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Detective Blanc isn't the only one with a keen eye! Join us as we examine the clever details hidden in plain sight throughout the Knives Out films. From misleading props to subtle visual clues, these brilliant Easter eggs add layers to Rian Johnson's meticulously crafted mysteries that even the most observant viewers might have missed!
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00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 smartest details
00:10in the Knives Out movies that fly under the radar.
00:2410. Ransom's Jug, Knives Out
00:27It really is amazing how much detail goes into these films, from the clever writing to the insanely detailed props and art design.
00:39For example, did you notice the jugs in Ransom's house that pretty much give away the end of the movie?
00:44Okay, but this is a photocopy of just the header of a blood toxicology report on Harlan.
00:49Marta, this is going to show the morphine overdose.
00:55So I'm screwed.
00:56Marta goes to Ransom's fancy-schmancy glass house in the woods, and we see a number of large brown jugs sitting on a shelf behind Marta.
01:03We see four jugs, but one is sitting away from the others, separated by an empty space where a fifth jug should be.
01:09In the climax of the film, we learn that Ransom used this jug as part of a Molotov to burn down the medical examiner's office.
01:16In for a penny? In for a pound?
01:20You decide you are in.
01:28Step one.
01:30Destroy all evidence of Marta's innocence.
01:339. The Portrait, Knives Out
01:36You were never anything but good to dad, and because of that, you can count on us.
01:47I thought you should have been at the funeral. By the way, I was outvoted.
01:52Another brilliant visual cue is that of Harlan's portrait.
01:55It shows the man sitting and looking rather serious, a pose befitting his wealth and power.
02:00Fun fact, he's also holding the very same knife that he used to take his own life.
02:04Playing life like a game without consequence.
02:10Until you can't tell the difference between a stage prop and a real knife.
02:19But that's just a bonus.
02:20The real missable detail comes at the end of the movie, after the mystery has been solved.
02:25Marta goes into the hall and glimpses at Harlan's portrait, only this time he can be seen with a subtle smirk.
02:30It seems that Harlan is happy that the case has been solved, and that Marta has inherited his estate, just as he desired.
02:37I want you to remember something that's very important.
02:41You won, not by playing the game Harlan's way, but yours.
02:49You're a good person.
02:51Number 8. The Baseball, Knives Out
02:54Linda realizes that her husband Richard is cheating on her, and it's all thanks to a simple baseball.
03:16Here's the fun and very missable chain of events.
03:19Richard goes to destroy Harlan's letter, but finds the paper empty.
03:22He then throws the baseball sitting on Harlan's desk out the window.
03:25Blanc then finds the baseball outside, and throws it for the dog.
03:29I'm warning you.
03:31Ransom said I'm warning you.
03:34Well, you had Ransom in there. That's the kind of thing he says.
03:37You want this? You want this?
03:38The dog then gives it to Linda, who returns the baseball to Harlan's desk.
03:44And here, she sees the note that Richard had left sitting there.
03:47Knowing her father's tricks, she uses a lighter to reveal the hidden ink, unveiling Richard's affair.
03:52Bam!
03:53And the next time we see Richard, he's sporting a black eye, so he probably got a good sock.
03:57Linda! We've got to get the attorneys on the phone right now!
04:00Let's go into it!
04:02Can I ask?
04:10When did you know I had something to do with Harlan's death?
04:12Number 7. Harlan's lucidity. Knives out.
04:15Is there a problem?
04:19Is this what I just give you 100 milligrams of?
04:23I messed up.
04:25You gave me 100 milligrams of the good stuff.
04:28Excuse me, but what is the good stuff's dosage supposed to be?
04:35The movie begins as a whodunit, with Harlan Thrombey being found dead.
04:39But then the twists and the subversions begin.
04:41We quickly learn that he suffered a fatal drug overdose from his nurse, Marta,
04:45who accidentally mixed up his medications and gave him a huge shot of morphine.
04:49But then we learn this isn't actually true.
04:51Marta only thought she did, and Harlan took his own life to save her incrimination.
04:55Harlan, I have to get you help.
04:58You do as I say, and everything will be just fine.
05:04But here's the thing.
05:05Intravenous morphine acts very quickly,
05:07and such an enormous dose would have quickly left Harlan incapacitated.
05:10The fact that he was so cogent for up to 10 minutes
05:13is a major clue that he wasn't actually drugged by Marta.
05:16You gave him the correct medication, because you are a good nurse.
05:22And Harlan was...
05:23I'm sorry, Marta, but yes.
05:27Harlan was perfectly fine.
05:29Number 6.
05:30The Rothko Painting.
05:31Glass Onion, A Knives Out Mystery.
05:33My mom took me to Paris when I was six years old.
05:37First time I looked at this lady, it changed my life.
05:41You know Da Vinci invented a technique for brushstrokes that leave no lines?
05:45Miles Braun's superficiality is on full display throughout Glass Onion.
05:48Literally.
05:49For example, hanging in his living room is Mark Rothko's Number 207.
05:53Only, it's upside down.
05:55Rothko is an abstract painter known for his paintings of colored rectangles.
05:59Unfortunately, this crime clashed with the presence of Benoit Blanc.
06:04Number 207 depicts a large red rectangle above a smaller blue rectangle.
06:09Braun has it upside down.
06:10Even funnier is that the painting's full name is Number 207, red over dark blue on dark gray.
06:16So it literally tells you exactly how it goes.
06:18It's fitting that Braun doesn't know this, or doesn't even care enough to Google how it should be oriented.
06:28Number 5.
06:29The Dietary Restrictions.
06:31Glass Onion, A Knives Out Mystery.
06:33Travel details to come.
06:34Please forward any dietary restrictions.
06:36Love, and all my kisses, Miles.
06:38Miles sends an elaborate invitation to his friends, asking them to join him for a murder mystery game on his private island.
06:45At the end of the invitation, he asks for everyone to forward their dietary restrictions.
06:49Two big things about this.
06:50Once again, it proves that Miles is completely mindless and superficial.
06:55Shouldn't he know his own friend's dietary restrictions?
06:57Mr. Cody.
06:59No pineapple on that, right?
07:00Duke don't answer pineapple.
07:01There's no pineapple.
07:02But even better, this explains how he knew to poison the Duke with pineapple juice, as he would have told Miles about his allergy.
07:08As Miles has no stab, he would have read the dietary restrictions himself.
07:12After the Duke tried to blackmail him, Miles knew exactly what he could do to silence him.
07:16An allergy.
07:17He can't even have a drop.
07:19Pineapple juice.
07:21He just put pineapple juice in his whisky.
07:25It's so dumb.
07:27Number 4.
07:28Miles Playing Blackbird.
07:29Glass Onion, A Knives Out Mystery.
07:31A Knives Out Mystery.
07:31A Knives Out Mystery.
07:35A Knives Out Mystery.
07:37Miles plays Blackbird for the arriving guests, and there are so many genius things here, we don't even know where to start.
07:53According to Paul McCartney, the song was partly inspired by the civil rights movement, so by having Miles sing it,
07:58it ironically alludes to him swindling Andy out of the company, stealing her agency, and appropriating her work.
08:04Speaking of McCartney, Braun claims that his guitar once belonged to McCartney, only, McCartney famously plays left-handed, whereas this guitar is right-handed.
08:12It circles back to the painting, showing that Braun knows absolutely nothing about the things he's flaunting.
08:30Lastly, according to one famous theory, McCartney died in the 1960s, and was replaced by an imposter, just like Helen is posing as the dead Andy.
08:38You told me about Helen, your sister.
08:41Oh, wait!
08:45Helen Brand, ladies and gentlemen.
08:48Number 3. Miles' iPad. Wake Up Dead Man.
08:51What do we win?
08:53I...
08:54What do you mean, what do you...
08:56What do you want?
08:58Even in the new movie, the specter of Miles Braun remains.
09:01Benoit Blanc can be seen using an iPad in Wake Up Dead Man,
09:04even though this seems like a rather un-Benoit Blanc thing to do.
09:08Perhaps he's embracing technology.
09:09In reality, this is a cute little reference to Glass Onion,
09:12when Blanc won an iPad for miles after winning his murder mystery game.
09:16You're angry.
09:19No, Blanc, I'm, uh...
09:22Just, you know...
09:24What the hell?
09:25Not only is this a cool little detail,
09:27but we think it's positively adorable that Blanc has kept this iPad and continues to use it.
09:32It only further confirms that there is a degree of continuity in this movie series,
09:36however flimsy and unassuming it may be.
09:38I just thought maybe there was a prize or something.
09:42I...
09:42An iPad or...
09:44Yeah, okay.
09:48Fine.
09:48Yeah, no, no, the winner gets an iPad.
09:50Number 2.
09:51Some clever religious wordplay.
09:52Wake Up Dead Man.
09:53For behold, though he is struck down,
09:56the righteous son of God will rise again.
10:00Eve's apple restored to the tree.
10:02Ryan Johnson has always been a smart writer,
10:05and that is on full display throughout Wake Up Dead Man.
10:07During his unhinged Good Friday homily,
10:10Wicks proclaims that Eve's apple will be returned to the tree.
10:13While the congregation hears a simple biblical metaphor for washing away original sin,
10:17Wicks is actually demanding that the diamond,
10:19called Eve's apple,
10:20be returned to his family tree,
10:22but Father Judd beats him at his own poetic game,
10:24and he hides the apple in a literal tree,
10:27inside the new wooden crucifix.
10:28But there's more.
10:29When telling Cy that his true inheritance is in Christ,
10:32Judd isn't just offering spiritual advice,
10:35he's giving him the literal coordinates.
10:37The apple was indeed returned to the tree,
10:39and Cy's fortune was quite literally in Christ.
10:42Go to the house.
10:45The only things that you can see
10:48is all that you lack.
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10:51Come on.
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11:07Number 1.
11:09The Judas Foreshadowing.
11:10Wake Up Dead Man.
11:11Grace for the broken.
11:15Grace for those who deserve it the least.
11:19We don't need it the most.
11:22For the guilty.
11:28Talk about perfect timing.
11:30Ryan Johnson is known for sinking sound and image to whisper clues to the audience.
11:35In this moment is a masterclass in audio foreshadowing.
11:38Listen closely to the specific beat when Martha walks into the room to view Wix in his coffin.
11:43The precise moment she steps into the frame,
11:45Wix's voiceover explicitly describes the treacherous actions of Judas Iscariot,
11:50the man who famously betrayed Jesus Christ.
11:52As our lord was, I am betrayed by Judas.
11:56Gentlemen, may I have a moment?
11:58By sinking her entrance with the mention of history's most famous betrayer,
12:01the film subtly brands Martha as the Judas of the group,
12:04and hints that she is the one who plotted to murder Wix.
12:07It's a scathing accusation disguised as background ambience,
12:10the true telling of a master storyteller at work.
12:13Always the true threat comes from within.
12:17Remember my words.
12:18Did you happen to catch these details?
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