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...three people at the story's center?Pyle (Brendan Fraser), the older English reporter Thomas Fowler (Caine) and local lovely Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), whom the two men covet, conquer and betray?can be seen as representing the Americans, Europeans and Vietnamese of the early '50s, dancing on a slippery geopolitical slope that 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...
...Hien found himself with a U.S. immigrant visa-approved, he says, by the same Vietnamese staffer of the consulate who had rejected him previously. There was only one catch: Hien had to travel with his new "family," four Vietnamese whom he believes had paid the woman, Nguyen Thi Thanh Phuong, up to $20,000 to secure them visas to the U.S., piggybacking on Hien. When he wanted to delay his planned departure because of his real brother's death, he says Phuong threatened him, saying she had powerful friends and would have him maimed if he wouldn...
...Vietnam's long-suffering Amerasians are not just scorned-they're scammed as well. Undetected until recently, a network of brokers has for years been using Amerasians to traffic Vietnamese into the U.S. Eleven people, including Phuong, have been arrested for providing Amerasians with false identities and matching them with people willing to pay for a U.S. resident visa (those detained have pleaded not guilty and await trial). Since the Amerasian Homecoming Act was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1987, some 23,000 Amerasians and 67,000 of their relatives have emigrated to the U.S. How many of those...
...skinned with kinky hair and built like a linebacker, Hai, 30, says he's the son of an African-American airman named Mark who lived with his mother in the 1970s. Denied a visa, he went to the consulate to protest-unsuccessfully-and says he was then approached by Phuong. Desperate, he accepted her offer, and was promptly issued a new visa that came with a new family: a woman posing as his wife and her two children. But Hai already had a wife and curly-haired son Van, 9, and daughter Thuy, 10. "I didn't want to leave...
...rejected applicants on his list-poor, illiterate and desperate-have later been approached by traffickers. There have been suggestions that some Amerasians took money for their part in the scheme, but most say they were tricked. "The Amerasians are preyed upon," says one U.S. official familiar with Phuong's trafficking ring. "They were clearly victims...