WEBVTT - Mission Impossible with Alex Schmidt 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:03.840 On the Bedel Cast, the questions asked if movies have 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:07.880 women in um, are all their discussions just boyfriends and husbands, 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:13.000 or do they have individualism the patriarchy? Zef invest start 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:17.000 changing it with the Beckdel Cast. Hello and welcome to 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:19.120 the Bechtel Cast. My name is Caitlin Dronte. My name 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.560 is Jamie Loftus, and we host a podcast about the 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:24.160 portrayal of women in movies. We sure do. I can't 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:25.960 really see you. I know this is weird. There's a 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:27.760 bunch of mikes in the way. Here, here we go. 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:34.519 This is better, hie. So we talk about the representation 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.760 of women in film and how it's usually bad. Yes, 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.040 that's our go to. We use the Bechtel test as 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.960 a jumping out point for discussion, test created by cartoonist 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:50.760 Alison Bechdel in the nineteen eighties that features a Hey, 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.520 what what is it? Do you want me to see it? Yeah? 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:58.600 I forget. The Bechtel test requires that a movie, let's say, 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:02.720 has to mainly identifying characters in it with names. Yes, 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.280 they have to speak to each other and guess what 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.399 they should not be talking about? Men? Can we can 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:10.960 we test drive it right now? Please? Yes, Hey Caitlin, 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:14.000 Hey Jamie, what's up. There's something about the movie we're 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:17.320 discussing today that I found very distracting. What is it? 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:22.160 The bone structure of the lead actress was? It was 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:26.720 too Does it pass the Victel test if I'm a 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.840 hot woman's face? But I do like, okay, the main 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:33.000 act who is even the main actress in this in 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.440 this film we're discussing today, because it looks like her 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:40.720 bones were stung by bees her like her her cheekbones 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:43.280 are so out of her face. I believe you're talking 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:48.040 about the character Claire played by Emmanuel I don't know 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:51.840 what this last name is. Anyways, that did pass. It did, 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:54.720 But again, I don't know why we're judging a woman 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.960 by her looks or even talking about it. That's I mean. 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.200 But but her her bones gets stung by bees, and 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:05.360 I wanted to raise awareness someone get helped for Emmanuel 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:10.919 built get the bees away from her. Yeah. Anyway, so, um, 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.840 usually we don't body shame women on the podcast I 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.040 was doing. I was doing that to prove that the 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.680 Bechtel test is actually flawed. True, Wow, Jamie, Yeah, there 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:25.320 was a method. It's not a perfect system. The stakes 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.520 are made, which is why we always have a larger 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:31.560 conversation about just the treatment of women in general in 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:36.399 the movie. So we are talking about Mission Impossible, and 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.760 we have a guest here with us as always. He 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:44.079 is a comedian, a writer, and host of the Cracked podcast, 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.239 Alex Schmidt. Hey, great to be here. Hi, thanks for 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.960 I'm so glad to be doing this. I got to 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.160 go back to the nineties by watching the movie. It's great, 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:57.720 feel good. So what is your history with Mission Impossible, 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.680 the movie, the franchise. I'm some who grew up on 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:04.040 a lot of James Bond movies. My grandma worked at 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.880 our local library and they had only very specific things 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.240 on VHS, and one of them was the entire James 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:11.280 Bond franchise, and so I saw all of them when 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.360 I was really really young, and then I just needed 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.040 more movies along those lines, and so I got into 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.560 the Mission Impossible franchise, Like it's kind of I feel 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.680 like it's kind of a filler place holder for when 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:25.760 you're out of James Bond movies. You can watch Tom Cruise. Yeah, 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:29.560 it's kind of diet James Bond. If James Bond were 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:36.080 American and way Shorter, Welcome to Mission Impossible. And then 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.280 I feel like, when you're out of Mission Impossible movies, 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.040 you're like, let's see what Jason Bourne is doing. And 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.400 then when you're out of Jason Bourne, you're like, because 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.040 Matt Damon's not even fun to watch at least Tom 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.840 Cruise is fun to watch, yeah, when I was, and 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.800 Tom Cruise and Matt Damon are both way bigger stars 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.040 than basically everyone who's played James Bond except maybe Sean Connery. 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:58.200 But like, it's just a much more interesting character somehow, 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.360 James Bond, Like I feel like, specially Ethan hunt is 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:06.120 so he's like a robot name Ethan. I'm just like 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:10.000 I dare like there, I'm only going to sympathize or 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:14.360 feel for a character named Ethan to a point. There's 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.919 just you've got to be a really stellar Ethan for 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:21.200 me to go to the extra mile for you. Right, 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.919 they can't have a super secret agent named Brandon. You know, 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.800 I'm not on brand, Like I'm out immediately. Man. People 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:28.599 are gonna listen to this podcast in ten years and 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.880 be like, what's wrong with Ethan Ethan as our president? 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.520 What if we had a president Ethan that's what I'm saying. 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.120 It would be confusing. Sure, Yes, I don't know how 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.880 the Canadians adjusted to a Justin right. Having a manager 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:46.800 Justin in charge just feels like is he ready? Regardless 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.599 of how qualified he is, his name's Justin, so is 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:56.000 he ready? I don't know. He sounds like he's fourteen. Yeah, 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.839 I see what you're saying. Anyways, Anyway, so you grew up, 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.320 would you say, with the way into spy movies. Yeah, 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.200 I'm pretty sure I didn't see this one in theaters 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.280 because it came out ninety six, so it didn't quite 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.440 line up. But I'm pretty sure I saw the rest 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:12.000 of them in theaters and also needed to google all 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.919 of them to remember the plots or what happens. Well, 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:18.920 not to brag, but in preparation for this episode, she 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.440 went full DOWNNY I went, I went like deep Cover 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.800 into Mission Impossible. You were in the main frame. I 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:30.040 hacked into the main frame. I'm now a member of 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:33.280 the I m F. I'm so excited of like how 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.320 much we get to talk about hacking today? Can I 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:39.400 just say I'm so thrilled so much? Also, the I 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.360 m F, I think in real life is some kind 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.279 of World Bank sort of thing. It's very distracting every 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:45.880 time they say it in the movie. Yeah, I think 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:47.760 they're going to do loans or something. I don't remember 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.559 that actually being the name of their organization in the movies. Okay, 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.200 so my history is that I well, I just rewatched 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:58.840 all five of them within the span of forty eight hours. Brag. Yeah, 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:04.680 I'm so sorry or proud. Okay. I like this franchise, Um, 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:06.719 it's why. Yeah, I have fun with it. I don't 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.560 love it. I don't think they're cinematic masterpieces, but especially 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:11.640 as they go on, I think they get better and 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:16.800 I enjoy like Ghost Protocol especially. I liked Ghost Protocol 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:22.600 is my son's name, really because that's my stripper name 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:30.359 and they both can be president, right en, my president. 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:35.000 But I summarily grew up with this franchise. So the 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.479 first one came out in nineties. I was ten, so 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.479 I don't think I saw it right away. I think 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:41.840 by I saw when I was like twelve. Um, if 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.280 you had asked me at that age what my favorite 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.279 song was, I would have told you it was the 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.240 Mission Impossible theme song. It's a very good theme song. Yeah, 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.239 it's great. It's great, like James Bond, it just works. Yeah. 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:56.360 And then I did see Mission Possible to in theaters 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:00.640 at a drive in movie theater in whatever year that was. 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.479 And if you'd ask me that year what my favorite 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:06.520 movie was, I would have told you Mission Impossible to, 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.720 even though that movie stinks. But then and then all 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.000 the other ones I saw, like in theaters, I enjoy them, 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:15.280 and I'm excited about Fallout coming out. So yeah, I 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:20.600 would say I have a certain soft spot for Mission Impossible. Yeah. 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.000 It's also it's like the Fast and Furious franchise where 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.640 it's gotten better lately to like they're on an upswing. 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:28.520 So with a new one coming out, I'm stoked. See 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.960 I tapped out at Tokyo Drift. I think I haven't 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.520 seen any of that Tokyo Drift is Wait? Is that 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:38.720 was that a joke? Ar Oh, we're talking. I just 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:43.840 got so confused. Can I Mission Impossible Tokyo Drift? Okay, 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.920 say something about this movie, which is that I don't 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.239 understand a thing that I felt insane watching this movie. 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:54.040 Because this is a movie for the public. It's not 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:57.600 supposed to be like you can't see Mission Impossible unless 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:59.920 you have a graduate degree, which, by the way, Kayle 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.160 does don't if you know that, Jamie, you know that 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:04.840 I hate to bring it up, so thank you so 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.280 much trying bringing up that. I do have a master's 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:11.320 degree in screenwriting from Boston University. But I took the 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.920 MENSA exam the other day failed and it's because I 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.360 don't understand what happens is. I can't make I can't 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.080 make heads or tales of what happens in this fucking movie. 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.120 And like I was telling you, you guys in the elevator, 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.920 like I I thought something was happening, and I was like, okay, 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:28.960 let me just check Wikipedia to make sure this is 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.560 what is actually happening. So totally different was happening. But 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.760 it also makes no sense to me. This movie is 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:39.400 for intellectuals. I'm literally too stupid to watch this movie. 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.880 It felt very bad. No, I don't think that's true. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.760 I only barely understand what happens in the movie because 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.440 I've seen it several times. Doesn't totally make sense. But 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.600 so your history, Jamie, is that I wrested it this 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:55.720 morning and I was bad. I was like sitting so 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.520 like you, I didn't start watching the movie as close 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.640 to my television. As I ended, I kept getting closer 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.440 because I was just like, maybe it'll make more sense 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:08.240 to get physically closer to this movie. I don't I 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:12.800 don't understand what what shall I give you? The recap Jamie? 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.719 And he didn't help you understand what happens in this 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:19.320 wonderful movie? Yeah, I think. But all that said, I 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:23.160 think I liked it. I just don't know what happened. Sure, well, okay, 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.000 you're not wrong in finding this movie to be hard 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:32.800 to follow, because Mission Impossible is about Ethan Hunt. He 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.880 is a spy who works for the I m F, 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:41.760 which stands for the Impossible Mission Force. Is that it 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.200 I didn't know that's what it stands for. The Yeah, 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.199 that is what it's something like that. It's it's definitely 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:53.000 impossible mission something is? How do they recruit anybody? Right? Well, 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.719 I think it's somehow affiliated with the CIA, but I 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.320 also don't totally understand that because in the later movies 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.560 like the CIA hates the I MF, so like, who knows? 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:03.800 Please don't at me and tell me. I would wish 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.600 to remain ignorant of this. But anyway, okay, So Ethan 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:11.200 Hunt works for this like spy organization, and he and 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:16.480 his team of people get assigned a mission, and among 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:20.800 the team is um, Okay, well we'll get there. But 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.760 first it's um Jim Phelps, which is John Foye's character, 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:30.560 my guy named Jack, which is Amelio Estevez, and then Sarah, Hannah, 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.600 and Claire. So this is the team that is ginger 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:37.400 parody on the team exactly exactly equal in the middle. 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.080 It had been a long time since I saw this, 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.320 and since the very first person I saw was Emilio Estevez. Like, 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.160 for a second, I thought, oh, is he the lead 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.520 of all of these? I forgot? Did I just super 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.320 super forget who is the main character in the movies 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.640 because it's just Amilio Estevez for about a minute, which 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.079 feels like an eternity. I clutched a little bit when 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:56.880 I saw him, too, because I was like, oh, that 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:01.680 would be kind of better. But then you pan up 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.400 and you see his frosty tips, You're like, oh, he's 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:07.120 a hacker. Now I understand, you know what. I was 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.040 let down by the fact that he was not wearing 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:12.960 tiny glasses, which is kind of the hackers uniform. He 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.360 had the frosty tips, he didn't have the tiny glasses. 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.440 He did have the black turtleneck, so it's like he 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.240 was two thirds of the way there. He went a 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:24.040 little rogue by not having tiny reflective glasses. Well, people 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:27.520 go rogue in these movies all the time. Yeah, Rogue Nation. 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.440 I was gonna say, isn't that the name of one 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:40.120 rogue ghost ghost station um ghostwirld Uh. There is another 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.280 hacker who I thought you were talking about, who we 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.520 meet later on the second Hack, the second that's his 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:49.160 character's name, Hacker re Ducks. Okay, so this is the team. 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.360 We've barely begun the recap it doesn't make any sense. 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:58.440 So they are tasked with finding a bad guy who 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:02.439 has a list of names of spies. He has one 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:05.160 half of it already and he needs the other half 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.360 to like actually figure out the identity of the spies. 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:11.079 So they're gonna basically get evidence that he's trying to 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.439 steal it and then stop him and figure out who 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.720 the buyer is and stop him as well. But as 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.320 they're trying to do this, things start to go wrong 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:22.120 and people start to die, and everyone dies seemingly except 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:26.400 for ethan Um. So then he has a rotten go 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:30.719 ethan President Ethan Everyone we're rooting for Ethan because it's 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:34.240 hard to remember. So Ethan Hunt is the only one 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.520 left alive on his team. So he calls like his 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:40.319 pals at the I m F. And he's like, hey, Kittridge, 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:44.400 who's a superior of his He's like, something's happening. And 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.719 he meets with them, and Kittridge believes him to be 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.240 a mole, and he's like, this whole thing was set 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.400 up as a mole hunt, and it looks like you're 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.040 the mole, Ethan Hunt, and he's like, no, I'm not. 0:12:55.520 --> 0:13:00.240 Your last name is hunting everything, maybe you would one 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:05.520 we're hunting for. I'm in the You're like, oh, this 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.520 guy is smart. Yeah. Yeah. So Ethan Hunt runs away 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.160 because he's like, I'm not the mole, but I have 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:13.360 to figure out who is now. So Ethan Hunt learns 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:17.880 about this mole who's collaborating with an arm stealer named Max, 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.640 so he's like, I gotta go find Max and like 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:22.840 figure out who the mole is. And there's this whole 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:26.520 thing where it's like the mole is working with Max 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:30.040 on this job that they call Job three fourteen, and 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.520 then its actually the the Mole goes by the name 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:39.079 job and it's a biblical reference and then he's like, okay, 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.120 and then he says distracting from an arrested development stands 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:47.000 when they shot a job all the time there and 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:52.160 then Ethan Hunt sends an email to Max at job 0:13:52.480 --> 0:14:00.440 space three colon fourteen and it that works the Internet 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.880 in this movie. The Internet is the most compelling character 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:09.120 in the Entiremente has the most charisma out of everybody 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.320 doing laps around our Tom the inner the way the 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.480 Internet works, where there's one point where it's like there's 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.080 a window open that says internet and then he types 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:22.320 in access and then it says like thinking, I was like, 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:28.000 what is this is misunderstanding dial up? Like what it's 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:29.920 like one of those old text adventures where it's like 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.440 you're in a cave, turn left and then you like, 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:36.520 but somehow it's hacking the Internet. Both hackers talk about 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.360 the Internet in like a way that it's like whoever 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.160 wrote this movie was just hoping no one would ask 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.080 a follow up question because there's the second hacker. I 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.480 don't know what his name is because he comes in 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.440 over an hour into the movie. Very cool thing to do, 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:56.040 just introduce five hundred characters our fifteen and sure, but 0:14:56.120 --> 0:15:00.000 the second hacker, Luther says, in the same sentence, he said, 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:08.520 as like mainframe motherboard hacking access. And then Tom is like, well, 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:12.600 we've got to figure this out. You've got like, what 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.440 are you talking about? I just want you to know 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.520 that I just send an email to Max at job 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:23.560 Space three colon fourteen and it did not work. An 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:27.280 error message came up right away and said this address 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:32.720 is not recognized. The CIA wiped them out, clean Ology 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:36.200 got involved. They're like, this is this was Shelley miss 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.600 Gavages email and it's gone. Now do you guys? Ever, 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.240 when I see a Tom Cruise movie, I give him 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.359 a little bit of credit for just not wedging Scientology 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.320 into it all the time, even though he doesn't deserve 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:48.880 any you know, every time I see a movie with 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.120 him and it ends, I'm like, I didn't come up once. 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.360 How about that? A little bit proud. There's moments where 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.280 it's like, oh, he could very easily just break the 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.880 fourth wall and start pitching us. He's out our attention 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:06.600 and surprised he doesn't use this platform to like hawk scientology. 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:10.320 But no, he he keeps a separation of church and 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:16.520 career against Yeah, alright. So the rest of the story 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:20.080 is so he is trying to figure out who this 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:24.920 mole is named Job. This is where I get very lost. 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:29.560 So he meets with Max, who turns out as a woman. 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.160 How many times are they going to do this twist? 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:38.640 The androgynous name twist. Hilarious? Love it, It's so cool. 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:43.200 So he meets with Max and he's like, by the way, Max, 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:47.880 who is an arm stealer? Yeah, I'm like an undercover spy, 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.000 and I'm going to get you that list that you wanted, 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.680 pay me a bunch of money, and revealed to me 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:59.120 who Job is. Vanessa right, Grave is fabulous in this part. Yeah, 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.560 she's great. But he basically just reveals this whole identity 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:05.199 to this person. And then he's like, I'll get the 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.680 thing that you wanted, this you know, list that will 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:13.359 compromise the identity of however many undercover spies, all of them, 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.520 all of them. Yeah, yeah, just give me like ten 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.119 million dollars and I'll get you this list and I 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:20.679 just want to know the identity of the mole. And 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:24.240 it's like that's not a good deal, but we accept 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.320 it because you know, we don't understand really what's happening. 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:31.160 I also can't hear the plot over the sheer volume 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.359 of Dutch ankles in this movie. You're just like, I can't. 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:39.400 I have no sense of space or time. So many 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:43.400 Vanessa Redgrave does not. I'm pretty sure, with the exception 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.040 of two or three shots. Never isn't in a Dutch 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.560 angle in this entire Why I don't. I didn't notice 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:51.800 that very much. This is a movie for dumb people. 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:58.119 There's only geniuses and stupid people will understand this movie 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:05.000 and appreciate people. There's nothing that's like kind of smart people. Um, okay. 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.680 So then he compiles this new team of people, among 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.639 them as Luther, the new hack hacker number two, and 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:15.399 they plan to infiltrate the CIA and steal this knocklist 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:17.560 of the list of all the names of the spies. 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:20.000 And then they do that, and that this is supposed 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.639 to be the impossible mission, because how do you get in. 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.160 There's like there's a voice activation, there's a retinal scan 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.520 the room, if it increases temperature, if there's any pressure 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:33.040 on the floor, packing hacking, hacky hacking, so all the 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:36.679 stuff happens. They get the Knocklist. Then it's revealed that 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:41.200 Jim Phelps John Voyd's character was the mole all along 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.000 and he like set everyone up and him not dead 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.040 at all, him not dead at all, and his wife Claire, 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.000 who does come back I forgot to mention um and 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:54.240 helps Ethan Hunt in his impossible mission. Ethan Hunt gropes 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:58.080 her and then she's like, I'm sad John Voitch is dead, 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:00.320 and I'm like, why were you dating him? But then 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:05.280 you were married? God, this is like, I mean, of 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.320 all the there you have to suspend your belief a 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:10.360 lot in this movie, but the fact that she would 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:13.560 date John voy who in this movie that is twenty 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:17.040 years old, is already five hundred years old, it's just 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:21.520 a lot I did. And they introduced that marriage very 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.080 early on, and that was it was like an s 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:25.560 S thing where I was like, okay, so it's a 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:31.240 fake marriage, right, like it's definitely she's and then no 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:35.440 actual marriage, like that's real. Everything else is an illusion, right, Yeah. 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.119 The one moment for the clear character that I was 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.960 actually very I was like, oh, that was a good 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:46.720 acting beasting. She when she pretends to find out that 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:49.480 John Boyd is dead, she goes, Chuck is dead, and 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:52.439 I was like, oh, so sad. She did love him 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:54.200 even though she never sat and hear him more spoke 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:59.720 to him on screen, So uh yeah. The end of 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:03.359 the story is basically Ethan Hunt on confronting John Voyd's 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:07.760 character and learning that his wife Claire was like a 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:11.280 double agent and had like crossed him, and then she 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:15.959 gets shot dead, and then he has to like proved 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:18.439 Kittridge that he's not the mall. He's like, here, I 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:21.000 found the actual mall. There's a whole helicopter thing. There's 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:23.800 an explosion, there's a train, there's the glasses, there's the 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:28.040 John Voight mask. Right, you're wearing John Void's face, and 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:31.159 then you're not. And that's exciting. Yeah, And that's an 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:34.000 underrated part because it's they convinced Claire to go into 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.800 train car and then Tom Cruise massed as John Void 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:39.520 is waiting for her, and then after they speak, real 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.800 John Voight immediately pops out from a closet like two 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:45.879 feet away from top Cruise. So for an indetermined amount 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:49.000 of time, real John Voight was just watching fake John 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:53.840 Void from very close quarters. It's great. Why wouldn't Ethan 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:56.760 Hunt like sweep the room and make sure his enemy 0:20:56.880 --> 0:21:01.480 John Voight isn't hiding in a closet nearby, And how 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:05.040 were they able to do it on such a quick turnaround. Well, 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:09.280 the later movies show the maskmaking process and it's really 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:14.240 eye opening. Yeah, this, this franchise is like obsessive about masks, 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:17.560 and there's always we'll talk about this a little later, 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:20.320 but there's certain like recurring things that happened in every 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:23.760 Mission Impossible movie. I'm down for that. I mean, a 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:28.040 goofy rubber mask reveal is always very fun. It's not 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:30.399 as effectively or tastefully done as it is in The 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:33.600 Master Disguise, which is one of my favorite movies, where 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:37.359 James Brolin rips off a mask of Bo Derek and 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:43.520 the audience stands and chairs. Yes, Josh, no, James Brolin, 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:48.080 the old one. He plays Dana Carvey's father. Dana Carvey's 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:51.840 forty six in that movie. But but his character is 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:55.080 supposed to be twenty three. It's wild, my gosh, how 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:58.040 dare he? Anyways? Well, anyway, so that's the that's the 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:01.960 story of the first Mission an Impossible movie, as far 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:05.000 as I can explain it. Um, let's take a quick 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:12.199 break and we will be back in a moment and 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:17.159 we're back. Hello, So mission impossible. There can I just 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:21.440 rip off my John Voyd mask really quickly. Very hot John. 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:23.240 I thought that was you, but it turns out it 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:26.520 was Jamie Lofton. John Voyd is actually out on the balcony. 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:31.760 He'll come in now and we'll have a confrontation. As 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:34.760 we hinted at during the recap, it seems like there's 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:37.439 like a parody within the team at the beginning at 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:41.000 the beginning of the movie where it is three men 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:44.800 and three women, but once they all die, because they 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:48.520 all die within the first like twenty minutes except for 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:51.879 well Claire comes back. But um, basically two of the 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:55.159 three women die, two of the three men die, so 0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:57.199 we're left with Ethan Hunt and Claire is like kind 0:22:57.200 --> 0:22:59.880 of the main players um in the movie. And then 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:06.520 it was was president Ethan Was he dating hot lady 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:08.960 with the red lip? Was that like a thing or 0:23:08.960 --> 0:23:11.439 were they were just where? Were they just pretending because 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:16.000 of spies? Do you know what character you're talking about? Thomas? Yes, 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:18.200 I don't think they were dating. I think there's a 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:20.720 very classic spy move of the two of us need 0:23:20.760 --> 0:23:22.840