AskMen.comJuly 28, 2007
[Editor's Note: I know, I know, it's Hollywood, but the 'Bourne Identity' and 'Bourne Supremacy' rocked and Matt Damon is a genuinely progressive guy.]
Matt Damon thinks James Bond is an outdated action hero.
'The Bourne Ultimatum' star thinks Bond is old fashioned and says his own character, former CIA assassin Jason Bourne, is a superior modern day action hero.
Damon said: "Bond is fundamentally different from Bourne. Bond is an establishment guy. He is a misogynist, an imperialist, he's all the things that Bourne isn't. He kills people then drinks a Martini."
"The director of 'The Bourne Identity', Doug Liman, said to me before we started the first one, 'James Bond does not speak to me at any level and I think it would be cool to have a James Bond that people our age can relate to.' Bond is a character left over from the 1960s.
"By the end of the second Bourne movie Jason is apologising for killing people. I've never seen that in a big Hollywood movie before."
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1 comments:
Hey, thanks for posting this! Yes, it's a little silly, but those films actually do rock (stay tuned for part 3). Plus, I just found out Damon's wife is Argentine (OK, where have I been?) and he seems like a cool step-dad as well as relatively progressive guy for Hollywood.
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