What is a Red Herring - 5 Techniques to Mislead & Distract an Audience

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Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:28 - Red Herring Definition and History 02:14 - Technique 1: The Whodunit 03:38 - Technique 2: Unreliable narrator 06:20 - Technique 3: Emotional Effect 08:23 - Technique 4: Historical Subversion 09:26 - Technique 5: Casting and Marketing 10:56 - Takeaways and Wrap Up

[@Saikumar-ov5gy]

Wow , thanks for taking my advice to give spoiler alert for movies which you are going to explain in a video. It's a good habbit to implementing the subscribers advice. All the best.

[@MelbourneArchviz]

you should have a list at the beginning of the movie of where you spoil movies. I wanted to watch the orient express.

[@male6561]

Any more examples of technique 3? :)

[@poorvavashistha8627]

😂

[@OlafReuh]

How about the red herring in this video, where you announce spoilers for some movies and in fact these movies are not the ones that are spoiled...

[@Empire2517]

I would just like to mention the double red herring in hot fuzz. The store manager was immediately set up as evil and the movie was dropping the biggest hints, like ominous smiling, creepiness etc that he is the bad guy, so much so that it made me (and probably everyone else) think that he is obviously just a red herring. Turns out he is actually evil and he tricked us all. I tried to outsmart the movie but it outsmarted my outsmartedness

[@joshcrackedboooi2392]

a similar thing is constantly done in the chainsaw man comic. it fucking shows red flags and makes you forget those things happening and then they come back but worse and then everyone is surprised.

[@johnjim6793]

This is true. It only works, however, because the store manager is indeed guilty as we were initially lead to believe, but then also in a very different way than we thought.

[@kaltziferYT]

Hot Fuzz is great (trilogy fan's noise intensifies) !

[@lolikumadesbear1999]

A similar plot was in "The 'Burbs" with Tom Hanks. We are to believe the neighbors are scary. But then it turns out that all the suspicious behavior and accussations were false...until then in yet another twist we find out they were not false, the neighbors are indeed creepy killer and the characters suspicion was right all along

[@CptCh4os]

@@johnjim6793 Yeah that. I thought it was so obvious that it was him there was no way it actually was him cause nobody would write that obvious a murderer and portray it as a mystery. I aslo thought it is impossible that it is not him with ALL the hints we've been given. And in the perfect reveal it both was and wasn't him in a way I never would have expected. Brilliant red herring

[@BeetoBeeto]

My favorite red herring example was in a series of unfortunate events, in which there was an auction which had an item that the protagonists had hoped could lead them to their kidnapped friends, but in fact those friends were incased in another object in the auction which was a large statue of a literal red herring

[@savingpyro]

Fun fact: We weren't the only ones to be fooled by The Usual Suspects red herring. The director told each one of the cast in the lineup that they were Keyser Soze, and they didn't find out until he premiere that they weren't.

[@nintendude794]

I hope this is true

[@mitchellwooldridge5118]

But they all die... except for Keyser Soze. How does that work?

[@kamarulariffin3093]

@@mitchellwooldridge5118 maybe they thought that they're going to be dead because they're Keyser soze

[@chriswoolum8955]

fun fact: they're never fun

[@crackthecan3970]

Its so obviously tbh

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@@etadventure1601looks like the number has been eclipsed and a like is in order.

[@etadventure1601]

@@phakes6195 lol thanks for making me aware

[@phakes6195]

@@etadventure1601 Yw 😊

[@tinkergnomad]

"Casting misdirection," worked well in Promising Young Woman also. I was very surprised by elements of the film, and the deliberate casting choices drove the point home more than expected.

[@virakchhang]

I thought this was a video explaining what a red herring was... Then it turned out to be an ad for Studio Binder's software. Well played. Well played. I'm sold.

[@StudioBinder]

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[@TheJacklikesvideos]

Teaching by example. Nice meta interpretation 👽

[@christianolsen543]

Promising Young Woman pulled off a flawless casting red herring by casting likable comedians like Bo Burnham and Max Greenfield as all the "nice guy" men. And the only good man was Alfred Molina, who we all know as a villain.

[@LuisSierra42]

yeah, also that we thought that everybody was going to get away with murder

[@StudioBinder]

Great call!

[@sofiasurreal.]

Really demonstrated how important casting is.

[@Nexils]

Exactly the movie I thought about when I saw that part of the video.

[@tinkergnomad]

I came here to say this. Glad I'm not the only one who noticed.

[@Rapscallion2871]

The casting and marketing red herring is what The Suicide Squad did.

[@austinhamedih1025]

Got em

[@StudioBinder]

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[@MMerajHossain]

ya immediatly what came to my mind :P

[@ALFirebird]

🤣

[@superpowerpictures]

Indeed!!

[@petacardi]

9:26: Oh, man, those first notes of Red Right Hands gave me chills.

[@StudioBinder]

Us too :)

[@0L1]

You're the real MVP for the exhaustive spoiler alert right at the beginning. I'm gonna revisit my watchlist, get back to this video in a few weeks, and subscribe in the meantime

[@StudioBinder]

Fantastic! Glad it was useful to you :)

[@nintendude794]

Ever come back?

[@Crudecoronet]

@@nintendude794 He never did :(

[@justingreen2432]

I love that the 22 Jumpstreet one is a double pun "the Plainview Red Herrings" 🤣

[@silviodibaci]

Omgosh I never realised 22 Jump Street was spoofing the concept and making it super obvious. I feel like a big ol' idiot!

[@StudioBinder]

haha no worries

[@NicoN-mj9ps]

Leonardo dicaprios role in scorseses departed(Spoiler) is also one of my favorites. I can exactly remember how utterly shocked I was when he, after being one of the main protagonists for the majority of the movie, stepped out of that elevator and just gets shot in the head in the most unceremonious way possible at the moment where everyone expected him to come out as the hero of the story the most. I still remember how I just couldn't believe it while watching departed for the first time, I actually expected him to survive a headshot, that's how much I couldn't believe that they just killed him like that.

[@tothebatman]

I watched this movie with my mom and when we finished watching it we couldn’t stop talking about it for like a week

[@MrFlyingfoxzero]

Check out Infernal Affairs. The Departed is a remake of it.

[@SuperCosty2010]

It's a remake of an asian movie. With Tony Leung in DiCaprio role. It's like expect Sean Bean to survive 😂

[@elisac7030]

What an excellent video! I'll be coming back to this often.

[@StudioBinder]

It'll be here!

[@GhastlyApparition]

I appreciated when this concept was applied in "The Suicide Squad" where we were lead to believe Michael Rooker and Pete Davidson were crucial characters initially

[@atwunz]

It is mostly well known that he could not survive since we couldn't see him anywhere else in the trailer.

[@LuisSierra42]

The red herring was that everyone thought it was going to suck like the first one

[@StudioBinder]

That counts!

[@zil1832]

@@LuisSierra42 well dc trying the same movie for the second time. They couldnt afford it to be a sucker.

[@zora4187]

@@LuisSierra42 was the second one good?

[@shikharsaini6217]

The film poster completely different from the film's theme is also a red herring.

[@StudioBinder]

Yup, that's part of the marketing!

[@bennyton2560]

Deadpool recall immediately

[@coolloner85]

Malignant hahah

[@jameydunne3920]

500 Days of Summer almost has an anti- red herring, announcing exactly what the film really is. By the time you get to the climax of the movie, you are abruptly reminded by the movie that it told you what it was. They do such a good job of hooking you in the middle that youstill don't see it coming.

[@pmishraofficial]

02:12 - Spoiler-Alert movie list. Check these before anything else.

[@StudioBinder]

Yup!

[@onepiecer8622]

I sometimes feel like the film industry knows really good about how a good film is done, but they decide not to.

[@samaraisnt]

Artists care about good films. The film industry does not care AT ALL about making good films. They're an "industry" it's in the name, they only care about making $$$. That's why casting and misdirection is done...bad action films abound. They know people will pay for crap if it's got a hero in it.

[@marcoantoniosalazarmatamor9496]

The concept of “the mystery box”, as used by J.J. Abrams in his films, is a big example of the “Casting and Marketing” Red Herring. The marketing focuses so much about this and that big mystery that, by sheer memetic mutation, the snowball grows and grows and everybody thinks every single little oddity is a huge clue. This kind of red herring also has a huge, and that is HUGE, flaw (a flaw that is becoming more problematic nowadays with how quickly it can spread, thanks to the Internet) and that is if people loathe the payoff of the red herring, they will raise HELL over it, and that same memetic quality will become the doom of the filmmaker - to put it succinctly, “once bitten, twice shy.” Doubly so if you try to make it your “signature style”, like Abrams has. It is not so much a flaw of the film, but really, a flaw of marketing and humans in general.

[@StudioBinder]

Goes back to how the technique is used for it to be effective

[@ethanmauser4861]

It reminds me of how he cast Mark Hamill in TFW and did nothing with him.

[@fujoshirants9609]

That is a lesson Shyamalan should have learned. Don't over do the twist. And don't insult your audience's intelligence. I figured out the village before the ending.

[@chrisriley625]

JJ wanted to cast and market lost around micheal Keaton and kill him of T the end of the pilot but the studio didn’t want to cast a high profile actor that wouldn’t be the actual star

[@georgeofhamilton]

6:20 Yes! Someone agrees that this was the intention! So many people have given me crap for saying that it was purposefully ambiguous whether that was Miller or Ryan in the cemetery in the opening scene.

[@SuperCosty2010]

The close up of the old man's face and the immediate cut to Miller's face in the beginning leave no place for a doubt. I've forgotten if Ryan was on Omaha beach at all, or if it's told about in the movie. Furthermore, if he wasn't, what we have here is some foul play on Spielberg's side.

[@oliver_liew]

I think the Hereditary trailer was also a pretty good red herring. We are led to believe that the daughter will be the main antagonist, so what happens half way through is all the more shocking.

[@ToolaRoola]

"Four little Soldier boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three." It was the first "red herring" in my life.

[@napoleondynamite931]

This an extremely well made and informative video. They should use ones like this in schools instead of a 360p video where the narrator talks faster than you can write down a word.

[@younggodicarus]

I’m surprised no one mentioned the red herring in Uncut Gems. Like that one got me good

[@izzy4el]

As silly as a movie as it was, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels got me the same way.

[@LuisSierra42]

ah yeah at the end, yeah, that one was good

[@StudioBinder]

That's a great example too!

[@guidoguido2245]

What was it?

[@LuisSierra42]

@@guidoguido2245 he won the bet and the end but got shot nonetheless

[@ExMachina70]

Memento had the single greatest red herring in cinematic history. Trinity from the Matrix was the villain in Memento, and Cypher from the Matrix turned out actually be a good guy. It was such brilliant casting because you came in watching Memento, you immediately had the bias of their intentions.

[@kennetheaton1728]

Arguably all three main characters are villains and use Leonard's memory issues to implement their plans. Teddy leads Leonard to at least two murders. Natalie does something similar, though only after Leonard kills her boyfriend. Leonard for his part does it in order to be able to ignore his culpability in various crimes, thus allowing the cycle to continue. . . . Now, where was I?

[@SuperCosty2010]

1. maybe it's kind of casting red herring, but raither unintentionally, 2. Natalie is no villain, 3. Teddy is pretty fuckin' far from innocent Sometimes there are so many red herrings or the story is so messed up (as in aforementioned Memento) that the thing just doesn't work as classical red herring. In Memento the watcher is some kind of misled in almost every small episode

[@ExMachina70]

@@SuperCosty2010 Hey MAN! What did Teddy ever do to you!!!!

[@adityarajeshirke64]

Besides character's beliefs&needs,his wants and philosophical conflicts with other characters in the story structure....Red herring is something which can not only change audience's expectations but can also surprise them at every moment of the film

[@thenore1a271]

Oh I remember The Usual Suspects, I wasn’t prepared for that ending. Really enjoyed that movie

[@Plz8662]

Dude that intro with the origin of the red herring and the hunting dog was really cool. I never knew that

[@luismarques3059]

Thank you Studio Binder for another amazing insightful video. Imma tell my kids this is the best film school

[@StudioBinder]

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[@hambatuhan3165]

Very educative and applicable to many creative fields. Good job 👍🏾

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I have a question , the people who go to college and became filmmakers learn this there? i'm getting unvaluable information trough KZbin? i mean my mind is about to explode i'm learning so much with this channel

[@StudioBinder]

We've heard of teachers using our videos in their classes, make of that what you will 🤷‍♀️

[@bonafide4874]

The film Bodies Bodies Bodies does this as well (spoilers!). It turns out the initial “murder” - which led to all the other murders and the idea that there was a murder - was an accident. The guy killed himself accidentally with a machete while trying to open a bottle. Everyone assumed it was a murder, and then again because of miscommunication/ lack of communication, another person is assumed to be the murderer and is also killed. It’s a really interesting film!

[@cosmicspacething3474]

Wander over Yonder has an episode with a good red herring where Wander follows a supposed hero trying to save a princess, but it turns out the hero is just a simp who gets rejected and the princess doesn’t even need saving

[@AB-sw4kb]

literally me

[@cardboardtoaster2169]

Similar story in smiling friends actually with a dwarf and a princess

[@normiewhodrawsonpaper4580]

I am so glad yt recommended me this

[@StudioBinder]

We are too ❤

[@TheAyeAye1]

Your videos are excellent. KNIVES OUT really did just strike me a writing exercise more than a movie.

[@prabhuraj9850]

Please keep making more videos, as someone who's interested in filmmaking I'm learning so much

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[@ChristopherRyans]

Just found this channel I'm totally addicted right off the bat

[@butter_nut1817]

My favourite was the one form Joker. When watching the movie their relationship was so radically different from the tone of the movie that it didn't feel real but when it was revealed it still hit hard. Perfect.

[@nopewmopan]

My favorite book series, The Grimnoir Chronicles, has something that all the characters believed. It's not shown to be false until late in the third book of the trilogy. The characters believed it and so did I.

[@firststep490]

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We appreciate the promotion!

[@krishnavamsi4102]

when "others" scene came.. goosebumps all over my body

[@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460]

I am loving this channel!!! It's been a joy over the past week watching more videos. In this one, I especially love that you included *The Others* which is a movie I adored and yet never hear much commentary on. Thank you for that!!!

[@jerryschramm4399]

"Predator" changed its entire genre about a third of the way through the film. From traditional action to sci-fi thriller/revenge movie. Totally unexpected, totally awesome.

[@StudioBinder]

Genre shifts are awesome when done correctly 👌

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@@StudioBinder like ''from dusk till dawn''

[@storiesreadaloud5635]

It would have if not for the opening shot. We see the Predator's ship coming into Earth. Which is a nice hook, so we're waiting for its appearance throughout the opening mission. Without that, the film would have had a different effect, perhaps better? I wonder if they tested audiences with and without that shot

[@jayaprakash387]

Never heard of this trick before. Thanks man

[@StudioBinder]

Great technique to play with :)

[@vonakenyon7981]

The list of films in this video would be a good place to start if you want to learn more about red herrings and movies as well.

[@phastinemoon]

What Lies Beneath had an excellent red herring. I can't watch it a second time just from how unsettling the reveal is when it happens.

[@A_E_A_U_I_O]

6:49 I watched the movie knowing the ending because of the MANY memes with the final scene, and only now with this video I understood what the point of the beginning and end was

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

I'm a recent sub because, well, I've only just discovered you in the last few weeks and I was impressed from the start. Excellent explanations! I've learned more about certain features of writing as well as filming, in some cases better than I did during the creative writing courses for my degree! Though I have an alternative origin to the red herring meaning (I know it's not your explanation). It was actually use by hunt saboteurs back in the early 1800s. Used as a way to take the hounds away from the scent of the fox because it smelled stronger - and in my experience, most dogs _love_ fish! The biggest surprise when I learned it was that hunt sabotage started as early as it did. I can't say that this story _is_ the real one, but it comes from a book about such sayings which has "Red Herrings" in the title!

[@jamie-zk1sz]

Ive never seen saving private ryan before but that scene gave me shivers

[@Rapidashisaunicorn]

The shower scene in Psycho blew my mind the first time I watched it! I was just a teenager at the time and I was freaking out like “YOU CANT JUST KILL OFF THE MAIN CHARACTER HALFWAY THROUGH THE MOVIE??!!?!?”

[@niklas3595]

I am really glad I found this channel.

[@TechnetiumPrime]

7:46 DAMN, i have never watched this movie, but that moment hit HARD.

[@TheFelixsKitchen]

Love this episode. You guys are an EPIC help in my culinary filmmaking journey. Thanks a Million. Great Episode! Aloha🤙🏾

[@StudioBinder]

Happy filming!

[@SheekiRecaps]

Thanks. Learned alot

[@StudioBinder]

That's the goal!

[@SheekiRecaps]

@@StudioBinder keep up the good work...

[@TesserId]

This know the third definition of red herring that I've heard. This one seems most plausible, but the other ones are good too, and now I feel like research all the different variants.

[@frankieffbaby]

Do you guys have a video on what makes a great camp movie? It seems to me a lot of critics don’t grasp campiness and can’t seem to identify it. Also some movies go for camp and isn’t over the top enough so they tend to miss the mark. IMO

[@avanishdutta2658]

1:11 Okay, I will say, that was good. It's basically studiobinder saying what it is they are going to explain and audience is saying they don't know and it arouses their curiosity to know what they are explaining. Great editing!

[@StudioBinder]

It's all in the details 👌💖

[@avanishdutta2658]

@@StudioBinder Devil's always in the details too, but the greatest trick the devil ever pulled off was making the world believe that his entire existence was an illusion.

[@CG-eh6oe]

Honestly the best red herring is what Attack on Titan does: Place additonal information that is not untrue, and is captivating on its own, to distract from the fact that there is more crucial information, often in the same frame. It makes the story deep and complex while still mysterious, without lying to the audience - a keen eyed viewer can pick up on everything.

[@KhasAdun1990]

I need to start taking notes and quizzing myself on this stuff, this is amazing.

[@zenocrate4040]

I always enjoy these immensely! The term 'red herring; is older than stated, though, harking back to that indefatigable neologism'er Thomas Nashe at the time of Shakespeare.

[@angelomorales1932]

Studiobinder back at it again with quality content👌🏽 Edit: I love the spoiler alert before you went into the analysis👌🏽

[@StudioBinder]

Glad you liked it!

[@men_del12]

Well most people hates spoilers so it's understandable. Me on the other hand likes alot of spoils as a way to love the full film more.

[@playtunes2533]

if only there was an alert for the spoilers in the comment section

[@bilaltamsamani4991]

One of the best channels on KZbin, thank you

[@StudioBinder]

Thanks for watching!

[@Film_bazzan]

Inside Out and Onward are the shining examples of Red Herring 😎😎

[@StudioBinder]

Great films 💯

[@sappaparameswararao7990]

Thanks for taking my advice to give spoiler alerts . Iam so glad to see that , u are using spoiler alert . This is a great step to your success .

[@StudioBinder]

We've used this in the last What is video too!

[@kjeet007]

Here we go 🔥 Road to 1 million

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On our way!

[@guhihihichao4004]

I love the way StudioBinder states a film term

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Very good content. Thank u studio binder.

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[@deepakpp369]

😍 Yes.. Awaited one !

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We are back!

[@richcymru3976]

Some of the best Red Herrings from one of the best writers in history, Vince Russo. 'Swerve Bro!'

[@GustavoSilva-ny8jc]

10:30 That was brilliant, a great improvement from the book

[@FerhadTube]

Brilliant video. As always! Thank you for your work and greetings from Azerbaijan

[@StudioBinder]

Greetings from California!

[@dice268926]

I REALLY stopped the video to watch Orient Express 🤣 U guys are GREAT

[@GustavoSilva-ny8jc]

This is so great i feel relieved, thank you so much.

[@alphaBravoAB]

My favorite one is the one from my youth where a kid is named red herring in scooby doo kids. It was on the nose but did teach me what this trope ment

[@OrbitOnceAround]

Die Hard Trilogy had one of the best red herring set ups in film history.

[@StudioBinder]

Agreed!

[@nithishmagician3033]

Good topic to teach and discuss on

[@StudioBinder]

It is a great technique to learn 👍

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

Thanks uploader it's self explanatory

[@someunknownguy9212]

Spoiler for Fight Club: Fight Club literally has an unreliable narrator named "Narrator".

[@alexsummers9140]

The BEST MOVIE that has a wonderful 'red herring'; thanks for mentioning it.

[@StudioBinder]

You are correct 💯

[@sasshole8121]

The biggest red herring of Fight Club is that Tyler Durden always existed and the narrator slowly begins to invade his life. The movie misleads us into believing the opposite is happening.

[@vonakenyon7981]

Great example. Herrings don't get much redder.

[@upamanyu5431]

Hmmm. This helped me integrate a twist in my screenplay better. I love this channel man

[@bollywoodfightactionreacti9189]

Superb video

[@StudioBinder]

Thanks for watching!

[@gooddog20002]

In Silent Running the lead(Bruce Dern) was the red herring. Dern had always played the badguy in a film. And in that film he comes across as crazy, angry and unhappy. The audience is lead to believe he is again the badguy. But then we realize that he is the hero instead.

[@Xvisual887]

i am a big fan of this channel thank you so mush for this concept

[@StudioBinder]

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[@eliyawaters9075]

Thanks you, I had a lot of valuable thoughts on magic tricks thanks to this video! ❤

[@MammaApa]

I love that the video game The Secret of Monkey Island turned this concept on it's head and the item you actually need in order to get past a troll guarding a bridge is... a red herring.

[@amoscaul3264]

Just what I needed, if I make my feature soon--I will credit you all, much love.

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Happy filming!

[@amoscaul3264]

@@StudioBinder Thank you.

[@hdervish2497]

Not a single Clue reference? Not one? I'm dying here 😂

[@nopewmopan]

"Please, there are ladies present."

[@JJSR_99]

Great video talking thanks for the spoiler warning I just skipped the spoiler parts for the films I have not seen until I see them

[@StudioBinder]

That's what it's there for :)

[@clausvergara9702]

Awesome as always!!!

[@StudioBinder]

Cheers!

[@kingstyle1471]

Well, the morons Dan and Dave made a red herring out of the entire White Walkers in GoT. Totally betraying the theme of the story. GRRM would have been punching the air.

[@StudioBinder]

Agreed

[@misterbobby8913]

Not sure you phrased that correctly, George is still alive.

[@TheEtherny]

I know DnD were responsible, but if GRRM had cared so much he would've continued his freaking books, it's been years after the shows end and the next book is still not here. The show should've been done only after Martin finished cause so much fame has distracted him and this is no one's fault, it's just a bunch of people making big mistakes

[@2adamast]

GRRM introducing characters and then killing them with fervor: starts in chapter one, then two, didn't look past that.

[@misterbobby8913]

@@2adamast I respect that. I also wouldn't like that. Never got into it. I don't like it when they prioritize subverting the narrative over all.

[@JS-pm6pd]

The GoT ending also uses a red herring. In the marketing of the tv show finale they put us on a false trail and make us believe it's going to be a good ending but than you watch it and realize it's the opposite of a good ending. Red Herring.

[@SuperCosty2010]

GoT doesn't have any ending

[@epmcgill8301]

Great video!

[@StudioBinder]

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[@lucalyons-sosa9843]

The expectation of a red herring being the red herring is very Edgar Wright. Like, is it just me or is murder on the orient express awfully similar to hot fuzz in terms of everyone being complicit? I can't tell if I'm drawing false platitudes someone help 😂.

[@cyberchaseweremovin]

Yeah true, it's basically the same thing! There's probably other films where everyone is complicit too but I can't think of any right now haha

[@StudioBinder]

Fair comparison

[@Anindyatejo]

Perhaps Edgar Wright was a big fan of the novel "Murder on the Orient Express" by Dame Agatha Christie that was released almost a century ago, and wanted to apply those plots to his movie Hot Fuzz. I'm not complaining. I am a fan of Agatha Christie and Hot Fuzz....

[@vonakenyon7981]

Nothing against Hot Fuzz as I loved it but I really don't think it has anything to do with the director. Agatha Christie is the queen of red herrings. Her books are filled with them. If you haven't seen the original 70's movie of Orient Express it is so much better.

[@abhinavdwivedi2678]

What sound track does studio binder uses in the intro i mean i am hooked to it.

[@StudioBinder]

Songs used are listed in the description!

[@LuluAthil]

Wait, was that red herring origin story...a red herring?? 😆 DELIGHTFUL! You have a new subscription from me. 👌🏾

[@thedarksiderebel]

This is really more about plot twists, than red herrings specifically

[@StudioBinder]

a lot of the examples do use red herrings for plot twists

[@riddhimanroy2909]

I think Red Herrings may also be particularly thematic. Like in Promising Young Woman (2020), the audience naturally tends to believe that there must be at least one good man here, but there is actually none. Also, a similar thing happens in Get Out (2017)- the audience presumes that there must be at least one good white person in here.

[@StudioBinder]

Get Out in particular was a hard one to pull off

[@cody8860]

My 2 favorites are The Usual Suspects and more recently Predestination.

[@ChristopherRyans]

I study genetic epistemology. The study of how knowledge is passed down through time. How to tell a story so important and all the small mechanisms such as these are intrical part of how our brain decipher information

[@octochan]

I'm surprised this didn't point out the use of genre conventions as a red herring to hide what kind of movie you think you're watching in Knives Out

[@SuperCosty2010]

Can't remember any genre change in Knives Out

[@vonakenyon7981]

@@SuperCosty2010 I think that it is just that you think that it is a murder mystery without a murder until the end when the twist is that it was murder after all.