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'The Bourne Ultimatum' Politicized
NewsBusters ^ | August 5, 2007 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 08/05/2007 3:59:25 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Perhaps we should have expected this but apparently The Bourne Ultimatum which opened this weekend is chock full of liberal proganda. So who is making this charge? Some vicious rightwinger with an axe to grind against liberal Hollywood producers? Nope. This is the claim of a liberal movie reviewer, Anthony Kaufman, who wrote the following in his Huffington Post blog, Jason Bourne: An Anti-Cheney American Hero?

A stinging rebuke against Cheney-esque black ops and torture tactics, Universal Pictures' The Bourne Ultimatum is more than just a heart-stopping international espionage thriller: It is Hollywood's most direct attack against the Bush Regime since George Clooney's one-two punch of Good Night and Good Luck and Syriana. If those more "sophisticated" dramas preached to the choir about our deteriorating civil liberties and oil-fueled overseas obsessions, the third film in the mega-successful Bourne action franchise offers up a picture of corrupt clandestine leadership for all to see -- where every Matt Damon fan can also enjoy high-powered American government officials as arch-villains committing treasonous and reckless activities without oversight.

In case we have any doubts that The Bourne Ultimatum is a liberal fantasy, Kaufman "reassures" us that it is:

But is the film really a liberal fantasy, where the bad CIA leaders get punished for their penchant for waterboarding, "experimental interrogations," "rendition" and the manipulation of American soldiers' minds with intimidation and humiliation? It sure seems so, as bullish Rumsfeld-like strategies are depicted as inept, while the sensitive, sympathetic touch of Joan Allen's CIA head Pamela Landy is shown as the most effective way to combat renegade forces. If conservatives like to label Tinseltown as leftwing, The Bourne Ultimatum should do little to assuage their concerns.

Thank you for that admission of Hollywood being leftwing, Anthony. At least that is something that most in the media won't admit. Kaufman finishes his review with an admiring look at a scene involving "moral complexity" chock full of nuances that a John Kerry would love:

Then again, perhaps the film allows us to have our blood-soaked cake and eat it, too. Matt Damon's Jason Bourne is a guilt-ridden CIA assassin, who glowers and suffers every time he swiftly strikes a rival down. But as audiences, we still bask in his every murder. Even though Bourne hates being a killing machine, I suspect audiences like it very much. After all, that's the chief source of the movie's thrills. I'd bet director Paul Greengrass (who showed some sensitivity towards depicting the 9/11 terrorists as human beings in United 93) intentionally tried to offer some moral complexity to a scene where Bourne strangles to death an obviously Arab enemy assassin. But how many people will pick up on that? Or will they just whoop and holler with the rising body count?

Most likely, no matter how hard Hollywood tries, most of the audience will overlook the obvious liberal propaganda of The Bourne Ultimatum and "whoop and holler" over the "rising body count" action. Something similar happened with another recent movie, Shooter, starring Mark Wahlberg. It also featured the standard leftwing proganda including a portrayal by Ned Beatty as an absurdly charicatured EVIL rightwing senator who practically drooled bile all over himself. So ridiculous in the propaganda department was Shooter that one of the few good guys in the FBI wore a Che Guevara T-shirt when he was off duty. Therefore be prepared for another leftwing proganda onslaught if you see The Bourne Ultimatum. The physical action, as in Shooter, is good but you will have to put on your political proganda filters in order to keep from groaning out loud.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bourne; bourneultimatum; hollywoodleft; moviereview
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From what I heard the action is good. Unfortunately, they had to load this flick up full of the usual leftwing propaganda bilge.
1 posted on 08/05/2007 3:59:29 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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I’m still not over hollywood screwing up the last Tom Clancy movie, I think it was the Sum of All Fears. With Damon’s buddy Ben Affleck.


2 posted on 08/05/2007 4:01:37 PM PDT by mainerforglobalwarming
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Ben Affleck made American audiences root for the Japanese in Pearl Harbor.
3 posted on 08/05/2007 4:03:20 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Join the DUmmie FUnnies PING List for the FUNNIEST Blog on the Web)
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Making Mao proud.


4 posted on 08/05/2007 4:04:38 PM PDT by Lexington Green (Remember when Hispanics were White?)
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To: PJ-Comix

The word “sedition” used to mean something. But, then, these are the times in which we’re living.


5 posted on 08/05/2007 4:06:14 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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I can’t stand Affleck. Politics aside I just don’t think he’s a good actor. As for Damon he’s been good in the Bourne movies. And he was great in The Departed. What a great film.


6 posted on 08/05/2007 4:06:19 PM PDT by mainerforglobalwarming
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I saw it today.

Having seen the 1st two Jason Bourne movies, not for one moment did I interpret what I saw on the screen as being anti-Republican or a slam on Cheney.

BTW, it was fabulous!

7 posted on 08/05/2007 4:06:24 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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the Bush Regime

Drop the "Regime" stuff, pinkos liberals.

8 posted on 08/05/2007 4:07:28 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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Anthony Kaufman, who wrote the following....

This guy must have a very boring life.

9 posted on 08/05/2007 4:07:38 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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They are going farther and farther, actually. The left now openly preaches that the true Hero of the Proletarian Vanguard should shoot every fascist on sight to Save the World.
10 posted on 08/05/2007 4:08:17 PM PDT by JasonC
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I can’t wait to see this movie. The Bourne movies are among my favorite.


11 posted on 08/05/2007 4:09:34 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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I simply will not watch any of them anymore.
12 posted on 08/05/2007 4:09:54 PM PDT by JasonC
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Here is some of the review from the ultra left SF Chron.

This is a movie about fear - a government's fear of its citizens and citizens' fear of their government. It's a movie about surveillance, with people being watched at virtually every moment. Finally, it's about philosophies in collision, about how much safety can be bought at the price of freedom and about the kinds of personalities that gravitate toward the totalitarian mind-set.

13 posted on 08/05/2007 4:13:25 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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When is Hollywood going to realize that they lose more people than they gain when they insert their liberal political propaganda in movies?


14 posted on 08/05/2007 4:13:49 PM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush.)
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they’ve got that stupid “shaking camera” garbage nearly the entire film... it was nearly unwatchable ...


15 posted on 08/05/2007 4:19:07 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (CLYBURN: Well, that would be a real big problem for us, no question about that.)
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...a scene where Bourne strangles to death an obviously Arab enemy assassin

LOL - I swear it appeared that the beat the crap out of and then strangled the arab with a Koran. I just did not see this much overt Liberalism in this one. There was the byplay between the "good" and "evil" inside the Agency, but the idea of catching rather than killing that Landy exibits at least offered the chance for more information (that the others did not want her to have.)

16 posted on 08/05/2007 4:20:02 PM PDT by Ingtar (The LDS problem that Romney is facing is not his religion, but his Lacking Decisive Stands.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Another looney leftist. Didn’t Matt blame everyone for “global-warming”?


17 posted on 08/05/2007 4:23:08 PM PDT by rbosque ("To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Teddy Roosevelt)
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It was not stop action, sit on the edge of your seat kind of stuff. I liked it, altho I did think it was pretty PC. But I’m so used to the from Hollywood, it’s like water off a duck’s back.
Is this the last of the series?
susie


18 posted on 08/05/2007 4:23:14 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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We saw it yesterday afternoon. It was two hours of fantastic entertainment. Well worth it.


19 posted on 08/05/2007 4:24:00 PM PDT by Diverdogz
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I learned to like Matt Damon in “The Talented Mr. Ripley.”
20 posted on 08/05/2007 4:24:03 PM PDT by Uncle Hal
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