The Bourne Identity
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| German title | The Bourne Identity |
| Original title | The Bourne Identity |
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| Country of production | United States , Germany , Czech Republic |
| original language | English , German , French , Italian |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 118 minutes |
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FSK 12 JMK 14 |
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| Director | Doug Liman |
| script |
Tony Gilroy , W. Blake Herron |
| production |
Patrick Crowley , Richard N. Gladstein , Doug Liman |
| music | John Powell |
| camera | Oliver Wood |
| cut | Saar Klein |
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The Bourne Identity (Original title: The Bourne Identity ) is a literary film adaptation from the year 2002 by the director Doug Liman based on the novel of the same name by Robert Ludlum . The main roles of the agent thriller is Matt Damon and Franka Potente to see. It is the first installment in the Bourne film series , which was later followed by the sequels The Bourne Conspiracy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), The Bourne Legacy (2012) and Jason Bourne (2016).
action
At the beginning of the film, Italian fishermen pull an unconscious man from the Mediterranean . He has no memory of his previous life, but has two bullets in his back, a laser implant with the number of a Swiss safe deposit box under his skin and an extremely good perception. While searching for his identity, he found a weapon in a safe deposit box in Zurich , half a dozen forged passports and banknotes in various currencies in large quantities. In the first passport, an American one, which is separate from the others in the top of the suitcase and which he opens first, is the name Jason Bourne .
With the help of the German globetrotter Marie, Jason makes his way to Paris , where he must have worked earlier. He notices that he has exceptional hand-to-hand combat skills and the same power of observation that he must have acquired very systematically in the past. The concierge at the address from the US passport in Paris recognizes him immediately. While he is looking around his old apartment, he is attacked by a killer. This is repulsed by Jason in close combat. The killer refuses to reveal his clients and finally throws himself out of the window. Jason and Marie flee and get closer on the run, while the CIA department head Alexander Conklin chases the two with a large number of agents.
Jason and Marie, meanwhile in love, flee to Marie's friend Eamon in the country. But even there Jason is tracked down by a CIA killer who calls himself "The Professor". The two men trained to kill fight a duel in the great outdoors, in which Jason kills the "professor". Eamon drives away with his children and Marie, who at Jason's request is reluctant to go with them to go into hiding. Jason drives back to Paris alone. There he meets Conklin, whom he persuades to talk at gunpoint.
Through some information Conklin gives him, Jason remembers that he was supposed to kill an African ex-dictator on his yacht in the Mediterranean, but didn't have the heart to do so in front of his children, and fled. Two bullets hit him on the run and he fell into the water.
The realization that he's a CIA hit man with the perfectly constructed bogus identity of Jason Bourne hits him hard. It was part of a top-secret CIA operation called the Treadstone Project.
Bourne knocks down Conklin, takes out three other agents who are targeting him, and flees. Shortly thereafter, he is followed by Conklin, who is liquidated by another CIA killer because his superior, Ward Abbott, wants to cover up the failure of the "Treadstone" project.
The Abbott responsible for the Treadstone Project is then summoned to appear before a CIA committee of inquiry. There he claims that the Treadstone project is a project to train new agents that was not worthwhile for financial reasons. The committee of inquiry accepts this lie without further inquiry and moves on to the next topic, the Blackbriar program. (This program is taken up in Part Three, The Bourne Ultimatum .)
Marie has since gone into hiding in Greece and operates a scooter rental in the small holiday resort of Mykonos . The film ends with Jason standing at her door one day and they both hug.
concept
The Bourne identity was supposed to be an atypical action film, which is why the life of an agent is shown here much more realistically than in film series like James Bond or Mission Impossible . Instead of computer-animated slow-motion action like the Matrix, the focus is on “tangible” close-quarters combat. Guns have to be reloaded just like in real life and cars don't explode when they crash. However, some scenes move hard on the edge of reality, e.g. For example, when Bourne jumps four floors down a staircase with a corpse at the end of the film, kills an opponent with a targeted head shot in free fall and then lands almost unscathed on the corpse.
Compared to the original book from 1980 and the first film adaptation, Agent Without a Name (1988) with Richard Chamberlain , the character of Jason Bourne has been greatly rejuvenated and the story has been adapted to the technical and political developments of the new century. Strictly speaking, one cannot speak of a literary film adaptation, since the novel and the film plot have little to do with each other apart from the names of some characters and the initial situation of an agent with amnesia .
Reviews
The Bourne Identity has been very well received by critics and audiences alike .
“Despite some lengths and not exactly believable twists and turns, director Doug Liman ( Swingers , Go ) offers exciting entertainment with this quite free adaptation of the Robert Ludlum bestseller. Thanks to the actors - above all Franka Potente as a helpful German - you can forgive one or the other illogical involvement. In order to survive the kissing scene with Matt Damon, Franka allegedly strengthened herself with a hearty Jägermeister , just like the equally nervous Matt. "
"Carefully staged film adaptation of a bestseller by Robert Ludlum, which can primarily rely on a sympathetic, very modern-looking young leading actor couple, but also has appealing moments of tension in the tradition of the agent thriller."
Sequels
The success of the first part led to the 2004 sequel, The Bourne Conspiracy , which became a similar success. The third part, The Bourne Ultimatum premiered in London on August 15, 2007. The film was released in German cinemas on September 6, 2007.
On September 13, 2012, the fourth film, The Bourne Legacy , opened in Germany . The film does not tie in with the previous plot like the previous sequels, but rather supplements it with a side plot.
Another part of the series was released in 2016 with Jason Bourne , directed by Paul Greengrass and again starring Matt Damon.
The television series Treadstone (2019) deals with the genesis of the underlying program and is set in the 1970s.
background
The budget of the film was 60 million US dollars . He grossed more than $ 214 million worldwide.
The film is partly set in Zurich , but these scenes were shot in Prague for cost reasons . That is why telephone booths, restaurants and other objects have been faithfully reproduced there. The trams shown have the colors of their Zurich counterparts (blue and white) and are intended to simulate a certain authenticity, but they are made by the Czech manufacturer ČKD Tatra type T3 .
The title track Extreme Ways is from Moby .
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating "valuable".
Trivia
The title does not correspond to the rules of German spelling, correct would be "Die Bourne-Identity".
See also
literature
- Robert Ludlum : The Bourne Identity . Heyne, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-453-87195-2 .
Web links
- The Bourne Identity in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Bourne Identity at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- The Bourne Identity at Metacritic (English)
- The Bourne identity in the online film database
- The Bourne identity in the German dubbing index
- Comparison of the cut versions RTL II Afternoon - FSK 12 , ORF 1 from 14 - FSK 12 , British TV version - FSK 12 of The Bourne Identity at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for The Bourne Identity . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2005 (PDF; test number: 91 376 UMD).
- ^ Age rating for The Bourne Identity . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ The Bourne Identity. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on August 31, 2017 .
- ↑ The Bourne Identity. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 31, 2017 .
- ^ The Bourne Identity . In: Box Office Mojo . Retrieved June 7, 2012.
- ↑ The Bourne Identity. In: fbw-filmbeval.com. Retrieved August 31, 2017 .