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At the penal colony of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni in French Guiana, the official overseeing solitary confinement makes a rehearsed speech to the unused inmate known as Papillon. “We make no pretense of rehabilitation here,” he declares proudly. “We’re not priests; we’re processors. A meatpacker processes live animals into edible ones. We process dangerous men into harmless ones.” In his book Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault wrote about the prison’s desire for “docile bodies” to be “subjected, used, transformed and improved.” As Foucault detailed, the body’s transformation—or processing—has been an essential component of prison philosophy for centuries. Franklin J. Schaffner’s film of Papillon, based on the account by Henri Charrière, who escaped from Devil’s Island in 1941, follows a personality who is not pliable. He refuses to be processed. The film critiques a society, from French penal codes to the larger prison system, that openly endeavors to accept away a man’s resolve until he is nothing. But it also portrays one man’s refusal to give in. A condemnation not only of wrongful imprisonment but any imprisonment that seeks to dehumanize, the
‘Papillon’: Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek’s Brand-new Drama Is ‘Somewhat of a Love Story’
When the autobiographical novel “Papillon” was published in France in 1969, it was hailed as “the greatest adventure story of all time” — and that description set the tone of the 1973 film adaptation starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman as two prisoners trying to escape a penal colony in Guiana.
But Michael Noer, the Danish director of a new remake starring Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek taking on the parts played by McQueen and Hoffman, respectively, says he had more than an action/buddy show in mind while shooting the real-life drama about Parisian safecracker Henri “Papillon” Charrière (Hunnam), who was framed for murder and formed an unlikely friendship with counterfeiter Louis Dega (Malek) while planning his escape from the penal colony in the 1940s.
Noer envisioned an unlikely like story of inmates-turned-soulmates.
“That was the first thing I wrote on the side of the pages as I was skimming through the script: The chance to make not only a film about friendship but also a film about love
Papillon (1973)
Parents need to recognize that the 1973 Papillon is based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name describing the true-life exploits of Henri Charriere, a French safe-cracker sent on a one-way ticket to France's worst prison in colonial French Guyana. The two-hour-plus production is filled with tension as the prisoners are mistreated, starved, beaten, and otherwise abused. Naked deceased bodies are tossed around disrespectfully and life, friendship, loyalty, and other humane virtues have little value in this setting. Flee attempts are plotted for maximum suspense, which can make the final hour hard to watch. A gay character offers sexual services in return for leniency. Native villagers dress scantily, the women's breasts bared. A character utters a muted "s--t" in dire circumstances, and there are some gay slurs. Prisoners are beaten and psychologically mistreated. One prisoner spends six months in a totally dark cell receiving half rations until he's on the verge of death. A bloke is guillotined for horrible behavior in front of other prisoners, and his severed head is seen. A prisoner is bitten by a bat and blood is seen in the wound. Prisoners conceal items in their
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I saw in "Papillon 2017" Michael Socha (Mikhail). We didn't discuss about Michael so often. I think he's so underrated. He was on put amongst with Rami Malek and Charlie Hunnam. He also attended the Papillon premiere in Edinburgh. He is a big fan of the Papillon guide and 1973 first film. He had an appearance at the beginning of the film. And his character's specify is Julot.
Ok but THIS is why I love anon asks, it’s astonishing what kinds of info and clip recs people distribute with me. I watched “God’s own country” because of an anon ask, matching with “Radioactive” and now “Papillon”. Can’t speak I have regretted it.
For starters omg I had no idea that Chernobyl’s “Mikhail” was in “Papillon”...?
I also didn’t know Michael is a big fan of the Papillon manual and the authentic film, or that he has Polish, English, Irish, and Italian ancestry. What a great coincidence though, he’s perhaps the only Chernobyl actor who shares a name with the character he played.
Talking of Rami Malek and Charlie Hunnam, guys, GUYS, if you hope heartbreaking bromance and buckets of homosexual coding, “Papillon” is your film.
I’m gonna grant a short description
Stars: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Don Gordon, Robert Deman
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Oscar History: 1 nomination (Best First Score)
Snap Judgment Ranking: 2/5 stars
We're going to conclude our weeklong look at some of my (unseen) films of 1973 with by far the longest movie on the docket, Papillon. The film clocks in at 150 minutes, and like Scarecrowearlier this week, features two of the most important foremost men of the era: Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. Unlike Scarecrow, though, Papillon was a big hit in its era, keeping Hoffman in the public eye and theoretically moving McQueen into the echelon of the era's top star...though McQueen, infamous for turning down role-after-role-after-role that might have cemented his legend, didn't make much exploit of the film's success (at some point we'll begin featuring male performers in the Saturdays with the Stars series, and McQueen is going to be toward the top of the list of people whose career I want to discuss).
(Spoilers Ahead) The clip is loosely based on a correct story, about Henri "Papillon" Charriere (McQueen...Papillon is the French word for butterfly), who was