Matt Damon Still Experimenting with Homosexuality Prefers Jason Bourne Over James Bond

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Matt Damon: I'll Take Jason Bourne Over James Bond

NewsMax.com Wires Wednesday, July 25, 2007

LOS ANGELES -- Matt Damon's amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne shares initials

with another notorious screen operative. But other than that, Damon doesn't

see any similarities between Bourne and James Bond.

Bond is "an imperialist and he's a misogynist. He kills people and laughs

and sips martinis and wisecracks about it," Damon, 36, told The Associated

Press in an interview.

Damon's new film, "The Bourne Ultimatum," opens Aug. 3.

"Bourne is this paranoid guy. He's on the run. He's not the government. The

government is after him. He's a serial monogamist who's in love with his

dead girlfriend and can't stop thinking about her," Damon said. "He's the

opposite of James Bond."

The third movie in the series based on Robert Ludlum's books sends Damon's

penitent killer back to his roots to uncover how he became such a perfect

weapon and who was responsible.

Damon said he bumped into former Bond star Pierce Brosnan in London and they

chatted briefly about how the British super-spy's movie handlers were trying

to update the character with last fall's "Casino Royale," which introduced

Daniel Craig as Bond.

Brosnan told him the aesthetics and style of Bond can be updated "but

fundamentally, what the character is is something from the 1960s," Damon

said.

Paul Greengrass, Damon's director on Universal's "Bourne Ultimatum" and its

2004 predecessor, "The Bourne Supremacy," agreed that Bond is a relic from a

different era.

"He's an insider. He likes being a secret agent. He worships at the altar of

technology. He loves his gadgets. And he embodies this whole set of

misogynistic values," Greengrass said. "He likes violence. That's part of

the appeal of the character. He has no guilt. He's essentially an imperial

adventurer of a particularly English sort.

"Personally, I spit on those values. I think we've moved on a little bit

from all that, the martini shaken, not stirred."

Bourne and Bond may be very different men, but that still leaves the big

question: Which one would win in a fight?

"It's tough. I wouldn't bet against Bourne," Damon said. "Bond had all those

gadgets, though."