Episode 75: Knives Out (with Sage Hyden)

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

The LFTS team once again welcomes back Sage Hyden (Just Write) to discuss Knives Out's clever genre-switching, how the film controls information, and why Rian Johnson's take on a whodunit feels modern and classic at the same time.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast where each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.
0:13.6	Today, we're talking about Knives Out, the 2019 film written and directed by Ryan Johnson.
0:18.7	I'm joined by part of the Beyond the Screenplay team,
0:21.4	Tricia Arand. Hello, everybody. And Brian Bittner. Hello, hello. And we're also joined today by
0:26.5	the creator of the wonderful YouTube channel, Just Right, writer and critic Sage Hayden, Sage. Welcome
0:32.2	back to the show. Hey, thanks for having me. Again. Again, this marks your fourth appearance on our show, which puts you
0:40.2	squarely in the lead for most appearances, most frequent guest appearances. Well, I'm glad. I think I'm
0:45.5	obviously a better guest than anyone else you've ever had. So clearly, this is why you need to keep
0:51.0	talking to me. Exactly. Well, this does also mark a milestone, though, for Sage's appearances.
0:57.3	It's the first time Sage and Trisha have actually gotten to be on an episode together.
1:01.7	That's true.
1:02.6	And it's the first time we're having Sage on about something that everyone pretty much likes.
1:07.5	Yay!
1:10.5	I was going to say, it's not my fault that you guys only were talking to him about, like, video games before or, yeah.
1:16.7	Or Dark Night Rises, which is basically a video game.
1:19.1	Controversial other properties.
1:21.9	Yeah, it's been a rough road.
1:24.6	But you made it.
1:25.9	You made it through the gauntlet, and now you're allowed to talk about movies that we all like.
1:30.2	The hazing is over.
1:31.2	The hazing period is over.
1:32.2	Right.
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