Bourne Identity

Name: Bourne Identity

Directed by: Doug Liman

Screenplay by: Tony Gilroy William Blake Herron

Based Upon the Novel by: Robert Ludlum

Produced by: Patrick Crowley Richard N. Gladstein Doug Liman

Executive Producers: Robert Ludlum Frank Marshall

Music by: John Powell

Cinematography by: Oliver Wood

Film Editing by: Saar Klein

Production Design by: Dan Weil

Studio: Pixar Animation Studios

Production Companies: Hypnotic Kennedy/Marshall Productions

Producer/Release: 20th Century Fox

Airdate: June 14, 2002

Length: 119 minutes

Budget: $60 million

Box Office: $214 million

Pixar Movie Number: 451

The Bourne Identity is a 2002 American-German thriller film adaptation of Robert Ludlum's novel of the same name. It stars Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, a man suffering from extreme memory loss and attempting to discover his true identity amidst a clandestine conspiracy within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The film also features Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Julia Stiles, Brian Cox and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. This, the first in the Bourne film series, is followed by Bourne Supremacy (2004), Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Bourne Legacy (2012), and Jason Bourne (2016).

The film was co-produced and directed by Doug Liman and adapted for the screen by Tony Gilroy and William Blake Herron. Although Robert Ludlum died in 2001, he is credited as the film's executive producer alongside Frank Marshall. Fox 2000 Pictures released the film to theatres in the United States on June 14, 2002, and it received a positive critical and public reaction.

Plot
In the Mediterranean Sea, Italian fishermen rescue an unconscious American (Matt Damon) floating adrift with two gunshot wounds in his back. They tend to his wounds, and when the man wakes, they find he suffers from dissociative amnesia. He has no memory of his own identity, while he retains his speech and finds himself capable of advanced combat skills and fluency in several languages. The skipper finds a tiny laser projector under the man's hip that, when activated, gives a number of a safe deposit box in Zürich. Upon landing, the man heads to investigate the box. Arriving at the bank, the man finds the box contains a large sum of money in various currencies, numerous passports and identity cards with his picture on all of them, and a handgun. The man takes everything but the gun, and leaves, opting to use the name on the American passport, Jason Bourne.

After Bourne's departure, a bank employee contacts Operation Treadstone, a CIA black ops program. Treadstone's head, Alexander Conklin (Chris Cooper), activates three agents to take down Bourne: Castel (Nicky Naude), Manheim (Russell Levy), and the Professor (Clive Owen), while also issuing alerts to local police to capture Bourne. Meanwhile, CIA Deputy Director Ward Abbott (Brian Cox) contacts Conklin about a failed assassination attempt against exiled African dictator Nykwana Wombosi (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje). Conklin promises Abbott that he will deal with the Treadstone agent who failed.

Bourne attempts to evade the Swiss police by using his U.S. passport to enter the American consulate, but he is discovered by guards. He evades capture, leaves the embassy, and gives a German woman, Marie Kreutz (Franka Potente), $20,000 to drive him to an address in Paris listed on his French driving license. At the address, an apartment, he hits redial on the phone and reaches a hotel. He inquires about the names on his passports there, learning that a "John Michael Kane" had been registered but died two weeks prior in a car crash. Castel ambushes Bourne and Marie in the apartment, but Bourne gets the upper hand. Instead of allowing himself to be interrogated, Castel throws himself out a window to his death. Marie finds wanted posters of Bourne and herself, and after agonizing, agrees to continue to help Bourne. After a chase in which Bourne evades Paris police in Marie's car, the two fugitives spend the night together in a Paris hotel.

Meanwhile, Wombosi continues to obsess over the attempt on his life. Conklin, having anticipated this, planted a body in the Paris morgue to appear as the assailant, but Wombosi is not fooled and threatens to report this. The Professor assassinates Wombosi on Conklin's orders. Bourne, posing as Kane, learns about Wombosi's yacht, and that the assailant had been shot twice in the back during the escape, just as he was. Bourne now considers himself to have been the assailant. He and Marie take refuge at the French countryside home of her ex-lover Eamon (Tim Dutton) and his children. Under pressure from Abbott to tie off the Wombosi matter entirely, Conklin tracks Bourne's location and sends the Professor there, but Bourne shoots him twice with Eamon's shotgun, mortally wounding him. The Professor reveals their shared connection to Treadstone before dying. Bourne sends Marie, Eamon, and Eamon's children away for their protection, and then contacts Conklin via the Professor's phone to arrange a meeting. From a rooftop near the arranged location in Paris, Bourne sees Conklin has brought backup, so he abandons the meeting, but uses the opportunity to place a tracking device on Conklin's car, leading Bourne to Treadstone's safe house.

Bourne breaks in and holds Conklin and logistics technician Nicolette "Nicky" Parsons (Julia Stiles) at gunpoint. When Conklin begins pressing him to remember his past, Bourne recalls his attempt to assassinate Wombosi through successive flashbacks. As Kane, and working under orders from Treadstone, Bourne infiltrated Wombosi's yacht but could not bring himself to kill Wombosi while Wombosi's children were present, and instead fled, being shot during his escape. Bourne announces he is resigning from Treadstone and is not to be followed. As agents descend on the safe house, Bourne fights his way free. When Conklin leaves the safe house, he is killed by Manheim operating under Abbott's orders. Abbott shuts down Treadstone.

Abbott reports to an oversight committee that Treadstone is "all but decommissioned" before discussion turns to a new project codenamed "Blackbriar". In the final scene, Bourne finds Marie renting out scooters to tourists on Mykonos, and the two reunite.

Voice Talent
•	Matt Damon as Jason Bourne •	Franka Potente as Marie Helena Kreutz •	Chris Cooper as Alexander Conklin •	Clive Owen as The Professor •	Brian Cox as Ward Abbott •	Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Nykwana Wombosi •	Gabriel Mann as Danny Zorn •	Julia Stiles as Nicolette "Nicky" Parsons •	Josh Hamilton as Research Tech •	Walton Goggins as Research Tech •	Orso Maria Guerrini as Giancarlo •	Tim Dutton as Eamon •	Nicky Naude as Castel •	Russell Levy as Manheim

Media Release

 * Bourne Identity is released on DVD/VHS on August 27, 2002.

DVD Main Menu

 * Play
 * Scenes
 * Bonus Materials
 * Deleted Scenes and Blooper Stuff
 * Languages
 * Feature Commentary with Director Doug Liman

Aspect Ratios

 * 2.35:1/1.85:1 (Widescreen with Full Open Matte/CinemaScope)

Previews

 * Daredevil Trailer (In Theaters February 2003)
 * Just Married Trailer (In Theaters January 2003)
 * Inspector Gadget 2 Teaser Trailer (Spring 2003)
 * Treasure Planet Trailer (In Theaters November 27)
 * Finding Nemo Teaser Trailer (In Theaters Summer 2003)

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