Popsy double-crosses her older partner Silva. Silva has arranged to divert diamonds from a large corporate-run diamond mine in the South American jungle, and Popsy does her "pop" wrong as th... Read allPopsy double-crosses her older partner Silva. Silva has arranged to divert diamonds from a large corporate-run diamond mine in the South American jungle, and Popsy does her "pop" wrong as they are both pursued by police.Popsy double-crosses her older partner Silva. Silva has arranged to divert diamonds from a large corporate-run diamond mine in the South American jungle, and Popsy does her "pop" wrong as they are both pursued by police.
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- TriviaSet (and filmed) in Venezuela where Henri Charrière spent most of his life after famously escaping prison, which was covered not in Papillon (about his prison life) but the little-known sequel Banco, which includes the irony of very poor people mining for diamonds (actually in the book it's gold).
- Quotes
Popsy Pop: My name's Popsy Pop.
Inspector Silva: Popsy Pop? Welcome to Vista Alegre. I'm Inspector Silva. The city's yours.
Popsy Pop: Is the city yours to give?
Inspector Silva: Yes. Some people may tell you I'm just a policeman. But really I'm the Prince of this place.
Popsy Pop: The Prince? Who's the King?
Inspector Silva: Here? The diamond.
- Alternate versionsThe EastWest DVD budget double feature version of Popsy Pop (paired with The Cop in Blue Jeans (1976)) uses the Paragon Video Productions print of the film (title is The Butterfly Affair). The DVD case lists the running time of The Butterfly Affair as 100 minutes but the actual running time is Paragon's 76 minutes.
But this film is really shaky in almost every way. The story was written probably from his own experiences, dealing with diamond thieves in the South American jungles. It's really pretty standard fare, storywise, dealing basically with the theme of honor amongst thieves.
Papillon/Charriere is one of several burglars who stage a daring theft from the steaming jungles, only to experience betrayal from one of their own. They pursue their betrayers and are themselves pursued. But the film maintains an unexpectedly slow pace for this type of movie, despite being basically a "chase story". You almost get the feeling that all of the actors are waiting nervously for Charriere to do something throughout the film, but he spends a lot of time sitting and thinking and smoking before answering questions, in a heavily-accented English.
Charriere seems to have gotten a bit too comfortable by the time he made this film, looking a bit too portly to be taken seriously as a swashbuckling, fist-fighting burglar. The film also contains the typical countercultural themes of the time involving fear of aging, which was perhaps a bit of a marketing ploy to the audiences of the time. It seems a bit out of place in the overall story.
Read Henri Charriere's two autobiographies first, then perhaps watch the Steve McQueen film-version of the first book, which was released only a few months before Charriere died . Only then will you maybe acquire the curiosity to see the man behind the amazing books. Otherwise you may fall asleep before the film is over.
- ChristerThor
- Oct 26, 2003
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- Countries of origin
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- Also known as
- The Butterfly Affair
- Filming locations
- Caracas, Venezuela(Popsy and Freddy first head to Caracus after the heist.)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime1 hour 16 minutes
- Sound mix