I loved both of the Bourne movies, and I can't wait for the third one. The camerawork didn't bother me at all, and I didn't read the books, so I have no idea how much stuff got cut for the scripts.
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Amy - Jul 09, 2007 12:36:03 pm PDT #45 of 10000
Because books.
Sean K - Jul 09, 2007 12:36:41 pm PDT #46 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'm really looking forward to the third. Damon is a fantastic action star.
bon bon - Jul 09, 2007 12:38:26 pm PDT #47 of 10000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I didn't read the books, so I have no idea how much stuff got cut for the scripts.
Everything but "an assassin with memory loss is picked up by a boat and meets a Swiss lady."
(I am sure people will chime in with similarities between the books and movies, but you get the idea. They are only loosely related.)
brenda m - Jul 09, 2007 12:40:16 pm PDT #48 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Nah, pretty much what bon said. I always liked the books, and I've liked both movies, but they're just different animals.
Amy - Jul 09, 2007 12:43:20 pm PDT #49 of 10000
Because books.
Everything but "an assassin with memory loss is picked up by a boat and meets a Swiss lady."
Heh.
Again, I have no idea if Damon fit the part as written in the novels, but he worked beautifully for me as Bourne. He's got that slightly military look, he's in perfect shape, not alarmingly gorgeous (in terms of being able to look different as needed), and really able to get across his conflict when he has to look at his life and vocation from a new perspective.
§ ita § - Jul 09, 2007 12:45:57 pm PDT #50 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wait--isn't she Canadian in the books? I know they end up in Montreal, and I thought that was why.
JZ - Jul 09, 2007 12:49:15 pm PDT #51 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Everything but "an assassin with memory loss is picked up by a boat and meets a Swiss lady."
I'm afraid I must be the anti-brenda in this and say Thank God. I got the first two or three books when I was trapped on bedrest, staggered through the first one, got 20 pages into the second, and quit when I realized I was eagerly looking forward to my late-morning nap as an excuse to put the book down.
I don't know what his earlier stuff is like, but Bourne Ludlum struck me as unbearably wet. Jason Bourne was always fretting about his girl and singing great internal arias about Oh God, my love. How I love you! I tremble at the danger I have put you in, o love my love! I would kill to protect you, you who know me, whose eyes see into my soul -- it tears at me, devouring me from beneath, the terrible burden of this love! I must go kill a ratty German to ease the pressure, the pressure on my heart, o my love! I really wanted to slap Book!Bourne. Of course, he would've killed me as dead as Movie!Bourne, but first he would have sniveled like a wibbly little emo boy and I could point and laugh before he shivved me or whatever.
I love Movie!Bourne. He's all woobieful and etched with pain, but he doesn't burble about it; he just shoots the shit out of people and snaps their neck and stuff, and then he looks broken some more, occasionally in shirts that show off some arm. That's good enough for me.
bon bon - Jul 09, 2007 12:52:55 pm PDT #52 of 10000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Wait--isn't she Canadian in the books? I know they end up in Montreal, and I thought that was why.
Probably. I may be confused because they meet in Zurich. She's a scientician! And they run around town buying wigs or somesuch.
Sean K - Jul 09, 2007 12:53:25 pm PDT #53 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
it tears at me, devouring me from beneath
Starting with his bottom?
he just shoots the shit out of people and snaps their neck and stuff
Except he only kills people who are actively trying to kill him. Cops and security guards and people like that who are just doing their jobs he tries not to hurt more than he really has to. Yes, sometimes that still a lot of hurt, but he tries!
Amy - Jul 09, 2007 12:54:07 pm PDT #54 of 10000
Because books.
I love Movie!Bourne. He's all woobieful and etched with pain, but he doesn't burble about it; he just shoots the shit out of people and snaps their neck and stuff, and then he looks broken some more, occasionally in shirts that show off some arm. That's good enough for me.
As always, JZ says it best.