While it's widely known that Glass Onion is named after a Beatles song, Knives Out is named after a song too, but it's much less obvious.
Knives Out is one of the most talked about murder mystery movies of the 2010s, but while its title has a typical-sounding whodunit name, its origins are actually tied to a song. The 2019 movie follows detective Benoit Blanc, who is hired to solve a murder case that was made to look like suicide.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY The film's title is alluded to throughout the movie, as the murder victim, murder mystery novelist Harlan Thrombey, takes his own life with a knife. Not only that, but the theatrical writer even has a throne made entirely of knives, and Ransom tries to kill Marta with one of those knives. However, none of those factors are the reason why the movie is called Knives Out.
Why Isn’t “Knives Out” Played In The Movie? Although the Knives Out title is based on the Radiohead song of the same name, it isn't played at any point during the 2019 movie. This comes as a bigger surprise following Glass Onion, which plays the Beatles song when the title card appears. Not only that, but Miles Bron plays The Beatles' "Blackbird" on an acoustic guitar, and he has a sculpture of The Fool on the Hill .
Johnson said himself that he's just "a massive Radiohead fan, and I love that album and I love that song." He added that there isn't that much of a connection between the movie and the song either, as he just likes the "turn of phrase." While Glass Onion's title is very closely tied to the events of the film, there's no literal interpretation of "Knives Out" in the 2019 movie.
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