Minority Report (film) was envisioned in 1999. Underkoffler, who designed most of Anderton's interface after Spielberg told him to make it "like conducting an orchestra", said "it would be hard to identify anything [in the movie] that had no grounding in reality." McDowell teamed up with architect Greg Lynn to work on some of the technical aspects of the production design. Lynn praised his work, saying that "[a] lot of those things Alex cooked up for "Minority Report", like the 3-D screens, have become real." Spielberg described his ideas for the film's technology to Roger Ebert before the movie's release: "Minority Report" was
The Quiet American (2002 film) Awards National Board of Review National Society of Film Critics Awards Satellite Awards The Quiet American (2002 film) The Quiet American is a 2002 film adaptation of Graham Greene's bestselling novel set in Vietnam, "The Quiet American". It was directed by Phillip Noyce and starred Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, and Do Thi Hai Yen. The 2002 version of "The Quiet American", in contrast to the earlier 1958 film version, depicted Greene's original ending and treatment of the principal American character, Pyle. Like the novel, the film illustrates Pyle's moral culpability in arranging terrorist actions aimed at the French colonial government