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Info : https://www.comedie-francaise.fr/en/events/cyrano-de-bergerac16-17
After being bitten, Cyrano gains the proportionate height, snarkiness, and assassin-hiring powers of Rigoletto.
I signed up for the Britbox Black Friday deal, and what do I find but Bergerac, the series that put Tom Barnaby (John Nettles) on the map? The video quality is pretty poor, but it's fun to see this series. I've heard about it but never watched it.
As a bonus, the first episode also features a very young Fleur Perkins (Annette Badland) in a small part.
James McAvoy Bringing Award-Winning βCyrano de Bergeracβ to Brooklyn Academy of Music
No doubt there'll be uproar if McAvoy uses a prosthetic .. on his nose.
Before we get into the additions, I need to mention that Alison Hammond: Back to School was removed today. This was a one-off documentary that was added last year immediately after it aired. Now it's been removed after exactly 1 year of availability.
Now, ever since the content highlights press release was posted for this month, this Thursday stood out as the most exciting. It was a big deal when the first 2 series of Bergerac were added back in April, but then it was at least equally disappointing when the show's Christmas specials left after a period of availability for the "Britmas" event. Well, today is the day where that disappointment is put right. The Bergerac boxset is now complete, with series 3 to 9 being added and those 6 feature-length Christmas specials returning as individual uploads. So, if you've held off onwatching this legendary John Nettles-led detective drama due to its incomplete status, now is the time to binge. Here are all of the synopses, first for the overall series and then the 6 specials:
- Bergerac (1981-91, BBC, 9 series)
>John Nettles stars as the scowling detective in this classic 80s crime caper. Set on the sunny isle of Jersey, ex-alcoholic Bergerac has got his own way of doing things when it comes to solving murders - much to his boss' chagrin.
- Bergerac Christmas Special 1986: Fires in the Fall
>Christmas Special 1986: John Nettles stars as the Jersey detective who's asked to delve into some supernatural myths when an ageing millionairess gets drawn in by a psychic who claims to speak to the dead.
- Bergerac Christmas Special 1987: Treasure Hunt
>Christmas Special 1987. John Nettles stars as the Jersey detective who investigates a series of robberies and a murder that become increasingly complicated by the return of his arch nemesis, Philippa Vale.
- Bergerac Christmas Special 1988: Retirement Plan
>Christmas Special 1988. John Nettles stars as the Jersey detective who travels to Spain to deal with someone who has been threatening Charlie, and then finds himself caught up in a gangland power struggle.
- Bergerac Christmas Special 1989: Second Time Around
>Christmas Special 1989. John Nettles stars as the Jersey detective who gets asked by a recently-freed prisoner to investigate a historic murder case, believing that he was framed for the killing of a former gangster.
- Bergerac Christmas Special 1990: Three for the Picking
>Christmas Special 1990. John Nettle
... keep reading on reddit β‘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.
Does anyone know where I can find season 4 of Bergerac? Britbox has licensing issues and doesn't have that season. It's driving me a bit nuts.
Britbox has seasons 1-3 and 5-9, but not 4. Does anyone know why?
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
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