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susiephone · 1 year

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After the credits of Glass Onion, you KNOW Blanc hopped on the phone like

"Marta, I just - yes, yes, I know, it's late for you - but listen I just - well, if you were going to bed, why did you pick up? - anyway, I just met this AMAZING woman, you HAVE to meet her, Marta she blew up a HOUSE - yes, on purpose - YES, WITH PEOPLE INSIDE, also the Mona Lisa - no, I'm in Greece - Marta, please stop yelling, I'm very tired -"

#glass onion #glass onion spoilers #knives out #benoit blanc #marta cabrera #helen brand

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not-so-rosyyy · 1 year

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Knives Out (2019) and Glass Onion (2022) having the two main leads as an iconic gay detective and a working class woman/ of color whose combo is so menacingly whipsmart and fun they turn rich people games in on its head eventually leading to said rich people's downfall is the most based thing about these movies

edit: yeah, yeah i know ana is a white cuban, that's why i put the "/" at the end of "woman"

#they said minorities unite!#glass onion #knives out #movies #benoit blanc #marta cabrera #helen brand #daniel craig #ana de armas #janelle monae

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transjudas · 1 year

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Knives Out + Glass Onion parallels

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whim-prone-pirate · 1 year

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rian johnson has managed to evade all common ethical problems in his screenwriting and i want everyone to know that the knives out mysteries are a perfect representation of how to write about a certain community respectfully AND simultaneously not make a big deal of how good you are at being a diverse writer.

in knives out and glass onion, both main characters are women who have been wronged by the other main character(s)—in marta's case, she experiences xenophobia from the thrombey's constantly; in andi's, she came up with a billion dollar idea which was stolen by a white man. when she took him to court for it, her entire friend group sided with this man; this directly affects helen after andi's death.

andi and marta's stories specifically represent real experiences for women who are minorities in america, but the stories are told without being too ham-fisted or obvious about it. these aren't stories about racism, xenophobia, and misogyny, they're stories involving racism, xenophobia, and misogyny, which i feel is something you don't often see. they're not triyng to prove a point by telling these stories, they're just stories being told—it's a difference that's hard to describe, but you know it when you see it. it's got less of a looking-into-the-camera-for-emphasis vibe.

alongside this, benoit was never a white/male savior to neither helen nor marta (respectively). he helped helen when she came to him about andi and he stood behind marta when he saw the tox report, but he never took over the case and they were never treated like damsels in distress. in the end, helen and marta took control of their own revenge and benoit nudged everyone else to the side while they did it. benoit is not the hero of these stories, helen and marta are.

this is good fucking writing!!!! i need film bros to be positively insufferable about rian johnson NEOW

edit 12/26/22: i've been told that ana de armas is a white latina. genuinely i did not know, she always looked brown to me and i haven't seen her in anything other than knives out, that's truly my bad. i've updated the post now to change the language about marta, other than that everything remains!

#rian johnson #glass onion #knives out #benoit blanc #marta cabrera #helen brand #sorry if this is a little incomprehensible i just had to spend four hours with my grandma #bbcu #benoit blanc cinematic universe

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everywishway · 1 year

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Im gonna be honest, I only want four more Knives Out films. Specifically so we can get three more girls to become a five man band and the last movie is where Blanc gets framed for murder and Marta, Helen, and the three other girls team up to save their gay best friend with their own special skills like a god damn scooby doo episode.

Marta looking up and checking medical records, Helen doing business stuff. One of the girls was a biology student or gardener and looks through plant species for kinds of poisons. One of them works at a theater and does stupid disguises. One of the girls has a movie where Blanc helps her fuck over the expensive medical companies and finally gets a service dog who helps her find clues in this film.

All the while we cut back to Benny Blanc who's crying about being bored because they are hiding him in an apartment but he is proud of his girls for saving his ass, hyping them up the whole time.

I know this will never happen but a stupid nonbinary bitch can dream...

*edit* Helen isn't doing business shit, she is beating up bad guys like the bad bitch she is. Also because Andi did the business stuff

#glass onion #benoit blanc #knives out #marta cabrera #helen brand #rian johnson #knives out films

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birdieisnotwriting · 1 year

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first and foremost a knives out movie is about women of color subverting and getting the better of the systems that have oppressed them. but after that it’s about benoit blanc making a food metaphor his whole personally for a week and then using said food metaphor to dunk on rich people and solve a murder

#really i’m obsessed #knives out #glass onion #benoit blanc #marta cabrera #helen brand #cassandra brand #rian johnson

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squash1-squash2-squash3 · 1 year

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My favorite running theme of the Knives Out movies is just the insistence on calling out the villains in the simplest terms. Marta looking at Ransom in the first movie's reveal scene and saying he's an asshole, Blanc insisting Miles is an idiot in the reveal scene in the second. These men are assholes and idiots and it's lovely to have that just. Stated. So plainly. So deliciously.

#knives out #glass onion #daniel craig #benoit blanc #marta cabrera #rian johnson

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lily-s-world · 1 year

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Knives Out movies are basically a gay southern man helping women/of color get independence and/or revenge from rich people that mistreat them or their family. And I think that is perfect.

#knives out #glass onion #knives out movie #knives out mystery #Netflix #benoit blanc #daniel craig #marta cabrera #ana de armas #helen brand #cassandra brand #janelle monae #Benoit blanc number 1 women supporter

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lady-griffin · 1 year

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Small Parallel I love with Knives Out and Glass Onion

Neither Harlan Thrombey nor Andi Brand are good people. They’re not. They’re also not evil people to be clear, but again, they’re not really good people.

By the kind of people his family and especially his children are, we get a sense of who Harlan is or largely was in his life, especially with the comment that there is so much of him in Ransom.

Andi was also clearly more than okay with both Birdie and Duke as not just acquaintances but close friends; as well as what other nonsense came out of Miles before “Klear,” and she was his business partner and friend.

She wasn’t some moral beacon of wholesomeness.

Her standard of good was –

Let’s not put this very dangerous and unstable thing that hasn’t even come close to being properly tested out into the world, especially not under our company’s name; because we are not some daring startup company anymore, we’re an established conglomerate and this could easily sink us.

That’s not exactly a high bar of morality.

And that’s okay.

Really it is.

I like how neither movie truly idolizes Harlan or Andi to the point they are made out to be truly good people, BUT yet, we still see why Marta and Helen clearly loved and cared about these two and why their deaths matter.

Marta and Helen are our truly good souls for these movies.

The two main groups of people - The Thrombeys and The Disruptors - are all various shades of the same kind of bad person for each movie.

The Thrombeys are all willing to live off Harlan’s hard work and they all believe they are entitled to his fortune because it’s their family right. It’s theirs. And once you peel back the layers of liberal or conservative, they’re all the same, because they’re all a bit more than willing to defend what they think is theirs, with knives out and teeth bared.

The Disruptors are somehow even more reliant on Miles than the Thrombeys were on Harlan (which is saying something); and they will cling onto him until they see his boat is doomed to sink. They literally know he killed two people; two of their so-called “friends” and they’re not willing to do anything. At least, not until Miles is truly fucked.

They all care more about their own survival and ambitions than doing the right thing. And once more, when you peel back the layers of liberal or conservative, we once again see they’re all the same, they’re all more than willing to lie for a lie and stab a “friend” in the back.

But Harlan and Andi are our mixed bags of morality.

This is clear enough with the two types of people they are associated with.

The Thrombey Family and Marta.

The Disruptors and Helen.

They’re kind of like an optical illusion, it really depends on how you look at them and what you see when it comes to their own morality.

However, they do have two traits that I think redeem them for the audience, or at the very least make them more admirable to us.

They are genuinely self-made people.

Harlan was a brilliant murder mystery writer. He was. And he did build this publishing/franchise empire of his.

Andi was a brilliant mind who dabbled in many different things, but her real talent (as I saw it) was being able to spot a certain something-something in people. She saw the doers in the world, even when they weren’t quite there yet, she saw their potential to be the kind of person who others would notice and remember.

They were also both willing to stand by their values and once they made a decision, they would not be bullied into changing it.

Harlan decided to cut off his family and was sticking by that.

Andi decided to walk away from Miles and was sticking by that.

And I don’t know, I just like that little bit of extra moral complexity these two characters bring to these movies.

Oh, and Benoit Blanc is a good person, but he definitely isn’t governed by what the law or society says is good. He’s an eccentric who’s here for a good time, a fun and challenging mystery, and is more than willing to help out the good souls in the world when he gets the opportunity.

#Knives Out #Glass Onion #Glass Onion Spoilers #harlan thrombey #Andi Brand #Marta Cabrera #Helen Brand #Benoit Blanc #Rian Johnson

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lylahammar · 1 year

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I just want them to stay friends and get brunch together 🙏

#glass onion #knives out #benoit blanc #helen brand #marta cabrera #my art

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captain-watercress · 1 year

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“Not all men” you’re right Benoit Blanc would never

#benoit blanc #knives out #knives out glass onion #glass onion #daniel craig #marta cabrera #helen brand

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fanfictionbard · 1 year

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I had a mental scenario (before the Glass Onion trailer even came out istg) of Marta Cabrera worriedly asking Benoit Blanc if he’s homophobic, to which he replied, in that FUCKING GLORIOUS accent of his, “Well I would hope not. It’d make things between me and my husband mighty awkward.”

#glass onion #knives out #benoit blanc #marta cabrera

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ibenology · 1 year

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if your girl is gay, she has an impeccable sense of style, she is intelligent but also inhabits two solidarity braincells and her favorite pastime is helping women of color bring down the patriarchal billionaire elite, that’s not your girl, that’s famed southern detective Benoit Blanc

#benoit blanc #glass onion #knives out #daniel craig #marta cabrera #helen brand #he is the only one to ever

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horrorhick · 5 months

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