Never off my bullshit about these characters... please know that I am constantly thinking about Le Bret's absence from the last act of the 1950 Cyrano movie. How Carnovsky's Le Bret was such a secure anchor for Ferrer's Cyrano (how Cyrano always managed to find him in a crowd full of strangers and how Le Bret ran to find him even with an army of cutthroats on his heels), how the last time we saw them together Cyrano had saved Le Bret's life at Arras... and how Le Bret only reappears when Cyrano is about to die, with Ragueneau taking over his role as confidante. I am constantly thinking about what could have kept them from each other's side, when they had been so inseparable before. I am thinking about ways the director and actors must have justified it and wondering about how they could have broken my heart more than the original play already did...

Cyrano: Fuck! Le Bret: Language. Cyrano: French.

Cyrano: I can explain.

Le Bret: Can you?

Cyrano: If you give me thirty seconds to think of a lie.

L'Imbarazzante

L’Imbarazzante

Le Bret (attivo presumibilmente fra il 1730 e il 1740): L’Embarrassante, tratta dalla Prima Suite per clavicembalo (n. 5). L’esegue Simone Pierini. Non è chiaro se questo Le Bret, del quale si ignora il nome di battesimo, fosse un musi­ci­sta professionista o un dilettante; è noto unicamente per due suites per clavicembalo, di cui ci è pervenuta una copia manoscritta realizzata dal canonico…

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With how often I ramble about this play and have Felix quote it in fics, it was only a matter of time until I made this:

✨ Tadaaa! ✨

Cyrano’s light would be a gift and a punishment: a finger pointed straight at the vileness of the world, the caress of April upon a dandelion. As for the darkest parts of his soul, the threads of self-hatred he had danced on all his life, Le Bret would guard them with the devotion of a hellhound.

OR: Le Bret never finds the words to talk about Cyrano, but someone else does.

Born from my many frantic conversations with @pegasusdrawnchariots! As always, thanks to @dragongutsixofficial for beta-reading! 💖

“Molti anni fa mi resi conto che un libro, un romanzo, è un sogno che chiede di essere scritto nello stesso modo in cui ci s'innamora di qualcuno: il sogno diventa irresistibile, non c'è niente che tu possa fare, e infine cedi e soccombi anche se il tuo istinto ti dice di battertela a gambe perché potrebbe trattarsi, dopotutto, di un gioco pericoloso – in cui qualcuno probabilmente si farà male.”

— Bret Easton Ellis, "Le schegge".

"Les Fugitifs" (1986) - Francis Veber

Films I've watched in 2022 (103/210)

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Princess Grace is welcomed to Cannes, May 19, 1977, by the President of the International Film Festival Robert Favre Le Bret

Marc Antoine le Bret

Solo

“Ero insensibile a tutto tranne che a un barlume di nudità nell'anonima suite di un hotel.”

Bret Easton Ellis - Le schegge

I’ve been kicked back on my bullshit for a moment, so let me have this...

I do largely prefer when Le Bret is cast as a little older than Cyrano and has sort of a “protective/exasperated big brother and loose cannon little brother” dynamic with him.  But I also appreciate a Le Bret who’s around the same age as Cyrano and gives off the impression that, under the right circumstances, he is not immune to the same kind of nonsense and probably would at least threaten to skewer a hundred men if they messed with someone he liked.  There’s a reason he’s so well-regarded among the cadets, after all, and he is best friends with a guy for whom restraint is not a strong suit.

(Bonus points if he can’t help being a little bit in love with the bastard himself, so when Cyrano goes on about how unlovable he thinks he is, Le Bret’s appeal to his wit and courage has a tinge of “Have you seen you??”)

see if we're talking about queer stuff in Cyrano what I wanna know is what to make of Roxanne's birth name being Magdeleine.

(Roxanne: might be a reference to the character in Lettres Persanes)

Magdeleine: sure, it is a girl's name. But through the power of intertextuality - it was Valjean's alias, and we know Valjean is based on Vidocq, and we know Vidocq inspired Vautrin (who is queer), and we know Vautrin's first boyfriend was nicknamed Madeleine. Obviously changing names is very queer, too.

is it a matter of Roxanne being like Albertine? a female character but iykyk?

then again Roxanne has such a clearly feminine role, both in society and in the play. She does flout rules, but "a woman! only a woman would think of such things!" (it's an antagonist saying this to her - admiratively), and several of Cyrano's most tender moments about her specifically call her "maternal" or talk about her as The woman in Cyrano's life.

and of note, iirc there's absolutely NO mention in the play of Roxanne having a man's soul or things of that sort. We have instead "Monsieur de Bergerac, I am your cousin."

So the answer is: nothing! that's what the "g" is for! But I do keep thinking this use of Madeleine in two older novels linked to queer characters is funny.

EDIT: nooo gasp I lost my edit. fixed.

Le Bret: Man, I only ever see you awake, do you ever shut down or stop running?

Lignière: Oh, I’m always running

Lignière: The question is from what

Cronache da un'America minore

Qualcuno ha seguito il mio viaggio di ottobre negli Stati Uniti attraverso i post che pubblicavo su Instagram, giorno dopo giorno, un diario che facevo la sera, spesso in una stanza di motel e qualche volta in una casa. Ripercorrevo la giornata, e cercavo le cose più significative che avevo visto, scoperto, cercato o trovato per caso. Era un esercizio per non dimenticare, e anche per capire. Ora…

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