{"id":13812,"date":"2011-12-18T18:14:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T18:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=13812"},"modified":"2011-12-18T18:26:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T18:26:43","slug":"why-is-tom-cruise-always-running-in-his-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/12\/18\/why-is-tom-cruise-always-running-in-his-films\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cruise Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Cruise-Run.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13814\" title=\"The Cruise Run\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Cruise-Run.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the latest Mission Impossible film opening it is time to ask the question: why is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Cruise\">Tom Cruise<\/a> always <a href=\"http:\/\/movieclips.com\/pBLi-mashups-movie-why-is-tom-cruise-always-running\/\">running in his films<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>This compilation by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/XerxesVids\">Xerzes Cortes<\/a> neatly showcases the films where he is running (75%!) and &#8211; for reasons of balance &#8211; points out the ones where he didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zv2bAqk9PLw?hd=1\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure this meme all began with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cx2u7f8yg6s\">a spoof Nike ad in 2006<\/a>, but when you see them back-to-back like this I wonder if it is a coincidence that Cruise just\u00a0chooses\u00a0energetic roles or if he&#8217;s now just messing with us.<\/p>\n<p>Even in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V0LQnQSrC-g\">Ghost Protocol trailer<\/a> there are at least two sequences (involving the Kremlin and a Dubai sandstorm) where he is doing what can only be termed a &#8216;Cruise run&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the on-set exercise is part of the reason he still looks so young? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm129\/\">Tom Cruise at the IMDb<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zv2bAqk9PLw\">Nike spoof from 2006<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is Tom Cruise always running in his films?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[739],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}