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