“The Quiet American,” October 18, 2003 (2002), video. We both liked this remake of the Graham Green classic about the entry of the US into the Vietnam conflict. Bronwen liked it more than I, however, as I adore the book and know it too well. It stars Michael Caine as Fowler, the English journalist, and Brendan Frasier as Pyle, the CIA man creating havoc and violence building the ‘third way,’ a non-communist, nationalist movement opposed to both the French and the Viet Minh in 1952. I missed the novel’s complexity as they sparred for Phong’s affection, just as old Europe and the US fight over Vietnam, but it is a worthy piece of work. It also plays Pyle as much colder and sure of himself than the novel, a tribute to Green’s humanity and his fundamentally condescending view that the American’s are unknowing naifs. The movie plays Pyle as much more callous in his wasting of Vietnamese life. It is a good film nonetheless, and may be more right in that view than was Green