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longagoitwastuesday · 1 year

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Goodness, they made Christian's ghost come mourn Cyrano when he died, rest his hand on Cyrano's shoulder and regard him with a sad fondness!!! And yes, it felt as if he came to mourn him, but also as if he had come to claim half his death! As if he had been indeed half alive, not entirely dead, as Roxane points out, until that very moment! One being dying twice, mourned twice!

#Cyrano de Bergerac #I talk too much #I should probably delete this later #What a genius of an idea! I wanted to kick the screen when I saw it #The highlight of this act in the Solès version ngl #I didn't like the fact that they changed the Roxane on its own but also I didn't like this Roxane or her acting at all #I didn't like Solès own acting all that much in this act either #And I miss some of my favourite verses and favourite lines here. Like how Cyrano mocks Le Bret for groaning one last time #It also misses some of the sweetest directions imo like how Cyrano stops Roxane actively physically from going look for her #it makes him all the more desperate at the idea of dying without her there #I liked that the actor played some of the lines with some fun and sarcasm at times #but I don't know I think it could have been made better or more or sweeter and yet also more poignant #Le Bret getting angry at Molière even despite the pain was a very sweet detail that is lacking here #Le Bret is in general a lot more angry and frustrated in the directions I feel than he is in the play?#And it was sweet and heartbreaking seeing him like that due to the unbearable pain of losing his best friend and in such a dirty #but also stupid reckless way #There's a pause after Roxane says that she feels Christian isn't but half dead‚#that his heart is still with hers and his soul is still around her alive‚ just before De Guiche asks of Cyrano still visits her #And I love that silence. I love that lingering moment in which one questions whether De Guiche suspects #If everyone but her is aware at that point of the fact that Cyrano has been in love with her all their lives #That that silence is missing‚ and I missed it severely #I didn't like this act much. What a sad let down considering how I love the rest of the production and how I loved the fourth act #(even despite the Sigfrid ending they gave to Christian which I found tacky and out of place)#But wow what a fourth act and what an interpretation by that Roxane #only to have the lamest last act with the blandest Roxane. Nothing of her charm‚ her wit. Things she retains fifteen years later!#And it's been fifteen years after all‚ not forty five. They didn't have to change her alone #It feels so out of place with the other actors all the same and barely changed in looks #And the acting was so sad so bland and she lack any chemistry with Cyrano's actor #Ugh what a pity. I was so looking forward to this Roxane playing some of the last scenes #But anyway yeah. The ghost of Christian was a genius move. And his last scenes alive were so well done too

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