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Netflix cuts prices for subscribers in more than 30 countries

The streaming giant has faced increasing competition from rivals including Amazon, HBO and Disney.

The streaming giant has faced increasing competition from rivals including Amazon, HBO and Disney.

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Top tech startup news for Thursday, February 23, 2023: Binance, El Camino, Gridium, Make Sunsets, and Replit

Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for today Thursday, February 23, 2023. Tech Startup Replit launches a ChatGPT-like bot for coders and starts a browser-based coding revolution Remember back in 2021 when Marc Andreessen

Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for today Thursday, February 23, 2023. Tech Startup Replit launches a ChatGPT-like bot for coders and starts a browser-based coding revolution Remember back in 2021 when Marc Andreessen […]

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Here’s What Happens When You Train An AI On Pauly Shore Movies

2dumb2destroy is a ChatGPT bot trained to be a doofus — and it’s fantastic.

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2dumb2destroy is a ChatGPT bot trained to be a doofus — and it’s fantastic.

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‘Rogers the Musical’ from ‘Hawkeye’ is now a real thing Disney is making

Good news for Hawkeye fans: Disney is turning fake stage show Rogers the Musical into a real stage show, finally fulfilling the wildest dreams of entertainment reporters everywhere.
Featured as a brief joke in Hawkeye, Rogers the Musical was a fictional Broadway show that set a factually inaccurate reenactment of Marvel Cinematic Universe events to song. The musical’s ridiculousness and deliberately camp aesthetic immediately won it countless fans, some of whom begged for a complete version on certain websites that rhyme with “smashable”.
Now that wish is being granted, with Disney revealing it is working on a short, one-act musical involving “a timeless story of a timeless hero.” In a teasing video tweeted by Disney Parks, a woman wearing Peggy Carter’s iconic red fedora and blue suit holds a flyer for Rogers the Musical as she approaches Disney California Adventure Park’s Hyperion Theater.

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Though Hawkeye only included a few clips of Rogers the Musical, viewers were treated to an entire performance of its camp number “Save the City” in a mid-credits scene — a brief taste of the glory that is to come. In this musical reimagining of The Avengers’ Battle of New York, the Party City Avengers assemble to “kick some ass” and show off their various abilities, assisted by wires and large green hoodies. The audience for last year’s Marvel Studios Panel at D23 Expo also got to see a live performance of the number.

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“Save the City” was written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, though the creative team behind the extended musical hasn’t yet been announced.
If you’re keen to catch the ersatz Avengers twirling and singing, you’d better start planning your trip to Disneyland now. Rogers the Musical will only run for a limited time this summer, and only at Disney California Adventure Park. Fingers crossed they pull a Hamilton and film it for Disney+.
Hawkeye is currently available to stream on Disney+.

Good news for Hawkeye fans: Disney is turning fake stage show Rogers the Musical into a real stage show, finally fulfilling the wildest dreams of entertainment reporters everywhere.

Featured as a brief joke in Hawkeye, Rogers the Musical was a fictional Broadway show that set a factually inaccurate reenactment of Marvel Cinematic Universe events to song. The musical’s ridiculousness and deliberately camp aesthetic immediately won it countless fans, some of whom begged for a complete version on certain websites that rhyme with “smashable”.

Now that wish is being granted, with Disney revealing it is working on a short, one-act musical involving “a timeless story of a timeless hero.” In a teasing video tweeted by Disney Parks, a woman wearing Peggy Carter‘s iconic red fedora and blue suit holds a flyer for Rogers the Musical as she approaches Disney California Adventure Park’s Hyperion Theater.


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Though Hawkeye only included a few clips of Rogers the Musical, viewers were treated to an entire performance of its camp number “Save the City” in a mid-credits scene — a brief taste of the glory that is to come. In this musical reimagining of The Avengers‘ Battle of New York, the Party City Avengers assemble to “kick some ass” and show off their various abilities, assisted by wires and large green hoodies. The audience for last year’s Marvel Studios Panel at D23 Expo also got to see a live performance of the number.


Tweet may have been deleted
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“Save the City” was written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, though the creative team behind the extended musical hasn’t yet been announced.

If you’re keen to catch the ersatz Avengers twirling and singing, you’d better start planning your trip to Disneyland now. Rogers the Musical will only run for a limited time this summer, and only at Disney California Adventure Park. Fingers crossed they pull a Hamilton and film it for Disney+.

Hawkeye is currently available to stream on Disney+.

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Long Under Scrutiny, a Gymnastics Coach Is Placed Under Restrictions

The United States Center for SafeSport is investigating allegations that Qi Han abused one of his athletes. He has faced similar charges in the past.

The United States Center for SafeSport is investigating allegations that Qi Han abused one of his athletes. He has faced similar charges in the past.

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‘Quordle’ today: Here are the answers and hints for February 24

If Quordle is a little too challenging today, you’ve come to the right place for hints. There aren’t just hints here, but the whole Quordle solution. Scroll to the bottom of this page, and there it is. But are you sure you need all four answers? Maybe you just need a strategy guide. Either way, scroll down, and you’ll get what you need.
What is Quordle?
Quordle is a five-letter word guessing game similar to Wordle, except each guess applies letters to four words at the same time. You get nine guesses instead of six to correctly guess all four words. It looks like playing four Wordle games at the same time, and that is essentially what it is. But it’s not nearly as intimidating as it sounds.
Is Quordle harder than Wordle?
Yes, though not diabolically so.
Where did Quordle come from?
Amid the Wordle boom of late 2021 and early 2022, when everyone was learning to love free, in-browser, once-a-day word guessing games, creator Freddie Meyer says he took inspiration from one of the first big Wordle variations, Dordle — the one where you essentially play two Wordles at once. He took things up a notch, and released Quordle on January 30. Meyer’s creation was covered in The Guardian six days later, and now, according to Meyer, it attracts millions of daily users. Today, Meyer earns modest revenue from Patreon, where dedicated Quordle fans can donate to keep their favorite puzzle game running. 
How is Quordle pronounced?
“Kwordle.” It should rhyme with “Wordle,” and definitely should not be pronounced exactly like “curdle.”
Is Quordle strategy different from Wordle?
Yes and no.
Your starting strategy should be the same as with Wordle. In fact, if you have a favorite Wordle opening word, there’s no reason to change that here. We suggest something rich in vowels, featuring common letters like C, R, and N. But you do you.
After your first guess, however, you’ll notice things getting out of control if you play Quordle exactly like Wordle.
What should I do in Quordle that I don’t do in Wordle?
Solving a Wordle puzzle can famously come down to a series of single letter-change variations. If you’ve narrowed it down to “-IGHT,” you could guess “MIGHT” “NIGHT” “LIGHT” and “SIGHT” and one of those will probably be the solution — though this is also a famous way to end up losing in Wordle, particularly if you play on “hard mode.” In Quordle, however, this sort of single-letter winnowing is a deadly trap, and it hints at the important strategic difference between Wordle and Quordle: In Quordle, you can’t afford to waste guesses unless you’re eliminating as many letters as possible at all times. 
Guessing a completely random word that you already know isn’t the solution, just to eliminate three or four possible letters you haven’t tried yet, is thought of as a desperate, latch-ditch move in Wordle. In Quordle, however, it’s a normal part of the player’s strategic toolset.
Is there a way to get the answer faster?
In my experience Quordle can be a slow game, sometimes dragging out longer than it would take to play Wordle four times. But a sort of blunt-force guessing approach can speed things up. The following strategy also works with Wordle if you only want the solution, and don’t care about having the fewest possible guesses:
Try starting with a series of words that puts all the vowels (including Y) on the board, along with some other common letters. We’ve had good luck with the three words: “NOTES,” “ACRID,” and “LUMPY.” YouTuber DougMansLand suggests four words: “CANOE,” “SKIRT,” “PLUMB,” and “FUDGY.”
Most of the alphabet is now eliminated, and you’ll only have the ability to make one or two wrong guesses if you use this strategy. But in most cases you’ll have all the information you need to guess the remaining words without any wrong guesses.
If strategy isn’t helping, and you’re still stumped, here are some hints:
Are there any double or triple letters in today’s Quordle words?
Two words have double letters. Another has two nonconsecutive instances of a letter.
Are any rare letters being used in today’s Quordle like Q or Z?
No.
What do today’s Quordle words start with?
R, C, C, and C.
What are the answers for today’s Quordle?
Are you sure you want to know?
There’s still time to turn back.
OK, you asked for it. The answers are:

RIVET
CREEK
CACHE
CHILL

If Quordle is a little too challenging today, you’ve come to the right place for hints. There aren’t just hints here, but the whole Quordle solution. Scroll to the bottom of this page, and there it is. But are you sure you need all four answers? Maybe you just need a strategy guide. Either way, scroll down, and you’ll get what you need.

What is Quordle?

Quordle is a five-letter word guessing game similar to Wordle, except each guess applies letters to four words at the same time. You get nine guesses instead of six to correctly guess all four words. It looks like playing four Wordle games at the same time, and that is essentially what it is. But it’s not nearly as intimidating as it sounds.

Is Quordle harder than Wordle?

Yes, though not diabolically so.

Where did Quordle come from?

Amid the Wordle boom of late 2021 and early 2022, when everyone was learning to love free, in-browser, once-a-day word guessing games, creator Freddie Meyer says he took inspiration from one of the first big Wordle variations, Dordle — the one where you essentially play two Wordles at once. He took things up a notch, and released Quordle on January 30. Meyer’s creation was covered in The Guardian six days later, and now, according to Meyer, it attracts millions of daily users. Today, Meyer earns modest revenue from Patreon, where dedicated Quordle fans can donate to keep their favorite puzzle game running. 

How is Quordle pronounced?

“Kwordle.” It should rhyme with “Wordle,” and definitely should not be pronounced exactly like “curdle.”

Is Quordle strategy different from Wordle?

Yes and no.

Your starting strategy should be the same as with Wordle. In fact, if you have a favorite Wordle opening word, there’s no reason to change that here. We suggest something rich in vowels, featuring common letters like C, R, and N. But you do you.

After your first guess, however, you’ll notice things getting out of control if you play Quordle exactly like Wordle.

What should I do in Quordle that I don’t do in Wordle?

Solving a Wordle puzzle can famously come down to a series of single letter-change variations. If you’ve narrowed it down to “-IGHT,” you could guess “MIGHT” “NIGHT” “LIGHT” and “SIGHT” and one of those will probably be the solution — though this is also a famous way to end up losing in Wordle, particularly if you play on “hard mode.” In Quordle, however, this sort of single-letter winnowing is a deadly trap, and it hints at the important strategic difference between Wordle and Quordle: In Quordle, you can’t afford to waste guesses unless you’re eliminating as many letters as possible at all times. 

Guessing a completely random word that you already know isn’t the solution, just to eliminate three or four possible letters you haven’t tried yet, is thought of as a desperate, latch-ditch move in Wordle. In Quordle, however, it’s a normal part of the player’s strategic toolset.

Is there a way to get the answer faster?

In my experience Quordle can be a slow game, sometimes dragging out longer than it would take to play Wordle four times. But a sort of blunt-force guessing approach can speed things up. The following strategy also works with Wordle if you only want the solution, and don’t care about having the fewest possible guesses:

Try starting with a series of words that puts all the vowels (including Y) on the board, along with some other common letters. We’ve had good luck with the three words: “NOTES,” “ACRID,” and “LUMPY.” YouTuber DougMansLand suggests four words: “CANOE,” “SKIRT,” “PLUMB,” and “FUDGY.”

Most of the alphabet is now eliminated, and you’ll only have the ability to make one or two wrong guesses if you use this strategy. But in most cases you’ll have all the information you need to guess the remaining words without any wrong guesses.

If strategy isn’t helping, and you’re still stumped, here are some hints:

Are there any double or triple letters in today’s Quordle words?

Two words have double letters. Another has two nonconsecutive instances of a letter.

Are any rare letters being used in today’s Quordle like Q or Z?

No.

What do today’s Quordle words start with?

R, C, C, and C.

What are the answers for today’s Quordle?

Are you sure you want to know?

There’s still time to turn back.

OK, you asked for it. The answers are:

RIVET

CREEK

CACHE

CHILL

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10 things we learned from Rian Johnson’s ‘Glass Onion’ director’s commentary

Can’t get enough of Benoit Blanc and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery? Then you’re in luck, because Netflix has released a director’s commentary track for the film, where Rian Johnson dishes on how the film was made.
One important note: Netflix doesn’t release commentary tracks on their platform. Instead, they release them as a podcast. To listen to Johnson’s commentary, go to wherever you listen to podcasts and find Netflix’s Watching With… episode about Glass Onion. The podcast will tell you when to press play on the movie itself.

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Johnson’s commentary is a great look into the secrets of Glass Onion, from dissections of the movie’s craftsmanship to smaller details you may have missed on first viewing. Here are 10 fascinating things we learned from the Glass Onion commentary track — although trust us, there’s way more where this came from. (And just in case you’re reading this before watching the film for some reason, consider yourself spoiler-warned.)
1. Rian Johnson has an unexpected cameo in Glass Onion.

Credit: Courtesy of Netflix

Glass Onion is full of all-star cameos, including ones from longtime Johnson collaborators Noah Segan and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. But perhaps the most surprising cameo is a brief appearance from Johnson himself — specifically, from his hand. When Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) decides to use Jeremy Renner’s hot sauce to make it look like Helen (Janelle Monáe) has been shot, we get a close up of his hand holding the bottle. Except it isn’t Craig’s hand, it’s Johnson’s!
“We did a little reshoot because I wanted a very specific reveal of ‘Renning Hot,'” Johnson explained. “So apologies, Daniel, that’s me.”

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All those ‘Glass Onion’ cameos, ranked

2. What were some of Glass Onion’s deleted scenes?

Credit: John Wilson/Netflix

Curious about Glass Onion scenes that didn’t make the final cut? Johnson’s got you covered. Throughout the commentary, he mentions a variety of deleted scenes, such as Birdie (Kate Hudson) reading to children in a library in such an inappropriate manner that she gets even more canceled. There was also a sequence in which Birdie and Peg (Jessica Henwick) almost run into Benoit and Helen before arriving on the island, in which case their plot to catch Andi’s killer would have been foiled.
Johnson revealed that he almost cut the brief scene in which Jeremy Renner’s hot sauce, standing in for blood, almost drips into Helen’s nose while she’s playing dead. However, when he saw audience’s reactions to the suspenseful moment in preview screenings, he admitted that he was glad he’d kept it in.
3. Helen originally had kids in Glass Onion.

Credit: John Wilson/Netflix

Initially, the section of Glass Onion we experience from Helen’s point of view featured a subplot that centered on Helen’s children. “There was kind of a runner [where] she would be investigating and having to juggle these calls from her kids,” said Johnson. One of the calls would have dealt with an emergency in which Helen’s daughter freaked out that her poop had turned blue because she’d eaten too many blueberry Pop Tarts.
“We had that in there because [we were] trying to add another element in there of the audience liking Helen,” said Johnson. “We realized they were on Helen’s side, we didn’t need it, so we took it out for pacing purposes. And I think it worked better without it.”
4. Johnson offers a deep dive into Glass Onion’s whodunnit influences.

Credit: John Wilson/Netflix

Glass Onion pays tribute to whodunnits like the original Death on the Nile and The Last of Sheila — for example, Angela Lansbury, star of the former, and Stephen Sondheim, co-writer of the latter, both have cameos in the film. In his commentary, Johnson also points out how Death on the Nile’s score served as a starting point for composer Nathan Johnson, and how Andi’s role as a “fly in the ointment” of a vacation in the first half of the movie parallels Jacqueline De Bellefort’s (Mia Farrow) part in Death on the Nile.
Even the hourly “dong” (voiced by Gordon-Levitt) has its roots in whodunnits — specifically, the “noonday gun” in Evil Under the Sun.

SEE ALSO:

Did ‘Glass Onion’ leave a clue about ‘Knives Out 3’?

5. Miles Bron has a murder tracksuit.

Credit: John Wilson/Netflix

When Miles Bron (Edward Norton) learns that Andi has evidence that could destroy, he’s wearing a blue tracksuit. When he drives to her house to kill her, he’s wearing a black tracksuit. Ergo, he changed into a special tracksuit for the occasion — a “murder tracksuit,” as Johnson called it. Sure, this is a small detail, but it makes a hilarious amount of sense. Of course Miles would change into a stealthy black tracksuit to commit a crime.
6. “Eat the rich” is not the main point of Knives Out or Glass Onion.

Credit: John Wilson/Netflix

While both Benoit Blanc mysteries so far have dealt with satirizing extremely wealthy, out of touch suspects — the Thrombeys in Knives Out and the disruptors in Glass Onion — Johnson pushed back against the notion that these films are solely about taking down the rich.
“To me, it’s not very interesting, the notion that rich people are jerks,” he said during a scene that sees Miles’s friends back him up even though they know he is a murderer. “To me, the interesting thing about this is what we see playing out here: the notion of the power structure — not globally, in terms of the rich up top, although that’s certainly there, but I’m talking about within groups of people. In the first movie, it was a family, in this movie, a group of friends. The notion that there’s this unhealthy power structure that’s in place, and what people who may even have good intentions will do in order to protect that structure if they’re benefiting from it, and what it takes to break that structure — that, to me, is actually so much more interesting than the notion of just something as simple as ‘Eat the rich.'”

SEE ALSO:

How eat-the-rich comedies changed during COVID

7. Every clue in Glass Onion is hidden in plain sight.

Credit: Courtesy of Netflix

Something Johnson stressed throughout the director’s commentary is that Glass Onion “plays fair.” Everything related to the mystery, we watch happen. We can see Miles holding Duke’s (Dave Bautista) gun and switching his glass. Later, we can see him take Duke’s phone. There are so many other tiny moments like this that you can only catch on rewatch, or with Johnson pointing them out. The director’s commentary also allows Johnson to explain some of the smaller red herrings, and how the film distracts the audience enough to the point that they don’t notice these crucial details.
8. Glass Onion is full of treats for musical theater fans.

Credit: John Wilson/Netflix

Not only does Glass Onion feature a cameo from the late musical mastermind Stephen Sondheim, it also contains several references to his musical Merrily We Roll Along, which Johnson described as being “about a group of friends [that] rots.” Sound like any group of disruptive friends we might know of?
Johnson — a noted musical theater fan — listened to Merrily We Roll Along while writing Glass Onion. Some lyrics found their way into dialogue, like when Claire (Kathryn Hahn) brutally tells Helen life isn’t fair. “Now you know!” she spits, a reference to Merrily We Roll Along’s song of the same name. Plus, if you look behind Philip (Hugh Grant) when he opens the door to his and Benoit’s apartment, you can catch the poster to Merrily We Roll Along in the background.
9. Glass Onion stars a SpaceX employee.

Credit: Courtesy of Netflix

Tech bro Miles Bron has been compared repeatedly to Elon Musk, a connection Johnson has called an accident. However, if you want another Musk-Bron connection, look no further than the film’s opening montage. When we meet scientist Lionel (Leslie Odom Jr.), he is on a video call with other members of Miles’s company Alpha — a company that could be likened to Musk ventures like Tesla or SpaceX. Johnson revealed that the Alpha employees on the call were played by his friends… including one who works for SpaceX. Looks like Miles isn’t shaking the Elon comparisons any time soon.
10. The glass sculptures in Miles Bron’s house are Beatles Easter eggs.

Credit: A man hides in a collection of glass sculptures on pedestals.

Between being named after a Beatles song to having Miles play “Blackbird” on guitar, Glass Onion is quite a Beatles-centric movie. That Beatles motif extends to Miles’s art collection, and specifically the many glass sculptures he has on pedestals throughout his main room. Johnson points out how several of these pieces tie to the Beatles: We can see a walrus from Magical Mystery Tour and a cluster of strawberries for “Strawberry Fields Forever.” Even the button controlling the Mona Lisa’s security system — shaped like a jester on a small hill — is a reference to “The Fool on the Hill.” The devil is truly in the details.
For more Glass Onion facts, listen to Johnson’s commentary track wherever you get your podcasts.

Can’t get enough of Benoit Blanc and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery? Then you’re in luck, because Netflix has released a director’s commentary track for the film, where Rian Johnson dishes on how the film was made.

One important note: Netflix doesn’t release commentary tracks on their platform. Instead, they release them as a podcast. To listen to Johnson’s commentary, go to wherever you listen to podcasts and find Netflix’s Watching With… episode about Glass Onion. The podcast will tell you when to press play on the movie itself.


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Johnson’s commentary is a great look into the secrets of Glass Onion, from dissections of the movie’s craftsmanship to smaller details you may have missed on first viewing. Here are 10 fascinating things we learned from the Glass Onion commentary track — although trust us, there’s way more where this came from. (And just in case you’re reading this before watching the film for some reason, consider yourself spoiler-warned.)

1. Rian Johnson has an unexpected cameo in Glass Onion.


Credit: Courtesy of Netflix

Glass Onion is full of all-star cameos, including ones from longtime Johnson collaborators Noah Segan and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. But perhaps the most surprising cameo is a brief appearance from Johnson himself — specifically, from his hand. When Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) decides to use Jeremy Renner’s hot sauce to make it look like Helen (Janelle Monáe) has been shot, we get a close up of his hand holding the bottle. Except it isn’t Craig’s hand, it’s Johnson’s!

“We did a little reshoot because I wanted a very specific reveal of ‘Renning Hot,'” Johnson explained. “So apologies, Daniel, that’s me.”

2. What were some of Glass Onion‘s deleted scenes?


Credit: John Wilson/Netflix

Curious about Glass Onion scenes that didn’t make the final cut? Johnson’s got you covered. Throughout the commentary, he mentions a variety of deleted scenes, such as Birdie (Kate Hudson) reading to children in a library in such an inappropriate manner that she gets even more canceled. There was also a sequence in which Birdie and Peg (Jessica Henwick) almost run into Benoit and Helen before arriving on the island, in which case their plot to catch Andi’s killer would have been foiled.

Johnson revealed that he almost cut the brief scene in which Jeremy Renner’s hot sauce, standing in for blood, almost drips into Helen’s nose while she’s playing dead. However, when he saw audience’s reactions to the suspenseful moment in preview screenings, he admitted that he was glad he’d kept it in.

3. Helen originally had kids in Glass Onion.


Credit: John Wilson/Netflix

Initially, the section of Glass Onion we experience from Helen’s point of view featured a subplot that centered on Helen’s children. “There was kind of a runner [where] she would be investigating and having to juggle these calls from her kids,” said Johnson. One of the calls would have dealt with an emergency in which Helen’s daughter freaked out that her poop had turned blue because she’d eaten too many blueberry Pop Tarts.

“We had that in there because [we were] trying to add another element in there of the audience liking Helen,” said Johnson. “We realized they were on Helen’s side, we didn’t need it, so we took it out for pacing purposes. And I think it worked better without it.”

4. Johnson offers a deep dive into Glass Onion‘s whodunnit influences.


Credit: John Wilson/Netflix

Glass Onion pays tribute to whodunnits like the original Death on the Nile and The Last of Sheila — for example, Angela Lansbury, star of the former, and Stephen Sondheim, co-writer of the latter, both have cameos in the film. In his commentary, Johnson also points out how Death on the Nile‘s score served as a starting point for composer Nathan Johnson, and how Andi’s role as a “fly in the ointment” of a vacation in the first half of the movie parallels Jacqueline De Bellefort’s (Mia Farrow) part in Death on the Nile.

Even the hourly “dong” (voiced by Gordon-Levitt) has its roots in whodunnits — specifically, the “noonday gun” in Evil Under the Sun.

5. Miles Bron has a murder tracksuit.


Credit: John Wilson/Netflix

When Miles Bron (Edward Norton) learns that Andi has evidence that could destroy, he’s wearing a blue tracksuit. When he drives to her house to kill her, he’s wearing a black tracksuit. Ergo, he changed into a special tracksuit for the occasion — a “murder tracksuit,” as Johnson called it. Sure, this is a small detail, but it makes a hilarious amount of sense. Of course Miles would change into a stealthy black tracksuit to commit a crime.

6. “Eat the rich” is not the main point of Knives Out or Glass Onion.


Credit: John Wilson/Netflix

While both Benoit Blanc mysteries so far have dealt with satirizing extremely wealthy, out of touch suspects — the Thrombeys in Knives Out and the disruptors in Glass Onion — Johnson pushed back against the notion that these films are solely about taking down the rich.

“To me, it’s not very interesting, the notion that rich people are jerks,” he said during a scene that sees Miles’s friends back him up even though they know he is a murderer. “To me, the interesting thing about this is what we see playing out here: the notion of the power structure — not globally, in terms of the rich up top, although that’s certainly there, but I’m talking about within groups of people. In the first movie, it was a family, in this movie, a group of friends. The notion that there’s this unhealthy power structure that’s in place, and what people who may even have good intentions will do in order to protect that structure if they’re benefiting from it, and what it takes to break that structure — that, to me, is actually so much more interesting than the notion of just something as simple as ‘Eat the rich.'”

7. Every clue in Glass Onion is hidden in plain sight.


Credit: Courtesy of Netflix

Something Johnson stressed throughout the director’s commentary is that Glass Onion “plays fair.” Everything related to the mystery, we watch happen. We can see Miles holding Duke’s (Dave Bautista) gun and switching his glass. Later, we can see him take Duke’s phone. There are so many other tiny moments like this that you can only catch on rewatch, or with Johnson pointing them out. The director’s commentary also allows Johnson to explain some of the smaller red herrings, and how the film distracts the audience enough to the point that they don’t notice these crucial details.

8. Glass Onion is full of treats for musical theater fans.


Credit: John Wilson/Netflix

Not only does Glass Onion feature a cameo from the late musical mastermind Stephen Sondheim, it also contains several references to his musical Merrily We Roll Along, which Johnson described as being “about a group of friends [that] rots.” Sound like any group of disruptive friends we might know of?

Johnson — a noted musical theater fan — listened to Merrily We Roll Along while writing Glass Onion. Some lyrics found their way into dialogue, like when Claire (Kathryn Hahn) brutally tells Helen life isn’t fair. “Now you know!” she spits, a reference to Merrily We Roll Along‘s song of the same name. Plus, if you look behind Philip (Hugh Grant) when he opens the door to his and Benoit’s apartment, you can catch the poster to Merrily We Roll Along in the background.

9. Glass Onion stars a SpaceX employee.


Credit: Courtesy of Netflix

Tech bro Miles Bron has been compared repeatedly to Elon Musk, a connection Johnson has called an accident. However, if you want another Musk-Bron connection, look no further than the film’s opening montage. When we meet scientist Lionel (Leslie Odom Jr.), he is on a video call with other members of Miles’s company Alpha — a company that could be likened to Musk ventures like Tesla or SpaceX. Johnson revealed that the Alpha employees on the call were played by his friends… including one who works for SpaceX. Looks like Miles isn’t shaking the Elon comparisons any time soon.

10. The glass sculptures in Miles Bron’s house are Beatles Easter eggs.


Credit: A man hides in a collection of glass sculptures on pedestals.

Between being named after a Beatles song to having Miles play “Blackbird” on guitar, Glass Onion is quite a Beatles-centric movie. That Beatles motif extends to Miles’s art collection, and specifically the many glass sculptures he has on pedestals throughout his main room. Johnson points out how several of these pieces tie to the Beatles: We can see a walrus from Magical Mystery Tour and a cluster of strawberries for “Strawberry Fields Forever.” Even the button controlling the Mona Lisa’s security system — shaped like a jester on a small hill — is a reference to “The Fool on the Hill.” The devil is truly in the details.

For more Glass Onion facts, listen to Johnson’s commentary track wherever you get your podcasts.

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