2005 movie by Paul Greengrass with Matt Damon, Brian
Cox and Franka Potente based on a Robert Ludlum novel of the same
name.
Second in the Bourne trilogy, the Bourne Supremacy does not have any Swiss
bank scene. However, at the beginning of the movie CIA deputy director Pamela
Landon investigates project Treadstone and discovers from the inspection of his
laptop computer that Robert Conklin, shot at the end of the Bourne Identity, had
an account in Zurich. She suspects Conklin was in business with Bourne to steal
CIA funds and that his share is sitting on an account in Zurich. We briefly see
the bank statement in the CIA conference room. On Conklin's statement, we see the bank's name and address: 'BSB 1881 -
Private Bank Switzerland' and underneath 'BSB 1881 Private Bank
Schweiz, Am See 30, CH-1001 Zürich, Schweiz, Tel +41 44 11 33 89 0 - Fax +41 44
11 33 89 1'. The bank's name sounds like a German bank but is otherwise
credible. The letterhead, address and phones all look real. The movie director
clearly has done his due diligence. The statement is only shown briefly and is
not legible on the DVD, but seen from a distance it looks very credible. The
bottom line uses American standards for numbers with a +
760.000,00 whereas Swiss banks prefer to use commas as thousands
separator and dots for decimals (760,000.00 or rather 760,000.-). The + sign is
usually omitted as Swiss banks do not extend credit to their foreign clients. The first reader to send us a legible copy of the bank statement will
receive a box of Swiss chocolate.
Abbott,
the head of Project Treadstone, is played by Brian Cox, famous for his role as
Hanibal Lecter in the first Lecter movie as well as Hermann Goering in
'Nuremberg'. In the Bourne Identity (2002) we see the inside of
Bourne's Swiss safe deposit box and his pile of passports. You may remember that
the Russian passport in this movie had was not credible, the
cyrillic did not match the name 'Foma Kiniaev' in latin script. Well, director Paul Greengrass is known for his
love for real location and documentary feel in his movie. He corrected this in
the Bourne Supremacy and now both the cyrillic and the latin script say the
same. The date of birth 21.08.1969 is the same on both
passports.
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