百年50部英文烧脑电影赏析:[41]The Bourne Identity 谍影重重

In the Mediterranean Sea near Marseille, Italian fishermen find an unconscious man floating adrift with two gunshot wounds in his back. The boat's medic finds a tiny laser projector surgically implanted under the unknown man's skin at the level of the hip. When activated, the laser projector displays the number of a safe deposit box in Zürich. The man wakes up and discovers he is suffering from amnesia. Over the next few days on the ship, the man finds he is fluent in several languages and has unusual skills, but cannot remember anything about himself or why he was in the ocean. When the ship docks, he sets off to investigate the safe deposit box. At the CIA's headquarters, the agency's Deputy Director Ward Abbot（Brian Cox）learns about a failed assassination attempt against exiled African dictator Nykwana Wombosi（Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje）, Meanwhile, in Zürich, the amnesiac incapacitates two policemen using advanced hand-to-hand combat when they attempt to arrest him. The next morning, he visits a bank using the number that was embedded in his hip, and opens a safe deposit box to find several passports containing his picture（all under different names and nationalities）, large amounts of assorted currencies, and a handgun. He assumes the name from the first passport, Jason Bourne（Matt Damon）. He takes all the passports and money, but leaves the handgun.
As he leaves, a bank employee contacts Operation Treadstone, a CIA black ops program. After being chased by police, Bourne escapes into a U.S. consulate where he is again pursued by authorities. Bourne escapes and encounters a Swiss woman named Marie Helena Kreutz（Franka Potente）, offering her $10,000 to drive him to an address in Paris. Meanwhile，Alexander Conklin（Chris Cooper, the head of Treadstone, assures Abbott that he will destroy any evidence connecting them to Bourne, who was responsible for the failed assassination attempt on Wombosi. He activates three “assets” to take down Bourne: Castel, Manheim, and The Professor（Clive Owen）.
Bourne arrives at the address on his passport, and after studying the apartment, hits redial on his phone and is connected to the Hotel Regina, which recognizes one of Bourne's passport aliases; Michael Kane. Bourne is told that Kane died two weeks before in a car crash. Castel ambushes Bourne and Marie at the apartment, but Bourne manages to defeat him after a fight and attempts to interrogate him unsuccessfully. Marie finds wanted posters in Castel's bag with both her and Bourne's pictures on them; as Bourne attempts to calm her down, Castel jumps out of a window to his death. Marie goes into shock, and Bourne escorts her from the building.
Conklin plants a body in a Paris morgue in an attempt to fool Wombosi into thinking Kane is dead, but Wombosi recognizes that the body is not his assailant. The Professor assassinates Wombosi at his home. Bourne investigates Wombosi and concludes that he was an assassin prior to Ns amnesia. He and Marie leave the city and travel into the French countryside to stay at the house of Marie's stepbrother Eamon（Tim Dutton）, where Bourne decides that he no longer wants to be who he was. In the morning, The Professor comes to kill Bourne. Bourne sends Marie and Eamon to hide in the basement, while he grabs Eamon's shotgun and goes out to find The Professor, blowing up a large propane tank as a distraction. After a brief standoff in a cropfield, Bourne shoots The Professor twice and interrogates him briefly. The Professor reveals their mutual connection to Treadstone before dying. Bourne sends Marie away for her own safety. He contacts Conklin to arrange a meet, but instead tracks Conklin's vehicle to discover the location of Treadstone's safe house in Paris.

Bourne breaks in and holds Conklin and logistics technician Nicky Parsons（Julia Stiles）at gunpoint, beginning to remember his last mission through successive flashbacks, “Kane” was an assumed identity during his mission to infiltrate Wombosi's entourage and kill him, but Bourne failed to kill Wombosi aboard his yacht when he intended to because his children were sleeping nearby. Bourne fled and was shot twice in the back in the process. Bourne tells Conklin that he is leaving Treadstone and warns not to follow him. Realizing that their conversation is being overheard, Bourne leaves Conklin and Parsons before killing two agents who try to kill him. Abbott shuts down Treadstone and has Manheim kill Conklin. Abbott goes before an oversight committee, dismissing Treadstone and previewing a new project codenamed “Blackbriar” Some time later, Jason finds Marie renting out scooters to tourists in Greece, and the two reunite.
在马赛附近的地中海海域，意大利渔民发现一名昏迷男子漂浮在海上。他的背部有两处枪伤。船上的卫生员在他的臀部皮肤下发现了一个手术植入的微型激光投影机。当启动投影机时，投影机显示出一个在苏黎世的保险箱的密码。该男子醒来时，发现自己患了失忆症。接下来在船上的几天，该男子发现自己精通几种语言，而且具有不同寻常的技能，但不记得任何关于他本人的事情或他为什么在海上。当船到码头时，他离开去调查那个保险箱。
在美国中情局的总部，副主任沃德·阿博特（布莱恩·考克斯饰）了解到一次针对流亡非洲的独裁者尼卡瓦纳·翁博希（阿德沃尔·阿吉纽依-艾格拜吉饰）的失败的暗杀行动。同时，在苏黎世，失忆者通过高超的肉搏战制服了试图逮捕他的两名警察。第二天早上，他使用植入他臀部的密码去银行并打开了保险箱，找到几本有着不同姓名与国籍的带有他照片的护照、一大笔整齐码放的现金与一把手枪。他使用了第一本护照上的名字杰森·伯恩（马特·达蒙饰），并带走了所有的护照与钱，但留下了手枪。 在他离开时，一个银行职员联系了一个名叫“绊脚石行动”的中情局的黑色行动程序。伯恩受到警察的追赶，逃进了美国领事馆，接着又被当局所追赶。伯恩逃走后，遇到了一个叫玛丽·海伦娜·克鲁兹（弗兰卡·波坦特饰）的瑞士女人。他以1万美元做交换让玛丽开车送他到巴黎的一个地方。与此同时，“绊脚石行动”的主管亚历山大·康克林（克里斯·库珀饰）向阿博特保证他会毁掉任何能证明他们与伯恩有联系的证据。亚历山大正是需要为翁博希刺杀行动的失败负责的人。他派了三个主力成员，卡斯特、曼海姆与教授（克里夫·欧文饰），去处理掉伯恩。
伯恩来到了他的护照上所写的地址，研究了公寓后，按下了他的电话重拨键，结果打到了里贾纳酒店，并确认了伯恩一本护照中的名字：迈克尔·凯恩。伯恩被告知凯恩在两周前被车撞死了。卡斯特在公寓中伏击了伯恩与玛丽，但伯恩在一场搏斗后制服了他，但没有得到任何口供。玛丽在卡斯特的包中发现了带有她与伯恩照片的通缉令，当伯恩努力让她安静下来时，卡斯特从窗户跳下去摔死了。玛丽晕了过去，伯恩护送她离开了大楼。
康克林利用一具巴黎停尸间的尸体让翁博希误以为凯恩已经死了，而翁博希发现这具尸体不是攻击他的人。教授在翁博希家中暗杀了他。伯恩调查翁博希后得出的结论是，自己在失忆前是个杀手。他与玛丽离开这座城市去了法国的乡下，待在玛丽同父异母的兄弟埃蒙（蒂姆·达顿饰）的家中。伯恩决定不做原来的自己。第二天早上，教授来杀伯恩。伯恩让玛丽与埃蒙藏在地下室里，而他抓起埃蒙的手枪出去找教授，并炸掉大煤气罐来分散教授的注意力。在短暂的对峙后，伯恩打中了教授两枪，并简短地审问了他。教授在临死前告诉了他们与“绊脚石行动”联系的方式。安全起见，伯恩送走了玛丽。他联系康克林见面，但却通过跟踪康克林的车发现了“绊脚石行动”在巴黎的安全屋的位置。
伯恩破门而人，并用手枪制住了康克林与逻辑分析员尼基·帕森斯（朱丽娅·斯蒂尔斯饰），然后开始通过连续的回放记起了他最后的使命。“凯恩”是他在执行渗透到翁博希的随行人员中并暗杀他的任务时的假名。当伯恩打算在翁博希的游艇上杀死他时，翁博希的孩子正在附近睡觉，他没有杀翁博希。在伯恩逃跑过程中，他后背被射中了两枪。伯恩告诉康克林说他正要离开“绊脚石行动”并警告他不要跟着。在发现有人偷听他们的谈话后，伯恩在杀死两个试图杀死他的特工前就离开了康克林与帕森斯。阿博特关闭了“绊脚石行动”并让曼海姆杀了康克林。阿博特在监督委员会之前离开，他解散了“绊脚石行动”并准备成立一个代号为“黑色荆棘”的新项目。一段时间后，杰森找到了玛丽，她正在希腊做出租滑雪板的生意，他们又在一起了。

implant［im'plɑ:nt］vt. 移植
amnesiac［æm'ni:ziæk］adj. 记忆缺失的；遗忘的
incapacitate［ˌinkə'pæsiteit］vt. 使无能力；使不能；使不适于
consulate［'kɔnsjuleit］n. 领事；领事馆；领事任期；领事职位
assailant［ə'seilənt］n. 攻击者
propane［'prəupein］n.［化］丙烷
standoff［'stændɔf］n. 和局；僵持；冷淡；平衡
logistics［ləu'ʤistiks］n. 后勤；后勤学
oversight［'əuvəsait］n. 监督；照管；疏忽
重点掌握
■ …who was responsible for the failed assassination attempt on Wombosi.
be responsible for是英语中的一个固定搭配，是“对……负责；是……的原因”的意思，比如；We must be responsible for ourselves, for others and for society. 我们必须对自己负责，对他人负责，对社会负责。

Doug Liman Interviewed by Denise Hanrahan
What made you want to take on a big budget project like this?
I'd read the book growing up and loved it. Then I reread it while I was making Swingers and it held up to a second reading，which to me means that it's not about the plot, it's about the characters. So when Swingers became a huge hit, Hollywood opened their doors and told me I could do anything I wanted. I said, “there's this book that I really like” and they said “anything but that book”. Reason been that Warner Bros controlled the rights. But eventually, I got a lucky break and discovered the rights were going to expire, asked Robert Ludlum's permission to do this film and he gave it to me.
Matt Damon seems an unusual choice for a leading action hero. Why did you choose him?
I met with a wide range of people when casting for the film, people like Russell Crowe and even Sly Stallone at one point. But when I sat down with Matt and explained that I wanted to take on an action movie but do it in a different way, I got the sense that he understood. He was coming from the same place I was coming from and I felt we could become partners on this. Plus, I'm a big Matt Damon fan. 是什么让你想承接这样一个大预算的项目？
我是读着这本书长大的，我爱它。然后在拍《全职浪子》时，我又读了一遍。重新再读对我来说，有意义的不是情节，而是人物。所以当《全职浪子》得到了巨大的反响后，好莱坞的大门打开了，告诉我，我可以做任何我想要做的事。我说：“这儿有一本我很喜欢的书。”他们说：“除了那本书什么都行。”因为华纳兄弟控制其版权。但最终，我很幸运，发现它的版权将要到期，请求罗伯特·鲁德鲁姆允许我拍这部电影，他答应了我。
作为动作英雄的佼佼者，马特·达蒙似乎是一个不同寻常的选择。你为什么选择他？
为这部电影筛选演员时，我见过很多人，某方面，人们喜欢罗素·克劳，甚至史泰龙。但当我和马特坐下来，向他说明，我想以不同的方式拍动作片时，我感觉他理解了。他和我来自同一个地方，在这点上我觉得我们可以成为合作伙伴。另外，我是马特·达蒙的超级粉丝。

可以十分清楚地看到克里夫·欧文所扮演的角色开的是一辆宝马车，正如他正在做着宝马车的生意。
影片原定在2001年6月上映发行，但由于导演道格·里曼要求补拍镜头而推迟，其中有在电影中段出现的汽车追逐场景。
在道格·里曼的要求下，编剧托尼·吉尔罗伊并没有阅读原著小说《伯恩的身份》，而是根据里曼专门为他准备的故事大纲进行工作的。
2001年3月12日，也就是正当电影进入后期制作时，原著小说的作者罗伯特·鲁德鲁姆便离开了人世。