Butterfly Screen Play M Butterfly Movie Proposal Log Line Rene Gallimard, the assistant to the ambassador of China, is the victim of a terrible and malicious rouse to obtain classified information. Lured into a romantic relationship with the woman Song Liling who he later discovers to be a cold, cruel manipulative and male spy. This comedic story, told from Rene's perspective reveals just how far a spy will go to complete his mission. Characters Rene

Butterfly David Henry Hwang's Pulitzer-prize-winning drama M. Butterfly is almost single-minded in its examination of the role played by preconceptions in the establishment of cultural expectations and stereotypes. Based on a true story, the drama to some extent lays out in clear precise terms the ways in which Western prejudices toward China can lead to results that would seem wildly implausible in a brief factual summary, but are nonetheless the foreordained

Butterfly, David Hwang questions many assumptions about Asian women that are apparent in Madame Butterfly. In Madame Butterfly, the beautiful young Japanese geisha, Butterfly, sacrifices her family ties, religion, and eventually her life for an American, Lieutenant Pinkerton, who never intends to take her back to America. Hwang's M. Butterfly, in contrast, tells the story of an American man in China during the Vietnam era, Gallimard, who falls in love

She knew the secret I was trying to hide. but, unlike a Western woman, she didn't confront me, threaten, even pout. (Hwang 519) Song also expresses how Gallimard has viewed her and her country when the says to the judge, 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

M Butterfly Creating Honor in M. Butterfly Gallimard's statement early on in Hwang's M. Butterfly that he is always seeking a new ending in which "she" comes back to him, and in which he can find honor, does not initially seem to be fulfilled by his actions in the final scene, at least not on the surface. Left alone and disgraced in his cell, having loved a man he thought to be

Butterfly Effect DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA? Evan Treborn, the main character of the movie, lived a life of severe traumas (Bress & Gruber, 2004). These experiences resurface in adulthood in the form of blackouts, especially during times of extreme stress. His early life traumas include being compelled to participate in child pornography by their neighbor George Miller; nearly dying from strangulation by his own institutionalized mentally ill father Jason; his father's getting killed right