'Origin'
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unless Hearst and Marion Wassname were having loud, vocal sex in public, how did people know what body parts had pet names?
Hearst or Wassname could have told a friend. And they told two friends. And they told two friends. And so-on....
Or maybe a friend told a reporter.
Julia Stiles is the worst spy ever.
She's not a spy, is she?
Oddly enough, Polanski's wife is Lucifer. I was shocked myself.
I was under the impression that her reasons for helping/manipulating Corso were similar to those of God in Dogma. If naughty man ascends, or whatever, she screws up the divine order.
The second half of the film is nearly all Roman's work, and I hate him for it. He used up the last of my Chinatown esteem on this movie.
She's not a spy, is she?
A spy-helper. Whatever -- if you work with doctors, you learn not to be shocked at the paperwork or at stethoscopes lying around; if she works with spies, why is she so ignorant of how they work? For that matter, I can't think of a reason why she would be so ignorant of Bourne -- they were posted to the same city for, one presumes, a couple of years. Surely they had to have met or just looked significantly at each other across a large plaza at least once?
Minor point. She certainly doesn't fit comfortably in the world the rest of the characters created.
if she works with spies, why is she so ignorant of how they work?
Seems reasonably realistic, based on the news out of the FBI and CIA recently.
He used up the last of my Chinatown esteem on this movie.
Did he get any back with The Pianist ?
What ignorance of Bourne do you mean? Wasn't she brought in as someone who knew more about him?
I think yes, but all things considered, she knew nothing about him. Like, she seemed ignorant of the stuff that Brian Cox and Joan Allen already knew. If she had never heard of Bourne in her life before the night he invaded her office in the first movie, she couldn't have been more ignorant of him. But, if she'd actually been his handler/contact for three years before that, how can she be so ignorant of him?
Minor detail, in the scheme of things. Really, no more significant than the funny-wrong accents of every character who speaks a foreign language.
Not really, Polter-Cow. For some reason I want to put a u in your name. Huh.
The Pianist felt like paint by numbers, with one great performance and a few good supporting. Don't know if this is heresy around here, but the film frustrated more than it moved me.
But she was telling them stuff to help predict his behaviour and suggest his motivation, wasn't she? Cox did know more, but that was the point. What did Allen know that she didn't?