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Graham Greene's The Quiet American: Intertextuality of the Changed Theme

The aim of this paper was to study the novel and film illustrated in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American (1955). This novel was a look at the ever-lasting dirty little secret of the Americans’ involvement in the Indo-China War between the French communists and Vietnamese. To study the original novel and the adaptation, the basic difference between a novel and a film has been identified as the difference in the methods of expression. The novel is a form of art that expresses itself using letters (words), whereas film is a form of art that expresses itself through the use of visual imagery. However, as film developed into narrative media, it began to share its similarity with novels. It also had its basis established by language. Novel and film can be included in the same narrative genre in the realm of their narrative exchange only under the premise of equality or similarity of the structure of the two media under a certain structural context. Graham Greene’s novel was compared with Joseph Mankiewicz’s and Phillip Noyce’s two films, and it could extend a realm of literature. It was also possible to read a positive literature reading by demolishing a boundary with other media.