Matt Damon pulls no punches over screen violence

I like this series of movies more than most. Partially because these movies depend on good writing and plot. Yeah, they still fall in the realm of fantasy but this article goes far to explain why these spy flicks are different. Hopefully, the success they enjoy will influence Hollywood movies in the future...

Nah... who am I kidding? Hollywood will remain hollywood!

I will say that he appears to be an introspective actor who picks a role for the writing and not just for the money. Guess that makes sense for a guy who won an Oscar for writing Good Will Hunting.


Matt Damon's Jason Bourne seemingly never met a man whose neck he couldn't break.
As the son of an academic specializing in nonviolent conflict resolution and the father of a year-old girl, Damon's selective about the sort of screen violence in which he'll participate

Damon, 36, returns for his third go-round as the amnesiac former assassin in "The Bourne Ultimatum," his character returning to his roots to find out how he became a killing machine so he can finally put that life behind him.

"Every role I took, there's always a special eye toward the violence," Damon said in an interview with The Associated Press. "Violence is part of the human condition. The question is: Are you desensitizing people to violence by what you're showing?