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The Quiet American (2. The Quiet American is a 2. Graham Greene's bestselling novel The Quiet American.
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It was directed by Phillip Noyce and starred Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, and Do Thi Hai Yen. The 2. 00. 2 version of The Quiet American, in contrast to the 1. The Quiet American, depicted Greene's original ending and treatment of the principal American character, Pyle. Like the novel, the film illustrates Pyle's moral culpability in arranging terrorist actions aimed at the French colonial government and the Viet Minh.
Going beyond Greene's original work, the film used a montage ending with superimposed images of American soldiers from the intervening decades of the Vietnam War. Miramax had paid $5. North America and some other territories,[1] and this film went on to gross US$1. United States. The film received positive reviews from critics and Michael Caine was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The story is set in 1. Saigon, Vietnam (French Indochina at that time), toward the end of the First Indochina War (1.
French forces fought the Communist- led Viet Minh rebels. On one level, The Quiet American is a love story about the triangle that develops between Thomas Fowler, a British journalist in his fifties; a young American idealist, supposedly an aid worker, named Alden Pyle; and Phuong, a Vietnamese woman. On another level it is also about the growing American involvement that led to the full- scale American war in Vietnam. Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine), who narrates the story, is involved in the war only as a reporter, an unengaged observer, apart from one crucial event. Pyle (Brendan Fraser), who represents America and its policies in Vietnam, is a CIA operative sent to steer the war according to America’s interests, and is passionately devoted to the ideas of York Harding, an American foreign policy theorist who said that what Vietnam needed was a "third force" to take the place of both the colonialists and the Vietnamese rebels and restore order.
Pyle sets about creating a "Third Force" against the French and the Viet Minh by using a Vietnamese splinter group headed by corrupt militia leader General Thé (based on the actual Trinh Minh The). His arming of Thé's militia with American weaponry leads to a series of terrorist bombings in Saigon. These bombings, dishonestly blamed on the Communists in order to further American outrage, kill a number of innocent people, including women and children. Meanwhile, Pyle has taken Fowler's Vietnamese mistress Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), promising her marriage and security. When Fowler finds out about Pyle's involvement in the bombings, he takes one definitive action to seal all of their fates.
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He indirectly agrees to let his assistant, Hinh (Tzi Ma), and Hinh's Communist cohorts confront Pyle; when Pyle tries to flee, Hinh fatally stabs him. Watch Grown Up Movie Star Full Movie. Phuong subsequently returns to Fowler, and while the local French police commander (Rade Šerbedžija) suspects Fowler's role in Pyle's murder, he has no evidence and does not pursue the matter. Production[edit]The film was shot in Hanoi, Saigon, Ninh Bình and Hội An in Vietnam. Reception[edit]The film earned positive reviews from critics, as it currently holds an 8.
Rotten Tomatoes based on 1. Thoughtful and wonderfully acted, The Quiet American manages to capture the spirit of Green's novel."[2]Accolades[edit]Academy Awards. Golden Globe Awards.
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