#as good as knives out?

[thebookworm0001]

Highlights of Glass Onion

1-Daniel Craig’s terrible southern accent

2-Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc playing Among Us in his bathtub again Angela Lansbury and Stephen Sondheim

3-“it’s so dumb”“It’s so dumb it’s brilliant”“No! It’s just dumb”

4-literally the whole movie is about how dumb Elon Musk is. Also Zuckerberg. And whoever the fuck the other billionaire is. But also definitely Elon Musk.

4-Benoit Blanc is so clearly gay in such a casual way I love it

5-Janelle Monáe

6-The very clear messaging of ‘you will never take down a person like this through the legal ways so just beat the shit out of them until something gives’

7- everyone is clearly having the time of their lives making this movie

#glass onion #truly a delight #as good as knives out? #no but still a delight #it is so damn good at understanding the tropes of the genre #and leaning into them enough to make it work before twisting them enough to keep things fresh #and it does it in a different way from knives out #knives out says ‘you know whodunnit - and you want them to get away with it’ then throws that last twist in #glass onion says ‘this is the most fucking transparent plot but you won’t believe that because you want it to be complex and layered’ #and you nod right along because despite the fact that the title tells you precisely how simple this plot is #you still expect layers of onion to be peeled back to reveal something new #it’s freaking amazing #and then a billionaire gets his house blown up because he’s an idiot #also that’s a very nice and controlled fire I’m very glad they’re not all dead

[interstitties101]

#glass onion #knives out #so true tho #crazy crazy fucking movie but so good but so bad

[doctorwhoisadhd]

also huge fan of the fact that benoit blanc uses an old timey bathing suit. like first of all yeah that fucking rules and is very gender of him. but ALSO like.

its daniel craig. he was JAMES BOND obviously hes been shirtless in a movie before. he literally wanted to be shirtless in this but rian johnson was like, no i dont think so. and frankly THANK FUCK.

#glass onion #knives out #glass onion spoilers #ITS SO FUCKING GOOD LIKE THANK YOU SO MUCH MR JOHNSON.

[banjo-bugs]

I truly genuinely believe they would get along so well

#columbo #benoit blanc #knives out glass onion #just watched it tonight …. so good dude I loved it #unpopular opinion maybe but way better than the firsr #first movie !! idk I like that benoit got to show his personality a little more : ) #columbo vc your partners a chef? well that’s just wonderful.. I could probably burn water if my wife ever let me in the kitchen #digital art #twizz scribs

[drbtinglecannon]

The way in Knives Out that the entire Thrombey family constantly subjected Marta to racism for years ranging from micro aggressions to outright threats of deportation, that she knew all their fucked up dirty laundry and how they all were constantly exploiting Harlan's wealth, that they excluded her from Harlan's funeral and each blamed everyone else for it, and that they immediately dropped all pretenses of condescending civility when the will was read, yet she spent almost the entire movie sympathetic of them and wanting to gift them the fortune Harlan left her before finally standing up for herself in the last hour

Vs

The way in Glass Onion that Helen outright hated the entire "disrupters" group for at least ~10yrs before the movie even took place and made her opinion explicitly known, that her acting as her twin sister being jilted was so easy to maintain because she hated the entire group so much, that she didn't at all humor their extremely conditional "comradery" with her cause against Miles, and that in the end when everything was said and done she didn't stick around to watch them all turn on each other because it didn't matter anymore if they did or didn't

Marta's kindness got her the house.

Helen's justified fury burned Miles' down.

#knives out #glass onion #glass onion spoilers #thinking so hard how marta was personally treated like dogshit by the thrombeys for years & kept being gracious to them over their behavior #vs helen showing up absolutely pumped to ruin the disrupters lives bc they treated her sister poorly & 1 of them must've been her killer #marta got the house helen burned it down. blanc gave marta the closure that she was kind & a good nurse. blanc gave helen the literal #fuel to destroy miles' empire. i just love it theyre both incredible & so different #tc posts

[tampire]

Hello~! Crowley likes James Bond a normal amount.

#Thin Dark Duke #Crowley in Real Life #Good Omens #goodomensedit #goedit #James Bond #007 #jamesbondedit #Daniel Craig #Spectre #spectreedit #Knives Out #Glass Onion #James Bond Cosplay #Turtleneck Fashion #Me #GPOY #My Cosplays #Cosplay #Good Omens Cosplay #David Tennant #LGBT #lgbtedit #Genderfluid #Nonbinary #Queer #Gay #This was a fun photoshoot #I think I nailed it

[quillyfied]

There being two movies now in the Benoit Blanc world, and both movies sharing some recognizable tropes and archetypes to build its flavor, there’s a specific type of character that I’m struck by, particularly as a white woman, in both Knives Out and Glass Onion:

The Sympathetic White Woman.

In KO it’s Meg. In GO it’s Whiskey. They both bond with the (WOC, very important to emphasize) protagonist by being less crappy to her than the rest of the cast, and both signal to the audience that they’re trustworthy as far as the protagonist goes. They tell the protagonist that they’re on her side. They try to be supportive. They’re sympathetic to the audience.

Then comes the moment when the Sympathetic White Woman’s security is threatened.

(Brief added interruption to just say: please dig through the notes and replies on this baby for some additional excellent thoughts from other people, including the very important distinction that Marta is a white Latina and not a woman of color (my mistake thank you for the corrections), and more thoughts on Whiskey’s actual/additional betrayal moments!)

For Meg, it’s her mom telling her she has to drop out of school if they don’t get the inheritance money. For Whiskey, it’s Duke dying. In both cases, the protagonist reaches out—Marta tells Meg she won’t let that happen, she’ll support Meg with whatever money she needs; Helen tries to soothe a hysteric Whiskey by telling her she doesn’t need Duke and he deserved what he got (not realizing Duke is dead, of course). It’s a slightly different moment in each movie, but the basic framework is the same: the woman of color protagonist reaches back to the Sympathetic White Woman, and notably, reaches DOWN, offering the support the Sympathetic White Woman offered earlier.

Only…the Sympathetic White Woman was never intending to be the one the protagonist had to reach down to. So she snaps. Meg tells her family about Marta’s mother and they use it to threaten her. Whiskey latches onto the belief that Helen killed Duke and tries to kill her with a spear gun in what she thinks is self-defense. The Sympathetic White Woman Heel-Turn.

Meg and Whiskey both also sort of try to make amends after their Heel-Turn moments, but…the trust is already broken. The protagonist knows better now. The Sympathetic White Woman is not to be trusted.

Why this sticks out to me personally is the very obvious callout that feminists of color have been making about white feminists for literal decades: that white feminism lacks any true support or compassion for non-white people, that it’s empty promises of support and when the chips are down, white feminism upholds whiteness over feminism in an act to protect itself. And whiteness…is a damn difficult thing to even see when you’re white and raised in an overwhelmingly white community, let alone begin to pick apart and unlearn. It’s reactionary, how Meg and Whiskey turn on Marta and Helen to protect themselves.

It would make Meg incredibly vulnerable to support Marta fully, the way she promised to back when she thought she had the resources for it, but Marta is that vulnerable every day just existing as a Latina woman in America. Whiskey’s Heel-Turn moment is a little more immediate trauma based, but when looking for someone to blame, she doesn’t hesitate to blame Andi (Helen), scrapping together the few pieces of information she has—Andi hates all of the Disruptors, Andi got screwed over by them, Andi fought with Duke just minutes before he died, Andi was in their shared room tearing it apart when Whiskey came in distraught. She’s looking for an outlet. There’s Helen red-handed and in view. Boom. Whiskey grabs the spear gun instead of talking it out with the person she admitted just hours ago to feeling sympathy for.

Growing up white and steeped in whiteness causes defensive reactions when that whiteness is brought up, or, god forbid, challenged. It’s a knee-jerk thing for people who haven’t begun to deconstruct it for themselves; even for people who have, to see just how far and deep in American society that reaches is troubling. Humbling. Enraging. The Sympathetic White Woman archetype is, to me, a warning to not let whiteness overrule sense and morals. To be smart about it. And, crucially, to check myself for condescension, especially when interacting with non-white folks in any capacity.

(Also why the presence of Benoit Blanc is so important. He is also sympathetic, he also offers his own support, but crucially, he just uses his whiteness to clear a path for the WOC protagonist to take her place and do what she needs to do. He doesn’t speak over her, he doesn’t turn on her, he just listens, and presents the truth for her to do with it what she will. Or, in one case, hands her highly volatile crystal hydrogen for when she’s really ready to tear the Murderer’s crap down.)

#knives out #glass onion #major spoilers for both obviously #and hoping I got this post right with what I was trying to say #listen I shotgunned both movies for the first time in a span of two days #I am VIBRATING with good brain juice

[sonofapunk]

knives out and glass onion are the two cakes example in real time for me; everyone is out here comparing them and im just sitting here like "oh shit two cakes"

#glass onion #knives out #listen. i do not care how they compare to each other #they are both good #they are both benoit blanc movies #they are both about woc getting vindication #i do not care if one is better #they are both delicious

[ednav]

Of course I love how Benoit Blanc is so shamelessly, fabulously, himself. How he’s gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide [GNU Terry Pratchett]. How he doesn’t hide that his brain is peculiar, for better or for worse. How he picks the cases he likes.

But I also love that in Glass Onion Rian Johnson shows us that Blanc can choose to be himself because he’s protected by his privilege of rich, upper-class, white man.

Which in turn leads me to notice how in both movies Blanc uses his privilege to protect a working-class woman and a Black woman, but he always refuses to be their saviour. He just creates the conditions in which they can choose to be themselves and save themselves—and punish their oppressors.

[Edit: A couple of people pointed out that Marta is actually white, even if the Thrombeys would probably disagree. I’d add that Helen isn’t exactly working-class, she’s simply less rich than the Disruptors shitheads. Anyway: I apologise—I’ve edited the post.]

#knives out #glass onion #glass onion spoilers #benoit blanc #benoit blanc is the opposite of batman #white savior complex #and lack thereof #rian johnson #checking your privilege #the monkeys on nitrous oxide pun is in good omens (the book) #gnu terry pratchett

[kallypsowrites]

I hope all of the ‘Knives Out’ films are different flavors of: Benoit Blanc says ‘eat the rich’. I could watch a million more of them.

#glass onion #benoit blanc #knives out #it was very good

[silverhorse123]

Okay, very mild Glass Onion spoilers:

I really loved that Benoit Blanc was shown to be depressed during the pandemic. I've seen so many pandemic living jokes, and we all SAW what rich people were up to in the pandemic. Benoit's opening scene of him, depressed, in the bathtub, playing Among Us, badly, with his friends that are concerned about him, was really meaningful. And that it was his husband that told his friends that he was depressed also really felt good to me. Benoit is shown time and time again to be one of the most human characters in media today, because he's allowed to be bad at things, sing to himself when left alone, have supportive friends, and has limits.

#glass Onion #knives out #glass Onion spoilers #hes also a good character bc he wears ascots #sorry i dont make the rules #1k

[thatonequeeraunt]

All Tumblr has to do to get me to watch something is to say that something is gay and have it trending for 5+ days

#goncharov #our flag means death #ofmd #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #interview with the vampire #iwtv #first kill #good omens #hannibal #the sandman #succession #breaking bad #killing eve #wednesday #glass onion #glass onion knives out #go2 #gos2 #good omens 2

[tradingjack]

how bout them apples

#millions knives #trimax spoilers #trigun #was gonna wait to post this one bc i wanna draw a similar one with a tree for vash but. im gonna forget lmao #besides i'm kinda proud of it. and it took a lot of work. related im never drawing a fucking snake again #trigun spoilers #trigun maximum #drawing #artists on tumblr #my art #illustration #comic #manga #fanart #traditional art #ink drawing #something about apple trees and knowledge corrupting and how fuckin small the tree is #growing up is hard huh #sucks you turned out that way knives. the way tristamp's goin i dont think it's gon get any better for you. good luck my guy #posting the before and after bc im gon be real i felt like i really overcooked with the grays and red #for the scan at least. i think it looks great in person lol

[ruporas]

soft (and some bittersweet)

#trigun stampede #trigun #vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #i think they both spent majority of their lives in solitude and ofc vash went town to town and made friendships promises and etc along the w #way + he had his home and whatnot in the long years he's been alive but he still just seemed so lonely. #in prior versions of trimax he had friends at home at least and maybe he mightv made some but luida and brad are basically just his #guardians in this adaption. like brad used to be a homie.... vash watched that little dude grow up.... and jessica too.... but he doesn't #have that in this adaption. nor a town like july where he had grown close to the townspeople and shaped that tragedy to be closer to his #heart. and wolfwood spent years fighting under the eom and doing shit under their jurisdiction when we saw him so adamantly try to reject #and fight back against that fate. i dont think he had a second at all to get familiar with townspeople or even care to #so its just these two lonely ass souls and vash immediately seeing the good in ww and points it out #ww who is under orders again to be involved in vash's business but he's also SO touchy about it bc vash is so careless and lack that self #regard and also just is not seeing the world that ww is seeing. but then vash helps him and saves him by sharing a piece of what /he/ sees #and it fucking. rescrambled ww's brain for a sec. HE GAVE HIM HOPE!!! he gave him hope!!!! and in turn ww gave vash hope too and its #all done in like 3-4 eps. there's so much fervent attachment in what they managed to give each other in such a short time #but theyre limited to the contract to the inevitable confrontation with knives - so while theyd want to give into that chance to love this #person who managed to give them smth special they just can't at all #ruporas art

[cable-knit-sweater]

Idk what kind of message you’re sending putting poor Dodger in outfits your sociopathic characters have worn Chris 😂 But he wears it just as well 🥺🥺😍😍

#chris evans #dodger evans #loooook at these gorgeous boys #one sociopath one good boy 🥰🥰 #lloyd hansen #ransom drysdale #the gray man #knives out

[cassiecasyl]

I wanna put them in a room together

#aziraphale #good omens #stede bonnet #ofmd #our flag means death #stede #ofmd stede #benoit blanc #knives out #glass onion