Lace: Standing by Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise is getting old, but the female characters standing next to him are getting more sophisticated.

His facial lines are still sharp and clear, and he will still be charming when he smiles, even though I don't remember how he smiled as confidently and as he did in "Mission Impossible 2" on the screen the last time. His eyes are sharper and sharper under his high brow bones and deep eye sockets, especially when he squints at you or raises his eyes from a low eyebrow, you will unconsciously feel a force of murderous air attacking you. Come.In the movie "The Detective Jack: Never Look Back", Major Turner, played by Cobie Smulders, is not satisfied with Jack’s assignment. She feels: Letting her stay to take care of the girl Samantha is kind to herself Sex discrimination, the two quarreled about it. Jack apologized: I'm sorry, I think I'm used to being single-using celibacy to offset the doubts from feminism.

This explanation is somewhat evasive, but sitting in the movie theater, I still want to believe that his answer is true. His resolute and solemn eyes engulfed a layer of coldness that was thousands of miles away. In recent years, Tom Cruise on the action screen is often portrayed as a lone ranger, whether he is really alone in the movie or walking with his teammates. Perhaps it is this introverted screen image that gives the female characters around him more opportunities to express themselves. Standing next to Tom Cruise, they are often no longer passive vases, but more active opponents. partner.

Before the "Bourage" series, the image of the agent on the screen was James Bond, who read countless women. No one doubts the role of female characters in the vase in the 007 series of movies. Although this setting is increasingly being questioned over time, the historical inertia is not so easy to get rid of.Look at the French actress Léa Seydoux who also starred in "Ghost" and "Mission: Impossible 4: Ghost Action", you can't deny: although she played more time in the former, she is nowhere near as good as her. In the latter story, a professional killer undertook to kill the glamorous souls of the industry elite, so that when she and another equally capable female agent played by Paula Barton were hand-in-hand, she was finally beaten by her. When you kicked out the window, you would feel a little pity, I hope she could stop on the screen for a while.Rebecca Ferguson and Tom Cruise in "Mission Impossible 5: Mysterious Nation" are enemies and friends, and she is almost the most brilliant surprise in the entire movie. Her mystery and beauty are not so much a fatal attraction for Cruise's role, but rather that this attraction is more effective for the audience. The ambiguous relationship between the two in the film is not as we generally expected, so she will not become Cruise's personal "prize" in the end, and she will not choose to completely "abandon the dark" and "walk with you" at the end of the film. ——It is more like a bait, leaving behind the emotional clues of the sixth, if Tom Cruise is still acting.These outstanding female characters, in Tom Cruise's action movies, are the first to get a skill that is inferior to him. It is no problem to knock people to the ground with three punches and two feet. In "Edge of Tomorrow", Emily Blunt is even better at fighting than Tom Cruise. Not to mention men, even the robot aliens are cut by the knife every second. She treats Tom in the film. For Cruise, he is a mentor and helpful friend, and plays a role of evangelism. Of course, they are indeed more neutral, but they have not lost their femininity. Especially when in "Mission Impossible 5", Rebecca Ferguson walks in the opera house in a bright yellow evening gown. At time, of course you will not fail to be moved by her beauty.

It’s also hard for you to not pay attention to the physicality of Major Turner in the movie "The Detective Jack: Never Look Back" when Jack and Turner are in the hotel, but the two did not act intimacy—change Being James Bond, I must relax after a nervous escape-at this time the two are indeed more like a pair of comrades who came to death on the battlefield, but even so, they appeared at the beginning of the movie. The phone calls of the two of them are still like us suggesting the existence of subtle affection between them.

When the lonely hero Jack came to the SAR to visit Major Turner with such a long-lost sweetness, it turned out that she was already in jail. The story of "Never Look Back" started from the robbery. The relationship between the two hasn't been determined yet, but they are already facing the desperate world. This may be the most unexpected way for the two to meet, although the audience outside the film knew it well before entering the venue.The first time the two teamed up against the enemy was not satisfactory. Both were beaten to the ground by men of mercenaries. If the police broke in and distracted the other party, the two might have been killed. Major Turner called it a tacit understanding that has yet to be cultivated. By the time of the warehouse shootout, this tacit understanding reached a high degree of consistency. Although I still hope to see that in the final battle, the two of them joined forces to bring down the mercenary man, so as to echo the previous "failure"-of course, the trick of the girl Samantha to break free came from Turner. The major's guidance, so this can still be seen as an indirect cooperation between the two.

Looking at Tom Cruise’s action movies in recent years, this equality in the relationship between the male and female protagonists and the treatment that does not overly adulterate the affair of the children did not bring about the consequences of overpowering the audience or contrary to the audience’s expectations. On the contrary, they made him The movie has a different temperament, which is more rigid and soft, and it has gradually developed a kind of vitality of "flowing water does not rot, and the door is not wormwood." .

At the end of the movie "Detective Jack: Never Look Back", Major Turner returned to her post and was courteous by the soldiers, while our Jack was still wandering around the world, taking off his old jacket, sticking out his thumb, and hitchhiking along the road. Having been to his lonely life, "flick his sleeves without taking away a single petal."

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