Bourne Flashcards
Context quotes
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’
Antagonist quotes
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
Theme quotes
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”
Narrative quotes
Oak bar scene, raising hand synchronic to ‘kaplan’\
‘in medias res’ in the middle
‘where am I’ ‘how did i get here’
