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Chapter 130 This is it!
"You still love me, don't you? Do you still want me? Even if I wear a suit and tie?"

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

In this paragraph, Song Liling, played by Huang Baiyou, does not wear female makeup, and her costumes are all ordinary men.

He didn't wear long hair, and he didn't hide the curvature of his jaw, so his appearance changed from neutral to masculine. Even though his expression was soft, his voice was still full of psychedelic charm, and it even made people feel like a woman disguised as a man. Refuting Marigbaz's point of view, Huang Baiyou showed genuine acting skills, and the makeup was just icing on the cake.

The camel reporter of "Entertainment Weekly" glanced at Marigbaz, and sneered at the way the female reporter was doing just now.

very noisy!Although the camel reporter didn't say anything, Marigbaz felt that this guy was noisy and talkative.

In addition to Mari Gebuzz, director Conan Bolling is also unhappy. He is happy that people praise his ability to choose actors, but he is not happy only to praise him for choosing actors. What about the plot itself?
No, the critics' attention is focused on the androgynous drama of Standing Huang and Babette.

"It is better to die vigorously than to live a mediocre life."

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

At the end of the movie, Babette contributed the performance of the best actor, playing Gallimard who committed suicide in despair!

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

This is the end?Somerset was surprised, feeling that the ending was too perfunctory, he thought there would be a monologue by Song.

Beus, who has seen the stage of M. Butterfly's drama, seems to have seen his friend's doubts. He explained: "Because the last scene on the stage is that Gallimard committed suicide after reading his monologue and fell to the ground. With the music "Duet of Love", a strong light Song Liling in the dark, Song's last gaze was fixed on the dead Gallimard, she smoked a cigarette, and after the smoke filled and dissipated, she said the last line 'Butterfly? Butterfly?'."

"At the end, Gallimard and Song's identities were reversed in an instant. My butterfly, who is whose butterfly? No wonder it won the Tony Award for Best Drama, with a wonderful and shocking ending." Somerset doesn't like watching dramas, but It is indeed shocking to imagine the shock of the final scene.

Don’t think that the form of expression of movies is necessarily better than drama. Any art form has its advantages, just like the final scene of "Mr. Butterfly".When Gallimard committed suicide, Song stood in the dark, illuminated by footlights, staring at the shock of his lover's corpse on the same stage.

Somerset sighs, thinking it's anticlimactic, but gets up to applaud as the film's credits roll by.

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

The conquest is mainly due to the acting skills of Huang Baiyou and Babette, but the overall evaluation of the film is mixed.

There was a lot of discussion when I walked out of the theater——

"Standing Huang's acting skills are much better than I expected, my God, I even want to go back and delete all the remarks I doubted before." A filmmaker said.

"The strange film shot by Conan Berlin is far from his best state. It is more like a rare mistake that castrates a challenging drama with a conservative shooting method." Some film critics think it is out of standard.

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

Wait, more media people want to interview Standing Huang.

But when they learned that the visa was rejected by the customs, they all sighed. The European and American media knew nothing about Song Liling's actor, and they all wanted to dig out more information about Huaxia's acting talent.

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

As for Fernanda... It is better to say that Huang Baiyou is the heroine than Huang Baiyou. After watching the film, the reporters knew that Fernanda was pulled to fill the box office. Considering the relationship between the director and Fernanda relationship, it's normal.

There are many films shown at the New York Film Festival, but there are no films with a stronger lineup than "Mr. Butterfly", so the attention continues to remain high.

The real impressions of film critics and reporters also appeared one after another.A small selection of two articles for the unlucky ghosts who have grown up and have not yet crossed.

"This adaptation of David Henry Wong's Tony Award-winning play is romantic, even tasteful in some respects. It's mostly about deconstructing the colonial concept of the work of Italian opera maestro Giacomo Puccini, and directing Conan The repression, misogyny, carnal obsession that characterize Boleyn's writing. The film is devoid of special effects and danger, but it's still a captivating psychological opera." --Entertainment Weekly

"This will be the worst clinical reinvention of a play ever made, turning a brilliant Broadway show into a bloody love story. It will be Conan Boleyn's worst directing flop." —Hollywood Press

How successful is Huang Baiyou's performance?Looking at the evaluation of the position newspaper, I stopped attacking the actors, and started attacking the director and the whole film.

The film production company is Searchlight Films and Television, which is considered an independent company. That's why it wants to go to the New York Film Festival to expand its reputation. Although Searchlight Films is one of the few entertainment companies with publicity capabilities other than the Hollywood Big Six, its publicity and distribution capabilities are really limited.

Thanks to the popularity of the New York Film Festival, it promoted the global release of the film (except China), but the results were very mediocre. The box office in North America in the first week was only 3179 million US dollars.

We all know that North America refers to the United States and Canada. This result is very average for a movie. It’s not a hit, but it’s definitely not good. The weekly box office list barely squeezed into the top 20. The agency predicts that the box office in North America will be 8000. Compared with the production cost and publicity fee of 3500 million yuan for the film, relying on overseas markets can barely cover the cost, and the later release of DVDs can earn some money.

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

But Huang Baiyou was well received.

""Mr. Butterfly" is a drama I personally love very much. When the actors were announced, I was still 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."

"Babette is in his 40s, while Standing Huang is less than 30 years old. Both of them have contributed wonderful performances in the film, but I actually think that Standing Huang, who is less than 30 years old, is stronger."

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

Wait, that's about it.

(End of this chapter)