Bingo!
Steve Martin has done some bad films, but turning the ending of Cyrano around:
Original:
Just as Cyrano is dying (having been foully and ignobly murdered) he reveals to Roxanne that it was him who wrote all the poetry & Stuff. So her earlier confession to the pretty-but-thick-but-about-to-die Christian that she loved him because of the poetry & not his looks is a bit of a sore pint. (at which point Christian dies knowing she has been duped, he's a bastard, and she doesnt really love him) All in all, everyone dies, noone is happy & its all royally screwed up (just like Cyrano is).
Steve Martins version (in Roxanne):
Christian runs away through a toilet window, Steve Martin (who is supposed to be Cyrano) confesses all to Roxanne & they get married & live happily ever after. With a telescope.
I mean, why Steve WHY DID YOU DO IT?!?!?
PS: If you havent watched this (1990 french film with subtitles, starring Gerraud Depardieu) I seriously reccomend it. Very funny, very complex, and is one of those subtitled films that draws you in so well you forget the subtitles are there after 5 minutes.
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<edit> Um let me clarify (just reread it & makes no sense).
The thread title is a clue (he did a deeply butchered version of my favourite film ever)
The quote in the first post is a quote from the film.
<edit no2>The film I want the title for, not the Steve Martin film which I never want to hear of again >.<
-caseyjones
Ok, heres another:
'My life's work has been to prompt others and be forgotten.'
That's actually quite a big plot clue...
Heres another:
'Sir, have you read Don Quixote?'
'I've practically lived it!'
it was the steve martin thing that twigged it
Steve Martin has done some bad films, but turning the ending of Cyrano around:
Original:
Just as Cyrano is dying (having been foully and ignobly murdered) he reveals to Roxanne that it was him who wrote all the poetry & Stuff. So her earlier confession to the pretty-but-thick-but-about-to-die Christian that she loved him because of the poetry & not his looks is a bit of a sore pint. (at which point Christian dies knowing she has been duped, he's a bastard, and she doesnt really love him) All in all, everyone dies, noone is happy & its all royally screwed up (just like Cyrano is).
Steve Martins version (in Roxanne):
Christian runs away through a toilet window, Steve Martin (who is supposed to be Cyrano) confesses all to Roxanne & they get married & live happily ever after. With a telescope.
I mean, why Steve WHY DID YOU DO IT?!?!?
PS: If you havent watched this (1990 french film with subtitles, starring Gerraud Depardieu) I seriously reccomend it. Very funny, very complex, and is one of those subtitled films that draws you in so well you forget the subtitles are there after 5 minutes.
-caseyjones