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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 5:26 amEarlier this week sees the unveiling of Watch The Bourne Legacy Rises a unique twist about the current reboot/remake trend in Hollywood. As opposed to returning the identical character at a popular series, Universal Pictures is returning us to the franchise’s milieu but with an entirely new protagonist in the center. That puts pressure on Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner, the lead in “The Bourne Legacy,” to prove himself being a viable action star. Granted, he played Hawkeye in “The Avengers,” but it’s less if he was inspired to carry that superhero extravaganza. However with pressure comes opportunity, and Renner ought to keep this under consideration: Prior to the Bourne films, people didn’t necessarily consider Matt Damon just as one action star, either.
“The Bourne Identity” opened June 14, 2002, and yes it wasn’t like audiences weren’t aware of Damon. He previously won a screenwriting Oscar regarding his buddy Film clip for “Good Will Hunting,” and then he was the Ryan being stored in “Saving Private Ryan.” But even 2001’s hit caper comedy “Ocean’s Eleven,” Damon was overshadowed by his higher-profile co-stars like Brad Pitt and George Clooney. So doing “The Bourne Identity” was definitely a stretch, playing a closed society assassin who's lost his memory and must quickly regain it while being chased by those that want him dead. This wasn’t the same principle being the sensitive Will Hunting or insecure Linus Caldwell - he'd to become a chiseled, believable killing machine.
When “Identity” arrived, it performed well to use first weekend - grossing $39 million - but also in an indicator that audiences weren’t exactly salivating for the Bourne film or an action movie starring Damon, it wound up in second place, crushed with a $76-million opening for “Scooby-Doo.” Yes, once when folks were more enthusiastic about a Scooby-Doo flick a Bourne film. But “Identity” showed legs and earned good reviews, snagging almost $122 million during its theatrical run and receiving a tremendous hit on DVD.
A lot more importantly, though Watch The Bourne Legacy Rises helped set up a template for which this series could achieve. As much credit as director Christopher Nolan rightly received for reinventing Batman using the dark, realistic tone of 2005’s “Batman Begins,” “The Bourne Identity” had adopted most of the same approach several years earlier. Directed by Doug Liman, who previously had made the indie films “Swingers” and “Go,” “The Bourne Identity” featured terrific stunts, but most of the most effective moments stemmed from human-scale tension, including from the dynamic shootout between Bourne and a lethal sniper Clive Owen. Damon surely could convince as an action hero, but he didn’t should jettison his empathy and soulfulness in the process - however, those qualities were just as important to his construction of an character who only slowly begins to see the monstrous things he used to with the U.S. government.
By the point of 2004’s “The Bourne Supremacy,” the series was popular enough that this opened to almost $75 million, dwarfing everything around it. Finding yourself since the eighth-highest-grosser of that year, “Supremacy” being a lot better than “Identity,” thanks in no small part towards the arrival of director Paul Greengrass. Before “Supremacy,” the English filmmaker had not produced Hollywood movie, but he proved over capable, delivering an attractively intense thriller that upped the action while simultaneously deepening the emotional resonance of the assassin’s reckoning together with his past. Add to that one of the primary hand-to-hand combat scenes in recent Hollywood history, and you’ve got a supremely riveting film that has been hugely influential. The steely 2007 Jason bourne reboot “Casino Royale” is heavily indebted to the quick cutting and realistic tone of “The Bourne Supremacy.”
2007’s “The Bourne Ultimatum,” which reunited Damon and Greengrass, was even more commercially successful, satisfyingly resolving the trilogy whilst being faithful for the series’ critique of government surveillance and unchecked power. Between “Supremacy” and “Ultimatum,” Greengrass made “United 93,” a dramatization from the terrorist hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 during 9/11, although that film largely eschewed political messages, his big-budget Bourne films were you might say an answer to the aftermath in the events portrayed in “United 93,” showing a new through which personal liberties were sacrificed within the name of homeland security. Naturally, you didn’t must read any deeper meaning into your “Bourne” films to get whisked away by their propulsive energy, but that subtext built them into rather nervy for mainstream entertainment - nevertheless seventy one films combined have created almost $1 billion worldwide.
“The Bourne Identity” opened June 14, 2002, and yes it wasn’t like audiences weren’t aware of Damon. He previously won a screenwriting Oscar regarding his buddy Film clip for “Good Will Hunting,” and then he was the Ryan being stored in “Saving Private Ryan.” But even 2001’s hit caper comedy “Ocean’s Eleven,” Damon was overshadowed by his higher-profile co-stars like Brad Pitt and George Clooney. So doing “The Bourne Identity” was definitely a stretch, playing a closed society assassin who's lost his memory and must quickly regain it while being chased by those that want him dead. This wasn’t the same principle being the sensitive Will Hunting or insecure Linus Caldwell - he'd to become a chiseled, believable killing machine.
When “Identity” arrived, it performed well to use first weekend - grossing $39 million - but also in an indicator that audiences weren’t exactly salivating for the Bourne film or an action movie starring Damon, it wound up in second place, crushed with a $76-million opening for “Scooby-Doo.” Yes, once when folks were more enthusiastic about a Scooby-Doo flick a Bourne film. But “Identity” showed legs and earned good reviews, snagging almost $122 million during its theatrical run and receiving a tremendous hit on DVD.
A lot more importantly, though Watch The Bourne Legacy Rises helped set up a template for which this series could achieve. As much credit as director Christopher Nolan rightly received for reinventing Batman using the dark, realistic tone of 2005’s “Batman Begins,” “The Bourne Identity” had adopted most of the same approach several years earlier. Directed by Doug Liman, who previously had made the indie films “Swingers” and “Go,” “The Bourne Identity” featured terrific stunts, but most of the most effective moments stemmed from human-scale tension, including from the dynamic shootout between Bourne and a lethal sniper Clive Owen. Damon surely could convince as an action hero, but he didn’t should jettison his empathy and soulfulness in the process - however, those qualities were just as important to his construction of an character who only slowly begins to see the monstrous things he used to with the U.S. government.
By the point of 2004’s “The Bourne Supremacy,” the series was popular enough that this opened to almost $75 million, dwarfing everything around it. Finding yourself since the eighth-highest-grosser of that year, “Supremacy” being a lot better than “Identity,” thanks in no small part towards the arrival of director Paul Greengrass. Before “Supremacy,” the English filmmaker had not produced Hollywood movie, but he proved over capable, delivering an attractively intense thriller that upped the action while simultaneously deepening the emotional resonance of the assassin’s reckoning together with his past. Add to that one of the primary hand-to-hand combat scenes in recent Hollywood history, and you’ve got a supremely riveting film that has been hugely influential. The steely 2007 Jason bourne reboot “Casino Royale” is heavily indebted to the quick cutting and realistic tone of “The Bourne Supremacy.”
2007’s “The Bourne Ultimatum,” which reunited Damon and Greengrass, was even more commercially successful, satisfyingly resolving the trilogy whilst being faithful for the series’ critique of government surveillance and unchecked power. Between “Supremacy” and “Ultimatum,” Greengrass made “United 93,” a dramatization from the terrorist hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 during 9/11, although that film largely eschewed political messages, his big-budget Bourne films were you might say an answer to the aftermath in the events portrayed in “United 93,” showing a new through which personal liberties were sacrificed within the name of homeland security. Naturally, you didn’t must read any deeper meaning into your “Bourne” films to get whisked away by their propulsive energy, but that subtext built them into rather nervy for mainstream entertainment - nevertheless seventy one films combined have created almost $1 billion worldwide.