The highlights are already very prominent, but what I am curious about is that when the mortal agents in the past have become superhero-like existences, but retain their mortal settings, how should "Mission Impossible 7" be positioned?
For the "Mission Impossible" series, which has only been released in an average of at least 3 years, can the 56-year-old Atango challenge and surpass himself?
He has created the flesh myth in the action movie, and how to continue is really curious.
In fact, behind this is an obvious change in the audience's expectations for the "Mission Impossible" series.
That is from watching a set of spy/agent action movies (like the 007 series) to watching Tom's fighting stunts.
From the overall expectation of a certain type of film to the specific expectation of a certain actor's physical performance, it is precisely from the "Mission Impossible 4" six years ago that the trend has become more and more obvious.
Especially in the climax scene of climbing the outer wall of Burj Khalifa without special effects and no substitutes, countless people were stunned. Tom, who was a non-action actor, was like Jackie Chan's possession, explaining what is crazy and extreme.
Coincidentally, in the same year, the 58-year-old Jackie Chan released his last large-scale action film "Zodiac", and never tried difficult fights and stunts.
But Brother Tom is the opposite. Before that, he had never been recognized by the audience as an action actor.
After "Disc 4", when he was over 50, he took on action movies more and more frequently, taking action performance as the starting point for re-starting, and embarked on the road of "reverse growth" that hit the limit of the body again and again.
The "Mission Impossible" series, as a film in which Tom has absolute control (producer/starring), is of course a barometer that best reflects the changes in his film concept.
When the first "Mission Impossible" appeared in 1996, like the 007 series, it was only regarded as a high-tech, high-value special agent action film led by a popular male star.
And because of the participation of the older generation director Brian de Palma who is good at suspense films, "Mission: Impossible" is still a standard with a little retro color, a rigorous plot and suspense/reversal setting. Spy film.
After that, Tang personally invited Wu Yusen to shoot the sequel "Mission Impossible 2", which went from being unpopular at the beginning to a hit at the box office. Tang not only proved his appeal, but also his production vision.
Although the gorgeous and handsome "Disc 2" completely deviated from the tone of the first part, the audience liked it, so Tom, who continued to let go of his hands, invited J· J. Abrams was a director, but he never thought of suddenly falling into a mess.
The global box office of "Disc 3" is only 390 million US dollars, which is not only significantly lower than "Disc 2"'s 550 million, but also lower than "Disc 1"'s 460 million, which is the lowest in the series.
But Tom, who regarded "Mission Impossible" as his own, did not stop. "Mission Impossible 4", which returned five years later, no longer uses Roman numerals as the title of the sequel, but added a subtitle for the first time. The name "Ghost Protocol".
This small detail can be seen as a hint of the series restart/rebirth, and the fifth and sixth parts since then have followed the subtitle format.
Although the story told in this series has basically remained the same as a whole, it is nothing more than agents, teams, conspiracies, villains, and saving the world.
However, the emphasis on Atang Gothic's technical moves and fighting performance is becoming more and more prominent, gradually becoming the biggest selling point independent of the movie story.
In the first three parts, we can still regard Ethan Hunt as an ordinary person, a senior agent with professional training.
He will be afraid and doubtful. For example, soon after the first episode opens, his team members will be annihilated, leaving him alone to flee.
He also faces the entanglement between personal emotions and tasks. The third episode focused on this point, and arranged for Ethan and Julia to officially marry for an unprecedented time. At the end, Ending was also based on the motivation to save his wife——
Oh my god, this is really rare in spy movies. Have you ever seen Bond marry his girlfriend in a 007 movie?
And these "mortal" personalities about Ethan were quietly dispelled in the recent "syndicate" trilogy.
Instead, Ethan Hunt's increasingly strengthened superhuman attributes. Ethan has changed from an agent to a superhero, and no longer relies on tricky and refurbished black technology equipment (the last two sequels lack highlights in equipment);
If you are not close to women (keep a distance from Ilsa), you will not be seriously injured, and the plot will basically fall back to the background, serving the action scenes and Tom's personal mythology is the focus.
Take, for example, the current "Mission Impossible 6", even the director Christopher McMalley himself said that the reason why Tom made an exception to enable the same person to control the sequel for the second time because he was crazy enough-"Disc Before filming started, there was not even a script.
However, he had already anticipated the situation where Brother Atang was in, first determined the location of the scenes around the world, and then designed the specific story development and action arrangement.
For example, a high-shooting and low-opening skydiving in a mirror, a motorcycle at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, a high-speed retrograde motorbike, a rooftop chase in London, and a canyon through a real person piloting a helicopter.
"I will let the shooting venue tell me what action should happen." This kind of thinking of the director is exactly the way of Jackie Chan's movie, which also made Tom eager to try.
I remember that Tang once said that Jackie Chan is indeed a filmmaker he admires very much, commenting on him as an "amazing filmmaker and actor", bringing a different action film experience to audiences around the world.
He added that "I have something in common with Jackie Chan", that is to do my best to provide the audience with freshness, and at the same time not only as an actor, but also as a producer, storyteller and stuntman.
A Hollywood superstar who captures fans with his looks has positioned one of his identities as "Stuntman" (stuntman), which shows that Tom is really love and obsessed with this.
From "Disc 4" climbing the Burj Khalifa to "Disc 5" unarmed pick-up planes, and then "Disc 6" more dense and crazy continuous adventure action.
It must be admitted that Tom, who is a non-professional background, has proven himself to be one of the most desperate acrobatic filmmakers in the world with his tangible physical performance.
This change is not only the biggest feature of the series, but also a potential worry in the future.
Judging from the mainstream environment of current action movies, "Disc 6", which insists on real-time shooting and live-action performances, can be regarded as the last elegy of traditional action movies.
However, there is no end to "pleasing" the audience. Jackie Chan, who has been fighting for decades, must also consider transformation. Brother Tom is 56 years old this year, and it is certainly not a long-term solution to shoot according to his current position.
We all love "Mission Impossible" and we all love Brother Tom, but apart from the myth of the flesh, we still hope that this series will have more possibilities in the future.
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