Robert Towne fires back at Movie Critic
June 6th, 2000
On May 31, 2000 in a LA Times article Movieline movie critic Stephen Farber called M:I-2, among other things, "a completely soulless exercise without an iota of true human drama." This after Farber made comparisons between MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 and Hitchcock's classic NOTORIOUS.
Robert Towne fired back yesterday in his own LA Times article. The fact that Towne's script, as he says, pays "homage" to NOTORIOUS, both films are very different. Borrowing plot elements from a past movie is nothing new, but this is a clear example where it may not have been in the best interest of the current movie.
References (these links will not be live long as the LA Times will archive them):
Mission Familiar
'M:I-2' Author to Critic: Forget It, Steve, It Isn't 'Notorious'
Robert Towne fired back yesterday in his own LA Times article. The fact that Towne's script, as he says, pays "homage" to NOTORIOUS, both films are very different. Borrowing plot elements from a past movie is nothing new, but this is a clear example where it may not have been in the best interest of the current movie.
References (these links will not be live long as the LA Times will archive them):
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