Benoit Blanc From acclaimed writer-director Rian Johnson comes this suspenseful, twist-filled whodunnit with an all-star ensemble cast including Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana Excuse me. But I like the title. This page was last edited on 12 April 2023, at 16:32. Knives Out - Wikiquote Knives Out: Detective Benoit Blanc's 10 Greatest Quotes - Screen Thank you all for coming. That, to me, seemed more fruitful for a lot of reasons. As opposed to, "Oh my God, this person was lying the whole time!" Company Credits Can we ask why? This wasn't a parody. I have eliminated no suspects. I promise not to ask Star Wars questions, but I feel like this belongs in many ways: what I find pleasurable about The Last Jedi, pleasurable about Knives Out, and pleasurable about Looper is that they are asking the right questions. Blanc really benefited from this throughout the film, and so did the audience who gravitated towards him as a character and the quotable things he said. And then we realize, truly and sincerely: It was about "whom has done this" the whole time! The Moment: Daniel : I don't know what any of that means. Until, around halfway through the picture, Johnson pulls the rug out from under us and tells us exactly whom has done this. With objective clarity, her coffee mug reveals the new stasis: Her house, her rules, her Harlan Thrombey told Marta, and us, explicitly, right before the scene where Johnson "told us explicitly" that Marta had killed him. (. Well, to be fair, you make a pretty lousy murderer. As soon as that truth comes out, the games are over. That was the dumbest car chase of all time. Has something changed? : You have not been good to her. Benoit Blanc We've got an explanation, but not a southern drawl. : That's my insight. Oh they're my family. Benoit Blanc : Et voila, my method. The money's out there, you pick it up, it's yours. Leave it to Rian Johnson to take something consistently sweet like a donut or a whodunit and twist it into something that's brand new, inventively clever, and still tastes and feels like said donut or whodunit murder mystery. : Oct 17 2022 7:39 AM. Which means that she did not kill Harlan Thrombey. Really trying to get to the heart of why I love it, and also then, in the telling of it, explore something that, right here, right now, feels like it matters and is on my heart. Lieutenant Elliott Well, you're not getting bailed out, not this time. (being questioned, about Jacob) He's an alt-right dipstick troll. https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Knives_Out&oldid=3279060, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. That was also, first of all, knowing that I wanted to get around to the library scene at the end where the detective explains everything. They are happy to be serious with each other, but this scene allowed them to joke around as well. One thing that you said at the Q&A last night really stuck with me was this idea that I got to be with these characters, and the types of characters you see in these classic whodunits, at the time, were very modern reflections in the people you saw. Benoit Blanc The thing I was thinking during this and I hate to compare a movie I really loved to a book I really don't like but Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me, which told a James Bond story from the point of view of somebody who was not James Bond. Web(to Marta) RICHARD (ON PHONE) (cont'd) Ransom. : In twenty years, people will say, "Oh, this movie is set in 2019." ?W_j4 WebChop, chop, chop Im picking up the speed. The knife blurred as he dipped it in between the small spaces in his hand. Ransom Drysdale That is hooey! ", You and Harlan were "drama mamas", you shared a love of twisting the knife into one another. What? It compels me though. I've found that to be true. Interesting. Dogs are known as man's best friend for a reason, and the way that Harlan's hounds behave ends up being one of the biggest clues as to how Blanc ends up cracking the case in Knives Out. Marta Cabrera 'Knives Out' Director Rian Johnson On The Beauty Of A Killer Monologue And Crafting A Mystery Evocative Of 2019 [Interview]. (laughs) and to overthink filmmakers and their choices. Ms. Cabrera has decided, definitively, not to renounce the inheritance. Miles, ever the idiot, then poisoned Duke in plain sightpouring pineapple juice, which Duke is allergic to, into his drink. For the first half of this movie, he's filmed often out of focus in the background, and even during big sequences, he is in doorways behind the action. : That's some heavy-duty conjecture. It's usually more like Columbo or Poirot or Miss Marple, who's kind of the pleasant old lady serving you tea and asking questions because she's a curious woman. Meg Thrombey I feel like in this case and not to undervalue what Daniel Craig is doing here but in the case of an Agatha Christie hero or a Knives Out hero, the detective is the broad personality who exists to make the reader feel smart and satisfied as opposed to being the troubled guy you can relate with. But then you're constantly always looking for and there's plenty of stuff where it's like, "God, can we cut away?" Everything We Know About Whilst you stir on these revelations, a sequel titled Knives Out 2 is on its way! : He then switched the cups, so he could make it look like heMileswas the intended target. I suspect foul play. The hospital call didn't say Fran was going to recover and confess -- it said that Fran had died. Ransom's confession was thus of an actual murder of Fran. : There's a long, winding, explanation, and quite I do agree with him that suspense is a much stronger engine for a movie. Otherwise, I think we would have lost our minds. It also works as a great method of calming down Marta who is clearly a little anxious and scared heading into the room. You've always been good to me. On some very big meta level, there is that thing that's usually a Eureka moment. Knives Out, Star Wars, Brick it is a type of thing we think we've seen a thousand times before, but it's being dissected right in front of us by somebody who loves it and wants to understand why it works. Knives Out (2019) - A Confession Scene (10/10) | Movieclips Not necessarily that it's an anti-Trump screed, but that it was produced in the mindset of him being President of the United States right now. Good bye. 100%. Richard Drysdale Blanc. OK, don't answer that if you're going to puke. I feel simultaneously freed by and supported by them, that balance of opposites is the nugget of Flam. : : I think this could be the best thing to happen to *all* of you! One thing this movie does share with Clue is I feel there's nothing more satisfying and you may agree with this than the final twenty minutes where the detective monologues and explains how it all happened. Benoit Blanc Because you have a good heart. Everything We Know About the KNIVES OUT Sequel, GLASS ONION One central piece, and if it reveals itself, the fog would lift, the arc would resolve, the Slinky become unkinked. Suddenly, everyone is spookedand the friends start blaming "Andi." You think I'm not going to fight to protect my own, our birthright, our ancestral home Benoit Blanc I dont fear death. What was that about will readings being boring? Benoit Blanc | : : Anything we could find where we could illustrate what he's talking about by actually cutting to it, that was a big lesson in this, was how much that helped. Johnson's attention-to-detail as an artist and care for his story go an incredibly long way, and the second installment, Glass Onion, once again keeps viewers on their toes for each and every twist and turn. So how is Brick and Knives Out different in the same that Chandler and Christie are different than each other? It means your son is a little creep. Jesus, Ransom. Benoit Blanc xs&mMlm'm{bd. Eh, Watson? It's a novel. : I'm going to say this just to you. I wanted to give the movie an engine that was closer to a Hitchcock thriller. And Ransom, figuring "why not go two for two? Ransom Drysdale My hope was that partway through the movie, you'd be thinking, "Oh, is he just going to end up being not really?" : So, while it isn't necessarily an original quote, it is still a lot of fun to see and it really works with Benoit's character. : 10 Of The Best Thrillers From The Last 5 Years, Top 10 Murder Mysteries Of The 21st Century (According To IMDb), part of the investigation that drives the course of, 10 Other Movies To Watch With The Cast Of Knives Out, Knives Out: Top 10 Best Quotes From Ransom Drysdale, Knives Out: Top 10 Most Fashionable Family Members, Ranked, "I'm Not Gonna Be 80": Michael J. I haven't read it though. WebKnives Out(2019) follows a family gathering gone horribly awry when the familys patriarch (Christopher Plummer), dies and three detectives, (Daniel Craig, Lakeith Stanfield, Noah He's a quick talker, but whatever he says often has a meaning as he uses his words brilliantly to get answers and clues from people. In discussing the nature of games (Harlan loved playing Go with Marta), Harlan says this about Ransom as a player: Ransom. What is this, CSI: KFC? A doughnut hole in the doughnut's hole. : and hurtles toward Marta! We watch as Blanc explains carefully -- well, maybe not "carefully" but certainly "colorfully" -- the truth behind this twisted collection of raw dough: Ransom, whom we thought to be Marta's newfound ally, is the only person in the room guilty of a crime. He has no common sense. But the complexity and the gray lie not in the truth but what you do with the truth once you have it. All she navigated was the present tense of what she believed to be the truth in front of her, the consequences of actions both given their proper respects and never run away from. An envelope? He loves weird movies, watches too much TV, and listens to music more often than he doesnt. : | Really trying to get at the heart, as opposed to it would feel boring to me to kind of do karaoke with these things. But before we got there, we talked about other things. What? : If you're a completionist, it's worth it. : Benoit Blanc Absolutely, that's he's taking everything in. Knives Out This is a twisted web, and we are not finished untangling it, not yet. But Benoit Blanc realizes something very important: Miles Bron, the billionaire tech "genius" is, in fact, an idiot. It's just a really funny line and is one that audiences certainly go away talking about afterwards. Find out where to watch online amongst 15+ services including Netflix, Hotstar, Hooq. This line perfectly sums upKnives Out's Detective Benoit Blanc as a character as he certainly has his own unique personality and way with words when it comes to making announcements. Well, I have my own opinions. Ransom Drysdale Apologies to Chris Evans chunky sweater, but theres a lot less wool and a lot more linen in the Knives Out follow-up, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. : : I was looking over your filmography leading up to this interview and revisiting some of the movies and I started asking myself, "What is a Rian Johnson film?" And yes, what you and Harlan did that fateful night seems at first glance to fill that hole perfectly. Now the case is closed. : You won, not by playing the game Harlan's way, but yours. We know this from the first scene on. | Richard Drysdale Another bit of great work done by Mr. Benoit Blanc, and more great supporting performances by the entire cast. Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for Knives Out. : But we must look a little closer. being the punch at the end, revealing it so that you're engaged with it. We talked, spoiler-free, about the unique perspective from which the film takes place. Ransom Drysdale A case with a hole in the center. Richard Drysdale Meg Thrombey Well, it's when Men's Rights Activist YouTuber Duke (Bautista) drops dead right in the middle of the party. But I think you should follow your heart. (laughs) When you're anyone who makes stuff, if you start thinking of it in terms of, "What is the type of thing I make?" : It's only once they blow his house upthanks to his highly-combustible, highly-unsafe fuelthat, sitting outside, they finally decide that they do remember all the terrible things that Miles has done. Not what I was expecting at all. That meant having a point of view of somebody who there could be a threat that we would feel against, that we would sympathize with them, and that means basically having the point of view of somebody who's not the detective. There's a long, winding, explanation, and quite frankly, Rian Johnson is better at explaining it through Daniel Craig's iconic southern drawl than we ever could be. Ransom Drysdale Desperate motives, with the mystery of who hired me, the impossibility of the crime, and yet a doughnut. Ransom Drysdale : % Knives Out Summary | GradeSaver Oh shut up! The detective comes into her life and we get to see everything he's doing essentially through her perspective. Suddenly the gears are turning. Heres How Benoit Blanc Solves the Glass Onion Mystery and Finds the Killer, 9 Celebs You Didn't Know Guest Starred On Seinfeld, he's dressed like Tom Cruise's idiot motivational speaker character from, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. What you said there is exactly the Hitchcock approach. And that's that! Benoit Blanc And yes, what you and Harlan did that fateful night seems at first glance to fill that hole perfectly. : And when we do, we see that the donut hole has a hole in its center - it is not a donut hole at all but a smaller donut with its own hole, and our donut is not a hole at all!". Shut up! Knives Out Walt Thrombey While he initially is there just to solve a case, he does end up caring about some of the characters, which is what he showcases when he talks to Great Nana. It takes brass balls to sell real estate. (Laughs). Someone suspects foul play and goes through this hacha dance of hiring me and staying anonymous. I love that. You'd think it'd be like a game show, but think of a community theatre production of a tax return. KNIVES OUT A Murder Mystery by Rian Johnson - Deadline And what I'm about to say isn't going to be easy and you're going to be upset. A lot of the stuff we're talking about is stuff that we'd filmed, so there are plenty of instances where we're like, "Well, he's saying this. << /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageB /ImageC /ImageI ] /ColorSpace << /Cs1 8 0 R Johnson does not pull any such "he was alive the whole time!" Playing life like a game without consequence, until you cant tell the difference between a stage prop and a real knife. Company Credits That was the thing with the actors. But I'd imagine that age deepens all feelings. Ransom Drysdale : What were the words overheard by the Nazi child masturbatin' in the bathroom? All of that stuff, to me, kind of unweaving the whole meta puzzle of it all, is like candy. No, the thing is, what we shot and what we cut together is very much on the page. I'm writing that down. : In the movie's flashback scenes intentionally or not, he's dressed like Tom Cruise's idiot motivational speaker character from Magnolia. 'Knives Out' Director Rian Johnson On The Beauty Of A Killer Yes, I mean, that's dramatic, but look around. It describes the path of a projectile determined by natural law. Throughout the early inquiry, Benoit Blanc plays his cards fairly close to his chest, keeping his thoughts and feelings very much under wraps. Knives Out Best Movie Quotes This is a twisted web. Matter of fact, eat shit. And when we do, we see that the donut hole has a hole in its center -- it is not a donut hole at all but a smaller donut with its own hole, and our donut is not a hole at all! BANG Showbiz 12/22/2022. 'Knives Out 2: Glass Onion' Ending Explained: Who Is the Killer? There are plenty of star-studded suspects in the form of Thrombey's family (Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, Chris Evans, Toni Collette), and plenty of juicy motives for each of them (lack of respect, lack of financial support, discovery of infidelity). And now you think you can steal it from us. That was always a structural thing I knew I wanted to do with it. And Johnson carefully places a rug back under our feet as he indulges in one of the greatest tropes of the whodunit: The eccentric detective eccentrically describing the truth behind the case. Harlan, he bought this place in the 80's from a Pakistani real estate millionaire . Am I correct in that? You've always been good to me. Here, you have characters who are very archetypal of 2019. Ransom Drysdale Hey asshole not her name not her job! I feel a noose tightening. Knives Out Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to request that you all stay until the investigation is completed. Ransom Drysdale Release Dates I observe the facts without biases of the head or heart. Quirky Available to rent or buy Rent UHD $3.99 Buy UHD $14.99 More purchase options Benoit Blanc God morning, Mrs. Thrombey. 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Daniel Craig in Knives Out. It was Marta. This is a twisted web, and we are not finished untangling it, not yet. The danger of it is that it usually hinges on surprise and not suspense. One that tied straight into Knives Out, which is unquestionably one of the year's straight-up most entertaining movies. You bet Skippy, let's go! Should we cut to a little flash of this?" : Ransom Drysdale Knives Out is a 2019 film about a detective who investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family. That is hooey! %PDF-1.3 That's the danger of the detective, I guess. [laughing] /Rotate 0 >> : Knives Out (2019) - Chris Evans as Ransom Drysdale - IMDb "My will" and "I'm warning you. : Missed the funeral. And what I'm about to say isn't going to be easy and you're going to be upset. Please. : I don't know. I've got to do this more often. Ransom Drysdale Wait a minute - I read a tweet about a New Yorker article about you! : Of course, this phrase is better off associated with Sherlock Holmes, but having Benoit Blanc say it certainly worked within this movie. He's the talentSTEPHEN STILLSHeySTILLS shuts the door on a confused KnivesSTEPHEN STILLSIs she gonna geek out on us? Yeah, absolutely. The only way to fix this broken reality, to give Marta's purity its proper path, was to tell the truth about Ransom's horrible games. Good bye. Oh, my son's a creep. I'm not playing to beat you, I'm playing to build a beautiful pattern. stream That turn? I think for me the key is, to whatever extent I'm consciously thinking about this stuff, to me like for a whodunit. I'm going to say this just to you. He makes this situation even more confusing when he admits that the person who dodged the question is himself, as he doesn't know who paid for him to be there. I determine the arc's path, stroll to its terminus and the truth falls at my feet. : Oh shut up! Marta Cabrera Confident, stupid, I dont know, protected. What? We allowed you into our home, let you watch our grand dad, welcome you into our family. Walt Walt Thrombey He's an associate editor for Collider and has written for Shudder, CBS, Paste Magazine, Guff, Smosh, Obsev Studios, and more. It's just inevitable. Bring on Knives Out 3. It's more interesting than good. The 54-year-old actor reprises his role as sleuth Benoit Blanc in the : But I thought after what you've gone through the last few days you deserve to hear it from me. But Ana de Armas, she's the real lead here. Ransom Drysdale Oh, very nice! I have eliminated no suspects. : It's from this point on the investigation really begins and that makes it so much fun to watch. 'Saturday Night Live': Ana de Armas learned English watching WebRansom Drysdale : [to Marta] I'm going to say this just to you. I suspect foul play. That mean just drawing a broad range of types, of caricatures, of different types from 2019. If it's about today, it has to be about today. You're a pack of vultures, knives out and beaks bloody. I anticipate the terminus of Gravity's Rainbow. Then of course there's all sorts of tropes that you can use, or not, of the big cast of suspects and the locked door and the person who everybody wanted something from who ends up dead.
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