2023-05-08 13:35:02
News culture Mission Impossible: Tom Cruise explains why his character never shoots
Already 27 years since the Mission: Impossible franchise with Tom Cruise started, and it’s not over! At least two films are still expected, including one for this summer if all goes well. But as spectacular as these feature films are, it all started with a film in which the main character doesn’t do what any action hero would normally do.
Mission Impossible: over 25 years of success
In six films, the saga Mission : Impossible starring Ethan Hunt has established itself as one of cinema’s best-known action franchises. The credits, although dating from the 1966 television series, immediately identify the license, and performances by Tom Cruises greatly help. Whether on Top Gun or Mission : Impossiblethe actor does a good part of his stunts himself, and continues to do so when he celebrated his 60th birthday and we know that the insurance companies do not really like this idea. Anyway, when you add up the box office of each film, we arrive at more than 3.57 billion dollarsof which 791 million just for Mission Impossible : Falloutreleased in 2018.
Individually, the Mission: Impossible do not explode records, but are all between 398 and 791 million dollars. We are far from the greatest hits of all time, but we are on a franchise that is only progressing over the years, and we could well reach and then exceed one billion with Mission : Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One this summer, then Dead Reckoning Part 2 in 2024. But what interests us today invites us to go back to 1996, almost 30 years ago.
If you saw the first film directed by Brian de Palma, you know Ethan Hunt isn’t having his best days there. Sent to Prague with a whole team to arrest a spy, he sees his teammates being killed and he is accused of being a mole. Determined to prove his innocence, he will do everything to flush out the traitors, even if it means alienating his agency. The result is 110 minutes of action, full of gimmicks and stunts set to music by one of the geniuses in musical composition, Danny Elfman.
Action everywhere, but a main character that doesn’t fire a single bullet
However, you will have noticed that the main character does not fire any shots there. The situation denotes for a film of this genre, and all the more so when we know that it was released in a decade when the exchanges of fire associated with multiple explosions were legion (Die Hard 2 & 3, Leon, Ronin Lethal Weapon 3, Bad Boys). Tom Cruise wanted to participate in an action film that would not use the same codes, and Mission : Impossible could allow this unique approach. However, the thinking heads of Hollywood were not very warm to the idea of adapting a series into a film at that time.
The actor had to get involved and push this project for it to be born, and the latter was really trying to do not reproduce the classic action model. Doing without using a firearm was strong enough to denote, and that in no way prevented us from offering a thrilling, ultra-paced adventure full of strong sequences. The actor also wanted to rester fairly faithful to the tv serieswhich also did not abuse the sequences where the bullets rain to highlight the ingenuity of its characters and prove their power.
Action movie heroes who don’t need to shoot everywhere to achieve their goals, it actually reinforces the idea that they are above the fray, and that their intelligence is enough. This is what Tom Cruise wanted to tend to, which obviously helped make the first Mission Impossible a success. Subsequently, the franchise exploited the weapons much more but kept this richness in the situations, going further and further to satisfy the need for novelty. Ethan Hunt is brilliant, physically above the rest, agile and determined, and it is not his ability to chain precision shots that makes him a cult character. Almost 30 years that it lastsand success is always there.
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