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Benoit: Honney, I'm home. Phillip: Tell me you didn't. Benoit: I did. Phillip: You've adopted another child. At lest tell me they're actucally a child this time. Benoit: He's a priest.
i keep seeing people call judblanc a crack ship. guys crack shipping isn't when an existing dynamic is unlikely to become sexual because of catholicism or marriage but some fans see it anyway. crack shipping is a term used for shipping characters that have never even met and are unlikely to meet and nothing you know about them implies that they would even like each other
for example: phillip x bishop langstrom. i've had them for 2 seconds (just came up with them while making tea) and based on what i've hallucinated in my head about them? it was love at first bitchy comment
they bond over their decades-long exasperation with blanc and jud and their love of magenta
idk how to properly phrase this, but i don't think phillip needs to have more on-screen cameos in any other knives out movies. this doesn't mean i don't like his character, quite the opposite actually, but in my opinion giving him appearances in context of being blanc's husband, not only takes away the whole poirot-ness of blanc's character, but also (and this is the reason i am writing this post) would ruin their whole spin on "columbo's wife".
now stick with me a second here: i know that the whole thing about columbo's wife is that we never get to see her or even know whether she even exists. everything we know about her comes from anecdotes columbo tells and even those are not really a confirmation on whether she exists or not. for the viewer mrs columbo only exists in columbo's stories.
and this is what i like about phillip, because even though he only appears for a few seconds on screen in glass onion, we know that he exists. we know he and benoit live together and phillip makes sourdough bread and worries about benoit doing nothing but playing among us with broadway legends. but beisdes that one scene in glass onion of blanc in the bath, we never really have blanc aknowledge phillip to anyone else. phillip isn't even introduced by benoit, we see him in helen's pov when she rings at their door and phillip just happens to open it. benoit and phillip don't even directly interact with each other. and i think that's what makes it so special.
it's like with columbo's wife, only that we do know for a fact that phillip exists, despite him never being mentioned again after that. different to colmubo's wife we have the clarity on that and we know that when benoit blanc leaves the scene of his cases he is going home to his very real husband. no one else knows that except for the audience.
I love the idea that all the Watsons are in a group chat with Blanc (and Phillip, who doesn't chat much but does share his sourdough and various cat memes)
Whatever you ship, this is your reminder that they showed the fact that Benoit Blanc does not have a gag reflex in Glass Onion
After watching wake up dead man I now need a Knives Out movie where Blanc goes missing during a case and it's up to his husband Phillip, and Marta, Helen, and Jud to find him and then help him solve the case.
I watched Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and it was honestly quite amazing. I really love the character of Benoit Blanc, and I hope they continue making more movies. most movie series' can't keep the same charm with the sequels, but I think the writing and the characters keep getting better each movie.
I do wish they'd included a Phillip cameo, but hearing Benoit openly dislike religion because of how religion has treated him and his relationship was incredibly refreshing for a Netflix movie. they also exhibited that while religion can be toxic, there are priests who genuinely became priests to help people, no matter their race, gender, social class, or sexuality.
in short, do more like this! you guys can make good movies with well-written queer characters, you've proved it, now do it consistently please!