What movie are you talking about? I'm not familiar with a Knives movie.

would he ever target an association to something like game of thrones with this clue?

Knives Out.

Highly doubt this is a GOT reference.

bump

What about

Hollywood
Poison
Chair

Copper - Knives can be made out of copper, tho uncommon
March - Ides of March -> Caesar stabbed with knives
Fence - fencing -> sword -> knives?

I'll let you bold, because honestly I'm not super confident on order. I think March and Fence should at least be on the list, if not in the top 4.

Hollywood
Chair
Poison
Copper
Pass

I like Fence better than March after that.

Copper is neutral

Solid bump

Knives - 4

Angel
Brush
Casino
China
Dance
Fence
Fire
Ghost
Hotel
March
Nail
Paper
Park
Paste
Pupil
Shot
Star
Switch
Triangle
Tube
Worm

Hollywood
Chair
Poison

Copper

change - 6

Oh boy. That's interesting...

Angel - Could this be a Buffy/Angel reference, and if so does change make sense for that? I've (to my shame) seen a grand total of 1.5 episodes of those shows, so not really sure
Brush - Don't see it
Casino - You get change at a casino
China - Don't see it
Dance - Don't see it
Fence - Don't see it
Fire - Fire is a change in state
Ghost - A weak connection
Hotel - No
March - Change in seasons happens in March
Nail - No
Paper - You can get paper money as change, but I feel like this might be one level of indirection too far
Park - No
Paste - No
Pupil - No
Shot - No
Star - No
Switch - A synonym for change
Triangle - No
Tube - No
Worm - No

I'd go with:

Switch
Casino
Fire

Big drop off in confidence

March
Angel
Ghost

Paper

No clue on the Angel/Buffy front.

I like Switch and Casino for sure. Paper is probably higher for me than it is for you.

Step Ball Change is a dance move, which filthy would surely know being a theatre triple threat.

I kind of like where you’re going with March as the changing of seasons.

I could get behind a ghost changing from living to dead.

I’d give a nod to Hotel, as they change out linens, etc.

You transfer/change trains in the Tube. Trains change tracks, though I don’t know if that’s true with the Tube.

I don’t like Fire nearly as much as you do. In fact, I don’t like it at all.

If I had to go with six in order, I’m probably going:

Switch
Casino
Hotel
Paper
March
Tube

Switch
Casino

switch
casino

How would you feel about going

Paper
March
Pass

Then we have a bit of a list to work on after that with Fire, Angel, Tube, Hotel (in some order). I don't think we agree on any two of those enough to proceed

Where do you rank these four? I ask so we can have a backup to guess next round if necessary.

My order would be Hotel>>Tube>>>Fire>>>>& gt;>Angel

Unless you have some Buffy knowledge, I’m not sure there’s reason for Angel to even be on the list. I can’t think of how a traditional definition of angel would fit this clue.

Angel is based on a vague maybe memory that Filthy is a buffy fan, and a belief that the character angel changes in some fundamental way through the course of the shows. Anyway, we can drop that off the list, there's not enough there.

I'd say Fire > Tube > Hotel, but honestly it's all so close to me that I'm not going to get bothered by the order.

Paper
March
Pass

Tube

Knives - 4
change - 6

Angel
Brush
China
Dance
Fence
Fire
Ghost
Hotel
March
Nail
Park
Paste
Pupil
Shot
Star
Triangle
Tube
Worm

Hollywood
Chair
Poison
Paper


Switch
Casino

Copper

crafts - 4

lol

Paste for sure. Brush a good bet.

Nail is a bit of a reach here.

Maybe Pupil because kids do this in art class?

Any of Star/Triangle/Tube are possible as well.

I think Pupil is my favorite after Paste and Brush. Could be convinced of a lot of things after that.

I like Nail more than you, thinking beyond arts and crafts into something more like tradecraft is why I like it

I'm ok with Pupil before Nail, but I still like Nail in the top 4. I bet this would have been crafts - 5 if they didn't guess paper, so should we consider what the leftover for knives is?

My list before reading your post was

Brush
Paste
Nail
Pupil

Tube

Fence

People learn woodworking in school (at least they used to) as well, so I think it fits with Pupil.

That's what I was thinking too, and why I have pupil third.

I'm okay if you like nail 3rd and pupil 4th if you feel good about that.

Also,

Paste
Brush