 Adaptation's the change of beloved character don't have to be bad. Sure, most are, but there's a way to not screw it up. A new version of Cyrano de Bergerac starring Peter Dinklage hits theaters next month. If you skipped English class, that's a classic French play about a guy who gets a girl to fall in love with him using romantic language written by his very witty, very ugly friend, Cyrano. The new version removes Cyrano's iconic distinctive feature, his nose. It seems like a massive change to the story and people hate when adaptations change the source material. But I actually think this is an example of how to do it right. Bad adaptations ignore the core of the stories they adapt. And yeah, we all hate that. That core is why we're fans. But even though Cyrano's nose is a huge part of the original, it's really just the surface. What actually matters is that he has a physical insecurity that makes him unwilling to risk rejection. And the theme is about falling in love with who people are on the inside. Cyrano doesn't need a prosthetic nose to tell that story.