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I saw this in theaters with my dad and the minute he grabbed the knife I looked at dad and said "can't tell the difference between a prop and a real one!"
20:40 Mary, you wanted to know why she took that fridge magnet? VHS tapes are recorded magnetically. So, placing that fridge magnet next to it supposedly would have scrambled what was on the tape if it was next to it long enough.
It has been proven to work, too, but it does require a fair amount of seconds for near-direct contact with a fridge magnet to effectively scramble a VHS tape, compared to a stronger magnet.
"because you are a good nurse" gets me every time, and is definitively the line that made me fall in love with Benoit Blanc (and possibly Daniel Craig, but who knows lol) The heart of this movie (the doughnut hole in a doughnut hole, as Blanc would say) is that Benoit Blanc believes in goodness and justice, and that's what motivates him in this case. That, combined with the phenomenal style of the film, makes this one of my favorite movies of all time.
I come from a healthcare background, and although it's a great, heartfelt line, a "good nurse" ALWAYS checks medication labels before dosing a patient.
Yeah I found it rude AF that she kept going on about it. Especially since Jamie Lee Curtis' actual mother, Janet Leigh, was only only born 2 years before Christopher Plummer, so he is literally old enough to be her father!
41:40 every time i rewatch this movie i can't help but think how weird her dialogue with the doctor is. he was probably like "i am so sorry but your friend didn't make it" to which Martha responded with "doctor, that's great news''
Ana De Armas is seriously so good in this role. Her panic feels very real, tearing up and everything. I'd only seen her in Bladerunner 2049 before this movie so I didn't know what to expect, but she's great! :)
Just so you know, this film is effectively the reason she got to be in the last James Bond film with Daniel Craig. Now we've got fans asking for the first Bond spinoff, centered on her character.
Lol Mary is just a wayyy nicer person than me! If someone called me a dirty anchor baby, threatened me and my family, and didn’t even care enough to know where tf I was from and just made racist stereotypes about it, I certainly wouldn’t be keen to help them but Mary is all they seem nice 🥹🥰🤩☺️ and I wish I had that level of seeing the good in people lmao
If someone did a compilation of Mary’s best quotes, “Are you saying it needs a sausage!?” And “That’s not very Captain America of you!” would be great additions.
gosh, I never fail to cry when Blanc tells Martha she wasn't responsible for Harlan's death, due to her diligent work of being a good nurse and the constant care she gave
I really felt your reaction when it turned out Harlan died for basically nothing. What people need to understand is that Harlan refusing to call the ambulance and save his own life actually puts more emphasis on him wanting Marta to have the inheritance. If he had saved his own life, he would have kept it for a few years longer. Him ending his life right then and there allowed Marta to get the inheritance. Having said that, he openly admitted he made some mistakes with his family and wanted to repair them, but Ransom threw that chance away for all of them by carrying out his plan. His efforts to get the inheritance back are the reason he didn't. Mary, I recommend that you start a cinematic journey and react to the entire James Bond series, if you haven't seen it already. You will be disappointed by some, but you will love others. You will be totally unprepared when you reach the most recent one (to date), No Time to Die, but Knives Out is the reason we see Craig AND de Armas back together in that one as well.
The Thrombeys when Ransom doesn’t get any money: This might be the best thing that happened To you. When Marta gets everything: Time to accuse and blackmail her, because it’s clearly the right thing to do!
This movie is literally so well crafted. Knives Out is loosely based on the type of novels written by murder mystery author Agatha Christie. The film Clue is also based on the works of Agatha Christie which is where similarities between the 2 movies can be seen
This is a great twist on the traditional murder mystery: the twist is that there was no murder. But because we've all been conditioned by a generation of books and movies to look for the clues to identify who the murderer is, we never see it coming
Clue wasn’t based on Agatha Christie’s work, it was based on the board game Cluedo as the majority of the characters were based on the player pieces. It was also more of a black comedy than a straight up detective story and had multiple endings included.
That was Jamie Lee Curtis...Also, even if they said it was an accident, she would've still been in trouble for manslaughter and the will would've been voided. The pressure in arteries is very high,so when one gets cut,the blood sprays quite far away, which is how a drop reached all the way to Martha.
This is an absolute gem. I've seen this movie quite a bit and it's just a terrific movie. The pacing is great, it sprinkles enough clues for you to figure it out after multiple viewings, and the ensemble is AMAZING. That cast is just flat out fantastic in my eyes. There are many movies that have big name casts, but it feels like most of the time there isn't enough screen time for everyone and some actors get pushed to the background. In this movie each one had a pivotal role. I'm so glad you wound up reacting to this.
The amazing Ana de Armas displayed a good combination of honesty and innocence, she had an impressive list of hit movies, including this one, No Time to Die, Blade Running, among many others. Most recently got Oscar nomination for actress in a leading role from movie "Blonde" (The story of American actress Marilyn Monroe). Good for her. FYI she is a Cuban.
Knives Out was nominated an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (and its sequel Glass Onion is currently nominated for Adapted Screenplay!) And for those who don’t know Ana de Armas, she was the AI projection Joi in Blade Runner 2049, Bond girl Paloma in No Time to Die, and Marilyn Monroe in the recent movie Blonde (she was nominated for her first Oscar while the movie itself is up for 8 Razzies including Worst Picture).
Harlan sliced the carotid artery in his neck. Blood in the arteries is under pressure and travels far. The detectives could confirm suicide since anyone close to him would block the spray and leave some kind of outline. But across the room there was just a smaller drop which hit her shoe. Also, she took the magnet to damage the videotape which showed she didn't really drive away, because she left the road in the wrong spot "be-after-fore" the carved elephant.
This movie is so much fun, it keeps on giving, i love watching all the reactions lately. Hard to imagine Ana de Armas was the least famous person in the cast when they shot this and now she's a huge movie star nominated for all the awards
I was pleasantly suprised when I first saw this film. I think it was because I knew Rian Johnson was directing it. Exceptional performances tho. Especially Christopher Plummer (Harlan Thrombie). He was sooo entertaining. RIP LEGEND!
A great who done it in a style where you can't even identify the detective until more than a quarter of the way through the movie clues given all the way through so when Benoit does his reveal you are surprised you did not see it all along.
Fun Fact 1: The movie had a deleted subplot wherein Walt owed a lot of money to some very shady individuals, which is why he had the cane and limp (he'd been shot in the leg for not paying up on time). It also explains why Harlan basically fired him from the publishing company: he'd been embezzling from it to pay his debtors. Fun Fact 2: The restaurant where Ransom took Marta was a real place, but it closed down a couple years after the movie came out because its owners were convicted of defrauding the government for pandemic relief money.
I think the big thing about Meg telling her family, and I feel like this is very important, she only did it after her mother mentioned her schooling. Her schooling, from the beginning, is important to her character, and now it was being taken away. She was scared, and I think her actions are completely defensible.
The Knives Out movies are a bundle of fun. I bought it up as soon as it came out on DVD / Blu-Ray. You have to do Glass Onion now too. It's a blast. -- I'll be buying that one too.
Kudos to your video editor for the cute little animations and funny edits. Really helps keep the viewers attention and gives your videos a little something extra.
The piano is, IIRC, Benoit telling the police that the person is blatantly lying about something. Whenever they say something that isn't true that's _not_ just their opinion or misunderstood, he hits the piano key. It also serves as a way to unnerve them.
One of the tragedies is of course how Harlan really did kill himself. Marta did not poison him; he would have lived, but he chose to go through with this elaborate plan instead, which involved cutting his own throat. He did care about Marta, and wanted to protect her; that was genuine. But he was also, as Mr. Blanc put it, a "drama mama," and couldn't resist the flair for the dramatic- which ended up really his downfall. I do wonder, if Harlan had found himself in that situation (through some actual accident, as Marta thought it was) before he had had a chance to change his will, and cut off his family: would he have been quite as at peace with his own death? Or, if he still had those plans ahead of him, would he have fought harder to stay alive? Obviously, this is a fictional character; any supposition is pure thought experiment. But it seems that though he did not plan on dying, though he did have more plans for his future, further dealing with his family, seeing them through their "withdrawal" period, etc; at least he had accomplished the part about changing his will and telling each one how they were cut off. He had accomplished those important tasks, and so when Death came for him (as he thought), he was willing to go. Following the same train of thought: if Marta had convinced him to try calling for an ambulance, and when ten minutes came and went and he was okay, what would have happened? By the time the ambulance arrived and he turned out fine, then what? Would they have chalked it up to Marta being mistaken about having made a mistake? The paramedics may have been satisfied, but Harlan would probably have believed Marta, and known something was amiss. He would have insisted that the doctors do a thorough job, and test him and the vials. Then the change would have been found! Would it have led back to Ransom, eventually? In this scenario, Ransom would not have contacted Mr. Blanc, so Benoit would not have been involved. Would the regular police have figured it out? We'll never know...
When I watched this movie in theaters, I knew that the letter about the affair was a heat-revealing ink and that the knife Hugh grabbed was a toy/fake. Also, a fun fact, Benoit kept telling Marta foot-related things to point out the blood on her shoes. And this is my opinion, Glass Onion, the sequel to this movie, is more trippy than this one, as this movie tells you how and why Harlem died/offed himself; meanwhile, the mystery of Glass Onion seems densely layered, but the center can be seen as clear as day.
Invisible Ink: Write on white paper using milk for ink. When the paper dries, the milk will be the same white color as the paper. Subject the letter to a heat source and the milk will cook and turn brown.
Chris Evans said the hardest scene he had to do was the scene where th dogs attack Ransom, as Chris Evans is a dog lover and dogs naturally love him. He said, "What I really wanted to do was pet the dogs.""
Ok this is hilarious. My favorite part about this movie is how god awful Daniel Craig's accent is but I never considered how someone not from america would take it. It's like an even more ridiculous foghorn leghorn and sometimes he slips back into his english accent which I'm convinced the director left in for comedic purposes. He does the same in the second movie and I love it.
4:48 - Damn! Mary coming hard with the Jamie Lee Curtis age shade! 🤣 And for the record, I would be thrilled to look as good at 65 as Jamie Lee does now, much less 85...
In the final scene of the movie - where the entire family is in the driveway and looking up at Marta on the balcony, you can see that Don Johnson has a black eye, indicating that Jamie Lee Curtis has punched him after finding out he was cheating on her.
If you liked this, the sequel Glass Onion is really good. But CLUE The Movie is still my favorite movie of all time, and it's a murder mystery comedy. A classic, honestly.
Ana De Armas is really coming into her own. If you haven't seen it, may I recommend War Dogs? Her role there is a supporting one, but she was great in it. I knew she'd be one to look out for.
Hey! Idk if you're into investigation shows, but there's a new brazilian show on netflix about a real tragedy that happen in Rio Grande do Sul state, the show is called 'The Endless Night', it has english subtitles and only 5 episodes, it's kinda hard to watch, but definitely worth watching, since it was one of the biggest tragedies in the history of Brazil.
Rian Johnson's foray into the Star Wars franchise aside, his murder mysteries are great. If you liked this, I can wholeheartedly recommend Brick starring Joseph Gordan Levitt, and of course the sequel, Glass Onion, where Blanc returns!
This is a great twist on the traditional murder mystery: the twist is that there was no murder. But because we've all been conditioned by a generation of books and movies to look for the clues to identify who the murderer is, we never see it coming
43:20 - Why did Ransom stab Marta right there in front of the police and everybody? Because he knew he was caught, he knew the game was up, so he figured what more could they do to him for one murder, might as well be in for two (he says, "in for a penny.." a phrase which ends, ".. in for a pound," meaning as long as you're in partway, might as well go all the way. It's his revenge on her- she can't get his grandfather's inheritance if she's dead; it would revert to the family, and maybe he'd see some sliver of it, or get some help with the lawyer and such. But: plan failed, because- as Harlan said at the beginning of the movie, Ransom wouldn't know the difference between a real knife and a prop one. (foreshadowing!). (So much foreshadowing in this film, when you re-watch it for a second, third, many more times- but on first viewing the pieces are laid out so well and so subtly, it's such a pleasure to experience.)
Don Johnson's character only has himself to blame for his wife finding out he was cheating. He sneaks into Harlan's office, finds the envelope in the locked drawer, is annoyed when he thinks the paper is blank, and throws the baseball on the desk out the window. Throughout the movie we see one of the dogs finding this ball and retrieving it when other people (like Blanc) throws it. Eventually the dog brings the ball back to Jamie Lee Curtis, who returns the ball back to Harlan's office and sees the envelope and blank piece of paper. If Johnson had not done anything then Curtis would never have found this letter about Johnson's infidelity.
LOL. "Jodie Foster". Great film. Rian Johnson made a great comeback with this film and Glass Onion. It's funny how some Star Wars fans write him off as a bad director for making one dud and they refuse to see anything else he makes.
Ana De Armas was actually in the last Daniel Craig Bond movie!!! Filmed around the same time as this. She's also in the Blade Runner sequel, in the Keanu Reeves sexual, thriller Knock Knock and more. :)
It's kind of amazing how good Chris Evans is at playing a total asshole! XD You should definitely react to Glass Onion next! You'll probably love it too! Also, there's a new series called "Poker Face" that Rian Johnson has also written and directed, which I think you should check out. It stars Natasha Lyonne and it's another intriguing mystery story, but this is a series instead of a single movie. And it has a HELL of a first episode! I think it might be a good series for you to react to, especially considering how new it is!
If you like murder mysteries, check out Agatha Christies' Evil Under the Sun, Death on the Nile, and Murder on the Orient Express. The older movies, Peter Ustinov as Poirot is amazing.
They are not nice to Marta, they just pretend to be. They dont even know where shes from. And they attacked her and tried to blackmail her. I wouldnt help them at all
Don't call him "The director of 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi'", that was a commercial venture he did for money. Call him "The director of 'Brick'". I realized when Dode ended up a cop.
Jamie Lee Curtis’s character was also mostly ok. Yeah, she was pretty mean to Marta, but she was more upset by the thought that her father, with whom she was the closest of his family, would voluntarily cut her out of the inheritance. It wasn’t so much the inheritance itself but that it suggested her father didn’t love her as much as she thought he did. And the idea that maybe Marta was some young twinkie Harlan was banging who talked him into giving her all the inheritance would have been particularly enraging, because it would have been an insult to Harlan too. So I can kind of understand her character more. Add in the fact that her husband is a cheater and her son now a murderer, and the last game her father played wasn’t for fun but to reveal those facts to her, she’s got nothing now pretty much, so I can sympathize with her blaming Marta for that, a little bit. The Walt character also probably felt that being cut out was Harlan’s way of disapproving of him, especially after just firing him, so I get him too. Meg didn’t even make that phone call willingly; the others weren’t standing behind her just to listen, they made her make that phone call and wanted to make sure she didn’t deviate. So Meg is ok too. Same with the old lady. Ransom, his father, Walt’s son and Meg’s mother are all the awful ones who really don’t deserve anything.
Watching Chris Evans play a trust fund jerk after years of Captain America was so much fun. If you haven't already, The Grey Man is also a reasonably fun entry in the "Chris Evans is being an arsehole" stage of his career :P
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Harlan literally told Marta (and the audience) that Ransom couldn't tell the difference between a stage prop and a real knife.
one of the many small reasons why this movie is a great re-watch
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That seems to be Rian Johnson's specialty
I saw this in theaters with my dad and the minute he grabbed the knife I looked at dad and said "can't tell the difference between a prop and a real one!"
@@stormywaters1565 In a movie called "Knives Out", a quote about knives kind of sticks in one's mind.
20:40 Mary, you wanted to know why she took that fridge magnet? VHS tapes are recorded magnetically. So, placing that fridge magnet next to it supposedly would have scrambled what was on the tape if it was next to it long enough.
It has been proven to work, too, but it does require a fair amount of seconds for near-direct contact with a fridge magnet to effectively scramble a VHS tape, compared to a stronger magnet.
"because you are a good nurse" gets me every time, and is definitively the line that made me fall in love with Benoit Blanc (and possibly Daniel Craig, but who knows lol) The heart of this movie (the doughnut hole in a doughnut hole, as Blanc would say) is that Benoit Blanc believes in goodness and justice, and that's what motivates him in this case. That, combined with the phenomenal style of the film, makes this one of my favorite movies of all time.
Cry 🤡
I come from a healthcare background, and although it's a great, heartfelt line, a "good nurse" ALWAYS checks medication labels before dosing a patient.
@@ResoluteGryphon Absolutely. Especially after the board got tipped, she should have checcked the labels.
Not only she mistakes Jamie Lee Curtis with Jodie Foster but she says she looks older than she actually is. Oh Mary
Why would anybody confuse Jamie Lee Curtis with Jodie Foster?
Yeah I found it rude AF that she kept going on about it. Especially since Jamie Lee Curtis' actual mother, Janet Leigh, was only only born 2 years before Christopher Plummer, so he is literally old enough to be her father!
I will always love the last shot of Marta on her balcony looking down on the entire family. I laughed so hard the first time I saw it.
Especially as the cup she is holding says "My house."
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41:40 every time i rewatch this movie i can't help but think how weird her dialogue with the doctor is. he was probably like "i am so sorry but your friend didn't make it" to which Martha responded with "doctor, that's great news''
I read somewhere that they actually pulled another "Hugh" "you" move and the doctor actually heard "that's grave news" which is yet again brilliant
@@oriyanbarnes oh, okay! never occured to me!
She might have hing up between "Thank you doctor," and "that's great news." I'd have to re-watch that moment to check out the timing.
@@TSIRKLAND that's my usual explanation
Ana De Armas is seriously so good in this role. Her panic feels very real, tearing up and everything. I'd only seen her in Bladerunner 2049 before this movie so I didn't know what to expect, but she's great! :)
Just so you know, this film is effectively the reason she got to be in the last James Bond film with Daniel Craig. Now we've got fans asking for the first Bond spinoff, centered on her character.
She played Joy, the virtual assistant in BladeRunner 2049 for those who did not know
Laguna Negra
You mean Bladerunner 2049.
@@jsmithers.
Yeah true, but I don't think she was born when the original came out, so I figured people might extrapolate that. X)
I'll change it.
Lol Mary is just a wayyy nicer person than me! If someone called me a dirty anchor baby, threatened me and my family, and didn’t even care enough to know where tf I was from and just made racist stereotypes about it, I certainly wouldn’t be keen to help them but Mary is all they seem nice 🥹🥰🤩☺️ and I wish I had that level of seeing the good in people lmao
If someone did a compilation of Mary’s best quotes, “Are you saying it needs a sausage!?” And “That’s not very Captain America of you!” would be great additions.
gosh, I never fail to cry when Blanc tells Martha she wasn't responsible for Harlan's death, due to her diligent work of being a good nurse and the constant care she gave
"you are a good nurse" consistently makes a sob rise in my throat 😭😭😭 damn I love this movie
@@holyfreakinBLEACH omg yesss TTmTT
Jamie Lee Curtis in no way looks 85. Geez. Heh.
cause she's 65 lmao
I really felt your reaction when it turned out Harlan died for basically nothing.
What people need to understand is that Harlan refusing to call the ambulance and save his own life actually puts more emphasis on him wanting Marta to have the inheritance. If he had saved his own life, he would have kept it for a few years longer. Him ending his life right then and there allowed Marta to get the inheritance.
Having said that, he openly admitted he made some mistakes with his family and wanted to repair them, but Ransom threw that chance away for all of them by carrying out his plan. His efforts to get the inheritance back are the reason he didn't.
Mary, I recommend that you start a cinematic journey and react to the entire James Bond series, if you haven't seen it already. You will be disappointed by some, but you will love others. You will be totally unprepared when you reach the most recent one (to date), No Time to Die, but Knives Out is the reason we see Craig AND de Armas back together in that one as well.
The donut hole speech is one of the funniest speeches I’ve ever heard in my life.
The Thrombeys when Ransom doesn’t get any money: This might be the best thing that happened To you.
When Marta gets everything: Time to accuse and blackmail her, because it’s clearly the right thing to do!
Daniel Craig is genuinely loving the role of Beniot Blank he was so tired of doing James Bond
21:12 - it's a fridge magnet. Magnets have been known to wipe out what's been recorded on VHS tapes
This movie is literally so well crafted. Knives Out is loosely based on the type of novels written by murder mystery author Agatha Christie. The film Clue is also based on the works of Agatha Christie which is where similarities between the 2 movies can be seen
This is a great twist on the traditional murder mystery: the twist is that there was no murder. But because we've all been conditioned by a generation of books and movies to look for the clues to identify who the murderer is, we never see it coming
Clue wasn’t based on Agatha Christie’s work, it was based on the board game Cluedo as the majority of the characters were based on the player pieces. It was also more of a black comedy than a straight up detective story and had multiple endings included.
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That was Jamie Lee Curtis...Also, even if they said it was an accident, she would've still been in trouble for manslaughter and the will would've been voided. The pressure in arteries is very high,so when one gets cut,the blood sprays quite far away, which is how a drop reached all the way to Martha.
I'm also bad at lying like Marta, I have an obvious tell, whenever I lie I start laughing 😅
This is one of those films that is a joy to rewatch and then spot all the clues it gave in the lead up to the finale.
Marta is a great character. A rare kind these days: The pure innocent who is also intelligent.
Its glorious that she literally wins out. . . Just because she did the right thing.
Right?!
@@diegopansini3152 No.
@@jsmithers. Right?!
@@jordanmathenia1966 No.
This movie and the sequel glass onion were both so good I hope to see you reacting to that one as well
Anyone who knows Mary's type of humor knows she's gonna love Benoit's introduction in Glass Onion lmao.
@@3r1kofficial 🤡
Show Jamie Lee Curtis some respect!!
That Jodie Foster comment hurt😣
Hasn’t she ever seen Halloween?!
@@alojr35 I believe horror films are not a favorite - so probably not
This is an absolute gem. I've seen this movie quite a bit and it's just a terrific movie. The pacing is great, it sprinkles enough clues for you to figure it out after multiple viewings, and the ensemble is AMAZING. That cast is just flat out fantastic in my eyes. There are many movies that have big name casts, but it feels like most of the time there isn't enough screen time for everyone and some actors get pushed to the background. In this movie each one had a pivotal role. I'm so glad you wound up reacting to this.
Mary, Ana De Armas (Marta) has a great role in No Time To Die (James Bond) with Daniel Craig! You'll love her in that, too. She's amazing.
The amazing Ana de Armas displayed a good combination of honesty and innocence, she had an impressive list of hit movies, including this one, No Time to Die, Blade Running, among many others. Most recently got Oscar nomination for actress in a leading role from movie "Blonde" (The story of American actress Marilyn Monroe). Good for her. FYI she is a Cuban.
BladerunnER 2049..
Did I hear it right? You called Jamie Lee Curtis as Jodie Foster?
and said she looked 85...
Knives Out was nominated an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (and its sequel Glass Onion is currently nominated for Adapted Screenplay!)
And for those who don’t know Ana de Armas, she was the AI projection Joi in Blade Runner 2049, Bond girl Paloma in No Time to Die, and Marilyn Monroe in the recent movie Blonde (she was nominated for her first Oscar while the movie itself is up for 8 Razzies including Worst Picture).
“Obsessed with Eva Green”
Totally understandable
Knives Out was so unexpectedly GREAT
The twist and turns throughout this movie are insane!
Harlan sliced the carotid artery in his neck. Blood in the arteries is under pressure and travels far. The detectives could confirm suicide since anyone close to him would block the spray and leave some kind of outline. But across the room there was just a smaller drop which hit her shoe.
Also, she took the magnet to damage the videotape which showed she didn't really drive away, because she left the road in the wrong spot "be-after-fore" the carved elephant.
Very good movie, it has good chemistry. The story was nicely thought out. And the cast was perfectly chosen.
This movie is so much fun, it keeps on giving, i love watching all the reactions lately.
Hard to imagine Ana de Armas was the least famous person in the cast when they shot this and now she's a huge movie star nominated for all the awards
I was pleasantly suprised when I first saw this film. I think it was because I knew Rian Johnson was directing it. Exceptional performances tho. Especially Christopher Plummer (Harlan Thrombie). He was sooo entertaining. RIP LEGEND!
A great who done it in a style where you can't even identify the detective until more than a quarter of the way through the movie clues given all the way through so when Benoit does his reveal you are surprised you did not see it all along.
Jodie Foster!?😐🤨🤣 Jamie Lee Curtis lol.
Fun Fact 1: The movie had a deleted subplot wherein Walt owed a lot of money to some very shady individuals, which is why he had the cane and limp (he'd been shot in the leg for not paying up on time). It also explains why Harlan basically fired him from the publishing company: he'd been embezzling from it to pay his debtors.
Fun Fact 2: The restaurant where Ransom took Marta was a real place, but it closed down a couple years after the movie came out because its owners were convicted of defrauding the government for pandemic relief money.
I think the big thing about Meg telling her family, and I feel like this is very important, she only did it after her mother mentioned her schooling. Her schooling, from the beginning, is important to her character, and now it was being taken away. She was scared, and I think her actions are completely defensible.
Nice one. You should watch Glass Onion next because Halle Berry it's a good one.
I was about to post a correction but then I got the joke 🫢
Shitballs!
The **squeak squeak** "Sh!t" makes me laugh every time.
I love the last shot, where the cup says only "My house". She'll keep the house and some money, but clearly she's going to help them too
The Knives Out movies are a bundle of fun. I bought it up as soon as it came out on DVD / Blu-Ray. You have to do Glass Onion now too. It's a blast. -- I'll be buying that one too.
Glass Onion was a Netflix film, I don't think they do physical publishing.
@@LachlanEaston They do, it just takes a few months.
@@newrev9er okay, phew
The way you kept calling Jamie Lee Curtis old is so funny
Kudos to your video editor for the cute little animations and funny edits. Really helps keep the viewers attention and gives your videos a little something extra.
The piano is, IIRC, Benoit telling the police that the person is blatantly lying about something. Whenever they say something that isn't true that's _not_ just their opinion or misunderstood, he hits the piano key. It also serves as a way to unnerve them.
I thought it was just a way of getting them back on task.
28:37 whoever your editor is, they get a raise. Brilliant!
One of the tragedies is of course how Harlan really did kill himself. Marta did not poison him; he would have lived, but he chose to go through with this elaborate plan instead, which involved cutting his own throat. He did care about Marta, and wanted to protect her; that was genuine. But he was also, as Mr. Blanc put it, a "drama mama," and couldn't resist the flair for the dramatic- which ended up really his downfall. I do wonder, if Harlan had found himself in that situation (through some actual accident, as Marta thought it was) before he had had a chance to change his will, and cut off his family: would he have been quite as at peace with his own death? Or, if he still had those plans ahead of him, would he have fought harder to stay alive? Obviously, this is a fictional character; any supposition is pure thought experiment. But it seems that though he did not plan on dying, though he did have more plans for his future, further dealing with his family, seeing them through their "withdrawal" period, etc; at least he had accomplished the part about changing his will and telling each one how they were cut off. He had accomplished those important tasks, and so when Death came for him (as he thought), he was willing to go.
Following the same train of thought: if Marta had convinced him to try calling for an ambulance, and when ten minutes came and went and he was okay, what would have happened? By the time the ambulance arrived and he turned out fine, then what? Would they have chalked it up to Marta being mistaken about having made a mistake? The paramedics may have been satisfied, but Harlan would probably have believed Marta, and known something was amiss. He would have insisted that the doctors do a thorough job, and test him and the vials. Then the change would have been found! Would it have led back to Ransom, eventually? In this scenario, Ransom would not have contacted Mr. Blanc, so Benoit would not have been involved. Would the regular police have figured it out? We'll never know...
The sequel, Glass Onion, is great as well! 🔎🔪
Yup. And it gets exponentially better on repeat viewings.
Harlan also wrote mystery novels. That's probably the reason for his knowledge of what to do other then him being "old". Geez
When I watched this movie in theaters, I knew that the letter about the affair was a heat-revealing ink and that the knife Hugh grabbed was a toy/fake. Also, a fun fact, Benoit kept telling Marta foot-related things to point out the blood on her shoes. And this is my opinion, Glass Onion, the sequel to this movie, is more trippy than this one, as this movie tells you how and why Harlem died/offed himself; meanwhile, the mystery of Glass Onion seems densely layered, but the center can be seen as clear as day.
I love how early on Blanc says "the game is afoot, eh Watson" to Marta. Little wink that he knew more was going on.
Not me over here, getting heated on Jamie Lee's behalf.
I don't throw up when i lie but i do get sick to my stomach.😂😂
Wow, so harsh on Jamie Lee Curtis. She was about 61 when this came out. So if her parent was 85, he'd have been 24 when she was born.
I wasn’t meaning to be harsh though? She’s beautiful and talented- I was just surprised
Invisible Ink: Write on white paper using milk for ink. When the paper dries, the milk will be the same white color as the paper. Subject the letter to a heat source and the milk will cook and turn brown.
I've seen people confuse Sigourney Weaver with Susan Sarandon, but seriously?! Who the heck would confuse Jamie Lee Curtis with Jodie Foster?!
Chris Evans said the hardest scene he had to do was the scene where th dogs attack Ransom, as Chris Evans is a dog lover and dogs naturally love him. He said, "What I really wanted to do was pet the dogs.""
Ok this is hilarious. My favorite part about this movie is how god awful Daniel Craig's accent is but I never considered how someone not from america would take it. It's like an even more ridiculous foghorn leghorn and sometimes he slips back into his english accent which I'm convinced the director left in for comedic purposes. He does the same in the second movie and I love it.
The magnet ruined the VHS tape. That's how VHS were like. That's why Martha took the Magnet.
4:48 - Damn! Mary coming hard with the Jamie Lee Curtis age shade! 🤣 And for the record, I would be thrilled to look as good at 65 as Jamie Lee does now, much less 85...
Jodie Foster
Bwahahahshsha. Jaime Lee Curtis. From the Halloween movies
20:00 It cut to a playstation ad and it made that Playstation sfx right at the neck slice moment and i loled.
In the final scene of the movie - where the entire family is in the driveway and looking up at Marta on the balcony, you can see that Don Johnson has a black eye, indicating that Jamie Lee Curtis has punched him after finding out he was cheating on her.
If they film a video saying it was an accident she still gets charged with Involuntary Manslaughter and goes to prison.
"unalive yourself" "self-deletion"
🤣 its like roblox and club penguin insult
You know, when I first saw this movie, I thought 2:13 was a blooper that ended up in the final cut by mistake. 😅
If you liked this, the sequel Glass Onion is really good. But CLUE The Movie is still my favorite movie of all time, and it's a murder mystery comedy. A classic, honestly.
25:00 the lawyer is played by Frank Oz who is most well known as the voice of Kermit the Frog:)
Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear, never Kermit 🙂
@@shiftybea omg ur right lol brain fart
And Yoda too.
Ana De Armas is really coming into her own. If you haven't seen it, may I recommend War Dogs? Her role there is a supporting one, but she was great in it. I knew she'd be one to look out for.
Hey! Idk if you're into investigation shows, but there's a new brazilian show on netflix about a real tragedy that happen in Rio Grande do Sul state, the show is called 'The Endless Night', it has english subtitles and only 5 episodes, it's kinda hard to watch, but definitely worth watching, since it was one of the biggest tragedies in the history of Brazil.
Rian Johnson's foray into the Star Wars franchise aside, his murder mysteries are great. If you liked this, I can wholeheartedly recommend Brick starring Joseph Gordan Levitt, and of course the sequel, Glass Onion, where Blanc returns!
Marta uses the magnet to damage the VHS tape.
This is a great twist on the traditional murder mystery: the twist is that there was no murder. But because we've all been conditioned by a generation of books and movies to look for the clues to identify who the murderer is, we never see it coming
Well to be fair there was a murder, it just wasn't Harlan that was murdered and it didn't happen until over halfway through the movie.
43:20 - Why did Ransom stab Marta right there in front of the police and everybody? Because he knew he was caught, he knew the game was up, so he figured what more could they do to him for one murder, might as well be in for two (he says, "in for a penny.." a phrase which ends, ".. in for a pound," meaning as long as you're in partway, might as well go all the way. It's his revenge on her- she can't get his grandfather's inheritance if she's dead; it would revert to the family, and maybe he'd see some sliver of it, or get some help with the lawyer and such.
But: plan failed, because- as Harlan said at the beginning of the movie, Ransom wouldn't know the difference between a real knife and a prop one. (foreshadowing!). (So much foreshadowing in this film, when you re-watch it for a second, third, many more times- but on first viewing the pieces are laid out so well and so subtly, it's such a pleasure to experience.)
Can't wait to see your Glass Onion reaction.
21:11 she took the fridge magnet to run it across the tape as magnetism wipes the vhs
Don Johnson's character only has himself to blame for his wife finding out he was cheating. He sneaks into Harlan's office, finds the envelope in the locked drawer, is annoyed when he thinks the paper is blank, and throws the baseball on the desk out the window. Throughout the movie we see one of the dogs finding this ball and retrieving it when other people (like Blanc) throws it. Eventually the dog brings the ball back to Jamie Lee Curtis, who returns the ball back to Harlan's office and sees the envelope and blank piece of paper.
If Johnson had not done anything then Curtis would never have found this letter about Johnson's infidelity.
The cast is incredible
Rian Johnson's pre-Star Wars films are my favorites of his: Brick, Brothers Bloom, and Looper. Each are worthy of a reaction video of their own.
Jaime Lee Curtis looks 85?! You're about 20 years off.
LOL. "Jodie Foster". Great film. Rian Johnson made a great comeback with this film and Glass Onion. It's funny how some Star Wars fans write him off as a bad director for making one dud and they refuse to see anything else he makes.
Ana De Armas was actually in the last Daniel Craig Bond movie!!! Filmed around the same time as this. She's also in the Blade Runner sequel, in the Keanu Reeves sexual, thriller Knock Knock and more. :)
Craig was the one who recommended adding Armas in that Bond movie after the great experience he had with her on Knives Out.
32:17 "Get out!"😆
It's kind of amazing how good Chris Evans is at playing a total asshole! XD
You should definitely react to Glass Onion next! You'll probably love it too!
Also, there's a new series called "Poker Face" that Rian Johnson has also written and directed, which I think you should check out. It stars Natasha Lyonne and it's another intriguing mystery story, but this is a series instead of a single movie. And it has a HELL of a first episode! I think it might be a good series for you to react to, especially considering how new it is!
Great reaction Mary. Can’t wait for you to do Glass Onion, the sequel to this movie. Well it’s more like the next chapter instead of a direct sequel
Incredible movie. I watched 2nd time and you can actually see some of clue at background is almost missable.
He hits the piano key when one of them tells a lie.
The spot of blood. Do you realize how far blood sprays from the neck? Heh.
If you like murder mysteries, check out Agatha Christies' Evil Under the Sun, Death on the Nile, and Murder on the Orient Express. The older movies, Peter Ustinov as Poirot is amazing.
They are not nice to Marta, they just pretend to be. They dont even know where shes from. And they attacked her and tried to blackmail her. I wouldnt help them at all
Don't call him "The director of 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi'", that was a commercial venture he did for money. Call him "The director of 'Brick'". I realized when Dode ended up a cop.
Jamie Lee Curtis’s character was also mostly ok. Yeah, she was pretty mean to Marta, but she was more upset by the thought that her father, with whom she was the closest of his family, would voluntarily cut her out of the inheritance. It wasn’t so much the inheritance itself but that it suggested her father didn’t love her as much as she thought he did. And the idea that maybe Marta was some young twinkie Harlan was banging who talked him into giving her all the inheritance would have been particularly enraging, because it would have been an insult to Harlan too. So I can kind of understand her character more. Add in the fact that her husband is a cheater and her son now a murderer, and the last game her father played wasn’t for fun but to reveal those facts to her, she’s got nothing now pretty much, so I can sympathize with her blaming Marta for that, a little bit.
The Walt character also probably felt that being cut out was Harlan’s way of disapproving of him, especially after just firing him, so I get him too. Meg didn’t even make that phone call willingly; the others weren’t standing behind her just to listen, they made her make that phone call and wanted to make sure she didn’t deviate. So Meg is ok too. Same with the old lady. Ransom, his father, Walt’s son and Meg’s mother are all the awful ones who really don’t deserve anything.
I seen a couple the directors movies but this is what caused me to re-watch his entire filmography
Watching Chris Evans play a trust fund jerk after years of Captain America was so much fun. If you haven't already, The Grey Man is also a reasonably fun entry in the "Chris Evans is being an arsehole" stage of his career :P
If Ransom actually helped Martha, he would've got more than his cut.
Awww you didn't play the part at the end with her sipping the cup the read my house my rules my coffee lol. Wait til you watch glass onion next .
36:10 Does Australia not have "doughnut holes"? Not holes in doughnuts, but doughnut holes.
I hope a lot more Benoit Blanc movies get made, they're so much fun! ❤ Enjoyed your reaction a lot! Glass Onion is also worth a watch!
A third Benoit Blanc movie is in the works.