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** In the book, Gui prevents this from happening by simply having the three of them transported away and executed elsewhere, where no rescue attempts can occur. (Gui was a historical person, and he was not killed by peasants).
* [[Camp Gay]]: One of the victims
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: William of Baskerville is described as [[
* [[Celibate Hero]]: William
* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Averted. Does William of Occam exist in this version? Yes, he's a friend of William of Baskerville.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Several, notably the [[Mad Oracle|eccentric]] Ubertino da Casale ''(film only)'', and the deformed Salvatore.
* [[Cold
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: William, played by [[Sean Connery]].
* [[Corrupt Church]]
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** William has to choose between burning to death to save as many books as he can, or abandoning the library.
* [[Gonk]]: The Abbot, the Greek translator, and Adelmo are pretty much the only three of the Benedictine monks who is not frightfully ugly. The worst is undoubtedly [[Ron Perlman|Ron Perlman's]] Salvatore, who doesn't even look human.
* [[Hey
* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Bernard(o) Gui(donis), Ubertino da Casale, Michael of Cesena.
* [[Primal Stance|The Hunchback]]: Salvatore. Played by [[Ron Perlman]] with extreme creepiness in the film.
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* [[Nubile Savage]]: The peasant girl is a medieval variation on the theme.
* [[Obfuscating Disability]]: [[Ron Perlman]]'s version of the deformed, mentally disabled hunchback Salvatore is smarter than he seems.
* [[
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: Goes with the territory.
* [[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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** The movie mentions a book by Umberto of Bologna -- a clear allusion to Umberto Eco.
** Further, the name "Baskerville" is an obvious allusion to the [[Sherlock Holmes]] novel, ''The Hound of the Baskervilles''.
*** In the movie, William has a line that could be rearranged as "Elementary, my dear Adso" (like the famous [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]] relating to [[Sherlock Holmes]]).
*** Adso's name sounds very similar to Watson's.
** And William's first name and political beliefs are modeled on [[
** Jorge, the blind librarian, is a clear reference to [[Jorge Luis Borges]], the Argentinian author who went blind, served as the director of Argentina's National Library, wrote a story about a labyrinthine library, and is generally credited as a stylistic influence on Eco and probably hundreds of other genre-bending postmodernist authors.
*** Someone lucky enough to have read Borges's short story ''Death and the Compass'' will see the connection to this story clearly
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* [[The Heretic]]
* [[The Ishmael]]: The narrator is an older Adso.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: William gives one to {{spoiler|Jorge}} at the end.
* [[Torture Always Works]]: Averted. William used to be an inquisitor, but avoided using torture. He explains that poeople under torture say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what they imagine might please him. Later, when Bernard intorrogates the cellarer, the threat of torture is enogh for him to admit that he committed all the murders (which he didn't do).
* [[The Tower]]: The hidden and locked library looms over the monastery, tall, dark, [[Living Labyrinth|labyrinthine]] and foreboding. Eco helpfully draws a diagram of it for readers.
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