launches. Only gets good after the plot twist. The secondhand embarrassment scenes are excruciating.

The plot: “rich people bad, the detective teams up with a pure-hearted woman of color and helps her win”, take two. Are they going to make a whole franchise out of this? Not a great foundation for murder mystery: just look for the most entitled white man and that’s your killer.

Benoit Blanc himself, though, is a good character to build a movie series around. A classic independent detective with a kind heart and a taste for adventure — I want to see more of him. Many people have said it already, but I want Blanc to replace Bond as Daniel Craig’s #1 role.

The biggest strength of the film were, of course, all of the clever and fun twists and reveals. As you can see from the liveblog, I was misdirected very successfully and loved it every time.

And now for the biggest flaw of Glass Onion in my eyes. Just like Knives Out, this film has an extremely fun outer layer wrapped around the heart that I find a genuine downer. Most of the shallow, annoying characters got off scot-free, and what was harmed the most in act 3 was an innocent painting. I’ve already seen The Last Jedi, I don’t really need the same ending scene as the Canto Bight storyline — except worse because the writer doesn’t see the difference between “rich asshole’s property” and “priceless piece of art”. Which is a bad enough take to see on Tumblr, but straight up baffling to encounter in a high budget movie, written by a professional filmmaker. (Amazing timing, though. How did they manage to release this not only in the middle of the Musk major meltdown/Twitter takeover but also soon after the Van Gogh soup discourse?)

In retrospect it also reminds me of a couple of other famous scenes with a female protagonist involved in destruction, and the comparison is not in Glass Onion’s favor. Midsommar also ends with the heroine and a huge symbolic fire, but it’s a horror/drama, and the event takes not only the lives of those caught in the fire but the soul of the heroine. The Handmaiden, on the other hand, features a scene of art destruction that is genuinely positive and cathartic, but the nature of art and the role it plays in human lives is radically different.

[Edited to add] I’ve seen people who liked the ending defend it by saying that people are more important than art. The thing is, if this were framed as the trolley problem — if destroying a priceless work of art were presented as the only way to save an unknown number of lives — I would feel differently. Instead, the film seems to want the viewer not to value the Mona Lisa just because the rich amoral characters do value it.

In a more Watsonian and practical sense, I don’t see how this is a win for Helen. She was the one who burned the painting. The fuel played only a minor part, the painting would have been destroyed just the same without it (in fact, that’s what expected Miles’ lighter to be for). But even if it were otherwise — okay, so this new fuel can easily cause a fire; well, so can electricity and gas if you’re not careful! Not great for PR of this specific product, but not a death sentence either. Most importantly, it’s the person who committed arson that will be charged for it, not the person who unwittingly provided the fuel for the fire.

I did have a good time, to be clear! Very worth watching unspoiled. The release was timed well: the overall lighthearted tone, clever twists, vibrant visuals (bright colors, stylish outfits, idyllic location) make this a good holiday movie.

I’m having trouble with a numerical grade (the worst part of IMDB and Letterboxd is that they make me care about grading, even though it doesn’t work with how I think about media at all). Glass Onion feels like a 7, but I gave Knives Out a 9 and they don’t feel two whole grades apart.

[ultrahpfan5blog]

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery - a truly delightful sequel

As a big fan of Knives Out, I was really looking forward to Glass Onion. With the reviews being so good and loving the first movie, I was very excited. I have enjoyed Branaugh's Hercule Poirot films too. As someone who loves such movies and Knives Out, I can honestly say that this film lived up to those high expectations. I really wish I had gotten the opportunity to watch this in a theater because I am a sucker for murder mystery movies.

When you have a film that is as well liked as Knives Out, it could have been very easy to just ape its structure. But Rian Johnson resists that temptation. Like with Knives Out, there is a core group of characters. In this movie, there are actually fewer characters than in Knives Out. And like in Knives Out, whose moral center was Ana de Armas' Marta, this film's moral center is Janelle Monae. This film plays out structurally different. Whereas Knives Out threw us into events after the main death had already occurred and then slowly pealed back the layers of what happened through each character, this film shows a fairly conventional chronology of events before upending things midway through the film and then showing the same set of events through a different Lense and adding more context. We don't even know what the main mystery is until halfway through the film. Because Rian Johnson is playing with the audience just as much as he's playing with the characters, it keeps us on our toes, not really knowing what will happen next. As with Knives Out, Rian Johnson subverts the audience's expectations by focusing on what happened, rather than who did it. And its a clever tactic, because it makes the film a lot more rewatchable, the same way it did with Knives Out.

This film is also really funny. There is definitely a looser and more comedic tone to this film, compared to Knives Out, which wasn't a serious film by any measure. But the humor in this film works. It also has a much more open and brighter setting. Thankfully the film doesn't put too much focus on the pandemic setting other than to poke at how the rich handled those restrictions. The film makes a lot of fun of the elite. You could say there are very strong allusions to really live billionaires as well as references to real life celebrities. I also love that the character of Benoit Blanc is such an innately likable guy. Quite often, these uber smart detectives are always tortured and introverted. Blanc is brilliant but he's also just an empathetic nice guy.

If there are any complaints, you can maybe say that the actually 'who is the murderer?' is not very complicated, but that is sort of the point.

The performances are all terrific. Daniel Craig really leads the way in this film. While he was every present in Knives Out, he largely lurked in the background until he needed to make his presence felt. Here he is more front and center and he is clearly having a blast. Again, the sequence in which he unveils the mystery is hysterical. I love his accent, no matter what anyone says. Janelle Monae is fantastic. There is a very sharp turn in her character which gives her so many different layers to play across the movie. Edward Norton, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr, Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Jessica Henwick, and Madelyn Cline are all great. Kate Hudson and Edward Norton are particularly notable. There are some who get more scope than others but all actors managed to leave a mark.

All in all, a really fun movie. Laughed a lot, enjoyed the mystery and all the performances. Can't wait for more Benoit Blanc mysteries from Rian Johnson. A 9/10.