Netflix Hit Glass Onion’s Among Us Scene Is A Big Moment For Gaming
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Gaming’s relationship with Hollywood is fraught. Whether it’s disastrous adaptations of successful gaming franchises, or cringe-inducing moments of 30-something teenagers...
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Gaming’s relationship with Hollywood is fraught. Whether it’s disastrous adaptations of successful gaming franchises, or cringe-inducing moments of 30-something teenagers playing a tragic mock-up of what someone thinks first-person shooters look like, the featuring of games rarely ends well. Which is why Among Us’s almost nonchalant appearance in Glass Onion feels like such a pivotal moment. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is writer/director Rian Johnson’s Netflix sequel to 2019’s stunning murder-mystery caper, Knives Out. Once more it stars Daniel Craig as detective Benoit Blanc, the Agatha Christie-esque eccentric Southern sleuth, this time embroiled in a case involving tech billionaire Miles Born (Edward Norton) and another A-list selection of actors, including Kate Hudson, Kathryn Han, Dave Bautista and a stunning Janelle Monáe. The Brick-director’s pinpoint perfect writing and gorgeous direction ensure it’s a fantastically funny, intriguing, and complex detective thriller. But we’re not here to talk about all that. Given the original movie was very much a Poirot-styled ensemble piece (and that Blanc has yet to find his own Captain Hastings), when creating the sequel Johnson was restricted pretty much to just the one overlapping character. So how best to reintroduce master-sleuth Benoit to audiences? Well, he figured, it’d be playing Among Us with Angela Lansbury while in the bath. There’s a huge amount to love about this short but crucial scene, appearing in the opening minutes of the film. The most obvious being the sudden rush of inexplicable cameos: a Zoom screen featuring adored basketball player and cultural critic Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Russian Doll’s Natasha Lyonne, legendary composer Stephen Sondheim, and icon Angela Lansbury; all of which takes on a far greater poignance given the recent deaths of the latter two, this somehow being the last screen appearance of both. Then you realise this unconnectable quartet are all together because of a game of Among Us. It’s more special/daft than that, though. This isn’t four people being dragged into something they don’t understand, as video games are almost always presented in Hollywood: this is the four of them playing their regular game, to which they’ve invited Benoit Blanc as an act of kindness. He’s struggling in covid lockdown, his great mind given nothing to solve, so his chums figured, what better than for him to apply his Holmesian detective skills to the ridiculously successful video game. It turns out, Blanc’s bad at it. He’s caught almost straight away, chucked out the airlock, and scoffed at by all the other players. “Blanc,” says Lansbury, “I saw you go in the engine room. You’re the imposter. We all know it. Case closed.”![Screenshot: Netflix](https://www.kotaku.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/01/04/1b2fadf7b20a171e73fdb3c3eecc8741.jpg?quality=80&w=1280)
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