day I promise I will buy you like ten rounds of drinks because of just how genius what you've done here was but the reason why this subversion is so good is because Johnson weapon eise's the tropes of the genre because now the tropes of the murder mystery genre are themselves the antagonists because of the flashback the audience believes that Marta poisoned thrombi by accident and so far mut has been a thoroughly kind and likeable person and because of that we're rooting for her to succeed but in every murder mystery the detective always catches the killer like always at the end of every murder mystery the detective stands around all the suspects has a monologue where they go through all the clues and then he points at the person who did the deed and then they get caught it's just a trope that every murder mystery has and on a meta level not just by looking at this film itself but rather the context of our culture we're now even more invested in the story because Johnson as a result of subverting the genre exploits those tropes to make the audience truly believe that the detective will find her out by the end of the story and she will go to jail and these subverted tropes combined with how much the audience is rooting for her to get away with it to create some really really compelling engagement like I'm sorry I very rarely use naughty words in this channel but I'll make an exception just once I this is PROFANITY_TOKEN genius like I cannot get across how god damn like clever this is like this is the first time I've ever seen a story exploit and weaponize its own tropes by subverting them in this way like I'm just I love this movie like seriously this strong twist in knives out is one of the best subversions I've seen maybe even the best I've ever seen because it isn't just a lazy subversion like in the last year I where it's purely for the shock instead it does an outstanding job at raising the stakes and increasing audience investment going forwards what knives out demonstrates really quite well is that Bryan Johnson has the best mentality when it comes to being a writer director liked the film proves that he's striving to improve himself so he can tell better stories and if you're a writer you should always be on the lookout for more resources to learn from so you can improve your craft and when it comes to a great place we can find no end of material to learn from audible has a trove of interesting audiobooks that I personally learn to turn from and I can happily thank audible for sponsoring today's video a while ago I recommend you guys check out the audiobook for save the cat by Blake Snyder because it's full of some really good tips for writing screenplays and it especially helps if you're having plotting issues but recently I've been listening to save the cat writes a novel and it's basically save the cat but it's well you guessed it about how to write novels and it somehow got even more useful tips and the original save the cat but really like if you're interested in telling stories on the screen or in the book and you have the downtime because maybe there's a certain event going on where everyone's stuck at home a great way to fill that time in a productive way would be by checking out either save the cat or save the cat writes a
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN if you're a writer you should always be on the lookout for more resources to learn from so you can improve your craft and when it comes to a great place we can find no end of material to learn from audible has a trove of interesting audiobooks that I personally learn to turn from and I can happily thank audible for sponsoring today's video a while ago I recommend you guys check out the audiobook for save the cat by Blake Snyder because it's full of some really good tips for writing screenplays and it especially helps if you're having plotting issues but recently I've been listening to save the cat writes a novel and it's basically save the cat but it's well you guessed it about how to write novels and it somehow got even more useful tips and the original save the cat but really like if you're interested in telling stories on the screen or in the book and you have the downtime because maybe there's a certain event going on where everyone's stuck at home a great way to fill that time in a productive way would be by checking out either save the cat or save the cat writes a END_SPONSOR_TOKEN