"Glass Onion" criticized for describing Elon Musk as "a bad and stupid man"

Conservative writer Ben Shapiro unleashed a Twitter thread criticizing the rest of the knives.


If you looked at the mystery of murder Glass onion , filmmaker Rian Johnson Continuation of its success in 2019, Knives out , then you have probably realized who Edward Norton The Mile Bron character is supposed to send. The action of the film begins when a group of longtime friends - and the renowned detective Benoit Blanc ( Daniel Craig ) - arrives (in the middle of COVID) on the private bronst island for a weekend getaway. Twists, turns, betrayals and backstabbings ensue; During all this time, the film continues to make fun of the bravado and the ignorance of Bron, as well as the shortcomings of his influencer friends. But not everyone appreciates class comment at the heart of the Thriller comedy. In a thread at 17 tweet, writer and conservative commentator Ben Shapiro slammed Glass onion For its barely veiled parody of billionaire and CEO of Twitter Elon Musk , insisting that the character of Norton puts forward a "theory of the stupid conspiracy" in the public divisor figure. Read the rest to find out why he and other musk fans are in arms on the original Netflix.

Read this then: Steven Seagal is "washed" and an "intimidator", says the old co-star .

Norton plays the co-founder of a technological company called Alpha.

Edward Norton in Glass Onion
Netflix

In Glass onion , Miles Bron (not quite an anagram of "Elon Musk", but quite close) sends puzzle boxes made to the old friends with whom he used to go out in a diving bar before they all succeed To come on his island for a weekend. Long MUSTY GAME MURDER. The game is complicated by the arrival of Blanc, which is not part of the group, and Andi ( Janelle Monáe ), The former trading partner of Miles, which he expelled from their technological business Alpha when she opposed the dangerous nature of one of her pet projects.

In fact, none of Miles' friends seem to love him much. Andi accuses them all at the beginning of the weekend of turning back on miles on her in the dispute because they all count on him, in one way or another, for their wealth and renown.

He is described as a fool.

Edward Norton, Madelyn Cline, and Daniel Craig in Glass Onion
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Beware - Plot spoilers to come!

In a touch halfway through the film, he revealed that Anda was murdered, and it was in fact his twin Helen who comes to the island to find the sister's killer. The culprit is Miles himself, who killed Andi to prevent him from producing evidence that she found the main idea behind Alpha. He also poisons the streamer of male rights Duke ( Dave Bautista ) On the island, after seeing a report on her phone that Anda was found dead at home, and shoots Helen, who survives because his sister's newspapers blocked the ball.

In one of its detective monologues, Blanc tells the group that the case perplexed it not originally because Miles is a kind of criminal brain, but because it is so unintelligent. The selfish and petulant billionaire uses words incorrectly and sometimes invent, part of the works of art of his extravagant correction are backwards , and any good idea that he was stolen from someone else.

At least a musk fan is not happy.

Elon Musk in 2022
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Glass onion Hit Netflix on December 25, and the next day, a critical wire of Shapiro began to become viral. "I regret informing you that" glass onion "is actively bad," The first tweet reads . "I will first discuss the real writing of the film followed by politics. The two sucks. The spoilers follow."

The commentator continues by listing his grievances on the film, which includes The torsion in the middle of the film ("We are actively deceived by the writer.") And The density of miles as the point of the intrigue ("The Lazy Writer's Wind Out"). But Shapiro seemed to be the most upset by Musk's satire. "Rian Johnson's policy is as lazy as his writing. His point of view on the universe is that Elon Musk is a bad and stupid man, and that whoever loves him - in the media, politics or technology - is paid by him "," he writes .

"It's an incredibly stupid theory," he keeps on , "Since Musk is one of the most prosperous entrepreneurs in human history (how many Johnson rockets has launched lately?), And it is a stupid conspiracy theory to start." Musk is the founder of SpaceX, a private company in order to finally colonize Mars.

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Twitter users rotate Shapiro for taking its catch.

Ben Shapiro in 2018
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Without surprise, Glass onion Fans had fun with Shapiro's criticism.

"The glass onion made Ben Shapiro if angry, he woke up before 7 am after Christmas and tweeted a diatriber of 17 entries, then said nothing else all day," The Twitter user @lon wrote . "It deserves at least 5 Oscars for this success."

"I love that Glass Onion is such a place on Elon's quarrel that Ben Shapiro is crazy," @peakers tweeted . "You just have to cling constantly like a pet toy that is being walked several times."

"'Rian Johnson thinks that Elon Musk and his Fanboys are stupid. It is not true" "-Ben Shapiro 10+ Tweets in a thread where he loudly announces that he does not understand how the mysteries films work", " @dannyvegito wrote .

Johnson did not know that the film would be so relevant.

Rian Johnson in 2022
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In October of this year, Musk bought Twitter, plunging the social media platform in a current current period, which included mass layoffs , the stop of Various security and verification processes , and the suspension and Prohibition of journalists who criticized him. On December 18, he tweeted a survey Ask if he should resign from CEO; 57.5% of respondents voted "yes". Musque said two days Later, he "resigned from CEO" once he could "find someone stupid enough to take the job!" AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Since Musk seems to bring and not bring drastic changes to a global communication tool according to his whims, the exit from Glass onion turned out to be strangely appropriate. In an interview with Cable , Johnson commented how much Miles is supposed to look like The new owner of Twitter and on the incredible coincidence of all this.

"There are a lot of general things about this kind of species of technological billionaires who have gone there directly," said the filmmaker. "But obviously, it has almost a strange relevance in exactly the current moment. One of my friends said:" Dude, it's as if he was written this afternoon. "And it's just a horrible and horrible accident, do you know?"


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