What's the Difference between The Chinaman the Book and The Foreigner the Movie?
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Nguyen Ngoc Minh
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Quan Ngoc Minh
Portrayed by: Jackie Chan
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Nguyen Kieu Trinh (daughter)
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Fan
Portrayed by: Katie Leung
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Liam Hennessy
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Liam Hennessy
Portrayed by: Pierce Brosnan
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Chief Inspector Richard Bromley
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Commander Richard Bromley
Portrayed by: Ray Fearon
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Maggie
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Maggie/Sara Mackay
Portrayed by: Charlie Murphy
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Ian Wood
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Ian Wood
Portrayed by: Rufus Jones
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Mary Hennessy
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Mary Hennessy
Portrayed by: Orla Brady
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Pham (male)
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Lam (female)
Portrayed by: Liu Tao
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Sean Morrison
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Sean Morrison
Portrayed by: Rory Fleck Byrne
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This Character does not appear.
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Katherine Davies
Portrayed by: Lia Williams
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Hugh McGrath
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Hugh McGrath
Portrayed by: Dermot Crowley
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The Foreigner Book vs Movie
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In the Movie |
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Sean Morrison has no military or tracking experience. He is sent to request the service of a man named Micky Geraghty to track Nguyen Ngoc Minh. He is willing, but has a broken leg. His daughter Kerry offers to go in her father's place. Micky tells Sean that Kerry will only track and is not allowed to have a gun with her.
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Hennessy sends Sean to track down Quan Ngoc Minh in the forest.
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Kavanagh, O'Donnell and two other men find Nguyen Ngoc Minh's van in the forest. He kills all four with his knife and a pistol he took from others who were tracking him earlier. |
This does not happen in the film.
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Kerry locates Nguyen Ngoc Minh's van in the forest when hearing the gunshots. Morrison is running towards the gunshots and finds them both just as Kerry shoots a flaregun at Minh; the flare gets stuck in and is burning up the backpack with the bomb in it. Morrison hurls the backpack away and the bomb explodes in the distance. Morrison stops Kerry from killing Minh, then gives him the names and location of the bombers. They go their separate ways. Morrison has sex with Kerry in the forest.
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Sean tracks down Quan Ngoc Minh's hideout, they fight with Quan taking Sean captive. Sean gives Quan the names and address of the bombers. They talk about family and fighting for a cause. Quan lets Sean go.
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Nguyen Ngoc Minh bluffs his way into the bomber's apartment and threatens them with a nonfunctional AK-47.
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Quan Ngoc Minh bluffs his way into the apartment complex to check for gas leaks. Soldiers are about to enter the bomber's apartment when the building supervisor tells them about a gas leak and makes them open up for the maintenance man (Quan) to enter and inspect.
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The SAS team bursts into the apartment from the balcony above just as a gun battle starts between the bombers and Nguyen Ngoc Minh. The SAS shoot and kill everyone in the apartment except for Maggie. They beat Maggie until she tells them the flight information, but she brags that it is too late and the bomb will detonate in five minutes. The soldiers murder her after being told the plane went down and that there were to be no “loose ends”.
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Quan Ngoc Minh murders the four bombers and wounds Maggie with a machine gun equipped with an improvised silencer and with his bare hands after entering the apartment. Quan slips out of the apartment as the soldier blow apart the ceiling to enter. The soldiers torture Maggie for information; she tells them where the bomb is on the plane, then the soldiers murder her.
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