4 orange girl scenes from various productions of Cyrano de Bergerac (ranked in order of my faves & subtitled! 🧡)
The French clip is not translated bc ur about to see the same scene 4 times in a row, & translating it seemed not only unnecessary but repetitive. Enjoy 🍊
Jacques Weber (1983) - stunning, charming, gorgeous. I obviously had to put the only French one first bc it's the only one that's perfect verbatim. Weber's Cyrano has a happy-go-lucky self-effacing undercurrent once u get past the heights of his heartbroken kicked puppy despair (which I also love) & it really shines in this scene 💖 He's so gentle & courteous with her, & his little chuckle at the end...! Our orange girl/server/waitress/distributrice/whatever is so sweet & charming too! Le Bret's grumbling. Obvious crushing. The little trick where he blows out the candle before her. CINEMA. MWAH 11/10 no notes
José Ferrer (1950) - another orange girl absolutely slaying. I love the moment of uncertainty when Cyrano asks for her hand (she did just see him kill a noble like it was nothing...) & how it melts away when he treats her like she's a princess 🥰 Cyrano says DRINK YOUR RESPECTING SERVERS JUICE. Ferrer's Cyrano is a bit stiff for this scene where he's meant to be touched & surprised by kindness but Le Bret glancing between them in the background & then calling him an idiot makes up for it
Derek Jacobi (1985) - the surprise bunch of roses AWWW 💐❤️ For context, those were the roses people had showered him in after his triumph in the rhyming duel! I don't love how Jacobi's Cyrano seems to be rushing her away. I do love that they cast an actress who wasn't as young & rosebud pretty as the others for this production but rather someone who u might actually encounter waitressing irl, it just hits differently seeing Cyrano being so kind to her, especially in a play that's concerned with beauty
Kevin Kline (2008) - like Weber, another Cyrano that's gallant, charming, & friendly! Also it may be going against the stage directions but I do love an orange girl who is obviously crushing on Cyrano (who can blame her?) bc it makes the next scene where he goes on about being unlovable all the more infuriating 💖
Massive L to every other production for cutting this scene out, ESPECIALLY since it's the only moment we see Cyrano eat 🥺😔
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