After reviewing the entire "Mission Impossible" series, I feel that the first one is a magical film. The first is directed by Brian de Palma. He is good at suspense and horror, with a cold style. "Witch Carrie" and "Scarface" are his immortal works. After looking at the background, Paramount launched this plan. It was a remake of the TV series of the same name in the 1960s. At first, the investment was not too high. Looking at it today, although the first action scene is very famous, it is more extravagant than the later ones. Up, it can be said to be small and exquisite.
In addition to this, the whole film has a very strong sense of mix and match. His three big scenes have independent styles, and there is a big gap. What's interesting is that if you analyze it carefully, you can see that these are three completely different ideas for shooting spy films. What's more interesting is that these three ideas have developed completely differently in the next 20 years.
The first big scene, "The Prague Embassy's night mission encounters an accident", is a very retro spy movie style. The whole scene is unfolded in the gorgeous and conservative embassy and nearby neighborhoods, which is quite exotic. Everyone’s costumes, props, lines, and ways of doing things are obscure. There is nothing that can be called high-tech. Excluding the obvious contemporary factors such as computer disks, you can even think that this is in the 60-80s. 007 movie clips of any year. There are few action scenes, but the atmosphere is tense, cold and refined, and it only takes a short time to explain the complex background of the story. The director of this section has a strong personal touch.
This traditional way of shooting spy films by Zhou Zhouzheng was once very popular, and its main focus was suspense, brain-burning, and subsequent problem-solving. In the early years, compared to other films, spy films had a relatively complicated story background, and they were counted in the category of brain-burning films.
But more than 20 years have passed, and today no one uses this method purely to shoot spy films (except for some archaeological restorations, such as "The Potter, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", etc.). It may be because the suspenseful brain-burning market has been completely taken over by science fiction and thriller/horror movies. Science fiction and horror/horror, the ceiling can be very high in terms of the grandeur and brain-burning degree of the world view. No matter how many fact-based spy films are obtained, it is easy to lose to them.
This style can be regarded as an abandoned son who has been gradually eliminated by the times in the special agent film.
The second big scene "Stealing data in the CIA Langley Center", all of a sudden, the sense of science and technology came up. From the cold and foggy Eastern European alleys to the dark nights, they changed to the spacious and bright US Di high-tech office area. The four modernizations finally Achieved after the opening 1/3.
Hanging down the rope and stealing the disc has become a classic, but today, the whole scene is a small production in a small confined space, and the cost is actually very low, but it has a very high sense of science and technology. It may be the popularity of this segment that made this series embark on the # Must have just a single-player challenge to the black technology scene, otherwise it is not called the road of no return. Every villain must work hard to make Ethan Hunter a high-tech hamster cage, so that he can challenge success in it.
You can see the progress of black technology over the years from the small link of the video of each task. You can hardly imagine that in the first part of 1996, it was an ordinary video tape handed over by a plain-clothed stewardess on the plane. There was no identity verification. Just correct the password before! ! At the sixth step, blood was taken from fingertips for 1 second to test DNA to verify identity-what a hell.
Today this idea is the normal idea of all spy films. Thanks to the rapid progress of computer special effects, the black technology can be used for countless gods. This style is not only retained, but also vigorously promoted and exaggerated.
PS: Another thing I don’t know in this scene is that when Ethan was almost on the ground, he didn’t dare to move. At this moment, his palm was facing down. Later, in order to catch the sweat from that drop of glasses, he used his palm to face. Go up to pick it up, but in such a nervous situation, he doesn't need to turn his hand once.
The third scene "The fight on the high-speed rail tunnel dragged a helicopter" is a very, very typical American action movie scene. After reading the information, this plot seemed impossible nonsense at the time: "When filming the train scene, Tom didn’t agree that his character used ropes to buckle the helicopter on the high-speed train because of this. Too unreasonable. But the director thinks that the film needs an extremely exaggerated ending (the rope eventually pulled the helicopter into the train tunnel), and finally persuaded Brother Tom."
Facts have proved how bold and productive people are. As long as you accept this setting, everything will look cute. In the follow-up series, more and more exaggerated plots are everywhere, such as swinging between the tallest buildings in Shanghai and climbing with a pair of gloves. Burj Khalifa, blablabla. The plane enters the tunnel? Well, what an unimaginative little scene (painting nails). It is estimated that this section in the first part is too popular, so that the subsequent series will also embark on the #must have just a non-human challenge, otherwise it will not be called the road of no return.
The action scene of the big scene is another conventional idea in all spy films today. Note that he and the previous black technology links may or may not overlap (for example, the action scenes in the Bourne Shadow series are very full, but the sense of black technology is not very heavy). Part of the vigorous publicity of action dramas also benefited from the rapid progress of computer special effects, which gave action dramas more room for imagination.
On the whole, 1996 was a period of swings between light and dark. Even Brian de Palma didn't have a clear answer on how to shoot new century spy films. He used these three paragraphs to complete the questioning of directions. In the end, the industry as a whole abandoned one and left two, the tail of the old era was abandoned, and the dawn of the new era continued to be magnified.
One last mention: Ethan Hunt's character is also very different from the latter in the first part. In the first part, he is a young man with a little flamboyant personality. He probably belongs to the team with very good performance and is on the rise, so he is a little smug. What I am very curious about is whether he has any legs with Claire?
Judging from all kinds of explicit cues, the two men definitely have a leg, and there is a high degree of mutual trust between them. In the feature film, they will kiss each other's cheeks and hands. The trailer even appeared in their kiss scenes.
The female partner is young and beautiful. She works with the young and handsome Ethan all the year round, but in the end she betrayed Ethan by betraying her life for an old husband. He didn't blame her very much either. When she died, he was very sad. Probably this was love.
In fact, if you want to dig deeper in this paragraph, you can make the characters fuller, but! ! ! "The film originally planned to include the triangle relationship between Ethan, Jim and Claire in the opening scene, but because this setting is incompatible with the whole film, the director finally gave up this idea." Well, the director has his idea. But when we watched it back then, we all found it strange why she had to choose the old man instead of him. We were little girls back then, and what we cared about most was the love inside.
Most of the references mentioned in the article come from this film review: Secrets you may not know in "Mission : Impossible 1"
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