#glass onion details

[bluehairedboyfriend]

I haven't seen it mentioned and I don't know if I'm just making it up but, I feel like it's funny that Birdie is wearing designer clothes but they're damaged/old

For example, at the pool she's wearing Louboutins, famous for their red sole, but, when she places her feet on Benoit you can see that they're worn (the sole is used up/scratched) and the rainbow dress, is probably designer but, on the left there is a rip that has been sewn up. If you consider the design of the dress, meant for flow (cut in round) it shouldn't have a gash there (especially with the fabric/print)

Basically, Birdie used to be rich/glamorous/wear designer but, now, she can't afford it so her designer pieces are damaged/repaired/ripped

[reblogs-and-musings]

what truly gets me with knives out and glass onion both is the use of the viewers' memories. like when harlan gives marta the instructions where to park the car, before or behind the statue. or when we see miles hand duke the whiskey glass.

like i watched those parts. i heard harlan say where to park the car. i consciously took in how miles gave duke his glass the first time. but then the characters show that twisted scene and suddenly i also don't remember. park the car before or behind the statue? did he hand duke the glass or did duke take it by mistake?

[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.

[vonlipvig]

miles bron is the glass onion/knives out universe's own annoying and fake elon musk kind of billionaire, so when they showed this pic of him my parents and i cracked up cause of COURSE they have him doing the elizabeth holmes pose

[broodingandbooks]

no wonder he was going crazy 😭

[a-door-to-somewhere]

Rewatched glass onion, here's some more things I liked that I picked up on the second time around

- Helen's face as she destroys the box- it's not the calm coolness we see from 'andi' it's grief

- peg's already putting put fires in the box opening scene

- the invitation has an evil eye on it, symbolizing jealousy, ill wishing (which killed andi)

- birdie claims she says what everyone's thinking but doesn't want to say. On the boat, she tells 'andi' (helen) "nobody wants you here," but miles greets andi with a "I'm so glad you came."

- andi could've just taken a picture of the napkin itself as evidence. But she deliberately sent the proof to only the Shitheads, instead of just to the courts. In that scene, a picture of an ourobouros is behind her, symbolizing the cycle of manipulation, blackmail, and games between the rich bitches

- we all get to see what the Shitheads look like while they lie in the court scene (Claire stutters, avoids eye contact, Birdie is too casual, Lionel is too quiet, etc.) And they're all terrible at it. The lot of them really didn't straight up lie at all- the most they did was lie by omission, until it came to flat put deny visual evidence for miles.

- miles gets all squirrely when Benoit asks why his car is 'here,' because he'd just been driving it around on another continent to kill andi and such- so it's not one of a kind, either

- miles makes a dumbass comment to whiskey about the necklace he gave her

- while there certainly is a chekhov's smoking napkin, the random guy, Derol, was actually just a random guy

[daughterofhecata]

Have now finished Glass Onion and guess what? It was also delightful!

[writingway-in-writinghell]

The thing about Glass Onion’s ending though—

Spoilers Ahead

—is that the justice system? The truth about Andi and her idea? It wouldn’t have mattered much. That man has MONEY. People consider him a genius (we all know the obvious comparison). In this film, not even his closest acquaintances know that he’s a fucking idiot.

You think murder allegations and an old napkin would’ve done him in? Not a chance. The press would’ve eaten Helen AND Blanc alive, evidence be damned. Miles had several people vouching for him, right? Why would they all lie? Noooo couldn’t have been him, Andi was just a washed up sad ex and killed herself.

But the way they ended this all instead, making sure that the “clean energy” Miles launches BLOWS UP THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS PAINTING? That’ll get him. Even the whitest, richest, most bootlicking asshole in the press and in Miles’s vicinity will take THAT seriously.

And just like that, Helen has taken what Miles’s world values most—genius, appearing educated through owning art (even if it is an act)—and turned it against him. He isn’t REALLY a genius, oh no! He fooled us all, we will not be fooled, burn this bitch alive, just like he burned our beloved Mona Lisa, avenge her!

This was the perfect ending because it was the only thing that could’ve truly touched his empire. Amazing.

———

The only thing you really have to ask yourself is what Andi even saw in that idiot in the first place because that woman was BRILLIANT, and he… yeah. But then again, perhaps she used him as the face of the company because she knew that, as a Black woman, people wouldn’t necessarily take her seriously as a tech genius.

And she was right, in the end.

[mstornadox]

Watching Death and Other Details is like watching a really long video demonstrating change blindness mashed up with The Glass Onion and The Imposters, with a dash of The Talented Mr. Ripley and a big scoop of Agatha Christie. The geographic settings and time period clues (and fashions!) are deliberately vague, even in the ads for the show. I thought it would be set in the 1920s. When the show began, I revised it to the 1950s. And then a kid shows up live-streaming on his phone. There is an English estate somehow located in Seattle, Washington. Rufus’s accent is not consistent. So many British actors speaking with a flat 1950’s American accent.

After watching 5 episodes, I have embraced the aesthetic and am along for the ride.

I am low-key hoping that a person in a gorilla suit will randomly walk through a scene.

However. I’m crossing my fingers that it sticks the landing like The Glass Onion instead of becoming The Imposters. The latter’s cast and crew seemed to have a lot of fun making it, but it sure sucked to be in the audience.

If it sucks, I’ll just have to revisit a murder mystery about a ship that is excellent—A Restless Truth by Freya Marske.

[smolalienbee]

KIM KITSURAGI - The lieutenant gives a smile only you can see.

[unofficially-ace]

One detail I haven’t seen people talking about from Glass Onion is the fact that Blanc literally shouts “Helen” when they run into each other the first time we see her get shot. This is right before we learn that Helen even exists. I rewatched the movie for the first time this evening and I was shocked when I heard him say it. It really goes to show just how much information you miss when you’re not looking for it. Blanc literally shouts her name (it’s even in the subtitles!) and yet on my first viewing I don’t remember hearing it at all. Just goes to show the power of hiding in plain sight

[baybeered]

Helen and Cassandras hair is styles the opposite ways… Helen’s hair swoops to the left side of her face where ass Andi’s goes to the right side…

[nonsensebyheather]

Reason number 1362904628 to appreciate Glass Onion: normalizing pit hair on gorgeous women.

[runallnight165]

I just need to say that the scene where they play amoung us in glass onion was actually really cool because blanc gets caught and immediately gets ejected and he says that 'so angie caught me and now the games just over' Which sets up for later when he catches Miles but it's not over, everyone knows what he did and there's nothing they can do about it.

[sharkwithasword]

I truly believe Glass Onion is actually a sequel to Fight Club, not Knives Out

[noys-boise]

i spent like 20 minutes thinking about what if the merrily we roll along characters were in glass onion and i was thinking so much about parallels and stuff and it did take me about 20 minutes to remember glass onion was actually partially inspired by merrily we roll along. how did i forget that.