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	The Quiet American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Quiet American (1955) is a novel (ISBN 0-09-947839-0) written by British author Graham Greene.
		Set in Saigon, Vietnam in the early 1950s during the end of the First Indochina War, it portrays two concurrent conflicts: a romantic triangle between the veteran British journalist Thomas Fowler, the young American Alden Pyle, and Fowler's Vietnamese mistress Phuong; and the political turmoil and growing American involvement that led to the Vietnam War.
		The Quiet American explores several diverse themes through the relationship between Phuong, Pyle and Fowler.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Quiet_American (848 words)

	The Quiet American
		"The Quiet American" is focused on three characters: Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine), a cynical, stubbornly apolitical, aging British journalist assigned to cover the Indochina war; his young mistress Phuong (Do Thi Hai); and young OSS agent Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser) in Vietnam to rescue the natives from communism and French colonialism.
		In Noyce's "The Quiet American", Phat Diem is a familiar Vietnamese landscape, with riverboats, oxen and thatched huts.
		Despite the commendable distrust of American motives, this is what "The Quiet American" boils down to ultimately, a Eurocentric narrative that is content to stick to the surfaces of a land seeking to define itself for the first time in history.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/culture/Quiet_American.htm (1815 words)

	THE QUIET AMERICAN
		Phillip Noyce’s The Quiet American is a good film with a solid pedigree both in front of and, more specifically, behind the camera.
		But American is a serious and timely picture — so serious and timely that we were almost deprived of a chance to see it.
		American is a lot like The Third Man, which was also written by Greene and featured a story about an addicted writer and a his friend who wasn't at all what he seemed.
	www.sick-boy.com /quietamerican.htm (731 words)

	The Quiet American (2002) - A Review by David Nusair
		The Quiet American, which uses the Vietnam conflict as a backdrop to a love story, manages to straddle that fine line without becoming either confusing or simplistic.
		Based on the novel by Graham Greene, The Quiet American is surprisingly involving and though it deals heavily with the politics of the time, the film is clear enough that even a viewer with the most minimal knowledge of the conflict will be able to follow along.
		The Quiet American is a marked improvement over Rabbit-Proof Fence, Noyce's other 2002 film, which was over-the-top in virtually every aspect.
	www.reelfilm.com /quiet.htm (510 words)

	The Quiet American
		The Quiet American was ready for release at about the time of the 9/11 attacks.
		The Quiet American is surely critical of United States actions in Viet Nam, especially the sort of covert activity to which the public isn't privy.
		Instead of silencing the lessons of the not-so-distant past, the issues raised by The Quiet American are important to have as part of any debate as to what future interventions the U.S. undertakes.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/QuietAmerican.htm (684 words)

	The Quiet American (1958)
		The Quiet American was the first major American-financed film to touch upon the powder-keg situation in Vietnam (still referred to as Indochina in 1958).
		The American falls for the girl and promises to marry her.
		Graham Greene had intended his novel The Quiet American to be an attack against American influence in Southeast Asia.
	www.tedstrong.com /quietamerican1958.shtml (918 words)

	The Quiet American by Craig Armstrong
		Based on the novel by Graham Greene, The Quiet American tells the tale of Fowler, a British journalist (Caine) on long-term assignment in Saigon in 1952.
		His subdued style for The Quiet American is unique, blending traditional orchestral elements with electronic motifs, native instruments, and a lone, haunting female Vietnamese vocal.
		All artwork from The Quiet American is exclusive property of Varese Sarabande Records (c) 2002.
	www.tracksounds.com /reviews/quiet_american.htm (883 words)

	The Quiet American
		Completed in 2001 and slated for release later that year, The Quiet American suffered the fate of many a Hollywood film in the latter half of that eventful year; the film was shelved in the wake of the events of September 11.
		In both Greene's novel and Noyce's film, Alden Pyle, the quiet American of the title, is a duplicitous, ultimately unsympathetic character, who genuinely believes in the ideals of Western democracy but is willing to conspire with brutal and corrupt forces to achieve those democratic ideals.
		In The Quiet American, Doyle's cinematography varies imaginatively from the destabilising, hand-held battle sequences to the static, Ozu-inspired interior scenes in Fowler's Saigon residence.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/03/24/quiet_american.html (1392 words)

	EI > DVD > The Quiet American (2002)
		American Red Cross volunteers have been deployed to the hardest hit areas of Katrina’s destruction, supplying hundreds of thousands victims left homeless with critical necessities.
		Graham Greene's prophetic novel "The Quiet American" foreshadowed the doom of American involvement in Vietnam.
		He released "Rabbit-Proof Fence" and "The Ugly American." Both films were somewhat of a change of pace for the action director (Patriot Games).
	www.einsiders.com /reviews/dvd/thequietamerican.php (577 words)

	The Quiet American (2002)
		American doesn’t quite go to the roots of the battle, but it comes a lot closer and helps give us a glimpse at the way things started there.
		The Quiet American appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		American presented a generally subdued palette, as the hues often looked faded and pale.
	www.dvdmg.com /quietamerican.shtml (1829 words)

	Political Film Society - The Quiet American
		When the film The Quiet American, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, was released in 1958, Hollywood and the United States knew little about Vietnam, and the film was not much of a success; Greene was furious that his anti-American message was lost in a Hollywood still reeling from the fllist of leftists.
		Pyle seems rather contemplative and is described as "quiet." In time, Fowler realizes that Pyle's so-called medical aid mission is a cover for a more sinister plot, namely, to arm a democratic Third Force that would "save" Vietnam from both the French and the Communists.
		Afterward, Fowler reports that American aid increased, and several news stories about the skyrocketing American military commitment to Vietnam flash across the screen until the fateful year 1965, when the United States began to send hundreds of thousands of young men to fight in Vietnam.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/quietamerican.html (618 words)

	quiet american
		Quiet American is the manipulation of sounds I hear and record.
		My goal with Quiet American is to sketch in sound the experience of being in an unfamiliar place.
		Quiet American has been played on numerous radio programs and streaming internet stations.
	www.quietamerican.org /introduction.html (763 words)

	The Quiet American (2002)
		Writing in 1955, Greene anticipated increased American involvement in Vietnam leading to devastating consequences, and the film tells us the end of the story at the beginning: From the first scene we know that Pyle will be murdered, though we don’t know why or by whom.
		The novel ends with Bendrix alone and on the outside, the woman he loved having suddenly sickened and gone to be with her God after her moral triumph, leaving Bendrix to contemplate the strange legacy of his onetime lover’s faith.
		In The Quiet American, by contrast, the character who dies is not the woman but the respectable rival, Pyle.
	www.decentfilms.com /sections/reviews/quietamerican.html (1489 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - The Quiet American
		Young, idealistic and American, Pyle's views on a Third Force - not communism or colonialism - curing Vietnam of its ills seem to barely register with Fowler but the attention he directs towards Phuong does.
		Caine has been tipped for an Oscar nomination for his role and if he does receive one it will be a remarkable turnaround for a film that looked destined to get stuck in some studio limbo post 11 September.
		The sense of danger in 'The Quiet American' is never enough to make you swallow hard but observing Fowler's realisation that he has to make a stand is deeply compelling.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2002/1223/quietamerican.html (479 words)

	The Quiet American
		Strip away its frills, and “The Quiet American” is about two, stubborn men who enjoy the notion that they are important.
		Pyle works closely with the American embassy and with a rising third power in the region – a new leader who promises to beat back both the French and the communists.
		The fun of “The Quiet American” is found in working backwards through flashback; in watching how the obvious struggle over Phuong slowly turns Fowler and Pyle against one another.
	movies.zertinet.com /2003/thequietamerican.htm (994 words)

	The Quiet American (1958) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Audie Murphy is wooden in his portrayal of the American and, in a twist to the novel, is the hero of the piece.
		The way in which she is 'colonised' by first Fowler and then the American (Pyle in the novel, but not named in this film) is a comment on the way in which the foreign landscape is depicted and also on how the country has been colonised.
		This film should be followed by the Philip Noyce version of The Quiet American (2001) with Michael Caine as Thomas Fowler and Brendan Fraser as Pyle (the American in the Mankiewicz version).
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0052106 (634 words)

	Quiet American, The (2001): Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser
		From the opening moments, when it slowly becomes apparent that beautiful fireworks etched against the sky are, in fact, the sounds and sights of an encroaching war, Noyce sets his scene in a world where nothing is as it seems.
		Enjoying colonial luxuries and priding himself on his non-involvement in a war that is on his doorstep, Fowler rarely files any stories and is on the verge of being called back to London by his newspaper.
		Few films deal with this particular moment in history, or with the growing American involvement in the region that was soon to explode into the full-fledged conflict that enveloped Vietnam.
	www.citizencaine.org /films/quiet-american.shtml (632 words)

	The Quiet American
		Fowler is surprised to like Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser, "Gods and Monsters") when the younger American introduces himself as an aid worker, but begins to become concerned later that evening as he observes Pyle dancing with, and obviously falling for, Phuong.
		Sickened, he also spies his quiet American in the midst of the scene speaking Vietnamese like a native.
		Schenkkan and Hampton's terrific adaptation clearly defines the story on two levels - that of a love triangle and that of a third world country being pulled in three directions as colonialism (Fowler) is being overcome by native communism which in turn is being threatened by imperialism (Pyle).
	www.reelingreviews.com /thequietamerican.htm (814 words)

	Amazon.de: The Quiet American (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics): English Books: Graham Greene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Set during the French War in Vietnam, "The Quiet American" is a multifaceted story told in the words of Thomas Fowler, a cynical British correspondent and one of the novel's two main characters.
		It is about the American interference in Vietnam and the active role the USA played in destabilizing political circumstances even further, the clash of socialism and capitalism and of course it is about love.
		It is absolutely obvious that Greene knew and wholly understood what he was obvious about, and 'The Quiet American' has served as a first-hand report to all those interested in politics and history ever since.
	www.amazon.de /Quiet-American-Penguin-Twentieth-Century-Classics/dp/0140185003 (1904 words)

	PopPolitics.com - Commentary on Popular and Political Cultures
		I like him." The Quiet American is this dead man's story, but it is also Fowler's story, as he remembers how his "friend" came to be dead in Vietnam, long before the American War was visible nightly on U.S. television.
		Fowler's first encounter with the American, Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser), occurs as both are ostensibly observing the French colonialist fight against the Viet Minh.
		Christopher Hampton and Robert Schenkkan's screenplay is faithful to Greene's antipathy to American activities in Vietnam, covert and not.
	www.poppolitics.com /articles/2003-02-17-quietamerican.shtml (1795 words)

	Movie-List - Reviews - The Quiet American
		"The Quiet American" is based on the infamous Graham Greene novel of the same name.
		I have always screamed about that there is a lot of meaning in the quiet moments of film, Caine monopolizes all these in this film and its captivating.
		It is a shame that I didn't see "Quiet American" before I did my Top 10 for 2002 because it would have replaced "Sum of All Fears" as my #8 film of that year.
	www.movie-list.com /reviews/quietamerican.shtml (707 words)

	DVD Review: Quiet American
		A fine storyteller, Noyce discusses how he became involved with "The Quiet American", including one instance where the director talks about accidentially purchasing the novel when he intended to buy a book of poetry.
		Also included are a short featurette, Vietnam timeline, "Quiet American" book reviews and trailers for: "Gangs of New York", "Chicago", "Frida" and "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind".
		Final Thoughts: "Quiet American" is a mystery/drama lead by three marvelous lead performances, strong direction and an excellent screenplay.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews4/quietamericandvd.html (870 words)

	Reviews at MCN - Quiet American
		Cloaked in the mantle of a thriller, The Quiet American is a contemplative film trying to come to terms with politics of all manner.
		Much of the success of The Quiet American comes from a first rate script, an underlying conviction in Phillip Noyce’s direction and the manifestation of Fowler and Pyle.
		Wisely the filmmakers of the new adaptation embrace what we know and have experienced and situate their Quiet American in a context that is savvier and bears the weight of history.
	www.moviecitynews.com /reviews/quiet_american.html (956 words)

	The Quiet American (2002 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Quiet American is a 2002 remake of the original 1958 film of the same name, which was based on Graham Greene's bestselling novel.
		The Quiet American was directed by Phillip Noyce and starred Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, and Do Thi Hai Yen.
		The Quiet American - Novel which the movie is based on.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Quiet_American_(2002_film) (281 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: The Quiet American
		What we don't know is what role Fowler played in the death of the 'quiet American'.
		She is given little with which to excell and I think this might have been one of the best films of the decade if her character had been more involved.
		Fortunately, "The Quiet American" is a very good film with a very interesting story to tell.
	www.popkornjunkie.com /reviews/thequietamerican.html (885 words)

	Filmtracks: The Quiet American (Craig Armstrong)
		The Quiet American: (Craig Armstrong) There is no doubt that Craig Armstrong's career is headed in the right direction.
		The final sound of the score is a combination of several native specialty instruments, a light background choir, and the two primary elements: The full orchestra and the haunting performances of a single Vietnamese female voice.
		These are similar in style to those heard in The Bone Collector as well, and if there is any criticism of the score for The Quiet American, then it is the use of those modern rhythms in a film set in 1952.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/quiet_american.html (836 words)

	Frank's Reel Movie Reviews - Movie Review - The Quiet American
		The Quiet American is a complicated story told in a simplistic manner that should appeal to any one who loves good filmmaking and inspired acting.
		The second screen adaptation of Graham Greene's stimulating novel, The Quiet American is a powerful story of the deadly consequences of mixing love with politics.
		Almost prophetic in its telling, The Quiet American's release, originally scheduled for Fall of 2001, was delayed for more than a year after the events of 9/11.
	www.franksreelreviews.com /reviews/quietamerican.htm (838 words)

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