What's the Difference between The Bourne Identity the Book and The Bourne Identity the Movie?
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Jason Bourne
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Jason Bourne
Portrayed by: Matt Damon
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The Bourne Identity Book vs Movie
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Bourne is found in the water and he has several gunshot wounds and a laceration on his head. |
He has been shot twice. |
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Bourne is attacked in Switzerland by two unknown men while in an elevator. He instinctively defends himself revealing his skills. |
He defends him self against two police officers on a park bench.
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Bourne takes a hostage, a French-Canadian government economist, Marie St. Jacques. He steals a car and has her drive. |
He approaches Marie Kreutz, a German and offers her $20,000 to take him to Paris. |
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Bourne and St. Jaques are captured. While at separate locations, Bourne kills his captors and saves Marie from being raped. He is shot and they go to a hotel so Jason can recover. |
This doesn't happen.
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Carlos the Jackal features prominently in the story. |
He isn't mentioned. |
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Bourne was an assassin in the Vietnam war with an alias Cain. |
He has an alias of Kane, but he was never in Vietnam. He was an assassin.
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He is treated by a doctor in Marseille for a long period of time, to recover. |
He is treated by the doctor on the boat which finds him. |
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The story takes place in 1980. |
The story takes place in 2002.
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Bourne has a microfilm implanted in his hip revealing a bank account in Zurich. |
Bourne has a small laser pointer implanted in his hip revealing a bank account in Zurich. |
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An English doctor, Geoffrey Washburn, operates on Bourne's wounds after the ship's captain gives Bourne to him. |
The ship's doctor stitches together Bourne's wounds after retrieving him from the water.
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Carlos is a main character, however... |
Carlos the Jackal is actually in the movie. He is killed off at the beginning of the film. |
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He *is* treated by a doctor in Marseille for a long period of time, to recover. |
He is treated by the captain of the fishing boat which finds him.
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