After watching Disc 4, I just wanted to praise Tom for being on the tower. The extreme sports are so cool, and the girls in the same group have praised the leading actor for being so handsome. It's very interesting, this friend is not keen on movies, and it feels quite rational, but she is still most impressed by Tom Cruise. The biggest selling point of commercial films is indeed the stars.
At the beginning of the last century, before the star system came into being, acting was a disgraceful and even degrading profession. They are socially discriminated against, with low wages and not even their names on the screen. Movies are getting more popular, and so are the audiences who like a particular actor. Production companies began to realize that stars are a rare commodity, so they paid first-class actors higher wages, agreed to use their real names, and used various means to package and promote stars, and the star system gradually took shape.
Celebrities have created a group of high-income actors, which boosted box office revenue and also increased the cost of film production, bringing countless lace scandals. At that time, the audience, "can't distinguish the personality of the star on the screen and the personality in private", had too many moral demands on the actors, and also caused them a lot of unnecessary troubles (I am afraid it is the same now). The big Hollywood studios achieved hegemony in the 1930s and 1940s, and the star system also reached the so-called golden age.
After the collapse of the big studio system, contracting with a studio to sell oneself is no longer the only choice for stars, and a more flexible agency system is obviously more suitable for film production after the new Hollywood era. However, movies don't die, and the star system lasts forever. For a large-scale commercial film, "production and publicity are carried out around the star, so that the star becomes the brand of a film or a series of films", which has become the most important means of earning box office. "Mission: Impossible" series, the most prominent sign is undoubtedly Tom Cruise (finally back ~ ~).
There may be many stars who have better acting skills and masterpieces than Tom, but when it comes to running themselves, I am afraid that few people can beat him. Tom is ambitious, knows how to use his face, and is a superb career planner. He was rumored to be the last Hollywood star to sign with a studio (Paramount), and in addition to a "fixed fee of $10 million" a year, he was paid absurdly high. It is said that for "Mission Impossible" 2, "his salary is as high as 70 million US dollars and 20% of the global box office revenue."
As for the production rights and final editing rights of the "Mission Impossible" series, it has always been firmly in Tom's hands. In 2006, even if Paramount announced the termination of the 14-year contract, half of the works in the series still belonged to Tom. If Tom does not agree, Paramount has no right to unilaterally start the shooting of this series. In a word, commercial movies are the show of stars, and the "Mission Impossible" series is the stage exclusively for Tom. (Come back again, it's not easy to be talkative~~~~)
In 1996, "Mission Impossible" 1 was a blockbuster. The ups and downs of the plot, the tense and exciting atmosphere and suspense, the wonderful soundtrack, and the excellent rhythm control are the best part of this series in my opinion, but there are loopholes in the logic and the performance is a bit exaggerated, so it will never be able to match the masterpiece " Bourne Bourne compared. Computers and the Internet are quite shabby, considering that it was in the mid-1990s, it cannot be demanded by today's standards.
The burglary scene is the benchmark for any spy movie or thief movie. Looking back now, although the process was simple, the core area of the CIA was easily broken through. It was better than the few minutes when Tom was hanging from his body to steal information.
The second installment in the series is a double failure of both directing and acting. John Woo once complained that Tommy was too strict. In fact, his pigeons are placed so deliberately that they are a bit contrived. In the opening chapter, Tom's extreme rock climbing also shows that this series is his personal show, which is so blatant that it makes me nauseous.
The third Tom Tom still put on a show, saving a lost agent, a play, more like posing for pictures than saving people in the hail of bullets. However, this one very cleverly introduces the theme of love and family, and family first is a setting that all audiences will not object to.
To sum it up, the reason I always disliked this series was that it was full of Cruise-esque narcissism from start to finish. The first part looks amazing at first glance, and the imposssible posture is sufficient; the mission of the second and third parts is completely for Tom to pose, imposssible is not the point. Pretentious, far-fetched, contrived, disconnected, lacking the cold sense of the special agent film, logic difficult to self-govern, and it is between the second- and third-rate.
The fourth installment in the series, although it can't change my impression of Cruise, is completely impressed by its entertainment. The scene of the high-rise building in Dubai, whether true or false, is thrilling to watch on IMAX and ordinary screens, and the adrenal hormones soar. The storyline is very similar to an MV sightseeing film, but "commercial films generally abide by the conventions and conventions of various film narratives, and pursue the variation of genres at the story level, and at the same time pursue the spectacle effect of images." The visual effects of this one are completely worthy of the ticket price, what else is there to be picky about?
"Mission Impossible" 5 How and where Tom will show is still unknown. What is certain is that he will remain the only protagonist of the show. Teenagers need idol worship, and adults subconsciously also have the need for perfect image compensation, projection and identification. Some actors are resistant to commercial films, but others are destined to make these popcorn movies. Whether he likes it or not, Tom is destined to belong to the latter. Maybe the "Mission: Impossible" series can't win my sincere respect and love, but as long as the "show" is as enjoyable as the fourth part, I don't mind the girls around me being crazy about Tom.
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