Mission: Impossible (film) and the Book of Job Direct and Hidden messages
Job was a man who suffered and was tested to sdee if his faith could stand up the challenge.
There are direct and perhaps hidden references to the book of Job in movie.
Spoiler End of movie is given away in this
The Book of Job is onme of the most famous movies to have used references to the book of job.
Mission: Impossible (1996) is a first movie based on the tv series Mission Impossible. It was directed by Brian De Palma and starred the famous Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. The movie was the third highest grossing of the year. It was followed by 2000's Mission: Impossible II and 2006's Mission: Impossible III.
Ethan Hunt (Cruise) is a agent who serves as a point man on a squad of intelligence operatives known as IMF, which is headed by Jim Phelps (Jon Voight). The movie begins with the team assembling for a mission in Prague to stop a traitor from stealing the Non-official cover (NOC) list—a comprehensive list of all IMF agents in Eastern Europe which includes their call signs and their real names. The mission goes inexplicably wrong, apparently resulting in the assassinations of nearly the entire team, including Phelps, leaving Hunt the survivor.
Fleeing the scene, Hunt sets up a rendezvous with Agent Kittridge (Henry Czerny), CIA, at a café where he exasperatedly discloses details of the deaths of his teammates. Kittridge explains a mole infiltrated the IMF and was attempting to sell the NOC list to an illegal arms dealer named "Max". The entire mission was actually an attempt to ferret out this mole, and as Hunt is the sole survivor, the CIA believes he is the mole. Hunt realizes that his only chance of clearing his name is to go rogue and unmask the identity of the real mole, and flees from the café.
Ethan returns to the IMF safe house, where he discovers his fellow IMF agent Claire (Emmanuelle Béart), Jim Phelps' wife, has also survived the mission. Ethan begins correspondence with "Max" (Vanessa Redgrave), explaining that the NOC list stolen that night was a fake, and offering to deliver the real NOC list in exchange for the identity of the mole, who is codenamed "Job". Ethan uses a Bible, specifically, the Book of Job, to form communications with Max.
Ethan Hunt steals the
NOC list from a computer at CIA headquarters.Ethan devises a plan to steal a authentic
NOC list from CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. In order to accomplish this
mission, he will need additional help, so he and Claire search the 'Disavowed'
list of agents for possible allies. He recruits Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames),
while Claire brings in Franz Krieger (Jean Reno).
By mere chance, Ethan discovers the Bible he is using was also used by Jim Phelps. At this very moment, Ethan realizes Jim was the mole, "Job".
Realizing that Ethan is close to the truth, Jim Phelps reveals himself to Ethan, fabricating a sob story that Kittridge was the mole. Ethan pretends to buy the story, while figuring out the actual events of how Jim killed his team on the night in Prague, thus setting up Ethan to take the fall. Ethan also realizes that Krieger was involved as backup for Phelps, but remains uncertain of Claire's place in the conspiracy.
Max and Ethan agree to meet on the TGV en route to Paris for exchange. In a clever move, Ethan also allows the CIA to find out he was in London. All the major players will meet on the train, so the CIA can capture Max and recover the NOC list while they witness, firsthand, Ethan's redemption.
On the train, Luther uses a jamming device to prevent Max transmitting the NOC list. Meanwhile, Ethan goes to meet "Job" in the rear of the train. To test Claire's innocence, Ethan disguises himself as Phelps; in turn, Claire unwittingly admits to Ethan the part she played in betraying the CIA. Lying in wait, the real Phelps reveals himself and delivers and confesses.
Ethan reveals he recorded a confession and transmitted it to Kittridge. Enraged, Phelps shoots Claire dead and knocks down Ethan as he escapes to the roof of the train, where Krieger is waiting to extract Phelps via helicopter. Ethan quickly follows Phelps, impeding his efforts to escape and tethering Krieger's helicopter to the train as it heads into the Channel Tunnel, forcing the helicopter to follow. The confrontation ends with Ethan blowing up Phelps and Krieger, along with the helicopter.
Luther Stickel is cleared of charges and Ethan is removed from a disavowed list, becoming a IMF agent. The film ends with Ethan on a plane home, with a flight attendant gently persuading him to watch a particular film. It is implied that this film is in fact a mission briefing for the IMF, and that the IMF wish for Ethan to take over Phelp's role.
Cast and characters
Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt
Jon Voight
- Jim Phelps
Emmanuelle Béart - Claire Phelps
Ving Rhames - Luther
Stickell
Jean Reno - Franz Krieger
Henry Czerny - Eugene Kittridge
Vanessa
Redgrave - Max
Emilio Estevez - Jack Harmon
Kristin Scott Thomas - Sarah
Davies
Marek Vašut
Perhaps the cause of the book of job being used was because in the movie many of his buddies are killed, the assassiantion sth the beging is perhaps a test for the hero, as Job was tested. His family are arrested. And at the end the impression is to some that the mission was merely a test to see if the could do more missions. In the movie Cruises charcter is belived to be the mole, and so is believed to be Job.
Mnay religuous people support the movie as it uses the character as a student of the bible to track down his enemy.
In the book Hunt communicates with the dealer through her e-mail address Max@Job 3:14, while he is able to set up a e-mil address Job@Book of Job, which some internet people have complained on the basis that these were illegal addresses.
Hideen message Perhaps the 3:14 was a jokey reference to the size of the floppy disc that contained the secret. As 3 and a quarter inch discs were common. So 3 and 1 quarter (4). Yet "diskettes" featured in the movie are 230 MB 3.5" magneto optical disks.
Some of the character people have names to do with the religion Luther Stickell. Obviously Luther.
The lead chracter is called. When was all bible sudent sholuld know Ethan the Ezrahite wrote Psalm 89.
He was distinguished for his wisdom (1 Kings 4:31). He is named as author of 89th Psalm. He was of the tribe of Levi.
Does anyone see the connection between Ethan being in the tribe of a Levi and the Leviathan, a creature that tried to destroy Job. Get it Levi and Ethan and Leviathan as merging of the terms. A portmanteau. And in the movie the character Ethan tries to destroy, the mole, who is codenamed Job.
Luther is a religious named but it is a bit like Lucifer so Lucifer and the Leviathan were both enemies of Job. Is that a secret code.
Perhaps the name mission Impossible is reference to the impossibility of suffering that some have to face. Yet Job does give comfort to many on the is of suffering.
The book of Job is often said to have been written by Moses, but there is no definitive answer. Some claim it was written around 1000 BC.
Books that have been compared to Job