I was thinking to rewrite the musical show "Miss Saigon". "Miss Saigon" is the story of Kim, a 17 year old Vietnamese orphan who became prostitute in a bar in Saigon to earn for her living. The story started in the beginning of 1975, just some months before American soldiers were completely swiped off Vietnam. Kim met Chris, an American GI on her first day at the bar and the two felt in love. On the day they got married, Kim' cousin, Thuy, to whom she was arranged to marry to at the age of 13 by her parents, came to take her home with him. Chris made Thuy leave the place without Kim and they continued to live happily until the news about Viet Cong going to take Saigon came to tear them apart. Failed to take Kim with him to America, Chris left Vietnam with the promise that he will come back for her.
Three years passed, Chris still couldn't come back due to political issue between America and Vietnam. Chris was married to another woman but Kim was still waiting. Thuy, now became a government commissar, came look for her and determined to bring her home. There she revealed to him that she had a child with Chris so she couldn't come with him. Thuy tried to kill the child but was killed by Kim instead.
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My rewrite will tell Thuy's story and his hatre upon American, which also portrait how people that follows Viet Cong thought about American and the so-called Vietnamese War. It tell the story from the other side, where people believe that the true intension of America back then was to take control of Vietnam and its resource, not to save the world from Communism like Americans always think.
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