Cyrano De Bergerac And Roxanne
The author of Cyrano de Bergerac is Edmond
Rostand. Edmond Rostand was born on
April 1, 1868 in Marseille, France.
He was obsessed with literature in general,
but was especially interested in
theater. His first drama was called The
Romantics, then Cyrano de
Bergerac, Chantecler, and The Last Night of Don Juan.
Cyrano de Bergerac
was his greatest work and accomplishment, the first
production was on
December 28, 1897. Edmond died on December 2, 1918. He was a
French poet
and dramatist who wrote for 30 years. I liked Cyrano e Bergerac, but
it was a
sad story. I liked watching the movie Roxanne. It was in English and
in
color, I also understood the plot since I read the book. I didn't like
watching
the French version with subtitles because I don't take French, so I
didn't
understand it. It was hard to watch what was going on, listen to the
tone of the
voices, and read the subtitles at the same time. Sometimes I got
lost or didn't
know how the lines were expressed. For instance, whether the
person was sad,
happy, or mad. I also like to be able to just watch a movie,
when they are in
English you don't have to hang on each word or read what
they just said. It's
not the same with subtitles at all. You interpret
everything very differently.
You can pick up the sound of the voice
through the French, but it's still very
different. I would have rather
watched the old black and white version because
it was in English. I think I
would have understood it a little better. Reading
Cyrano de Bergerac was
very helpful when we watched the movies. When I read it
by myself to catch up
I was very confused because it was hard to make the
transition of who was
talking. When we read it in class and different people
played different parts
it was much easier to follow along. The different voices
helped in the
transition of who was talking. It was also a little difficult
sometimes
because sometimes something would not be said or said properly. I
thought the
book was very well written and was very good. It had a good plot,
but it was
kind of predictable. I mean you could figure out that Roxanne would
find out
that Cyrano was in love with her and that he was the one that wrote
the
letters. You could also probably figure out that Christian was going to
die.
That's the way most stories end up, if it's not a happily ever after
one. Some
things weren't predictable, like that Cyrano was going to be
murdered or that
Roxanne would live in mourning instead of killing
herself after Christian died.
Overall I enjoyed reading Edmond Rostand's
Cyrano de Bergerac. The book was
excellent and the movies provided different
interpretations of the book. I would
like to see this on stage somewhere, I
think it would be very exciting. Roxanne
was the more modern version and I
understood it better. The French version with
subtitles was a little harder
to understand, but was done very well for being a
somewhat old movie. The
location seemed more appropriate and more realistic of
where it would have
actually taken place. Edmond Rostand was a good dramatist
and critics were
right to say this was his best
work.