The Fall (film): Difference between revisions

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** Let's not forget Eiffel Tower.

** Actually, in the [[DVD Commentary]] director Tarsem states that, [[Reality Is Unrealistic|despite what most people thought]], that car was a real model from the era.

* [[And You Were There]]: Every character (and prop) in Roy's story is imagined by Alexandria as someone (or something) she sees in daily life. Particularly noticeable once Roy includes an "Indian" (Native American) in his story - and Alexandria consistently imagines the character being played by her friend from India.

* [[Annoying Arrows]]: {{spoiler|The ones that kill Ota Benga barely pierce him.}}

* [[Author Appeal]]: Much of the visuals and mythology are based on Indian culture.

* [[Badass Spaniard]]: Odious. The Black Bandit starts out at this, [[It Makes Sense in Context|until he becomes French.]]

* [[Best Served Cold]]: Most of the plot revolves around this.

* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]: Lee Pace has a very nice pair.

* [[Big No]]: Used as a joke at the start, played very, ''very'' straight at the end.

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Catinca Untaru has dialog in her native Romanian.

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* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: [[Pushing Daisies|Lee Pace]] spent 12 weeks of filming in a wheelchair, to convince 7-year-old actress Catinca Untaru that he was crippled (as was his character). He also consistently went by the name of "Roy". For realism's sake, he only told a handful of people on the set that he could walk, and as a result had to be carried around by the crew every day.

** This wasn't as difficult to achieve as it might sound: it was only Pace's second role--and in his first, he played a transgender character--so it was unlikely anyone would recognize him.

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: Most of the characters.

* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]

* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: {{spoiler|Subverted.}}

* [[Facing the Bullets One-Liner]]: {{spoiler|"Shoot, you animals. They'll pay you well for Darwin's hide."}}

* [[Five-Man Band]]: Trope played to the letter:

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* [[Five-Token Band]]: Justified.

* [[The Foreign Subtitle]]: Released in Spain as ''The Fall: El Sueno de Alexandria'' ("The Fall: Alexandria's Dream").

* [[Foreshadowing]]: Darwin mentions that the birds are safe inside the Mystic's belly.

* [[For the Evulz]]: The only motivation of Governor Odious in the fantasy.

* [[Framing Device]]: Exploited to great effect.

** The Indian is clearly Native American by Roy's description but the visual shows him as an undefined Indian royal. The confusion is deliberate. Roy is thinking of an actor he knew while Alexandria is thinking of her friend the orange-picker.

* [[Fractured Fairy Tale]]

* [[Gorn]]: Used sparingly, but when it's used, it's reeeeal pretty.

* [[He Also Did]]: At the time of ''The Fall'''s release, director Tarsem Singh was well known for directing the award winning 1991 video for [[REM]]'s "Losing My Religion".

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Just about everyone.

* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|Odious's death}}.

** Subverted with Roy's plan to make Alexandria get him morphine, which made him became close to her, which in turn made him {{spoiler|get past his broken heart and forget his suicide wish}}.

* [[Innocent Inaccurate]]: Alexandria's family pretty clearly had to immigrate to the United States because of a pogrom of some sort - Eastern Europe generally not being the friendliest place in the early 20th century - but when Roy tries to find out more, all she says is that "angry people" were responsible.

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* [[Mysterious Waif]]: Lady Evelyn.

* [[Orange-Blue Contrast]]: The vast majority of scenes. Even the shots that aren't orange/blue are some other equally complementary pairing like red/green.

* [[Pocket Protector]]: The locket.

* [[Promotion to Parent]]: Alexandria starts calling the Black Bandit "Daddy" after a while. Roy eventually gets mad at her for it.

* [[Public Domain Soundtrack]]: Beethoven's ''Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, II. Allegretto''. And it is ''[[Crowning Music of Awesome|awesome]]''.

* [[Rage Against the Author]]: Roy's story isn't always a happy one, and Alexandria is very young.

* [[Retcon]]: In-story example: the Masked Bandit was a [[Badass Spaniard]] at first due to Alexandria telling Roy about her father; in fact she imagined him to look like her father. Eventually she asked why he kept speaking in an accent and requested he speak normally. He explained that the Masked Bandit was no longer a Spaniard, but a Frenchman; thus Alexandria imagined him to look like Roy.

* {{spoiler|[[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]]}}: as part of Roy's {{spoiler|[[Creator Breakdown]]}}

* [[Rule of Cool]]

* [[Scenery Porn]]: AND HOW.

* [[~~Scheherezade~~ Gambit]]: Attempted both by Roy and by Alexandria.

* [[Scheherazade Gambit]]: Attempted both by Roy and by Alexandria.

* [[Sleeper Hit]]

* [[Storming the Castle]]

* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Well, one of the characters in the story-within-the-story is an explosives and ballistics expert.

* [[Tagalong Kid]]: Alexandria, in-story.

* {{spoiler|[[Taking You with Me]]: The Indian and Luigi. Ka-''boom'' indeed. }}

* [[You Killed My Father]]: And brother (the brother was attempting to revenge their father's death). And wife, and butterfly, and... yeah, this is most of the motivation for the main characters, in fact.

* [[The Voiceless]]: The Indian only speaks one or two words during the whole movie. He speaks when {{spoiler|he cuts the rope (killing himself and a handful of the mooks), saying "''Up!''" (according to the subtitles)}}. Ota Benga is almost this.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: The Princess's nephew, left behind at the carriage.