Perfume: Difference between revisions

* [[Doom Magnet]]: {{spoiler|Everyone who takes care of Grenouille dies soon after he leaves them. The only exception is Madame Gaillard - her problem is that she lives much longer than she wanted to.}}

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Grenouille realizes that he'll be Lonely At The Top, and has no other reason to live.}}

* [[The Dung Ages]]: The slums of 18th century France are a filthy and disgusting place. The book and film go into particular length about the foul odors. In the book, Grenouille's mother is described as "relatively handsome", meaning here that she's still some teeth left in her mouth and some hair on her head, no diseases except syphilis, gout and a slight case of tuberculosis, and expects to live for a long time - five or even ten years. Parisians were banned from expanding outside the city walls, and the filth, pollution and overcrowding were a major contributor to the French Revolution. On the other hand, the countryside and wealthy parts of France are portrayed as [[Scenery Porn|quite gorgeous]].

* [[Dying Alone]]: Inverted with Madame Gaillard, who runs the orpanage where Grenouille was raised. She collects money so she could die alone in her own home, instead of a public hospital. However, she doesn't die soon enough, in the [[French Revolution]] her money becomes worthless, and she dies in the way she was trying to avoid in her whole life.

* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Grenouille's body is covered in scars and old burns from the tannery. His brutal master is particularly gruesome.

* [[Gotta Catch Them All]]: In the film, Grenouille needs thirteen scents to create his perfect perfume. Each of these scents comes from a beautiful woman. This also doubles as [[Gotta Kill Them All]]: he keeps the scent, but discards the person it once belonged to.

* [[Hard Work Hardly Works]]: Empowered by his super-human sense of smell, Grenouille is a vastly superior perfume maker than Baldini and even his more successful rivals, despite their decades of experience.

* [[Hero Antagonist]]: Antoine Richis, played by Alan Rickman, is an effective community leader and loving father trying to stop Grenouille's rampage.