jobloffski
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Had a weird experience a while back, when about to watch a Bourne film:
Took it from the shelf, and for a very brief moment I didn't register The Bourne Supremacy, it might have been my feverish imagination, always beavering away at where stories could go even when I'm not conscious of it, but I saw, for a split second:
The Bourne Temptation.
And seconds later I imagined that the fourth film, since the first three had dealt with the identity thing, then a fourth would probably focus on some reason for Bourne to either be tempted, or forced, into doing work for the agency, perhaps via a threat to Bourne's real family, who he has not resumed contact with due to them having moved on from losing him and not wanting to disrupt their lives.
A threat to them might make Bourne reluctantly resume his old activities, and the temptation could be something he needs to resist: to simply hunt down and take out all those who have any way of dragging him back into 'the life'. He has the skills to do it, and it might be the only way he'll ever be free. Naturally, can't have that as main onscreen material, so it would be better for the series if such a story were to end on him resolving to do this, take out one or two, and leave it implied that because of their actions, those with any hold over Bourne are very soon gonna be very dead meat.
Alternatively, the 'Temptation' could be the temptation to get in touch with his family, which he has been resisting, they are threatened to get him back into the life, and Bourne accepts terms, only to actually carry out the plan mentioned at the end of the above, to effect the rescue of his family and his return to them, to humanity, normal life and out of the isolation his character requires to be viable as a story vehicle. In short, a spy thriller take on Frankenstein's monster, as the creation of the intelligence services confronts his creators an,d delivers the very merciless blows they created him to deliver
There aren't really many options for sequels because the first three films told one story Logically, any fourth film would have to flow from what has been established, because Bourne is not an infinitely renewable formula like Bond. And if there has to be a fourth, it should be probably be the last, otherwise Death Wish levels of plot contrivance will start to set in.
Or, he could walk into a wall and lose his memory again, or some shit like that. 
< Message edited by jobloffski -- 3/12/2009 9:57:01 PM >
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