![]() Butterfly into a tedious soap opera." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 43 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". The website's critics consensus reads: "David Cronenberg reins in his provocative sensibility and handles delicate material with restraint, yielding a disappointing adaptation that flattens M. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 43%, based on 21 reviews, and an average rating of 5.60/10. Butterfly grossed $1,500,000 in the domestic box office. A key line in the film is "Only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act." One theme of the film (as with the play) is Orientalist stereotypes, but Cronenberg removed many of the political overtones from the story in order to focus more intensely on the relationship between Gallimard and Song. At the end of the film Gallimard kills himself (although the man he is based on, Bernard Boursicot, did not do this in real life.) Their affair lasts for 20 years and they subsequently marry, with Gallimard all the while apparently unaware (or willfully ignorant) of the fact that in Peking opera, Dan roles are traditionally performed by men. Butterfly is loosely based on a true story about a French diplomat who lived for twenty years as the lover of a person he thought was a Chinese female actress but who. For the full scene, see the script edition cited here: David Henry Hwang, M. ![]() ![]() (Song walks offstage) GALLIMARD (To us): So much for protecting her in my big Western arms. If you wish to see some real theatre, come to the Peking Opera sometime. ![]() He becomes infatuated with a Peking opera performer, Song Liling ( John Lone), who spies on him for the Government of the People's Republic of China. SONG: I will never do Butterfly again, Monsieur Gallimard. Loosely based on true events (see Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu), the film concerns René Gallimard ( Jeremy Irons), a French diplomat assigned to Beijing, China, in the 1960s.
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