Sinopse
Set in the early 1950s in Saigon, Vietnam, during the end of the First Indochina War, 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 girl. On another level it is also about the political turmoil and growing American involvement that led to the Vietnam War.
Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine), who narrates the story, is involved in the war only as an observer, apart from one crucial instant. Pyle (Brendan Fraser), who represents America and its policies in Vietnam, is
an OSS (Office of Strategic Services) 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 player" to take the place of both the colonialists and the Vietnamese rebels and restore order. This third player was plainly meant to be America, and so Pyle sets about creating a "Third Force" against 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 stolen 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. He indirectly agrees to let his assistant, Hinh (Tzi Ma), and his Communist cohorts confront Pyle; when Pyle tries to flee, Hinh fatally stabs him. 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.
Título no Brasil: O Americano Tranquilo
Título Original: The Quiet American
País de Origem: Alemanha / EUA / Reino Unido / Austrália / França
Gênero: Drama
Tempo de Duração: 101 minutos
Ano de Lançamento: 2002
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Estúdio/Distrib.: Walt Disney Pictures
Direção: Phillip Noyce
Elenco
- Michael Caine as Thomas Fowler
- Brendan Fraser as Alden Pyle
- Do Thi Hai Yen as Phuong
- Rade Šerbedžija as Inspector Vigot
- Tzi Ma as Hinh
- Robert Stanton as Joe Tunney
- Holmes Osborne as Bill Granger
- Quang Hai as General Thé
Trailer
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