Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocal Analysis

Ghost Protocol Poster

By: Jay

Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol is one of J.J. Abrams’ best productions so far, a close second to Star Trek (directed by Brad Bird).  It’s also a stunning revelation of real-world cloak and dagger geo-politics if ever there was one (on film).  Not only is the plot centered around agents engaged in transnational plots, the fourth installment’s story centers around real British eugenics operations.  Eugenics is the science of racial health, and dates back to ancient Greece and Plato’s Republic, and culminates in the time of Sir Francis Galton and Thomas Malthus and others, whose works on population control and race would come to the fore as one of the central pivots upon which the modern world turns: that of DNA and genetics.

However, in MI4, the antagonist is a Swedish-born, British-accented mathematical genius, Kurt Hendricks, who seeks to initiate the next stage in human evolution through nuclear war.  This is consonant with the Nordic, Aryan trend that comes to the fore in Mein Kampf. This is the actual type of war gaming that has occurred in places like the Rand Corporation, of which Dr. Strangelove is a parody.  The love of the bomb almighty is a cult that has won admirers in reality: you think rightly of the Planet of the Apes sequel.   That chaos and apocalypticism can be initiated to speed up “evolution” is itself the revolutionary philosophy at base.  It it based on the mistaken notion that chaos and disorder are actual, substantial entities.  In MI4, Hendricks stages a bombing of the Kremlin that is blamed on the IMF team and America.  Russia is then implicated in second false flag terror attack perpetrated by Hendricks through a satellite in Mumbai, India, when he launches a nuclear missile from a Russian sub, aimed at the U.S.

The IMF team successfully rescues the world from staged nuclear disaster, but this brings up an interesting element I’ve noticed of late: several films portray, not just false flag terrorism, but secretive transnational groups using staged terror to provoke a war between the U.S. and Russia.  In The Sum of All Fears, that is what happens, and it is post-war Nazis that have organized it, as well as in the recent X-Men: First Class, where Kevin Bacon was an S.S. officer who wanted to provoke a nuclear war to wipe away the humans so the mutants could continue on to the next stage of ”evolution.”  Also shown in X-Men on a map is Denver as a possible nuclear attack area. The CIA began in the mid-2000s to move its operations there.  Read more of this post

Mission Impossible III (2006) – Analysis

Ethan Hunt, based on Spymaster E. Howard Hunt

By: Jay

In the wake of the publicity for the upcoming Mission Impossible 4, I thought it would be relevant to do an analysis of Mission Impossible III.  Part III starred Philip Seymour Hoffman as Owen Davian, an international black market arms and weapons dealer.  Spy and espionage films are often the best forms of fiction that function as windows into real plots and intrigues, and Mission Impossible is no different.

In fact, Tom Cruise’s central character, Ethan Hunt, is based on spy mastermind, E. Howard Hunt.   Hunt confessed a few years ago to being involved in the JFK assassination, laying the blame at the door of LBJ.  The “Cigarette-Smoking Man” of X-Files fame also appears to be loosely based on E. Howard Hunt: both are involved in high-level assassination plots, including the assassination of JFK and MLK in the X-Files episode “Musings of a Cigarette Smiking Man.”  Both are known for authoring novels under pseudonyms, too.

In Mission Impossible III, however, Hunt is in his usual role of  heroic super-agent.  Davian has kidnapped one of Hunt’s trainees, and injected her with a detonatable microchip, and upon rescue the chip detonates.  She warns Hunt of the “invisible man” and that the overall plan is an “inside job.”  Where have we heard that terminology before?  The plot then indicts the Vatican in dealing with Davian, and the IMF team has to infiltrate the See to kidnap Davian to keep him from obtaining the “rabbit’s foot,” which is said to be an anti-matter sort of compound, later identified as “anti-God,” which bring to mind the Angels & Demons plot of Dan Brown. Read more of this post

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