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Imitation is the highest form of flattery!

posted 17 years ago by rudeboy8080
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Who Am I? "borrows some pages" from Robert Ludlam's 1980 book The Bourne Identity. In the 2002 film version of TBI, Matt Damon says, "I don't know who I am!" This could be a subtle reference to Who Am I? In the book, Jason Bourne is in his fifties or sixties. In the newer movies, he's in his late 20's-early 30's.

I have a Taiwanese DVD version of Who Am I? The reedited US version is on one side and the uncut Mandarin version is on the other.

[–] herjabram 14 years ago

I think that's a pretty weak theory, no offence.

Do you know how many movies there are about amnesia, and in how many of them the line "who am I" or "I don't know who I am" is used?

[–] aniketagg87 14 years ago

Now he will say, "Memento" is inspired from this. I saw this as well as Bourne Indentity on HBO India and you are drawing a very week link. Thank god for HBO that I get to see these in India.

[–] DrMaK 14 years ago

Actually I think the OP is closer in his comparison than you fellows give him credit for, seeing as you've failed to see that BOTH Bourne and Who am I:

-wake up severly injured from gunshots/helicopter fall respectively,
-have complete amnesia, BOTH cases suffered after failure on last mission
-both wake up having said injuries being taken care of after being found by civilians
-are CIA black ops super agents with supreme skills in martial arts, firearms, medicine, etc
-are BOTH being hunted down/tried to be killed by their prior employers (even here both the CIA),
-both take help from females along the way
-both help take down dirty agents/employees on the take within the Agency,
-both get chased across several countries & continents,

I could go on but its almost 0300am and I wanna sleep. Cheers.

[–] LTUM 13 years ago

very well put and now you point it out i can see it too

i hope you got some rest!!

my favorite voice over ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8MGBn3KawM&feature=related