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Everyone thinks Netflix’s ‘Glass Onion’ is a veiled dig at Elon Musk. His fans and Ben Shapiro aren’t happy about it
Filmmaker Rian Johnson gave the internet the best Christmas gift imaginable: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and another take-laden, zeitgeist-y pop culture moment fit for pointing and laughs.
Glass Onion is the follow-up to Johnson's successful and beloved 2019 film Knives Out, starring Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas, and Chris Evans. The sequel hit Netflix Dec. 23, just in time for everyone and their family to gather 'round and take in the two-hour murder mystery.
That includes conservative media personality Ben Shapiro.
On Monday, Shapiro spent 17 tweets ranting about (and spoiling) the plot and politics of the film. He hated both. Glass Onion centers around Edward Norton's tech billionaire Miles Bron, who invites a group of disparate friends to his private island for a COVID-19 lockdown murder mystery game (yes, there's an actual murder at the center of it) that ends up being, as Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc exasperates, "so dumb."
Tech billionaires are all the rage these days, and Shapiro and other netizens are drawing conclusions between the metaphors and themes in Johnson's brazen billionaire and 2022's billionaire of the moment, Elon Musk.
Musk, who lost a mind-boggling $132 billion in net worth this year, bought Twitter for $44 billion in October. It's fair to say the purchase has gone poorly—he has laid off thousands of Twitter employees, and been criticized for changing the social media's practices and implementing subscriptions. That's not to mention the week or so when users thought the platform might crash and disappear at any moment.
It's gotten the point that many question whether Musk knows what he's doing running Twitter, and whether it would better served with someone else at the helm.
The parallels in Johnson's Glass Onion are, admittedly, present, and people are taking to the platform Musk now owns to do really what Twitter does best: make jokes, be angry, and roast others with an opinion.
Some called out Shapiro for his take. "I love that Glass Onion is such a spot on skewering of Elon that Ben Shapiro is mad about it," tweeted Elizabeth Spiers. "Just endlessly squeaking about it like a pet toy that's being stepped on repeatedly."
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