Film Journal | Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) is an espionage movie directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Christopher McQuarrie and Drew Pearce are the screenwriters of this movie. Its' integral characters are Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt,  Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust, Jeremy Renner as William Brandt, and Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn. (AFI CATALOG OF FEATURE FILMS, n.d.)

In this movie, Impossible Missions Force (IMF) was dissolved and consolidate with Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The IMF agent, Ethan is striving to prove the existence of  Syndicate, an international field agent that consist of many retired or missing intelligence agencies from all around the world. Even though Syndicate has committed numerous offences on the sly, CIA chooses not to believe Ethan words. Hence, Ethan decides to launch his survey secretly. Through assistance from his former colleagues and an M16 agent-Ilsa Faust, he eventually reveals the truth and arrests the headman of Syndicate.

EDITING

180-degree rule

A 180-degree rule is applied in the scene when Ethan and his partners meet Ilsa in the airport. When Ilsa glancing around the airport, she realises that Ethan and his partner standing around her. This scene shows a big 180-degree semicircle as Ethan and his partners is standing quite far from Ilsa. Although they are in the distance, the 180-degree rule enables the eyes connection between Ilsa, Ethan, and his partners.  



Eye-line Match

This scene has applied an eye-line match. In the previously extreme long shot scene, it shows that the special forces are in Havana, Cuba. After the special forces broke into his house, it is only an empty room with some intelligence on the north wall. When Ethan looking out the window, there is the Eiffel Tower there. Hence, it interprets that Ethan is in Paris but not Havana during the action of CIA special forces. 



Flashback

There is a flashback scene applied to reveal the truth. After Ilsa scrambled the intelligence disk from Benji, she brings it to the Syndicate headman, Solomon Lane. Lane is furious due to the blank disk from Ilsa. In fact, Atlee has copied the disk contents to his phone and deleted the original disk. A flashback scene is used when Ilsa recalling her memory about the disk.


Rhythmic Editing

The scene for the Vienna opera has applied rhythmic editing. When the killer is loading bullets for his camouflage gun, the sound effect of the gun exactly follows the tempo of diegetic sound from opera and orchestra performance. 



Apart from that, when Ilsa wants to shoot the lighting room's Benji, he switches on the spotlight in front of Ilsa and manages to escape from the theatre. According to its rhythm, the orchestra music comes to a new movement when Benji survives himself by switch on the spotlight.

 

SOUND

Diegetic & Non-diegetic

Diegetic sound and non-diegetic sound are simultaneously applied in the car racing scenes. The sound effect of motor car and motorcycle define as diegetic sound; background music defines as non-diegetic sound. The parallel layout of sounds creates a sense of tension for the audiences.


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