Butterfly Tattoo For Men
The butterfly is symbolic of a couple of things in general in the film. The book eman, on which THE AMERICAN is based, is set in Abruzzo as it is the home to a lot of different butterflies. The original main character was an eccentric englishman who uses his butterfly paintings as a cover for his professional, serious job. As I changed the character to an american protagonist I felt the eccentricity would become less believable and therefore George looks at the butterfly for its metamorphosis from a caterpillar and uses a hard shaped outlined one as a tattoo on his back.
The butterfly is symbolic of a couple of things in general in the film. The book eman, on which THE AMERICAN is based, is set in Abruzzo as it is the home to a lot of different butterflies. The original main character was an eccentric englishman who uses his butterfly paintings as a cover for his professional, serious job. As I changed the character to an american protagonist I felt the eccentricity would become less believable and therefore George looks at the butterfly for its metamorphosis from a caterpillar and uses a hard shaped outlined one as a tattoo on his back.
