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1 Everything you need to know about The Bourne Ultimatum and how it relates to you and the world around you. Includes info on the actors, director, with news, reviews, and photos. Presentation by David Bruce VisualHollywood.com

2 SYNOPSIS Movies Contain the Essence of Being Human All he wanted was to disappear. Instead, Jason Bourne is now hunted by the people who made him what he is. Having lost his memory and the one person he loved, he is undeterred by the barrage of bullets and a new generation of highly-trained killers. Bourne has only one objective: to go back to the beginning and find out who he was.

3 CAST Actors help us: laugh, be happy, cry, get angry, and even think. Can there be any better gifts? MATT DAMON (Jason Bourne) is an Academy Award winning screenwriter, in addition to being honored for his work as an actor. He most recently starred in Martin Scorsese's The Departed, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg, and in Robert De Niro's dramatic thriller The Good Shepherd, with De Niro and Angelina Jolie.

4 CREW Filmmakers are Revolutionaries, Not Just Entertainers Directed by PAUL GREENGRASS Screen Story by TONY GILROY Screenplay by ONY GILROY, SCOTT Z. BURNS and GEORGE NOLFI Based on the Novel by ROBERT LUDLUM Director of Photography OLIVER WOOD Music by JOHN POWELL

5 JULIA STILES (Nicky Parsons) earned critical praise starring in Patrick Stettner's independent feature, The Business of Strangers, opposite Stockard Channing. The film premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. Additional film credits include the Save the Last Dance, and David Mamet's State and Main, Actors are Liberators Unaware CAST

6 JOAN ALLEN (Pamela Landy) starred in Pleasantville, opposite William H. Macy and Jeff Daniels, which earned her several critics' awards. Her role opposite John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in the smash hit film Face/Off earned her critical kudos as well as Blockbuster and MTV Movie Awards. Her emotionally devastating role in The Ice Storm, opposite Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver, also earned her several critics' awards. CAST The Cinematic Arts Have the Power to Transform

7 CREW Our Artists Are Our Liberators PAUL GREENGRASS (Directed by) was nominated for an Academy Award and won the BAFTA Award for directing the 2006 release United 93, the highly acclaimed drama recounting the courageous rally of passengers and crew to overtake a group of 9/11 hijackers. As writer/ director/ producer, Greengrass also received a Best Original Screenplay nomination from the Writers Guild of America, along with other accolades.

TRIVIA AND NEWS Movie Making is the Convergence of Many Talents and Art Forms In keeping with the other screenplays of the Bourne series, Tony Gilroy's story for The Bourne Ultimatum diverges from

8 TRIVIA AND NEWS Movie Making is the Convergence of Many Talents and Art Forms In keeping with the other screenplays of the Bourne series, Tony Gilroy's story for The Bourne Ultimatum diverges from the historical plotlines of Ludlum's novels- written in the midst of a Cold War that would be almost unrecognizable to a generation born after its end. But Ludlum's themes remain compelling and universally relevant. The bestselling author was long suspected of having ties to someone inside the CIA-a contact who helped him maintain a high level of believability for his stories.

9 EXTENDED SYNOPSIS Stories are Transforming In the world of action choreography, chase sequences and intricate plot switchbacks, the Bourne series has set a new standard for an entire genre. With an innovative story structure that rewards fans who have followed the series and thrills those new to it, The Bourne Ultimatum explodes with twists and surprises.

10 EXTENDED SYNOPSIS Stories Embody the Essence of Being Human We find Bourne living as a man without a country or a past. Subjected to brutal training he doesn't remember by people he can't identify, Bourne was turned into a sophisticated human weapon-the toughest target the CIA has ever tracked. Since he was discovered floating in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Italy several years ago, he has been on a desperate quest to learn who he is and discover who taught him how to kill.

11 Treadstone, the top-secret black-ops program that created this super-assassin, is now defunct. It has been reimagined as the joint Department of Defense program Blackbriar, with a new generation of trained killers-hidden from domestic or foreign oversight-at the government's disposal. To them, Bourne is a $30- million malfunctioning threat who must be taken out, once and for all. To him, they are the only link to a life he has tried in vain to forget. EXTENDED SYNOPSIS

12 EXTENDED SYNOPSIS All Kids are Born Artistic What is Natural is Essential His quest will take him from Moscow, Paris and Madrid to London and Tangier- evading, outsmarting and outmaneuvering Blackbriar operatives, federal agents and local police every step of the wayin a desperate quest to find answers to questions that haunt him. And Bourne's journey will ultimately lead him to where it all began and where it must come to an end: the streets of New York City.

13 EXTENDED SYNOPSIS Film making is a Community Event. Bourne has reached the end of the line. This time, he will not stop at his former masters' empty promises or even with the killing of those who relentlessly pursue him. With nothing left to lose, he will use each nuance of his training and every finely honed instinct they taught him to come after his creators and finish it all.

14 CRITICAL OPINION A natural Bourne boxoffice killer. --Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter A Star is Bourne (Again) --Nathan Lee, Village Voice If they could bottle what gives "The Bourne Ultimatum" its rush, it would probably be illegal. --Todd McCarthy, Variety Rating: 3 stars out of 4 stars --James Berardinelli, ReelViews Free Artistic Expression is a Mark of a Free Society

Art is the Language of Liberation It was George Bernard Shaw who said The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to

And this is exactly what Jason Bourne is, and exactly what we all should be unreasonable unrelenting world reformers.

15 Art is the Language of Liberation It was George Bernard Shaw who said The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. And this is exactly what Jason Bourne is, and exactly what we all should be unreasonable unrelenting world reformers. As another unrelenting world reformer said so long ago, Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed. This is the ultimatum we were all born for. May this film help motivate you to take the actions you need to take to fully pursue who you are and the purpose for your very existence.

my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

16 FINDING TRUTH IN JASON S PURSUIT I have learned throughout my life chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. --Igor Stravinsky ( ) Society is only as free as its arts. Art is the voice of human freedom.

17 LIFE is found in AGGRESSIVE PURSUIT NOT in the INACTIVE CONCLUSION Art is a Liberating Force The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it. --Clarence Darrow ( )

18 LIFE AS A RACE OF PURSUIT Love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it s because it wasn t true love. --Paulo Cuelho, I'm off and running, and I'm not turning back. --Apostle Paul (Philip. 3:14 MsgB) This is the only race worth running. I've run hard right to the finish, believed all the way. -- Apostle Paul (2 Tim. 4:7 MsgB

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