The Quiet American
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The Quiet American
Movie Questions
1. Why were the communists led by Ho Chi Minh popular throughout Vietnam after World War II?
People didn’t wanted to be a colony, so they fight forindependence from France.
2. Why did Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and LBJ mean when they justified intervening militarily in Vietnam by the “domino theory?”
That if one falls into communism, theneverybody will fall to communism. That’s why they didn’t what Vietnam to fall.
3. The movie clearly makes an analogy between the war and the love story between Phoung (the Vietnamese woman) and thetwo foreign men. What is the relationship between the war taking place in the movie and the love story? PROVIDE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES TO PROVE YOUR POINT!
Phoung: Is Vietnam, she does care aboutboth.
Fowler: Is Europe. It’s older, seems to know more about the situation of wars. Europe suffers by watching people die. He lies for love. He love’s Phoung and knows about her.
Pyle: Is America.It’s seems to don’t care about all the people he’s killing. He lies for the country. He’s in love, but doesn’t know anything about love. He justifies his actions by telling that the future will bebetter.
4. How does General The create an excuse to kill and throw all the communists in jail? Who helps him carry out this plan and how does this person justify it?
Pyle helped him; they blow abomb in a place in Vietnam and blame the communists for all those who died so that’s why they throw all the communists in jail, even though it was Americans and General The’s idea.
5. Why is thismovie called the Quiet American and how is this a critique of American foreign policy and Americans in general?
Because Pyle was “the quiet American” who seems naïve but at the end he was the onewho fight for the end of communism. They criticize the way Americans think and act with what was happening, because they don’t act about what is going on in reality, they base on a book and the...
Movie Questions
1. Why were the communists led by Ho Chi Minh popular throughout Vietnam after World War II?
People didn’t wanted to be a colony, so they fight forindependence from France.
2. Why did Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and LBJ mean when they justified intervening militarily in Vietnam by the “domino theory?”
That if one falls into communism, theneverybody will fall to communism. That’s why they didn’t what Vietnam to fall.
3. The movie clearly makes an analogy between the war and the love story between Phoung (the Vietnamese woman) and thetwo foreign men. What is the relationship between the war taking place in the movie and the love story? PROVIDE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES TO PROVE YOUR POINT!
Phoung: Is Vietnam, she does care aboutboth.
Fowler: Is Europe. It’s older, seems to know more about the situation of wars. Europe suffers by watching people die. He lies for love. He love’s Phoung and knows about her.
Pyle: Is America.It’s seems to don’t care about all the people he’s killing. He lies for the country. He’s in love, but doesn’t know anything about love. He justifies his actions by telling that the future will bebetter.
4. How does General The create an excuse to kill and throw all the communists in jail? Who helps him carry out this plan and how does this person justify it?
Pyle helped him; they blow abomb in a place in Vietnam and blame the communists for all those who died so that’s why they throw all the communists in jail, even though it was Americans and General The’s idea.
5. Why is thismovie called the Quiet American and how is this a critique of American foreign policy and Americans in general?
Because Pyle was “the quiet American” who seems naïve but at the end he was the onewho fight for the end of communism. They criticize the way Americans think and act with what was happening, because they don’t act about what is going on in reality, they base on a book and the...
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