Mission
Impossible II is an action spy movie directed by John Woo. The cast of Mission
Impossible II include Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames
and Richard Roxburgh.
Mission Impossible II is an action spy movie directed by John Woo. The cast of Mission Impossible II include Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames and Richard Roxburgh.
The opening shot of the extract is an establishing ariel shot of some of Sydney’s monuments like the Sydney opera house and so on. There is use of superimposed writing saying Sydney, Australia. The scene cross dissolves to show a large corporate buildings. There is more superimposed writing saying Biocyte Pharmaceuticals. The next shot cuts to a scientist inside a dark laboratory. There is a voiceover saying “Well, Dimitri. Every search for a hero must begin with something that every hero requires, a villain. Therefore, in our search for a hero, Belairiform, we created the monster, Chimera.” he then injects himself with a syringe gun. This creates a narrative enigma to to the audience to what this scientist is talking about and makes the audience think about what he has just injected himself with. The scientist leaves the lobby with a briefcase and checks his watch which is counting down. This voice over starts speaking again and says “I must arrive at my destination within twenty hours of departure.”
This creates another narrative enigma to whats inside the briefcase and why he has to get somewhere before 24 hours making the audience again think what has he just injected himself with.
The scientist leaves the building to see children playing and singing around a strange sculpture. The sculpture distorts and the children look like mirrors in a fun house. The scientist wipes his eyes. This again makes the audience ask what has he injected himself with, what is it doing to him and why he has injected himself with it. The next shot shows him on a plane. The antagonist is shown for the first time sitting next to the scientist. This makes you think that this scientist is a protagonist as it seems like the antagonist has tried to track him down. They start talking and the antagonist says “After you have been infected with Chimera, for twenty hours, nothing can save you.” The captain says “This is your captain again. We've experienced a slight, but abrupt drop in cabin pressure.” and releases the oxygen masks. The pilot watches his two co-pilots put the masks on and pass out. The pilot sets the plane to autopilot and sets the plane to crash into the oncoming mountain. This creates a narrative enigma to why he is crashing the plane. Everyone in the plane who has an oxygen mask on starts to pass out apart from the scientist making the audience think he is responsible. He starts to grab his suit case as the pilot and some other antagonist start putting parachutes on. Who we think is the protagonist kills the scientist and takes the suit case and rips of a face mask reviling him to be an antagonist. The antagonists jump of the plane as the co-pilots awaken but not in time before the plane crashes into the mountain.
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