Posted on 03/11/2010 6:36:43 PM PST by tobyhill
It may have required a colossal leap of imagination for moviegoers to accept the actor who played the sensitive, lonely and confused Tom Ripley in “The Talented Mr. Ripley” in the action-packed role of lethal government-trained assassin Jason Bourne. But when director Doug Liman first set out on the casting path for “The Bourne Identity,” the 2002 box office hit that was the first installment in the lucrative franchise, it didn’t take him long to choose Matt Damon as his leading man.
“I wanted to create the thinking man’s action movie,” said Liman, who recently finished shooting “Fair Game,” about the Valerie Plame saga, with Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. “Matt comes across as so smart and so cerebral that he was the ideal choice for me. As Jason Bourne, he makes very intelligent choices even as he keeps kicking people’s asses. In fact, the style of fighting that we chose minimizes his own personal energy exertion and uses his opponent’s energy against him.
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MATT DAMON!
Is there another actor named Matt Damon that I don't know about? Cause he can't be talking about the same guy I'm thinking of.
Is lefty Matt Damon still with lefty Sarah Silverman while lefty Jimmy Kimmel is with lefty Ben Affleck?
Pompous pu$$y
I see Hollywood is still trying to push that “Bush Bad†propaganda. Everyone of them bombed while Bush was in office and everyone of them will bomb today. Now it’s Valerie Plame and no WMD in Iraq.
Another dumb ass movie by libturd dimRAT socialist, anti-American pig Matt Damon that I won’t see. “Saving Private Ryan” (with Damon & co left-wing dimturd Tom Hanks) has long since gone into the trash. I try not to watch or frequent any left-wing moonBAT actors or actresses movies.
I saw this movie the FIRST TIME....When it was called Bourne Identity.....
Liman, who recently finished shooting “Fair Game,” about the Valerie Plame saga, with Naomi Watts and Sean Penn
PUKE!!!!!! Another movie I will be avoiding......
There. Fixed it.
Actors - is there anything they don’t know?
Matt Damon is such a fag.
That's gonna be a boring movie. How much suspense can there be behind a non-mission critical non-covert desk jockey.
They'll probably give her the Jack Ryan treatment and make her out to be more than she actually was.
I think the only movie I’ve ever seen of his was Good Will Hunting.
Damon’s an incredibly talented actor. Example: The scene in the gendarme’s office in the second Bourne, when he’s staring stonily and refusing to answer questions, there was a moment when he senses a break, revealed by the slightest flicker of the eye... Just marvelous to watch. He owned that scene. Too bad the third Bourne sucked so hard...
As to this, however: “the sensitive, lonely and confused Tom Ripley in ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’...”, the reviewer reveals that he has no clue whatsoever about that movie. Ripley wasn’t sensitive, lonely or confused. He was a sociopathic, self-loathing homosexual murderer. Bit of a difference. And Damon nailed it. A magnificent theatrical achievement.
Matt Demon?
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