Aversion to Violence Behind Damon's Absence in Bourne Game

Junaid Alam

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Aversion to Violence Behind Damon's Absence in Bourne Game

Matt Damon disassociated himself from the upcoming Bourne Conspiracy videogame specifically because of his aversion to its level of violence.

MTV's Multiplayer blog reported today that Meelad Sadat of the development team High Moon Studios told the blog that negotiations with Damon were underway but that the actor "took issue with the game's level of violence and pulled out."

This story places a different spin on the development than that offered by Sadat himself, who said Damon had only generally expressed fatigue with the Bourne series and was merely disinterested with videogames on the whole.

The blog further noted that Damon's mother, in an online chat with the Boston Globe newspaper, said she and her son disagree on film violence but "do see eye-to-eye on the importance of protecting children," and that she is "very wary of violent video games" because research "shows they desensitize kids to violence, even more because they engage kids in committing violence."

While the Bourne series of films portrays violence in unflinching terms, the storyline is heavily concerned with the protagonist's rising sense of revulsion at the level of violence he has been trained to inflict unflinchingly, and at the government which provided that training.

Source: MTV.com [http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/04/28/developer-bourne-game-too-violent-for-matt-damons-liking/]

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L.B. Jeffries

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The sad thing is...they were giving him a chance to establish himself in the new medium and be the next digital star. Now...he'll just be another youtube joke.
 

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In an attempt to completely change the subject... is the world so dull that the Globe has to do an article on Matt Damon being a "Momma's boy"?
 
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Matt Damon averse to violence. This is the same Matt Damon that played Loki in Dogma, isn't it?
A slightly violent character as he was the ANGEL OF DEATH.

Mattt Daaaaamon said:
Hey, you know, fuck you, man. Any moron with a pack of matches can set a fire. Raining down sulphur is like an endurance trial man. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, outside of soccer.
 

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
Matt Damon averse to violence. This is the same Matt Damon that played Loki in Dogma, isn't it?
A slightly violent character as he was the ANGEL OF DEATH.

Mattt Daaaaamon said:
Hey, you know, fuck you, man. Any moron with a pack of matches can set a fire. Raining down sulphur is like an endurance trial man. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, outside of soccer.
Dogma was somewhat of a parody though.
 
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Well, him and Ben Affleck were standing at the gate of heaven with a troupe of mangled bodies before they shot their own wings off with an Uzi. I think there's perhaps a link between him and violence before you even look at the 3 Bourne films.
Jason Bourne being a hitman for a start
 

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Of course it could be that the Bourne game is awful, Damon played it, realised this and told High Moon Studios to go forth and multiply.

Now High Moon studios are looking for something, anything to say other than "Mr Damon said our game sucked and he wouldn't lend his name to it for all the money in gaming"
 

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''Oh noes voilence in games, that isn't right, lets make animal porn game, much more refreshing and certainly better for society''(Maybe a bad example oO, but thats how it looks to me)

Doh :p

Matt Damonnnnnn - Momma's Boy 4 Life hahaha
 

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HalfShadow said:
fix-the-spade said:
Damon played it, realised this and told High Moon Studios to go forth and multiply.
Is that a polite way of saying 'Fuck off'?

'How would you like to star in this new game?'

'This game is terrible! Go forth and multiply!'
In a word, Yes.