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* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: Goes with the territory. |
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: Goes with the territory. |
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* [[Out-of-Genre Experience]]: In-genre [[Lit Fic|for the book]], but the film pauses the action for a theological debate between the progressive, liberal Franciscans and the Vatican emissaries over the question of whether Jesus owned the clothes that he wore. |
* [[Out-of-Genre Experience]]: In-genre [[Lit Fic|for the book]], but the film pauses the action for a theological debate between the progressive, liberal Franciscans and the Vatican emissaries over the question of whether Jesus owned the clothes that he wore. |
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* [[Playing Against Type]]: Sean Connery, one of cinema's most iconic male sex symbols, plays a virgin [[Celibate Hero]] who apparently considers women to be foul creatures purposefully designed by God to tempt man. (The book shows the character specifically questioning the latter very common belief, so the interpretation may not be fair for the movie either.) |
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* [[Poetic Serial Killer]] |
* [[Poetic Serial Killer]] |
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* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]: {{spoiler|In the book the library burns, the book is destroyed and Bernardo gets away with the torture and unjust execution of three people. This proved to be too dark for the movie, in which, at least, Bernardo dies and the girl lives}}. |
* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]: {{spoiler|In the book the library burns, the book is destroyed and Bernardo gets away with the torture and unjust execution of three people. This proved to be too dark for the movie, in which, at least, Bernardo dies and the girl lives}}. |
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