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* [[Name Drop]]: Averted (in Part 1)--nobody calls Ivan "the Terrible".
** Then played ''totally'' straight in part 2, when Ivan [[Chewing the Scenery|declares, quite melodramatically]], that
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* [[Necessarily Evil]] + [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: The Oprichnina terror campaign.
* [[New Era Speech]]: Ivan makes one right after the coronation, much to the boyars' dismay.
* [[Notable Original Music]]: The [[Sergei Prokofiev]] score.
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Ivan the Terrible personally commands his army during the siege of Kazan and tirelessly works to strengthen his realm.
* [[Rule of Symbolism]]: The movie is rife with symbols, some pretty obvious, some quite intricate. [[wikipedia:Ivan the Terrible
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: In the second movie, Ivan slowly descends into madness and wickedness.
* [[Splash of Color]]: The Oprichnik banquet scene is filmed in color, making it look nightmarishly surreal.
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