The Impossible Missions Force ( IMF ) is a fictitious agent in the franchise of Mission: Impossible . The television version is an independent espionage agency while in the film series it is an agency of the United States government. The IMF was introduced in the Mission: Impossible TV series aired from 1966 to 1973, and was featured in the revival TV series shown from 1988 to 1990. Beginning in 1996, the IMF was featured in the number of films starring Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt.
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In the TV series, largely thanks to William Woodfield (1928-2001) and Allan Balter's engagement as a producer, story editor and scriptwriter, the IMF operates primarily by using tricks of trust, infiltration, and high-tech devices on target. IMF agencies were able to deceive their targets to cooperate with them without detecting any form of fraud until the "impossible mission" was carried out. At that time, all members of the IMF team have disappeared from the scene and/or left the target country. In some cases, especially those involving organized crime, mission targets are actually killed as a direct result of the IMF's work, though never really by the IMF's own agents.
Woodfield is a devotee of The Big Con, written by linguist David W. Maurer, and Woodfield and Balter consulted it as one of their "testaments" in the Bible for the TV series. The other "covenants" are a four-page short outline that they are based in part on the principles of the instructor Lajos Egri, author of The Art of Dramatic Writing that Egri published in 1946.
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The Original Mission: Impossible TV series
As depicted in the original TV series, IMF agencies are mostly part time workers, who hold permanent employment elsewhere, and many of them are self-reliant rich, so they can not be bribed. Regular characters include:
- Rollin Hand (Martin Landau), a player charged as "The Man Of A Million Faces," a brilliant infiltrator and master of guise. In the world of game-trusting terminology, he is considered a "roper."
- Cinnamon Carter (Barbara Bain), an upscale intruder and fraudsters with fashion model appearances - hence the perfect manipulator of foreign dictators, corrupt governments, their henchmen, and such. Like the Hands, he is considered a "wanderer."
- Barnard 'Barney' Collier (Greg Morris), an engineering genius who owns his own electronics company - one that clearly has lucrative government contracts, often working with the Department of Defense and State. In the world of game-trusting terminology, he is regarded as a "big store" builder. " William "Willy" Armitage (Peter Lupus), a weightlifter who is called "The World's Strongest Man" and also a very intelligent technician in himself, who often works with Collier. Like Collier, he is considered a "great store builder". "
Then including Leonard Nimoy as a stage magician who was billed as "The Great Paris," Lesley Ann Warren as Dana Lambert, and Lynda Day George as Lisa Casey. Other occasional members include specialists such as doctors, lawyers, circus performers, and even the entire treasury company.
The only "full time" member identified was the team leader, actually the Director of the IMF. In the first season of the original series, this was former Lieutenant Colonel of the United States Army Dr. Daniel David "And" Briggs Ph.D., is played by Steven Hill, and starts in the second season and continues into the resurrection series, team leader is James "Jim" Phelps, played by Peter Graves. The Director of the IMF (Phelps has been assumed as Briggs Direct Deputy, though this is never really specified in every installment), in the world of game-trusting terminology, is considered "grifters".
All members of the team demonstrate expertise in social engineering and misdirection, improvisational acting, hand-to-hand combat, hand magic, and fluency in multiple languages. Where some cooperatives specializing in these skills have reason to believe that they will not be available, they often do cross-training among others among missions.
IMF agents are anonymously sent on a secret mission to deal with the dangerous world of counter-terrorism, espionage, political subversion, international crime, and American organized crime. Their international mission tends to undermine communist rule, dictatorships, and other democratic opponents. The TV series never directly mentions exactly who oversees the IMF, even though it is an agency of the United States government. All team members are Americans. They act under non-official cover status, and if they have been arrested or killed, the "Secretary" (perhaps the US Secretary of State) will "reject" knowledge of their actions.
In the recording of confidential messages issued to team leaders, reference is made to "Secretary," and each time this is a foreign operation, this Secretary is understood to be the Secretary of State, as stated above. The head of the IMF team is also given the option to refuse missions that he thinks are unsuitable, or if he believes that it is absolutely impossible to achieve. This has not been proven to happen in a television series or one of the movies. However, in the movie Mission Impossible 2, there was a scene where the IMF leader, Ethan Hunt, met the owner of the recorded voice face-to-face, and the latter explicitly stated that Hunt had no choice to deny the mission , although the recorded briefings contain a well-known phrase, "Your mission, should you choose to accept it...."
Other "missions" are performed by the team as personal assistance to team leaders, or to fellow members, but it is far less common.
series of revival 1980s
In the 1980's revival series, the IMF is implied to be an independent agent, with some IMF teams (although the revival is concentrated exclusively on what the IMF Director tuju) as well as specialized divisions for research and development.
James Phelps returned as Director of the IMF, and hence the "captain" of what could be called "Team Owner Director." He was called back to action when his successor, Thomas Copperfield, was killed on a mission trip. Grant Collier, the prodigy son and son of the original Barney Collier, is also a member (played by Phil Morris, son of Greg Morris), and like his father, the younger Collier is electrical engineers and computer experts of the group; graduate of M.I.T. at the age of 16, where one of his professors called him "one of the greatest inventive ideas to get out of MIT in the last 20 years." Other members are: Nicholas Black b> (Thaao Penghlis), a professor of university dramas proficient in acting, language, and disguises (and perhaps, to some extent, computers as well, may have been a Rollin Hand Student); Maxwell "Max" Harte (Tony Hamilton), a former Australian mercenary, trained driver, helicopter pilot, and muscle group, who, while still in high school, drove his own mission to get his brother out of camp prisoner Vietnam war, and succeeded; and Casey Randall (Terry Markwell), the fashion designer who joined the IMF after the terrorist bombing in Rome killed his fiancee. Randall was killed in the middle of the first season of the series (being the only regular IMF TV operator described as "rejected") and replaced by Shannon Reed (Jane Badler), a former Secret Service of the United States agent and professional singers. (Already having his own voice training, Badler himself later became a professional singer in real life.)
Movies
Jim Phelps (now played by Jon Voight) is also described as the IMF team leader in the 1996 film Mission: Impossible. In the film, Phelps is described as a villain, a development that makes Peter Graves and Greg Morris angry. Other members of Phelps's team are: Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), who leads the IMF team in the next films in the series (after Phelps's murder in the first film); Claire Phelps (Emmanuelle BÃ © Å © art), proved to be a Phelps partner; Sarah Davies (Kristin Scott Thomas); and Jack Harmon (Emilio Estevez). Other IMF agents throughout the franchise include: Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames), denying the beginning of Mission: Impossible but restored at the end of the film; Franz Krieger (Jean Reno), denying; pilot Billy Baird (John Polson); the evil agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott); computer specialist Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg); Jane Carter (Paula Patton); Declan Gormley (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers); Zhen Lei (Maggie Q); Lindsey Farris (Keri Russell); Trevor Hanaway (Josh Holloway); and intelligent analyst William Brandt (Jeremy Renner).
In Mission: Impossible, Phelps' superior officer, Eugene Kittridge (Henry Czerny), is shown working at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters. In Mission: Impossible 2 , it is unclear to whom the IMF reports. In Mission: Impossible III, The IMF is identified as an independent institution of the US government, some of which have fronts as employees of the Virginia Department of Transportation. Hunt refers to the group as "Impossible Mission Force", the same name is shown in the fifth movie introduction. In the Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol the entire agency was officially rejected after Hunt's team was framed for the destruction of the Kremlin as part of a plan to spark a nuclear war, but the President, in response, initiated the "Ghost Protocol." With all the IMF denied, Hunt and his team escape from custody, retreat to a "forgotten" safe house, and get the resources needed to track and defeat their enemy's plans. In the IMF: Impossible - Rogue Nation, the IMF was dissolved by the Senate surveillance committee after a hearing in which the CIA director Alan Hunley (Alec Baldwin) accused the IMF of carelessness after previous film events. With the team officially closed and their assets joining the CIA, Ethan continued his escape while asking for help from his former IMF team to find a syndicate leader, Solomon Lane. The team was restored at the closing of the movie with Brandt calling Hunley "Mr. Secretary".
References
- Patrick J. White, Complete "Mission: Impossible" Dossier. New York: Avon Books, 1991.
External links
- MSNBC article on Impossible Mission Power
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