[ SECRET POST #5398 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5398 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

It's a regular play that's been turned into a musical at least twice; once in the 1970s and once in 2019, and the 2019 version got turned into a movie that's coming out at the end of the year. Dinklage starred in the 2019 version and now in the movie.

The original play is by Edmund Rostand and is from, idk, 1894? 1897? Somewhere in there. So far as I know he took some random French early (1600s? 1700s?) sci-fi/fantasy writer who wrote about going to the moon and wrote a play using his name for the protagonist. I think(?) the real Cyrano was also a soldier or minor nobleman or something.

The play is about Cyrano, a soldier who's in love with his cousin Roxanne, who's being courted by an asshole duke but is in love with a soldier, Christian, who just joined Cyrano's regiment.

Christian is kind of a himbo; Roxanne loves witty repartee and poetry, and he despairs that Roxanne will dump him like a hot rock the second he tells her "ur super hot wanna bang?" Or, you know, the French equivalent from 1600-whatever.

Cyrano is a poet and duelist famous for his wit, but ashamed of his massive nose, and agrees to write letters to Roxanne from "Christian" because at least that way he can confess his feelings, even if she (and Christian, at least at first) have no clue he has them.

Then the plot goes from absurd romance comedy to "oh shit they're soldiers and there's a war on."

Rostand was French so the English versions of the play are all translations. One of them is by Anthony Burgess, who wrote A Clockwork Orange and also wrote the lyrics to the 1970s musical.

Idk if there are any French musical versions. There are French and English filmed adaptations of the play out there, and a comedy version called Roxanne with Steve Martin. And Megamind is kind of based on it, or at least the romance plot is.

Sorry for the infodump essay, heh.

[(Anonymous)]

The Truth About Cats and Dogs was kind of based on it too, but gender-swapped.