"In which country is Graham Greene's ""The Quiet American"" set?"
"their mental, emotional, and spiritual depths. His stories are often set in poor, hot and dusty tropical places such as Mexico, West Africa, Vietnam, Cuba, Haiti, and Argentina, which led to the coining of the expression ""Greeneland"" to describe such settings. The novels often portray the dramatic struggles of the individual soul from a Catholic perspective. Greene was criticised for certain tendencies in an unorthodox direction – in the world, sin is omnipresent to the degree that the vigilant struggle to avoid sinful conduct is doomed to failure, hence not central to holiness. Friend and fellow Catholic Evelyn Waugh attacked"
"praised were the locations. In ""The New York Times"", Bosley Crowther wrote: ""Scenes shot in Saigon have a vivid documentary quality and, indeed, the whole film has an aroma of genuine friction in the seething Orient."" The Quiet American (1958 film) The Quiet American is a 1958 American film and the first film adaptation of Graham Greene's bestselling novel of the same name, and the first major American attempt to deal with the geo-politics of Indochina. It was written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and stars Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, and Giorgia Moll. It was critically well-received, but was"
"The Quiet American (1958 film) The Quiet American is a 1958 American film and the first film adaptation of Graham Greene's bestselling novel of the same name, and the first major American attempt to deal with the geo-politics of Indochina. It was written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and stars Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, and Giorgia Moll. It was critically well-received, but was not considered a box office success. The film flips the novel on its head, turning a cautionary tale about foreign intervention into anticommunist advocacy of American power. In writing the script, Mankiewicz received uncredited input from"
"in 1994, the reinvigoration of Vietnam began. The renovation of the Caravelle was a heartening symbol of the country’s reinstatement as a nation worthy of the world’s attention. Irony of ironies, when director Phillip Noyce in 2002 surveyed Lam Son Square as a movie-set for the dramatic bombing scene in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, he chose the Caravelle as a stand-in for the historic Continental Hotel across the square. It wasn’t that the Caravelle looked anything like the Continental; it doesn’t. But the renovations at the Continental and the cost of shooting scenes at the hotel ruled out the"
"accused Steinbeck of exaggerating camp conditions to make a political point. Steinbeck had visited the camps well before publication of the novel and argued that their inhumane nature destroyed the settlers' spirit. ""The Quiet American"" (1955) by English novelist Graham Greene questions the foundations of growing American involvement in Vietnam in the 1950s. The novel has received much attention due to its prediction of the outcome of the Vietnam War and subsequent American foreign policy since the 1950s. Graham Greene portrays a U.S. official named Pyle as so blinded by American exceptionalism that he cannot see the calamities he brings"
"(Tzi Ma), and Hinh's 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. The film was shot in Hanoi, Saigon, Ninh Bình and Hội An in Vietnam. The film earned positive reviews from critics, as it currently holds an 87% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 151 reviews, with the consensus: ""Thoughtful and wonderfully acted, The Quiet American manages to capture the spirit of Green's novel."""
"thwarted by the state's racial segregation and Jim Crow rules. Green received the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer jury stated: ""The play does not sentimentalize on the tragic situation of the negro. It is scrupulously fair to the white race. But it brings us face to face with one of the most serious of the social problems of this country, and forces us to view this problem in the light of tragic pity."" The play was included in Burns Mantle's ""The Best Plays of 1926-1927"". The play takes place in the Southeast of the United States, from 1885"
"insurgents are delivering major strikes against the French colonial rulers, an innocent and enigmatic young American economist (Audie Murphy), who is working for an international aid organization, gets caught between the Communists and the colonialists as he tries to win the ""hearts and minds"" of the Vietnamese people. By promising marriage, he steals away a young Vietnamese woman (Giorgia Moll) from an embittered and cynical English newspaperman (Michael Redgrave), who retaliates by spreading the word that the American is actually covertly selling arms to the anti-Communists. ""The Quiet American"" started filming in Saigon on January 28, 1957, then moved to"
"a small role in her first English-language film: the MGM production of Graham Greene's ""The Quiet American"", a political drama set in French Indochina. Despite being an American production, the film was shot entirely in Rome (with location scenes of Saigon added), with Tani cast as a francophone Vietnamese nightclub hostess. But Tani's real ""break"" in English-language cinema came with the 1958 production ""The Wind Cannot Read"". This film, a war-time love story, had originally been a project of the British producer Alexander Korda, and was to have been directed by David Lean, who in 1955 travelled to Japan with"
"the United States. Kitty Savage, Clare's mother, is not happy about moving away from all she has ever known but she resolves herself to a quiet depression upon departure from Jamaica and arrival in Miami. Boy purchases a used car and the family travels north towards New York City. While traveling through Georgia, Boy attempts to get a room in a segregated motel, the innkeeper suspects that he is black but Boy is able to convince the innkeeper that he is white by telling him that his ancestors owned plantations. When the family arrives in New York City they go"
"America""), ""set in 2009 at an elite psychiatric clinic in South Florida, imagines a heavily sedated President George W. Bush, after he has left the Oval Office"" (Johnson). It was published in 2007 and staged at York Theatre Royal in early 2008 (""Donald Freed"", ""Another America""). Freed was born in Chicago to a Jewish family. He was raised in Alexandria, Louisiana, ""where he lived mostly with his mother and stepfather, a successful merchant selling clothing for a time, then military gear, and later soft drinks. His biological father was an attorney. After World War II, when the wartime boom deflated"
"on an island in North America unaffected by the fallout from the Sixty Minute War and has become a static city named Anchorage-in-Vineland. Most of the inhabitants are happy with their new life, but Wren Natsworthy, the teenage daughter of Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw, is bored with her life and seeks adventure. When she sneaks out one night Wren encounters three Lost Boys, Remora, Fishcake and their older leader Gargle; who have come to Anchorage in search of a mysterious Rasmussen family artifact named the Tin Book. The Book, bearing the insignia of the President of the United States"
"that spans across many difference surfaces. Elvin Green is a struggling writer living in Berkeley, California in 1967. Following the death of his daughter and the departure of his wife, Green is unable to come up with new material for a book, and his publisher threatens to drop him. Green suddenly hears a voice in his head, telling him to seek out images of the Theta. In finding these, Green is able to alter his reality and slip into new ones - one where he is a successful writer in a society that worship Abraham Lincoln as a revered figure,"
"place in an unspecified future time, in the dystopian, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem, located in North America. The country consists of a wealthy Capitol city, located in the Rocky Mountains, surrounded by twelve (originally thirteen) poorer districts ruled by the Capitol. The Capitol is lavishly rich and technologically advanced, but the districts are in varying states of poverty. The trilogy's narrator and protagonist Katniss Everdeen, lives in District 12, the poorest region of Panem, located in Appalachia, where people regularly die of starvation. As punishment for a past rebellion against the Capitol (called the ""Dark Days""), in which District 13"
"CIA officer Edward Lansdale, who was often said to be the actual inspiration for the American character—called ""Pyle"" in the novel but unnamed in this film—played by Murphy. In a Hollywood still recovering from the effects of the blacklisting of suspected Communists, the film stirred up controversy. Greene was furious that his anti-war message was excised from the film, and he disavowed it as a ""propaganda film for America."" ""The Quiet American"" was remade in 2002, directed by Phillip Noyce, with Brendan Fraser and Michael Caine, in a version more faithful to Greene's novel. In Saigon in 1952, as Vietnamese"
"there in Bangkok in WWII. He then takes us to 1960s Sydney, where he was working as a lawyer under the assumed name of Graham Greene. He falls in love with Katherine Faulkner (Judy Morris), the lovely but sheltered daughter of a wealthy family who live in a huge, isolated mansion in the outback. He visits the estate and woos Katherine and they fall passionately in love, but Hal's secret identity is soon exposed. During the war he betrayed a group of his own men, who were planning an escape, to their Japanese captors, and was later court-martialled for it."
"Vermont, a quiet New England town in northeastern United States in autumn and checks into a hotel showing clear signs of emotional distress. He tries to forget his troubles by drawing the eccentric town residents and asks for ""rubbers"" instead of erasers at a store, causing the small-town locals to go on alert. The casual request embodies cultural differences with Americans and Brits and causes some misunderstandings between the characters. The quirky outlandish hotel manager, Joanie (Mary Steenburgen) sees the state he is in and calls over her friend Mandy, a therapist, to talk with him and take his mind"
"Gamart, and Bill Nighy as Edmund Brundish. The film, a Spanish-British-German co-production, was internationally released in 2017. Filming locations included Portaferry, County Down, Northern Ireland and Barcelona, Spain. The Bookshop The Bookshop (1978) is a novel by Penelope Fitzgerald. The book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The novel, set mainly in 1959, centres around Florence Green, a middle-aged widow, who decides to open a bookshop in the small coastal town of Hardborough, Suffolk. The location she chooses is the Old House, an abandoned, damp property said to be haunted by a ""rapper"" (a poltergeist). After many sacrifices, Florence manages"
"United States. It was partially shot in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and in Norway, being a co-production with Norwegian company ""Viking Film"". On the night of July 4, 1978, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 12-year-old David Freeman walks through the woods to pick up his 8-year-old younger brother, Jeff, from a friend's house when he accidentally falls into a ravine and is knocked unconscious. When he comes to, he discovers that eight years have passed and it is now 1986. Police are shocked to see David fits the exact same photo on a missing child poster, not having aged at all. David"
"the army (""Cinematographic Service of the Armies"", SCA) during his duty time; moreover, as he had covered the Vietnam War he released ""The Anderson Platoon"", which won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. Graham Greene's novel ""The Quiet American"" takes place during this war. A Vietnamese software developer made a first-person-shooter videogame called ""7554"". Named after the date of Battle of Dien Bien Phu, it commemorates the First Indochina War from the Vietnamese point of view. First Indochina War The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam) began"
"Southern United States. Abandoned by their parents, Maya and her older brother Bailey are sent to live with their paternal grandmother (Momma) and crippled uncle (Uncle Willie) in Stamps, Arkansas. Maya and Bailey are haunted by their parents' abandonment throughout the book – they travel alone and are labeled like baggage. Many of the problems Maya encounters in her childhood stem from the overt racism of her white neighbors. Although Mamma is relatively wealthy because she owns the general store at the heart of Stamps' Black community, the white children of their town hassle Maya's family relentlessly. One of these"
"America (he wanted to prove to Aunt Lizzie that he was not ""cold like the O'Donnells""), along with his secret love for his uncommunicative father, and their desperate final, pathetic attempts to communicate make this play quite tragic. All of the action in this play takes place within a period of a few hours on the evening of Gar's departure, but it also includes flashbacks to Gar's relationship with local girl Kate Doogan, and the visit from his Aunt Lizzie. The play was first staged at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin on September 28, 1964. Second Age Theatre Company staged the"
"town in America""; to make the setting more realistic, some buildings and rooms lack furnishings. James Sunderland (Guy Cihi) comes to Silent Hill after apparently receiving a letter from his wife Mary (Monica Taylor Horgan), who died of an illness three years before. While exploring the town, he encounters Angela Orosco (Donna Burke), a teenage runaway searching for her mother; Eddie Dombrowski (David Schaufele), another teenage runaway; and Laura (Jacquelyn Brekenridge), an eight-year-old who befriended Mary and accuses James of not truly loving her. James searches a local park, where he meets Maria (Horgan), who strongly resembles Mary but has"
"in 1998 after a high level review by the Department of Defense (DoD) and through the efforts of Richard B. Fitzgibbon's family, November 1, 1955, became the earliest qualifying date for inclusion of American combat deaths on the wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.) Graham Greene's novel ""The Quiet American"" was published in England and later in the U.S. It portrayed American policy in South Vietnam in a negative light. In the words of one reviewer, ""American readers were incensed, perhaps not so much because of the biased portrait of obtuse and destructive American innocence and idealism but because...it was"
"where they were forced to work as part of a magic act in Reno, Nevada, USA. After a performance Scott is kidnapped and both physically and mentally tortured by the sinister Nightrise Corporation at a privately owned juvenile prison called Silent Creek, in the outskirts of Nevada. Jamie is rescued by a woman of the name Alicia McGuire, who is on a quest to find her long lost son Daniel McGuire, and suspects that Nightrise had kidnapped him and many other children with paranormal abilities (Daniel has a Precognition ability). With the help of John Trelawney, a senator going for"
"declares that all nations must cut their population by 5% each year. While some countries kill their elderly, others enforce a one-child policy. The United States implements a policy known as 10-241 or the ""Thinning"", a standardized test taken from first grade to twelfth grade. Those who pass continue to the next grade, while those who fail are executed. The story is set in Austin, Texas where Laina Michaels (Peyton List) helps Simon (Miles Elliot) study for the Thinning. When he is unable to understand the content, Laina reluctantly sells Simon a small contact lens that will solve the questions"
"Clayton fell out with Bradbury over an uncredited script rewrite, and after test screenings of the director's cut failed to meet the studio's expectations, Disney sidelined Clayton, fired the original editor, and scrapped the original score, spending some $5 million and many months re-shooting, re-editing and re-scoring the film before its eventual release. In Green Town, Illinois, a small town enjoying the innocence of an upcoming autumn as the days grow shorter, two young boys, a reserved Will Halloway, and somewhat rebellious Jim Nightshade, leave from an after-school detention for ""whispering in class"" and hurry off for home. When the"
"The Quiet Man The Quiet Man is a 1952 Technicolor American romantic comedy-drama film directed by John Ford. It stars John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond and Victor McLaglen. The screenplay by Frank S. Nugent was based on a 1933 ""Saturday Evening Post"" short story of the same name by Maurice Walsh, later published as part of a collection titled ""The Green Rushes"". The film is notable for Winton Hoch's lush photography of the Irish countryside and a long, climactic, semi-comic fist fight. It was an official selection of the 1952 Venice Film Festival. ""The Quiet Man"" won"
"political conditions in the United States, in particular, the Reagan administration. John's present-day narrative punctuates his retelling of past events, providing commentary and more recent anecdotes. John Wheelwright and Owen Meany both live in the fictional town of Gravesend, New Hampshire. The boys are close friends, despite the fact that John comes from a historical and wealthy family — as the illegitimate son of Tabitha Wheelwright — and Owen is the son of a working-class granite quarryman. John's earliest memories of Owen involve lifting him up in the air, which was easy due to his permanently small stature, in order"
"no longer available for download. All the plots of the installments in the ""Silent Hill"" series, except ""Shattered Memories"" and ""The Room"", share a common setting: the foggy rural American town of Silent Hill, which is a fictitious location set in the northeastern United States: some games specifically reference the town as being located in Maine, whereas in the film, the town is set in West Virginia. The town in the first three games was inspired by concepts of a small town in America as depicted by various media from various countries of origin. While some of the development planning"
"composed the music for the show being filmed in Brampton, Ontario. The show is set in the fictitious town of Herbertville, where 11-year-old Chris Anderson inherits his Uncle Derek's coach house seven years after Derek's mysterious disappearance; Derek is now legally presumed dead. The coach house contains two artificially intelligent robots built by Derek: Otto, a device which communicates by printing its thoughts on paper; and Theta, a talking computer with an integrated monitor. The terms of Derek's will stipulate that Chris can only use the coach house before he's 21 if it's for a worthwhile purpose, so he and"
"with Tom Burns. That voyage produced two books, the factual ""The Lawless Roads"" (published as ""Another Mexico"" in the U.S.) and the novel ""The Power and the Glory"". In 1953 the Holy Office informed Greene that ""The Power and the Glory"" was damaging to the reputation of the priesthood; but later, in a private audience with Greene, Pope Paul VI told him that, although parts of his novels would offend some Catholics, he should ignore the criticism. Greene first travelled to Haiti in 1954, where ""The Comedians"" (1966) is set, which was then under the rule of dictator François Duvalier,"
"Martin Feeney (Frecheville) is a former Connaught Ranger, who is returning to Connemara, in the west of Ireland, in 1847. On his arrival home, the country is experiencing the worst year of the Great Famine. Feeney finds his mother has died of starvation and his brother has been hanged, having stabbed a bailiff during his family's eviction. Feeney stays with his brother's widow (Greene), who is squatting in one of the few houses still standing with her three children, and makes plans to emigrate to America and take his brother's family with him. Before they can leave, agents of the"