She fights the KGB thugs until she can barely stand and her whole body seems like a mass of cuts and bruises. The key scene of the movie is the huge – almost ten minute – running fight as Lorraine tries to scrap her way across the border, with Spyglass in tow and the KGB determined to stop her. One thing I liked a lot about Atomic Blonde were the fight scenes. The Mystery element is discovering the mole in MI6, whose identity remains uncertain until very near the end of the story. The Mission is a standard one: retrieve the watch full of secrets and/or help Spyglass defect. Has a final confrontation with the Antagonist and completes (or fails to complete) the Mission.Narrowly avoids capture by the Antagonist (or is captured and escapes).Is betrayed by an Ally or the Mentor (optionally).Attempts to carry out the Mission, dealing with further Allies and Enemies as they meet them.Involves one or more Allies in their Mission (Optionally, there is a romance sub-plot with one of the Allies).Trains and gathers resources for the Mission.Will be opposed by the Antagonist as they try to complete the mission.Is given a mission to carry out by their Mentor.Atomic Blonde: AnalysisĪtomic Blonde has a Mission plot with a Mystery element (see Spy Novel Plots). She kills the assassins, and before killing the KGB handler tells him that in fact she was not just betraying MI6 to the KGB, but was manipulating both MI6 and the KGB on the orders of the CIA. It seems that Lorraine is the KGB double agent, Satchel. She also claims not to know where the watch is. Lorraine gives MI6 the photographs of Percival and doctored audio recordings which seem to prove that Percival was Satchel and that Lorraine eliminated him as a traitor. Percival tries to escape, but Lorraine tracks him down, kills him, and takes the watch. Despite this, Lorraine discovers the photographs the French agent took of Percival with the rogue KGB agent. Percival realises the French agent knows too much and kills her. Lorraine fights off the KGB thugs, but eventually Spyglass drowns when the car they’re escaping in crashes into the river. Percival arranges for Lorraine to smuggle Spyglass from East to West Berlin, and then betrays the operation to the KGB. Percival arranges to meet the rogue agent, but instead of paying, kills him and takes the watch for himself. Percival has ‘gone native’ in Berlin and is now operating for his own benefit, not MI6’s. With the watch in his possession, he needs to eliminate Spyglass, so he is the sole possessor of the information and can make a fortune selling it… The rogue KGB agent makes it known that he will sell the watch to the highest bidder. Lorraine begins a relationship with the French agent. That night, Lorraine makes contact with a French agent who also has information about Percival. As only Percival knew she was going to the apartment, Lorraine is suspicious of him. While she’s there the police arrive, and she has to fight her way out. Lorraine investigates the murdered MI6 agent’s apartment. MI6 also task Lorraine with discovering and eliminating the double agent, codenamed ‘Satchel’, who betrayed the murdered agent.Īs soon as Loraine arrives in Berlin, the KGB attempt to kidnap her, but she fights them off and then meets MI6’s Head of Station, David Percival, who uses cover as a black-market dealer. The day after the MI6 agent’s death, MI6 send another MI6 agent, Lorraine Broughton, to Berlin to recover the watch and help Spyglass defect to the West. Spyglass has also memorised the entire list and is now on the run in East Berlin. Inside the watch is a list of compromising information, supplied by a Stasi officer codenamed ‘Spyglass’, that will reignite the Cold War. In Berlin, a rogue KGB agent kills an MI6 agent and steals his watch. To view them, just select/highlight them. Major spoilers are blacked out like this secret. Warning: My plot summaries contain spoilers. Betrayed by a mole in MI6, the agent must outmaneuver the rival intelligence services competing for the watch, to save the defector and discover who the traitor is. MI6 send their best troubleshooter to Berlin to retrieve a watch full of vital information, and the defector who produced it. Atomic Blonde, released in August 2017, starring Charlize Theron and James McAvoy and directed by David Leitch, is a super-stylish and action-packed spy thriller with a convoluted plot. It’s set in Berlin, against the background of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, and based on the comic The Coldest City by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart.
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