Swatting Syrian refugees? To do that, she'd have to win her election, and "Glass Onion" ends abruptly, without comment. Detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece in the latest installment of Rian Johnson's whodunit series, in which the detective peels back the . Marta was accused . He must realize that, even if his employer strong-arms him into acting as Klear's credibility cover, his reputation will suffer once it shows itself to be a catastrophic failure. The characters in "Knives Out" are the types of entitled elites who aren't accustomed to facing consequences. Certain fictional mansions exist only so their . The film features an ensemble cast which includes Daniel Craig as Blanc, with Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, LaKeith . Once the veneer comes off however, he's the same arrogant, racist jerk as the rest of his family. In fact, Miles was the annoying, awkward outcast who was late to join in their revelry hanging out at the Glass Onion bar. The Thrombeys all promise Marta that they'll take care of her like she's one of the family, but. Played with in the case of Marta. The movie features an ensemble star cast including Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Lakeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, and Christopher Plummer. Lionel is starting to suspect that eccentric billionaire Miles is actually an idiot. During a xenophobic rant, Richard voices a belief that breaking the law for any reason must have consequences. Only Benoit Blanc, the world-famous detective (played by Daniel Craig) who cleared Marta's name, appears in the sequel, "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery." When she cozies up with Miles as Duke peeps through a bedroom window, seemingly devastated, it seems her true self is emerging. Everything in the film ultimately springs from his plan to frame Marta for Harlan's murder, and he proves quite active in smoothing out the inevitable complications when his plan goes awry. There is, or course, a real murder, and that murder does get solved, but the explosive climax and quick resolution of "Glass Onion" do leave some pressing questions unanswered especially considering how unlikely it is that this particular cast of characters will appear in "KnivesOut 3." The real scandal is Andi's murder, but there's also the matter of her clothing line, which uses inhumane labor practices and slave wages to keep profits high. To prevent his horrified friend from losing her imminent inheritance and to protect her reputation and family, Harlan quickly constructs an escape for Marta that will give her an alibi and slits his own throat before the morphine can kill him so he will not have been murdered by her and she will not be penalized by the accident. The 2019 film is full of humor and plot twists, but much of the fun went on behind the scenes. The best example is during the climax, when after receiving the phone call from the hospital that could jeopardize their takedown of Ransom, Marta almost instantly fakes news that Fran is alive, tricking Ransom into confessing out of anger. Rian Johnson's new film is a crafty little movie that gestures toward some big, bad things. In reality, Blanc does this because he had noticed the speck of blood in her tennis shoe and wanted to keep her close until he figured everything out. : Jacob Thrombey Inciting Incident 1: A private investigator Benoit Blanc suspects Harlan's death wasn't suicide. Richard and Linda's son, referred to as the Black Sheep of the family. Knives Out belongs to a rich tradition of murder mysteries fascinated with class dynamics. In the climax, she manages to hold it in that she lied about Fran's survival until after Ransom confesses. Richard Drysdale An Oscar winner for Beginners, he is still probably best known as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music. Claire Folger/Lionsgate. When he attempts to force Richard to tell Linda about his affair before he sends a letter confirming it himself, he holds up a particular pink letter and puts it away in a hidden space. This is also what gets Ransom caught, as his scheme hinged on Marta leaving Fran to die and he never considered that Marta would view someone's life as more important than her own well-being. Bringing the all-star cast murder mystery into the 21st century Knives Out sees the rich and dysfunctional Thrombeys head to the murderous mansion of the leader of the family Harlan Thrombey (played by Christopher Plummer) for his 85th birthday, which also soon becomes his death day. Knives . As the mystery unfolds, for the first time in some of their lives, they do. Power player Andi was a poised and polished globetrotter, while Helen leads an exceedingly normal life in comfortable clothes with her regional accent still in tact. : Richard Drysdale : Richard gets caught cheating. Pretty rich, considering he spends the whole film trying to weasel out of facing the consequences of his infidelity and, Goes on a long rant about the dangers of allowing immigrants into the country, a scant few scenes after he quotes the "immigrants get the job done" line from, His appreciation of "hard-working immigrants" that don't leech off the public is pretty rich considering that Richard is a. She decodes it easily, discovering her husband's affair. spotting Ransom returning to the housethe only eyewitness to his murder attemptand subsequent telling Blanc about what she saw, proves to have a significant impact on the case. First, her skill as a nurse confounds his attempt to poison his grandfather when she grabs the correct-but-mislabeled bottle on instinct, feeling the minute differences between the liquids, and does not actually overdose him with morphine, then her compassion in calling an ambulance for and attempting to save the life of her seeming blackmailer, and finally, her quick thinking and physical fortitude in coming up with a bluff and holding back her vomit long enough to give him enough rope to hang himself. The infighting and paranoia between this closed circle of friends can be traced back to a single napkin from the Glass Onion bar, upon which Andi had scribbled ideas for a tech start up. Richard is the husband of Linda, Harlan Thrombey's daughter. The wife of Harlan's dead son Neil, Joni is a vacuous Instagram influencerthough what that seems to mean in practice is mostly living off of handouts from Harlan--something which, at the start of Knives Out, looks soon to come to an end. Meg uses the "we're his family" justification for why the Thrombeys deserve Harlan's inheritance over. She becomes one of the most vicious after the will is released and one of the few who shows actual vitriol afterwards, even though she doesn't have to rely on Harlan for money as the other Thrombeys do. One wonders where all the money went, telling the other Thrombeys about Marta's mother's immigration status, Marta will support her college degree at the end. He attempted to kill Helen. Writer-director Rian Johnson ("The Last Jedi," "Brick") presides over the all-star cast of this AFI Movie of the Year. The film gives viewers the sense that in the early days of her friendship with Andi, she was someone who wanted to affect change and would've balked at the idea of taking bribes or voting in favor of special interests at the expense of the people she sought to represent. Though he quickly jumps back to her side upon both of them realizing she's innocent, with Marta just happening to be such an honest person, Sees a stain of blood on Marta's shoe the very first time he speaks with her and figures out that she is involved with Harlan's death somehow, only keeping quiet because he could tell that she wasn't the kind of person who would have killed Harlan directly. She's coded as a self-absorbed, superficial socialite who considers herself to be above the law. : the "spoiled" part of this is shown to always win out. Knives Out is a campaign for a 100 percent inheritance tax, . Walt's wife, Jacob's mother, and Harlan's daughter-in-law. He doesn't consider them to be sequels, but installments in the style of Agatha Christie novels, thus the subtitle, "A Knives Out Mystery." : Richard Drysdale is the husband of Linda Drysdale, and the father of Hugh "Ransom" Drysdale. Kids today, with the internet, it's amazing. Linda Drysdale LIBRARY LIEUTENANT ELLIOTT Seems like all his kids are self made overachievers. "Glass Onion" reaches its crescendo as Helen begins to break every valuable item on display in the mansion. Company Credits During the events of "Glass Onion," she's currently locked in a tight race for the United States Senate, and if she doesn't support Miles (both in getting his energy source Congress's approval and in staying quiet about the napkin and Andi's murder), he and his cronies will pull their support of her candidacy. And yes, what you and Harlan did that fateful night seems at first glance to fill that hole perfectly. and for some time Ransom does successfully manipulate her by appealing to her kindness. Birdie, however, is throwing a crowded glitzy party, sans any COVID mitigations whatsoever. All smiles. Andi could see that it was too dangerous and unstable in its current form, and could bring down their business, if not the world. He's just unaware that he did so to cover up an attempted murder by proxy. A famed detective. The film, Knives Out, was a spectacular movie from start to finish.With all the twists and the surprises and all of Chris Evans' hilarious appearances, this film is certainly the one to watch . : Richard Drysdale What the hell were you doing in the bathroom all night? Benoit Blanc correctly deduces that bringing Helen, cosplaying Andi, will be the ultimate disruption to the disruptors' murder mystery affair, though at great risk to himself and the impostor sister. It also serves to foreshadow her outsmarting Ransom in the finale. "Glass Onion" provides closure to that mystery, but it doesn't tell us much about what Andi, Miles, and their company originally did. Ransom at first seemingly subverts this as he has no actual love lost for his family and is amused to watch them bite each other's heads off. He is infuriated that such a con job and murder mystery was not the work of a mastermind, but rather that of an utter idiot in Miles, to the point that the one good idea the latter had, to shoot Helen while hidden under a blackout, was stolen from Blanc himself when Blanc warned him about people wanting to kill him. For example, while the famed sleuth Benoit Blanc is questioning each of the Thrombeys, we cut away to show what actually happened; Harlan had found out Richard was cheating on Linda, Joni had been pocketing Meg's tuition money for herself, and Harlan had fired Walt from the publishing company. Walt and Donna's son, and Harlan's grandson. Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes 48 seconds Knives Out is not the seemingly innocuous piece of mainstream filmmaking it pretends to be. A key point of the film is how the family members (especially Joni, Walt and Linda) present themselves as this only for Blanc to tear down how [. 6 min read. Not pictured: Harlan, Ransom, and Great-Nana, This is why it takes him as long as it does to figure out that Miles is the murderer; he based all of his theories around the idea that Miles wouldn't be stupid enough to kill Andi himself, much less flee the scene in his signature car, and he's borderline apoplectic with rage to realize that Miles is indeed that stupid, Miles Bron killed Duke not through any complex scheme, but by simply pouring pineapple juice in a glass and giving it to Duke, lying that Duke mistakenly took Miles' glass despite Miles giving the glass to Duke in front of everyone, Miles' one crime with any real panache, causing a blackout across the island and shooting Helen in the dark, wasn't even an idea he came up with on his own, but given to him by Blanc himself, with him confessing to Marta at the end that he immediately suspected that she had a bigger role in events than she would admit to but also certain that she wasn't responsible for killing Harlan in the sense that she acted with malice. Joni Thrombey Jacob was in that bathroom the night of the party. Being the personal assistant to a B-list celebrity wasn't her dream, but it must be fulfilling enough if she doesn't want the work to dry up if Birdie should get canceled. and wrote his family out of his will partially to teach them actual self-reliance. [Being questioned] : However, for Linda he still seemed to care for her based on what we see in the movie with him leaving her a letter telling her about Richard's infidelity and the lack of any conflict shown. I recently watched Smug, utterly arrogant and as it turns out, murderous, Ransom rubs pretty much everyone around him the wrong way. A conscience eventually emerges at the center of the film's den of vipers. In truth, he's actually very intelligent and clever, using his knowledge of murders to frame Marta for Harlan's death. It's not essential to the plot for viewers to know, but in an age when Silicon Valley CEOs believe themselves capable of anything, it would've been fun to find out about Andi's innovations and how they made their fortunes. Harlan threatened to expose his son-in-law Richard for cheating on his daughter Linda, cut off his daughter-in-law Joni's allowance for stealing from him, fired his son Walt from his publishing company, and had an altercation with his grandson Ransom. Will she inherit some or all of her late sister's fortune? Klear could make an appearance or perhaps becoming a running joke in future Benoit Blanc mysteries. When he learns the truth of Harlan's death from Marta he offers to be her confidant in exchange for giving him, and, realizes that the knife he just tried to stab Marta with is a stage knife, likely out of knowing not only was he unsuccessful in trying to kill her, but also that he outright attempted murder in front of, it's revealed he was going to murder Harlan and frame Marta. Meg Thrombey : He also has a pretty good reason to be angry when it comes to certain family members. Alt-right troll. Especially as their treatment of Marta has rightfully made her far less open to sharing her newfound wealth with them. Or do they? When Marta tells him that she injected him with lethal amounts of morphine, he doesn't hold it against her at all and quickly tries to calm her down and set up a plan that would remove her from suspicion of killing him before calmly slitting his own throat. It could be an egomaniac's elaborate forgery. Knives Out. I get why the others were: Richard- Cheating on Linda, and it can be assumed a person who does that is not someone who deserves a share of such an inheritance. Meg is Joni's daughter, who goes to an elite private schoolpaid for, of course, by her grandfather Harlan. Oh, my son's a creep. Richard Hall, 70, was walking on Brown Clee Hill last August when he was stabbed to death in a random attack (Image: West Mercia Police) "My stomach dropped, and I felt sick. He tells Marta to "think of [her] mom" when persuading her to go along with his "fake suicide" plan, because he knows Marta's mom is undocumented. He can mix metaphors like a bartender handles a mojito. With his crimes exposed, Ransom is placed in police custody and taken to . That's . and willingness to pull out his phone to pile on Marta, He gives testimony that he heard his grandfather fighting with Ransom, his cousin, while using the toilet. Katherine Langford, Toni Collette, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, Riki Lindhome and Jaeden Martell in the movie "Knives Out." (Claire Folger/Lionsgate) Harlan was a celebrated. Fran loved Harlan, and found out that Ransom had tampered with his medicine. Richard Drysdale I'm not saying that's not terrible, but the parents share some of that blame. He becomes. Downplayed. during his own death scene he recognizes the switched medicine as a plausible mystery fiction plot and is instantly able to concoct a convoluted plan for Marta to get off scot-free. She prevails over the scheming and cruel Thrombeys because of her honesty and kindness. Unsurprisingly, it doesn't work. she's just as ruthless as her conservative in-laws in getting Marta to renounce the inheritance. He's sporting a black eye in the final scenes of the film. Was kind, brilliant, gregarious Andi's encouragement enough? The daughter of Joni and Harlan's late son Neil, and Harlan's granddaughter. and is also genuinely invested in solving the case and seeing justice done, that he had spotted the blood on Marta's shoe from the very beginning and was specifically manipulating her to see what she would do to help get the truth to light, reading the toxicology report and realizing that Marta never got the medication mixed up, saw a tiny speck of blood on Marta's shoe when they met, and only never brought it up because he simultaneously wanted to crack the problem of who hired him and recognized that Marta wasn't the kind of person who would have killed Harlan herself, he is able to determine the plot of the entire carefully crafted murder mystery game crafted by Miles by simply observing the seating positions and the information that was presented to the Disruptors in the hours leading up to the dinner, to the extent that Blanc basically solves the game, It turns out his flamboyance is an act to hide his observational skills, and he knew Marta had something to do with Harlan's death thanks to the blood on her shoe. Which Meg then spills to the family when the going gets tough, though she does appear to regret this. The rest of the Thrombeys' negligence towards her is even a major plot point. Miles thought it was worth the risk for the reward billions if not trillions of dollars, not to mention political power. He is portrayed by Don Johnson. for betraying her confidence to the rest of the family. Read on for a (spoiler-heavy) breakdown of the answers. Richard Drysdale : In Knives Out, he is hired to investigate Harlan Thrombey's death. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Walt Thrombey Joni Thrombey : Guys. However, it's not purely out of contempt for them, as he vocally blames himself for having raised them in such a way that contributed to the way they all turned out, and views making them function on their own without relying on him for financial support as much-needed and long-awaited. The deceased is Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer), who, by a tasty irony, happens to have written murder mysterieseighty million copies of which have sold, in thirty languages. because he knows what's going to happen, how - he thinks - he's going to get his cut out of it anyway, and just wants to watch the fireworks. Viewers might wonder, what would Claire do as governor or senator if corrupt oligarchs weren't pulling her strings? Richard is Harlan Thrombey 's son in law. But, silly voice aside, Blanc proved himself a skilled . accidentally revealing his own affair, Linda is almost guaranteed to divorce him, and thanks to the massive pre-nup he signed before their marriage, she's likely to get ownership of everything. When he's arrested at the end, none of the family can even look at him, save his father, who fruitlessly tries to bribe an officer for his release. Harlan Thrombey's youngest son, and the executive of his publishing company. Meg Thrombey Also her reaction when she gets a note with a copy of Harlan's bloodwork, and a note saying, "I know what you did. And sufficiently proficient a nurse to know the correct medication to give by touch alone. She frequently comes up with ways to disrupt the investigation to divert suspicion away from her, often with only seconds to come up with something. Harlan is especially upset about the way Ransom turned out, showing genuine remorse for his part in it when talking to Marta, and decides to cut him out of the will to try and rectify some of the damage. I've got to do this more often. Harlan started with a rusty Smith-Corona, built himself into one of the bestselling mystery writers of all time. Walt Thrombey Claire is beholden to her dark money campaign funders. Invoked by Marta who states despite their flaws none of them are murderers. After all, cheating men have to cover their tracks, and that means lying about who they're with, where they are, what they're spending money on, as well as who they're calling, emailing, and texting, just to name a few. She's a gold digger trying to move up the ladder from social media guru to serious CEO. Andi and Miles went on to found that company together, and their joint venture grew into something so lucrative and broad in scope, it is experimenting with a new kind of renewable energy called Klear. He doesn't do anything wrong in the film until his conversation with Marta when it's clear he's, although deleted scenes heavily suggest it was done at the hand of thugs that Walt has gotten severely into debt with, and Blanc does exploit this at one point. Three guesses to what Ransom does to her, tries to dramatically confront the killer with evidence of his guilt after engaging in a bit of, figuring out who the killer is and trying to blackmail them is, she had evidence hidden in case anything happened to her, but Ransom attacked quicker than she expected. and that she killed him entirely by accident, and is not after the inheritance at all. This is consistent with her character, however, as she's protective of her family and jumps to the conclusion that Marta took advantage of her father. Will she continue to partner with Benoit Blanc, now that she's proven herself to be a savvy sleuth? You bet Skippy, let's go! Additionally, she betrays Marta's confidence by revealing that her mother is undocumented. I was not. The only problem? [With the rest of the family] As stated below, marketing frames Blanc as the main character of. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Walt Thrombey This is the reason why he doesn't immediately clue in on Miles in, where Helen always consults him on what moves she should take next to find the killer. If he simply stuck to his claim of helping Marta stay on the down low in exchange for her giving him a cut of the inheritance when he found out Marta didn't overdose Harlan instead of trying to frame Marta for Fran's murder, Marta likely wouldn't have shown the tox report to Blanc and Ransom wouldn't have been found out. gives Helen the means to burn her sister's murderer's home to the ground. Why this tale of murder, betrayal, and family secrets is, surprisingly, a comforting and uplifting story for the holidays. Biggest Unanswered Questions From Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Nothing. : If he hadn't flipped the Go board and knocked over the medicine, Marta might very well have given him a morphine overdose like Ransom intended.

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