Glass Onion’s Among Us Scene Is A Big Moment For Gaming

The relationship between gaming and Hollywood is strained.whether it disastrous adaptation of successful game franchiseor a ghastly moment Teenagers in their thirties playing tragic mockup Games rarely work in what someone thinks a first-person shooter might look like.so in usalmost casual appearance of glass onion It feels like a pivotal moment.

Glass Onion: A Knife Out Mystery is the Netflix sequel from writer/director Rian Johnson of the stunning 2019 murder mystery flick. knife outOnce again, Daniel Craig stars as detective Benoit Blanc, an Agatha Christie-esque eccentric Southern detective, this time with tech billionaire Miles Bourne (Edward Norton), Kate Hudson and Kathryn.・I was involved in an incident involving another A-list actor selection, including Han. , Dave Bautista, and the stunning Janelle Monae.of BrickThe director’s pinpoint-perfect script and sumptuous direction make for a wonderfully entertaining, intriguing, and complex detective thriller. But we’re not here to talk about it all.

Considering the original film, very poirotStyled ensemble work (and that Bran has yet to find his own Captain Hastings), Johnson was mostly limited to just one overlapping character when creating the sequel. to the audience? Well, he thought, it would be playing in us With Angela Lansbury in the bath.

There’s a lot of love in this short but important scene that appears in the film’s opening minutes. Most obvious is the sudden influx of cryptic cameos. Zoom screen featuring basketball idol and cultural commentator Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, russian doll‘s Natasha Lyonne, legendary composer Stephen Sondheim and icon Angela Lansbury. Given the recent deaths of the latter two, all of this takes on a much greater poignancy, and this is somehow the final screen appearance of both.

And you realize that this disjointed quartet in us.

However, it’s more special/duff than that. This doesn’t mean that the four of them are drawn into something they don’t understand. That’s because in Hollywood, video games are featured most of the time. This means the four were playing a regular game and invited Benoit his Bran as an act of kindness. He is suffering from the coronavirus lockdown and his great mind is given nothing to solve.

After all, Bran is not good at it. He was caught almost immediately, threw out the airlock, and was mocked by all the other players. “Bran,” says Lansbury. you are a scammer we all know that. Case closed. “

This is a relatively easy joke. Sondheim, 91, and her 96-year-old Lansbury are all too familiar with the big game among kids. But what I find very interesting about it is how it depends. audience He is also famous for his breakout hits for Innersloth. it was You’re supposed to know what it is, but I’m surprised these 90s also know.of new york times There’s a great piece about how the scene came to feature both legendsincluding Johnson’s attempt to explain in us to Lansbury. )

what i know now in us It’s hard to call it a feat. If you’ve been to a toy store in the last two years, in us teeth. It may have sailed over the heads of childless non-gamers, but it’s a category of a smaller and smaller number of people, and even they’ll hear the name or see a Type A stuffed animal in a shop window Yet, even in these circumstances, whenever games are involved, movies seem to be perpetually decades behind the general zeitgeist.

In both television and film, Hollywood writers have always run the gag that they portray video games as badly as humans can. NCIS Or when the story revolves around a murder in a game development studio, and absolutely all You are sorely wrong about that. That’s not always ignorance, right? Surely something is happening, at least sometimes? The people writing these modern shows didn’t grow up surrounded by games. I want to believe in everything GTA high score! The lines are intentionally written to curl into balls that are tight enough for people like us to create diamonds.

But this aside, the representation of gaming in other media is generally embarrassing. The mainstream media still treats games like alien artifacts, sometimes decipherable only when they overlap sufficiently with more earthly things such as movies. is exactly the opposite Wreck-it Ralph Also pixel Rooted in the nostalgia of perceiving games as the remains of our youth’s archaeological excavations. (There are exceptions like last year’s Ryan Reynolds-led. free guyabout to realize that the men are NPCs in a violent MMO, but felt obligated to do an enormous amount of heavy lifting to explain almost everything, and in the second half it was clearly a departure from reality.)

So this little moment, this aside glass onion, became more and more prominent.Not only did I not feel the need to explain, Casual about it.

Are we at some sort of turning point after all? A fleeting moment in a sitcom playing a real game where the characters actually exist, lifting the right controller in the right direction and taking so much breath. Could 40 years have been enough of gaming’s ubiquity for Hollywood to accept it as part of its uninteresting existence? Or is this just a blip? Was it? Please don’t let it become a blip.