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| Papillon (1973) | ||
| Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film. |
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| Henri 'Papillon' Charriere (Steve McQueen) and Louis Dega (Dustin Hoffman) are prisoners in a penal colony in French Guyana. Charriere is nicknamed Papillon, which means "butterfly" in French, because of his butterfly tattoo. The two men form a business partnership to help Papillon escape. The film includes some brief scenes with several herps. Snake Scene |
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| We see Papillon in the jungle, trying to catch butterflies for a collector (who is also known to be a man who can help prisoners escape.) We see Pappillon chasing a butterfly and missing it behind a large snake on a tree branch in the foreground. His boss chews him out for not catching the butterfly, then when Papillon turns around he sees the snake and slowly moves away to continue hunting for butterflies. Later we see some Boa Constrictor skins hanging from vines near a shack in the jungle. The movie was filmed in Jamaica, and the snake appears to be a Jamaican Boa. Crocodile Scene |
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We see Papillon and Louis Dega with a work crew in the forest draining a swamp. They drag a log through the water as the prison guards shoot a crocodile. They tell Papillon and Louis to catch it and bring it back to the camp. The two men struggle to catch it as it thrashes around in the water, but eventually they get a hold of it. We see later that the croc was brought back to the camp. A man says "He's pretty big. The skin's worth some money" then he flips it on its belly and starts to cut it open with a knife. Papillon and Louis watch, wishing they could share in the profit. Lizard Scene |
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| The movie goes to great lengths to use a long shot to show us a lizard high up on the tin roof of a prison in French Guyana (filmed in Jamaica.) The camera slowly pulls away from the lizard to reveal a bunch of men in the background who have just arrived inside the prison. I don't know what it's supposed to mean, unless it's just to show the location, but the lizard must have been intentionally placed in the shot. The lizard appears to be some kind of Anole. Sea Turtles Scene
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| After Papillon escapes the prison, we see him loading a boat with provisions for a sea voyage. He puts a wooden cage full of small sea turtles on the boat, presumably to be eaten later on the voyage. I've read that sea turtles were used this way, as were other animals. They were kept alive on ships until they were killed for food. The similarities between Papillon's imprisonment and the tortured sea turtles are obvious. |
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