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Chapter 131 The Most Outstanding

"Mr. Butterfly" Rotten Tomatoes has only 48% freshness, while the IMDb score is 7.3.

Beus also wrote his impressions on the official website of the New York Film Festival.

The official website of the New York Film Festival is a well-known media terminal in the film industry, and high-quality articles are updated every month. Originally, Biusi’s May article was published at the beginning of the month, and he wrote a short review for "Mr. Butterfly":
[How should Searchlight Films market this decidedly off-Broadway adaptation?

Hollywood suits may be scratching their heads for this film, and rightly 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 Beijing opera.

In Beijing opera, men traditionally play all female roles, a fact that everyone seems to know except the French consul Gallimard.He finds his entire life adapted by the escalating obsession with his heroine, whom he calls "My Butterfly," a reference to Puccini's opera.

More of a love story than a spy film by Conan Boleyn, he uses the film as a vehicle for his recurring themes of personal transformation.

Peter's cinematography on the other hand is absolutely stunning, he uses amber, red and blue as bases to bring the 60s China to life in a way few can, with Gallimard and Song at the Great Wall The picnic shots are downright breathtaking!
But M. Butterfly is Conan Boleyn's most seriously flawed film to date, and for all its sheer magnificence, it ends up feeling phony, with a rush towards the end. How much is that 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 watch it and meet the most outstanding young acting talent in the East - Standing Huang! ]
[Website Note 1: Giacomo Puccini, famous Italian opera master, masterpieces "Madame Butterfly" and "La Bohème".

"Madame Butterfly" tells the story of Qiao Qiaosang and Pinkerton, an American naval officer, who stay in the boudoir empty after they get married, but they are abandoned when they wait, and finally Qiaoqiao commits suicide. 】

It’s interesting for film critics to speak. What they said earlier is all nonsense. It’s nothing more than telling people that this story is very small, and then expressing that they know Conan Boleyn’s photography style very well. The last half is the key.

Bius 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", this praise is quite high.

Huang Baiyou became the biggest winner of this movie. Many domestic first-line actors wanted to come to Hollywood to make a name for themselves and reduce their salary in various ways, but after working hard 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 to work on decorating the new house, and then received an email from Pei Wen's studio on a sunny morning.

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

Pei Wen's new film is titled "Shadow", and Huang Baiyou is going to audition for the leading role, and it is even said that one person will play two roles, the first is the stand-in "Jingzhou", and the second is the governor Ziyu who trained the shadow.

When it comes to doubles, the first reaction is Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha, but the core of this movie is completely different, and at most it can be regarded as borrowing a setting.

"No wonder." Huang Baiyou knew why Pei Wen agreed to let him audition. To be honest, his current status should not be in the eyes of this great director.

It is often said that domestic entertainment is over, but there are still many actors between the ages of 35 and 45 who need good looks, acting skills, and box office actors. Huang Baiyou is not ranked.

Even if there is Hong Zijian's strong recommendation, it should be only one reason, and the other reason should be "Seven Me", he played seven roles, but 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.

It is very difficult to get a complete script for a big director's play before he joins the group. What he currently has is just the script of Jingzhou's pretended governor fighting with the monarch in the court, plus a little script framework explanation.

Huang Baiyou inquired that this episode was adapted from a novel "Three Kingdoms-Jingzhou".

"If possible, should I let the Xiaoqiushan Repertory Troupe adapt the novel into a drama?" Huang Baiyou had the idea, but it was too late. The email said that the audition time was not long, and even if he hurriedly completed the adaptation of the novel's dialogue drama, he would not Unable to complete reward task.

"Then use the emotional fragments you have to audition once." Huang Baiyou didn't even have time to eat the most important breakfast of the day, so he read the novel first.

Huang Baiyou flipped through the original work, "Three Kingdoms Jingzhou" is a collection of essays, which are full of essays and prose, the last one is "Three Kingdoms·Jingzhou", it can't be said that it has nothing to do with the story in the script, but it is 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 an alternate history.

"You are self-willed, you are really self-willed. 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 getting used to it, Huang Baiyou subconsciously wrote character analysis even if there was no paid character.

[Director Pei Wen probably wanted to use the "Three Heroes" structure of Sun Quan, Zhou Yu, and Lu Meng in the original work, but Zhou Yu's killing of Sun Quan goes against public perception. In order not to offend mainstream aesthetic expectations, the director chose to completely evade it.

In terms of the establishment of discourse, the purpose of fictional literature is nothing more than the reproduction of history and the fictionalization of history.The overhead is not based on imagination, but the subjective processing of the creator's own historical knowledge, and finally forms a "copy" that covers the original text. So what is the purpose of director Pei Wen's copy?
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Huang Baiyou stopped writing, looked at Pei Wen's interviews, and other filmed works, and blurted out, "It's alive, Jingzhou is immortal as a stand-in."

"Different from "Shadow Warrior" discussing whether the master is dead and whether the shadow still has meaning, the ending of this script should be that the double kills the master. There is no predetermined destiny, even the shadow... Of course, if you guess wrong, Pretend I didn't say it." Huang Baiyou continued writing.

During the period when Huang Baiyou was analyzing the script, there was also a major event, which caused something that even the searchlight company hadn't thought of——

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

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