Bourne Flashcards

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Context quotes

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Red scare/communism - Roger thornhill dresses in a train conductor uniform with a red cap to hide amongst the american population

Government surveillance - ‘Beg, borrow, hack, tap bypass… I don’t care what you do’

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Antagonist quotes

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Both: power structure
Corruption/destroying an individual: Conklin - ‘I want Bourne in a body bag by sundown’

Vandamm works for ‘the other side’ (USSR), destroying the greater good

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Theme quotes

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Both: David and Goliath, assets, identity, big corporations
“Now you listen to me, I’m an advertising man, not a red herring. I’ve got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don’t intend to disappoint them all by getting myself “slightly” killed.”

“I send you to be invisible, I send you because you don’t exist”

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Narrative quotes

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Oak bar scene, raising hand synchronic to ‘kaplan’\

‘in medias res’ in the middle
‘where am I’ ‘how did i get here’

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