Writer-director Rian Johnson on the movies and books that were on his mind as he created 'Knives Out,' and how he made the whodunit his own.
right now with “Joker” and “Parasite.” How do you feel knowing the movie you’ve made and then seeing those other movies coming out?
The sin is not being successful or being rich. The sin, I think, is somehow mythologizing yourself once you get there that you’ve been playing on a level field, that you haven’t benefited from any of the inherent biases in the system and that anyone who isn’t in there must not be working as hard as you did. And then realizing that you also got there because you got help.
It was very difficult for me to simplify it to the point where I could keep it straight. That was the essential thing. It took a lot of work to get to a point where it does make sense technically, all the stuff that happens, but you also have to get it to a point where it can make sense to an audience in the flow of an actual scene without sitting there and drawing a diagram for them. And the notion that ...
It was really important to me, because we were counteracting not only the sinister tone of the genre, but also the fact that we were going to be engaging with so much of what’s ugly about culture in 2019. I felt like to have an uncynical ending felt very important in this context.
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