Roxanne (Film)

Roxanne is a comedy film from 1987, which is loosely based on the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. The film was directed by Fred Schepisi. The screenplay was written by Steve Martin, who also played the lead role at the same time.

Action

The film begins with the fact that two of the path coming athletes are concerned about CD Bales funny and want to lash out. They are set by him skillfully elegant hors de combat.

CD Bales is the head of the fire department in a small town in the Rocky Mountains. The existing voluntary firemen unit will be strengthened by the professional firefighter Chris McConnell, who will train and educate the anything but powerful squad. CDs striking feature is its large nose, and every comment is via the same he answered palpable in the rule. The people in the village know this, avoid references to his nose and he still is in place because of its helpfulness and verbal repartee popular. His psychological skills he demonstrated in rescuing a cat from a tree or a stubborn boy on the roof of a house.

Roxanne, an astronomy student and looking for a comet in the sky, just want a robe wearing their intake desiring hangover let into the house. A gust of wind hits the patio door, the robe is clamped and she stands naked, excluded from the house on the terrace. She sneaks to help get to the fire and hits CD He leaves them on the way to her house naked actually walk behind, because they denied his question about a coat ironic. After he has gone through an open skylight into the house, he lets her into the house and while Roxanne is dressing in the bathroom, it covers naturally the dinner table. Unconventional both become friends, where CD also reveals a good general education.

The small town meets probably always in the evening in the bar of Dixie, which is at least a good friend of CD. Here Roxanne sees for the first time Chris and their eyes meet. Chris is so shy and inhibited that he vomits in the toilet and flees. Roxanne asks later CD to mediate to Chris. Chris is delighted, but he can not overcome his shyness even now and wants Roxanne time being only write a love letter. Even so, he is overwhelmed and he asks CD to write the letter for him.

The lyrically gifted CD not only writes this letter, but also further to a meeting of Roxanne and Chris is inevitable. CD also supports this by telepromting Chris on a walkie talkie the right words. As Roxanne and Chris end up in bed, which is not easy for him, because he also has feelings for Roxanne. He probably familiar Dixie how you can infer from the subsequent action taken.

Chris does not feel in his role well, suddenly learns without emerging shyness know another woman and leaves her with the city. Previously, he wrote a suicide note in his uncouth words to Roxanne. This letter intersects with a romantic love letter, had written to the CD for Chris, but the Dixie sent with proper copyright attribution CD to Roxanne. Roxanne CD can come to her house, let him read both letters and gets confirmed the suspicion that all the letters were written by him. CD 's defense is that he had only expressed his feelings for her. Roxanne is palpable when she learns that CD has entrusted Also Dixie and throws him out of the house.

CD tries to delay the departure, but increased because he smells something. He meets with his big nose in the air sniffing the fire station one, can sit the team, leading them to a place just starting fire that can be extinguished thanks to the early use with only minor damage. In the later celebration recognize the small town and CD why he has this big nose. CD also stops responding aggressively when his nose is the theme.

CD leaves the party and sits pensively on the ridge of his house. The film closes with when he suddenly hears Roxanne, quoted from his letters and confesses to him that it is the romantic words in these letters were exactly that they have driven into the arms of Chris. She confesses her love for CD, he slips off the roof, they kiss a little entangled because of the nose and both vanish in the house.

Reviews

  • Lexicon of international film: " free for" Cyrano de Bergerac " designed comedy whose lengths are not to be overlooked despite some witty ideas. "
  • Editorial amazon.de: "Not only the story works excellently. Rather, only conveys the visual design of the film by Australian director Fred Schepisi to the film its romantic undertone, without slipping into sentimentality wrong. "

Awards

Steve Martin in 1988 was nominated for Best Lead Actor in a Comedy or Musical for Golden Globe, but had to admit defeat Vietnam, Robin Williams for the film Good Morning. Martin also won the National Society of Film Critics Award and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor as well as the WGA Award from the Writers Guild of America adapted for Best Screenplay.

Others

  • It was filmed in the summer of 1986 in the town of Nelson in British Columbia, Canada. Steve Martin decided to use the local fire hall in Baker Street as the main setting, although the emblems on the vehicles came from the state of Washington.
  • In the abuse scene C.D. had Come up over his nose 20 creative jokes. As C.D. between inquired of the bystanders on the number which he had already told, replied a man, he would be at 14; in fact, he had already given at this time 19 jokes for the best. However, he further added 6 added and thus achieved a total of 25 jokes.
  • The film was the first part of a loose trilogy (along with LA Story and Simple Twist of Fate ) of films that Martin had written about love. In each film the main actor has a close, platonic friendship with a woman - In Roxanne with Shelley Duvall in LA Story with Susan Forristal and Catherine O'Hara in Twist of Fate.
1987 in film Film score Ian Baker (cinematographer) Damon Wayans Golden Globe Award Good Morning, Vietnam Nelson (British Columbia) L.A. Story
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