Audiences are arguing that “Knives Out: Glass Onion,” the sequel to the unique 2019 hit, is one huge parody of Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
Ed Norton’s character Miles in Netflix’s “Glass Onion” is a tech billionaire who invitations his group of eclectic pals to his distant island to play a homicide thriller recreation. His character typically comes throughout as a infantile, spoiled playboy, and a few viewers say the comparability to Musk, the billionaire CEO of Twitter, SpaceX, and Tesla, is uncanny.
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Netflix secured the rights to 2 further “Knives Out” motion pictures.
(Juan Naharro Gimenez/Getty Pictures for Netflix)
“The Glass Onion film is a brutal takedown of Elon Musk and you need to all see it,” Past the Pale host Rafael Shimunov wrote.
“Edward Norton’s Miles Bron could also be fictional, however his overinflated opinion of his personal thoughts is all too acquainted,” the subhead to an opinion piece from MSNBC Day by day’s James Downie learn.
“The Muskian traits of 1 Miles Bron,” Mashable tweeted.
“They actually hammer that time dwelling throughout the film and, properly, it is onerous to not see some Muskian similarities — even all the way down to the minutia,” the outlet wrote. “Bron faxes nonsensical enterprise concepts to his staff, just like how Musk governs Twitter — even firing individuals — by way of half-considered tweets. Bron units inconceivable deadlines for duties he does not even perceive, which is form of like Musk and his unusual code critiques. Bron’s received faux-liberal beliefs, like clear vitality (extra on that later), whereas individuals round him understand precisely how red-pilled he’s (it is actually known as out). That is Musk.”
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For the premiere of the “Knives Out” film in Madrid Spain, Daniel Craig was accompanied by co-stars Kate Hudson, Janelle Monáe, and Edward Norton.
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Others made a extra direct comparability.
“Elon Musk is Miles Bron!” CNN’s Bakari Sellers tweeted.
“Bullseye,” agreed DNC Chair Jaime Harrison.
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Director Rian Johnson stated that whereas he can see why audiences are making the comparability to Musk, it is only a coincidence. The film was additionally filmed properly earlier than the billionaire took the wheel of Twitter.
“It’s so bizarre. It’s very weird,” Johnson stated concerning the timing in an interview with The Atlantic. “I hope there isn’t some secret advertising division at Netflix that’s funding this Twitter takeover.”
He did admit there’s a “bizarre relevance” concerning present occasions.
“However clearly, it has virtually a bizarre relevance in precisely the present second,” he stated. “A good friend of mine stated, ‘Man, that feels prefer it was written this afternoon.’ And that’s simply form of a horrible, horrible accident, you already know?”
Tesla and SpaceX Chief Govt Officer Elon Musk speaks on the SATELLITE Convention and Exhibition in Washington, Monday, March 9, 2020.
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Musk has been a favourite goal of the liberal media since his Twitter takeover. He is blasted the media a number of instances, together with a dig on the press for its position in “deceiving” the general public over the Hunter Biden laptop computer story after an evaluation from former Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi analyzing how Twitter executives used the platform to mislead on stories about President Biden’s son on a number of events.
“I feel these individuals needs to be wanting within the mirror and questioning why they had been misleading. Why did they deceive the American public?’ Musk stated of the controversy. “As an alternative of making an attempt to redirect blame to Matt Taibbi, accepting some duty themselves to not being truthful to the American public.”