Papillon Comments

  • Leda 2021-11-14 08:01:23

    8.0/10. Catch the crocodile. catch butterfly. Hide and hunt. Confinement. Eat bugs. Run into the forest. Hunting the island. Get caught again, see old friends, jump to the sea... 150 minutes of jail escape is not lengthy. The focus is on exciting plots, informative photography (the upside-down lens has a great visual impact), actors' courageous performances, and heart-moving emotions. The soundtrack. The only masterpiece after Oscar-winning director Sfanner's "General Patton". PS: Indigenous...

  • Bennett 2021-11-14 08:01:23

    The rhythm is a bit slow, but Steve McQueen's strong masculinity and persuasive performance really saved the movie, especially the scene where he took the cigar handed by the leper, and then sprayed out the smoke is the most unforgettable. Dustin Hoffman always seems to be cowardly, not having a strong effect with McQueen's role, which is a pity. But the whole film still reveals harsh and cruel, which makes people...

  • Julian 2021-11-14 08:01:23

    Steve McQueen, a tough old man who is full of street scumbags, is awesome. I really miss this kind of thoroughbred masculinity. His acting skills are also ruthless and he has a sense of existence. It is not a fool who simply relies on his biceps to eat. That old-school obsession with freedom is really touching. I really understand why he didn't stay with Louis Dega in the end, because that's not him. People who believe in freedom can only survive if they keep chasing. The editing is not neat...

  • Erika 2021-11-14 08:01:23

    "General Button" directed by Franklin Schaffner, starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman in a prison escape film. I didn’t write much about preparing for prison escape, and the technology and details are not as good as those in "Death Prison Escape", "The Hole" and "The Great Escape", and the structure is not compact. "Butterfly" interprets the spirit of using life to escape from prison, or giving birth to freedom or death. The section of Snake Head-Leprosy-Aboriginal-Nun is very exciting. "I...

  • Isac 2021-11-14 08:01:23

    You did not kill, but you committed the heaviest crime-do you deny sin by wasting your...

  • Francis 2021-11-14 08:01:23

    It is also a prison break. This seems to be a niche one, but it has a higher evaluation than Shawshank. 1: Be healthy and be diligent in exercising so that you can live when you are wronged. 2: Cherish your freedom. 3. To pass the game, always meet the wicked, then the good, then the wicked, and then the good. 4. Why did the indigenous people disappear overnight? Isn't this the ultimate pursuit? June 2nd,...

  • Clemmie 2021-11-14 08:01:23

    Life is precious, love is higher. If it is free, both can be thrown...

  • Darius 2021-11-14 08:01:23

    Legendary movies, music and plot tension are a little bit less, but overall it is quite attractive. It should not be classified as a jailbreak film in general. This film does not involve high-level jailbreaks and so on. The focus is on emphasizing and exaggerating the human desire for freedom. This is a great spirit. Any organization or group that maliciously suppresses freedom and belief will not...

  • Cleve 2021-11-14 08:01:23

    Another prison escape movie that men should watch is a little deeper than "Shawshank's Redemption". Drifting on the sea, the paragraphs of Spinalonga have the epic temperament of the Odyssey. In the middle of Savage Island, I didn't understand it a little bit, I don't know if I read the abridged...

  • Dejon 2021-11-14 08:01:23

    I don’t understand why so many viewers compare this film with Shawshank, and the latter is also compared with Bresson’s "The Last Escape." At least both talk about symbolic "freedom outside the wall" prison. This film mainly describes the prison in a broad sense, that is, this cannibalistic world. The first half of the movie is almost perfect, but the second half is rescued by an indigenous leper and finally betrayed by a nun. The plot is too preaching and lacks the persuasive power of the...

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Papillon quotes

  • Warden Barrot: Put all hope out of your mind. And masturbate as little as possible, it drains the strength!

  • Dega: Well, it now seems quite possible that until we get to a decent jail with bribeable guards, I may stand in some need of... rather close physical protection.

    Papillon: That depends on how long you want to live.

    Dega: For a long time.

    Papillon: Then you got a problem.

    Dega: Well, I presume that you have some, uh, goals, some particular need that outrates all the others. I mean, if so... may I aslk what it is?

    Papillon: Money!

    Dega: For what?

    Papillon: Escape.

    Dega: Very good. You keep me alive until we land in Guiana, and I'll underwrite any escape you care to arrange.

    Papillon: Escape for me, not for us!

    Dega: Oh, of course. I, I, I...

    [laughs]

    Dega: . I have no intention, uh, of even attempting to escape - ever!

    Papillon: Done!