Become a dramatist from today

"M. Butterfly" has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of only 48%, and its IMDb score is 7.3.

Beyos also wrote his thoughts on the New York Film Festival's official website.

The official website of the New York Film Festival is a well-known media terminal in the film industry. It updates high-quality articles every month. Originally, Biusz's May article was posted at the beginning of the month, and he wrote a short review for "M. Butterfly":

[How should Searchlight Pictures market this decidedly non-mainstream adaptation of a Broadway play?

Hollywood suits may be scratching their heads over this movie, and rightfully so: it's an odd mix of historical drama, love story, and spy thriller.

Set in China in 1964, the film tells the budding love story between Gallimard, a member of the French consulate, and Song Liling, the queen of Peking opera.

In Peking Opera, men traditionally play all female roles, a fact that seems to be known to everyone except the French consul Gallimard. He finds that his entire life is shaped by the escalating obsession with his heroine, whom he calls "my butterfly," referring to Puccini's opera.

This is more of a love story than a spy film by Conan Boleyn, who used the film as a vehicle for his complex themes of personal metamorphosis.

Peter's cinematography on the other hand is absolutely stunning, using amber, red and blue as a base, he brings sixties China to life in a way that few can, Gallimard and Song The footage of the picnic at the Great Wall is downright breathtaking!

But M. Butterfly is Conan Bolling's most seriously flawed film to date. Despite its sheer magnificence, it ultimately feels artificial and rushed towards the end. How much of this is due to Searchlight's lack of confidence in the finished product? No one can guess.

Despite the above shortcomings, friends, I still recommend you to go and see the most outstanding young acting talent in the East - Standing Huang! ]

[Website Note 1: Giacomo Puccini, a famous Italian opera master, famous for his masterpieces "Madame Butterfly" and "La Bohème".

"Madama Butterfly" tells the story of Qiaoqiao Sang who stayed in the boudoir after marrying Pinkerton, an American naval officer, but was abandoned later, and Qiaoqiao committed suicide in the end. 】

What film critics say is interesting. What they said above is all nonsense. They just tell people that the story is very niche, and then express that they know Conan Bolin's photography style very well. The last half is the key.

Beyos praised the photographer, praised the actors, then criticized the director, and ridiculed the investors who were eager for quick success.

"Currently the most outstanding young acting talent in the East" is a very high compliment.

Huang Baiyou became the biggest winner of this movie. Many domestic first-line actors wanted to come to Hollywood and make a name for themselves. They had various salary cuts and so on, but after working for a long time, no blisters appeared.

Huang Baiyou, who has gained a lot of fame, can only apply again after two weeks after being refused a visa to the United States. The rules of the parallel world are different from those of the earth.

In those rare few days of free time, Huang Baiyou started busy decorating his new house, and then one fine morning he received an email from Pei Wen's studio.

"The most important thing of the day is breakfast." Huang Baiyou took the bun and clicked to browse. Huang Baiyou finally knew what the director wanted to shoot.

Pei Wen's new film is called "Shadow", and the role Huang Baiyou is going to audition for is the protagonist. It is even said that one person will play two roles, firstly as the stand-in "Jingzhou", and secondly as the governor Tzuyu who trained Shadow.

When it comes to stand-ins, the first thing that comes to mind is Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha, but the core of this movie is completely different, and at best it can be regarded as borrowing a setting.

"No wonder." Huang Baiyou knew why Pei Wenhui agreed to let him audition. To be honest, his current position should not have caught the eye of this great director.

It is often said that domestic entertainment is about to end, but among the actors aged between thirty-five and forty-five, there are still many actors who want good looks, acting skills, and box-office acting skills. Huang Baiyou is not among them.

Even if there is Hong Zijian's strong recommendation, it should only be for one reason. The other reason should be that in "Seven Me", he played seven roles, while in this movie, one person played two roles.

"If you can't get the complete character script, you can't start the reward mission." Huang Baiyou fell into deep thought.

For a play by a great director, it is difficult to get a complete script before joining the cast. What he currently got is just a script about Jingzhou pretending to be the governor fighting wits with the monarch in the court, plus a little script framework explanation.

Huang Baiyou found out that this series was adapted from a novel "Three Kingdoms-Jingzhou".

"If possible, should I let Xiao Qiushan Repertory Theater adapt the novel into a drama?" Huang Baiyou came up with this idea, but it was too late. The email said that the audition time was not long. Even if he rushed to complete the dialogue drama adaptation of the novel, he would not There is no way to complete the attendance task.

"Then let's do an audition using the existing emotional fragments." Huang Baiyou didn't even have time to eat the most important breakfast of the day, so he read the novel first.

Huang Baiyou looked through the original work. "Three Kingdoms Jingzhou" is a collection of essays and essays. The last article is "Three Kingdoms Jingzhou". It cannot be said that it has nothing to do with the story in the script, but it is also irrelevant. and.

Even the name has been changed. It was originally written about the story of Zhou Yu and Sun Quan in the Three Kingdoms, but Pei Wen directly changed it to fictional history.

"Willful, really willful. If you don't say that you have something to do with this novel, I will never see it." Huang Baiyou studied a few pages of the script again.

After developing a habit, Huang Baiyou subconsciously started to write character analysis even if there were no characters.

[Director Pei Wen probably wanted to make use of the "three heroes" structure of Sun Quan, Zhou Yu, and Lu Meng in the original work, but the scene where Zhou Yu killed Sun Quan went against public perception. In order not to offend the mainstream aesthetic expectations, the director chose to completely ignore it.

In terms of discourse establishment, the purpose of fictional literature is nothing more than to rewrite history and to fabricate history. Illustration is not based on imagination, but a subjective processing of the creator's own historical knowledge, and ultimately forms a "reproduction" that covers the original text. So what is the purpose of director Pei Wen's rewriting?

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Huang Baiyou stopped writing, looked through Pei Wen's interviews and other photos, and blurted out, "It's alive, Jingzhou is immortal as a substitute."

"Unlike "Kagemusha", which discussed whether the shadow still has meaning after the master dies, the ending of this script should be that the substitute kills the master. There is no predetermined fate, not even for the shadow... Of course, if you guess wrong, Pretend I didn't say anything." Huang Baiyou continued to write.

During the period when Huang Baiyou was analyzing the script, something big happened, something that even Searchlight Company had not thought of.——

The movie was a big hit in Asia, Japan and South Korea to be precise!