![]() ![]() But it's not as if class hasn't been crucial to the genre. ![]() Johnson knew he wasn't making a subtle movie, but he was also careful to not make it didactic. I don't know, the fact that it's this thing where everyone is sucking on these little robots just cracks me up." "In the script I just have on a single line, 'Meg vapes.' It's like, 'Jesus wept,'" Johnson says. Katherine Langford's Meg, Harlan's liberal grandchild, takes some not so discreet puffs. That means the Thrombey's have a fight about Trump's border policies, and one of the youngest members of the clan (Jaeden Martell) is a straight up alt right troll. So often when we see whodunits these days they are period pieces because they are usually Christie adaptations and they have a kind of timeless feel to them." "I was like, okay, if we're going to do that le'ts not just give it a modern skin, that means really plugging it into right now. "One of the exciting to me was this notion of making it modern day, making it America in 2019," Johnson explains. Meanwhile, nurse Marta (Ana de Armas) emerges as the protagonist of the story - no one from the Thrombey family can remember where her family is from - but her mother is undocumented and her involvement in Harlan's death could lead to potential deportation. The Thrombey is not entirely Trumpian but they live in a bubble of wealth and some are more sympathetic to his cause than others. But Knives Out doesn't just nod to the fact that, yes, cell phones exist now. The notion of the whodunit is tied to the past, conjuring images of drawing rooms, feather dusters, and Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot. The first surprise of Knives Out is just how current it is. Here, Johnson walks us through the movie's twists and turns, covering everything from the ending to the singing to the vaping. ![]() While Knives Out has all the trappings of an Agatha Christie adaptation or Clue, it's a distinctly 2019 story one that wrestles with all the inanity and bigotry of the Trump era. The Thrombeys are at each other's throats, and Harlan's nurse Marta (Ana de Armas) is attempting to keep a low profile. Harlan's death is grandiosely staged, and someone (though it's unclear who at first) has called in investigator Benoit Blanc (Craig) to get to the bottom of it. There aren't a lot of warm words exchanged in Johnson's whodunit revolving around the suspicious suicide of Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer), a lauded author whose speciality happens to be gruesome murder plots. It was, by all accounts, a lot more genial off screen than it was on. According to Johnson, members of the high profile cast - Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Daniel Craig, Lakeith Stanfield, Chris Evans, and Toni Collette to name a few - would huddle in a "funky rec room" in the basement of the grandiose mansion when they were shooting between takes and trade "war stories" about their time in the business. The set of Knives Out, the highly entertaining murdery mystery from director Rian Johnson, was something akin to "summer camp" for actors. This post contains spoilers for Knives Out. ![]()
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