While speaking about Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Rian Johnson talked about the big twist in the film and how he pulled it off.

Even as the doors begin to look alight, it revealed that Andi isn’t, any, but rather her identical twins pretending to be Andi. According to the proposal of Benoit Blanc, Helen went undercover as Andi to prove that Miles Bron killed her twin. Johnson says that he was dragged screaming to the twin concept.

I guess the only thing I was about was a different angle. It has to be sufficient of a basic perspective shift that there is a new tension that has been introduced in the repeat of all the different scenes, Johnson said. The idea of twins is the same as that of twins. I was thrown into the saddle with the identical twins kicking and screaming about that. I didn’t want that; it seemed like a horrible trope, and just, will the audience forgive me? (laughs). But I think we’re losing it because it’s not like an apology after Aha ended! That was a double-blinder. It is a complication in the middle that leads to the adverbration of the stakes and the story. So I think that’s why we get away with that.

Even though audience had already seen the depicted events, Johnson decided to ensure the lengthy flashback sequence that reveals the Andi/Helen twist was worth watching.

In that way, the risk of doing the first half of the movie without that becomes bigger. It sounds like if we played half of the first movie without introducing Marta, Johnson said. How scarier it for me is that the audience will keep with this band of bad people until we get to know that you are a person to take care of when we introduce Helen? And then from now on, it was a liarity calibration of how much did you repeat? How much will the audience spend watching this talk again? Quite often the mere pacing stuff, not the kind of patient work that goes into any other movie, but the calculation is somewhat different, because the fact that this is going to happen the second time, and the audience experience likewise.

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mysteryis was finally written and directed by Rian Johnson in collaboration with Ram Bergman. The sequel follows Daniel Craigs Detective Benoit Blanc on his trip to Greece to investigate the mysteries from different angles.

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