Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, the 7th installment in the franchise, has continued its global box office run for over a month, securing its place alongside heavy-hitters Barbie, Oppenheimer and now Blue Beetle. The film (one of the best in the series so far) has all the ingredients for a great action film — fight scenes, a convoluted plot line and crazy stunts, but like every other entry so far, it fails in one fundamental way. It fails to uplift its women.MI7 is the first in the franchise to pass the Bechdel Test, a set of criteria that began as a joke but has become the gold standard for checking whether a movie meets the basic standards of feminist equality on screen. Despite finally passing the test, it did so with only two lines of dialogue shared between the two primary female characters, Ilsa, played by Rebecca Ferguson, and Grace, played by Hayley Atwell. The franchise’s treatment of women has been the subject of much criticism, with even the actresses marveling at the strange choices presented to their characters, such as Rebecca Ferguson’s recent comments on the ambiguous relationship between her character and Tom Cruise’s.From the first film, Mission Impossible has solidified love as Ethan’s primary driving force, be it love for his friends, the world or, more centrally, love for his partners. In the first movie, Hunt begins a relationship with his teammate Claire Phelps, wife of the IMF director, who turns out to be one of the primary antagonists, fitting perfectly into the archetype of a femme fatale. Claire dies, saving Hunt at the end of the movie. In Mission Impossible 2, Nyah, played by Thandie Newton, joins the IMF to spy on her ex-boyfriend, who then almost kills her, but Hunt saves her before she can be used as a bio-weapon. In the third film, Ethan’s eventual wife, Julie, is used as bait, kidnapped and threatened. Although they get married at the end of the movie, Julia is not seen nor heard from again until Mission Impossible: Fallout, where she is officially written out of the franchise. Each of these women dated, married or slept with Hunt before being written out of the story, never to return.RELATED: What Mission: Impossible Can Learn From James BondRELATED: M:I 7 Almost Featured Angela Bassett – But She Could Return in the Future
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, the 7th installment in the franchise, has continued its global box office run for over a month, securing its place alongside heavy-hitters Barbie, Oppenheimer and now Blue Beetle. The film (one of the best in the series so far) has all the ingredients for a great action film — fight scenes, a convoluted plot line and crazy stunts, but like every other entry so far, it fails in one fundamental way. It fails to uplift its women.
MI7 is the first in the franchise to pass the Bechdel Test, a set of criteria that began as a joke but has become the gold standard for checking whether a movie meets the basic standards of feminist equality on screen. Despite finally passing the test, it did so with only two lines of dialogue shared between the two primary female characters, Ilsa, played by Rebecca Ferguson, and Grace, played by Hayley Atwell. The franchise’s treatment of women has been the subject of much criticism, with even the actresses marveling at the strange choices presented to their characters, such as Rebecca Ferguson’s recent comments on the ambiguous relationship between her character and Tom Cruise’s.
From the first film, Mission Impossible has solidified love as Ethan’s primary driving force, be it love for his friends, the world or, more centrally, love for his partners. In the first movie, Hunt begins a relationship with his teammate Claire Phelps, wife of the IMF director, who turns out to be one of the primary antagonists, fitting perfectly into the archetype of a femme fatale. Claire dies, saving Hunt at the end of the movie. In Mission Impossible 2, Nyah, played by Thandie Newton, joins the IMF to spy on her ex-boyfriend, who then almost kills her, but Hunt saves her before she can be used as a bio-weapon. In the third film, Ethan’s eventual wife, Julie, is used as bait, kidnapped and threatened. Although they get married at the end of the movie, Julia is not seen nor heard from again until Mission Impossible: Fallout, where she is officially written out of the franchise. Each of these women dated, married or slept with Hunt before being written out of the story, never to return.
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