by Michael Cusumano
Scene: Scaling the Burj Khalifa
In the course of writing this column, I eventually got around to asking myself the inevitable question: “What is the 21st century scene I’ve watched the most times?”
I knew with certainty that the answer was the Burj Khalifa scene from Brad Bird’s Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, even if I couldn’t immediately account for the why. Of course you could simply say ”Why not?” It’s already firmly established in the pantheon of great action scenes. But it’s not like the past two decades have seen a dearth of great action filmmaking. Why not “Ship’s Mast” from Death Proof or the centerpiece car chase from Drive? What exactly is it about Tom Cruise pawing his way up the side of the world’s tallest building?...
Scene: Scaling the Burj Khalifa
In the course of writing this column, I eventually got around to asking myself the inevitable question: “What is the 21st century scene I’ve watched the most times?”
I knew with certainty that the answer was the Burj Khalifa scene from Brad Bird’s Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, even if I couldn’t immediately account for the why. Of course you could simply say ”Why not?” It’s already firmly established in the pantheon of great action scenes. But it’s not like the past two decades have seen a dearth of great action filmmaking. Why not “Ship’s Mast” from Death Proof or the centerpiece car chase from Drive? What exactly is it about Tom Cruise pawing his way up the side of the world’s tallest building?...
- 8/13/2019
- by Michael C.
- FilmExperience
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