The movie has a scene where something happens to one of the main characters, something that surprised many fans.
Like almost every movie in which Tom Cruise participates, many scenes made an impact on viewers. Some, mainly, because of their spectacular nature, such as Ethan Hunt's repeated jump over an abyss on a motorcycle.
However, the scene that was most recorded in the public's retina was the death of a character that nobody expected. Of course, from here on this note contains spoilers, so if you have not seen the movie, perhaps it is better to return to this writing later.
It is that at one point in Mission Impossible: Deadly Judgment - Part 1 Hunt's friend and colleague, Ilsa Faust, dies. This character accompanied Hunt from Rogue Nation, so this was his third appearance in the saga. Ilsa is killed by Gabriel in a shocking and tragic scene, in which Cruise's character fails to save her.
In this regard, Christopher McQuarrie explained why both he and Tom Cruise, producer of the film, considered that it was time for the end of the character played by Rebecca Ferguson. "It was one of the first conversations. We were on the set of Top Gun, and we were already commenting on it," recalled the director, who served as co-writer on Kosinski's film. "We knew that this story arc had an important emotional tone. Ilsa is a great character and Rebecca is an actress with great power and presence."
However, after the praise, he explained that "it had reached a point where the character could only go down. It could become frivolous, just a romantic interest, and it's something that was never in question, creating a character that only was defined by her love affair with Ethan Hunt. We felt the story was looking for an ending and we thought it had to happen." In this way, the director knew that they needed to end the character for Farrell.
In closing, McQuarrie admitted that the decision was not an easy one "We have to have the courage to make Ethan fail, make him suffer the cost of losing, make the mission have its costs, also make him escalate his own story in Venice." Let's hope it's the last such cost they think Ethan Hunt will have to pay.
