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** This is also the only Cirque song to appear in some form on all three of their [[Greatest Hits Album]] compilations.
** This is also the only Cirque song to appear in some form on all three of their [[Greatest Hits Album]] compilations.
* [[Hair Decorations]]: The White and Black Singers wear antennae-like ones to add a bit more whimsy to their looks.
* [[Hair Decorations]]: The White and Black Singers wear antennae-like ones to add a bit more whimsy to their looks.
* [[Everything's Better With Spinning]]: Manipulation, in which a lithe lovely twirls hoop after hoop around her body, is one of the show's signature acts. Other acts to leave you dizzy include the fire-knife dance, flying man, and (new for the arena tour, for when another act can't perform) cyr wheel.
* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: Manipulation, in which a lithe lovely twirls hoop after hoop around her body, is one of the show's signature acts. Other acts to leave you dizzy include the fire-knife dance, flying man, and (new for the arena tour, for when another act can't perform) cyr wheel.
* [[Foil]]
* [[Foil]]
** Fleur/Tamir (Both are clownish figures, but the former is wicked and the latter kindly)
** Fleur/Tamir (Both are clownish figures, but the former is wicked and the latter kindly)
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* [[All Part of the Show]]: Frac, disguised as one of the Nostalgic Old Birds, finally meets Giulietta again onstage; Fleur successfully disrupts their reunion and makes it appear to be this. Later, when the show can't go on, it's the clowns who have to tell the audience that -- naturally, they aren't believed.
* [[All Part of the Show]]: Frac, disguised as one of the Nostalgic Old Birds, finally meets Giulietta again onstage; Fleur successfully disrupts their reunion and makes it appear to be this. Later, when the show can't go on, it's the clowns who have to tell the audience that -- naturally, they aren't believed.
* [[Man in White|Children In White]]: The song "Mountain of Clothes", which was only on the soundtrack album, notes the symbolism {{spoiler|of hope in how ''all'' the kids pick out clean white clothes to wear once they're free.}}
* [[Man in White|Children In White]]: The song "Mountain of Clothes", which was only on the soundtrack album, notes the symbolism {{spoiler|of hope in how ''all'' the kids pick out clean white clothes to wear once they're free.}}
* [[City With No Name]]
* [[City with No Name]]
* [[Driven to Suicide]] / [[Starts With a Suicide]]: A dual attempt, at that.
* [[Driven to Suicide]] / [[Starts with a Suicide]]: A dual attempt, at that.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: This is a quiet theme in the stage version, but the film ''runs'' with it.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: This is a quiet theme in the stage version, but the film ''runs'' with it.
* [[Enemy Mime]]: In a complete reversal of the trope, the mime's the good-hearted protagonist. (And he speaks.)
* [[Enemy Mime]]: In a complete reversal of the trope, the mime's the good-hearted protagonist. (And he speaks.)
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* [[It Got Worse]]: When Giulietta leaves the circus to find Frac, Fleur loses his drive to lead his troupe and the performers scatter. And {{spoiler|she finally finds Momo and runs to him just as Marcello springs his trap to recapture the boy..}}.
* [[It Got Worse]]: When Giulietta leaves the circus to find Frac, Fleur loses his drive to lead his troupe and the performers scatter. And {{spoiler|she finally finds Momo and runs to him just as Marcello springs his trap to recapture the boy..}}.
* [[Love Hurts]]
* [[Love Hurts]]
* [[Lull Destruction]]: The story is told in flashback by an adult Momo, played by Mako. However, another actor is credited for narration, much of which describes the setting and the feelings of characters -- which Dragone and the actors do a pretty good job of getting across via body language. This suggests [[Executive Meddling]] akin to the ''Arabian Knight'' cut of ''[[The Thief and The Cobbler (Animation)|The Thief and The Cobbler]]'', possibly for [[Viewers are Morons|similar reasons]].
* [[Lull Destruction]]: The story is told in flashback by an adult Momo, played by Mako. However, another actor is credited for narration, much of which describes the setting and the feelings of characters -- which Dragone and the actors do a pretty good job of getting across via body language. This suggests [[Executive Meddling]] akin to the ''Arabian Knight'' cut of ''[[The Thief and the Cobbler]]'', possibly for [[Viewers are Morons|similar reasons]].
* [[Magic Realism]]: In the closing sequence, {{spoiler|the father speaks with Fleur, his stage character}}.
* [[Magic Realism]]: In the closing sequence, {{spoiler|the father speaks with Fleur, his stage character}}.
* [[Non-Ironic Clown]]: The clowns of the circus are ''very strange'' but they are not evil. <ref>In [[Real Life]], the performers who play Frac and Old Taps are these. The former, Rene Bazinet, was the originator of ''[[Saltimbanco]]'''s clown act; the latter, Brian Dewhurst, was the Great Chamberlain in ''Nouvelle Experience'' and took over the principal clown act of ''[[Mystere]]'' (under the character name Brian Le Petit) a few years after this film.</ref>
* [[Non-Ironic Clown]]: The clowns of the circus are ''very strange'' but they are not evil. <ref>In [[Real Life]], the performers who play Frac and Old Taps are these. The former, Rene Bazinet, was the originator of ''[[Saltimbanco]]'''s clown act; the latter, Brian Dewhurst, was the Great Chamberlain in ''Nouvelle Experience'' and took over the principal clown act of ''[[Mystere]]'' (under the character name Brian Le Petit) a few years after this film.</ref>
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