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In the Movie |
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It is a stage play.
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The film is a musical. |
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Cyrano is ugly with a large nose.
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Cyrano is a dwarf.
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Count de Guiche schemes to marry Roxanne off to Viscount Valvert.
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Roxanne is to marry a Duke, but she opposes it. Her attendant urges her to marry as her family is upper class, but not rich. |
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Cyrano interrupts a play and forces the lead actor whom he does not like, off of the stage. Viscount Valvert confronts Cyrano and they duel with Cyrano wounding and possibly killing him. Lignière tells Cyrano about a plot to be attacked by 100 men where upon Cyrano decides to confront the 100 men along with a group of officers and actors.
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After Cyrano chases the lead actor off of the stage, Viscount Valvert insults Cyrano and challenges him to a duel. Cyrano humiliates the Viscount during the duel and forces him to surrender. The Viscount then tries to back stab Cyrano, but Cyrano kills him.
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The fight happens off stage.
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Cyrano fights/defeats ten men sent to attack him. |
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This does not happen.
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The Duke tells Roxanne that Cyrano went too far, she disagrees and says her friend Cyrano took no pleasure in killing Viscount Valvert. The Duke says she must break off her friendship with Cyrano if she is to get a marriage proposal from the Count.
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After Roxanne tells Cyrano about her love for Christian, Cyrano's captain arrives with the cadets to congratulate him on his victory from the night before. They are followed by a huge crowd, including de Guiche and his entourage, but Cyrano soon drives them away.
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After Roxanne tells Cyrano about her love for Christian, de Guiche arrives to confront Cyrano. The Count offers Cyrano money for his poems which he will take credit for. Cyrano insults de Guiche who walks away. |
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Cyrano delays the Count with an amusing tale while he is on his way to Roxanne to marry her. The Count is furious when he discovers Roxanne has married Christian. He sends the Cadets of Gascony to the war front with Spain that night.
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Count de Guiche sends Roxanne a letter demanding that he marry her tonight or he will take her to bed anyway. When Cyrano warns Roxanne that the Count is on his way, she orders him to delay the Count, but he does not. The Count sends Christian to the front with a message that night.
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De Guiche, arrives at the front and chastises the cadets; the cadets hate the Count. Cyrano responds with his usual bravura. Count de Guiche signals a spy to tell the Spanish to attack the Cadets. He tells the cadets to hold the line until they are relieved.
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Count de Guiche decides to send the Gascon Guards (including Cyrano and Christian) on a dangerous attack that is likely to kill them. He does this by delivering a letter to the Guards. |
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Roxanne arrives at the front with food for the soldiers. The Count tries to get Roxanne to leave the front, but she refuses. The Count will not leave her behind; this gains him the respect of his soldiers.
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This does not happen.
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Christian is fatally shot. Cyrano decides to preserve Roxanne's image of an eloquent Christian and does not tell her he wrote to her everyday while at the front.
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Christian runs to the top of a hill just before the attack and is shot. Cyrano drags a dying Christian to shelter where he urges Cyrano to tell Roxanne everything. Cyrano refuses. |
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As the battle continues, Roxanne collapses and is carried away by the Count. Cyrano rallies the Cadets to hold back the Spanish until relief arrives.
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Cyrano and the rest of the soldiers join the battle; many are killed or wounded.
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Fifteen years later, Roxanne lives at a convent outside of Paris where she mourns Christian. She is visited by Count de Guiche, who is now a good friend and sees Cyrano as an equal.
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Three years later Roxanne is working in a convent. She is visited frequently by Cyrano who is in poor health from a poor diet. He continues to write letters to Roxanne with news of the world. Cyrano and Roxanne do not see the Count after the battle in Spain. |
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Cyrano has been mortally injured when hit on the head by a log that fell from a building. Upon his last visit to deliver Rosanne his news, he asks if he can read Christian's farewell letter. She gives it to him, and he reads it aloud as it grows dark. She then knows Cyrano had written all of the letters.
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Cyrano asks her to be allowed to read Christian's last letter. Cyrano reads the blood stained letter by heart. Roxanne then knows the letters and words at the balcony were his, not Christian's.
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Cyrano denies writing the letters then dies after Roxanne says she loves him. He dies in Le Bret and Ragueneau's arms
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Cyrano denies everything then collapses. Roxanne professes her love for Cyrano and kisses him. Cyrano then dies in her arms as Roxanne cries. |