The Bourne Legacy

The Bourne trilogy novels were written by Robert Ludlum between 1980 - 1990 who in 2001 unfortunately passed away at the age of 73. The 3 books, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum were slightly adapted for the screen and made into a film series based on the character Jason Bourne, played by Matt Damon, who was a former CIA assassin who suffers from extreme amnesia. The action/thriller spy films are noted for it's realism, in contrast to the growing use of CGI in the action genre.

The Bourne Legacy, which is the fourth of the series, will be scheduled for release in early August. There was no novel for the Legacy, it was written by Tony Gilroy who has also co-written the first three screenplays will be directing the latest of the Bourne series but without Matt Damon.

The trailer itself is extremely enticing and quite unique. The black lines that go across the trailer leave the audience eagerly anticipating whats going to happen, and leave the viewers wanting to know more about the mystery behind the lines. Automatically it makes people assume that behind the lines is a mystery and gets the viewer to ask the questions for example, is that Matt Damon? Is that the new Jason Bourne? There's a lot of talking and sound that isn't shown but you picture behind the black screen and very quickly make assumptions about what maybe going on. The idea of showing as little to the audience but  leaving them wet for an appetite makes sense to me and can only imagine as part of that audience we lean forward and ask more of these questions to ourselves like, what are they doing to him? A little after half way of the trailer more of the screen is filled with footage of the film and it's like they've removed those bars to allow us to be teased some more. I feel it's very cleverly put together with the theme obviously being these black lines which work smoothly and flow well making each cut of each scene more epic and the music and sound effects playing a large part. The heart beat sound effects gets your own heart pumping and your already feeling attached to the movie itself, with 1 black line ending the trailer as he shoots at the plane. I like the trailer very much, it's enticed me and got me wanting to go and see it which is the main purpose of a movie trailer. By using a theme throughout this clip can go as far as to making the difference in keeping the viewer interested.