#Le Bret is frustrated about this even before he is on stage!!! I love the scene with the seller girl on Act I | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

longagoitwastuesday · 2 years ago

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Truly the José Ferrer version of Cyrano de Bergerac is the best by far because by the end of the film he has you convinced he's the most attractive man ever, even if he still doesn't believe it, and that is at the core of what the play is about

#Le Bret at first‚ Christian later on but quite soon and Roxane by the end but much earlier with Christian convinced his looks don't matter #and that his nose is not so ugly or grotesque to make him unlovable‚ not even hard to love #but he dies convinced he can't be loved because unlike the princes in fairytale he remains himself #and his ugliness doesn't disappear when being loved #Le Bret is frustrated about this even before he is on stage!!! I love the scene with the seller girl on Act I #I love that they included it in this adaptation #And I love that Le Bret scoffs when Cyrano tells him he can't confess his love due to his looks in this version #Anyway... Cyrano being a bit shitty in this version and helping Rageneau because otherwise the bakery won't be open #is very funny and also adorable to me in the gesture he makes I can't help it #As it is that he just totally forgets about Ragueneau by the end of the act. I adore that Le Bret tries to go help him #but only when he considers Cyrano is in trouble. I love how well Le Bret manages his pride #And I love that at the beginning of act II in this adaptation Cyrano is anxious about Roxane changing her mind and Ragueneau comforts him #I can't with the duality of this man I adore him. I want to hug him like a plushie. I want to put him in a blender and drink him like juice #Cyrano #Cyrano de Bergerac #I talk too much #I should probably delete this later #José Ferrer is also the best at managing the anger/fun/sad emotions in my opinion. Depardieu is too sad. Kline is too funny #Dinklage is no fun at all and the Jacques Webber version is also too sad. There's another version where the actor was no fun at all either #and definitely too old. The Solès version manages this dance of emotivity quite decently as well in my opinion #but I just prefer Ferrer most of the time. He is dignified and fun and frustrated and confident‚#so very angry but also loving and self-conscious and a bit bashful at times #And what a voice. What a voice. Truly the best Cyrano's voice of them all. It is important in the play but until I started watching #different versions I didn't truly process just how important the voice is and Ferrer has that velvety growl that is so perfect for this #Oh Mcavoy. I forgot about him. He had potential but I think he is a tad too sad for my liking and mainly not fun enough #but I think it's a problem of the production more than the actor's delivery. He had it in him. We see glimpses #I'm missing some others but meh it doesn't matter

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