His films Swingers and Go , released in and , were made cheaply and recouped healthy profits. Urgent and effervescently told, they were the product of a young, talented filmmaker on the rise. Universal chairman Stacey Snider said that she wanted to be daring by hiring Liman. Ad — content continues below. Sure enough, the making of The Bourne Identity would prove to be a wild ride from beginning to end. Warner Bros had originally made The Bourne Identity for television in , with Richard Chamberlain playing a somewhat haggard Bourne.
But even this act of bridge-building created an unexpected drama. It was an early victory, only slightly marred by Liman almost running out of fuel during his flight home. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! When Liman pressed Gilroy for ideas, the writer replied that they should keep the central premise — that of a secret agent with a serious case of amnesia — and throw pretty much everything else away. Watch The Bourne Identity on Amazon. Liman was on board with this idea, but the pair continued to clash throughout the production.
Damon urgently needed a hit. The latter opted to make the thematically similar Spy Game instead. Alternate versions The DVD contains an alternate more Hollywood-like ending: Jason looks down on Marie's scooter rental from a hill, then walks down to it.
Marie comes out, sees him and goes towards him. Then they embrace and kiss with a glowing sun in the background Connections Edited into The Bourne Ultimatum User reviews Review. Top review. Matt Damon plays Jason Bourne, a highly trained, U. With no memory of who he is and what happened to him, he has to piece together how he came to be shot in the back and left for dead; and most importantly, who and what he is.
But Damon must do it fast, as time is running out and the ones he worked for are sending assassins to find him. Matt Damon is well suited for the role, and with the help of fancy editing, he comes off as a martial arts expert who can quickly dispatch multiple foes in a few seconds.
The movie moves along very fast, making the near two hour running time feel like it's thirty minutes shorter than it is. My most memorable, movie moment of "The Bourne Identity" is the scene when Damon evades the police with an original Mini car!
Hey, it's not the car, it's the driver that counts. FAQ What is 'The Bourne Identity' about? Is 'The Bourne Identity' based on a book? Why was Bourne's money and IDs kept in a safe in Zurich?
Details Edit. Release date June 14, United States. Universal United States. Born muqoyasasi. Mykonos, Greece. Box office Edit.
Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 59 minutes. Related news. Nov 1 Den of Geek. Deal With Gravitas Ventures. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. It stars Matt Damon as Jason Bourne , an amnesiac attempting to discover his true identity amidst a clandestine conspiracy within the Central Intelligence Agency CIA to track him down and arrest or kill him for inexplicably failing to carry out an officially unsanctioned assassination and then failing to report back in afterwards.
The film was directed by Doug Liman and adapted for the screen by Tony Gilroy and William Blake Herron from the novel of the same name written by Robert Ludlum, who also produced the film alongside Frank Marshall.
Universal Studios released the film to theaters in the United States on June 14, and it received a positive critical and public reaction. The film was followed by a sequel, The Bourne Supremacy , and a third part released in entitled The Bourne Ultimatum and a fourth installment The Bourne Legacy in During a stormy night, a body is seen floating among the waves, with a light flashing from it. A fishing boat passes, and a group of Italian fishermen are playing cards below decks.
One of the men throws some scraps overboard, and sees the body out at sea. Five of the fishermen then haul the man onto their ship, believing him to be dead, but then see him move.
They take him down to their card table and lay him flat while the ship's doctor gets his tools. The doctor cuts off his wetsuit with a scalpel, revealing two bullet wounds in the man's back. The bullets are removed, and the doctor notices a scar on the man's hip, which he cuts into, finding a small metal device.
As he examines it he finds it projects an account number for a bank in Zurich, before he is attacked by the man who has regained consciousness.
The man asks what is happening, and the doctor introduces himself as Giancarlo, explaining that he is among friends and needs to rest. The man reveals that he cannot remember his own name, and faints. Central Intelligence Agency , Langley, Virginia.
Conklin looks at a picture of a luxury yacht on his desk. Back on the fishing boat, Bourne helps the fisherman while recovering from his injuries and trying to remember who he is.
After two weeks on the boat, Giancarlo comes to see him, and Bourne tells him he knows how to tie knots and speak different languages, but still nothing is coming back.
Giancarlo tells him to rest, as it will come back. The next day, the fishing boat docks in Oneglia. Giancarlo gives Bourne enough money to get to Switzerland, and Bourne thanks him. Two police officers approach Bourne, asking for identification. When he cannot provide any, they start to arrest him, but Bourne reacts by disarming them and rendering them both unconscious. He flees the scene, discarding both his distinctive orange jacket and the policeman's gun. Back at CIA headquarters, men are watching footage of Nykwanna Wombosi telling a camera that someone had tried to kill him.
A CIA official explains that the footage is from Paris two days ago, and that Wombosi is a problem because he is writing a book about the agency that will detail names. Wombosi wants the CIA to put him back in power in 6 months. The official then explains that the director wants to know if anyone from CIA was involved in Wombosi's assassination attempt. Abbott talks about Treadstone , and asks if it has been involved with the attempt on Wombosi's life.
Conklin says that they lost contact with their asssassin, but have been trying to find him for the last two weeks. The next morning, Bourne enters the bank. He asks to access his account, and so gives the number from the device from his hip. He takes a lift to a high-security vault, and is asked to scan his handprint into a machine. A safe deposit box is brought to him, which he opens to find a passport with his name, Jason Bourne, and a home address in Paris.
Bourne then lifts the top layer of the box up to find several more passports containing his picture under different names , large amounts of assorted currencies, and a 9mm SIG-Sauer SP handgun. He empties the contents of the box into a red bag, but leaves the gun in the box and returns it. Before leaving he asks how long it has been since he was there, and is told about three weeks.
A man watches him exit, then picks up a phone to make a call. Bourne then uses a payphone to get himself connected to his home in Paris.
He hears his own voice on a recorded answerphone message, so hangs up and crosses the street avoiding police. As he walks down a snow-covered road, Bourne notices a pair of police officers watching him from across the street; he quickens his pace and runs in front of a tram, only to look over his shoulder and see them following him. He reaches the US Consulate and waits in line, noticing a young woman attempting to get a Visa. Meanwhile, Alexander Conklin Chris Cooper , the head of the CIA black ops group Operation Treadstone, assures Deputy Director Abbott that he will destroy any evidence connecting them to the field agent Jason Bourne responsible for the failed assassination attempt on Wombosi.
He activates three "assets" to take down their fellow operative: Castel , Manheim , and the Professor. When Bourne arrives at the address on his passport, he is immediately recognized by the building superintendent, and based on the contents of his apartment, he concludes he is in the shipping business.
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