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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
2011 · Film · 133 min
Part of Mission: Impossible Collection
Directed by Brad Bird
Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.
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>Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
The most fun and rewatchable M:I movie IMO.
I think this is really a key insight. The physical nature of cash actually puts limits its fraudulent use cases.
I mean, think of all the movie plot points that center around having a drop point for ransom payments. Remember that scene from Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol in 2011 where they are doing an exchange and the best form of illicit payment is a bag of diamonds.
Not only does crypto make giant illicit ransom payments feasible on a previously unimaginable scale, it's going to make our movies more boring ;)
> The case study of the ADHD trend in general population is Mission Impossible IV. It is filmed by shoulder cameras and the mounter is just playing piano on the console: there isn’t a shot longer than 4s in the entire movie, and the average of changing camera angle is 0,7s.
Seems like hyperbole. I just looked at Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol (aka Mission Impossible IV).
In the first two minutes there were multiple shots of over 10 seconds.
And at the 0:14:44 mark there is a 24 second shot.
The typographer Matthew Butterick was so bothered by the use of Verdana in “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol” that he wrote a letter to Brad Bird, the film’s director.
PDF: http://mbtype.com/pdf/bird-verdana.pdf