#mbutterfly

[raurquiz]

#happybirthday #DavidCronenberg #director #screenwriter #actor #Kovich #StarTrekDiscovery #thefly #deadringers #existenz #crash #MButterfly #NakedLunch #TheDeadZone #Videodrome #Scanners #AHistoryofViolence #ADangerousMethod #Cosmopolis #mapsofthestars #crimesofthefuture

[jayselaa]

I chose the alley stage because while listening to the play I pictured gallimards reflections as stemming from his jail cell and with each scene he would be walking down the alley while the different characters appeared to him whether it be on the pathway, the stairs, or in his jail cell. The lights would turn on depending on where gallimard was on stage and change colors depending on the mood of the scene. I think this play calls for minimalism in the set to really take in the scenes and what is happening in them. The costumes and the props would be eye-catchers as well.

[pepperberryansagegallery]

A surprised dog seeing a butterfly. Created with artificial intelligence.

[wastedonthesebutterflies]

My hair is looking very 1800s chic today

[cakepuffassy]

M Butterfly dialogues

[opening scene]

Gallimard: Butterfly, Butterfly...

[ending scene]

Song (smoking a cigarette): Butterfly? Butterfly?

Act 3, Scene 2

Gallimard: You showed me your true self. When all I love was the lie. A pefect lie—

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Gallimard: Yes I do! I knew all the time somehwere that my happiness was temporary, my love a deception. But my mind kept the knowledge at bay. To make the wait bearable.

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Gallimard: Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

Act 2, Scene 8

Song: I’m happy. Which often looks like crazy.

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Act 2, Scene 7

Song: Miss Chin? Why, in the Peking Opera, are women’s roles played by men?

Chin: I don’t know. Maybe, a reactionary remnant of male—

Song: No. Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

Lastly, my favourite.

Act 3, Scene 1

SONG: Rule One is: Men always believe what they want to hear. So a girl can tell the most obnoxious lies and the guys will believe them every time— “This is my first time” — “That’s the biggest I’ve ever seen” — or both, which, if you really think about it, is not possible in a single lifetime. You’ve maybe heard those phrases a few times in your own life, yes, Your Honor?

SONG: Rule Two: As soon as a Western man comes into contact with the East — he's already confused. The West has sort of an international rape mentality towards the East. Do you know rape mentality?

...Basically, “Her mouth says no, but her eyes say yes.”

The West thinks of itself as masculine — big guns, big industry, big money — so the East is feminine — weak, delicate, poor... but good at art, and full of inscrutable wisdom — the feminine mystique.

Her mouth says no, but her eyes say yes. The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated — because a woman can't think for herself.

You expect Oriental countries to submit to your guns, and you expect Oriental women to be submissive to your men. That’s why you say they make the best wives.

David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

[vivrepoetiquement]

Obsession #johnlone #mbutterfly #passion #vivirepoetiquement #portrait #inkpainting #brushpen #小毳画语录 https://www.instagram.com/p/CFVbjDpIwdQ/?igshid=1rd9vfujziiu1

[shevyvision]

#CliveOwen in #MButterfly @mbutterflybway #broadway #play #nyc #thebigapple #travel #wanderlust #culture (at Cort Theatre)

[tanhaoron]

#johnlone #gregorypeck #mbutterfly #shadowsofthepeacock #yearofthedragon #shadowofchina #shanghai1920 #iceman #romanholiday https://www.instagram.com/p/B6m8TaeAn2S/?igshid=ebyalyx9uanz

[raurquiz]

#happybirthday #DavidCronenberg #director #screenwriter #actor #Kovich #StarTrekDiscovery #thefly #deadringers #existenz #crash #MButterfly #NakedLunch #TheDeadZone #Videodrome #Scanners #AHistoryofViolence #ADangerousMethod #Cosmopolis #mapsofthestars #crimesofthefuture

[peterjkuo]

Checking out this essential part of the Asian American theatre canon! #theatre #mbutterfly

[wastedonthesebutterflies]

I need to intertwine myself with someone, both body and soul, and for once let my guard down.

[rabidhiss]

So this is pretty interesting. Around the time of M. Butterfly’s release, another film, #neiljordan ‘s #cryinggame turned out to be a heavy hitter and people were expecting the same from M. “The twist of an audience fooled by a woman who was really a man” was the popular theme and M was expected to fall in line with that idea. Upon watching the documentary on the making of the film, one thing that was perfectly clear from the beginning for all who were involved in the production of Butterfly was that everyone KNEW Butterfly was a man. The opening credits following Jeremy Irons name was John Lone- the audience was meant to know as well. The Chinese opera was historically and traditionally men portraying women to express whatever China’s societal oppression disallowed. Ultimately, the only person who outright REFUSES to believe Butterfly is a man is Jeremy Irons character, as he cannot accept the fact that he’s in love with an interpretation of “woman” from the perspective of his own delusion of what the “Chinese subservient woman” should be. This revelation in and of itself is quite in line with Cronenberg’s themes of identity, sex, and bodily transformation- but released in quite the inopportune time. A shame really, because at its core M is far deeper than the “twist movie” that became so popular from that time on. #mbutterfly #jeremyirons #davidcronenberg #johnlone #1993

[ericjohnsalut]

Joining the #MButterfly fever! September 13-30 at the Maybank Performing Arts Theater. For tickets please call 891.9999 @mbutterflymnl https://www.instagram.com/p/BnNL88QhDE9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=iy1bw43m9q89

[thedeadandthecure]

M. Butterfly (1993) Now that we embark on the most forbidden of loves, I'm so afraid of my destiny. There is no destiny, except the one we make for ourselves. #mbutterfly #davidcronenberg #jeremyirons #johnlone #barbarasukowa #cinema #cinefilos #cinephile #moviestill #moviesquotes #moviefan #instamovie #instafilme #90s #cultmovie

[vivrepoetiquement]

Tu n’as pas menti. Parce que tu n’as jamais caché ton désir de te complaire dans la séduction. #mbutterfly #johnlone #portrait #inkpainting #vivrepoetiquement #passion #小毳画语录 #尊龙 #art #artist https://www.instagram.com/p/CFSzLuEotz5/?igshid=k4j3h29cud7d

[speechino]

#MButterfly 12-14-2017 @mbutterflybway #CortTheatre #JulieTaymor #DavidHenryHwang #CliveOwen #latergram (at M Butterfly at Cort Theatre)