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Great poster with an appropriate level of mystery.
I like the Bourne movies, but I enjoy the better Bond movies moreso, as at least Bond seems like he is enjoying it to some extent, where Bourne seems like he a suicidal killing machine. Plus I kind of laugh how Bourne just walks around in public and travels internationally with no money and old 'secret' passports never getting busted
Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things.
The Bond character will always be anchored in the 1960s and in the values of the 1960s. It's so anachronistic when you put it in the world we live in today that Mike Myers made a fortune with his own spy franchise [Austin Powers] - it makes for great comedy. Bond is an imperialist and a misogynist who kills people and laughs about it, and drinks martinis and cracks jokes. Bourne is a serial monogamist whose girlfriend is dead and he does nothing but think about her. He doesn't have the support of gadgets, and he feels guilty for what he's done.
Two quotes from Matt Damon about the differences:
I will come as no surprise then, as both an imperialist and a misogynist, that I prefer Bond.
I like the Bourne movies, but I enjoy the better Bond movies moreso, as at least Bond seems like he is enjoying it to some extent, where Bourne seems like he a suicidal killing machine. Plus I kind of laugh how Bourne just walks around in public and travels internationally with no money and old 'secret' passports never getting busted