The trope is a pocket Bible. I thought the notebook was a nice touch.
That bothered me too. Could have been an incredibly easy fix in the script – maybe she uses a fancy metal notebook case gifted by her sister.
I thought it was her sister’s notebook.
I thought the Italian guy who stole the painting in 1911 cut it down a bit to fit the trunk in which he was hiding it.
Or an electronic tablet she smuggled in, and that they can use to call the cops at the end.
I thought they could have tied it into the plot thread about her not being a drinker. During the bit where we see her learning how to play her sister, include a scene where it’s revealed that her sister always carried a flask, and have Benoit insist she carry one, too, for verisimilitude. Have the flask stop the bullet instead. Still bullshit - flasks aren’t that thick - but at least a little more plausible. Maybe make the flask a gift from Bron, and have him brag about it being made from some cutting edge space craft metal from NASA or something.
It was. The problem is it’s a really thin notebook with a cardboard cover - even the lowest caliber bullet would blow right through it.
Loved it, much more than the first one, which I thought was good, but not terrific. I enjoyed the humor in this one, which I guess was an aspect of the first one, but this movie leaned into it more and I liked that.
Great opportunity for Daniel Craig to play against type and this movie showed it more than the first one.
I kept getting distracted by Daniel Craig’s clothes. I wanted to know what the fabric was and how much they cost. But, I’m sure they were all custom made by the costume dept.
And hydrogen from the ocean isn’t exactly a fuel, and can’t be carried around in tidy white chunks. None of the science makes sense. Why shouldn’t the notebook stop a bullet.
I can’t agree with this point of view. It’s not a science fiction movie. There’s no reason to think that physics works differently in the Glass Onion universe than our own. The one exception is the hydrogen fuel, which is specifically presented in-movie as a radical technological breakthrough.
The crystal hydrogen fuel is a MacGuffin like the Maltese Falcon, while the cheap notebook is just a cheap notebook.
I thought someone would get their head chopped off in that Mona Lisa case that kept opening and closing. I know that is too much like a horror movie, but I guess the only setup was that it would be burned in the fire due to the idiot installing an override switch.
I don’t really know anything about hydrogen fuels. But I do have a shelf full of Moleskine notebooks, and while they’re well made, they aren’t that durable.
Plus, there’s the whole cliche angle. “Character appears dead, but is saved because of a notebook in their pocket,” is a really worn-out cliche regardless of how you slice it, in a way that “billionaire makes dangerous superfuel out of seawater,” is not. For a film that was otherwise very self aware of the tropes it was employing, handling this one in such a straight forward, unironic manner was disappointing and lazy. I was anticipating that they’d figure out a way for her not to be dead, after they’d just spent all that time developing this fantastic character via flashback, and I was looking forward to the clever way they’d justify her surviving, and was let down by the actual reveal.
The bullet went through a glass panel of indeterminate thickness first. May have mushroomed and lost a lot of velocity.
I guess that, in fairness, anything at all that happened to be in her pocket and stopped the bullet would have been a huge cliché, even if it was more physically plausible. But the plot needed everyone to think she was dead at this moment, so something had to be in there.
Assuming she’d actually died, I’m curious what Bron would have done with the gun. Planted it in someone’s room? Just throw it in the Ionian Sea?
So what do you call the place where sweatpants are made?
Wasn’t the bullet a graze? It didn’t hit her straight on, it was from the side. So she fell from the impact and shock.
They showed the bullet stuck in her little flimsy notebook.
I know, but it could still have come in on a perpendicular angle, so it wasn’t trying to cut through 5mm of paper straight on, but 60mm of cardboard cover long-wise.