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Inside Adam Savage's Cave: The Bourne Identity Burn Bag - YouTube
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hey guys it's norm and Adam and we are
back in the cave the cave the cave is
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undergoing some reconstruction you might
have seen on episodes of still entitled
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that you'd shelves put in yeah while
recording a podcast and they're almost
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set up but they are almost set up it's a
long an ongoing process I have filled
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the shop with 13 Billy bookcases from
Ikea the Billy is the the inexpensive
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way into a glass front cabinet yeah the
case is like 120 bucks and then the
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doors are a little bit extra buy them
one at a time and I have added a
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modification of actually adding LED
lighting strip lighting don't buy these
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at a store at a store they're about $10
a foot on Amazon it's $1 a foot Wow so
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you'll save much cheaper 90% of the
expense by going on Amazon it's tough to
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compete yeah and free shipping of course
yes exactly but we're here to talk about
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what's in the shelves and behind us on
this particular shelf is a collection of
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props that you can replicate that you've
made so yes I replicas and actual props
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so yeah I never know what kind of movie
is I'm going to latch on to I never know
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what sort of prop is gonna jump out at
me and something I I really really want
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you don't know is I'm like when you're
watching a movie you don't know if
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that's gonna resonate like five years
later and and there might be movies with
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tons of cool props in them like
Chronicles of Riddick that I don't care
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at all about you don't want those
glasses you know does I have no interest
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whatsoever but when the Bourne Identity
came out which i think is 2004 2003
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early 2000 yeah I got really into Jason
Bourne I love the idea of the Go Bag now
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this actually has a predecessor which is
the movie Spartan it's a lesser-known
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David Mamet film starring Val Kilmer and
it's phenomenal I can't recommend
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Spartan and not in Spartan if you watch
the DVD extra materials Val Kilmer's
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kind of like a stand-up comedian when he
does the the commentary but he talks
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about how he had they had a couple of
Special Forces consultants on the film
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he plays a special forces commander on a
mission in Spartan and he has a little
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bag and he calls it his go bag and he
said he had all the things in there that
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a Special Forces
guy would need and I love the I mean
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obviously I'm a toolkit fanatic I love
the idea of you have everything you need
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in one place most of us have our
emergency rations stuff you know the
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water and some band-aids
these guys have captain guns well and so
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actually I met on Mythbusters weed we
did a sniper special with an incredible
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marksman Dave Lee manag who did some
tours and actually had to go back he
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wasn't able to tell me some of the
things that were in it because it's not
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for a civilian knowledge he did say it
was whatever you needed to get from
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wherever you were to ND any single point
on the planet within 36 hours and be
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able to survive there so it's now simply
an over-the-shoulder thing you might
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need all sorts of different gear weather
and stuff and I've always found that
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process that that concept really really
exciting and so in the Bourne Identity
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at the beginning of the movie he wakes
up started getting an energy tag he has
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that shit he has a chip in his hip and
he goes he figures out that it's a bank
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in Zurich and he goes to the bank then
he opens up this bank box it deposit box
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the safe deposit box and in it is all of
this stuff all of these passports and
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money and stuff that obviously from his
former identity he's still trying to
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piece it together
but I love the idea that this is like a
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secret stash that allows you to be
anyone and do anything it's enough money
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and identities to escape to anywhere so
he dumps it all into a burn bag which is
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I guess four documents in a bank
anything you don't want anything you
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want to get rid of you put in a burn bag
and they take and they incinerate it so
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the records totally gone so I actually
looked into making a burn bag from The
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Bourne Identity and I never got around
to it because they didn't have enough
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reference sometimes if I can't get
enough precise reference I'm not even
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interested in starting and then I came
across a guy who had one of the actual
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burn bags I think they made three for
the film so this this bag right here
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along with the trash man what's in it
this is the trash bin from the bank in
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Zurich and this is the burn bag from the
bank sequence so when when Bourne gets
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accosted by one of the security guys red
bag red bag on the ground this is that
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bag holy crap so this is actual movie
prop this is an actual movie prop and
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you built then the replicas to fill the
bag well and so I I didn't so much
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billed as a SEM simple but we could take
a tour through the replicas this is one
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of my favorite props I just I really
love I really enjoy that I've got one of
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these and I will tell you that there
there is a thing in the prop collecting
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community that some people and I don't
understand them they like buying a movie
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prop of which there's only one and then
they like hiding it away from the world
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so that no one can see it they actually
kind of get off on having the only one
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of something that doesn't make any sense
to me I have something like this I want
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to share it so actually a fellow prop
fabricator I known in indie Magnolia out
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of Australia I actually gave him all the
reference material fabric samples sizes
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grommets measurements and he's actually
producing some some bags like this I'll
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always have the original but if other
people want one I want them to have one
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awesome so let's take a look what's goes
alright
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all right Adam you have all these
probable cos on the table yeah this
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one's actual prop the actual bag and
let's start with just the money because
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okay lot of money here okay so I
frequent form as we've talked about
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before the replica prop form and I had
some screenshots there's a lot of very
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close-up camera shots of the bag and its
contents in the film when he's in the
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bank he takes off the cover of the of
the safety deposit box and the camera
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sort of Langer asleep hands over all the
contents so I've started putting up
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screenshots of those contents on the RPF
and then we started working through what
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was there so for instance the RPF is an
international forum there are people in
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every country in the world and this is
actually just before this film takes
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place just before the euro yeah came
into being so it's money a lot of money
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is obsolete ton most of this money is
obsolete but we were able to with the
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help of a lot of international members
identify oh those are reals those are
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saturday arabian money these are kronor
these are you know deutsche marks etc
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and so i was able to find references in
fact actually now that this most of this
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money's discontinued it's very easy to
find high quality scans of it because
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it's not not usable as much anymore i
also solved one legal problem by not
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printing anything on the back i don't I
don't want any trouble from any
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organizations about counterfeiting I
just want it to look great and so it's
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pretty you know downloaded high-res
copies downloaded hi guys cannot we put
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them out and create the band exactly and
each one of these bands I don't think
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there's standard I think they were all
made by the art department of the film
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so I had to kind of color match each one
I did have an advantage having worked in
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the film industry I did have a bunch of
fake hundred dollar bills these are
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movie hundred dollar bills real funny
money real funny money these is in the
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movies when you see people handle
hundred dollar bills these are them and
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it says for motion picture use only
knots right there are legal tender etc
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and I had a bunch of those I also had
and I always I reach out to prop makers
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for stuff like this I had a guy who
makes money for the movies make me these
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British pounds custom make them for you
well he's got nahi this is a design he
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made for
film and so I bought a bunch of stacks
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of them and his technique is actually
great he takes what looks like a real
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British pound so this is it this is a
copy of a real British pound and he and
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I didn't print the back and he comes up
with a design that looks enough like it
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for a film yeah there's the right
elements you get the Queen on the right
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side there's no way that it could be
confused with the real things good
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enough for American audiences we exact
all difference exactly so in that I
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figured out each of the types of money
that were in the bag and the amounts of
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each kind of stats a lot of counting I
made tons and tons of lists I keep
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really this is I just find this very
entertaining to do on a plane today
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you know each of the shots I figure out
how many of each one and then I
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assembled it so the money was one of the
first challenges the second challenge
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was the passports and in fact I reached
out to each of these passports is a
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Jason Bourne actual passport under the
different names that he has in the film
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real pest poised are not real passports
at all these are actually filmed
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passports again it says clearly these
are you know these are fake passports
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these are for film use only their exact
replicas of Jason Bourne hands down
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passports they all have stamps in fact
actually yes the guy who made these for
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me went so far as deposit where Bourne
might have gone and places in the course
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of the film I'm not kidding this is how
crazy this gets visas for different
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countries that he's talking about Hong
in 97 and oh yeah Wow
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absolutely so I've got yeah five of the
passports here then there is the I mean
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every one of these has a story about how
hard it was to find I bought a pretty
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nice replica of a tag tag viewer power
your power power tag Hauer link that is
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the type of watch that Bourne uses in
the film and it's you know tag and and
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and Omega they all do many different
designs of every watch so it's very hard
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to find a replica of exactly the dial
arrangement I had to like look through
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hundreds to find the one that I wanted I
wasn't going to spend the money tags on
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this bag Manafort watch that's fine then
there are things like this like this is
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that this is actually a keychain but at
first when I saw it I thought it was one
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of those
Kord holders oh yeah right my camping
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equipment so I went looking for that I
couldn't find it that someone on the RPF
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so they recognized it because they had
gotten it as a gift at an office and it
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turns out to be a keychain made by a
company to give out as gifts in an
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office why was that in the Go Bag you
know just the art directors looking for
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things that look technical that look
kind of cool a Mac hash but dongle out
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in in the film actually on the blu-ray
you're able to zoom in and see it
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actually read Mac hasp on the back so
that's the right model the exact right
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model and color translucent blue as I go
deeper you're going to think I'm crazier
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and crazier but this is deeply
satisfying this is a really weird cheapo
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multi-tool that looks kind of cool with
rulers on it
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turned out to be one of the easiest
things to find someone came up with it
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in about a day or two and it was like 14
bucks
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creddies these contact lens cases about
three of these this uniball of which you
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can see three in the bag I ended up with
four or looks at something you know you
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buy a target a standard uniball except
that this happens to be a discontinued
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uniball even at hands even tens turned
out to be difficult to find and in this
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one member of the RPF wife was a teacher
and you look when people come upon the
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uniball that they like they buy a lot of
young he had a bunch and he traded this
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to me for a couple of other items and
then there is that this is quite visible
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the film it turns out to be a French
phone car and card yeah I replicated
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this and actually I'll show you my
replica of it I replicated it by we
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actually were able to locate the
original photo of Notre Dom and usually
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the stock of a fake card yes the stock
photo and then someone found the real
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one and that is pretty good so that's
your replica my replica before I ever
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saw this in person and this is the real
thing I did pretty darn well I will say
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that it turns out people collect phone
cards of landmarks of everything so you
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can find these on eBay from time to time
and over the years I've managed to find
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two I also have a again made by someone
who makes us for the movies and on the
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back it says you know not for real use
not a real
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credit card but I have these Jason
Bourne credit cards and I say Jason
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Bourne right yep now I have somewhere a
black card an American Express black
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card which isn't in the movie but but I
figured born would a horse have a black
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card and then there's this which is it
to be very hard to find this Air France
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mm this is like an elite flying
membership club card it's very very
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difficult to find this so this is my
recreation of it that's basically
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graphics that I printed then I laminated
then I cut out in the shape of the
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credit card it's not perfect I'd like a
better one someone out there has one
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I'll trade you for it hmm and then here
this is something that you couldn't find
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a perfect replica
yeah so they're content obviously you
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know he had these contact lens cases and
the implication is that he could change
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the color of his eyes for different
passports I couldn't find the elegance
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soft colored contacts in the original
packaging it's very difficult to change
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this every year so this is my Photoshop
reconstruction on a different brand of
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contact lens it's done and there there's
but on yeah and then lastly a second to
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last there's a medical French medical
card which you can see in there I don't
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know what's in one of these so I don't
have anything in it but that's my
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Photoshop file of the front and back of
this and I found you know when you're
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trying to find reference for stuff like
this
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you know I see the name of it on on the
screenshot so I start doing certain
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exercises in Google yeah well then I
start doing searches for it on Flickr
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which is an indexed on Google and that's
where I hit paydirt
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a lot of the time then there's one final
piece of identification that you can see
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in the film which is this which is a
French driver's license now in all of my
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google foo I have not been able to
figure out what the hell sighs a French
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driver's license there's no photo of
someone holding in their hand in the
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wallet I found people holding in their
hand but honestly this this is about the
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variants you could figure out from this
so I painstakingly replicated the French
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driver's license down to the ID picture
which is laminated the stamps of the
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vehicles he'd be allowed to drive the
anti-counterfeiting lines on this as all
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my design
to kind of match what it might look like
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and then I picked it up in these two
different sizes because just in case
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again if someone out there knows exactly
how big a French driver's license is
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please send it to us at testing comm so
I can know then I'll print it out for
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real
and of course though and of course this
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is the ugh oh sorry there's several
other things give this thing this is
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actually a real stunt sig from the movie
this is a got a certificate of
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authenticity it's from the Bourne
Identity
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so whenever you see someone running with
a gun in it whenever you see someone
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doing anything with a gun in a movie
that they're not actually shooting right
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it's a rubber working guns are heavy
they weigh like three or four pounds you
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can get hurt and they're expensive you
don't want to drop them when it people
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are throwing guns to each other all the
time in the movies no one ever really
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does that so these are rubber guns you
can see this one this one actually yeah
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it bends and it's it's like Weeki so
this is one of one of the stunt pistols
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made for the movie the other thing you
see in the movie a bunch are faxes from
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Interpol so this is an internal fact of
looking for Jason and his girlfriend
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played by franka potente potente potent
ax that's my Photoshop reconstruction of
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it even down to the fax idea across the
top and then there are two very detailed
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faxes that you can see in several points
in the movie I did them in both color
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and black and white because you can see
both versions in the film depending on
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on which portion of the film that's
happening in through your obsession with
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the film went beyond the go-bag well
once there are more details to pick out
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it's not an obsession with the film per
se is more of just a it's again the
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figuring out of each of these details is
like a bit of meditation for me just
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sitting there and like zoning in going
to find something it's it's a treasure
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hunt and it's it's about the hunt not
about the object itself but it is very
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satisfying for me to have pretty much
I'm missing one pen from the bag and
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there's a pocket knife in the Bourne
Identity that it looks like a green
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Swiss Army knife it's not quite that
doesn't have the logo it doesn't have
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the Victor Knox logo or a winger and
it's a slightly different color green
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but I've never been able to figure out
what it is so this is as close as I can
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get I'm two objects away from perfection
so technically still work in progress
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I guess so and of course some gold
bullion well these dis gold bullion is
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actually these are replicas obviously
purchased on eBay of one kilo of 999.9
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gold these are not visible in the movie
they're probably not in his bag but I
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thought it'd be able you really had to
get everywhere you'd have to be able to
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use this and maybe the black-market we
carve off a little bit
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dr. scale okay it's real gold it's gonna
be mighty soft you can probably bend
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this with your fingers yeah so this is
my assumption of something that would be
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in there and it goes out of canon as it
were but I thought it should be that's a
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little bit of Liberty I also have a
really nice replica of the shot of Jason
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and his girlfriend and this I purchased
a vintage Air France ticket thing at
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some point in my research I came across
a ticket jacket like this so I purchased
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this to go in the case as well
sometimes I drift out of Canon just
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because I think that it deserves to have
this and that's me thinking like an art
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director
very cool so that's Jason Bourne's go
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bag absolutely what would you put in
your go bag um well I don't think I'd
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have anything that hurt people in it uh
you know I'd have a Leatherman I don't
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go anywhere without a flashlight you
know I I this is it like 20 times a day
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wrong laser drawn late
yeah you know what we have we'll have to
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do a segment about what I'm always
carrying on my person because it is a
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very specific set of objects that I use
for survival
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very cool thank you a table solutely and
we'll have more from the shelves in the
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cave and future edition of inside man
cave absolutely red bag on the ground
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