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#47 - Knives Out (2019)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The Mystery of the Killer

The movie reveals two murderers right away. It even reveals the murder and the quote unquote murderer, even though she didn't do it on purpose. The only question you have until the big reveal is I'm like, yeah, explain to me why she did mess up the medication. That's it. And then it brings it back to that. So if you almost bookend the, the first act and the last act, it is that detective. But the meat of the movie is this other, it's more a Hitchcockian suspense thriller.That's kind of a little fun and winky. Why is the third one the best? Mostly because it shouts out a certain podcaster that

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