{"id":169733,"date":"2022-12-27T13:51:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T13:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ben-shapiro-mocked-for-not-understanding-how-murder-mysteries-work-were-actively-deceived\/"},"modified":"2022-12-27T13:51:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T13:51:03","slug":"ben-shapiro-mocked-for-not-understanding-how-murder-mysteries-work-were-actively-deceived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ben-shapiro-mocked-for-not-understanding-how-murder-mysteries-work-were-actively-deceived\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shapiro mocked for not understanding how murder mysteries work: ‘We’re actively deceived’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro has been mocked for not understanding how murder mysteries work. <\/p>\n

Mr Shapiro criticized the movie Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery <\/em>by Rian Johnson on Twitter on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI regret to inform you that ‘Glass Onion’ is actively bad,\u201d he wrote<\/a>adding that \u201cthe first half of the movie is a complete misdirect and a waste of time\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe only find out about the actual murder we’re supposed to investigate full one hour and ten minutes into the movie, as well as an entirely new backstory,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cWe’re actively deceived by the writer.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to claim that \u201cthe story itself in the purest form of incredible laziness. It relies on not one, not two, but three bad writing tropes: an identical twin, a comprehensive journal, and a moron of a murderer\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe get an hour of wasted time, because we have to make up for the fact that the murderer is perfectly obvious from moment one,\u201d he added. \u201cRian Johnson actually knows this. That’s why by the end, he is telling the audience via Blanc that everything Miles Bron did is dumb.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Shapiro argued that Johnson’s \u201cpolitics is as lazy as his writing. His take on the universe is that Elon Musk is a bad and stupid man, and that anyone who likes him \u2013 in media, politics, or tech \u2013 is being paid off by him\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an incredibly stupid theory, since Musk is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in human history,\u201d Mr Shapiro wrote in his lengthy Twitter thread. <\/p>\n

Twitter users were quick to mock the rightwing pundit for his take on the movie. <\/p>\n

\u201cI, for one, am delighted that every contrarian who got on here and fixed their fingers to call Glass Onion<\/em> ‘boring’ for including all the elements of a classic whodunit (flashbacks, third act reveals etc) is now retroactively in league with f***ing Ben Shapiro,\u201d Katharine La Ronde tweeted<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cBen Shapiro explaining why House of the Dragon<\/em> is bad: ‘First of all, there are dragons in it. Dragons don’t exist,’\u201d Laura Shortridge-Scott added<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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\u201cBen Shapiro couldn’t get traction with a screenplay in Hollywood and \u2014 instead of trying to improve his screenwriting \u2014 blamed liberals for holding him down, literally writing a book about it. Anyway, I wouldn’t be surprised if GLASS ONION gets a WGA nom from actual screenwriters,\u201d Joe Russo wrote<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cBen Shapiro not understanding how a murder mystery works at the age of 38 might be one of the biggest self-owns of the year,\u201d Brad Whipple tweeted<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy new favorite thing is Ben Shapiro not understanding how murder mysteries work,\u201d one Twitter user said<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cBen Shapiro is discovering what a murder mystery is in real time and acting like he understands what writing one means and I am truly and honestly crying. This is my Christmas gift,\u201d Rachel Leishman tweeted<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ben Shapiro thread on the GLASS ONION is legit hilarious. Putting the (predictable) politics aside, he says that Johnson misdirects and deceives the audience. Sacre bleu! A misdirection in a murder mystery? Now I’ve seen everything!\u201d Mac Weiss wrote. <\/p>\n

\u201cBen Shapiro wrote a long angry thread about a murder mystery that had the utter nerve to include some misdirection that threw viewers off the real culprit and now I’m worried someone is going to tell him about Agatha Christie,\u201d Kevin Kruse added<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In June, Johnson tweeted<\/a> that \u201csomething I love about Agatha Christie is how she never tread water creatively. I think there’s a misperception that her books use the same formula over and over, but fans know the opposite is true \u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn’t just settings or murder methods, she was constantly stretching the genre conceptually. Under the umbrella of the whodunnit she wrote spy thrillers, proto-slasher horrors, serial killer hunts, gothic romances, psychological character studies, glam travelogues,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I made Knives Out<\/em>that’s what excited me about the prospect of making more mysteries with Daniel [Craig] as Benoit Blanc – to emulate Christie and have every film be like a whole new book, with its own tone, ambition, reason for being\u2026 and (ta dah) title,\u201d he tweeted. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n