The Bourne Supremacy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[camila]

The phone that Jason Bourne uses is a Siemens ME45.

[linda]

Matt Damon accidentally knocked out Tim Griffin who played the CIA interrogator John Nevins during the scene in the consulate when Bourne takes him and a security guard down after being captured.

[linda]

It took 4 days to shoot the sequence where three assassins close in on a house they suspect harbors Bourne, but he has already left and rigged the house to explode. When it does, three stuntmen wearing cabled harnesses are violently yanked up and away from the explosion, landing on off-camera airbags. Six cameras simultaneously covered the brief sequence.

[kenneth]

After the Berlin part Bourne leaves for Moscow. Several scenes taking places in the Russian Capitol were still shot in Berlin, which you can see on certain buildings and some traffic signs. Two of those supposedly Russian locations are Berlin Frankfurter Allee and Alexanderplatz.

[harry]

In the last street scene just before the end of the movie, the famous Raidoman appears pushing his bike, carrying his radio around his neck.

[veronica]

In early drafts of the script, Kirill was known only as "Mock-Bourne".

[stephanie]

When Kirill is staging the explosives on the circuit breakers to frame Bourne, he is wearing these cool, black "Foot Joy" golf gloves, one for a right-handed golfer, the other for a left-handed golfer. The famous "FJ" label is on top of both gloves.

[nicholas]

To give this movie its gritty, documentary-style appearance, director Paul Greengrass used mostly handheld cameras, and a muted color palette. Greengrass also made sure to avoid computer graphics at all costs, and all of the stunts shown in the movie were achieved practically.

[gerald]

The film originally ended with the confession to Neski's daughter. Following previews, which found the ending too bleak, the New York postscript scene with Bourne and Landy was shot, just weeks before the film's release in the summer of 2004.

[ken]

When Bourne visits the assassin Jarda in Germany, it is never made clear how Jason knew where he was or even who he was. There is one section of dialogue exchanged as - Jarda: "Word in the ether was you'd lost your memory." Jason Bourne: "You still should have moved." - giving the only indication of remembrance. According to the script Jarda is actually the Driver in the Berlin Flashbacks Jason is having. Also, deleted dialogue between Jason and Jarda further explain that Jarda had found Bourne and Maria somewhere in Greece, but Bourne got a leg up on Jarda and could have killed him. In the script Jarda asks Bourne "Why didn't you kill me then?" in which Bourne replies "Because she didn't want me to.".

[bernard]

When Bourne calls Pamela Landy from the rooftop, a voice is heard in her office saying that they "need 90 seconds to triangulate his position". Bourne disconnects the call exactly 88 seconds later.

[melinda]

The 14 November 2003 draft of the screenplay credits Brian Helgeland for a rewrite. He is not credited in the final film.

[scarlett]

The rifle Bourne is holding on the DVD cover is a Blaser R93 Sniper Rifle.

[charlie]

The average length of a shot is 1.9 seconds.