I watched The Bourne Identity on DVD tonight after stuffing myself, and something about the ending has always bugged me. I don’t get why the final assassin shot the CIA director, or pretty much anything thereafter. What WAS the Treadstone project? Agents mechanized to kill?
If any of this is explained in the sequel (which I doubt I’ll ever get around to watching), feel free to spoil it for me, because I haven’t understood the ending of this movie since it came out.
You fast forwarded through the movie, huh!!
Treadstone was a project to train an elite force of assassins. The guy who ordered the assassinations ordered the man who trained them assassinated.
Everything went swimmingly, until it all went wrong. The man responsible for it going wrong had to be eliminated.
The project was not officially condoned. The director had turned a blind eye to it as long as his subordinate had it under control. He obviously didn’t have under control anymore and the project and the subordinate, were now a liablility and needed to be eliminated.
Apropos of the thread but still a highjack (sorry caphis) the final scene in the Bourne Identity takes place in seaside town which may or may not be Mykonos … It just sits on the lip of the sea and is so pretty and picturesque it almost seems like it might be either computer generated or enhanced. Does anyone know?
(Yes I have asked before)
sorry
It’s definitely Mykonos. If you have the DVD, there is fluffy feaurette called On the Move with Jason Bourne which explains where and why all the exteriors were shot on location.
Agree 100%
Wow, I’m an idiot.
Thanks guys 
So why did Supremacy start out in India?
Yeah, yeah… the bad guys were on to them, they had to move… Or not. The bad guys were not on to them.
Why not? They had to go somewhere.
Sure.
But the thing is. No one was after them. So why move?
I know it was to have cool India locations at the beggining of the movie, but the internal logic is wrong. And it bugged me through big parts of the 2nd movie.
What, the only reason to travel is if somebody is after you?
In any case, Jason is always alert and paranoid about someone finding him again, which it turns out he was right to be, so it’s in his nature to never stand still.
I wonder if the do make a third movie, will the Jackal make it into the story line?