I can tell you the license plate numbers of all six cars outsideAugust 28th, 2007 @ 7:01 am
Right after seeing The Bourne Identity I decided I wanted to be a super-secret-spy.
I wanted to be Jason Bourne.
You know the part where Jason’s all “who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports and a gun? Who has a bank account number in their hip? I come in here, and the first thing I’m doing is I’m catching the sightlines and looking for an exit.”
I wanted to sit in a cafe and know where the closet exit was. Or where the gun might be hidden. I wanted to be able to scale buildings and kill people with my bare hands.
Plus I wanted to jump off the subway in Berlin without getting hurt.
A few days after seeing The Bourne Identity The King decided that we needed a safe deposit box. Just like Jason Bourne had.
Of course we weren’t going to be able to get a fancy numbered Swiss bank account and have the number put in a chip that is then inserted in your hip, to be removed at a later date. Yeah, we weren’t going to do that.
The only thing we could do was get a safe deposit box at our local bank. Which we did. Seriously weeks after seeing the movie and deciding to become more Jason Bourneish we were the proud owners of a safe deposit box. We just needed to decide what to actually put in the thing.
The King thought about what we had in our possession and what we could put in our new safe deposit box. He decided that we needed to put our passports (naturally) and all of our foreign currency in it. We don’t own a gun, so unfortunately we couldn’t put a gun in our safe deposit box. And we each only have the one passport each, so that wasn’t as cool as Jason’s passports for every country. But still, it’s cool-ish.
The King scoured our house and found all of our random foreign currency. You know when you come back from Canada and you’ve got a pocket full of loonies that won’t do you any good in the USofA and you never know what to do with them? Well, now we just throw them in our safe deposit box. We probably have like $5 Canadian and maybe €15. Maybe.
While chances are nobody is ever going to see inside our safety deposit box, it makes The King and I smile just knowing that if someone ever did get a peek inside all they would see is a couple of passports and a pile of foreign bills and change.
Maybe our next step to becoming Jason Bourne is to buy an old mini cooper and have car chases through the back alley by our apartment.
So tell me, has a movie ever inspired you to do something? And if so, what movie and what were you inspired to do?*
*I hope Pretty Woman never inspired anyone to become a prostitute. That would suck.
The King · Random
Carrisa
said,
August 28, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Grace of My Heart. That movie moved in a way that no other movie ever has. There’s a scene in while Ileana Douglas’s character is singing “God Give Me Strength” and in that moment I could FEEL myself being inspired. I could just feel the desire to be somebody welling up inside me. It was then that I knew I wasn’t going to keep majoring in elementary education. I was going to follow my dreams.
Only I didn’t know what my dreams were exactly. And I kind of still don’t. I have so many.
Frema
said,
August 28, 2007 at 3:39 pm
After seeing The Silence of the Lambs in high school, I wanted to become an FBI agent just like Clarice Starling. That probably lasted for about a year.
(I still think that would be bad ass!)
Nic
said,
August 28, 2007 at 4:05 pm
I still want to be like Sydney Bristow from Alias. That would be wicked cool.
Other than that, I wanted to be Amish for a bit after watching Witness, and then again after watching the Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley movie about the Amish. I long for the simple life of churning my own butter and darning my own socks and smoking my own meat and all that jazz. The boook Little House in the Big Woods still makes me giddy.
But the truth about movies is that I would love to be in anything where I’m the love interest of George Clooney.
And, um, I’ve never actually seen all of the Bourne movies. Are we still friends? Do I need to send you presents now?
Kiraa
said,
August 28, 2007 at 4:52 pm
HAHAHA, I like it. Love it, even.
Laurel
said,
August 28, 2007 at 5:03 pm
My parents always kept our birth certificates and social security cards in the safe deposit box. And the deed to the house.
My main movie inspiration was The Sound of Music. As a kid, I desperately wanted to wear lederhosen made of drapes and, more importantly, dance in a gazebo with my secret Nazi-sympathizing telegram delivery boy boyfriend. It hasn’t worked out, though.
Yet.
Rachel
said,
August 28, 2007 at 5:31 pm
First, I love you guys!! You are freakin perfect for each other!!
Ok, mine’s not a movie, but for the longest time after I began watching shows like Law & Order and CSI, I would love to be a detective. Still do. I still watch those shows, but I also like all those new real life crime shows too.
Becky..Absent Minded Housewife
said,
August 28, 2007 at 5:36 pm
My husband’s sister was working for the NSA…all super secret. They like to hire hot redheaded chicks who get perfect scores on their ACTs and speak arabic without much accent. We could ask her how work was going and by law she wasn’t allowed to answer the question.
Movies inspire me all the time. It’s usually costumey passion though.
Emily
said,
August 28, 2007 at 5:38 pm
I always get inspired by movies like “Devil Wears Prada.” Ya know, the kind with the hard ass business women who wear incredible suits and stiletto heels that don’t even hurt their feet. I wish I could be that sophisticated.
kerrianne
said,
August 28, 2007 at 5:54 pm
I have always! wanted a safety deposit box. ALWAYS. And mostly because, yes, it seems to go hand-in-hand with super secret spy movies, which I love. But I keep thinking to myself, “What the heck would I put in it?”
And then I remember I don’t live too dangerously. I’m working on that. ; )
(The Italian Job was definitely when I fell in to deep smit with the Mini.)
Marriage-101
said,
August 28, 2007 at 6:01 pm
I now sit in restaurants facing the doors so I can keep an eye on an exit because of that movie.
I need to work on my safety deposit box skillz though. As in, I need to get one.
May
said,
August 28, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Oh Isabel, you are the best EVER! The movie that inspired me the most is probably Harold & Maude. Mostly because I want to be brave enough to post nude for a sculptor at age 80 AND have a 20 year old boyfriend on the side. Plus all the Cat Stevens music, can’t go wrong with Cat…
Then there’s Jaws… still have trouble in swimming pools because of that movie…
dianabanana
said,
August 28, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Harry Potter, I must admit, though the books more so than the movies, as I’ve only seen 3 of them. For about 3 months, I spent a ridiculous amount of time doing online research in hopes of finding a loophole around the law forbidding citizens to own a bird of prey … I wanted a Hedwig owl of my very own. I still do, in fact. I also tend to point whatever’s in my hand at the time at my sisters and fire off an Unforgivable Curse when they’ve irritated me. Hee.
janet
said,
August 28, 2007 at 11:31 pm
Have I mentioned that Matchbox pizza is about 2 blocks from the Spy Museum???
Nap Queen
said,
August 29, 2007 at 3:25 am
Ooooo, the Bourne movies are awesome!!!
LOL at Dianabanana, that’s hilarious and cool. I would love to own an owl.
Most doctor/nurse shows make me want to get into medicine.
Abbie
said,
August 29, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Sex and the city is always inspiring me to dress better. I’m a Charlotte in every sense!
anne
said,
August 29, 2007 at 2:57 pm
I love this post. I can’t believe the hubby and I haven’t done this…we LOVE the Bourne movies. For our camping trip last week, instead of hiking one day, we saw the Ultimatum!! It was fabulous. I had the theme music stuck in my head all day. Can’t wait until it comes out on DVD.
Christar
said,
August 29, 2007 at 6:58 pm
After seeing The Little Mermaid, I totally wanted to be a mermaid. I always loved to go swimming so I could practice my mermaid moves and holding my breath.
Does this surprise you? Lol!
SJ
said,
August 29, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Hmm, can’t think of any movies that have inspired me but I do love the Bourne movies.
And I think you and The King are cool for getting your own safe deposit box at your local bank!
Michelle
said,
August 29, 2007 at 8:07 pm
we love the Bourne movies & I totally want to be as cool as Jason Bourne!
I’ve loved the mini-Coopers since The Italian Job (the remake, not the Michael Caine original. Of course. there weren’t mini-Coopers in the original) That was another fun movie — made me want to learn how to break into safes! However, I have no criminal talents or abilities, I don’t even lie well.
Maybe because I ramble too much!?
Oh — I wanted to be like Young Guns, too, when I was in high school. Good thing I never had a horse! Or a Gatlin gun, for that matter.
Loralee
said,
August 30, 2007 at 6:37 am
I would be the world’s crappiest spy because I don’t notice ANYTHING.
I guffaw at your safety deposit box collection! It rocks.
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