Glass Onion

When asked whether he'd ever write a whodunit about the downfall of Twitter, the director joked, “Didn't I just do that?”

You’re building a little microcosm of society with the suspects and the power structure within the suspects. The opening gambit of writer-director Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, his second in his series of Agatha Christie–style whodunits, is one of mischief. A few recent films have tried to engage with Covid-19, or include the pandemic in stories.

A criminally underrated Alfred Hitchcock flick, The Lady Vanishes is at once a thriller, a romance, and a comedy of manners. In a very Agatha Christie-esque ...

Bogart is exceedingly comfortable inhabiting a hard-boiled detective who tangles with dangerous criminals and beautiful liars. The slow-burn mystery of corruption is at turns chilling, disturbing, and sadistic. Henry Cavill is a welcome supporting player as Enola’s brother who, along with her mother, schooled her in the ways of fact-finding and fisticuffs before she grew into a young sleuth in her own right. He plays an investigative journalist who finds a dead body in the luxury townhouse his girlfriend is renting for him in Boston. Mankiewicz (of All About Eve, Cleopatra, and Guys and Dolls fame) the movie a two-hander between Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. plays a thief posing as an actor who falls into the middle of a murder investigation. Based on the real-life investigation of a serial-killer in the Gyunggi Province of Korea in 1986, Memories of Murder centers on an ill-equipped detective squad trying to puzzle through the clues. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars a a loner teen who has to infiltrate various cliques in order to solve the murder of his ex-girlfriend. The film, set in a 1930s British manse, effectively deploys a murder to expose upstairs-downstairs dynamics, similar to the way Rian Johnson critiques class in his films. [Only Murders in the Building](https://time.com/6190642/only-murders-in-the-building-season-2-review/) episodes. In a very Agatha Christie-esque setup, a rich young playgirl (Margaret Lockwood) begrudgingly boards a train in a fictional European country to travel to England where she’ll meet up with a fiancée she’s none-too-enthused to marry. A criminally underrated Alfred Hitchcock flick, The Lady Vanishes is at once a thriller, a romance, and a comedy of manners.

'Glass Onion' has a character played by Edward Norton that seems to be a direct send-up of Elon Musk, the billionaire head of Twitter.

All the people who, at best, happened to be in the right at the right time. Not to get at the core of American capitalism, but if we acknowledge that the people with all the power and money might not be the smartest all the time...then where does that leave our meritocracy? Glass Onion does a good job of showing how sometimes the "brilliant" folks are just the ones willing to hurt others to climb up the social hierarchy. It's that if you can scam and claw your way to the top, then you are too big to fail. Bron represents all the people in power we should question. No, no, no Elon is a free speech absolutist, and sure he [bans journalists](https://mashable.com/article/twitter-suspends-journalists-elon) and [reinstates hateful right-wingers](https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-reinstated-banned-twitter-accounts-list) but he's not red-pilled. Hell, Bron is willing to risk total destruction to power the world with a dangerous energy source. Be willing to break the thing that nobody wants you to break? But what's more important is what the film has to say about people like Bron and Musk. [bullied](https://www.wired.com/2009/06/eberhard/) [his way](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-sep-22-fi-tesla22-story.html) [into power](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-ultimatum-failed-workers-arent-tolerating-aggressive-leadership-2022-11) and [formed](https://parade.com/1364075/jessicasager/elon-musk-net-worth/) his massive wealth off valuations of his companies. And it relates to current events so well, I'd argue, the film understands someone like Musk at his core. [people posting on Twitter](https://twitter.com/search?q=elon%20musk%20miles%20bron&src=typed_query) — where else – that they saw the similarities as well.

It's crazy to think that Rian Johnson's Knives Out sequel was written before the billionaire's takeover of Twitter.

They look from one to another, and realise that despite his promises of a future built on Klear, they had the power all along. Like I say, there have been a lot of tech bro bad guys in the last 10 years, and most of them have an Icarus-style fable comeuppance. On top of that, though, there’s subtler Musk mockery and satire here, and it’s built into the finale through the people who cling to him. So, for me, the job was with Rian to pick and choose the perfect characteristics to send up a particular type of person." That’s where the cautionary tech bro tale takes a turn. He’s so hopped up on his own genius and hung up on his legacy he’s willing to the entire world into a bomb with his magic but nowhere near safe fuel, Klear. Riz Ahmed did a specifically Muskish turn in Venom as Carlton Drake, a man obsessed with jumping ship from this ailing world and colonising the stars. "The fact that Bron’s a tech billionaire – which made a lot of sense for the story – became an obstacle in the writing,” Johnson told Deadline. And so, disconnecting him from that, and trying to build him as his own kind of clownish character, became a challenge." That’s the bit of him that’s captured most clearly in Miles. Edward Norton plays the Alpha Industries co-founder with a mixture of quasi-spiritual solemnity, a particularly fragile kind of self-belief and sick-making smugness that feels very familiar. "My take on this was really to know that Miles is a character cut from a very specific species," Edward Norton added.

Partway into “Glass Onion,” the new sequel to 2019 murder mystery “Knives Out,” tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton) excitedly outlines the “murder ...

Of course, when Bron’s foolishness culminates in the destruction of the “Mona Lisa,” it’s just a movie. And even when Blanc lays out the crudeness of Bron’s plan, his friends still cling to the myth of his genius. Just as for much of the movie, Blanc and the viewer doubt Bron would be so stupid as to kill the woman he just had a very public court battle with, so many people believed that His island is only accessible via a glass dock that looks impressive, but is only accessible at low tide, with the local police referring to it as a “piece of s---.” He brushes aside warnings that his hydrogen fuel is too unstable — heedlessness that literally blows up in his face. Blanc — and the viewer — wants the solution to be more complicated, to contain some sort of hidden brilliance. He’s destroyed his reputation, exposed himself as a murderer and incinerated his house — and the “Mona Lisa” to boot. And, most prominently, many believed Musk had a plan when he massively [ overpaid](https://www.barrons.com/articles/elon-musk-twitter-deal-price-51664920306) for [have left many small investors wiped out, wondering if they'll ever be made whole](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/business/cryptocurrency-investors-ftx-blockfi.html). But, [ as Norton has noted](https://www.slashfilm.com/1101648/edward-nortons-glass-onion-character-was-inspired-by-a-number-of-real-unnamed-billionaires/), he and writer-director Rian Johnson based Bron on multiple (unnamed) real-life billionaires and tech figures, not one specific person. [Thanks](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/elon-musk-twitter-ceo-billionaire-social-media/672542/) to [recent headlines](https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-shares-tumble-track-worst-month-ever-2022-12-22/), for many viewers, Bron’s mixture of bluster, hubris and half-baked ideas will likely bring to mind Twitter owner and part-time car enthusiast Elon Musk. The movie’s root conflict — Bron’s ouster of Helen’s sister Cassandra (Monáe) from the company they co-founded based on Cassandra’s idea — evokes [Mark Zuckerberg’s battles](https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-booted-his-co-founder-out-of-the-company-2012-5) in [building Facebook](https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3391856&page=1). Partway into “Glass Onion,” the new sequel to 2019 murder mystery “Knives Out,” tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton) excitedly outlines the “murder mystery” game he has devised for his guests.

The critically acclaimed whodunit comes from director Rian Johnson. You can stream "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" exclusively on Netflix.

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The 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery' director walks VF through the scene that set everything in motion, highlighting the importance of color and ...

“I think we all knew some version of this person,” he says. “I wrote this movie in 2020. [Best Books](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/photos/2022/12/best-books-of-2022?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-122022)of 2022 Johnson’s decision to have each film exist in a completely unique universe goes back to the “original source of [his] inspiration for all of this,” his love of Agatha Christie. The first meetup of the starry ensemble was “day one, shot one” for the hit sequel, says Johnson, which premiered in theaters on November 23 for a limited theatrical release and is now available to stream on Netflix. [VF’s Most-Read Stories](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/12/most-read-vanity-fair-stories-2022?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-122022)This Year This is going to be amazing.’ She shows up and she walks past the racks of clothes, and there’s Kate’s rack and it’s glimmering colors, and there’s Daniel’s rack that’s all these fabulous outfits. [Prince William Won’t Speak to](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/12/why-prince-william-wont-speak-to-prince-harry?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-122022)Prince Harry [Kamala Harris](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/12/kamala-harris-molly-jong-fast-interview-roe-immmigration?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-122022)on a Very Turbulent Year in America I wanted it to be the sad trumpet noise of costumes in this movie.” I wrote it during lockdown, which is probably part of the reason why it takes place on a Greek island,” Johnson said. “I just wanted her in sad tans and beige…. “We’re going to have them be totally new deals every single time,” Johnson says of the films in the Knives Out franchise.

The "Glass Onion" cast's net worth ranked, from Edward Norton, Daniel Craig, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr. Jessica Henwick, Kate Hudson and ...

In Glass Onion, she plays the Governor of Connecticut and earned a reported $600,000 for the role. Beloved by all, Kathryn Hahn’s net worth is estimated to be around $2 million. In Glass Onion, Henwick plays the supporting role of Peg, assistant to Kate Hudson’s Birdie, for which she earned a reported $300,000. He plays the scientist Lionel Toussaint in Glass Onion and received a reported $400,000 paycheck for the role. She is best known for her recurring role in HBO’s Game of Thrones as Nymeria Sand, which boosted her profile enough for her to score roles in blockbusters like Star Wars: The Force Awakens and The Matrix: Resurrections. He stars in Glass Onion as Duke Cody, a Twitch influencer, for which he was paid a reported $2.5 million. In addition to acting, Hudson has also worked as a producer and has co-founded several successful companies including the subscription-based fitness brand Fabletics, which boasts a revenue stream of around $500 million. Netflix paid a reported $465 million in March 2021 for the rights to Glass Onion and a third yet-to-be-released Benoit Blanc mystery. A former WWE wrestler, Bautista has appeared in numerous WWE events and has won several championships, including the World Heavyweight Championship and the WWE Championship. She joins Glass Onion as the former model/fashion designer Birdie Jay, for which she received a reported $2 million paycheck. He’s best known for his portrayal of James Bond in the popular film franchise, of which he has been the face of the franchise since 2006, starring in a total of five films. In somewhat of a theatrical experiment, Glass Onion was released in cinemas for a week before heading to the streamer.

The second installment in Rian Johnson's Knives Out franchise features Daniel Craig as Detective Benoit Blanc once more and a twisty whodunnit murder mystery.

Is it a glass man?' The first thing that came up, because I’m a huge Beatles fan, is 'Glass Onion.'" Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at [Hey Alma](https://www.heyalma.com/), a Jewish culture site. Benoit proclaims at one point during the film, which is why he struggled to solve the murder: It was so dumb and obvious. Is it a glass castle? They also sing "Looking through the bent-backed tulips /To see how the other half live / Looking through the glass onion." First, director Johnson was inspired by a 1968 Beatles song, and plays the song over the end credits of the film.

Here's who the killer is in "Glass Onion", the Netflix sequel to "Knives Out" starring Edward Norton and Daniel Craig. The ending explained.

“I’m very grateful to Netflix and the theater chains—this was a big deal for them and they really stepped up in terms of reaching across the aisle,” director Rian Johnson told the The siren song is calling me back.” What I’m most interested in is figuring out how the third movie could define the wingspan of what this series can be going forward. “I believe in theatrical releases, and I hope everyone knows I’m working as hard as I can to push, push, push it,” he said. After all, Miles is rich enough to probably get away with murder, with the cash and resources to hire the best lawyers in the world. “If you don’t, you just want to have the joy of it, you’ll be rewarded. [Tudum](https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/daniel-craig-interview-glass-onion) that the director Rian Johnson’s game of “3D chess” is worthy of a second, third and even fourth watching. He even mentions that the isolated nature of the island, coupled with the setting of a murder-mystery party, would be the perfect setting for someone to try to kill Miles “in the dark”. Andi had found the napkin and Miles decided to poison her to hide the truth of his fraud. It’s this line that gives Miles himself the inspiration for murder; indeed, a party such as this is the perfect opportunity for him to eliminate his opponents. We learn that Miles, the co-founder of a tech company called Alpha with Cassandra “Andi” Brand, had pushed Andi out of the company and took credit for all her work. [who’s the killer in Glass Onion](https://stylecaster.com/glass-onion-cast/), one of these things is true: either you caught the Knives Out sequel in the very small window—a mere week—it was in cinemas in late November 2022 and need a refresher, or you’re a masochist who wants to spoil the ending to this delightful and ingenious murder-mystery without seeing it. [Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig)](https://stylecaster.com/daniel-craig-net-worth/) solves the puzzling death of Harlan Thrombey, a wealthy Boston novelist who is found dead, throat slit, in his office the morning after his 85th birthday.

The Knives Out sequel features a brand new all-star cast, including Janelle Monáe, Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn, Madelyn Cline, Dave Bautista, Ethan Hawke, among ...

Helen acting like Andi would not only disband the friend group, but give her and Detective Blanc the clues they needed to crack the case. Andi was the only person who saw Miles as the genius he is, and he ultimately pushed Andi out of their company although she co-founded it. She also acted as a mole, or someone on the inside, to help Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) solve the murder since he wasn't invited to the island. So, why did Andi's twin sister Helen show up to the island in her place? Miles threw the entire party with his friends to cover up Duke's murder, which wasn't planned. He left the engine running and the garage door closed until she died from the fumes.

Director Rian Johnson says he wants to release an audio commentary for his Knives Out sequel Glass Onion.

When it came to the possibility of an audio commentary, Johnson was more certain about the answer, telling the outlet that a commentary was on the horizon even if a physical version of Glass Onion wasn't released: In addition to Knives Out, Johnson has also created audio commentaries for his other films, including Looper and Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi. Ahead of the film's streaming release, director Rian Johnson said there was another aspect of his movies that he will almost certainly create at some point for Glass Onion: an audio director's commentary.

(Spoiler alert: Stop reading now if you haven't yet seen the film!) Benoit Blanc is canonically married and/or in a long-term romantic relationship with Hugh ...

Helen clearly has caught Grant in the middle of baking—his face is covered in flour, he’s rocking a pink tie-dye apron, and he’s clutching a jar of brown sugar. “And there’s nobody in the world I can imagine in bringing me more joy for Benoit Blanc to be with.” But to me, this is the perfect amount of backstory for our cartoonish, investigative hero. But it’s not detective Blanc who answers the door, because Blanc is busy taking a bath and playing Among Us with his friends Angela Lansbury, Stephen Sondheim, Natasha Lyonne, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Benoit Blanc receives a knock on his door from a stranger named Helen (Janelle Monae), who is seeking his help to prove that her sister was murdered. [Glass Onion](https://decider.com/movie/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery/)—which is now streaming on [Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/81458416)—finally gave us just a hint of backstory for everyone’s favorite Southern detective.

'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery has been released on Netflix. Besides the leading roles, we have listed all the important cameos in the mystery movie.

[James Bond](/topic/james-bond)star Daniel Craig reprises his role as detective Benoit Blanc, who will be seen handling a new case. ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’, the American mystery movie, is produced and directed by The movie stars Daniel Craig, Edward Norton and Janelle Monáe in leading roles.

Director Rian Johnson discusses how he approached Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, what it almost was, and what fans can expect going forward.

And the big thing for me is just how can it be totally different, not just from the first one, but also from Glass Onion? It suddenly becomes this thing outside of yourself that's this kind of gilded thing and you kind of forget how you made it. When you came up with the idea for Glass Onion, how much did you debate, "This is the idea I want to go with"? And I'm curious, as a filmmaker, I think you've said that you want to go into making another Knives Out as your next film, does it energize you when you have this kind of reaction? Because, obviously, you're making another one after this, but how did you know, "This was the one I wanted for the next movie"? And I think that sequence, whatever it was, 8, 10 minutes, we recut over and over for the length of the editing process up until the very end.

The cast is full of A-listers like Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kate Hudson and Kathryn Hahn.

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The film is another deftly-crafted and hilarious ride, filled with Blanc's trademark drawl and the most cameos of any movie this year. It's also an incredibly- ...

As he attempts to rally the Disruptors, calling back to his earlier deception with the phrase, "We know what we all saw," the group says that they'll admit both the truth and some lies, rightfully pining Andi and Duke's murders on their former friend. It turns out that Duke had seen Miles leaving Andi's house on the day of her murder and figured out that the tech mogul had something to do with her death. By the end of his big deduction speech, Blanc has pulled back all the layers to show that nothing about the case was as complicated as it seemed. As in "Miles Bron, that asshole who destroyed the Mona Lisa with unstable super fuel." She makes it, and with the push of the statue, Miles gets his wish to be mentioned with the world-famous painting in the same breath. Duke died because of the allergic reaction, but Miles was able to spin it as an attempted poisoning targeted as himself, to avert suspicion. Filled with despair and rage, wanting to hurt Miles in any way possible, Helen starts breaking all of his stupid glass sculptures. When Helen came to Blanc about the murder, he realized the best way to investigate was to join Miles' weekend getaway, with Helen posing as Andi to shake the killer off-guard and help investigate. As for the poison, Duke and Miles did switch drinks, but it was Miles' move rather than an accident. On the day of her death, Andi had actually found the original napkin, which was etched with the bar's logo. It turned out that there didn't need to be a degree of separation between Miles and Andi's potential downfalls. It's also an incredibly-timely send up of misunderstood genius and the ultra-wealthy, in a truly jam-packed film.

Following up on his hit first, the sequel in his Hercule Poirot-esque mystery sent Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) to the private island of billionaire tech bro ...

When asked how he decides who to scrutinize with his characters, he emphasized that he was merely holding up a mirror to our current cultural zeitgeist: Rather than creating characters that take classic whodunit tropes to their extremes, he wanted to capture the extremes of our world: He has that same bravado and unwillingness to admit to a foolish decision. That said, because he wrote Glass Onion amid the pandemic and not in 2022, Musk wasn't his exact target when writing Miles: He also still has the gadgets and intellect to back up his credentials. [Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery](https://collider.com/tag/knives-out-2/) finally peeling back its secrets on Netflix today, [Rian Johnson](http://collider.com/tag/rian-johnson) is doing the rounds to discuss his latest success.

Let's break down the many twists and turns of Rian Johnson's "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery."

He all but handed Miles the idea of the lights going out and someone getting shot. In short, Miles has to gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss his way out of this. Throughout his stay on the island, Duke kept hinting that he saw Miles leaving Andi's — the word "pancake" does a lot of heavy lifting here — and trying to leverage Miles for a spot on Alpha News. There's truly a moment where it looks like Miles is going to get away with his crimes. Then, all he has to do is convince everyone that Duke simply made a mistake in picking up Miles's glass, shut off the lights, and shoot Helen (who he believes to be Andi) with the pistol he stole from Duke. Everyone who received Andi's e-mail rushed to find her, but only Duke saw Miles speeding away from the scene of the crime in his iconic Baby Blue car. When the news of Andi's death breaks online, Duke points it out to Miles in secret and forces his hand. Does Miles concoct an elaborate poison in order to dispatch of Duke? In the ensuing lawsuit, Miles shut her out of Alpha completely, claiming he had come up with the main idea of Alpha. The bullet lodged itself in one of Andi's journals that she was carrying around, allowing her to survive the murder attempt. As Benoit points out, it's almost too obvious, but it makes the most sense: Who stands to lose more from Miles being exposed than Miles himself? Miles may have invited his friends to his island to solve his murder, but he is not our victim.

Rian Johnson's "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" is yet another murder mystery that bluntly states, "Eat the rich." It has an all-new cast of characters,

In addition to all that, it’s amusing that Miles thinks (or at least claims) that the seawater that Klear has been made of or will be made of in the foreseeable future is abundant in nature. I mean, this is a 500-year-old painting that has been conserved with so many factors in mind, and then there’s this douchebag who is flouting all of that just so that he can flex in front of his friends. One is supposed to be transparent, and the other is supposed to be layered to conceal what’s at its center. And although Musk has dismissed hydrogen fuel as an alternative to oil and gas, his plans to revolutionize transportation have been unaffordable and impractical. His only achievement is hijacking the brainchild of a Black woman (Andi) and putting the future of the company created by her, and the futures of everyone associated with it atop an untested hydrogen-based fuel called Klear. His “efforts” to avoid traffic congestion led to, well, traffic congestion, and that too in an inescapable tube. He thinks his name should be uttered “in the same breath as Mona Lisa” because of his “scientific prowess.” But what he fails to comprehend is that da Vinci and the Mona Lisa have acquired this depth and popularity after years of work, passion, restoration, and analysis. So, despite all his adulation for the Mona Lisa, Bron fails to see his fundamental flaw, while Rian Johnson exposes our preference for instant fame over long-lasting greatness. FYI, the (ugly) artistic representation of Miles sits right across the painting of Mona Lisa. They call themselves “disruptors” because they are destroying everything that’s synonymous with the status quo in order to create a new norm. So, Miles loaned it to them, and in exchange, he moved the Mona Lisa from the Louvre to the Glass Onion. It’s filled to the brim with relevant social commentary and cameos (Ethan Hawke, Hugh Grant, Serena Williams, Natasha Lyonne, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Stephen Sondheim, Angela Lansbury, Yo-Yo Ma, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the Hourly Dong).

Rian Johnson's "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" is set during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's how the film addresses the health crisis.

That seems to be why he's pushing for the launch of Klear, his form of clean energy that also happens to be incredibly volatile. They just have to get mysterious liquid sprayed in their mouths courtesy of Ethan Hawke ( Later in the film, we get another subtle shout-out to a hobby many took up during the first months of the COVID pandemic: baking. When Benoit's partner Philip (Hugh Grant) answers the door to their apartment, he's wearing an apron and covered in flour. Do they have to self-quarantine and get tested? But the award for the wildest mask — if we can even call it that — goes to the glamorous and gonzo Birdie Jay (Kate Hudson), who swans into Greece wearing a bedazzled mesh mask that certainly isn't protecting anyone from the spread of an airborne virus. Nowhere is this clearer than with schoolteacher Helen (Janelle Monáe), who tells Benoit about the difficulties of educating her young students in virtual classrooms. Business on the top, Birdie's sweatpants on the bottom. [Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab)] And then there's Birdie, who's hosting a lavish party full of people she claims are in her pod — including famous cellist Benoit Blanc's (Daniel Craig) stylish silk mask scores well on both fashion and function, emphasizing his smart desire to follow COVID safety protocols. From face masks to ill-advised parties, here are all the ways Glass Onion addresses COVID-19.

The new movie is a murder mystery — but it's also about why we all willingly submit to the rules of billionaires.

At some point, all of these men accrued enough capital that they found themselves surrounded by people who fanned their egos in the hopes of a kickback. [artists in New York City](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/peter-thiel-anti-woke-film-festival-trevor-bazile) and [politicians in Arizona](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/12/peter-thiel-arizona-blake-masters-mcconnell) because he thinks they’ll influence culture and politics toward his vision of a new right. A simple explanation of a phenomenon (or a murder), stated out loud, is often the truest. They travel to the island ostensibly to solve the (fake) murder of Bron himself. For all of the artifice, Bron is not playing 4D chess. After some running around the house and an attempt on Helen’s life, Blanc brings everyone together and declares his findings: It was Bron who murdered Andi and Cody, the former because she knew a new invention of his was dangerous and she had information that could allow her to take back his company; the latter because he’s the only one who saw Bron leaving Andi’s house after committing the murder. The more billionaire-skeptical among the audience might not like him, but on first viewing it’s unlikely that they catch all of his verbal stumbles because of the confidence with which he delivers them. Under direct scrutiny from the clever Blanc, though, all of the myths that Bron’s friends and followers build up around him quickly vanish. The result is an allegory for all of us living with the omnipresent Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos. All of these people have known Bron for years, and many of them quickly make reference to his brilliance while solving puzzles inside the package, which ultimately reveal an invitation to his private island in Greece for a murder mystery party. The other significant entrant into this quickly growing canon came this year in the form of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Rian Johnson’s sequel to 2019’s Knives Out. Johnson also adds a new dynamic to the satire: The rich are not only evil; many of them are preternaturally stupid, their legitimacy propped up only by the deference of those around them.

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It’s all the drama of a death with none of the bummer aftertaste. In this case, the knife is more of a fuck-you gesture. Sometimes it’s a very convincing disguise (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd). She (and it is usually a she) is casing the country estate when a completely unrelated murder investigation breaks out. And occasionally someone will spend years developing a tolerance to iocane powder so they can outsmart a Sicilian when death is on the line. This trope is so beloved it even shows up in the affectionate pastiche Doctor Who episode “The Unicorn and the Wasp,” in which the Doctor solves a murder with the real Agatha Christie. You offer your drink to the victim, they drop dead, and everyone thinks a killer is really after you. Maybe they’re the aforementioned jewel thief, casing the joint (A Pocketful of Rye). A classic in the many cozy mysteries of between-the-wars-era England is making one of the party secretly a notorious jewel thief. A play or movie set is the perfect place for a murder mystery. If you’re hiding something during a murder investigation, it seems like a pretty easy inference to make that what you’re hiding is you having committed the murder. There are only so many stories to tell, and after a while the savvy mystery consumer is really there to see how the various plot twists get repurposed to make a “new” story.

The case was closed and a murder solved in the new 'Knives Out' mystery. Rian Johnson explains why an icon also burned in the 'Glass Onion' finale.

“We don't do exactly that in these movies, but there's a moral equilibrium by the end of both ‘Knives Out’ and this movie that Blanc puts back into place.” “Could you do the fugue structure basically where you layer it back over itself and have it be compelling, as opposed to making everyone's shoulders sag and think, ‘Oh, we have to watch all this again,’ ” Johnson says. A friend of his brought up a poll that asked people if the Mona Lisa burned in a fire, would they rather stand in line to see a perfect replica or the charred ashes of the original? So much so that the audience gets the joke immediately: It's so much of a sacred cow, it’s not a sacred cow.” “On the one hand, it is the most famous, revered work of art in the world and the other hand, it exists as an object. Miles is the sort of rich where he buys things just because he can, and in his glass man cave he shows his crew that he’s rented Leonardo da Vinci’s actual Mona Lisa.

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His presence in Glass Onion doesn’t extend past his brief appearance early in the Netflix film, either, but that doesn’t make his cameo any less fun. In addition to her role in Glass Onion, Lyonne is set to reteam with writer-director Rian Johnson on the upcoming Peacock murder mystery series, Poker Face. In addition to Sondheim, Angela Lansbury also appears in Glass Onion as one member of Benoit Blanc’s socially distanced Among Us crew. Grant’s voice can also be heard earlier in Glass Onion when he calls out to Craig’s Blanc while the latter is playing Among Us in the bathroom. Orange is the New Black and Russian Doll star Natasha Lyonne also appears in Glass Onion during Benoit Blanc’s Among Us Zoom call. With that in mind, here are all the major celebrities who briefly appear in Glass Onion, including one or two that even the most keen-eyed of viewers might have missed.

Glass Onion, Daniel Craig's Knives Out sequel, is streaming on Netflix now - and viewers are raving about the movie's biggest cameo: Hugh Grant.

[wrote](https://twitter.com/RileyHaven2/status/1606251794245439488). “WAIT HUGH GRANT,” another [tweeted](https://twitter.com/bongsfilm/status/1606231410372710400). And I feel like in general, if you think about Poirot, for example, I feel like getting glimpses of the detective’s life outside of the scope of the case is interesting. “And also, as I said at the LFF, who wouldn’t want to live with the human being that he happens to live with? “The less of a song and dance we make about that, the better, really, for me, because it just made sense,” he said. Also love how they got Ethan Hawke and Hugh Grant to appear in cameos, I think that’s hilarious,” a third [tweeted](https://twitter.com/inudens/status/1606249009219194881).