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<<LOVEFiLM Newsletter No.14>>
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Writing about The Talented Mr Ripley, that excellent critic and commentator David Thomson imagined he saw 'intelligent sourness' in Matt Damon's future, a quality 'not seen on screens since the days of [William] Holden and [Robert] Mitchum.
It's an interesting thought. Could Matt muster that measure of venality, cynicism and self-loathing in a remake of Sunset Boulevard? He seems too young, but at 34, he's two years older than William Holden was when he played Joe Gillis.
Thomson went on to comment on his 'lack of Affleckian good looks', his 'squashed and rebuilt face' (metaphorically I'm sure), his 'uneasiness'. I don't quite see it that way - and judging by a roster of ex-girlfriends which includes Winona Ryder, Minnie Driver and Penelope Cruz, I'm not the only one.
Let's face it, the reason Robert Redford cast Damon in that ode to putting, The Legend of Bagger Vance, is the same reason he cast Brad Pitt in that unspeakable flyfishing movie - he fancied they look like the young Robert Redford.
John Dahl, who directed Damon in Rounders, made the same connection: 'Acting is like being stripped naked in front of the public - you can't hide who you really are,' he said. Robert Redford never dons a mask, and I can see Matt going that way. Whatever he does, he'll be kind of charming. Matt's a nice, conscientious, pleasant, likeable man - people are immediately at ease with him.'
(I once interviewed Damon - and was surprised that his mom sat quietly in the back of the room. He was 28 at the time. When I got talking to her, it was obvious where his good sense comes from.)
If there's a problem with Damon on screen, it's that he comes across as a bit too nice, decent and likeable: all synonyms for boring. Especially if horses or golf are also involved.
I have a hunch he thinks the same thing - which is why he's mixing up kicky thrillers like The Bourne Identity and its sequel with an out and out art movie like Gerry, the Farrelly brothers' Stuck on You, and even shaving his head to belt out a (surprisingly catchy) punk rock anthem for a cameo in Eurotrip. These are not moves Robert Redford would have been comfortable with.
Of course the Bourne movies allow him that career freedom. The first was Universal's biggest hit of 2002, the second is riding strong at the US box office even now. And rightly so. Directed by Brit Paul Greengrass, who did such a scorching job on Bloody Sunday, The Bourne Supremacy is a rare sequel which extends the original organically.
Starting two years after Bourne disappeared off the map, it develops an ingenious (if farfetched) plot pitting the ex operative against his former CIA paymasters. I doubt Robert Ludlum would have been thrilled by the film's smartish polical about-face, but Greengrass builds the movie on Bourne's anguish as much as his physical prowess. The action scenes here really hurt - Damon actually limps through the climax - but the movie doesn't lose focus on his internal pain. I can only think of one Bond movie which pulled off a similar trick.
Mr Damon has a long way to go before he becomes the next Robert Mitchum, but he's certainly plotting a much surer course than his old buddy Ben Affleck. Then again, who isn't?
Tom Charity
Editor, LOVEFiLM
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Back in the dark ages, before Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon was just another jobbing actor looking for a break. He recently revealed that he and Ben Affleck both worked as extras on Field of Dreams. Here are some other movies where the die- hard Damon fan might just spot him:
Mystic Pizza (1988)
He has one line in this little-known charmer, a breakthrough movie for Matt's Oceans 11 costar Julia Roberts.School Ties (1992)
As hateful anti-semite Charlie Dillon. Blink and you'll miss Ben Affleck as 'Chesty Smith'.Geronimo (1993)
Damon's callow lieutenant actually narrates this underrated Western, but director Walter Hill understandably devotes more screentime to Gene Hackman, Wes Studi, Robert Duvall and Jason Patric.Courage Under Fire (1996)
The performance which got him cast in The Rainmaker and Saving Private Ryan, as an addled marine in the first Iraq war.
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