Funny reference to Pynchon in new film Knives Out ....

[Mark Kohut]

It is now almost a cultural trope that no one has, no one can, read Gravity's Rainbow. I heard it in a play this summer. New smart hot pop culture makers, some who must have read it, know this is the joke. 

It is smartly used in the movie, if you ignore the joke, as Craig sez it is all in the title. The logic is in the title. And that he has to follow that kind of logic to solve this case. 

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> On Jan 6, 2020, at 12:30 PM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I don't get that beef at all...
> 
> I too thought it both funny and fitting...
> 
> 
> But the movie is a love letter to the original Sleuth, a work of art well
> deserving.....heavy on the Jolly Jack Tar.....
> 
> Wish someone had time to log the various props from the original set,
> because the camera lingers at times, but I haven't seen Olivier/Caine in a
> while, so I'm vague on other decorative details.
> 
> 
> love,
> 
> cfa
> 
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 6:24 AM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
> wrote:
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>> 
>> "Funny"? This is so lame that it does not even make me yawn.
>> 
>>> ... Ignorance takes many forms in the film, and a paucity of literary
>> knowledge is one of them. When Thomas Pynchon’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow
>> comes up in conversation, and someone confesses to not having read it,
>> Blanc shoots back: “No one has.” It’s ironic that the people living off the
>> profits of Harlan’s books, including his sleek, silver-haired eldest
>> daughter Linda (Jamie Lee Curtis), should show not the faintest interest in
>> the written word ... <
>> 
>> https://www.newstatesman.com/knives-out-daniel-craig-murder-mystery-review
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>> Am 28.11.19 um 21:39 schrieb Douglas Holm via Pynchon-l:
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>> The reference occurs about 51 minutes into the film, roughly.
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