Each new phrase in the melody provides a dash of hope but ultimately resolves itself into uncertainty––how will he deal with this fallout? The score is guiding us in character motivation and story motivation. The theme is reprised often in the film to illustrate the dread and hope that Hunt is perpetually balancing. The fallout of all your good intentions.” A new theme is introduced in this movie: “Your Mission” the fallout of Hunt’s good intentions, his unwillingness to let a single innocent person die. “The end you’ve always feared is coming,” Lane tells Hunt once he’s captured. This time he may not be able to complete this impossible mission, and just as the score is stretching itself to something longer than we are used to, so Hunt is being stretched thin. We are in familiar territory but he’s older now and he isn’t so agile and resilient as he used to be. Balf is creating in our minds a sense of unease for Hunt. As the brass provides the ominous undertone of the movie, the violins bring a slower tension to the familiar theme. As the plan is about to unfold and Hunt and Walker (Henry Cavill) are checking their motives and fortitude, we hear the familiar Mission Impossible theme, but this time Balf introduces it in a slower tempo with rests in between the phrasing. In Paris Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is preparing to capture his arch nemesis Solomon Lane (Sean Harris) to make a trade for plutonium. Let’s first consider the use of the main Mission Impossible theme in Fallout. Instead, Balf decided to let the images on screen inform his composition by emphasizing the action, character, and invoking the legacy of the series to create tension.
The simple route would have been to overly rely on Lalo Schifrin’s theme we all know and love and let that do all the heavy lifting. The composer of the film Lorne Balfe could have gone one of two ways with the score. Of course, the stunts, acting, and story were worth the price of admission, but the music took the movie to a height far above Tom Cruise preparing to make a HALO jump. When I walked out of the theaters after seeing Mission: Impossible – Fallout I was blown away by the music. A look behind the action and into the music at the heart of ‘ Fallout‘ (2018)…
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