标题：沉静的美国人
剧情简介
1952年，英国的老记者托马斯享受着他在西贡悠闲的生活与美丽温柔的情妇、越南女人红。这个顺从的女人虽然明知他在英国已有家室，却别无所求。
一位英俊的美国青年艾登怀着理想主义的激情来到西贡，希望参加医疗援助，他的热情打动了托马斯。一直以来，托马斯都小心翼翼地保持着中立态度，仅仅不动声色地观察着，尽到自己新闻报道者的本分。很快他就发现艾登迷上了红，而伦敦的报社总部命令他停止在越南的活动回国。沉静的美国人 (6张)
托马斯决定去挖掘一桩大新闻，深入战争地带报道一起大屠杀，以使自己能够继续留在越南。艾登追随他潜入战场，并向他坦承对红的爱，表示将向她求婚。出人意料的是，红竟然拒绝了艾登的求婚。另一方面，托马斯逐渐发现艾登似乎并不像他看上去的那般单纯……
Love, politics and intrigue intermingle in this taut retelling of Graham Greene's classic tale of a disillusioned British journalist, an idealistic young American and the beautiful Vietnamese woman that comes between them in 1950s Saigon. Written by Anonymous 
Saigon, 1952, a beautiful, exotic, and mysterious city caught in the grips of the Vietnamese war of liberation from the French colonial powers. New arrival Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser), an idealistic American aid worker, befriends London Times correspondent Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine). When Fowler introduces Pyle to his beautiful young Vietnamese mistress Phuong (Hai Yen) the three become swept up in a tempestuous love triangle that leads to a series of startling revelations and finally - murder. Nothing, and no one, is as it seems, in this adaptation of Graham Greene's classic and prophetic story of love, betrayal, murder and the origin of the American war in Vietnam.[1]
演员职表
演员表角色演员备注Thomas Fowler迈克尔·凯恩/Michael Caine----Alden Pyle布兰登·弗雷泽/Brendan Fraser----PhuongDo Thi Hai Yen----Inspector Vigot(as Rade Sherbedgia)拉德·舍博德兹加/Rade Serbedzija----Hinh马泰/Tzi Ma----Joe Tunney罗伯特·斯坦顿/Robert Stanton----Bill Granger赫尔姆斯·奥斯伯恩/Holmes Osborne----General Thé黄·海/Quang Hai----Mr. MuoiFerdinand Hoang----Phuong's SisterPham Thi Mai Hoa----职员表▪ 制作人：Staffan Ahrenberg；Steve E. Andrews；Antonia Barnard；Moritz Borman；Matthias Deyle；Guy East；Oliver Hengst▪ 导演：菲利普·诺耶斯/Phillip Noyce▪ 副导演（助理）：Steve E. Andrews；Lucy Cooper；Nhat Minh Dang；China De La Vega▪ 编剧：格雷厄姆·格林/Graham Greene；克里斯托弗·汉普顿/Christopher Hampton；Robert Schenkkan▪ 摄影：杜可风/Christopher Doyle▪ 配乐：Craig Armstrong▪ 剪辑：John Scott▪ 艺术指导：Anne Beauchamp；Jeffrey Thorp▪ 造型设计：Roger Ford▪ 服装设计：Norma Moriceau▪ 视觉特效：Charlie Armstrong；Mark Barber；Aaron Barclay；Niki Bern▪ 布景师：Kerrie Brown
关于影片
格雷厄姆·格林已经成为继莎士比亚、简·奥斯汀后又一位受到电影人青睐的文学家。本片根据他的同名小说改编，以法国的殖民势力逐渐衰落，美国开始侵入越南的时代为背景。
小说于1955年出版，正是法国在越南战败一年之后。这本书已经初步显露了格林的反美倾向和他惊人的政治触觉，他非常敏锐地预言了美国不久后在东南亚地区的势力扩张。而1956年小说在美国发行时引起了强烈抗议。小说的男主人公托马斯在某种意义上是以格林本人为原型的，他自1951年开始担任驻越南的记者。
小说曾于1958年被首次搬上银幕，因改编违背格林的原意引起了他的极大不满。而这次的版本就比较忠实于原著，并在越南拍摄。
实际上本片早在一年前就完成了制作，准备上映时却遇上了“9·11”事件。按照小说原意，影片暗示了美国是50年代越南一些恐怖事件的幕后指使者，这种敏感的倾向在“9·11”的气氛下显然会招致非议。米拉麦克斯公司大感为难，只好推迟上映，并多次声明希望影片被视作浪漫故事，而不是对美国政府的攻击。说实话，这多少有些“此地无银三百两”。
相对于美国的紧张空气，越南几乎是敞开怀欢迎影片。除了举办首映式外，越南共产党高度评价影片，称其准确地描述了美国在印度支那地区的早期活动。
​影片疏失
Continuity: When Pyle is coming to visit Fowler in his apartment for the final time, his dog supposedly leaves a footprint in wet cement which is a clue for the detective. In the scene shown, the dog never touches the cement (his paw lands on a nearby tile).
Crew or equipment visible: When Fowler and his assistant are riding in the car through a crowd, a crewmember pushing the camera is visible just below Fowler's arm.
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Alden shows Phuong a picture of Fanueuil Hall in Boston and says, "This is Fanway Hall". Sounds like Fenway Hall. Bostonians say 'Fanyel" hall, or less often, 'Fan-you-well' hall. Fenway Park is where the Red Sox play, so named because is is near the Fens, a marshy area off the Charles river. Fenway has nothing to do with Faneuil.
Errors in geography: When Fowler is reading his report of the massacre in The Times, the text says "120 kilometers". In the unlikely event that an English journalist in the 1950s would use kilometers instead of miles, he would have spelled it "kilometres". Also, the text reads that Phat Diem is "120 kilometers north of Hanoi" when, in fact, it is 120 kilometers SOUTH of Hanoi.[2]
精彩对白
Thomas Fowler: If I lost her, for me, it would be the beginning of death. 
Hinh: Sooner or later, Mr. Fowler, one has to take sides, if one is to remain human. 
[first lines] 
Thomas Fowler: [voiceover] I can't say what made me fall in love with Vietnam - that a woman's voice can drug you; that everything is so intense. The colors, the taste, even the rain. Nothing like the filthy rain in London. They say whatever you're looking for, you will find here. They say you come to Vietnam and you understand a lot in a few minutes, but the rest has got to be lived. The smell: that's the first thing that hits you, promising everything in exchange for your soul. And the heat. Your shirt is straightaway a rag. You can hardly remember your name, or what you came to escape from. But at night, there's a breeze. The river is beautiful. You could be forgiven for thinking there was no war; that the gunshots were fireworks; that only pleasure matters. A pipe of opium, or the touch of a girl who might tell you she loves you. And then, something happens, as you knew it would. And nothing can ever be the same again. 
Thomas Fowler: I know I am behaving badly, but I have every intention of behaving badly. As a matter of fact, this is exactly the kind of situation where one should behave badly. 
[last lines] 
Thomas Fowler: [voiceover] They say you come to Vietnam and understand a lot in a few minutes. The rest has got to be lived. They say whatever it was you were looking for, you will find here. They say there is a ghost in every house, and if you can make peace with him, he will stay quiet. 
Thomas Fowler: Pyle est mort. Assassinated. 
Thomas Fowler: [to Pyle, who has just saved his life] If I had died, you could have had her. 
Thomas Fowler: Colonel The. 
Hinh: [Correcting him] General The. 
Thomas Fowler: Who made him a General? 
Hinh: He did.[3]
影片花絮
When Thomas Fowler first introduces Phuong to Alden Pyle, the song "J'ai Deux Amours" (Literally, "I Have Two Loves") can be heard being performed in the background.
The US release of this movie was delayed for more than a year by the terrorist attacks on the USA of 11 September 2001. The producers were concerned that it would be seen as anti-American.[4]
幕后
本片导演菲利普·诺伊斯与彼得·威尔等同属澳大利亚新浪潮一代。他在本土打出名声后前往好莱坞，也是同辈澳洲导演中发展得最顺畅的一位。《爱国者游戏》、《迫切的危机》、《人骨拼图》是他成功的影片。不过这十几年来，他一直拍商业娱乐片，今年突然推出两部走艺术路线的电影，令人意外。
和今年诺伊斯的另一部作品《末路小狂花》一样，本片也是由杜可风掌机。
评论
影片准确地抓住了那个时代的政治气氛与浪漫色彩，将政治风云架构进三角恋爱故事中。舒缓的节奏与昏暗潮湿的画面相得益彰，在西贡颓败的氛围中铺开欲望和阴谋催生的背叛与死亡。虽然战争是影片的大背景，但片中几乎没有那种紧张动荡的战争气氛，而是显得慵懒凝重，内敛风格更接近欧洲电影。
虽然有人将之视作一部带着几分乡愁与感伤的影片，但其实片中的政治讽刺色彩简直不言而喻。也难怪米拉麦克斯公司会如此紧张。
两位男主角之间的对手戏比较精彩，而对于片中欲望的中心——那位越南姑娘，诺伊斯和他的前任一样显得不知所措，只能和大多数西方电影处理此类问题的方式一样，展现那种神秘情调与东方魅惑。
迈克尔·凯恩将本片视作向奥斯卡发起的又一次冲击，在去年底的美国影评人协会上，导演菲利普·诺伊斯已经凭本片和《末路小狂花》获得最佳导演殊荣。