‘Backstabbing: Glass Onion’: Was Elon Musk Inspiration For Edward Norton’s Character?

Rian Johnson, director and screenwriter of ‘Puñas por el espalda’ and its sequel, is making a name for himself by turning tragedy into comedy, and as it is known, there is no greater inspiration for fiction than reality. Although the film is clearly set in the year 2020, with telecommuting, masks and even ‘Among Us’, In ‘Stabs in the Back: The Mystery of the Glass Onion’ there is a character who seems too current to have been written two years ago: Miles Bron. Not a few have drawn the similarity between the tech billionaire that Edward Norton embodies and Elon Musk, especially after the purchase of Twitter.

Norton plays a self-absorbed and ditzy businessman whose innate stupidity draws laughter from the viewer, but who nevertheless wields immense power in society through his purchasing power. “One of my friends told me: ‘Dude, it looks like you wrote that this afternoon'”says Johnson, who says he wasn’t exactly based on Musk for the character, though it could have been based on everything he stands for. “There are a lot of general things about that kind of tech billionaire”.

In other words, Bron embodies all the stereotypes of the typical tech mogul: he spends his fortune on trifles, harnesses his power however he can, and considers himself to be smarter than everyone else, when in reality all he has is the money to defy the future. destiny so many times. However you want. Johnson jokes about: “I hope there isn’t a secret Netflix marketing department funding this Twitter acquisition”.

“It has an almost rare relevance at the present time”grants the director, while affirming it “it’s just some kind of terrible, terrible accident”. When asked by WIRED if he would ever do a movie-style mystery about the Twitter incident, the director laughed and replied: “Didn’t I just do that?”.

more reasonable resemblances

While Johnson explains that he wasn’t specifically based on Elon Musk for his film, there’s also another character that seems like a direct reference to an American personality. In “Backstabbers: Glass Onion”, businessman Miles Bron owns Alpha and has an ally on a Twitch channel: Duke Cody, a far-right influencer who advocates for “men’s rights” and always carries a gun. While this appears to be a generic representation of the incel sector of American society, Johnson may be based on Joe Rogan, the ideologically-oriented American host who in 2020 became even more famous for spreading fake news on his podcast.