英国进步作家格拉罕·格林的长篇小说“沉静的美国人”已经被好莱坞导演约瑟夫·曼克维支“改编”成了影片。好莱坞居然能把这样一部小说搬上银幕,的确是耐人寻味的。格林在这本小说中忠实地揭露了美帝国主义阴险毒辣的殖民政策。小说的故事情节发生在越南南部,正当殖民主义者向越南人民发动“肮脏战争”的时期。年青的美国“外交家”派尔表面上是美国“经济援助代表 British progressive writer Graham Greene’s novel ”The Silent Americans“ has been ”filmed“ by Hollywood director Joseph Mankevitch. Hollywood actually can put such a novel on the screen, it is intriguing. In this novel, Green honestly exposed the insidious colonial policy of the United States in imperialism. The plot of the novel takes place in southern Vietnam, just as colonialists launched the ”dirty war“ against the Vietnamese people. Young American ”Diplomat “ Pyle on the surface is the United States ”economic aid representative