Roxanne (film)

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Movie
German title Roxanne
Original title Roxanne
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1987
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Fred Schepisi
script Steve Martin
production Michael Rachmil
Daniel Milnich
music Bruce Smeaton
camera Ian Baker
cut John Scott
occupation

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

action

The film begins with two athletes coming along the way making fun of CD Bales and his overly long nose and wanting to get violent. They are skillfully and elegantly incapacitated by him.

CD Bales is a fire chief in a small town in the Rocky Mountains. The unit, which consists of volunteer firefighters, is reinforced by the professional firefighter Chris McConnell, who is supposed to train and train the anything but powerful group. The most noticeable feature of CDs is his oversized nose, and he usually answers every comment about the same. The local people know this and avoid clues to his nose; Nevertheless, he is popular in the village because of his helpfulness and verbal repartee. He proves his psychological skills by rescuing a cat from a tree or with a stubborn boy on the roof of a house.

Roxanne, an astronomy student looking for a comet in the sky, only wears a dressing gown and wants to let her admittance cat into the house. A gust of wind slams the terrace door, the dressing gown is jammed, and she stands naked on the terrace, locked out of the house. She sneaks to the fire department to get help and comes across CD. He actually lets her run after him naked on the way to her house because she ironically denied his offer to lend her the coat. After entering the house through an open skylight, he lets her into the house, and while Roxanne is getting dressed in the bathroom, he naturally sets the dinner table. Both of them become friends in an unconventional way, whereby CD also reveals a good general education.

The small town always meets in the evening in Dixie's restaurant, who is at least a good friend of CD. Here Roxanne sees Chris for the first time, and their eyes meet. Chris is so shy and inhibited that he throws up in the toilet and escapes. Roxanne later asks CD to mediate with Chris. Chris is delighted, but he can't get over his shyness even now and only wants to write Roxanne a love letter for the time being. Even with that he is hopelessly overwhelmed, and he asks CD to write the letter for him.

The lyrically gifted CD not only writes this one letter, but also others, until a meeting between Roxanne and Chris is inevitable. CD supports this too by telling Chris the right words over a walkie talkie. When Roxanne and Chris end up in bed, it's not easy for CD, because he, too, has feelings for Roxanne. He probably confides in Dixie how one can deduce from the further plot.

Chris doesn't feel comfortable in his role either, suddenly gets to know another woman without the usual shyness and leaves town with her. Before that, he wrote a suicide note to Roxanne in his rude words. This letter crosses with a romantic love letter that CD had written for Chris, but which Dixie sent to Roxanne with CD's copyright notice. Roxanne has CD come into her house and has him read both letters aloud. Your suspicions are confirmed that all previous letters were written by him. CD justifies himself by saying that he only expressed his feelings for her. Roxanne gets violent when she learns that CD has also confided in Dixie and throws him out of the house.

CD tries to delay the exit, but stops because it smells something. He arrives at the fire station with his big nose sniffing in the air , lets the crew sit up and leads them to the location of a fire that is just starting, which thanks to the early intervention can be extinguished with little damage. At the after-party, the residents of the small town and CD realize why he has this big nose. Therefore, CD does not react more aggressively than his nose is the subject.

He leaves the party and sits down pensively on the ridge of his house. The film closes with the fact that he suddenly hears Roxanne quoting from his letters and confessing that it was precisely the romantic words in these letters that drove her into Chris's arms. She confesses her love for CD, he slips off the roof, they kiss a little crossed because of the nose, and they both disappear into the house.

Reviews

  • Lexicon of international film : "A comedy based on" Cyrano de Bergerac ", the length of which cannot be overlooked despite a few funny ideas."
  • Editor amazon.de: “Not only the story works excellently. Rather, it is only the visual design of the film by the Australian director Fred Schepisi that gives the film its romantic undertone without slipping into false sentimentalities. "

Awards

Steve Martin was nominated for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical for a Golden Globe in 1988 , but had to admit defeat to Robin Williams for the film Good Morning, Vietnam . 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 for Best Adapted 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 station on Baker Street as the main venue, even though the emblems on the vehicles were from Washington State.
  • In the abuse scene, CD 20 had to come up with creative jokes about his nose. When CD occasionally asked the bystanders about the number that he had already told them, a man replied that he was 14; in fact, at this point he had already voiced 19 jokes. Even so, he added another 6 for a total of 25 jokes.
  • The film formed the first part of a loose trilogy (along with LA Story and The Chance Dad ) of films that Martin had written about love. In every film, the main character has a close, platonic friendship with a woman - In Roxanne with Shelley Duvall, in LA Story with Susan Forristal and with Catherine O'Hara in The Random Dad .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roxanne. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 23, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Criticism on amazon.de