Cyrano de Bergerac | movie | 1950 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, i | dG1fWnBJMlpGMGNRbFE

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00:00The End

00:30Was this the nose that launched a thousand ships?

00:33These, my dear sir, are things you might have said

00:35had you some tinge of letters or of wit to colour your discourse.

00:39But wit, not so. You never had an atom.

00:42And of letters, you need but three to write you down.

00:45A. S. S.

00:49Acts.

00:50So be it.

00:52You shall die exquisitely.

01:00What would you have me do?

01:20Seek for the patronage of some great man

01:22and like a creeping vine on a tall tree

01:24crawl up where I cannot stand alone?

01:27No, thank you.

01:29Be a buffoon in the vile hope of teasing out a smile on some cold face?

01:34No, thank you.

01:35Shall I use the fire God gave me to burn incense all day long?

01:39No, thank you.

01:40Struggle to insinuate my name into the columns of the Gazette?

01:44Calculate?

01:45Scheme?

01:45Be afraid?

01:46Love more to make a visit than a poem?

01:48Seek introductions?

01:49Favors?

01:50Influences?

01:51No, thank you.

01:52No, I thank you.

01:53And again, I thank you.

01:55And again, I thank you.