What's the Difference between Cyrano de Bergerac the Play and Roxanne the Movie?
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Charlie "CD" Bales
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Portrayed by: Steve Martin
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Roxane
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Roxanne Kowalski
Portrayed by: Daryl Hannah
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Christian de Neuvillette
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Chris McConnell
Portrayed by: Rick Rossovich
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Le Bret (Cyrano's servant)
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Dixie (C.D.'s friend)
Portrayed by: Shelley Duvall
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Viscount Valvert
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Drunks #1, #2
Portrayed by: Ritch Shydner and Kevin Nealon
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Count de Guiche
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This Character does not appear.
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In the Movie |
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Eventually Roxane tells Christian that she loves him for his passionate letters and not his looks. Christian dies in battle soon after. Cyrano continues to support the illusion that Christian wrote the letters.
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Roxanne wants to hear Chris talk to her like he does in the letters as she say looks are secondary; this freaks Chris out and he runs away. Chris soon runs away to Reno with a female bartender who flirted with him. Chris tells this to Roxanne in a poorly worded letter. |
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Roxane does not find out that Cyrano wrote the letters until much later; and it happens when Cyrano accidentally reveals it.
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Dixie tells Roxanne that CD was the one who wrote the letters.
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Count de Guiche plots to have Christian and Cyrano killed by ordering them to hold the line at the front at all costs.
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This does not happen in the film. |
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This does not happen in the play. |
Roxanne is furious with CD for fooling her and helping Chris get into bed with her. When CD insults her for sleeping with Chris so fast, she slaps him; CD leaves her house.
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Cyrano rallies the Cadets and they hold the line against Spain.
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When CD leaves Roxanne's house, he smells smoke. He alerts the town's firefighters and they find a barn on fire. They put out the fire and are celebrated as heroes at the local bar. |