| 1 | * SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: |
| 2 | ** This play uses several songs from ''Madame Butterfly'' and the Beijing Opera as its soundtracks. The notable tune of choice is the "Love Duet" from the Puccini opera which features several times in the course of the play. |
| 3 | ** The movie also throws in a brilliant score by Music/HowardShore. |
| 4 | ** The 1993 Russian production of the play in Moscow made extensive use of 1960s-70s French pop music intermixed with Puccini's opera. [[spoiler: Before his suicide,]] [[https://youtu.be/xabl9ysuBF0?t=3m9s/ Gallimard does a surreal dance in full geisha drag]] to a [[https://youtu.be/lD2zw5FWYWo/ tragic ballad by French chanteuse Dalida]]. |
| 5 | * HilariousInHindsight: Song's comment on how the idea of Western women obsessing over Asian men to the point of suicide is ridiculous might seem antiquated in the face of the late 2000s and early 2010s, when the international explosion of phenomena like anime, manga, and KPop made certain types of Asian men (Japanese and Korean, respectively) more desirable to Western women. Unfortunately, some stereotypes do persist despite it. |
| 6 | * ItWasHisSled: Song is biologically a man. To combat this, the 2017 Broadway revival of the play presents Song as male much sooner than in the original 1988 version, where it was a climatic revelation; [[https://howlround.com/m-butterfly-1988-2017 David Henry Hwang explained in an interview that many other stories since then had done surprise gender reveals,]] including ''Film/TheCryingGame'' only a few years after the play itself premiered, and he felt it would be dated to still rest that much importance on the reveal. |
| 7 | * TearJerker: [[spoiler: After finding out that Song had been lying about his gender and their son for over twenty years, only to be tossed in jail for spying for China, along with all the ridicule and shame brought about by his name appearing in newspapers all over the globe, Gallimard retreats back into his world of fantasy where he first met Butterfly/Song, becomes Madame Butterfly himself, and commits suicide.]] |
| 8 | * ValuesResonance: The play takes a lot of jabs at the toxic nature of the Western male gaze and misogyny, which Song wields for his benefit to exploit Gallimard--both of which are still hot button topics today. It's telling that when ''M. Butterfly'' received its first Broadway revival in 2017, it played a few blocks down from a revival of ''Theatre/MissSaigon'' -- a ''Madame Butterfly'' update that plays the orientalistic stereotypes straight. |
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