The Quiet American Page #2
- TV-PG
- Year:
- 1958
- 120 min
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Be careful you do not slip.
You see, they don't reopen in my presence.
The wounds.
They're supposed to bleed again
before the eyes of the guilty.
But then, they're frozen.
They didn't have refrigeration
in the Middle Ages.
He did not die from his wounds.
He was drowned.
We found the mud of the river in his lungs.
They should have let it happen quickly.
They?
Whoever.
You cannot help us at all?
Is it all right to smoke in here?
Who's there to object?
You recognize him?
Excuse me.
He was so determined to do good.
To people, to countries, to continents.
To the world.
Well, he was in his element now.
With the whole universe to improve.
When was it? Only a few months ago.
A lifetime ago, one might say.
It was at the Continental, I remember.
In the momentary cool
which comes to Saigon
when the working day is done.
Phuong was prolonging
her usual pre-dinner milkshake.
I was comparing the Indochinese war
being won in the newspapers at home
with the one being lost
by the French in the north.
We sat in silence.
Content to be together.
- Mr. Fowler?
- Oh, hello.
Joe Morton and I are having a drink
up on the terrace.
Would you and young lady care to join us?
Of course.
Oh, this is Ms. Hei. Ms. Phuong Hei.
- Enchante.
- How do you do?
Her unfinished milkshake
seems to be the problem.
May I?
Have you tried the milk bar
across the street?
The milkshakes are much better than here.
Uh, each morning at 11 hours,
I go there to have milkshake.
Each night at six hours, we go here.
I like there, the milkshake more better.
Bravo!
To date, her longest consecutive passage
in almost English.
It's certainly better than my French.
Of course,
the subject may have inspired her.
Milkshakes.
It's nice that the two of you
find something in common so quickly.
Well, step right up, folks,
glad to have you aboard.
Just sit anywhere.
So, what's your pleasure?
Vermouth cassis.
And Miss Phuong?
Oh, you brought your own, eh?
Well, basket parties welcome, I always say.
Uh, just the one drink, son.
Well, what do you always say?
Say?
Oh, I was thinking.
Phuong's a lovely name.
How do you spell it?
P-H-U-O-N-G.
It's the Vietnamese word for "phoenix."
Phoenix.
Fabulous bird.
Rises from its own ashes
and lives on even more beautiful.
Except that nothing nowadays is fabulous
and nothing rises from its ashes.
Not even a milkshake.
Is that an opinion, Mr. Fowler?
- How was it?
- Routine.
You've been up north to the war,
Dominguez?
Well, where's Bill Granger?
He said he'd meet us here.
I had my car at the airport.
He took a pousse-pousse.
He should not be long.
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