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...leads straight into the Big Muddy. They are also familiar figures in the Greene canon. The Quiet American is very nearly Greene's remake of The Third Man, his 1949 tale of political and sexual intrigue set in postwar Vienna, with the same cast of characters: a world-weary Englishman; an exotic woman bound to an unscrupulous lover; and an American who could be naive or a killer...
...because Steven Knight's script tucks sharply observed commentary into an appealing love story. Phillip Noyce's stylish The Quiet American, based on the 1954 Graham Greene novel, uncovers early U.S. chicanery in Vietnam. But it's more impressive for Michael Caine's perfectly graded performance as a tired Englishman whose political scruples - and sexual possessiveness - put him at odds with the blandly conniving Yank played by Brendan Fraser. Even Curtis Hanson's 8 Mile, the widely heralded acting debut of hip-hopper Eminem, has a political agenda tucked inside its rappin'-Rocky plot. It says that the white underclass...
Based on the 1955 Graham Greene novel, Phillip Noyce's intimate epic dramatizes the mundane face of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. Its release has been delayed, but Oscar-minded Miramax had better get it out by the end of the year. As an Englishman whose political scruples lead him to abet murder, Michael Caine gives a suave, smartly controlled turn that is guaranteed a nomination...
...Fragrant Harbor has been advertised as the Great Hong Kong Expat Novel?hardly a genre fraught with competition. Fortunately, Lanchester?an Englishman raised in Hong Kong?has a familiarity with the city that extends far beyond the numbing bubble of contemporary expatriate life. He shows that almost everyone who has helped build Hong Kong over the past 50 years has been, in effect, an expat?from the Westerners with empty pockets and overflowing dreams to the mainland refugees who made the city their own. Each of the three narrators of Fragrant Harbour has vivid memories of first seeing Hong Kong...
...given orders to the likes of Paul Newman and Tom Hanks, Sam Mendes hardly cuts an imposing figure. The soft-spoken, moon-faced Englishman who directed Road to Perdition and American Beauty, which won Best Director and Best Picture Oscars, is more Cambridge humanities lecturer than drill sergeant: he pays attention to his actors' needs. "Tom is freer in front of the camera, wants to improvise more," Mendes explains. "Paul needs to be more precise, to know exactly what you want." Neither man seems a natural choice for the hard-boiled '30s gangsters they play in Perdition, but Mendes relished...