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‘The Sympathizer’ Executive Producers Break Down Book-to-Screen Adaptation
14.04.2024 - 22:15 / variety.com
Rachel Seo “I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces.” So begins Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Sympathizer,” which, when released in 2015, was hailed for its humorous, biting interrogation of American perspectives on the Vietnam War. Integrating elements of the espionage thriller à lá John le Carré with a heavy sense of irony reminiscent of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” “The Sympathizer” is told from the viewpoint of an officer in the U.S.-supported South Vietnam army who secretly reports back to communists in North Vietnam.
Framed as a confession to the people for whom he has ostensibly been spying, the narrator — who goes unnamed in the novel — chronicles the story of his journey to Southern California, where he joins the Vietnamese refugee community settling there and grapples with questions of loyalty and assimilation. In a 2015 interview, Nguyen, who is a professor at the University of Southern California, said he wrote the book as a reaction to the dearth of literature that, “directly confronts the history of the American war in Vietnam from the Vietnamese American point of view.” “I sensed a reluctance to be angry at American culture or at the United States for what it has done,” Nguyen said, adding that the book is also “very critical of South Vietnamese culture and politics and Vietnamese communism.” Instead of choosing its targets selectively—only being critical of one group—it decides to hold everyone accountable.” Nearly nine years after the book’s publication and forty-nine years after the end of the Vietnam War, the novel about a “man with two faces” now also has a second face, in the form of the HBO series of the same name, from co-showrunners Park Chan-Wook and Don
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How ‘The Sympathizer’ Makeup and Hair Artists Believably Transformed Robert Downey Jr. Into Four Different Characters
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor When “The Sympathizer” showrunner and director Park Chan-Wook brainstormed ideas for HBO’s newest miniseries, one scene struck him as a “quintessential American institution and represented the idea of America.” It took place in a steakhouse with several characters coming together. Based on the best-selling novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen and set at the end of the Vietnam War, “The Sympathizer” follows a captain, played by Hoa Xuande, in the South Vietnamese army who’s secretly spying for the North Vietnamese communists. As Saigon falls and the U.S.
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Robert Downey Jr’s Multiple Roles In ‘The Sympathizer’ Represent “America As A Whole,” Director Park Chan-Wook Reveals
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the first episode of HBO‘s limited series The Sympathizer, which premiered on April 14.
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How ‘The Sympathizer’s’ Depiction of the Vietnam War Helped Its Cast Make Sense of Their Heritage
Selome Hailu About a month ago, “The Sympathizer” star Fred Nguyen Khan lost his grandmother. She was a Vietnamese refugee who sought asylum in Canada, enduring a “staggered escape” that left her and her siblings terrified they wouldn’t survive or see each other again. But were it not for the show, in which Khan now plays a refugee himself, he may never have heard that story.
‘The Night Manager’ returning with Tom Hiddleston for two more seasons
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‘The Sympathizer’ Review: Park Chan-Wook, Robert Downey Jr. Are in Inspired Pairing for HBO’s Ambitious Adaptation
There is so much going on in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2015 novel “The Sympathizer” that it would take a team of true craftsmen even to attempt to unpack it in episodic form. HBO is lucky they hired one of the best in Park Chan-Wook, a supremely and undeniably talented director.