Mysterious movie, unmysterious Mission: Impossible

Bonnie 2022-01-25 08:05:24

Overall, this is an era of lack of creativity, especially for movies. Take this movie as an example, this is not entirely derogatory, from the rapid editing of the theme music at the beginning to the content of the movie, to the enhancement of the meaning of "impossibility" throughout the movie, to the tribute of the action scenes to the previous series, to the disk Trick and so on... Everything shows that this new work is just doing its best to return to its predecessors, either copying, strengthening, or parodying. Is this bad? Not necessarily, because to some extent, this is a return to the essence of the series, or its vitality, zoom in. This is the mystery of the series of movies, and bigger, it is the mystery of the genre movies. A weird paradox, because it also seems to show that originality is crudely made. Unfortunately, this is true many times.


An embarrassing situation is that such movies are now both interesting and boring. The interesting thing is that it is showing good to the fans. In addition to the aforementioned tribute to the forward, it is also constructing a text structure that refers to classic movies on a larger scale. The third person, Casablanca, Hitchcock, found these classics. Shadows are very interesting (there is even 007, but I think it is unintentional, Hunter has never been so similar to Bond as in this movie), put aside these intertexts, and think again, what else is there in the movie ?

Oh, maybe I’m not right. The "Battle of Turandot" in the movie is really a wonderful schedule. It is comparable to the scene of the Bournemouth’s three-mile London station. It seems that there are few movies now. It will be such a fine setting for such a scene. The scene is so great that I think the rest of the movie can be ignored. This is also the contradiction between the part and the whole when creating.

In addition, some of them didn't. In the Ghost Protocol, we saw Brandt played by Jeremy Renner for the first time. The guess at the time (or the real intention) was to let Renner take Tom Cruise’s class. You can see this in the movie. However, in the fifth part, it is very interesting. Brandt's existence seems to be just to set off Hunter, and people can't help wondering whether there is any story behind the scenes of the movie. There is also Hunter's wife Julia who appeared from the third film. In that movie, she is Hunter's emotional core, and the fourth short appearance is used for sublimation. She disappeared in this movie, and the movie didn't mention it. Instead, there was a female agent Elsa who had an ambiguous relationship with Hunter. Well, I want to say that they look quite alike, really alike.

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Extended Reading
  • Sunny 2021-10-20 19:01:27

    "We can be anyone, we can do anything, it depends on whether you want to..." From the fifth part of the Mission Impossible series, we can already see the sympathy of the same agents, the kind of "one person, no one of the same kind". No amount of luck can be worthy of his tenderness. From the first part, I have been running and running until the old brother Tom, which is touching. "I can't think of another way...but I always have to do something for my friends, right?"

  • Clarissa 2022-03-22 09:01:20

    The two-foot-long lobster is made into shrimp paste, which can be full, but it is not good.

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation quotes

  • Ilsa Faust: If we're being honest, you're a terrorist.

    Lane: If that were true, then my goal would be to spread fear. But my methods are far more surgical.

    Ilsa Faust: You kill innocent people.

    Lane: I helped my government kill many innocent people and more, so much more. Killing to keep things as they were. And now I'm killing to bring about change.

  • [the team attempts to open the data package they stole]

    Ethan Hunt: What's happening?

    Luther Stickell: I can't open it.

    Ethan Hunt: What do you mean you can't open it?

    Ethan Hunt: I mean I can't open it, ever.

    Benji Dunn: That's a red box.

    William Brandt: A what?

    Ethan Hunt: It's a red box. The British government uses them to transport state secrets.

    William Brandt: Doesn't sound good.

    Benji Dunn: Meaning it's triple-encrypted. You're not getting into that thing unless you have fingerprints, retinal scan, and a voice phrase spoken by a specific individual.

    Ethan Hunt: The Prime Minister of Great Britain himself.

    Benji Dunn: Yes, him.

    William Brandt: So what you're saying is there is no ledger, which means we have no proof that the Syndicate even exists. So we're back to square one, only now we're all wanted by the CIA.

    [sarcastically]

    William Brandt: I'm so proud of us.

    Benji Dunn: What I don't understand is why is there a red box sat in a private data vault in Morocco?

    Luther Stickell: And why would Lane want it if he can't open it?

    Benji Dunn: If Lane wants it, you can bet he has a plan to open it and we just helped him steal it.

    Luther Stickell: He's gonna take the Prime Minister.

    Ethan Hunt: Yes, he is. The question is, how?

    Benji Dunn: Well, we have to warn the British.

    William Brandt: Yeah, MI6.

    [pulls out a cellphone]

    Ethan Hunt: No, no, Brandt, put down the phone. Let's just think about this for a minute.

    William Brandt: We have a responsibility to warn the British government, not gamble with the Prime Minister's life, Ethan! Just so you can beat the guy that has beaten you at every turn!

    Ethan Hunt: Is that what you think this is? Brandt? Is that what you think this is?

    William Brandt: I think, right now, you're incapable of seeing that there's another way.

    Luther Stickell: And sometimes Ethan is the only one capable of seeing the only way.

    William Brandt: And if he's wrong, we have Vienna ALL OVER AGAIN!

    Ethan Hunt: You don't know him. If he wants something to happen, THERE'S NO PREVENTING IT!

    William Brandt: That's why we have to warn the British!

    Ethan Hunt: Maybe that's exactly what he wants us to do!

    William Brandt: Are you listening to yourself? We're going to warn the British!

    Ethan Hunt: No. We're going to find Lane, we're going to get him before he takes the Prime Minister.

    William Brandt: [pauses, then slowly puts the phone back in his pocket] Okay. Alright, Ethan. We're going to find Lane. But please tell me. How are we going to do that?