The Guardian view on film stunts: impossible missions have been undervalued for too long | Editorial
Tom Cruise’s eye-popping exploits should draw attention to a craft that upholds the magic of cinema Set your hero an impossible task that can only be accomplished through devilish cunning and godlike derring-do, involving planes, trains and automobiles, and watch the money come rolling in. Then make him do it all over again. And again.This might be a reductive way of looking at the Mission: Impossible series, over whose seven-film span nuclear catastrophe has been prevented, biological warfare averted and international arms dealers foiled, but it is what generations of fans have come to expect. Continue reading...
Tom Cruise’s eye-popping exploits should draw attention to a craft that upholds the magic of cinema
Set your hero an impossible task that can only be accomplished through devilish cunning and godlike derring-do, involving planes, trains and automobiles, and watch the money come rolling in. Then make him do it all over again. And again.
This might be a reductive way of looking at the Mission: Impossible series, over whose seven-film span nuclear catastrophe has been prevented, biological warfare averted and international arms dealers foiled, but it is what generations of fans have come to expect.
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