When Rian Johnson’s Brick arrived at Sundance in 2005, it was a bit like its namesake being thrown through a window. Here was a first-time feature, from a guy barely out of his 20s, talking about the high school experience. That wasn’t the unusual part for a Sundance indie though; the strange bit is that Johnson had made the high school experience look indistinguishable from a Dashiell Hammett novel. Brick was a full-throated, grizzled-to-the-bone noir about characters barely old enough to shave!
This has of course been the fascinating paradox of Johnson’s career as it’s unfolded over the last several decades: one of the most excitingly new, modern filmmakers cheekily and eagerly relies on the cinematic vernacular of nearly a century ago. These sometimes jarring sensibilities have found surprising harmony, too, across the writer-director’s six feature films to date. Along the way, he’s masterminded an...
This has of course been the fascinating paradox of Johnson’s career as it’s unfolded over the last several decades: one of the most excitingly new, modern filmmakers cheekily and eagerly relies on the cinematic vernacular of nearly a century ago. These sometimes jarring sensibilities have found surprising harmony, too, across the writer-director’s six feature films to date. Along the way, he’s masterminded an...
- 1/14/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
In a film featuring a (in some cases literal) murderer’s row of movie-star performances, the “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” character that has received the most ink since its Netflix premiere on December 23 is Derol, the Corona-toting slacker who briefly appears in only a handful of scenes — but steals every one of them. Played by Noah Segan, who has appeared in every one of Rian Johnson’s films to date, Derol has taken on a life of his own, becoming a favorite even on the periphery of the murder-mystery action, and perhaps because of that, a meme.
my brother in christ has mastered the art of minding your gd business. #GlassOnion pic.twitter.com/mcSzYfMtI4
— Brittani Warrick (@BrittaniWarrick) December 27, 2022
Give us the Derol Cut!https://t.co/4DD1bODTuH
— Ronn Dech (@RHDech) January 3, 2023
As unimportant as the character may be to the machinery of the film’s tightly-wound plotting,...
my brother in christ has mastered the art of minding your gd business. #GlassOnion pic.twitter.com/mcSzYfMtI4
— Brittani Warrick (@BrittaniWarrick) December 27, 2022
Give us the Derol Cut!https://t.co/4DD1bODTuH
— Ronn Dech (@RHDech) January 3, 2023
As unimportant as the character may be to the machinery of the film’s tightly-wound plotting,...
- 1/6/2023
- by Todd Gilchrist
- Variety Film + TV
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