Thank the lord that Benoit Blanc is a detective with compassion and kindness and cares while also being a genius detective because the two don’t need to be exclusive
things I expected from watching glass onion with my family: a fun evening with a movie I know we’ll all enjoy
things I did not expect from watching glass onion with my family: my mother going on a 15 minute rant about how much she hates Hugh grant (based on his 15 seconds of screen time) and how Benoit Blanc deserves better, and then my dad defending Hugh Grant because he was holding a sourdough starter and that’s the ‘sign of a caring partner’
Guys please. Benoit Blanc wasn’t “hinted at” being gay in Glass Onion. He IS gay. CANONICALLY. Even if Rian Johnson didn’t confirm that Hugh Grant is in a romantic relationship with Blanc, if it was a woman answering the door, everyone would just assume that was his girlfriend or wife or smth.
This isn’t something that’s ever gonna be explored bc the movies aren’t about his identity. They’re barely about Blanc. He’s just the world’s greatest detective, and he just so happens to be gay.
"You old charmer you!" (Benoit Blanc & Phillip from Glass Onion) - 2024
- Phillip!! You old charmer you! I don't have time for this, I'm on a case!
- Cooome on! I'm sure the great Benoit Blanc has two minutes to dance with his adorable and loving husband. Doesn't it remind you of our honeymoon in Kyoto ? This little ryokan under the cherry trees, the charm of Gion...
How could anyone see Hugh Grant opening the door to Blanc's apt. with an apron on, flour in his hair and a sourdough starter in his hand and think yep that's his butler/roommate? It's HUGH 'ROMCOM LEGEND' GRANT in a domestic setting what else could he play but Blanc's bf/husband?
It has come to my attention that there aren't many manips with Benoit/Phillip as young adults out there, soo ... I did that instead of being otherwise productive!
I know these are not perfect, but I think the idea of them meeting at a young age and being in love ever since is very cute. <3
JUST WATCHED THE WONKA MOVIE. THE AMOUNT OF GENE WILDER’S WONKA REFERENCES THEY USED IN THIS MOVIE MADE ME GENUINELY HAPPY IDK WHY.. LIKE WHEN HE SANG ‘a world of pure imagination’ BY THE END OF THE MOVIE I FREAKED OUT 😭😭
I'm reading Maurice (1914) analysing the whole situation with Alec's Scudder point of view and...
Oh. My. God. I finally got it:
Imagine that the handsome gentleman in whom he already became interested lately -
- keeps on coming out of the house few times during single evening
- to walk past him in the dark garden full of wonderful scents of flowers and fruits
- being in distinctively dreamy mood and talking unusually friendly to him
(thanks to aversion Maurice felt to the "damn ugly" Mr Borenius who's "sneering at youth" - he suddenly decided that Scudder "was a fine fellow" and is now "feeling friendly to the reprobate")
And if that was not enough:
- bumping into him with his full body TWICE!!!🤯
Poor Alec, he must have been so on edge that night...😭
No wonder that one word was just enough for him to literally climb the walls!😂🤣
Hugh Grant being the actor of Blancs husband means one amazing thing
(and no it's not that he is married to James Bond)
Notting Hill Au
Blanc accidentally spills his orange juice on a bookstore owner while in London for a case which blossoms into a full-blown affair as they struggle to reconcile their radically different lifestyles
Blanc is a young detective straight from a 1950s dime novel, with his penchant for cigars and an interesting use of the English language, Phillip is brought into a whirlwind romance, struggling with the dangers that being with an enthused detective brings, all the while trying to run a travel bookshop