After being bitten, Cyrano gains the proportionate height, snarkiness, and assassin-hiring powers of Rigoletto.
FRENCH WITH NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES
base 64
aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56L2ZpbGUvdko5aWpBalIjSkM0b2JIWGQta1ZIa3dwV1hjZDFGVUJ3N095NW5pNDRyeUxmakhHU1VpTQ==
Info : https://www.comedie-francaise.fr/en/events/cyrano-de-bergerac16-17
There are loads of older stories I've never read and movies are a great gateway to get me interested in the source material.
I would prefer stories whose origin is a non-English speaking country since I'm more likely not to know it. There are many great adaptations of Mark Twain/Lewis Carrol/William Shakespeare, but I'm familiar with their stories.
English dub or sub is fine.
Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written by Edmond Rostand who was a poet and playwright, it's a very humourous play and he wrote the whole thing entirely in rhyming couplets. It's one of my favourites. I hope any French speakers who dare listen, please forgive me, especially excuse me for wrong pronouciation, because it's well known that French is the language of love. :3 Here is an audio of three extracts which I thought show the pathos and passion too. :)
1st extract...
Regarde-moi, mon cher, et dis quelle espérance
Pourrait bien me laisser cette protubérance !
Oh ! je ne me fais pas d'illusion !--Parbleu,
Oui, quelquefois, je m'attendris, dans le soir bleu;
J'entre en quelque jardin où l'heure se parfume;
Avec mon pauvre grand diable de nez je hume
L'avril,--je suis des yeux, sous un rayon d'argent,
Au bras d'un cavalier, quelque femme, en songeant
Que pour marcher, à petits pas, dans de la lune,
Aussi moi j'aimerais au bras en avoir une,
Je m'exalte, j'oublie. . .et j'aperçois soudain
L'ombre de mon profil sur le mur du jardin !
Translation: Look at me, my friend, and say what hope
Could leave me this protuberance!
Oh ! I do not delude myself!
Yes, sometimes, I waited, in the blue of evening;
I enter some garden where the hour is perfumed;
With my poor big devil's nose, I'm only human,
April, - I am under the gaze of the moon, all silver
On the arm of a rider, there's some woman, thinking
That to walk, slowly, in the moonlight,
I too could walk with a maiden on one's arm
I am exalted, I forget. . .and I suddenly see
The shadow of my profile on the garden wall!
Extract 2....
Baiser ! Le mot est doux.
Je ne vois pas pourquoi votre lèvre ne l'ose;
S'il la brûle déjà, que sera-ce la chose ?
Ne vous en faites pas un épouvantement:
N'avez-vous pas tantôt, presque insensiblement,
Quitté le badinage et glissé sans alarmes
Du sourire au soupir, et du soupir aux larmes !
Glissez encore un peu d'insensible façon:
Des larmes au baiser il n'y a qu'un frisson !
Un baiser, mais à tout prendre, qu'est-ce ?
Un serment fait d'un peu plus près, une promesse
Plus précise, un aveu qui veut se confirmer,
Un point rose qu'on met sur l'i du verbe aimer;
C'est un secret qui prend la bouche pour oreille,
Un instant d'infini qui fait un bruit d'abeille,
Une communion ayant un goût de fleur,
Une façon d'un peu se respirer le cœur,
... keep reading on reddit ➡
Not an in Canon theory, but a reality theory. Btw, I'm referring to the play, not the person.
Now I'm not going to pretend like these are the only stories to have this or that it's that unique of an idea, but I can't help but think about the similarities.
For those of you who have never read Cyrano de Bergerac (you uncultured swines), it's basically about Cyrano (a real figure) who considers himself unattractive and isn't brave enough to tell the woman he loves how he feels. So he writes love letters and poems to her but she mistakes them to be from another man has a crush on, Christian. Both Christian and Cyrano take this secret to the grave, but Roxanne figures out on her own that Cyrano was the true author (they're also cousins which made their love story kind of weird to a modern audience, but it was considered normal at the time).
Pretty similar right? Yeah none of them die and Beverly grew up to marry someone else entirely, but I can't help but wonder if King may have had this play in mind when writing these characters.
Recently, on a sleepless night, I decided to search for clues to the ending of book 3 not by pouring over the text of the first two books, but by listening to the man himself. I discovered some things I found interesting, mostly pertaining to other stories Patrick has mentioned he has been influenced by. In one older interview, pre-WMF, a pre-grey bearded Patrick said: (I'm not going to post links, so I'm paraphrasing here)
"I'm not very good at pitching the book. So I do the Hollywood pitch where you compare your work to two successful movies. So I say it's like The Princess Bride meets The Crow. "
Princess Bride makes some sense, its a story about a story. The Crow? Interesting. I'll come back to that later.
In another interview he states he read the journals of Casanova and found them extraordinarily fascinating (again paraphrasing, but I have a decent memory)-
" So in college I read the journals of Casanova, who was kicked out of several countries for being, well...Casanova. And he was a liar, and con-man, and he seduced a lot of nuns. And I just thought, wow, you can read about some ones life and have it be fascinating."
In 2 or 3 others, he mentioned Fight Club as one of his favorite movies ever, which surprised me, although I agree.
In several interviews (more than five) he states that Cyrano de Bergerac is his favorite drama ever. Not only that, it made him cry for several hours afterwards. Now I had seen a black and white movie version when I was younger, but had never read it, so I decided to dive in a little bit. The comparisons quite frankly, floored me. Pat flat-out borrowed many of the story elements (not a criticism). I'll have to be more terse before this post becomes to verbose, there are just too many similarities. I'll list a few: This first one is in the official description-
-The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of twelve syllables per line, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura.- .. Interesting..
Now for the story. Again, I'll have to prune the side characters to keep this short.
Cyrano is a poet, actor, swordsman, soldier, musician and all-around smooth talker and story-teller. Sound familiar? His main flaw is that he is not physically remarkable or good-looking, mostly due to his large nose. He is in love with 2nd or 3rd (not too sure) cousin Roxane, and doesn't believe he has a shot because of his looks. Roxane confesses to Cyrano that she has fallen for someone. Cyrano is hopeful at first, but when
... keep reading on reddit ➡It's unfortunate Janeane Garofalo didn't do more romantic comedies because she was very good as a woman who falls for a man she finds to be handsome and out of her league so she convinces Uma Thurman to take her place as the guy asks her out just through listening to her voice on the radio as she's a radio host.
I found the film was sharp, witty and thoroughly charming and Janeane Garofalo is a standout as the film further explores her character's lack of self-esteem. I also enjoyed seeing Uma Thurman play a "ditzy Blonde", I was surprised by how good she was at playing comedy. I'm usually not fond of chick flicks or romantic comedies, I enjoyed The Truth About Cats & Dogs a lot.
Now that I've played the game a lot that would be the best teaser.
James McAvoy Bringing Award-Winning ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ to Brooklyn Academy of Music
No doubt there'll be uproar if McAvoy uses a prosthetic .. on his nose.
)