Knives Out
Short description
Knives Out is a comedic crime mystery centred on the death of Harlan Thrombey, a hugely successful writer of detective fiction who is found dead at his home just after his eighty-fifth birthday party. With the family gathered at the estate and the household staff nearby, no one seems willing to say what they saw. An anonymous client brings in Benoit Blanc, a courteous but sharp private detective, to look into the case. Working through the conflicting accounts of Harlan's quarrelling relatives and his loyal employees, Blanc has to separate deliberate false trails and self-serving lies from the truth about how the old man died.
Rian Johnson wrote, directed and produced the film, following Star Wars: The Last Jedi and continuing with two further mysteries built around the same detective. Daniel Craig plays Benoit Blanc, with Ana de Armas as Harlan's nurse Marta Cabrera, Chris Evans as the eldest grandson Ransom Drysdale, and Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon and Don Johnson among the family members. The production cost about 40 million dollars and took roughly 313 million worldwide, a strong return for an original, star-led mystery.
Critics rated it 8.3 out of 10 across 472 reviews. On IMDb it holds 7.9 from about 872,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.8 from over fourteen thousand. The narrower gap between those two audience figures suggests a broadly consistent response.
What's left behind the scenes
- When Benoit Blanc first appears on screen, he is shown in a room where Lieutenant Elliot is interrogating members of the Thromby family. Blanc presses the same key on the keyboard in what appears to be a random order, but this order is far from random. Every time Blanc presses the key, Elliot consistently asks the same question: "When did you return home?", meaning the sound of that note serves as a signal for Elliot.
- For the initial shots, it was required that two dogs run from one trainer to another, but it was impossible to get them to run closer to the camera. Eventually, a small ramp had to be built so that the dogs wouldn't run directly under the camera.
- Daniel Craig borrowed his character's manner of speech from writer, historian, and journalist Shelby Foote.
- The film's final and working title ("Morning Bell") is borrowed from the titles of tracks on the album "Amnesiac" (2001) by the British rock band Radiohead.
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