This Message Will Self
Destruct... Then You Can Shoot.
Bond or Hunt? MI-6 or IFC? Both
secret agents trying to save the world, while still getting the girl. Both have
a distinct theme that represent them. Let's compare.
Bond - for the past 50 years, each
and every movie starring the secret agent James Bond begins with the gun barrel
opener:
Though
over time the picture has enhanced, the clothes have changed, and the graphics
have improved, the idea remains the same. The gun barrel opener is the mark of
a Bond movie, and cannot be mistaken for any other picture.
Mr. Ethan Hunt has a theme just as
significant, thought it does not begin with the motion picture that debuted in
1995. In September 1966, the first episode of Mission: Impossible aired as
a television series on CBS. Even then, however, every mission received by Mission:
Impossible's protagonist would self destruct after the mission was
assigned:
The significance behind the montage
of the gun barrel with Ethan Hunt in the middle is to symbolize and show how the
two secret agents carry a theme. In this montage, Ethan is throwing a pair of sunglasses that carried his mission
information. After watching his briefing through the optical lenses and
listening through an attached ear bud, Hunt throws the sunglasses so that they
do not explode on his face. No soul will ever be able to find the information
that was on that briefing, but Ethan knows what to do.
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