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Review 1
The Bourne Identity – written by Robert Ludlum in 1980 – is the story of Jason Bourne, a man who was found one day on the French cost - nearly dead. He doesn’t know who he is, what he was doing and why he knows so many things about killing people. An implanted microfilm leads to a bank in Zurich and millions of Dollars. Hunted by his enemies and his own people Jason tries to find out who he really is. Is he a top-terrorist or an agent?
I’m always sceptical when it comes to filming books. It’s hard – if not impossible – to get all the details and intensity one can put onto paper on celluloid. Director Roger Young and the other people behind this mini-series did a very goodjob. Although there are a few things I would like to have more detailed into the series (i.e. Jason’s past in Asia and his lost family) they caught all important aspects of the book. Richard just is brilliant as Jason Bourne – a man torn between angst, doubts, questions and instinctively running and fighting for his life. Jaclyn Smith is equally brilliant as Mary – a tough woman who is able to deal heroically with an unexpected situation which will change her life forever. And chemistry between both works very well so their sometimes nearly desperate love, who seems to be the only thing what keeps them insane, is believably portrayed.
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They then escape Zurich to a small country town where she helps Jason recuperate from his wounds and try to help him figure out whats going on and why these people want him dead and why he is having these dreams of an asian woman and a We ever see Carlos the Jackal in half light to keep his identity a mystery he sanctions his old men to locate Jason and Marie in Paris and get word to his people to kill him. The Bourne Identity I loved this story I loved the idea of the story the way its written by the best thriller writer of the 20th century Robert Ludlum he takes you on a rollercoaster ride throughout the book and the mini series I felt stuck very close to the book where as with the movie version which I think is equally as good but is completely different to the book. I have said this before but I wish Richard and Martin had made two and three it would have been interesting to see how Richard would have portrayed Jason Bourne/David Webb in the later stories. Hope you enjoyed my review of The Bourne Identity. By Theresa Brown
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course I love everything Richard ever has done but the Bourne Identity
is one of my special favourites. I detected my interest in Richard in
the early Nineties. Back then I also started to read the books to his
movies and series. So it happened that I read The Bourne Identity first.
And I loved it instantly. So I was eagerly waiting to see the mini-series.
Finally it aired in Germany but only on a small program I hardly could
receive. So I tried and tried with my TV to get it in. The sound was terrible,
the picture even more, I nearly crawled in the TV to understand anything – and it was worth any effort.
He
took Mary St. Jacques as a hostage but soon she becomes more to him. Mary
is the only one Jason dares to trust and finally they fall in love. But
there’s no easy happy end in the movie or in the book. On his way
to become the best agent of all and to serve his country and his organisation,
David Webb – how Jason’s real name, nearly lost himself. Will
he ever be able to life a normal live again? Will Mary’s love be
strong enough to cure his inner wounds?
The
series was filmed in 1988. Martin Rabbett was one of the producers. I
always felt sorrow that they didn’t make the two other Bourne-books
as well. Especially as I consider book two even better then the first
one. There was a new Bourne Identity movie last years with Matt Damon
and German Franka Potente in the leading parts. Personally I consider
both too young for the characters. Jason and Mary are not young adventurers,
both are experienced people who already have gone a lot of hell in their
personal life . That’s what gives them such depth.
Later Jason is found washed up in an unknown far from anywhere annonymous little fishing port. Port Noir taken to Dr. Geoffrey Washburne an alcoholic doctor dismissed for his alcoholism who patches up his mysterious patient as he's patching him together he finds a microfilm in his hip with words Gemeinschaft Bank Zurich and numbers to a bank account his patient is very mysterious indeed. When his patient wakes up he has no idea who he is or where he comes from. During his recuperation two men identify him he chases after them to try to get answers but they they try to kill him. We are then taken on a rollercoaster ride through the back streets of Zurich to the bank where he finds fifteen million Dollars to an attempt on his life in the bank to the hotel where he takes Marie St Jaques (Jacklyn Smith) hostage being chased through the back streets of Zurich another attempt on their lives in the parking garage in the hotel by Carlos himself but they manage to escape. We then meet Chernak a very unsavoury crippled man who is usually a go between for Jason but has now become the enemy whom is killed by Jason shot in the throat like Carlos the Jackal. Marie escapes from Jason Bourne right into the clutches of the men trying to kill Jason who then mark Marie for death she is then taken away to be killed Jason realises that he must save her. As he is put into his captors car they break his fingers and a struggle ensues and Jason finds his gun hidded in his socks and shoots his captors he then has to race to find Marie in time to stop her from being killed. He finds her in time as her captor is trying to rape her but she is putting a fight and Jason screams at him to get out the car instead the man runs away and they find themslves on the foreshore and a fight starts Marie shoots her captor as he tries to get away. 
young child and why he feels responsible for them. They spend a few days going over the past few days in Zurich and in Port Noir and why Carlos is out to kill him and understand his amnesia. Marie offers to go to Paris with him which Jason refuses to let her go with him but she argues that she knows banks and how they work what questions to ask but Jason is still unsure but is willing to let her go along.