We have decided to have a movie day each week on Mondays. We started with the lovely #brendanfrasers #rentalfamily.
A beautiful movie showing us a sliver of #japanese culture. It reminds of his role in #thequietamerican. Brendan Fraser is one of my favourite actors. Every excellent movie he has been in shows a gentle love of life. #thewhale was such film.
I just re-watched the 1958 version of #TheQuietAmerican (starring Audey Murphy, an English actor whose name you'd never remember & an Italian actress in #YellowFace) which is set in #Indochina (aka #VietNam) in the 50's during the Vietnamese war vs the #French colonialist but is really about a #LoveTriange between an #American (who is probably a CIA -- then still probably known as the OSS -- agent, an English journalist & his Vietnamese mistress.
The film was remade in 2002 in a movie by the same name starring Michael Caine & Brendan Frazer. The 1958 movie is the better of the 2.
I have mixed feelings about this movie about 2 white men competing for an Asian woman, which reeks of the white male fetishization of Asian women but, if you strip away the inter-racial aspects of the film, it's mainly about what a man will do to save his relationship (including setting up his rival to be murdered) with the woman he loves.
I still give it a 6 out of 10 & own the DVDs of both versions.
๐พ๐๐๐ ๐ฐ'๐ ๐น๐๐๐ ๐๐๐: "๐ป๐๐ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐" ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐ -
Is Greene now from a bygone era? Perhaps. But there is something fresh and incisive about his prose and narrative distance that always compels. Looking forward to this work which I have not read in some decades!
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@conradcole I'm interested in #Vietnam. Certainly more so than Thailand--although my wife wants to go there someday. I think Vietnam still has historic and cultural appeal for me, but I must admit my impression of Vietnam is largely shaped by Graham Greene's Quiet American. I'm not so interested in highly developed tourist destinations.
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