How it starts: JGL, Rian Johnson and Noir rabbit hole

 a random YouTube clip of the most stylized dialogue with Joseph Gordon-Levitt (jgl) playing a high school diy detective in Rian Johnson's debut film Brick. 

two strands to follow:

1. JGL films

  • Brick
  • Inception (already watched 
  • 500 days of Summer (already watched)
  • Looper (rewatched)
  • Don Jon 

2. Rian Johnson films

  • Looper
  • Star Wars: Last Jedi (already watched. this is outlier)
  • Knives Out
  • Glass Onion
Knives Out and Glass Onion feels very Agatha Christie, though i've not read any of her books but watched a couple of movies. But Looper was heavily influenced by, wait for it, Dash Hammett, father of noir and that is another strand that i followed (see post on Dash Hamm)

see how it works? i'd like to think there is an art of consuming, to making all these connections but it could just be BS. that my OCD will not let me rest til i follow the dangling strand in the ball of yarn like a sick, obsessed cat. 



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