YMMV / Cyrano

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Did Roxanne ever suspect or hope that Cyrano loved her? When she tells him of her crush on Christian she seems to notice that he turns cold - does she fear he's judging her for falling in love with someone she's never spoken to or does she know what he meant when he spoke of making a confession of his own? For that matter, is her pursuit of Christian partially due to Cyrano's inability to confess his own feelings? When Christian finds out he appears to have suspected it for a long time also.
• Award Snub: Despite garnering excellent notices and for some time being deemed one of the category's top contenders, Peter Dinklage went ignored at Oscars and most of the top award shows. Many have blamed this on the studio, citing a horrible campaign which infamously kept pushing back the film's wide release date until it was set to come out well past the Oscar nominations.
• Awesome Music: The whole soundtrack counts, but especially the lush, romantic Someone to Say and its excellent reprise.
  • The song "Wherever I Fall" is also a masterpiece, with a lot of emotions. Especially the verse of the third guard, who talks about his father. His quavering voice is so heart-wrenching....
  • "I Need More" is quite impressive, especially hearing Roxanne—up until then an Innocent Soprano—start belting.
  • "What I Deserve" is a powerful Villain Song with very sinister instrumentation and Ben Mendelsohn really mincing every single syllable. The lyrics effectively capture De Guiche's sense of entitlement over Roxanne.
• Narm:
  • The movie's tagline "Have you ever loved someone?" is so generic as to invite ridicule, and the trailer filling the screen with it in big bold letters may have the opposite intended effect.
  • Christian running into battle unarmed and dying immediately comes off as less tragic and more of a Leeroy Jenkins maneuver, with the melodrama up to eleven considering it happens moments after his final conversation with Cyrano.
• Tainted by the Preview: While the film has Peter Dinklage's legions of fans excited, reactions to the premise and trailer in France were, shall we say, very mixed (it's been downvoted aplenty on YouTube). The original play is considered to be an absolute classic of French literature, its 1990 film adaptation with Gérard Depardieu is similarly regarded as such for French cinema and a Tough Act to Follow (and around the same time as Depardieu's film, Jean-Paul Belmondo had a similarly acclaimed run as Cyrano on stage), and The Musical the film is based off and the other various English-language musical adaptations are largely unknown in the country. The very idea of there being a musical that doesn't use Edmond Rostand's verses and that Cyrano's lifelong angst with his huge nose is changed to Height Angst due to dwarfism don't seem to sit well there, with many questioning how the Pragmatic Adaptation approach is going to affect iconic elements like Cyrano's Self-Deprecation tirade about his nose - in other words, at what point does it become just about Playing Cyrano instead of being a "proper" adaptation of Cyrano?

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