Stupid factual mistakes…
-
Lucy9596 — 13 years ago(September 24, 2012 09:07 AM)
pretty sure if you were to ask the average person on the street where the US embassy in Switzerland is, 9 out of 10 would probably say Zurich
Ask them for the capital and they will say Zrich too. Don't know why that is but everybody thinks Zrich (largest city) instead of Bern (there's no capital actually, not de jure, only de facto).
If the idea is to stay alive, I'm driving. -
busterbboy — 13 years ago(December 27, 2012 03:36 PM)
Armadillo, you have just ruined the film for me.
Until I read your post, I though The Bourne Identity was a smart, exciting film.
But now you've pointed out it was riddled with dimbo mistakes, I've gone right off it and wondered why I was so badly fooled.
Thank you! -
Lucy9596 — 11 years ago(September 21, 2014 03:25 AM)
Because of the
Schengen Agreement
. No border checks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement
Will Graham: I don't find you that interesting.
Hannibal Lecter: You will.
-
DKeaton — 11 years ago(September 21, 2014 02:21 PM)
You can't get out of the train station when travelling from a non-Schengen country to a Schengen one by train without showing some identification. There's a quite serious security check where they check papers, visas and bags, too. And I'm sure it's the same the other way around.
I don't think there's any explanation for this [that is, Bourne getting into Switzerland, of all European countries, without papers] other than that it is indeed a stupid mistake. -
Darvidd — 11 years ago(October 04, 2014 11:13 AM)
Other than it's 'inconvenient' to the plot, rather like the way he waltzes into the embassy/consulate/Burgerking thing with no security check of his bag etc when obviously he's being pursued by the Gendarmerie!
"What is an Oprah?"-Teal'c. -
dotdashdash — 11 years ago(March 29, 2015 02:56 AM)
Dwelling upon the embassy/consulate thing is really just unnecessary smartassing. It's a perfectly plausible character error to have the CIA guys call it an "embassy", given that - as many others have pointed out - many otherwise educated people aren't aware that Zurich is not the capital of Switzerland, or even what the difference between a consulate or an embassy is. The people at the location in Zurich correctly call it a "consulate", as you would expect them to do.
The objection with the fact that Switzerland was not a Schengen country when the film is set is more substantive. It would, indeed, imply that Bourne would have to pass border checks when entering Switzerland by train from Marseilles, or leaving it by car towards Paris. -
markfilipak — 10 years ago(June 01, 2015 04:10 PM)
The sailors who rescue Bourne are Italians. The port the fishing boat enters 2 weeks later is not Marseilles, but Imperia in Liguria, Italy (compare this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperia#/media/File:Imperia_Porto_Maurizio_BMK.jpg
with the skyline at 00:09:13.
I don't have a dog. And furthermore, my dog doesn't bite. And furthermore, you provoked him.
-
akg96-1 — 9 years ago(July 16, 2016 10:01 PM)
Wanting to be right rather than happy, sucks. Guess there's always a price to being lonely at the top. I'd rather just watch it over & over - you know, see only the good & praise it. Yeah, it's that simple. Watching it again, now.
