Ben Shapiro

2022 - 12 - 27

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Everyone thinks Netflix's 'Glass Onion' is a veiled dig at Elon Musk ... (Fortune)

Conservative mouthpiece Ben Shapiro hated Netflix's "Glass Onion" and the comparisons to Elon Musk—Twitter is having a field day making fun of him.

[17 tweets ranting about (and spoiling) ](https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1607358237724098561)the plot and politics of the film. A friend of mine said, ‘Man, that feels like it was written this afternoon.’ And that’s just sort of a horrible, horrible accident, you know?” Johnson didn’t write the film with Musk specifically as the archetype, but admitted in 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](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/27/tech-billionaires-lose-wealth-418-million/), 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. “Just endlessly squeaking about it like a pet toy that’s being stepped on repeatedly.” That’s not to mention the week or so when users thought the platform might crash and disappear at any moment.

Ben Shapiro Is So Mad That 'Glass Onion' Was a Murder Mystery ... (The Mary Sue)

Yes, a murder mystery dared to trick its audience. Shapiro was also not happy that it took the movie an hour to get to a second murder and that he could not ...

The ultimate message of the movie is that tech billionaires are maybe bad and those who uplift them and let them get away with this stuff are equally as bad! It’s almost as if that is the function of any sort of mystery story out there! His problem is that halfway through the movie we’re shown the reality of the situation and it is completely different from what we thought we knew. Shapiro was also not happy that it took the movie an hour to get to a second murder and that he could not solve it quickly. And you know what the logical thing to do is when a movie makes you mad, right? It’s almost as if Glass Onion happens to be a good movie that does the murder mystery genre right and leaves you guessing until the very end!

Ben Shapiro Criticized for Not Understanding the 'Mystery' Part of ... (MovieWeb)

It's safe to say that Ben Shapiro was not a fan of Glass Onion. Like its predecessor Knives Out, the Rian Johnson-directed sequel is a murder mystery—it's ...

Writer and director Johnson who, by his own admission, was "p*ssed off" by having to tack A Knives Out Mystery onto Glass Onion's official title. Turns out she was still there the whole time." "I regret to inform you that The Sixth Sense is actively bad. We only find out the guy is dead at the very end," "Also, I've never pleased a woman in bed." "The story itself [is] the purest form of incredible laziness.

Ben Shapiro (The Independent)

The conservative pundit shared a 17-post thread on Twitter on Boxing Day, where he attacked both the writing and Johnson's political leanings. “I regret ...

and (ta dah) title.” “She never treaded water creatively,” he tweeted. “A misdirection in a murder mystery? “It wasn’t just settings or murder methods, she was constantly stretching the genre conceptually. “Rian Johnson’s politics is as lazy as his writing,” he wrote. She added: “I’m gonna show my 2 year-old niece Glass Onion so she can write a rival thread to Ben Shapiro’s.

Ben Shapiro is a failed screenwriter - no wonder he doesn't ... (MSN UK)

American conservative commentator Ben Shapiro has given his two cents on the latest major Netflix release Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and let's just ...

"Glass Onion" Slammed for Depicting Elon Musk as "a Bad and ... (Yahoo Lifestyle)

If you've watched the murder mystery Glass Onion, filmmaker Rian Johnson's sequel to his 2019 hit Knives Out, then you likely realized who Edward Norton's ...

Ben Shapiro: Left's big pitch is to embrace a worse life in the name ... (Grand Forks Herald)

There can be only one excuse for such signal failure to serve the prosperity of your citizenry: the chimera of equality.

There can be only one excuse for such signal failure to serve the prosperity of your citizenry: the chimera of equality. This would amount to a complete rupture of property rights -- and this in turn would mean the end of innovation, since societies that dispense with property rights and profit margins regress into stagnation and then economic collapse. President Joe Biden's entire economic agenda is built around the notion of economic mediocrity rooted in a self-proclaimed higher justice. The problem with this philosophy is that it removes the incentive for all that creates prosperity: work, creativity, thrift, responsibility. Closer to home, New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie says the same when he argues in favor of government nationalization of all wealth and then redistribution of that wealth on a per capita basis... "It's a near-crisis situation that experts say reveals a breakdown of the compact between Britons and their revered National Health Service," the Times reported, "that the government will provide responsible, efficient health care services, mostly free, across all income levels."