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Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man Breakdown - Every Clue and Easter Egg You Missed

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Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man's ending explained, clues broken down, and every easter egg analyzed! Benoit Blanc and Father Jud investigate the murder of Monsignor Wicks, with cameos, twists, and references along the way.

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@francisbonga5936 9 months ago (edited)

I still cant believe kids drew rocket ships in the crypt.

@rosanglura 9 months ago

My favourite small detail: Jud, when asked at the end if he's ready for the challenge of the church reopening, utters fighting words "let them come" but instead of raising his fists, spreads his arms - a call back to the "this, not this" at the start of the film.

@sibumaphosa298 9 months ago

Hawkeye ends up killing Thanos in the name of "Nat" haha poetic justice

@mistahanansi2264 9 months ago

Another often missed detail was when Father Jud (while wandering in frustration at having been accused of the murder) enters Sam’s garage, and starts whaling on Sam’s punching bag: this foreshadows that Sam likely also knows how to throw a punch with sufficient enough skill to knock out an ex-boxer like Father Jud (which he does during the “resurrection” scene).

@IshyTanuki 9 months ago

The wolf head on Wick's robes is a wolf on sheep's clothing. I just find that amusing.

@katjafrandsen1687 9 months ago

24:34 Martha didn't confess because she was burdened by guilt. She confessed because Jud challenged her on how safe she felt with Wicks; did she feel safe enough to confess her deepest and darkest secrets to him? She did. And she regretted it.

@voidwitchzagreus 9 months ago

I also thinks it’s cool that Prentice eating the diamond “eves apple” is what started this in the first place. If he’d left it to his daughter, she wouldn’t have destroyed the church and both she and Wicks likely would have led different lives. Both in Martha’s confession and the events of the church’s founding story, the eating of eves apple is the starting point, the birthplace of further sin

@lompeluiten 9 months ago

my wife said she new it was the doctor in the first shot. The doctor takes out the knive of the body a little bit in shot. When you want to save people, you do not just take it out, it will only bleed more.

@tyunizelle1537 9 months ago (edited)

“The real inheritance is in Jesus Christ” is just a truly clever line, who would’ve taken it as literal and not just figuratively? 😂 27:49

@kennethchia4194 9 months ago

The Louise conversation made this movie for me. I was enjoying it and laughing a lot, but the sudden turn really hit me hard.

@framebadger 9 months ago

Just to add to the point on the missing cross - the Monseigneur's church was completely missing the cross - i.e. forgiveness, redemption - literally as well as figuratively.

@MamaGemini68 9 months ago

I have been a murder mystery fan since I was 14yrs old and now at 57yrs young, I cannot get enough of Rian Johnson's "Knives Out" series. I hope he does more, these movies are my happy place. 😊

@chrismcl6373 9 months ago

I have nothing to do regarding the clues and Easter eggs in the movie, just wanted to say how much I enjoyed Doctor Nat’s last trip down the stairs to the basement. I have to admit I laughed out loud at that one

@isabellapanzica4775 9 months ago

Another thing about crows is that a group of crows is called a murder. So, having a group of crows behind Wicks is foreshadowing his murder.

@consun14 9 months ago

The garage door remote causes the TV to cut out when Sam closes it to hide the coffin,

@JackBurttrumpetstuff 9 months ago

The Jewel coming to Father Jud is like the Philosopher’s Stone coming to Harry Potter. It went to the one person who didn’t seek it.

@sagevj 9 months ago

There is a point in the middle of the narrated flashbacks where we cut to Jud and he looks up for a moment before continuing to write. We now know not only that he was looking over AT Benoit Blanc, but also that it was in that moment that he was deciding to omit his hiding of the flask, as this is right before he writes "I joined the others outside"

@jakubchalupa8510 8 months ago

"Cameos as Miles Bron's clock" is a hilarious sentence

@sagevj 9 months ago

Martha also screams and cries for the detectives to leave, claiming it's because they're sullying the holy grounds, but really, she doesn't want them to discover that she did it.