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Michael Mann immerses Tom Cruise in the night

After Wingsbiopic on boxer Mohamed Ali brought forward by Will Smith, Michael Mann finds two other stars for his film Collateralreleased in 2004. The proposal is technical: a hellish night during which a hitman he takes a taxi driver hostage to take him to the locations of the contracts he has to perform. Filmed at night, with the unprecedented use of a digital camera, Collateral is a thriller as brilliant as it is cold, and deliciously ferocious in its confrontation between Max (Jamie Foxx), who naively aspires to create his own chauffeur company, and Vincent (Tom Cruise), an almost robotic assassin who has returned from everything.

In Los Angeles, Max Durocher, a night cab driver, picks up Annie Farrell (Jada Pinkett Smith), a prosecutor. They sympathize. Once she reaches her destination, she gives him her business card. Shortly after, Max takes on a client, Vincent. He asks him to keep him as a driver for part of the night, to complete five races, in exchange for a generous tip…

Is Tom Cruise a better antihero than a “simple” hero? Ethan Hunt’s role in the saga is obviously brilliant Mission Impossible and “Maverick” in the films Top Gun, and overall its characters are more often than not well-intentioned, righting wrongs, and developed in a way that generates strong empathy from viewers. It works, it even works very well, but if we often hear that these services in Magnolia, Thunder in the tropics AND Collateral they are so memorable, it’s because Tom Cruise fascinates even more when he plays ambiguity and bad boy.

“Maverick” as we’ve never seen him before

In Collateralmanages to embody beyond all expectations the model of the “Maniano” character, that is, a cold, determined man, short on time, who exists above all through his function in the world he inhabits, and aspires toto the perfection of this function. Here, as a ruthless hitman, he adds Neil McCauley-style professionalism Heat (Robert De Niro) a delicious irony and cynicism, which work miracles in his very tense exchanges with Max. Antiheroes and perfect antagonist From Collateral, his appearance and movements fit perfectly with the tragic and relentless mechanics of Michael Mann’s cinema. The director explained about the actor:

When Tom focuses on a certain type of character, if it is taken away from him then it is exciting for the adventurous man that he is, exciting to be on a sort of frontier with a character that he can get to know but who remains very different from him . he. I felt that he was experiencing it as a real adventure. (…) To play Vincent, this solipsistic sociopath, who has all the fucking answers and is so methodical and good at what he does, I felt like Tom was perfect. He’s a perfectionist when it comes to knowing what he’s supposed to do, which is why he performs his own stunts in “Mission: Impossible.”

Tom Cruise wasn’t the first choice

The production of Collateral It took a long time to get going, too long for the actor who first joined the project to play Vincent. Initially, it was Russell Crowe who took on the role, alongside Adam Sandler who would play the role of Max. At the time, Russell Crowe was a big star after his two biggest performances Gladiator AND An exceptional manafter also a no less remarkable performance in Revelations by Michael Mann, released in 2000. Fed up with the delays, he withdrew from the project in 2003, and Adam Sandler also left the cast due to a scheduling conflict.

A casting needs to be reconstituted and Michael Mann then meets Tom Cruise. But it’s not directly for the role of Vincent. In fact, as reported by The Hollywood journalist in 2014, the director revealed that he told her about it for the first time role of Massimowith the idea in mind of playing the killer in the backseat of the taxi a woman. While keeping secret which actress would be entrusted with the role…

Today it is undeniably one of the most important roles in Tom Cruise’s filmography, perhaps the best considering how much he then went out of his comfort zone. And the story is even more beautiful when we know that initially this casting was not obvious.

Source: Cine Serie

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