January 27, 2009
Matt Damon
It's hard to decide who's more contemptible: actors or politicians. It's hard to go wrong picking either; we expect pols to be corrupt, in the pocket of some special interest group, contemptuous of the voters, uninterested in hewing to principal or national interest. And actors, as a group are astoundingly ignorant, insanely self-impressed, their stupidity plain to see when they've no script, no dialogue penned by others to roll from their tongues.
Today I'll go with thespians. IDLYITW had an item on the latest actor proving, yeah, he really is that dumb.
I'm waiting for today to be less boring and I really want to like Matt Damon, but apparently little miss Tuesday is being difficult. Us Magazine reports:
Damon -- whose latest Untitled Jason Bourne Project is now in production for a 2010 release -- also spoke out about how his famous assassin character is nothing like James Bond. "They could never make a James Bond movie like any of the Bourne films," Damon said. "Because Bond is an imperialist, misogynist sociopath who goes around bedding women and swilling martinis and killing people. He's repulsive.
Wow, seriously? For real? I might be mistaken, but I've seen all the Bourne movies and I don't recall any scenes where Jason Bourne was working for Meals on Wheels or teaching a black orphan boy how to fly a kite. I mostly remember him snapping foreigner's necks. Bond kills people and bangs hot spy ass because it's his job, but I guess Bourne does it because he's a victim and doesn't know why God made him like this.
I try -- Lord knows, I do -- to ignore all the deeply stupid things actors say, so I can enjoy their movies, but it's more and more difficult, thanks to the all-too-common Tourette's-like desire to spout off at every possible opportunity, declaiming on all manner of topics no matter how little they know or how little any of what they say makes sense.
Yeah, Bourne is ever so much more socially responsible than Bond, notwithstanding the fact that they're both fictional characters who kill for our entertainment.
Posted by Mike Lief at January 27, 2009 11:30 PM
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This whole thing is absurd. Leave aside Jason Bourne. Surely none of the characters Matt Damon has played can be described as "repulsive." Not the pickpocket and bank-robbing Linus Caldwell ("Ocean's" series), not the con artist Wilhelm Grimm ("The Brothers Grimm"), not the murdering double-agent and crime-boss flunkie Colin Sullivan ("The Departed"--probably his most despicable character), and certainly not the murdering and identity-stealing Tom Ripley ("The Talented Mr. Ripley"). Upstanding citizens, all of them.
Posted by: LT at January 28, 2009 10:38 AM
Actually, the theme of the Bourne movies (so far as you would care to attribute such depth to them) is perfectly in keeping with the statements of the idiot actor (oops, AAAAAAOOOOOOOGAAAAAHHHH) because the premise is that an evil agency of the evil USA turned Bourne into an evil soul-less killing machine and he is just trying to figure out what happened to the innocent boy he was. Bourne IS an innocent victim . . . just ask him. Really, I feel terrible about his predicament . . . just ask me.
Posted by: The Little Coach at January 28, 2009 01:04 PM