The Fall (film): Difference between revisions

But Roy has barely any idea how to talk to young children. And Alexandria is stubborn, hardly speaks English, and still lives by the laws of her own child logic. The story Roy tells is seen entirely through Alexandria's eyes: every character (and prop) in Roy's story is imagined by Alexandria as someone (or something) she's seen in daily life. And it quickly becomes clear that her life so far has been extremely traumatizing. Her fantasy world is cute at first, but turns [[Darker and Edgier]] as Roy sinks deeper and deeper into depression. Each time Alexandria makes an innocent mistake, Roy punishes her for it by punishing his characters within the tale. Finally, Alexandria decides that the story isn't safe with Roy, and she takes over the narration herself.

Despite winning a slew of "Best Picture" awards, the film only scored mixed-to-positive reviews.

* [[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 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.

* [[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.

** [[The Hero]]: The Black Bandit.

** [[The Lancer]]: The Italian.

* [[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.

* [[Justified Title]]: Both Alexandria and Roy are in the hospital because of injuries sustained in falls--and each undergoes a loss of innocence.

* [[Large Ham]]: The Black Bandit. Justified, though, as it is the imagination of a 5-year-old; Roy is played much more naturally.

* [[Match Cut]]: The butterfly fading into the reef and island; the priest's face and collar fading into a desert landscape. The latter one, in particular, is ''incredibly'' well-done.

* [[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.

* [[The World Is Just Awesome]]: Just take in any of the scenery.

* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[The Princess Bride (Film)|The Princess Bride]]'' meets ''[[Axe Cop (Webcomic)|Axe Cop]]''.