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Hes not even the first person in Noah BaumbachsMarriage Storyto do it.
Theres Aniston pointedly crooning Not While Im Around fromSweeney Todd,shading her thin-skinned male co-worker with every lyric.
Aswriter Rachel Symesuggested, probably not!
But we asked Johnson, Baumbach, and Phillips to explain themselves anyway.
Its one of those things where you think youre the only person doing it, Baumbach told Vulture.
We got together and started to play around with him singing it and rehearsing, Baumbach said.
Its the New York that I grew up knowing, he said.
Plot-wise the song selection works, too.
(Yes, its another Sondheim song.)
How aboutKnives Outdirector Johnson?
Does he have any idea why hes not the only person to spike his movie with a little Sondheim?
I dont know what the reason is, he said.
He has also been a fan of Sondheim for a long, long time, he explained to Vulture.
The idea of him identifying with and taking on this incredible kind of swan song … seemed perfect.
He wants the culprit, so its like hes …losing his mind.
He said the Send in the Clowns moment was something Phillips had devised early on in the script.
Arthur is, after all, a clown.
Did we learn anything from this investigation?
He almost has a John Wilkes Booth vibe.
Hes got that confidence, that moral clarity to him.
Thats a direction we absolutely could have taken.
Oh, what could have been.
