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Beautifully shot.

posted 19 years ago by charcoalchicken
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This film is beautifully shot, it consists of majestic lighting and exploding colour, great film and story.

Great performances by all especially Michael Caine.

Definately worth watching.

[–] fratellocarati 18 years ago

agree, although brendan fraser remains a bad actor, let him stay in box office movies

[–] TheBrothersCarruthers 18 years ago

Good on Phillip Noyce for pulling himself out of the 'Hollywood hack' rut by making such an interesting, high-quality, beautiful movie. I saw this last night on BBC2 and was utterly rapt from beginning to end. Everyone involved in "The Quiet American" should be really proud of themselves for helping to bring such a work to the screen.
And Michael Caine? He often 'phones it in' but there was no such slacking in this film at all. He was quite magnificent.

[–] Jes' Sayin' (5998) a year ago

If you read the book, Fraser was just like the character there, much more so than Caine was like his character, by the way.

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[–] griffic-2 18 years ago

I agree, film was beautifully shot and Caine simply magnificent! I think a lot of people (who obviously haven't seen TQA) still don't understand why Caine was nominated for Best Actor that year. They actually believe he "stole" the nomination from Richard Gere (from CHICAGO).

But those of us fortunate enough to have seen this film know why Caine received the nod (he also won the London Film Critics award, Golden Satellite award and San Francisco Film Critics award for Best Actor. Had Miramax promoted this film properly, I think Caine could have even been a favorite.

[–] moko00 18 years ago

great scene

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[–] kiltim 18 years ago

Agree

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[–] Kawada_Kira 10 years ago

Agreed completely, it was a beautifully-shot movie. Easy to see how one could fall in love with Vietnam, living in a place like that.

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
- Goethe

[–] Prismark10 9 years ago

Very nice cinematography in the movie.

Its that man again!!

[–] victorsuk 9 years ago

Got to agree, beautifully shot. Love the costumes décor and furniture and style of the buildings.....somehow reminds me of colloniel England.
Always find myself wanting to watch this movie.