Become a dramatist from today

"You still love me, don't you? Do you still want me? Even if I wear a suit and tie?"

"I am your butterfly, underneath the robe...behind everything, I will always be me."

In this section, Song Liling, played by Huang Baiyou, did not wear female makeup, and her clothing style was that of an ordinary male.

She didn't wear long hair or hide the curvature of her jaw, so her appearance changed from neutral to masculine. Even though her expression was soft, her softness was not reduced, and her voice was still full of psychedelic charm. It even made people feel that she was a woman disguised as a man. This scene was completely Refuting Marigbaz's point of view, Huang Baiyou showed genuine acting skills, and the makeup was just the icing on the cake.

The camel reporter from "Entertainment Weekly" glanced at Marigbaz and sneered at the way the female reporter had just behaved.

very noisy! Although the camel-colored reporter didn’t say anything, Marigbaz felt that he was very noisy and talked too much.

Apart from Marigbaz, there is also director Conan Bolling who is unhappy. He is happy that people praise his casting skills, but he is not happy that they only praise his casting. What about the plot itself?

No, film critics focused on the male-female drama between Standing Wong and Babette.

"It's better to die spectacularly than to live a mediocre life."

"In the end, in prison...far away from China, I found her. My name is Galima, also known as Madame Butterfly."

At the end of the movie, Babette gave a best-in-class performance as Gallimard, who committed suicide in despair!

Many emotional viewers were moved by Gallimard's monologue before committing suicide, and the film ended with Song Liling looking back on her as she boarded the plane.

Is this the end? Somerset was surprised and felt that the ending was too perfunctory. He thought there would be a monologue by Song.

Bius, who had seen the stage of M. Butterfly's play, seemed to see his friend's doubts. He explained: "Because the last scene of the stage is Gallimard committing suicide and falling to the ground after reading the monologue. With the music "Duet of Love", a strong light Song Liling in the bright darkness, Song's last gaze was fixed on the dead Gallimard, he smoked a cigarette, and after the smoke filled and dissipated, he said the last line, 'Butterfly? Butterfly?'."

"At the end, the identities of Gallimard and Song are instantly reversed. My butterfly, who is whose butterfly? No wonder they won the Tony Award for Best Drama, a wonderful and shocking ending." Somerset doesn't like to watch dramas, but You can imagine the shock of the final scene, it is indeed shocking.

Don't think that the form of expression in movies is necessarily better than that of drama. Any art form has its advantages. Just like the final scene of "M. Butterfly", even montage cross-editing or even parallel splicing can hardly reach the height of the stage. When Gallimard commits suicide, Song stands in the darkness, illuminated by the light of his feet, and is shocked to gaze at the corpse of his lover on the same stage.

Somerset sighed. He thought it was an anticlimax, but he still had to stand up and applaud when the credits rolled.

The applause in the theater includes polite applause, perfunctory applause, and applause that is conquered by the film.

Conquered was mainly won by the acting skills of Huang Baiyou and Babette, but the overall evaluation of the movie was mixed.

There was a lot of discussion as we walked out of the cinema——

"Standing Huang's acting skills are much better than I imagined. My God, I even want to go back and delete all the remarks I had doubts about before." A filmmaker said.

"Conan Berlin's strange film is far from his best. It is more like a rare mistake that castrated a challenging drama with a conservative shooting method." Some film critics think it is substandard.

"The stage is far superior to movies. Only Standing Huang and Babette can maintain the same level as drama." Some media people threw the blame to the director.

Wait, more media people want to interview Standing Huang.

But when they learned that the visa was refused by customs, they all sighed. The European and American media knew nothing about the actor who played Song Liling, and they all wanted to dig out more information about the Chinese acting genius.

The next best thing is to interview the other starring actor in the film, Babette, an Oscar winner and an old acquaintance of the media.

As for Fernanda... It is better to say that she is the heroine than Huang Baiyou. After watching the movie, the reporters knew that Fernanda was brought in to fill the scene and boost the box office. Considering the relationship between the director and Feier, The relationship is normal.

There are many films screened at the New York Film Festival, but none with a stronger lineup than "M. Butterfly", so the attention continues to be high.

Film critics and reporters’ real feelings after watching the film also appeared one by one. I have just selected two articles for those unlucky ones who have never traveled through time to take a look.

"This adaptation of David Henry Wong's Tony Award-winning play is deeply romantic and even tasteful in some ways. It primarily involves deconstructing colonial concepts from the work of Italian opera master Giacomo Puccini, and directing Conan Repression, misogyny, and a fascination with the body are consistent in Bolin's works. The film does not have special effects or dangerous plots, but it is still a fascinating psychological opera." - "Entertainment Weekly"

"This will be the worst clinical transformation of a drama, turning a wonderful Broadway play into a bloody love story. This will be the most failed work of Conan Bolling's directorial career." - "Hollywood News"

How successful was Huang Baiyou's performance? Looking at the reviews in the Zetian newspaper, they stopped attacking the actors and started attacking the director and the entire film.

The film production company is Searchlight Pictures, which is considered an independent company, so it went to the New York Film Festival to expand its reputation. Although Searchlight Pictures is one of the few entertainment companies with the ability to promote and distribute the film besides the Big Six in Hollywood, its ability to promote and distribute the film is really limited.

Taking advantage of the popularity of the New York Film Festival, it promoted the film's global release (except China), but the results were mediocre. The box office in North America in the first week was only 31.79 million US dollars.

Everyone knows that North America refers to the United States and Canada. This result is very average for a movie. It cannot be said to be a blockbuster, but it is definitely not good. The weekly box office list only barely made it into the top 20. The agency predicts that the North American box office will be eight It is around 10 million yuan. Compared with the 35 million yuan production cost and publicity fee of the film, it can barely recoup the cost by relying on the overseas market, and can make some money through the later release of the DVD.

Compared with the boost brought by the New York Film Festival and the film lineup, this result is really not good.

However, Huang Baiyou was widely praised.

""M. Butterfly" is a drama that I personally love. When the cast was announced, I was worried that the new actors would not be able to perform Song's uniqueness. I apologize for my arrogance. Standing Huang is a good actor, but this is not a drama. good movie."

"Babet is in his forties, while Standing Wong is under thirty. Both of them gave wonderful performances in the film, but I actually think Standing Wong, who is under thirty, is better."

"Standing's performance that makes you want to take a shower can't save this movie."

Wait, that's probably it.