What's the Difference between The Bourne Identity the Book and The Bourne Identity the Movie?
                      
                                
                    
                
                
                     
                
                
               
                
                     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                                    
                            
                                    
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                    | In the Book | In the Movie | 
                                
                                
                                
                                 
                                    | Jason Bourne 
 | Jason Bourne Portrayed by: Matt Damon
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                                The Bourne Identity Book vs  Movie
                                
                            
                            
                         
                        
                        
                        
                        
                    
                            
                             
                                
                                
                                
                                    | In the Book | In the Movie | 
                                
                                
                                        
                                            | 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. | 
                                    
                                     
                                            | 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. | 
                                   
                                        
                                            | The story takes place in 1980. | The story takes place in 2002. | 
                                    
                                     
                                            | 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. | 
                                   
                                        
                                            | 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. |