‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ Composers On How They Got Tom Cruise Dancing In His Seat: ‘I Remember High-Fiving Each Other In That Moment’
The post ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ Composers On How They Got Tom Cruise Dancing In His Seat: ‘I Remember High-Fiving Each Other In That Moment’ appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning from Paramount Pictures and … More Skydance. | © 2025 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of Paramount Pictures/Skydance ***WARNING! The following contains major spoilers for the film!*** It’s not easy to please one of the biggest movie stars on the planet, but Alfie Godfrey and Max Aruj accomplished just that with their score for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (now playing in theaters everywhere; click here for tickets). The composing duo knew they’d succeeded when Tom Cruise himself became visibly hyped during an early screening of the film for friends and family of the production. “He started dancing away in his seat straight away,” Godfrey recalls over Zoom. “I remember Max and I high-fiving each other in that moment, because we thought, ‘Yes, this is definitely working!’” Cruise was responding to the very first cue on the soundtrack — “We Live and Die in the Shadows” — which plays over the Paramount and Skydance logos, perfectly setting up the movie’s pulse-pounding action with some East African Burundian drumming (rather than the customary bongos) and the opening bars of Lalo Schifrin’s iconic Mission: Impossible theme from the original TV show. “It gives you permission as an audience member to go, ‘Okay, this film’s gonna be a wild ride, let’s enjoy it,’” Godfrey explains. Aruj echoes that sentiment: “Tom was always like, ‘I want the audience to come out and go into the summer wanting an adventure.’” What’s more: the utilization of Schifrin’s enduring 1960s composition is not only a hallowed tradition at this point, but it immediately reminds the audience that what they’re about to watch isn’t some generic spy adventure. “It’s easy to say, ‘Oh, well, I’ll just write my own piece of music.’ But at…
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Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning from Paramount Pictures and … More Skydance. | © 2025 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of Paramount Pictures/Skydance ***WARNING! The following contains major spoilers for the film!*** It’s not easy to please one of the biggest movie stars on the planet, but Alfie Godfrey and Max Aruj accomplished just that with their score for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (now playing in theaters everywhere; click here for tickets). The composing duo knew they’d succeeded when Tom Cruise himself became visibly hyped during an early screening of the film for friends and family of the production. “He started dancing away in his seat straight away,” Godfrey recalls over Zoom. “I remember Max and I high-fiving each other in that moment, because we thought, ‘Yes, this is definitely working!’” Cruise was responding to the very first cue on the soundtrack — “We Live and Die in the Shadows” — which plays over the Paramount and Skydance logos, perfectly setting up the movie’s pulse-pounding action with some East African Burundian drumming (rather than the customary bongos) and the opening bars of Lalo Schifrin’s iconic Mission: Impossible theme from the original TV show. “It gives you permission as an audience member to go, ‘Okay, this film’s gonna be a wild ride, let’s enjoy it,’” Godfrey explains. Aruj echoes that sentiment: “Tom was always like, ‘I want the audience to come out and go into the summer wanting an adventure.’” What’s more: the utilization of Schifrin’s enduring 1960s composition is not only a hallowed tradition at this point, but it immediately reminds the audience that what they’re about to watch isn’t some generic spy adventure. “It’s easy to say, ‘Oh, well, I’ll just write my own piece of music.’ But at…
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