Knives Out (2019) - Harlan's Plan Scene (3/10) | Movieclips

Knives Out - Harlan's Plan: With his death impending, Harlan (Christopher Plummer) gives Marta (Ana de Armas) instructions on how to escape the situation without drawing suspicion to herself.

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FILM DESCRIPTION:
The circumstances surrounding the death of crime novelist Harlan Thrombey are mysterious, but there's one thing that renowned Detective Benoit Blanc knows for sure -- everyone in the wildly dysfunctional Thrombey family is a suspect. Now, Blanc must sift through a web of lies and red herrings to uncover the truth.

CREDITS:
TM & © Lionsgate Films (2019)
Cast: Ana de Armas, Christopher Plummer, K Callan, Michael Shannon
Producer: Brye Adler, Jonathan Golfman, Ram Bergman, Rian Johnson
Director: Rian Johnson
Screenwriter: Rian Johnson

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[happygoldensunshine]

Rest in peace, Christopher.

Every film he touched became a masterpiece.

[julio_carranz]

-You got to be kidding me.
-I am not. Do it.

[FullArcher]

Does it take being a famous writer to hatch a plan so elaborate, because this is one of the most impressive plans I've seen be made on the fly.

[fensew]

The idea of a prolific murder mystery writer using his knowledge to cover up his own murder is an idea worthy of an entire movie by itself, and yet this film is so well written it only takes up 15 minutes in the first act. I love this movie so much.

[Ali-fbkm]

This man was about to die because of her blunder, and the first thing he had thought of was getting her out of trouble. I know he doesn't really fear death, but he's just too likeable to me

[MartinTraXAA]

I love how it almost seems like Harlan is ENJOYING his death being a murder-mystery. Like that must have been in his top 5 "Ways to go out" list.

[Zombiesnyder]

Harlan was making sure Marta gets the will

[AzzurroProductions]

1:50 Marta's foot never touched the windowsill, so when we see the mud later on, we have a hint, that there was someone else! So cool how you find new details every time.

[christianjuru]

"Ransom, are you back AGAIN already?" 🤔🤔🤨
The great-grandma saw everything!

[Ngamotu]

At this point Harlan has already revised his will so that Marta inherits everything. He is therefore likely thinking that should he go to hospital and survive, Marta would be investigated for giving him the wrong medication, and despite it being accidental she could still lose the inheritance, which he has decided his own family does not deserve. So by stopping Marta from calling an ambulance, Harlan is also doing what he believes is necessary to ensure Marta inherits everything.

[lukebradley]

God he’s so great in this scene and this film, such a massive presence throughout despite only being in a handful of scenes. A testament to his incredible talent, RIP Christopher Plummer.

[martind]

Harlan: After the carved elephant
Marta: No he said before. Was it?
Harlan: Beaftefore the carved elephant

[romilrh]

I love how it makes sense how Harlan could think of such an elaborate plan on the spot, because he's literally a murder mystery author who has to think of plans like this for all his books

[jonathanpapadax]

Harlan reacted very quick and analysed a plan to save Marta. If she had given him the wrong dose he wouldn't be able to think like that

[FGHG]

1:50
"And this is the tricky part."
"THIS is the tricky part?!" 😂😂

[emmaw]

This whole scene made me fall in love with Harlan and his relationship with Marta.

RIP Christopher Plummer

[fidget]

Another example of how much Ransom really is the apple of Harlan’s eye, is that that Ransom came up with an incredibly similar plan before this even happened. He used the same route, even better because he actually avoided cameras, and climbed the same path and even got caught by the same person, all to arrange for Harlan’s death. He and his grandpa thought up the exact same wacky murder mystery right after another completely independent of one another.

[riddhimanroy]

This film absolutely nailed the art of using flashbacks to tell the story, a choice that always has the risk of slowing the movie down. But see how interestingly each flashback sequence provides us new information that pushes the story forward.

[robbieking]

"Beafterfore the carved elephant" XD

[ellietmaples]

I've watched this movie 4 times now. Each time I've rewatched this movie I've picked up on new Easter Eggs, foreshadowing, etc. If you pay attention to details the movie can be quite revealing. Which I really love!

For example, Richard actually exposes himself cheating on his wife by throwing the baseball out the window when looking for the hidden letter that Harlan wrote. Next, later on, as Blanc and Marta are combing the mansion for clues he throws the baseball for the dogs in the yard but instead, they return the broken lattice, leaving the baseball out in the yard. Finally, near the end of the movie we see Linda returning the recovered baseball to her late father's study. There she finds the letter open and thus revealing Richard being a cheater. Full circle. Like a donut hole within a donut...

Also, when Ransom is first revealed to us the dogs are barking at him and jumping on him like crazy. The same testimony we are told that when the dogs were heard barking late at night from when he came back to mess with the medicine bag.

Additionally, just after Marta talks to Blanc at night (during the cigar lighting scene) on the patio, we see Marta go home and we walk in to see her mom watching the old TV show Murder She Wrote.


Finally, you can also see the painting of Harlan change from having a stoic/concerned look (when Marta is looking at it before her interview with Blanc), and then when the mystery is solved at the end of the movie we can see Harlan smirking/smiling.

These are just some of my favorite ones that I noticed! Others include the foreshadowing of the stage prop knife from Harlan and then Ransom stabbing Marta with a "stage prop" knife and the family getting Marta's nationality wrong every time they mention where she is from.

I believe this movie was wonderfully written and shot. I can't wait for the second one to come out!