Over the weekend I watched The Bourne Ultimatum. It was very entertaining with the non-stop action covering up the lack of a plot. There's a chase scene in the movie where Bourne appropriates a cop car and drives from the Port Authority garage on West 42nd Street to get to East 71st St. There's lots of action as cars careen through Midtown. The chase comes to an end when Bourne crashes heading downtown near the Brooklyn Bridge. If you're familiar with Manhattan geography this makes no sense, because he's driven several miles away from where he needed to go. I'll grant them poetic license, however.
There are several "making of" shorts on the DVD, one of which was about filming the chase scene. It was entertaining as well, not least of which was watching Matt Damon smile like a little kid when they had him learn how to drive like a maniac.
While watching that short I had a recovered memory. Appropriate for the movie. It occurred to me that I saw them filming that chase scene. It was a cold winter's day and I had gone for a walk along the East River. As I walked toward the Manhattan Bridge I watched a police car being filmed as it raced toward the Brooklyn Bridge on the other side of South Street. I never did bother to look up what was being filmed, but now I know.
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