Treading the stones
Cities are public backlots. Cities aren’t galleries and museums, they house the physical locations of stories. And while many find the tales of history compelling, I’ll confess that it’s the city’s fictional narritives I find more attractive.
Paris, in my imagination, is shaped by movies like Diva, Nikita, and Amélie. I’ve recently made a few attempts at visiting locations from The Bourne Identity.
If you’d like to check out the Paris geography of Bourne, I’ve fed the lat/long details into a Google Earth-compatible file, bourne-identity-paris.kmz . Just load it up and hit the play button for a virtual tour, or view via Google Maps.
