
Episode 163: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation & Fallout
Beyond the Screenplay
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The Importance of Focus in a Spy Movie
The MacGuffins in these movies, and when I am caring about them more than when I'm not, it's a lot easier for me to be invested in them getting it versus like a person. The objects, though, for some reason, help give a focus, which I think is helpful in a spy movie. And having something like the knock list or the plutonium and fall out where it's there from the beginning of the movie, all the way to the end, I find gives me something to hold on to.
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