Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Bento!!!

Hello Everyone!!

   Today's post is about making a Ghost Protocol Bento!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Yay!!!!!! Personally Ghost Protocol is the best film in the series. Did you know the Burj Khalifa stunt scene is real??!! Yup, Tom Cruise scaled and sat on top of the tallest building in the world. No biggie right? :D

    I decided to do the Burj Khalifa scene (in the movie). Difficulty rating: 9.5 (out of 10) for detail, time (it took me 4.5 hours!), and the fact that it is a complex bento (lots of pieces to put together between Nori, cheese, wax paper pieces etc.).

   On the other hand, difficulty rating for climbing the Burj Khalifa: 11/10.  (;

   Since it's a long step by step process, I am going to post the final product pics first. "No Plan, No Backup, No Choice" refers to the catchphrase for the M:i-4 theatrical release posters. Personally I think it turned out pretty well (the bento - but the movie was incredible).














      

 

          Burj Khalifa scene picture taken from http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/12/22/box-office-update-mission-impossible/

      

      The pic on the right is my sketch of the bento (I do sketches when its a complex bento like this one). Where it says "legs" pointing to the neck and right arm I mean same as the legs, as in do the Nori outline. If you want that extra detail on your bento, doing limb Nori outlines really helps!

      I started by drawing the blueprint, and making a larger sketch of the body onto wax paper.

      I put the wax paper outline ( I will try to do more pics of the bento process in the future) onto a long slice of cheese  and cut the outline with a knife (I sliced a rectangular block of cheese horizontally-it took a few tries). I left that in the fridge and kept the wax paper outline.

     I cut up all the parts of the outline I wanted to do with Nori (gloves, arms+legs for outlines, pants, black squares as pockets for belt between shirt and top in bento pic, shirt, and shoes).
   
   

     These are the wax paper pieces I wanted to cut from Nori. I took the wooden cutting board (the one below the Betty Crocker) and put the sheet of Nori on it. Then I placed the wax paper pieces and cut them out with an X-Acto knife (this works pretty well). For the limb outlines, I cut the arms and legs out of Nori (the whole thing) and cut the edges off. Here is the finished Nori outline:

   

    

      To do the hair, I cut the head from the cheese outline (I was forced to behead it :(  ), spread cream cheese on it and dipped in cocoa powder - the cream cheese helps it stick, but butter or frosting would also serve the purpose.

      For the building, I took a slice of bread and trimmed of the crust. I sliced cheese to form the borders of the windows, and used food gel to do the blue parts of the windows. If you want evenly blue windows, I would recommend whipping cream cheese and a little butter and then adding food gel for the blue color, so you can spread it like frosting (cream cheese and butter are the essential components of cream cheese frosting, cream cheese makes it dense and butter makes it fluffy, so keep experimenting with them to get the proportions and consistency you want). I didn't realize this until later, otherwise I would have done that instead. 

     The movie was amazing though (an M:i fan - this is my 2nd time watching it). The acting is great (also a Tom Cruise fan - besides Mission Impossible my favorite Tom Cruise movie would be Knight and Day) . He does practically all of his own stunts! Not to mention the music (by Michael Giacchino - especially "A Man, A Plan, A Code, Dubai" and "Mood India" from the soundtrack). In the scene at the end they are actually playing "Ethan and Julia" by Giacchino, from the 3rd film - which makes sense because that's Julia's first appearance. Not sure how they are going to top it as a film in M:i - 5 but that's their own Mission: Impossible right? Which technically means they will, because they always get the mission accomplished! (yay!)

     Thanks for following!