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• W1508889427 abstract "Within a period of nine years, film audiences have enjoyed three adaptations of Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac. In 1987 Steve Martin's film Roxanne delighted audiences; in 1990 Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Cyrano de Bergerac won favor with Gerard Depardieu in the title role: in 1996 Audrey Wells produced her delightful screenplay The Truth about Cats and Dogs that switches the sexes of the three protagonists and, by doing so, raises important social issues. The production of these three films suggests that Rostand's play is a rich expression of the confusion of love, the frustration and fears lovers encounter when dealing with one another, and the hope for that which is nearly impossible-true love. Cyrano de Bergerac is a story about longing for a lover and about the fear of being found unworthy by the beloved. It is also a tale about a hero who possesses extraordinary intelligence, wit, charm, courage. and, of course, panache. For more than 300 years, audiences of all kinds, including readers of history, theater goers, and movie aficionados, have been fascinated by Cyrano's tale. Edmond Rostand found inspiration for his play in the life of seventeenthcentury Frenchman, Savinin Cyrano de Bergerac, who was the epitome of the Renaissance Man. Born in Perigord, France in 1620, de Bergerac lived during the tough and stormy age of Descartes, Pascal, Corneille, Moliere, and Richelieu (Burgess 11). The French Renaissance was at its zenith; it was an era of and artistic excitement ( 12). Anthony Burgess describes Cyrano's arrival in Paris saying, Into this capital of furious activity hurtles headlong a genius from Gascony. His personality seizes Paris-brains and unquenchable impudence in equal parts. He is nineteen, this walking gargoyle, and he endears friends and embitters enemies with every word he pronounces (12). Cyrano was an intellectual and a scientist who, in his writing, courageously and humorously, supported the discoveries of Copernicus. He was a philosopher, a poet, a humorist, a playwright, and an expert swordsman. Although he died in 1655 at the age of 35, Cyrano made the most of his brief life. Two and a half centuries later, Edmond Rostand resurrected this hero by fictionalizing his life in Cyrano de Bergerac, the romantic tragedy written in rhymed Alexandrine verse. In 1897 the play opened to an audience hungry for romance, hungry for hope, and hungry for a noble hero. Rostand's play became an instant classic. Patricia Elliott Williams argues that the play is a classic not simply for its presentation of a clever, bold. swashbuckling hero, but largely because it fulfills the six Aristotelian characteristics of tragedy: plot, character, thought, spectacle, diction, and music (I 15). The play's longevity. then, can be attributed to Rostand's fine craftsmanship: his coherent, compelling action, morally sound and substantive characters, poetic language, and theatricality. Of the three film adaptations to appear in the last decade, Jean-Paul Rappeneau's film is the most faithful to the tragic tone and original style of Rostand's script. Many of the scenes are literally dark-in the theater, in the streets, below Roxane's balcony. Brilliant but aggressive, Cyrano moves through the action ostracizing and isolating himself from most human company. A witty man with the soul of a poet, he inspires both respect and fear. The tender lover only rarely appears in Rappeneau's film, and the humor carries an edge as sharp) as Cyrano's sword. Steve Martin's 1987 adaptation Roxanne and Audrey Wells' 1996 film The Truth about Cats and Dogs update the play to make it accessible to contemporary audiences. Most significantly, both Martin and Wells transform the dark romantic tragedy into pithy romantic comedy. These American films entertain and teach. In the original play, the hero succumbs to death thereby ending the conflict, but not resolving it. After all, Roxane must live on, knowing that she has lost her great love not once, but twice. …" @default.
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• W1508889427 title "Stumbling Toward Ecstasy: Cyrano de Bergerac as Comedy in Martin's Roxanne" @default.
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