"Master detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) solves intricate murder puzzles in writer/director Rian Johnson's "Knives Out" movies, but each pays tribute to a different genre. "Wake Up Dead Man" is tonally gothic, centered on two priests, Josh O'Connor as a sincere young Father Jud and Josh Brolin as fiery and manipulative Monsignor Wicks. In an interview for rogerebert.com, Johnson talked about how he wove his own experience of faith into the story."
"Do you think of the song you want to use first and then go from there? Or the other way around? It's all at once. I do have the song title at the beginning of the process. This one arose in tandem with knowing I wanted to center it around faith and knowing that I was going to do an impossible crime type thing. And I had the idea of the big wake up dead man twist in the middle of it."
The Knives Out series features Benoit Blanc solving intricate murder puzzles while each film pays homage to a different genre. Wake Up Dead Man adopts a gothic tone and focuses on two priests: the sincere young Father Jud (Josh O'Connor) and the fiery, manipulative Monsignor Wicks (Josh Brolin). Johnson integrated personal experience of faith into the narrative and structured the story around a central twist described as the "wake up dead man" moment. Song titles influenced the trilogy's naming and creative process. Nathan Johnson composed the music and collaborated since childhood, reinforcing familial creative ties.
Read at Roger Ebert
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]