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...single mom--instead of an actress and raising his family quietly in Miami instead of Hollywood, Damon lives a pretty grounded life for an A-lister. After attending Cambridge University, Greengrass spent the 1980s aiming his handheld camera at global hot spots for the British documentary series World in Action. Before moving to dramas, he co-authored Spycatcher, a book that so controversially depicted the British intelligence service that the British government banned it and attempted (unsuccessfully) to ban it in other countries...
...Matt are joining the ranks of Marty and Leo, Pedro and Penélope, Quentin and Uma--modern pairs of directors and actors who find they speak a common language and choose to do it again and again onscreen. The Bourne movies, unlike most meticulously planned and elaborately staged action pictures, are filmed guerrilla-style in the chaos of the urban world, a process that demands more than the usual team mentality. "It's like going to war," Greengrass says. "Who's going to be there? You want to know that someone's there every step...
Like many great couplings, this one nearly didn't happen. Damon first played Bourne, loosely based on the Robert Ludlum character, for director Doug Liman in 2002's The Bourne Identity. That movie minted a gritty new kind of action film, but its nail-biting production left Universal Studios looking for a new director who could somehow combine edge and efficiency. At a 2003 meeting at the studio, writer Tony Gilroy suggested Greengrass. "There was a grunt of approval," remembers Damon, sitting across from Greengrass in a poolside cabana at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills. "I was the one idiot...
...Bourne process is, as any film-school professor will tell you, the absolutely wrong way to make an action movie. "You lay down a story, you've got to have some core objectives and some core sense of what your sequences are gonna be, and then you really have to move forward and start to make it and trust that in the process you'll find it," says Greengrass. "A film should not be an airline meal. It should not be prepacked." In other words, that edge-of-your-seat feeling of watching a Bourne movie often derives from...
Damon and Greengrass's improvisational style of moviemaking applied to the ordered world of the action franchise has produced a character, Bourne, wholly of the moment, rooted in the morality of today's landscape. "We all know we're in dangerous and ambiguous times," Greengrass says. "Bourne is not about wearing Prada. He's about essence, core, honesty and truth in a complex world." The movies work only because the director and star trust each other. "It's best not to look at it too close," says Greengrass of their relationship. "'Cause it's a bit like...