"The Quiet American" is about a murder that took place during the French-Vietnamese War in 1952 and was entangled in the triangular relationship between men and women. The figures involved include a senior British journalist (Michael Caine), an American soldier (Brandon Fraser) and a beautiful Vietnamese woman. In that turbid situation, opium, conspiracy, and betrayal were everywhere...Aiden Pyle (Brandon Fraser), a staff member of the American Aid Organization, arrived in Saigon in 1952, when the Vietnamese were trying to get from France. Became independent from the colonial rule. Pyle is full of enthusiasm and wants to help the Vietnamese people through his financial aid plan. He is also eager to learn about the situation in the region from a more experienced person. Pyle must work with Thomas Fowler (Michael Cain), a London Times correspondent who is well-connected in Vietnam. Soon, he found himself infatuated with the young Vietnamese mistress Feng Feng, who was as beautiful, mysterious and exotic as Saigon. These three people formed a violent love triangle. The love field was like a battlefield, intertwined with a series of amazing accidents. In the end, the ending was a murder case. All people and things are actually different from what you can see on the surface... One
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film is adapted from Graham Greene's classic novel. The director of the film, Philip Noyce, had read the original as early as 1970 when he was a student. He himself did not expect that in 20 years, he would adapt Graham Green’s fascinating thriller into a movie. Noyce reread "The Quiet American" in 1995 by chance. This rereading gave the director a different understanding of this complicated story full of political secrets, murder and romance. "I spend time with these American veterans, and they are full of regret for the transformation they have experienced in Vietnam," North said. Confronting the Americans themselves." All these have led to the "Quiet Americans" that we see today.
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