Cyrano de Bergerac
Sword fighting, witty humor and the love of a beautiful woman are just a few of the ingredients for this classic play. Cyrano de Bergerac was written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand and is originally a French play. Edmond Rostand created his play based off of a real character name Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, who lived from 1619-1655. Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac was a French duelist and satirist. He was quoted having said, "A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous, and liberal man"(Dunn). This dramatic play has been performed in the original sense as a tragedy, and in the comical view in more modern renditions. The two film versions of this play are the classic 1950's Black and white rendition, starring Jose Ferrer, and the modern 1980's rendition Roxanne, starring Steve Martin. This comparison of film to play, and film to film will indicate the validity and exigency of the 1950's Edmond Rostand play text of Cyrano de Bergerac.In the 1950 version of Cyrano de Bergerac the movie setting takes place in the French war with Spain. Cyrano is a soldier with an enormous nose that is fairly poor, but he is very witty and very quick with his tongue in tight situations. Roxanne is Cyrano's independen
The three scenes from this movie compared with the three text scenes, act 1 scene 1, act 2 scene 2, and act 3 scene 2 will let us discern what type of person Cyrano de Bergerac is and how his character is portrayed. Since this play is a tragedy Cyrano is attacked and mortally wounded. As Cyrano is very quick of tongue, throughout the entire duel he is speaking a poem of which he is making on the spot about his current situation. The filming is at night and the use of light brings out the angel like feeling of Roxanne on the balcony. The situation worsens as Christian's intellect shines through, but Cyrano saves the day with his melody of poetry. Cyrano insults the noble's intellect by coming up with more inventive ways to insult his own nose, which starts a sword fight. When compared to the play text they both take certain scenes and make changes to try and update or modernize to the time. I consider this film to be a more viable interpretation even though "Roxanne" hits most of the high points of the text. The next scene starts when Cyrano is helping Christian woe Roxanne. Even though he is a soldier who loves the thrill of battle, he is a romantic at heart. In the movie Roxanne, characters and settings are a little different since the screenplay was rewritten by Steve Martin and has been modernized into a comedy. CD again using his great wit and candor decides that he can come up with twenty better insults for his nose.
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