While most of the verses were kept untouched (the film is considered as one of the most faithful screen adaptations of the play), some of them were removed to better blend the play into the film format. In the film, the battle happens on screen, with Cyrano displaying much badassery as he throws himself alone in the fight, mows a lot of enemies down and survives without a scratch to tell the tale. One-Man Army: The play only states by way of Offscreen Moment of Awesome that Cyrano goes at the Porte de Nesle to protect Lignière from dozens of mooks who are waiting there to ambush and kill him.There was apparently a plagiarism court case that Elfman won against Cyrano composer Jean-Claude Petit. Musical Pastiche: The Porte de Nesle scene rips off Danny Elfman's Batman scores, of all things.Large Ham: It is a requirement to be this when playing the role of the flamboyant and boisterous Cyrano of course, but to render it moviewise, someone like Gérard Depardieu was needed.Here, he impales himself on Cyrano's sword. Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The play itself doesn't give much details on how Cyrano beats Valvert in their duel, insisting more on Valvert's humiliation and him being taken away by De Guiche's men.In the movie, she does get in trouble and has to be rescued by Christian, though she still manages to bring food to the Cadets. Adaptational Wimp: In the play, Roxane goes through the Spanish lines entirely by herself, charming her way through their troops with no trouble.Christian gets to save Roxane from the Spanish, meaning that he does one genuinely heroic thing for her.But Valvert picks his sword up and charges Cyrano while his back is turned, and so Cyrano ends up wounding him through legit physical self-defense instead of just a duel over honour.
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In the movie he disarms him and taps his nose, then walks away. In the play, Cyrano runs Valvert through at the end of their duel.Although, while the French trailers of the time did feature these a lot, the heart of the film is still in the dialogue scenes, which outnumber the action ones by a good margin.
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In 17th century Paris, Cyrano de Bergerac is an improvisatory poet and swordsman with a large nose of which he is self-conscious, but pretends to be proud. It stars Gérard Depardieu as Cyrano, Vincent Perez as Christian de Neuvillette, Anne Brochet as Roxane and Jacques Weber as Count Antoine de Guiche. The 1990 film adaptation of Edmond Rostand's stage play Cyrano de Bergerac, directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau.
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