The Bourne Supremacy (film)

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The Bourne Supremacy
Directed by	Paul Greengrass
Produced by	Patrick Crowley Frank Marshall Paul L. Sandberg Doug Liman
Written by	Screenplay: Tony Gilroy Brian Helgeland (uncredited) Novel: Robert Ludlum
Starring	Matt Damon Franka Potente Brian Cox Julia Stiles Karl Urban Gabriel Mann and Joan Allen
Music by	John Powell
Cinematography	Oliver Wood
Editing by	Christopher Rouse Rick Pearson
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	July 23, 2004
Running time	108 min.
Language	English, Russian, German, Italian
Budget	$75 million[1]
Gross revenue	$288,500,217[1]
Preceded by	The Bourne Identity
Followed by	The Bourne Ultimatum
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The Bourne Supremacy is a 2004 spy mystery thriller film loosely based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name. The film was directed by Paul Greengrass, written by Tony Gilroy and Brian Helgeland^[2] and produced by Doug Liman and Frank Marshall. Universal Studios released the film to theaters in the United States on July 23, 2004 and it received a positive critical and public reaction similar to its predecessor, The Bourne Identity. The film is followed by a 2007 sequel entitled The Bourne Ultimatum.

It is also the sequel to the 2002 film The Bourne Identity and the second film of the Bourne Trilogy. The Bourne Supremacy continues the story of Jason Bourne, an amnesiac and former CIA assassin played by Matt Damon, and his attempt to learn more of his shadowy past as he is once more enveloped in a conspiracy surrounding the CIA and Operation Treadstone. The film also stars Franka Potente as Marie Helena Kreutz, Brian Cox as Ward Abbott, Joan Allen as Pamela Landy and Julia Stiles as Nicolette Parsons.

It substantially deviates from its source material as Alexander Conklin is now dead and the CIA is Bourne's enemy rather than his friend (the plot actually incorporates aspects of the Bourne novel The Bourne Legacy written by Eric Van Lustbader as well). In addition, the book's narrative takes place in Hong Kong with Marie getting kidnapped so Bourne will accept a mission.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Differences from the novel 4 Reaction 4.1 Awards 5 Soundtrack 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Plot

Two years after the events in The Bourne Identity, Bourne and his girlfriend, Marie Kreutz, are living in Goa, India. Bourne is having flashbacks of an assassination in a Berlin hotel. Meanwhile, in Berlin, a CIA officer under Deputy Director Pamela Landy is trading $3 million for the complete "Neski Files," documents concerning the theft of $20 million from the CIA, seven years earlier. They are to complete the exchange in an office building in Berlin. During the exchange, an assassin named Kirill plants Jason Bourne's fingerprint on a bomb in the building's basement and proceeds to kill the agent and the source, stealing the files and money. He sells them to Russian oil magnate Yuri Gretkov.

Kirill travels to Goa in order to kill Bourne, but Bourne spots him and flees with Marie. Just as Bourne and Marie are driving away, Kirill, armed with a sniper rifle, fires at the driver whom he believes to be Bourne but is in fact Marie, killing her and causing the car to veer off the bridge into a river. Kirill leaves, believing that he killed Bourne, but he manages to swim away undetected. Bourne leaves for Naples, Italy, with money and passports in an attempt to learn why he is again being targeted, believing that Treadstone is pursuing him.

In Berlin, Landy's team finds the planted fingerprint and, upon running it through the database, finds that the identity of the person in question was part of Treadstone and information regarding it restricted by the CIA. Landy then flies to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia to meet with her boss and to find out about Treadstone and who left the print. She discovers that they belong to Bourne and questions Ward Abbott about Treadstone. He admits that he had Conklin killed after a failed mission, but has no idea where Bourne is. Landy tells Abbott that the CIA agent who stole the $20 million was named in the stolen files. A Russian politician, Vladimir Neski, was due to identify the thief. Before he could do so, however, Neski was apparently murdered by his wife in a Berlin hotel, who had proceeded to commit suicide afterwards. Landy believes that Bourne and Conklin were involved in the theft, and, based on the discovered fingerprint, that Bourne was responsible for the deaths of the CIA officer and source in Berlin. Both Abbott and Landy go to Berlin, hoping to find some trace of Bourne and capture him.

Arriving in Naples, Italy, Bourne deliberately uses a known passport under his name. Agents in Langley are notified of Bourne's arrival, and he is detained. He incapacitates an Italian Carabinieri officer and his CIA interrogator, copies the agent's SIM card on his own cell phone, then escapes. While driving, Bourne listens in on a call from Landy, learning her name, phone number, and that he is suspected of the recent killings in Berlin. He steals a car and heads to Germany. In Munich, he breaks into another Treadstone agent's house. Upon arrival, the agent, Jarda, tells him Treadstone was shut down following Conklin's death; he and Bourne are the only remnants of the project. As Bourne realizes Jarda has called in backup, Jarda attacks, the two struggle, and Bourne kills Jarda. Bourne sets a trap by opening a gas line and jamming a magazine into a toaster; the home explodes when backup arrives.

In Amsterdam, Landy and Abbott intercept and debrief Nicky Parsons, Treadstone's handler in Paris. Bourne follows them from a hotel to a CIA office in Berlin. Armed with a sniper rifle from a neighboring roof, Bourne calls Landy's phone, questioning her intentions. She tells him it is because he killed two people in Berlin. Although Landy is refering to the agents, he thinks she is refering to Neski and his wife. Bourne arranges to meet Nicky at the Alexanderplatz, where he uses a crowded anti-capitalist protest to evade surveillance. He leads Nicky to the subway station and interrogates her, learning that Abbott was the head of Treadstone, not Conklin. Bourne's flashbacks of Neski's assassination at the Brecker Hotel return, but Nicky knows nothing about the Neski killing. Upon hearing their conversation over Nicky's transmitter, Landy begins to believe that Bourne is being framed. To the surprise of Landy and Abbott, Bourne lets Nicky go unharmed. Back at the office, Abbott's associate Danny Zorn becomes positive Bourne is being framed after examining the basement where the bomb with Bourne's fingerprint was found. After revealing his belief to Abbott, Abbott stabs him to death, proving his involvement in the conspiracy.

Bourne revisits the Brecker Hotel in Berlin and remembers more of the Neski mission. He was sent to kill Neski on Conklin's orders; and when Neski's wife unexpectedly showed up, he shot him and then her, positioning the scene to appear a murder-suicide. The German police arrive after the hotel's lobby report Bourne as wanted, which interrupts Bourne's flashback and forces him to escape via the building's exterior. Having evaded them, Bourne breaks into Abbott's hotel room and records a conversation between him and Gretkov that incriminates Abbott and Gretkov in the theft of the money. Abbott also confesses that he ordered Bourne killed (Marie was not the intended target), Neski's murder by Bourne, the murder of the agents by Kirill, and the planted fingerprint at the scene. Out of respect for Marie's beliefs in non-violence, Bourne spares Abbott's life. Zorn's body is discovered at the office and Landy, realizing Abbott killed him, goes to confront Abbott, who commits suicide. Landy later receives the tape Bourne recorded.

Bourne travels to Moscow, where he is shot and wounded by Kirill. After an extended high-speed chase through Moscow, Bourne forces Kirill to crash in a tunnel, critically wounding him. Gretkov is arrested by Russian police after Landy provides them with the evidence she got from Bourne. Bourne proceeds to the apartment of Irena Neski, Vladimir Neski's daughter, where he informs her that her mother did not kill her father and then commit suicide; Bourne had killed them both on a mission gone wrong, and he apologizes.

The final scene jumps to New York City. Bourne contacts Landy by cell phone, asking why the CIA is still looking for him. Landy then thanks Bourne for supplying the tape, which the CIA has used to settle matters concerning his frame-up. Before Bourne hangs up, Landy reveals to Bourne that his real name is David Webb and that he was born on "4/15/71". When she suggests that Bourne come in to discuss the matter, Bourne declines by simply stating, "Get some rest, Pam; you look tired." Bourne fades into a New York City crowd to the tune of Moby's "Extreme Ways" just before the credits roll.

[edit] Cast

• Matt Damon as Jason Bourne: an amnesiac and former assassin of the CIA's Operation Treadstone.
• Joan Allen as Pamela Landy: a CIA Deputy Director and Task Force Chief, pursues Bourne after her operation goes badly.
• Brian Cox as Ward Abbott: a CIA Deputy Director formerly in charge of Treadstone.
• Julia Stiles as Nicky Parsons: formerly Bourne's Treadstone contact, she is taken from her post-Treadstone assignment to assist in the search for Bourne.
• Karl Urban as Kirill: a Russian secret service agent and an expert assassin who is working for Gretkov.
• Karel Roden as Gretkov: Kirill's employer.
• Franka Potente as Marie Helena Kreutz: Bourne's girlfriend.
• Gabriel Mann as Danny Zorn: formerly assigned to Treadstone headquarters, is now on Abbott's staff.
• Tomas Arana as Martin Marshall: CIA Director.
• Tom Gallop as Tom Cronin: Landy's righthand agent.
• Michelle Monaghan as Kim: Landy's number two agent.
• Oksana Akinshina as Irena Neski: daughter of politician Vladimir Neski, whom Bourne killed.
• Marton Csokas as Jarda: the last surviving member of Operation Treadstone.

[edit] Differences from the novel

There are many differences between the novel The Bourne Supremacy and the movie. In the novel, David Webb (Jason Bourne's alter ego) is not on the run. He and Marie are now married and Marie does not die. Webb is a professor of Eastern studies, but is kept under the watchful eye of Alexander Conklin and Mo Panov, the psychiatrist who helped him come to terms with his past as Delta One/Cain in Medusa/Treadstone and the events described in "The Bourne Identity". The premise of the events are the same: someone is using the name "Jason Bourne" in a series of killings in Asia ultimately, it transpires, to allow a Nationalist Chinese takeover of Communist China. In an effort to flush the fake Bourne out, the CIA kidnaps Marie to force Webb back into his Jason Bourne persona. Once this happens, Bourne tracks down the fake Bourne and kills him. He then re-enters China to kill the high-ranking Chinese government official who is behind the fake Jason Bourne killings which started the whole situation. Once this is done he returns with Marie to his life of academia in Maine, USA, until "The Jackal" comes after him again in "The Bourne Ultimatum".

The majority of the events of The Bourne Supremacy take place in China, Hong Kong and Macao as opposed to the events of the movie taking place in India, Berlin, and Moscow.

[edit] Reaction

The Bourne Supremacy grossed $288,500,217.^[1] Reviews on Internet critic sites suggest an overall positive disposition towards the film, though the film was criticized for its shaky camera work, which has made various action scenes difficult to see,^[3] an often criticized stylistic choice which carries on with The Bourne Ultimatum.^[4] However, some reviewers have said this gives "a gritty, realistic feel". ^[5] Despite these shortcomings, Rotten Tomatoes scores the film at 82 percent.^[6] At the 2005 Taurus World Stunt Awards, veteran Russian stunt coordinator Viktor Ivanov won the "Best Vehicle" award for his driving in the Moscow car chase scene. Dan Bradley, the film's second unit director won the overall award for stunt coordinator.^[7]

The DVD contains an alternate ending for the film. It has Bourne collapsing in the Moscow park after confessing to Neski's daughter, waking up in a hospital, and being told his real name by Landy, before he escapes.

[edit] Awards

Year	Organization	Award	Category/Recipient	Result
2005	ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards	ASCAP Award	Top Box Office Films: John Powell	Won[8]
2005	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA	Saturn Award	Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film and Best Actor- Matt Damon	Nominated[8]
2005	Broadcast Film Critics Association	Critics Choice Award	Best Popular Movie	Nominated[8]
2005	Cinema Audio Society Awards	C.A.S. Award	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures	Nominated[8]
2005	Empire Awards, UK	Empire Award	Best Actor- Matt Damon and Best Film	Won[8]
2005	Empire Awards, UK	Empire Award	Best British Director- Paul Greengrass and Scene of the Year- the Moscow car chase sequence	Nominated[8]
2005	MTV Movie Award	MTV Movie Award	Best Action Sequence-the Moscow car chase sequence and Best Male Performance- Matt Damon	Nominated[8]
2005	Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA	Golden Reel Award	Best Sound Editing in Domestic Features - Dialogue & ADR and Best Sound Editing in Domestic Features - Sound Effects & Foley	Nominated[8]
2005	People's Choice Awards, USA	People's Choice Award	Favorite Movie Drama	Nominated[8]
2005	Teen Choice Award	Teen Choice Award	Choice Movie Actor: Action/Adventure/Thriller-Matt Damon and Choice Movie: Action/Adventure	Nominated[8]
2005	USC Scripter Award	USC Scripter Award	Tony Gilroy (screenwriter) and Robert Ludlum (author)	Nominated[8]
2005	World Soundtrack Award	World Soundtrack Award	Best Original Soundtrack of the Year-John Powell and Soundtrack Composer of the Year-John Powell	Nominated[8]
2005	World Stunt Awards	Taurus Award	Best Stunt Coordinator and/or 2nd Unit Director and Best Work with a Vehicle	Won[8]
2005	World Stunt Awards	Taurus Award	Best Fight- Darrin Prescott and Chris O'Hara	Nominated[8]

[edit] Soundtrack

Main article: The Bourne Supremacy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site
• The Bourne Supremacy at the Internet Movie Database
• The Bourne Supremacy at Rotten Tomatoes
• The Bourne Supremacy screenplay at MovieScriptPlace.com

Preceded by I, Robot

Box office number-one films of 2004 (USA) July 25, 2004

Succeeded by The Village

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