![]() ![]() If you care about him, you should walk away.” It's the best advice he can give as the team heads out to stop multiple nuclear bombs. “That’s one more worry than he can handle right now. “And he cares about you more than he can admit,” Luther continues. “Every time something bad happened in the world, Ethan would think, ‘I should've been there.’ And she would wonder, ‘Who’s watching the world while Ethan’s watching me?’ Deep down, they both knew that someday, somehow, something truly terrible was going to happen all because they were together.” Luther knows what’s going on between the agents, thanks to a detailed drawing Ethan made of her in Rogue Nation. “He’s only been serious about two women,” he begins, describing how it went with Julia. Luther ends up being the one to tell Ilsa what Ethan won’t. This time around, there are other dominant women who hold their own in the sixth installment. In Fallout (2018), Mission: Impossible lets go of a self-contained format to continue the story of the Syndicate, and best of all, Agent Faust. Having Ilsa be the one to voice this to Ethan, is a good enough detail to see which of these two truly desire to leave behind their spy life. It feels so human in a franchise where the characters often perform superhuman feats. It’s only a matter of going,” she tells Ethan in a personal request for them to escape. The two are disposable, and in the case of MI6 Director Atlee ( Simon McBurney), he has a much darker, selfish agenda for not pulling Ilsa out of the field like she desperately wants. For a rather unsurprising revelation, Ilsa and Ethan learn how little they matter to their respective agencies. In Rogue Nation alone, she goes on to protect him many times, putting her own life and mission in jeopardy. Deep undercover with the Syndicate, she is gaining Lane’s trust when Ethan enters her life. She is a dedicated MI6 operative with morals. With Ethan, movie fans and his closest allies know where his loyalties are. Ferguson's spy is a new kind of female character in this series. In the first Mission: Impossible(1996), Claire ( Emmanuelle Béart.) tried to help her traitor of a husband, to then be abruptly killed by him in the end. Julia ( Michelle Monaghan) shouldn’t need to know how to fight for survival or how to help disarm a nuclear weapon, her relationship to Ethan forces her into these situations. To develop the character further, Faust can handle herself better than some of the other women in the series. She is Ethan’s equal and her affections toward him were never a ruse. Not until the last half of Rogue Nation does the movie confirm Faust is an ally, working as a modern update to the femme fatale. Her shifty motives do their part to confuse Ethan as to what her end goal is. The opera sequence is an example of this, dressing Ilsa Faust in a gown and shadows. The Mission: Impossible movies aren’t strictly film noir stories, though they tend to use the moody subgenre for influence. It seems at first Ilsa Faust is a traditional femme fatale, a devious woman who uses and discards those around her for her own gain. Ilsa is a beautiful, deadly woman, but not everything is what it seems with this MI6 agent. ![]() The golden gown she wears will help her slip into the crowd once her target is hit, for this moment it creates an alluring image. Ilsa Faust puts together a rifle within the ornate shadows of a tower set. This sequence is not only a terrific action sequence, it portrays just how stealthy that other assassin is. Ethan must stop a sniper, following one killer before seeing another, hidden and ready to take the shot. It’s perfect Hitchcockian suspense, where director Christopher McQuarrie clearly lays out where everyone and everything is for a stronger audience reaction. The Vienna assassination attempt in Rogue Nation is operatic, visually, and quite literally. ![]()
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