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With "Fallout," McQuarrie takes a huge step as a director by unlocking how to inject his action sequences with the same emotional clarity that he brings to his writing.
Christopher McQuarrie worked with Tom Cruise for the past 12 years as a screenwriter, and first directed it in "Jack Reacher" before resuming the franchise "Mission: Impossible". He has often spoken of the crucial role played by Cruise in the narrative and story structure. McQuarrie believes that Cruise's imprint on his films is not related to a specific character on the screen, but rather his insistence that each decision contributes to increasing the emotional clarity of the audience [19659003]. Director, McQuarrie takes this concept to another level. The extensive action pieces in "Fallout" offer the jaw-dropping practical stunts that we expect from the franchise, but more importantly, they are steeped in history and increase our emotional involvement. IndieWire recently sat for a long interview with McQuarrie as part of Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast, and asked the following question: how did he bring so much emotional clarity to the action itself?
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"[‘Rogue Nation’] was a huge fight," McQuarrie said of his debut film "Mission Impossible." "We first had the idea of action, then we decided on the order in which the action would unfold and what story made all these events worthwhile. Why do these events exist in this order? You feel it in the movie. "
While the massive action pieces sell points for" Fallout, "McQuarrie said the key was not to allow the show to be what drives the train. Cruise had had with his character's trip in "Rogue Nation", McQuarrie decided that he was going to make another movie "Mission Impossible", he wanted to get into Hunt's head.
"We learned so much about the emotion on" Edge of Tomorrow "that we were then able to translate it into" Rogue Nation, "McQuarrie said. "We made some emotional discoveries that the story can bear, so much so that when Tom asked me to do this movie, I said I would, but I want to make a more emotional film, now I want to support that … and that the character dictates the story, so the action sequences have been pushed back into the background and the drama the character was drawn to the front. "
To accomplish this, McQuarrie had to, to a certain extent, put on his hat … One of his great lessons to become a director is to discover how the character can expressing himself through physical action and moving away from what he calls "narrative cleanliness."
] The director of photography Rob Hardy and director Christopher McQuarrie on the set of "Mission Impossible – Fallout"
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"As a writer, you tend to become very protective of the script and the film's inner logic," said McQuarrie. "My path as a director has to become more and more comfortable," I do not need to know. I do not need to explain that. I do not need to specify it. »»
The epic bathroom fight scene in "Fallout" perfectly illustrates these principles. The initial concept was largely dictated by the plot – Ethan entered the bathroom in order to assume the physical identity of the villain ("Mission Impossible"), but when something did do not go, he leaves the bathroom. himself. This sets in motion the original driving force of the story: Ethan is forced to play the villain in order to achieve his goal. And although there are traces of this scenario in the finished film, McQuarrie realized that this film needed to be further influenced by Ethan's relationships with the other characters. "And here is the crux of" Mission Impossible – Fallout ": conspiracy versus character, and intellectual concepts versus emotional realities," said McQuarrie. Through this prism, McQuarrie began to ask a set of different questions: "What is the dynamic between Ethan and Ilsa [Rebecca Ferguson] Ethan and Lane [Sean Harris] Ethan and Henry [Cavill, who plays Walker]?"
The scene of the bath, which arrives in the first half of the film, becomes the setting up of the dynamic between the characters of Walker and Ethan, who fight together in an epic body-to-body with the formidable Lark [Liang Yang]. ] Liang Yang and Henry Cavill in "Mission Impossible – Fallout" "width =" 780 "height =" 504 "/>
Liang Yang and Henry Cavill in" Mission Impossible – Fallout "
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" There is an emotional relationship that [Ethan] has with Walker, a very different relationship, but still based on an emotional conflict conflict, "McQuarrie said. "They do not like it because of their methods, and everything develops in this sequence from this point of ignition."
Choreographing the fight scene with Wade Eastwood stunt coordinator and combat coordinator Wolfgang Stegemann, McQuarrie found ways not only to introduce Walker's character, but also to sow the seeds of his conflict with Ethan
