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Film Review：Mission：impossible -- Fallout
Tom Cruise returns in the sixth instalment of the super-spy franchise. It’s full of high-octane action sequences, but is there anything more to it?
By Nicholas Barber
13 July 2018
Picture the scene. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), the pride of the Impossible Missions Force, jumps out of a plane with his moustachioed CIA minder, Walker (Henry Cavill). After freefalling a few thousand feet, one of them is struck by lightning, and there is lots of mid-air hurly-burly with oxygen canisters and parachutes. The stunt work and filming are hugely impressive, and if the two hunky heroes were hurtling towards a villain’s hidden fortress or escaping from a flock of hang-gliding assassins, then the scene would be thrilling, too.
But they aren’t. What they’re doing is – wait for it – going to a disco in the centre of Paris. A disco. So was a parachute jump really the most surreptitious and practical way for our super spies to get there? Of course not, but Christopher McQuarrie, the film’s writer-director, must have realised that if Ethan had taken the Metro to the club there might have been a gap of more than five minutes between action sequences – and there was no way he was going to let that happen.
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Welcome to Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the sixth film in the series, and the second in a row to have been made by McQuarrie. His mission, and he certainly chose to accept it, was to make this instalment the most action-packed of them all, and so one adrenalised, elaborate set piece follows another, for a bum-numbing two-and-a-half hours, whether there is any logic behind those set pieces or not. I suppose there is a plot threading them together, but I’m not sure what it is.
The film soon shoves aside coherent storytelling in favour of protracted fights and chases
It’s got something to do with three ‘plutonium cores’ which have been stolen by a band of terrorists called The Apostles. (They are essentially the same terrorists who were called The Syndicate in the previous film, but they’ve rebranded themselves and presumably updated their website accordingly.) To get the plutonium back, Ethan has to schmooze a fixer named the White Widow (Vanessa Kirby, ie, Princess Margaret from The Crown), a coolly mischievous femme fatale who deserved a lot more screen time than she gets, and who is no relation to Scarlett Johansson’s character in The Avengers.
As usual, Hunt is aided and abetted by his two adoring sidekicks, the nervous boffin Benji (Simon Pegg) and the less nervous boffin Luther (Ving Rhames), who provide some amusing odd-couple banter. But the CIA’s boss (Angela Bassett) has insisted that Walker tag along, much to the annoyance of Ethan’s own boss, Hunley (Alec Baldwin). Then there’s Ilsa (Rebecca Ferguson), Ethan’s old MI6 flame, and Ethan’s wife Julia (Michelle Monaghan), and Solomon (Sean Harris), the rat-like baddie from the last film. But you’d need one of the IMF’s amazingly reliable tablets to keep track of who’s who, and whose side they’re all on.
Basically, whenever they get together for a chat, the villains say that the heroes have fallen into a trap, and the heroes reply that, no, the villains have fallen into a trap, and then a villain pulls off a rubber mask to reveal that he is actually a hero, and then everyone agrees that it is time for a shoot-out. Starting off as a glamorously retro European espionage caper, with an undercurrent of doom and a grandiose reference to Homer’s The Odyssey, the film soon shoves aside coherent storytelling in favour of protracted fights and chases, as Ethan hops from Berlin to Paris to London to Kashmir, perpetually in search of things to climb up, run along, and jump off.
It’s hard to warm to this invincible robot as much as you might warm to James Bond or Jason Bourne
It’s a brawn-over-brain affair. Whereas previous Missions were sometimes about being cleverer than the villains, this one is principally about being tougher and more determined. The main theme is that if you grit your teeth and stare so intently at your target that your eyes almost pop out of your skull, then you can somehow will yourself to victory – assuming, of course, you are as indestructible as Ethan. Although he isn’t officially a mutant or an alien, he can be thrown off a motorcycle at top speed, with no crash helmet on, and be fit as a fiddle a moment later.
This invulnerability can’t help but make Fallout less involving. If you were to judge the film according to the effort that has gone into planning and executing its increasingly spectacular and ludicrous action sequences, you could hail Mission: Impossible – Fallout as a masterpiece (as several critics have). Cruise does his own stunts, and his steely commitment to all the rope-swinging and rooftop-leaping is remarkable, especially bearing in mind that he is now 56, and must have been swigging from the fountain of youth between takes.
But if you judge the film according to how exciting those action sequences are, then Fallout falls short. However technically miraculous a helicopter dogfight or a multi-vehicle heist may be, it can’t really get the blood pumping or the sweat flowing if its tone isn’t consistent, and McQuarrie keeps wobbling between winking self-parody and apocalyptic seriousness. It can’t quite deliver, either, if it doesn’t have an interesting villain, or quotable dialogue, or a compelling narrative reason to happen – which brings us back to the aforementioned parachute jump. More importantly, the impact of these sequences is cushioned by having a hero who isn’t a human being.
Ethan’s buddies keep telling us what a good man Ethan is, and McQuarrie gives him some bad dreams to assure us that he has an inner life. But even after six films, it’s hard to warm to this invincible robot as much as you might warm to James Bond or Jason Bourne. Can you enjoy his knockabout adventures? Definitely. But can you care about them? Impossible.
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来自：http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180713-film-review-mission-impossible-fallout
Tom Cruise returns in the sixth instalment of the super-spy franchise. It’s full of high-octane action sequences, but is there anything more to it?
By Nicholas Barber
13 July 2018
Picture the scene. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), the pride of the Impossible Missions Force, jumps out of a plane with his moustachioed CIA minder, Walker (Henry Cavill). After freefalling a few thousand feet, one of them is struck by lightning, and there is lots of mid-air hurly-burly with oxygen canisters and parachutes. The stunt work and filming are hugely impressive, and if the two hunky heroes were hurtling towards a villain’s hidden fortress or escaping from a flock of hang-gliding assassins, then the scene would be thrilling, too.
But they aren’t. What they’re doing is – wait for it – going to a disco in the centre of Paris. A disco. So was a parachute jump really the most surreptitious and practical way for our super spies to get there? Of course not, but Christopher McQuarrie, the film’s writer-director, must have realised that if Ethan had taken the Metro to the club there might have been a gap of more than five minutes between action sequences – and there was no way he was going to let that happen.
More like this:
- Is this film the new Get Out?
- Ant-Man and the Wasp loses its sting
- The Jurassic World sequel is ‘a rollicking popcorn film’
Welcome to Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the sixth film in the series, and the second in a row to have been made by McQuarrie. His mission, and he certainly chose to accept it, was to make this instalment the most action-packed of them all, and so one adrenalised, elaborate set piece follows another, for a bum-numbing two-and-a-half hours, whether there is any logic behind those set pieces or not. I suppose there is a plot threading them together, but I’m not sure what it is.
The film soon shoves aside coherent storytelling in favour of protracted fights and chases
It’s got something to do with three ‘plutonium cores’ which have been stolen by a band of terrorists called The Apostles. (They are essentially the same terrorists who were called The Syndicate in the previous film, but they’ve rebranded themselves and presumably updated their website accordingly.) To get the plutonium back, Ethan has to schmooze a fixer named the White Widow (Vanessa Kirby, ie, Princess Margaret from The Crown), a coolly mischievous femme fatale who deserved a lot more screen time than she gets, and who is no relation to Scarlett Johansson’s character in The Avengers.
As usual, Hunt is aided and abetted by his two adoring sidekicks, the nervous boffin Benji (Simon Pegg) and the less nervous boffin Luther (Ving Rhames), who provide some amusing odd-couple banter. But the CIA’s boss (Angela Bassett) has insisted that Walker tag along, much to the annoyance of Ethan’s own boss, Hunley (Alec Baldwin). Then there’s Ilsa (Rebecca Ferguson), Ethan’s old MI6 flame, and Ethan’s wife Julia (Michelle Monaghan), and Solomon (Sean Harris), the rat-like baddie from the last film. But you’d need one of the IMF’s amazingly reliable tablets to keep track of who’s who, and whose side they’re all on.
Basically, whenever they get together for a chat, the villains say that the heroes have fallen into a trap, and the heroes reply that, no, the villains have fallen into a trap, and then a villain pulls off a rubber mask to reveal that he is actually a hero, and then everyone agrees that it is time for a shoot-out. Starting off as a glamorously retro European espionage caper, with an undercurrent of doom and a grandiose reference to Homer’s The Odyssey, the film soon shoves aside coherent storytelling in favour of protracted fights and chases, as Ethan hops from Berlin to Paris to London to Kashmir, perpetually in search of things to climb up, run along, and jump off.
It’s hard to warm to this invincible robot as much as you might warm to James Bond or Jason Bourne
It’s a brawn-over-brain affair. Whereas previous Missions were sometimes about being cleverer than the villains, this one is principally about being tougher and more determined. The main theme is that if you grit your teeth and stare so intently at your target that your eyes almost pop out of your skull, then you can somehow will yourself to victory – assuming, of course, you are as indestructible as Ethan. Although he isn’t officially a mutant or an alien, he can be thrown off a motorcycle at top speed, with no crash helmet on, and be fit as a fiddle a moment later.
This invulnerability can’t help but make Fallout less involving. If you were to judge the film according to the effort that has gone into planning and executing its increasingly spectacular and ludicrous action sequences, you could hail Mission: Impossible – Fallout as a masterpiece (as several critics have). Cruise does his own stunts, and his steely commitment to all the rope-swinging and rooftop-leaping is remarkable, especially bearing in mind that he is now 56, and must have been swigging from the fountain of youth between takes.
But if you judge the film according to how exciting those action sequences are, then Fallout falls short. However technically miraculous a helicopter dogfight or a multi-vehicle heist may be, it can’t really get the blood pumping or the sweat flowing if its tone isn’t consistent, and McQuarrie keeps wobbling between winking self-parody and apocalyptic seriousness. It can’t quite deliver, either, if it doesn’t have an interesting villain, or quotable dialogue, or a compelling narrative reason to happen – which brings us back to the aforementioned parachute jump. More importantly, the impact of these sequences is cushioned by having a hero who isn’t a human being.
Ethan’s buddies keep telling us what a good man Ethan is, and McQuarrie gives him some bad dreams to assure us that he has an inner life. But even after six films, it’s hard to warm to this invincible robot as much as you might warm to James Bond or Jason Bourne. Can you enjoy his knockabout adventures? Definitely. But can you care about them? Impossible.
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来自：http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180713-film-review-mission-impossible-fallout
The Needs of the Many: A constant theme of this film. There are many times that Ethan is forced to choose between the success of the mission and the lives of those he cares about, and he always prioritizes the latter first even if it means the fate of the world is at risk. In fact, his decision to save Luther's life instead of escaping with the three nukes kickstarts the whole plot of the movie. Hunley is not entirely happy with the decision, but he admires Ethan's quality of caring individuals, which means Hunley can always trust him to have his back. CIA Director Sloane came to agree with this as well in the ending, finally realizing that with people like Ethan to care and protect individual lives means higher-ups like Sloane can focus fully on the big picture while trusting their agents to do the right thing and still get the job done.
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From：https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/MissionImpossibleFallout
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From：https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/MissionImpossibleFallout
沈巍：他（夜尊）蛊惑人心的能力，是建立在人心缺口之上的，你越是钻牛角尖，越是中了他的下怀。
赵心慈/獐狮：人心存污，常忧思而多苦，固怒而生怨，尽可为不可为之事，唯不作恶三字，乃天下之大善，济世镇魂者，无他耳。
祝红（蛇族）：行了，小朋友，人生就是这样，灾难随时会来，人人都是受害者，可问题在于，你能不能背负着创伤，继续走在正路上。
——《镇魂》29集
赵心慈/獐狮：人心存污，常忧思而多苦，固怒而生怨，尽可为不可为之事，唯不作恶三字，乃天下之大善，济世镇魂者，无他耳。
祝红（蛇族）：行了，小朋友，人生就是这样，灾难随时会来，人人都是受害者，可问题在于，你能不能背负着创伤，继续走在正路上。
——《镇魂》29集
陈雪燃 - We Won't Be Falling
We are the one
We won't be falling down
As the sun will keep on shining
the story will keep on going
We are the one
We will be holding on
For the promise we held for life
For the people we love are leaving
Please tell my friends
We won't be falling down
As the sun will keep on shining
And the story will keep on going
Ah....
We won't be falling down
as the sun will keep on shining
And the story will keep on going
Ah....
We will be holding on
As the sea w're rise upon
And the story will keep on growing
Ah…
We won't be falling down
as the sun will keep on shining
And the story will keep on going
Ah....
We will be holding on
As the sea w're rise upon
And the story will keep on growing
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《镇魂》主题曲
We are the one
We won't be falling down
As the sun will keep on shining
the story will keep on going
We are the one
We will be holding on
For the promise we held for life
For the people we love are leaving
Please tell my friends
We won't be falling down
As the sun will keep on shining
And the story will keep on going
Ah....
We won't be falling down
as the sun will keep on shining
And the story will keep on going
Ah....
We will be holding on
As the sea w're rise upon
And the story will keep on growing
Ah…
We won't be falling down
as the sun will keep on shining
And the story will keep on going
Ah....
We will be holding on
As the sea w're rise upon
And the story will keep on growing
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《镇魂》主题曲
《不染》
作词: 海雷
作曲：简弘亦
演唱：毛不易
制作人：萨顶顶
监制：付宏声
和声、弦乐编写：丁培峰
吉他：王晓松
贝斯：王晓松
笛子：赵雪
弦乐：国际首席爱乐乐团
和声：高莹 王勖
录音师：李牧野
录音棚：CU Music中英音乐
混音师：李牧野
混音录音棚：CU Music中英音乐
音乐制作出品：中英音乐
音乐发行：智慧大狗x天才联盟
统筹：张葛 王明宇
不愿染是与非 怎料事与愿违
心中的花枯萎 时光它去不回
但愿洗去浮华 掸去一身尘灰
再与你一壶清酒 话一世沉醉
不愿染是与非 怎料事与愿违
心中的花枯萎 时光它去不回
回忆辗转来回 痛不过这心扉
愿只愿余生无悔 随花香远飞
一壶清酒 一身尘灰
一念来回度余生无悔
一场春秋 生生灭灭 浮华是非
待花开之时再醉一回
愿这生生的时光 不在枯萎
待花开之时再醉一回
愿这生生的时光 不在枯萎
再回首浅尝 心酒余味
一壶清酒 一身尘灰
一念来回度余生无悔
一场春秋 生生灭灭 浮华是非
待花开之时再醉一回
一壶清酒 一身尘灰
一念来回度余生无悔
一场回忆 生生灭灭 了了心扉
再回首浅尝心酒余味
一场回忆 生生灭灭 了了心扉
再回首浅尝心酒余味
觉得这个叫陈钰琪的女演员有少见的英气。或许该找下她演的其他角色看看是否也觉得英气。
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关于这部剧，要说的就这么多吧。
当然，毛不易的演唱很好。
《斗破苍穹》，刷了几集后刷不下去了。
好奇了下陈楚河。进而好奇了下“竹联帮”是个怎样的存在。当然也没弄清哪怕是一点点其存在的样子。
《幸存者》已播完。只我目前只能看到27集。《清道夫》只看了大约10集，而且我不知道一共有多少集。
《幸存者》的拍摄地是重庆。突然想知道《犯罪嫌疑人X的献身》的拍摄地是哪里。
《幸存者》每个案件都有秦明与死者的交谈，其目的是劝世警世，只是有的对话有些滑稽。
秦明老师步教授步兵（王辉扮演）
清道夫扮演者
虽然《清道夫》还没刷完，却是三部中唯一让我流泪的。想起了听到过的一句话：“每个杀人犯背后都有一个悲惨的故事。”
大概看剧看得太多了。在步教授刚邀秦明去爬山时，就流泪了。而后来步教授与清道夫韩天峰的对话也很可以理解。
步教授的状态（女儿步心瑶因车祸而死，时隔七年，步教授得知真相后）让我想起了《幸存者》中凌阳的死。作为受害人凌月（秦明女友）的哥哥，凌阳追寻凶手10年，在死之前吞下了凶手的皮肤组织，从而给专案组提供了凶手的DNA。凌阳是不惜以生命为代价也要找到杀死妹妹凶手。而如果没有秦明对凌阳兄妹的了解，凌阳吞下的组织也不会立即起作用。
图片取自：
作者唐家三少妻子去世:妻子生病期间生活失控(图)
文章来源: 每日人物 于 2018-09-17 08:26:25
上面的《斗破苍穹》即为唐家三少的作品，故在此记录一下。
海报
剧组工作人员
魏家坪
幼年姜凉生
孙怡饰姜生
马天宇饰姜凉生
李梦饰小九
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《凉生，我们可不可以不忧伤》
……
没看过书。剧，看了几集。