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IDemo

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Fri Aug 28, 2015, 09:35 PM Aug 2015

Matt Damon Says New 'Bourne' Inspired by Edward Snowden


Matt Damon says the reason he hasn't done a "Bourne" movie since 2007 is that he and director Paul Greengrass were waiting for a big enough change in the world.

Enter Edward Snowden.

Though his first three movies were hits, the actor told Buzzfeed, "We always looked at those movies as really about the Bush presidency, and so we kind of had to wait for the world to change."

So, after Snowden's privacy revelations in recent years, Damon said, “Without giving too much of it away, it’s Bourne through an austerity-riddled Europe and in a post-Snowden world. ... There are all these kinds of arguments about spying and civil liberties and the nature of democracy.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/matt-damon-bourne-inspired-edward-snowden/story?id=33390390
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Matt Damon Says New 'Bourne' Inspired by Edward Snowden (Original Post) IDemo Aug 2015 OP
I suppose the "Snowden" in the Bourne plot would be Julia Stiles character Sen. Walter Sobchak Aug 2015 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Quantess Nov 2015 #4
I miss the old Snowden haters. No, actually I don't. nt Logical Aug 2015 #2
I miss the flight path map nt DisgustipatedinCA Aug 2015 #3

Response to Sen. Walter Sobchak (Reply #1)

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