{"id":1630,"date":"2019-04-02T00:43:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T00:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielcraigisnotbond.com\/index\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2019-04-02T00:43:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T00:43:51","slug":"writing-on-the-wall-or-should-it-be-scribbling-on-the-stall-also-bourne-again-and-again-and-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielcraigisnotbond.com\/index\/blog\/2019\/04\/02\/writing-on-the-wall-or-should-it-be-scribbling-on-the-stall-also-bourne-again-and-again-and-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing on the Wall (or should it be Scribbling on the Stall), also Bourne Again and Again and Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scribbling on the Stall:<\/p>\n

Apparently Paul Haggis is back to help pen this masterpiece alongside the dynamic hack duo of Purvis and Wade with the aforementioned Mr. Burns. You might recognize Mr. Haggis\u2019 name from the highly over rated Casino Royale where he punched up P and W\u2019s ham handed adaptation of Fleming\u2019s last remaining unfilmed novel. You may also remember him from his failed attempt to go solo on the screenplay for Quantum of Solace, an effort apparently so bad it was deemed preferable to toss it in the trash bin during a writer\u2019s strike and have the film\u2019s director and star write an entirely new script on the fly while filming.<\/p>\n

According to the article\u00a0HERE<\/a>, Mr. Haggis\u2019 grand idea involved and I kid you not; Bond searching for Vesper\u2019s lost child and abandoning it! So, obviously a man with his finger on the Bond mythos! One can\u2019t help but wonder what fantastic ideas he\u2019ll contribute this time around, especially since they\u2019ve already jumped the carcharodon carcharias in the last film with brother Blofeld.<\/p>\n

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Bourne Again and Again and Again:<\/p>\n

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In other writing news, Bourne Ultimatum scribe Scott Z. Burns has been brought on board the Bond 25 writing team. I thought it would be an opportune time to take a look back at the Bourne series. This isn\u2019t meant to be a comprehensive review of the series featuring Damon\u2019s amnesiac spy, but rather a quick primer as it relates to Bond and their new writer. Bourne is rather a one trick pony. See Bourne run, see him fight, see him remember something, see him flee in a car chase and see him fight some more, lather, rinse, repeat.<\/p>\n

I must admit, I rather enjoyed the first Bourne film. It was a new look at the genre, a spy film for the Blade and Matrix generation, but like those films it hasn\u2019t aged particularly well. Don\u2019t get me wrong, its aged better than some pictures of the era, but on the whole it has sagged a bit over the years. The film very much attempts to capture the Gen X angst of the late 90\u2019s early 2000\u2019s. Also the electro pop soundtrack (which I still personally enjoy, as I am one of those angsty Gen Xers) dates the film terribly. All together it\u2019s not a bad action adventure film, nothing that EON needed to abandon their tried and true style to chase after, but a decent film none the less.<\/p>\n

The second film The Bourne Supremacy was a respectable follow up. It leaned a bit too heavily on the first, recreating some elements of the earlier film. Such as quickly dispatching police officers (in this film the two holding him in Italy verses the two hassling him in a park in the original), Bourne fighting hand to hand with a fellow operative and using a desktop item as a weapon (a magazine here and in the first a ball point pen). This is also the film that introduces us to the infamous shakey cam.<\/p>\n

The third film is where we\u2019re introduced to Mr. Burns\u2019 penmanship, and while he shares credit (or blame) with a few other authors it does not bode well for our favorite British spy. Bourne 3 is a carbon copy of Bourne 2. It may not be as egregious as Bourne 5 (Damon\u2019s 4th), but it\u2019s bad enough. Bourne uses a crowd to escape a sniper and CIA \u201cgrab team\u201d as he does in the previous film, he also dispatches a fellow assassin mano a mano, once again using a bit of stationery to disarm the assailant, in this case a book. All this is bad enough yet forgivable; the final act however is where we really enter full blown imitation. Bourne is chased through the streets of a major city in a unorthodox vehicle by a large black SUV, just as the film before, ultimately ending the pursuit by crashing in a tunnel, just as before, points his gun at his pursuer and ultimately decides not to pull the trigger, again just as in the previous film. Bourne again gets his hands on evidence incriminating CIA management and turns it over to operative Pamela Landy. Damon even goes so far as to quote Clive Owen\u2019s character from the first film, all in all not a very original film.<\/p>\n

Glossing over the Jeremy Renner vehicle since everyone else did\u2026<\/p>\n

The fifth Bourne film, cleverly titled Jason Bourne or the Bourne Redundancy as it\u2019s more commonly known, is just a two hour rehash of the previous three Damon films. It\u2019s a testament to the staying power of Bond that he had lasted so long without becoming so stale. It also shows how terrible an idea it was for EON to abandon everything that separated Bond from such mundane offerings in order to ape a Johnny come lately, flash in the pan series.<\/p>\n

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Scribbling on the Stall: Apparently Paul Haggis is back to help pen this masterpiece alongside the dynamic hack duo of Purvis and Wade with the aforementioned Mr. Burns. You might recognize Mr. Haggis\u2019 name from the highly over rated Casino Royale where he punched up P and W\u2019s ham handed adaptation of Fleming\u2019s last remaining…<\/p>\n

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