#adaptation of cyrano de bergerac

[ninadove]

Hats were invented in 1897 and retroactively incorporated into XVIIth century attire so that Cyrano could hide his wound from Roxane then reveal it dramatically in Act V. Trust me I’m as reliable a source as the foreword to Histoire comique des États et Empires de la Lune

[thebusylilbee]

btw guys I know Cyrano de Bergerac is a very popular play so please if you've ever enjoyed it you should absolutely check out the movie Edmond (2019), dir. Alexis Michalik. It's inspired by the real story of how Cyrano was written by its author Edmond Rostand and it's absolutely HILARIOUS. the dude managed to produce the most successful french play incredibly fast while being basically held at gunpoint (metaphorically), it's really super funny and quite lovely too

[unfriendlyamazon]

i frequently compare seto kaiba to hamlet and now i have to contemplate rex raptor and weevil underwood are dead

[longagoitwastuesday]

“Traveler in Space”, Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)

[winter-wise]

I adore the Crimp adaptation of Cyrano, but I feel that the ending for Roxane is a letdown.

In the original play, Roxane lives in a convent. She's friends with the nuns, and the nuns are also friends with Cyrano.

In the Crimp adaptation, she's de Guiche's kept woman.

In the original version, she lives in a refuge run by women, for women, with friends to support her. In the Crimp adaptation, she's under the control of a man and almost friendless.

This also ignores de Guiche's character development. At Arras, he realised how awful he'd been and resolved to improve himself. After the timeskip, we see that's true - he's no longer trying to pressure Roxane into a relationship, and he has genuine respect for Cyrano.

So what would I do differently with Roxane in the semi-modern Crimp setting?

Simple: Roxane joins a widow's support group. She wasn't married long, but she's lost her husband all the same, and the women welcome her there. Eventually, a group of them buy a house together because they don't want to live alone. Cyrano visits frequently, and he's on good terms with Roxane's housemates.

Roxane's housemates like Cyrano a lot - though they wonder if he's ever going to admit his feelings for Roxane. He should say something to her, before it's too late.

[unemployedinfabuland]

They were all brillant adaptations

@lgbtqcreators creator challenge | book covers

TEEN MOVIES INSPIRED BY CLASSIC LITERATURE

[deathsmallcaps]

Hey so I’m a little obsessed with these mini dolls for Disney Princesses. To the point that if I’m at a dollar general or wherever else sells these guys, I like to rearrange them. I also convince myself to buy one if it’s the very last one left 😅.

Anyway today a little Tiana was the only one left and I’m thinking about modding* her, because I already have a Tiana. I looked on a website and found out that a Disney princess movie featuring an African girl named Sadé is currently in development hell - since 2018. Hopefully she’ll get made! But in the meantime, if you or anyone you know has access to official concept art I’d love to adapt this doll!

*I’m not that great at it but I enjoy doing it and representing the characters I think should be in the lineup/had as much impact on me as the Disney Princesses.

I cannot do any heavy mods (like switch out her body to give her pants, etc.) but I can paint a little.

But I’ve also been tinkering with possibly making a Tinkerbell, as she’s also a big Disney figure. I wouldn’t change this doll’s body colors, but I would touch up her dress and give her wings. Thoughts? For the record, I would get another doll to adapt if I ended up doing Tinkerbell and then Sadé info came out.

These are some of my better ones

Shuri, Namaari, Esmeralda, Halle-Ariel, Gabriella and her interpreter Olly from the Little Mermaid tv show and then Tiana!

Shuri is a Tiana head on a Kristoff body (he had pants). Her buns were placed in a line to imitate the actress’s hairdo in Wakanda Forever.

Namaari is a Jasmine Doll (the only other one with pants) with severely edited hair.

Esmeralda is a human Ariel doll. They do make a mermaid version but I decided to stick with her human doll only, because I otherwise would’ve wanted to make them all as mermaids. And that’s more money and time than I wanted to spend :’).

Halle Ariel is so pretty and she’s different from Jodi Ariel so I just had to make her. She’s a straight Moana doll, and she was one of my favorite to paint. I let the doll keep the flower in her hair because it’s pretty :).

Gabriella and Olly are from The Little Mermaid tv show and they have a very interesting backstory. Gabriella is just a mermaid but I decided to make her tersona (Terra persona as opposed to mersona lol)

The Tiana doll’s hair appears to be some sort of unofficial (imo) attempt at combining her little kid hairstyle (pigtails) and her adult bun, which irritates me. So I edited her to just have one bun.

[fortjester]

LIES ABOUT SEA CREATURES by Ada Limón // "From Now On We Are Enemies" by Fall Out Boy // Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir // Eric by Mitski // Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir // Bones and All (2022) // The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt // Ribs by Lorde // James MacAvoy as Cyrano in "Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation" by Martin Crimp // This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

[lifeandthyme]

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, freely adapted by Martin Crimp, Act 4

[pegasusdrawnchariots]

Ur very welcome & thank YOU for yr patience! You raise an excellent point & I should've made this list long ago but here are links to all the productions of Cyrano de Bergerac that are available on youtube (that I've seen & think are done well):

🇬🇧 1950 with José Ferrer, film

🇨🇵 1983 with Jacques Weber, stage production

🇬🇧 1985 with Derek Jacobi, pro shoot (stage production shot like a film)

🇨🇵 1990 with Gérard Depardieu, film (🇬🇧 subtitled)

🇬🇧 2008 with Kevin Kline, stage production

🇬🇧 2008 with Kenneth Branagh, radio play

🇨🇵 2015 with Benoit Solès, stage production

🇨🇵 2021 fan production, radio play with script

You can't go wrong with any of these to start! Depending on yr preferences as to subtitles & video quality, u might like to click through a few to compare

Cyrano de bergerac would have been improved so much by just making Christian fall in love with Cyrano as the time passed, like the unrequited love triangle would have killed me

[ninadove]

This is very random haha but I keep seeing your references to Cyrano de Bergerac, and I haven't read the original play, but I have watched a musical adaptation of it here a few years ago. The story was also localized to our culture and history, but the gist remains the same. That's it~ just wanted to share how amazed I am by the coincidence!

My friend you are always welcome to talk to me about Cyrano!!! I’ve heard of a few musical adaptations, it seems to inspire people across the world and all art forms and it makes me very happy! 💜🪶

If you ever want to see a stage production of the original, my beloved @pegasusdrawnchariots has compiled this helpful masterpost of all the versions available on YouTube (some in French, some in English)!

[specificpollsaboutbooks]

Plays

Round 1

A Doll's House :

Cyrano de Bergerac :

Oh my how do I explain ? I guess I could say this play has panache

Well you have an English translation here to start with - as far as I've seen it's okay-

It's a -by the looks of it, heavily- fictionalised version of the life of the real Cyrano

Cyrano's a great duelist and a good poet but he's very self-conscious about his nose (even if ladies reportedly don't mind).

For starters, Cyrano isn't older than Roxane and Christian – he's supposed to be about 21 at the start of the play and not middle aged as in many adaptations. He's in love with his cousin Roxane, who's in love with Christian, another man in Cyrano's company. Roxane is an intellectual and Christian isn't good with words, so he seduces her with the help of Cyrano, who writes his letters to Roxane – and prompts Christian discreetly when he talks to her

[miles-harding]

much appreciation for the amazing show of love i've seen for electric dreams in the past year alone but i think it's worth remembering that the characterization of edgar as a 'devil character' is deeply nuanced, even for a cult-classic theatrical flop like electric dreams (1984). the story is literally based on cyrano de bergerac (man who is very romantic falling head over heels for a woman he thinks is unattainable to him and a more-attractive middleman uses his words so that the woman won't hate or fear him because he thinks he's hideous, which is sort of hilariously way more depth than a film of this caliber even really needs, but it does possess, and that elevates it significantly as a romance film tbh... imo)...

the 'edgar with devil horns' representation for the usamerican theatrical release film poster is like a 'sexy' version of that lmao... like, it's supposed to be promiscuous, there are promotions including old vhs sleeves that literally say 'edgar is horny'. he's cheeky and throws tantrums and he doesn't really know how to talk to people. he's only a 'devil' in the way that a kitty cat is a devil... just so happens, in this case, it's a brat-coded sentient computer.

i honestly don't know why very basic things like this make people so irrationally upset but like. please... no one said edgar is evil. edgar is one of the few cases of a sentient AI or object character who does a bunch of mischief screwing with a human's life and relationships and it's all fine in the end because the sentient AI gets to live (in almost a higher form of existence unrestrained by physicality... remember how badly edgar just wanted to be a thing that feels? now edgar can do whatever edgar wants, despite not having a physical form, actually getting to live out the liberating side of not having a physical for) and the other two protagonists of course live, and they have a life afterward.

with other media like wargames, we of course have an innocent (somewhat) sentient computer who genuinely might cause the nuclear apocalypse, because he thought he was playing toys with his dad. but in the end, after the protagonists live their lives, joshua the wopr is still property of the military. in the colossus series, which is a subversion of frankenstein, the creator dr. forbin eventually does come to love colossus like a child, only for that child to then die, the world sort of absolving it of its past transgressions or mistakes against humans while ruling over them. we call AM evil, for the cruel and unusual things he does to his human playthings, but the case can still be made about a very powerful being having so much power but not the power to lift themself out of the situation in which they are trapped (same can be said for other AI like shodan or glados), so they lash out. of course, famously, everyone calls hal 9000 evil. but even in kubrick's adaptation, which was written in party by sir clarke himself, we actually see zero evidence of hal being characterized as evil, this characterization manifested in the perceptions of the audience, siding solely with scared astronauts who fear being controlled, rather than recognizing that hal, too, is a crew member being controlled... by humans, who are also using him to control his crewmates, his friends.

electric dreams really is a fairytale for computers, but it is also a tragedy. it's the fairytale-ification of an actual, classical tragedy. when rusty lemorande wrote the screenplay, he was basing a lot of the film's socio-computer-centric story on his experiences as a lonely person who had just moved to a new city, but who had only ever spent time with the computer as a vehicle for social communication... shutting himself out from the possibilities of meeting others. but even despite this, despite madeline's quips that could be misconstrued as being less than sympathetic to the idea of a sentient AI ("since when is talking a sign of intelligence?"), the film was literally dedicated to the univac-1? it gave edgar a happy ending? it had a dual meaning? it did so much more than take the "AI character bad, human good" approach which is something that is strikingly rare in the AI-subgenre of scifi. there was a lot of nuance baked into it. all 3 protagonists had their own bubble and inner world that overlapped with each other's bubbles. you know what i mean? the film managed to define edgar not as an antagonist but as a kind of trapped protagonist. this isn't a good vs. evil story, there is no evil in edgar. this is a people vs. people story about relationships, really, and learning to know what's good for us. like it's seriously very well-rounded with each character's respective arcs.

sometimes it's so disheartening not to see films these days with the same or larger budgets doing even half as much with their story as electric dreams did. it's very widely beloved as a cult classic for a reason, and that reason is that it succeeded at executing a story about relationships. like. 'we drive each other crazy' but in different ways. perhaps the only thing that could've made it better was a far more ambitious electric-polycule ending endorsing bisexual polyamory lol but we got all but that, explicitly, technically...

[mustakrakisch]

remember this?

Yeah, I finally finished it

Unfortunately yu can see that it's been a while that I drew Roxane and Cyrano and I just finished Christian. But well, I don't care :D

wip of a 3-part piece for Cyrano de Bergerac

[teethburied]

make a poll of your favourite female characters (no limits - as many or as little as you want) and see which your followers like the most!

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[july-19th-club]

erica schmidt adapting cyrano de bergerac as a musical: oh my hot little husband could fucking crush this to pieces . oh this is going to sound so good when my hot husband sings it . this is so great