When i was a young boy "Action" meant something different to what it does today- today it gets glossed over by horny pimple faced 16 (and 25) year old boys trying to get into the secret garden. Hell, Bruce Springsteen even released a hit song about 'secret gardens' but this blog is all about good old fashion Hollywood action!
Upon viewing the Bourne Identity dernier soir(last night) i recieved a rather audacious comment via sms, claiming that the scene where, your hero and mine, Jason Bourne rides a corpse off a landing 6 floors up- surviving, minus significant injury is the greatest action scene of all time. A fine feat. I was impressed- im sure you were. But the sms captivated me on more levels than this. And i began to wonder.
Absolute genius- BUT maybe, just maybe i have an action scene involving a corpse that goes one step further....
1989- the year that began the same way that it ended- wishing the fucking 80's would end. Of course some magnificant things came out of it, just not as many as some friends of mine will have you believe...
my contender for greatest of all time comes from a trilogy-
Weekend at Bernies 
The scene where Bernie(the deceased for those who weren't allowed to stay up for the movies) slides out the back of the speedboat(- schmidty on the right looking cooly oblivious) and is dragged behind, as if he was waterskiing. I feel the scene describes itself, so i won't go into unnecessary detail but i feel that this scene pips the Bourne Identity at the post, possibly in a tight tie breaker. Why?
Well they both have extreme imagination in the directing of the scene, in fact all other attributes are tied, but Jason Bourne never once utters a word to the corpse after using it to his effect. What sort of Hollywood hero neglects a chance like that to pull out a one liner? I think James Woods would be more on the ball..
Weekend at Bernies they talk to the corpse for THREE movies!
"Bernie is waiting for us"
"Look, Bernie isn't going anywhere"
Genius.
In a world where guitarists can call themselves slash and the edge, shouldn't we all be spending more time talking to corpses? Weekend at Bernies... maybe, just maybe the world is ready for a 4th movie as beautiful as you...
3 comments:
Brilliant
You forgot the clincher for Bourne. He shots a guy in the middle of the forehead - AS HE'S FALLING. But Bernie's runs a close second. I enjoyed this expansion of your sms reply.
Bourne is a trained assasin. To the best of my knowledge Bernie has never been known to waterki dead before.
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