Great Movie
Mar 26, 2023 08:38:37 #
I watched "Glass Onion - Knives Out" on Netflix last night. Excellent! It's done in the style of the old fashioned mysteries. There are lots of characters with motives, lots of complication, and a brilliant detective. It has an all-star cast with Daniel Craig is amazing as a southern detective.
Mar 26, 2023 09:35:39 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I watched "Glass Onion - Knives Out" on Netflix last night. Excellent! It's done in the style of the old fashioned mysteries. There are lots of characters with motives, lots of complication, and a brilliant detective. It has an all-star cast with Daniel Craig is amazing as a southern detective.
Did you watch the first Knives Out?
Mar 26, 2023 10:05:13 #
StanMac
Loc: Tennessee
We watched the first Knives Out - a wonderfully done classic mystery. I wondered why the screenwriter chose a Southern gentleman/aristocrat for Craig’s character as most detectives in movies usually have a somewhat seedy background and are from some big northern eastern city. There is conflicting information online as to whether the movie was based on a book. Craig’s southern accent is said to be based on a Kentucky inflection in my googling research. Having grown up in the South, I’ve never encountered anyone who spoke that way. Of course I didn’t interact with Southern aristocracy. The only place I’ve ever heard that inflection has been in movies about the South. At least the movie portrayed the Southerner as a smart, crafty individual instead of as a bumbling, racist country bumpkin.
Stan
Stan
Mar 26, 2023 10:09:29 #
I like Craig character much better in "knives out" than in his James Bond movies. But I think that's because the script writer for the newer Bond movies made Bond too sentimental.
Mar 26, 2023 13:50:45 #
StanMac wrote:
Having grown up in the South, I’ve never encountered anyone who spoke that way.
Stan
Stan
Funny. To me, he just sounded southern.
The English seem to be very good at imitating American accents. I sometimes have to Google an actor to see if he is English or American.
Mar 27, 2023 07:53:57 #
Mar 27, 2023 08:43:25 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I watched "Glass Onion - Knives Out" on Netflix last night. Excellent! It's done in the style of the old fashioned mysteries. There are lots of characters with motives, lots of complication, and a brilliant detective. It has an all-star cast with Daniel Craig is amazing as a southern detective.
You’re right! Saw that movie a couple of times. Very entertaining. I love the southern drawl Daniel Craig used.
Mar 27, 2023 08:51:17 #
Mar 27, 2023 09:25:28 #
cdayton wrote:
Enjoyed both Knives movies. If you want something really far out, try “The Menu.”
Thanks.
Mar 27, 2023 11:39:37 #
StanMac wrote:
We watched the first Knives Out - a wonderfully do... (show quote)
I'm originally from the Boston area and in all my life I NEVER heard anyone else who spoke with whatever the Kennedy family's unique accent is/was. Purely an affectation from what I could deduce.
Mar 27, 2023 15:27:26 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Thanks.
Interesting you should mention the movie The Menu along with comments on the Glass Onion. Both had a similar ending.
Mar 28, 2023 08:27:55 #
carlberg wrote:
Interesting you should mention the movie The Menu along with comments on the Glass Onion. Both had a similar ending.
Oooh! Now you ruined the ending. 🤣
Thanks, I'll look for it.
Mar 30, 2023 14:45:03 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Funny. To me, he just sounded southern.
The English seem to be very good at imitating American accents. I sometimes have to Google an actor to see if he is English or American.
The English seem to be very good at imitating American accents. I sometimes have to Google an actor to see if he is English or American.
Hugh Laurie as Dr. House is particularly good.
Mar 31, 2023 09:09:13 #
sjb3 wrote:
Hugh Laurie as Dr. House is particularly good.
Yes, excellent. That was quite a role change for a funny man.
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