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THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM (2007) & Tonal Shifts The Prestige
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- TV & Film
This week, it’s the third in the Bourne franchise, and Paul Greengrass is back in the saddle for the 2007 film. Sam is distracted by a roomful of boxes, but Rob keeps things on track with discussions of shifts in narrative tone, how this is a very different movie from the first one, and why the ending could have been edited better.
This Week’s Watching
MONEYBALL (2015): Bennett Miller, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill
STRANGER THINGS (2016): Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Winona Ryder
Recommendations
THE WORLD’S END (2013): Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
SUCKER PUNCH (2011): Zack Snyder, Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens
DAREDEVIL (2015–): Drew Goddard, Charlie Cox, Vincent D'Onofrio
FACE/OFF (1997): John Woo, John Travolta, Nicholas Cage
Footnotes
This book has a great chapter on ULTIMATUM, and connections with Alfred Hitchcock. It makes a great point about Greengrass’s use of CCTV at the start of the film, which we entirely failed to mention. Rob muses on whether it’s time to retire the ‘American officialdom = The Bad Guys’ trope; this site has a list of films where Americans really are the enemy. Finally, this interview has Zack Snyder talking about the ending of BvS.
This week, it’s the third in the Bourne franchise, and Paul Greengrass is back in the saddle for the 2007 film. Sam is distracted by a roomful of boxes, but Rob keeps things on track with discussions of shifts in narrative tone, how this is a very different movie from the first one, and why the ending could have been edited better.
This Week’s Watching
MONEYBALL (2015): Bennett Miller, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill
STRANGER THINGS (2016): Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Winona Ryder
Recommendations
THE WORLD’S END (2013): Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
SUCKER PUNCH (2011): Zack Snyder, Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens
DAREDEVIL (2015–): Drew Goddard, Charlie Cox, Vincent D'Onofrio
FACE/OFF (1997): John Woo, John Travolta, Nicholas Cage
Footnotes
This book has a great chapter on ULTIMATUM, and connections with Alfred Hitchcock. It makes a great point about Greengrass’s use of CCTV at the start of the film, which we entirely failed to mention. Rob muses on whether it’s time to retire the ‘American officialdom = The Bad Guys’ trope; this site has a list of films where Americans really are the enemy. Finally, this interview has Zack Snyder talking about the ending of BvS.
30 min