At one point in the film Lawrence of Arabia, the eponymous T. E. Lawrence, an imperious Englishman, defies his Arab friends’ disapproval in order to save a man’s life. When they object that the man’s time has come, that he must die because “it is written,” he counters, “Nothing is written.”
In Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning, the concluding installment to the franchise, superspy Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) borrows Lawrence’s catchphrase as a response to his enemies: “Nothing is written.” One suspects he has in mind not just fictional supervillains but also risk-averse studio executives.
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