The Mission: Impossible Movies Keep Fooling Us With This Trick
Great anticipation is in the air for the upcoming release of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One. The series, a consistent favorite among the film community and general audiences alike, has featured thematic and stylistic mainstays across various directorial visions. These include self-destructing messages, heart-stopping stunts orchestrated by franchise lead Tom Cruise, international espionage, and a race against the clock to prevent a global cataclysm by enemy combatants.
The First 'Mission: Impossible' Movie Uses the Masks Perfectly A glorified version of the reveal of a culprit in Scooby-Doo, the Mission: Impossible masks, high-tech full face coverings designed to be indistinguishable from human flesh, are a frequent gadget of choice for Ethan Hunt and his team at IMF. They come in handy when they are required to extract information from the enemy, as the masks allow agents to take on the likeness, including the voice, of one of their allies.
In the modern era of Mission: Impossible under the guise of Christopher McQuarrie as writer-director, Hunt, the IMF team, and series villains pull off an artificial face less frequently. As they say, absence makes the heart grow fonder, and this applies to the deployment of the masks, which was starting to run its course after the less beloved Mission: Impossible 2 and III. When the masks are dusted off in Ghost Protocol, Rogue Nation, and Fallout, there is a sense of triumph.
If De Palma left the franchise anything behind, it is that the timing of the mask reveal is crucial. Ethan Hunt or any of his mission partners ripping off an artificial face is beholden to the intensity and danger of the surrounding circumstance. A respective storyline in these films, which is routinely convoluted and murky in its specific details, is at the very least weighty. The M:I franchise is not afraid of sincerity and selling the magnitude of the missions that are accepted.
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