M. Butterfly

M. Butterfly

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M. Butterfly Vital Stats

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Release date 1993

Duration 101 min

Producer(s) David Henry Hwang, Gabriella Martinelli, Philip Sandhaus...more

Director(s) David Cronenberg...more David Cronenberg...less

Writer(s) David Henry Hwang, David Henry Hwang...more

Cast Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa...more

Genre Drama,

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M. Butterfly Quotes

Drunk in Paris bar:
[Hearing pro-Communist students parading outside] God damn it! Must be those fucking students again! Talk about China? I'll be you if go out that door you'll think you're back in Beijing! Every damn leftist student in Paris has Mao's little red book in his hand, and a red firecracker up his ass!

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Comrade Chin:
Don't you understand how degrading those images are to women? And why do you have to behave this way when he is not even here?
Song Liling:
Comrade, in order to better serve the Great Proletarian State, I practice my deception as often as possible. I despise this costume, yet for the sake of our Great Helmsman, I will endure it, along with all the other bourgeois Western perversions.
Comrade Chin:
I'm not convinced that this will be enough to redeem you in the eyes of the Party.
Song Liling:
I'm trying my best to become somebody else.

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Song Liling:
Under the robes, beneath everything, it was always me. Tell me you adore me.
Rene Gallimard:
How could you, who understood me so well, make such a mistake? You've shown me your true self, and what I love was the lie, perfect lie, that's been destroyed.
Song Liling:
You never really loved me.
Rene Gallimard:
I'm a man who loved a woman created by a man. Anything else simply falls short.

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Ambassador Toulon:
You said the Americans would succeed in Vietnam. You were kidding, right?

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Rene Gallimard:
Our world is changing. We French lost our war in Indochina because we failed to learn about the people we sought to lead. It's natural, therefore - correct, even - that they should resent us. How could they do otherwise, when we refused to treat them like fellow human beings?

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Song Liling:
Comrade! Why in Beijing opera are woman's roles traditionally played by men?
Comrade Chin:
I don't know. Most probably a remnant of the reactionary and patriarchal social structure.
Song Liling:
No. It's because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

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Song Liling:
The Oriental woman has always held a certain fascination for you Caucasian men. Is that not true?
Rene Gallimard:
Yes, but that fascination is imperialist, or so you tell me.
Song Liling:
Yes, it is always imperialist. Sometimes... sometimes it is also mutual.

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Song Liling:
Please come back. My audiences miss the white devil in their midst.

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Rene Gallimard:
You made me see the beauty of the story, of her death. It's, it's pure sacrifice. He's not worthy of it, but what can she do? She loves him so much. It's very beautiful.
Song Liling:
Well, yes, to a Westerner.
Rene Gallimard:
I beg your pardon?
Song Liling:
It's one of your favorite fantasies, isn't it? The submissive Oriental woman and the cruel white man.

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