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The Movie Doc Over-analyses Bourne Identity

matt damon

Bourne Identity is a pure product of the early 00’s. Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, everyone became paranoid about terrorism and espionnage. We quickly realised that the “enemy” droped the uniform and could be almost anywhere.

Bourne lives that reality everyday. If he goes to the bank, he gets attacked. If he sleeps in a park, he gets attacked. If he walks in his appartement, a guy comes out the window and starts a fight! How paranoid must you be to be looking for exits, security guards and cameras as soon as you enter a building? The fact that he was a spy explains partially, but we’re led to believe that we can find these super agents almost anywhere in the world. What if Jason Bourne was a bad guy, would you feel safe?

Bourne Identity also prophecices the “Facebook age” in some way, because everyone seems to be knowing a lot of information about him. Nowdays, it would be a lot easier to identify Franka Potente’s character because she would at least have a facebook page.

Bourne Identity also feeds on the fear that the US government can’t be trusted. Very much like the movement of “9/11 truth”, government officials are seen as part of a major conspiracy.

Feb
16

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Good Will Hunting // Gus Van Sant (1997)

Sean: Thought about what you said to me the other day. About my painting. 
Will: Oh 
Sean: Stayed up half the night thinking about it. Something occurred to me. I fell into a deep, peaceful sleep and haven’t thought about you since. You know what occurred to me? 
Will: No 
Sean: You’re just a kid. You don’t have the faintest idea what you’re talking about. 
Will: Why, thank you. 
Sean: It’s all right. You’ve never been out of Boston. 
Will: Nope 
Sean: So if I asked you about art, you’d probably give me the skinny… on every art book ever written. Michelangelo? You know a lot about him. Life’s work, political aspirations. Him and the pope. Sexual orientation. The whole works, right? I bet you can’t tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling. Seeing that. If I ask you about women, you’ll probably give me a syllabus of your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can’t tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman… and feel truly happy. You’re a tough kid. I ask you about war, you’d probably ah throw Shakespeare at me, right? “Once more into the breach, dear friends.” But you’ve never been near one. You’ve never held your best friend’s head in your lap… and watched him gasp his last breath lookin’ to you for help. If I asked you about love, you’d probably quote me a sonnet, but you’ve never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes. Feelin’ like God put an angel on Earth just for you, who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn’t know what it’s like to be her angel, to have that love for her be there forever. Through anything. Through cancer. And you wouldn’t know about sleepin’ sittin’ up in a hospital room… for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes… that the terms “visiting hours” don’t apply to you. You don’t know about real loss, ‘cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you’ve ever dared to love anybody that much. I look at you. I don’t see an intelligent, confident man. I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. But you’re a genius, Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine. You ripped my fuckin’ life apart. You’re an orphan, right? Do you think that I’d know the first thing about how hard your life has been - how you feel, who you are - because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally, I don’t give a shit about all that, because - You know what? I can’t learn anything from you… I can’t read in some fuckin’ book. Unless you wanna talk about you, who you are. And I’m fascinated. I’m in. But you don’t wanna do that, do you sport? You’re terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief. 


That’s a beautiful monologue and it’s impressive to know that it was written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck!

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Bourne minus Bourne

What can you do when you’re the producer of a popular action franchise and your main star is fed up with the idea of a sequel? Do you risk pissing off the fans by recasting the part and rebooting the series? How about keeping the title but changing the characters? In other words, making a Bourne without a Jason Bourne!

Could it be a new era of rebrandings instead of remakes? After all, why should they make the effort of creating a marketing campaign for a new original movie when they can simply use the same title?

Source slashfilm.com

Sep
26

Top 5 Most Influential Movies of the 00’s

Influence only measures the effects of the popularity, not the quality.

1. Bourne Identity

Action in the 90’s meant a movie with Arnold or Sylvester. So it was all about the explosions, the one-liners and the muscles. Bourne Identity was the complete opposite. The screenplay was smart, the action was realistic and Matt Damon at the time was more known for Good Will Hunting than actually kicking asses.

Without Bourne Identity, there would be no Casino Royale and probably no Batman Begins.

2. Shrek

Sure, Dreamworks would never have made Shrek without Pixar. But it’s also true that Disney would have never closed down it’s animation departement if Shrek wasn’t as popular. Ask any kid about his favorite movie and chances are that he’ll answer Shrek. Personally, I hate the sequels with a passion, but it’s probably the most important CGI animated movie after Toy Story.

3. The Ring

Even if it’s a remake, it transformed American horror from the “Wes Craven influenced” era to the Saw-esque gruesome horror. It also contributed to popularise Asian horror movies to the American audiences.

4. Traffic

The editing style, the photography, the narrative structure, pretty much everything from this movie was imitated afterwards.

5. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Like The Ring, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon made the martial arts movies cool again in America. The wide release of movies like Hero or House of the Flying Daggers probably wouldn’t have been possible otherwise.

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