Madame Butterfly Opera Animation

Madame Butterfly Animation

In class, we watched an opera called Madame Butterfly and shortly after, watched an animation based on the opera. Compared to the performance, the animation was more graphic and intimate. I noticed in the opera the child was a boy but in the animation, the child was a girl. However, in the animation, she was still connected to the child until Pinkerton ripped out the umbilical cord. To depict her committing suicide, the animation shows her taking apart her body like bolts and ripping apart her skin. The beginning of the scene shows Butterfly and Pinkerton having an affair where she ends up pregnant. This shocked me at first when I saw it because it focused more on the sex between the two individuals while in the opera it never shows anything about an affair or a child until later on. However, I do believe it was a beautiful animation showing Madame Butterfly in this different, shocking way.