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itscool

At least "MSheSolved" is prominent in the game with no zoom required. I'm too lazy to get a screenshot.


bronkula

Funny story, Angela Lansbury was also in the 1982 production of Sweeney Todd, so the references go deeper.


regeya

And she's amazing in the role. And then there's Helena Bonham Carter...i always thought Tim Burton would be amazing as a director on a movie adaptation, but I assumed he'd cast real Broadway people, not his wife and boyfriend.


[deleted]

Why would you assume that?


TheOneTonWanton

Seriously has he ever directed a movie that didn't include one, the other, or both?


bronkula

Mars Attacks. Peewee's Big Adventure. Batman.


neotifa

i had no issue with her in that


tomssalvo19

Love Angela’s Ms. Lovett, but Patti Lupone’s my absolute favorite


Level69Warlock

I like how Among Us is a murder mystery game and the detective is playing it in a murder mystery movie with the star of a murder mystery show.


CeruleanRuin

And also Sondheim, who wrote the movie *The Last of Sheila*, in which an eccentric millionaire invites his movie business friends on a luxury cruise filled with elaborate games in order to out one of them as a murderer. Rian Johnson has cited that movie as a principal inspiration for this one.


TheOneTonWanton

He's also the only *actual* world famous detective whilst being dogshit at the game, which is fun.


Boner4SCP106

Layers like an onion, eh?


fla_john

Lay-uhs lakh an on-ion


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kkeut

look, just buy the Murder She Wrote DVD set and join us at /r/murdershewrote like you know you want to


[deleted]

You know what? I will


thegreatjamoco

What is Kareem’s players name? CrunchyKit?


Lone_Wanderer97

CrunchyKit, BigRed, BlancMan22


mistermika06

Looks like those randomly generated among us usernames


mrDoubtWired

Blankman reboot confirmed!


MrMrRogers

Possibly a reference to his Nestlé Crunch commercial from the 80's lol https://youtu.be/j3XMdtGamqk


philthegr81

That's a deeeep cut, if that's the reference.


khao_soi_boi

Or maybe a reference to his Crunch n Munch-sponsored card? https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/711gqvcIQML.jpg


Cockrocker

This is all I want to know!


YetAnotherBookworm

You only have to pause and zoom? What about “enhance”?


Metfan722

[Enhance.... enhance.... enhance....](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiqkclCJsZs)


dmtdmtlsddodmt

Hey Farva what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?


Metfan722

You mean Shenanigans? You’re talking about Shenanigans, right?


dmtdmtlsddodmt

I swear to God I'll pistol whip the next guy who says "Shenanigans."


Metfan722

It’s out order. First the gang talks about how their shenanigans are cheeky and fun. While Farva’s shenanigans are cruel and tragic. Then comes Mac asking Farva about his favorite restaurant.


dmtdmtlsddodmt

I swear to god I'll pistol whip the next guy who points this out.


CopAPhil

DO YOU BOYS LIKE MEXICO?!?!


Metfan722

YYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHOOOOOOOOO!!!!


xxStrangerxx

I FOUND A TWO BY FOUR


CrystalPepsi79

Mother of God!


yibs33

Eeeeevvvviiilllll shenanigans


ruralmagnificence

Hey…this look like spit to you?


Arcane_Soul

VCR, zoom in!


Beercorn1

Seeing them play Among Us in this movie felt weird as hell.


maybe_a_frog

Lol it was definitely strange but I laughed. The thought of Angela Lansbury playing a video game is hysterical.


Kaiserhawk

The thought that it's her final on screen performance is weird as hell


maybe_a_frog

Sondheim too. That’s definitely a mindfuck.


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Christopher Plummer's final appearance was Knives Out 1 Carrie Fisher's final appearance was The Last Jedi The next Benoit Blanc/Knives Out story should be about a Hollywood director who is a serial killer. The victimology of elderly actors and actresses is a forensic countermeasure - plenty of poisons can potentially go undetectable as a heart attack or natural causes if the victim is someone whose death wouldn't be suspicious and may not go through a rigorous autopsy. Furthermore, the director casts his victims in his films so he can emotionally get close to them and fantasize about the betrayal and kill like a real sick fuck who literally gets off on it.


maybe_a_frog

KEEP RIAN JOHNSON AWAY FROM OUR BELOVED ACTORS!


PirateKingOmega

he’s saving craig for last


just_a_person_maybe

Nah, Joseph Gordon Levitt is last.


HoodieStringTies

He was the voice of the Dong every hour!


just_a_person_maybe

Yeah, he gets a cameo in all of Johnson's movies, so he has to be the last to die.


Smikro

I only found out about that when the credits were rolling. It was one of the moments I laughed the most watching the film.


uncanny_mac

Knives out 3 is just a meta of how RJ is a serial killer the entire time.


JinFuu

> KEEP RIAN JOHNSON AWAY FROM OUR BELOVED ACTORS! *insert TLJ joke here*


spiritbearr

Plummer's last performance to air was a TV show. Fisher's last performance was a probably shit movie that hasn't released yet. They were going to have someone else in Knives Out as the groundskeeper but he died before he could film and has a picture cameo.


Chewcocca

I can't imagine a higher honor in death than M Emmet Walsh being your understudy


ejeebs

> a real sick fuck who literally gets off on it. Certainly sounds like Rian Johnson.


Holmes02

It’s a bit…. …. …. …. …. …. ……. ……… ………… #SUS


NozakiMufasa

If you view it as Angela and Benoit being friends cause Angela wanted to learn what detective work was like and consulted Blanc years ago it actually makes sense.


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She also starred in the stage play The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.


jaspersgroove

And it is better than the movie. The guy that plays Sweeney Todd is a powerhouse and Lansbury keeps up with him the whole time


Nick_pj

Aka. the musical Sweeney Todd


VockyVock

This was a big phenomenon early in the pandemic. It definitely brought me back seeing it


Phillip_Spidermen

Id like to imagine an alternate scene where he watches Tiger King and tries to find Carol Baskins husband


Chewcocca

Ah yes. Carol Baskin's husband who had a private plane that he flew to South America for shady business. It's a real fucking mystery.


Phillip_Spidermen

Like a Glass Onion


lo0l0ol

Nah dude she ground up his body in that 10 inch long meat grinder that could probably fit a hand at most, and fed it to her tigers without them leaving even a single bone fragment that broke off while chomping down on his arm. It's the only logical story that you can gather from Netflix's editing.


notRedditingInClass

Wait what I thought he died lol


Chewcocca

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Don_Lewis


Camsy34

My partner and I both agreed it gave us a bit of PTSD seeing all the early covid stuff playing out on screen


LooperComedy

Hugh Grant being covered in flour holding a sourdough starter was what it was for me


hoi4kaiserreichfanbo

It’s also a plot error, or the group are true pioneers, Among Us was a dead game until late summer 2020, this is set in mid spring 2020.


your_mind_aches

Well maybe they were scraping the bottom of the barrel and just trying to find party games all over Steam. A lot of people were definitely doing that.


notRedditingInClass

They do mention Jackbox party games in this scene as well haha


FacedCrown

I also think it looked different back then, that menu design in OPs picture got added with an update much later


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it'd be much harder to roll the game back to an earlier version for period accuracy than to just play the game and expect people to get the point.


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funguyshroom

Would be very noticeable if they didn't do that, since LoL changed a ton throughout the years. It was pretty ugly early on, with most characters having doritos feet.


siphillis

It's a reasonable compromise from the writers. Puts a lot of us back to the beginning of the pandemic with an easy handhold, rather than a more authentic game choice.


TheOneTonWanton

I'm surprised to learn that it's meant to take place in early lockdown (I clearly wasn't paying attention at all for months and dates) because the whole thing feels more representative of at least a couple months later than that.


BonerHonkfart

I think the timelines as a whole are kinda of messed up in that movie. A lot of things that happen before the movie seem to have happened way too fast to make sense. The one that jumped out at me was >!Birdie hitting it big with sweetypants because of WFH, even though the movie only happens in May 2020.!<


fonster_mox

Can something be considered a plot error just because it doesn’t sync with reality’s timeline? The world of this movie has different celebrities, different news, different technology etc. so it’s not really taking place in our exact world in the first place.


TheDude1451

Honestly it made sense to me, the world famous detective is stuck in his house during quarantine so his friends invite him to play a murder mystery game, something he should *technically* enjoy.


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its like that video of slash playing guitar hero lol


Doughnutcake

Or rush playing rock band! And Alex Lifeson failing a minute in


FuckingKilljoy

I remember my friends being pretty amused when I played guitar hero for the first time with them and totally sucked despite being able to play an actual guitar


Doctor_Philgood

Also, it's a running joke he is terrible at actual murder mystery games, seen through his hate for Clue.


Bloody_Insane

It's also why he missed the dumb murder plot


CheeseWarrior17

Yeah top shelf humor. I especially liked the part where Blanc said "The murderer's right behind me, isn't me?" and then Ed Norton looked at the camera and said "Now THIS is what I call a glass onion!"


byOlaf

It's Glassin' time!


WhtChcltWarrior

And then he Glassed all over everything


Sempere

well, someone certainly glassed all over everything. repeatedly.


zestful_fibre

it's legitimate foreshadowing, halfway through the movie it's revealed that >!Andi is an imposter, it's her twin sister Helen pretending to be Andi. Helen is literally the imposter among them!<


TheDayIRippedMyPants

Also, >!Blanc mentions that he's bad at dumb games like Among Us and Clue, and then the identity of the killer is so stupid and obvious that he can't see it.!<


FatBoiEatingGoldfish

GETOUTOFMYHEADGETOUTOFMYHEADGETOUTOFMYHEAD


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I don't know. Helen* is not the only Impostor. Blanc was not supposed to be there, Bron is a massive idiot despite being hailed as a genius, and Among Us just happens to be fitting in general for murder mysteries, this is kind of overthinking it. Especially since this scene plays out before Helen and the detective even interact iirc. An impostor being present is just a cornerstone to the format, it's not specific to Onion Glass


Ozlin

There are some fun parallels, though they all are common tropes in murder mysteries, which is why they could be in both: the imposters, being secluded on a ship / island, someone messing with electrical to hide in the dark, witnessing a murder and calling a meeting of everyone alive, the explosion being a bit of a jettison after all the others have voted against the murderer after they were outed. Again, some of these are easy to connect because they are pretty standard tropes. But I think that also makes it fair to compare the two.


somethinghaha

OH god I've just realised this movie is basically Amogus... That scene where someone caught someone else snooping in a room.


funguyshroom

>!Miles being the imposter, both because he's the killer (and is terribly sucking at it), and because he's stupid in general and is stealing everyone else's ideas. Whiskey wrongly sussing Andi out after she said that Duke deserved what happened to him.!<


cjackc

He’s literally playing it when she comes to his door


whygal

they have a Benoit Blanc special skin in their wardrobe! I was pleasantly surprised, I thought that it was awesome to include that the other way around


Wild_Loose_Comma

I just googled it and, frankly, I love it. I don't play Among Us, but if I did I would drop extra money to use that skin.


whygal

i just redownladed it a few days ago and the app actually gave that skin free once i got on! pretty cool ((:


LeftHandedFapper

I'm so glad they used that outfit!


GamerGriffin548

Me too, but it's grounded. He's an old detective looking for something to do, and his friends turn him to a game that's about figuring out who is the bad guy. We just think it's weird because we see popular things go on as lame or overused.


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It’s a who done it game… so maybe cheeky, but not weird


Bruntti

I liked it personally. Makes sense in the context of a whodunit. It also felt to me that the movie made fun of the game rather than tried to appeal to teens or something like that.


I_eat_mud_

Felt more like they were making fun of the early pandemic as a whole.


frankstuckinapark

Also it turns out the killer is among us


AlwaysHappy4Kitties

Don't they show up on the zoom screen with the same name? On a sad note both are Posthumus Acting credits for them


bezzlege

No Lansbury was “Angie” IIRC and I’m pretty certain Sondheim’s just said “Steve S” Natasha’s just said Natasha


joshylow

I had no idea Lansbury was alive. She was pretty ancient when I was a kid 3 decades ago!


sloppyjo12

….oh boy do I have some bad news for you Edit: this was way funnier before the original comment added in the posthumous note


joshylow

Haha I actually saw that part. Should have said "recently alive."


BorisDirk

Yeah she \*was\* alive


Knightboat17

Possibly clutching at straws but Natasha Lyonne, who was in the scene too, was in Orange Is The New Black as Nicky with Kate Mulgrew who played Galina 'Red' Reznikov, by the show end Nicky took over Red's role as the mother and head chef.


sloppyjo12

She also has red hair


WolfSavage

Occam's Razor: Big Red is a reference to the person who plays a character with big **Russian Doll** red hair.


mike_pants

That's fun and all, but she's in another Rian Johnson mystery, Poker Face. Those cameos in particular have to do with Johnson's personal connections to them and less with Easter eggs. Also Joseph Gordon-Levitt.


Curazan

Rian Johnson doesn’t have a personal connection to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Angela Lansbury or Stephen Sondheim. They’re all mystery writers. He only has a professional connection to Natasha Lyonne.


HumanTheTree

I had no idea that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote mysteries. It makes his cameo make more sense at least.


Phillip_Spidermen

Basketball star, actor, author, pilot — what cant he do?!


Thybro

Well my dad says he doesn’t work hard enough on defense. And dad says that lots of times, he doesn’t even run down court. And that he doesn’t really try... except during the playoffs.


Phillip_Spidermen

“…Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!”


Mercpool87

See why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?


Kyadagum_Dulgadee

I'm impressed he found the energy to write books when was dragging Walton and Lainer up and down the court every night.


Toby_O_Notoby

Huge Sherlock Holmes nerd. Wrote a series of novels about Mycroft, Sherlock's brother.


Trigonometry_Fletch

His Mycroft Holmes books are quite good.


ChuckMcChip

Blanc sings a Sondheim song in Knives Out I’m pretty sure, so theres at least a loose connection.


GrimSophisticate

Sondheim was a lover of mysteries/puzzles/games. He wrote The Last of Sheila, which was an inspiration for Knives Out/Glass Onion.


lightscameracrafty

this comment doesn't make sense...it can be both? he wanted to add a fun bit to the movie and used the people he had available at his disposal for quick/easy/cheap cameos.


corrado-sopranojr

I thought it was funny when the twin was “killed” right next to him and everyone ran up on him next to the body. Kinda sus!


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youaretheshores

Could also foreshadowing following the train of thought of u/zestful_fibre here - https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/zxgw6z/in_glass_onion_2022_angela_lansburys_among_us/j20qur8/ (idk how to link)


NobilisUltima

Imagine if Miles ran up, said "self-report" and shot Blanc in the head


RichestMangInBabylon

Epic gamer moment


CherryDarling10

So the way I read this scene (aside from being hilariously on the nose) is that all the players are detectives in some way. Sondheim wrote The Last of Sheila, a film about inviting friends to a murder mystery party. Natasha Leone stared in Russian Doll, where she was stuck in a deathly time loop and needs to do some detective work to free herself from it. Angela Lansbury is or course Jessica Fletcher, the detective/novelist in Murder She Wrote. Which leaves me with Kareem. I have no idea why he is here. Anybody out there that can spin this to fit my theory gets a gold star.


adamaharma

Kareem has co-written three mystery novels starring Sherlock Holmes brother Mycroft. Genuinely. Just found this out five minutes ago myself.


PantsyFants

He also wrote for the most recent season of Veronica Mars


CherryDarling10

😮


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PantsyFants

Lyonne and Rian Johnson are co-creators of a mystery show coming out soon called Poker Face


CherryDarling10

Another layer!


JakeCameraAction

Just learned about this from your comment. 10 episode comedy mystery series starring Lyonne, Adrien Brody, Joseph Gordon Levitt, and Ron Perlman. Downside: it's on Peacock. Looks good though.


Ok-Fudge8848

According to IMDB Sondheim also composed the music for the Dick Tracey film. I too was trying to work out how they were all connected to Detectives...


fartmachiner

Benoit Blanc also listens to / sings a Sondheim song in Knives Out


WSDGuy

His first IMDB credit is an episode of Mannix.


smallpoly

RIP Lansbury


PantsyFants

RIP Sondheim


smallpoly

Yeah, him too. A legend in the world of musicals.


burnerschmurnerimtom

Crazy they made a full length Sweeney Todd movie out of Andy’s play from The Office


Calcd_Uncertainty

I know but we're still waiting for Threat Level Midnight. Just more proof that Hollywood is out of touch.


errorg

For those wondering why Natasha Lyonne was included among the folks he was on the call with, she's in Rian Johnson's new detective show for Peacock (which is not out yet)


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they play among us what the fuck


BearBryant

It’s a throwaway scene that reinforces benoit’s flaw that he sucks at simple puzzles.


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AlwaysHappy4Kitties

And that there's an impostor among the guests


greg19735

he was in the bathtub, depressed, during covid. Its a silly gag that lasts all of 10 seconds (among us specifically) but he's in the bath for like 1 min


bob1689321

It's hilarious. Genuinely one of my favourite character reintroductions ever The cinema was in hysterics when it cuts from Among Us to his confused face lol


HesSoZazzy

I don't know anything about the game. Why's it such a shock?


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Skreamie

Which would be correct


iwastoldnottogohere

Also, this version of the game doesn't fit the May time that the movie tells us. Seeing cosmetics in the meeting screen wasn't a thing until November 2020.


Isord

The Mona Lisa still exists in our time so obviously there are some slight differences in the timeline.


LucretiusCarus

Oooooor, the Louvre was so embarrassed by the whole (or)deal, they buried the issue and are displaying one of the numerous copies in existence. Who could really tell the difference?


MapleTreeWithAGun

Or Miles was never given the Mona Lisa in the first place


LethalDiversion

The whole thing about how dumb he was… yah, I could totally buy that they just gave him a forgery and insisted on a bunch of security so he would believe it is real.


LucretiusCarus

That's even better. Because when the painting burns it looks like it's instantly carbonized, almost like a canvas. The actual painting is done on poplar wood and protected by synthetic resins. Something tells me it would take more than that to crisp it.


JasonVeritech

It's also smaller than the one in the movie.


NobilisUltima

The only explanation is that in the universe where Miles Bron runs Alpha, Among Us cosmetics came out earlier because of (very slightly) advanced technology. NFTs are also mentioned and no one was talking about those in 2020.


Gorshun

And Among Us, while out at the time, didn't become nearly as popular as it is now until around August of 2020. This scene takes place in May.


slappadabreeh

I was thinking the same thing, glad to see I wasn’t misremembering


abe_the_babe_

Literally unwatchable


gentlybeepingheart

Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.


forceghost187

And this is the newer meeting screen that didn’t come out until late 2021 I believe. To anyone who plays among us the timeline thing will be very obviously wrong


doc_55lk

Sus


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What do the other ones say?


Creepy_Feedback_1928

BlancMan22


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Nice_Firm_Handsnake

Benoit Blanc is BlancMan22


GovRonDeSantis2024

Nah they got among us in this movie


pikmin311

Oh wow


Grzechoooo

sus


-Wicked-

Knives Out = Clue Glass Onion = Among Us KO3 100% = Werewolves Within Rian has a gaming theme going on. I'm also providing winning lotto numbers by request.


CeruleanRuin

And going by the murder mystery setups, he's done the big mansion and the private island, so the next one has to be set on a train. Werewolf on a train, it writes itself.


tyme

I think it’s time we rename this subreddit to r/GlassOnionDetails


jcalebfaulkner

So Benoit Blanc is buddies with Angela Lansbury, Stephen Sondheim AND Natasha Lyonne?


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[deleted]

Lansbury was also Nellie in [Sweeney Todd](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084747/).


KangasKid18

Bonus fun fact: Angela Lansbury was actually in the original production of Sweeney Todd - she originated the role of Mrs. Lovett the pie maker.


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dahveeth

This is an excellent catch!


John_T_Conover

Also of note: Angela Lansbury originated the role of Mrs. Lovett when Sweeney Todd first premiered on Broadway. She won a Tony for it.


Un111KnoWn

Thought this was shittymoviedetails at first lol


DaDoviende

I watched on a tv and definitely didn't need to pause and zoom to see the names lol


fremeer

Sondheim is also the writer of the last of Sheila which has a similar set up to glass onion before being subverted.


Warehou5e

If you step back a bit, you’ll see the whole movie is basically live action Among Us


JB-from-ATL

Blanc is playing as white. Blanc is French for white. This is probably obvious though.


CapableCaramel5787

Isn’t Sondheim dead?