TMC
10-04-2017, 09:21 PM
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/560775-did-you-know-mission-impossible-2-is-a-remake-of-hitchcocks-notorious-here-have-a-look
Fox recently released three Alfred Hitchcock classics on Blu-ray and I’ve already covered Rebecca in Notorious, and while Rebecca may be the only film from Hitchcock to ever win Oscar’s Best Picture, Notorious may be one of the helmer’s most beloved features. Curiously enough, did you know it is actually the unofficial source material for the most loathed installment in Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible franchise? Not that you would know by the film’s credits…
When I popped the Notorious Blu-ray into the player, I first noticed it features a strong improvement when it comes to image quality when compared to the previously released DVD edition, but it wasn’t too far into the film that I began to realize it held a lot in common with a certain film featuring Ethan Hunt.
I’d seen Notorious only once before and in brief, it centers on the bond formed between government agent T.R. Devlin (Cary Grant) and Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Berman), a woman whose father has just been convicted as a German spy. Devlin approaches Alicia, asking her to help the government in a mission spying on one of her father’s friends, Alexander Sebastian (Claude Rains), a man that had a crush on Alicia in the past. She’s asked to spark up a relationship in order to obtain information needed to bring him down, but, of course, the romance between Devlin and Alicia soon adds additional tension.
For anyone that’s seen Mission: Impossible II you’re already seeing the similarities between the story described above and Ethan Hunt’s second “impossible” mission. What you don’t see is to what extent these two films are actually similar, but before that here’s some brief background on the two scripts.
The screenplay for Notorious was written by Ben Hecht based on a story idea Hitchcock outlined after producer David O. Selznick handed Hitchcock the 1921 two-part short story “The Song of the Dragon” by John Taintor Foote. The credits for Mission: Impossible II give all story credit to Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Generations duo Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga with a screenplay by Robert Towne whose credits go as far back as screenplays for Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown. Keep that in mind as I break down these two films, side-by-side over the course of the next 13 image comparisons.
Read more at http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/560775-did-you-know-mission-impossible-2-is-a-remake-of-hitchcocks-notorious-here-have-a-look#zeVaiYgsg5DlJAH6.99
Fox recently released three Alfred Hitchcock classics on Blu-ray and I’ve already covered Rebecca in Notorious, and while Rebecca may be the only film from Hitchcock to ever win Oscar’s Best Picture, Notorious may be one of the helmer’s most beloved features. Curiously enough, did you know it is actually the unofficial source material for the most loathed installment in Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible franchise? Not that you would know by the film’s credits…
When I popped the Notorious Blu-ray into the player, I first noticed it features a strong improvement when it comes to image quality when compared to the previously released DVD edition, but it wasn’t too far into the film that I began to realize it held a lot in common with a certain film featuring Ethan Hunt.
I’d seen Notorious only once before and in brief, it centers on the bond formed between government agent T.R. Devlin (Cary Grant) and Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Berman), a woman whose father has just been convicted as a German spy. Devlin approaches Alicia, asking her to help the government in a mission spying on one of her father’s friends, Alexander Sebastian (Claude Rains), a man that had a crush on Alicia in the past. She’s asked to spark up a relationship in order to obtain information needed to bring him down, but, of course, the romance between Devlin and Alicia soon adds additional tension.
For anyone that’s seen Mission: Impossible II you’re already seeing the similarities between the story described above and Ethan Hunt’s second “impossible” mission. What you don’t see is to what extent these two films are actually similar, but before that here’s some brief background on the two scripts.
The screenplay for Notorious was written by Ben Hecht based on a story idea Hitchcock outlined after producer David O. Selznick handed Hitchcock the 1921 two-part short story “The Song of the Dragon” by John Taintor Foote. The credits for Mission: Impossible II give all story credit to Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Generations duo Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga with a screenplay by Robert Towne whose credits go as far back as screenplays for Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown. Keep that in mind as I break down these two films, side-by-side over the course of the next 13 image comparisons.
Read more at http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/560775-did-you-know-mission-impossible-2-is-a-remake-of-hitchcocks-notorious-here-have-a-look#zeVaiYgsg5DlJAH6.99