(Tony Gilroy, who wrote the first three Bourne movies, directed the peripheral 2012 film The Bourne Legacy, which stars Jeremy Renner as Operation Outcome operative Aaron Cross in place of Bourne.) Greengrass’s work shows a keen interest in history, politics, and war. English director Paul Greengrass has helmed three sequels, The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), and now Jason Bourne, the first of these Matt Damon–led films to release on the watch of a president other than George W. Bourne is paranoia incarnate - not in the quirky and debilitating sense that, say, Mel Gibson embodies in Conspiracy Theory (1997), but rather in the post-9/11 sense: perpetually under surveillance, terrified, and helpless, except for the capacity to inflict massive and indiscriminate damage without understanding why.ĭoug Liman directed the first, best Bourne flick, The Bourne Identity, based on the late Robert Ludlum’s 1980 spy novel of the same name. His survival instincts override his bygone loyalty to the dark bureaucrats who trained him. Bourne’s muscle memory overrides his amnesia.
Alternatively, you might see him as an unbound superhero, popularized at a time when the war on terror was as new and fascinating as it was, well, terrifying. Who is Jason Bourne? Literally, he’s a brainwashed super-operative once employed by the CIA. Since the release of The Bourne Identity in 2002, Jason Bourne’s origin and motivations have been the obsessive concern of the eponymous action-film series.
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