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The Bourne Identity (2002) (Patreon)

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2025-01-11 01:22:37
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Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Julia Stiles, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Clive Owen

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Kevin L

If you want to see a fun film that makes Paris look gorgeous, check out Amelie (2001).

Roland Cooke

Excellent choice, but I also have a lot of love for a little movie called The Bourne Identity, with the gorgeous pairing of Richard Chamberlain and Jaclyn Smith. This 1988 version was much closer Ludlum's original novel, for better and worse.

ScarlettMi

The main actress from this movie, Frank Potente, was in a fantastic German movie called Run Lola Run in ‘98. Great movie with a fun concept and a ton of energy.

UnKay

OH YES. I was just craving a rewatch of these!

Michael Soukup

Talented Mr. Ripley is a great film! I really think you would like it. The cast is stacked.

Actuarial Lurker

You should watch the first three Bourne Movies

Actuarial Lurker

The budget for the first film was $60M and it made over $200M US, Canada and Overseas, so YES that did drive the sequels, the first 3 films DO hang together and the bridge into the second film makes sense- I won't spoil it of course!

Actuarial Lurker

Regarding filming locations- YES a lot in Paris, the farmhouse scene that was supposed to be 100 miles South of Paris was done in the Czech Republic, other shooting locations were Prague to mimic parts of Paris, and the final scene was in Mykonos in the Aegean.

Actuarial Lurker

I think the Daniel Craig Bond films, John Wick and other gritty "new noir" films owe their existence to the opening trilogy of the Bourne series (at least the first two) since the Casino Royale reboot was in 2006- i.e. after the first Bourne film in 2002 and the second in 2004. The third Bourne film came out in 2007 AFTER Casino Royale, so then they started feeding off each other with the fight scenes using actual hand combat techniques rather than gadgets like the 60-90s Bond

Youtalkingtome
>>160974858

Yeah, you're right. Casino Royale feels like it's doing justice to Bond while being new and unique, Quantum feels like a whole other franchise

Youtalkingtome
>>160960065

I've seen several clips from it in film school. Completely out of context. There is a shot in it that broke my brain

Actuarial Lurker
>>160966807

Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman along with Matt Damon and set in the 50s...so it was like a late 90s version of the Rat Pack to counter the 1980s Brat Pack teen John Hughes films...although it never DID spawn any other ensembles with the same cast subsets

Actuarial Lurker

Go to Paris at least once in your life! My wife and I spent close to a month there for our 25th Anniversary- going in May 2023 rather than our real anniversary- to avoid the heat and the summer crowds. Stayed in an AirBnb- which is doable for just $300/might in many area and still be in a good neighborhood. We stayed in the 6th Arrondissement which is very pricey, but was the intellectual home of the resistance, existentialism and the Catholic Church during the Counter Reformation....

Simon Rogers

Oh you MUST do the Talented Mr Ripley. I saw it on the big screen without even seeing a trailer - I knew nothing about it, and it blew me away!

Roland Cooke

Bourne wasn't the only nail in the Old James Bond coffin. Austin Powers also contributed plenty. 🙂

Roland Cooke

Just as a historical note, it was (to me) a very strange choice by Robert Ludlum to make a core villain of the book the real-life terrorist Carlos The Jackal. Maybe Ludlum thought that he would never be caught, certainly he'd reached almost mythical status in the public consciousness. But like Bin Laden, the authorities, especially the French, never stopped looking for him. Carlos was eventually spotted by a CIA guy in Khartoum and was tricked into going under anesthesia for some specialist surgery. Carlos woke up on a French military cargo plane..... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_the_Jackal

Youtalkingtome
>>160984576

Thank you! It had been so long since I had read it, but I was pretty sure Bourne was in some type of conflict with Carlos.

Youtalkingtome
>>160983911

It's funny you mention that! When Bourne did the staircase feat in which he landed on top of the body, I thought of the Austin Powers scene when Austin did the same thing when he and the indestructible lady assassin went out the skyscraper window.

Youtalkingtome
>>160977554

Oh man. I really miss being able to see a movie in the theater and having no clue what you were going to see.

Martin Nicholls
>>160983911

I'd argue for Jack Bauer quite strongly too, was hugely successful in the UK and really carried them at least through that first season, kinda famously - it's why when they had an encore season it was set in London. It was a combination of a bunch of things and a post-9/11 changing world that really buried that idea of what a spy is.

Joy M
>>160984576

I went to a speech on terrorism given by the French prosecutor who convicted Carlos. It’s a fascinating story. I really enjoyed the mini series Carlos with Edgar Ramirez as Carlos. My favorite part of the story is how he got his lawyer pregnant while behind bars. He was just that smooth.

Joy M
>>160974482

I saw the 3rd one in the theater and this was back when you couldn’t reserve a seat. My friends and I were running late and the only seats were in the first two rows. We left because the shaky camera was making us sick. I think if we had been further back it would’ve been fine.

Joy M

I pulled out the dvd because I refuse to pay for it again, but finding the remote for the dvd was an adventure.

Joy M
>>160984576

I read the first Bourne book after seeing a couple of the movies. I loved the 1970s low tech post-Vietnam theme and I am a sucker for anything to do with Carlos the Jackal. I also liked that Marie was a business woman in the book and not a chick who bounced around sleeping on friends’ couches.

Roland Cooke
>>160984576

Yeah, and further more I was disappointed with the direction they went with Marie in the second movie.

Jonathan
>>161020985

I ended up having the same issue luckily my laptop still has a dvd drive

Jonathan

The Bourne movies were great. I was also a Bond fan first. Seen all the movies. I would say the mission impossible films started the trend. That has probably become my favorite spy movie series. My introduction to all these series was watching Get Smart reruns as a kid.

Youtalkingtome
>>161047641

Bond is my personal favorite, however MI: Fallout is one of the greatest actions films ever made. Spy movies are awesome. Especially when they dip into the absurd.

HereBeMeghan

Julia Stiles is still acting these days, she just has 3 children now so probably picks her tv/movie roles with less frequency/more strategically. I remember being delighted when she popped up in Hustlers a few years ago.

Joy M
>>160960065

Midnight in Paris shows Paris in such a gorgeous light. I know people are against watching Woody Allen movies (rightfully so), but it is a good one for falling in love with Paris. The cast is amazing too.

Joy M

Julia Stiles is the logistics person in Paris for this operation. I last saw her in Hustlers, as the reporter who did the big exposé. It was a small role. I generally don’t care for JLo movies, but it’s a good one.

Joy M

Some months must have passed from the time in Paris to Bourne finding Marie in Greece, her hair went from pixie to braided pigtails.

Joy M
>>161139266

Y’all pay attention to men’s hair and I pay attention to women’s, I guess.