Wooden then served as director of images on Doug Liman’s “The Bourne Id,” and returned to shoot the opposite two films within the authentic trilogy: “The Bourne Supremacy” and “The Bourne Ultimatum.” Directed by Paul Greengrass, the latter two movies’ use of handheld “shaky-cam” to create frantic and dynamic motion scenes has been imitated (usually poorly) ever since. 

Talking to Feminine First in 2005, star Matt Damon recalled how a lot Wooden beloved filming in Berlin for “The Bourne Supremacy,” expressing a real cinematographer’s enthusiasm for the perpetually overcast skies:

“[Wood] was completely in love with the sunshine as a result of it stayed regular. It was overcast daily. However we would lose it about 3:15 or 3:30 p.m. and daily he had this gleeful look on his face and he’d simply go ‘I like it right here! I like it right here!’ Everybody else was lacking the sunshine!”

After working with Wooden on “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” and “Step Brothers,” director Adam McKay was excited to convey some experience from the “Bourne” films to his buddy cop motion spoof “The Different Guys.” Collectively, McKay and Wooden gave us one of many most memorable leaps from the highest of a constructing in film historical past. The movie additionally featured Wooden in a cameo function (above, far left) as Captain Salty, one of many eponymous “boys” within the tightly-knit group of associates often known as Soiled Mike and the Boys.

Having Wooden available to make the motion half of the action-comedy look good was “really incredible,” McKay advised MovieWeb in 2010. “You possibly can actually say, ‘How would you do that in ‘The Bourne?'”

With a profession that spanned greater than 50 years, Oliver Wooden leaves behind a visible legacy that can proceed to affect filmmakers for a lot of extra years to return.