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== This film contains examples of: ==

* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Both Yentil for Avigdor and Avigdor for Hadass (though she loves him, they're prevented from ~~consumating~~ it).

* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Both Yentil for Avigdor and Avigdor for Hadass (though she loves him, they're prevented from consummating it).

* [[Chick Flick]]: of the drama variety

* [[Chick Flick]]: Of the drama variety.

* [[Different for Girls]]

* [["I Am Becoming" Song]]: "No Matter What Happens", "A Piece of Sky"

* [["I Am Becoming" Song]]: "No Matter What Happens", "A Piece of Sky".

* [[Incredibly Long Note]]: [[Barbra Streisand]]'s final number ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt_jjHAQoJU Papa Can You Hear Me/A Piece of Sky]); her last note clocks in at over 20 seconds. Babs in general is famous for these.

* [[The Ingenue]]: Hadass

* [[The Ingenue]]: Hadass.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: There are two: "Nothing's impossible!", first uttered to the [[Sweet Polly Oliver|titular character]] by her study partner Avigdor after he asks her/him to marry his ex-fiancee, later uttered by her when Avigdor almost leaves town after she refuses the favor. The other is "God will understand. I'm not so sure about the neighbors," first said by Yentl's father when asked why he is closing the windows if God will understand that his teaching her Talmudic law, which was forbidden to women at the time, is not with ill intent. It is said again by her to Avigdor's ex-fiancee (now her legal wife) in the same context.

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Avigdor for Hadass when his engagement to her is broken off by her parents and proposes that Yentl marry her. Yentl for Avigdor when she decides to reveal herself and leave Hadass to him while she leaves for America.

* [["I Want" Song]]: "Where is it Written?"

* [["I Want" Song]]: "Where is it Written?".

* [[Love Triangle]]: A slightly unconventional one. As Yentl puts it:

{{quote|He loves her, she loves him, he likes me, I like her, and I've reason to think she likes me.

She keeps him, he keeps her, I keep things as they were, it's a perfect arrangement for three! }}

She keeps him, he keeps her, I keep things as they were, it's a perfect arrangement for three!}}

** It gets more complicated later when Hadass starts to fall in love with Yentl/Anshel.

* [[Sweet on Polly Oliver]]: After the [[Sweet Polly Oliver|heroine]] reveals her, ahem, "self" to her love interest, he [[What the Hell, Hero?|bitches her out for a while,]] and then reveals the following to her:

{{quote|"I didn't want to touch you. I didn't know why. I thought there was something [[Ho Yay|wrong]] with me. I loved you... "}}

** Justified. Yentl's disguise is pretty crappy (much worse than the equivalent in Tootsie or Mrs. Doubtfire for example.) The miracle is that anyone thought she was a man, not that a straight man was attracted to her. It more makes you wonder about Avigdor's fiancee.

** Justified. Yentl's disguise is pretty crappy (much worse than the equivalent in Tootsie or Mrs. Doubtfire for example). The miracle is that anyone thought she was a man, not that a straight man was attracted to her. It more makes you wonder about Avigdor's fiancee.

* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: The main character became a man in order to attend a school in Jewish Talmudic Law, which was forbidden for women at the time. It made for some really weird love triangles.

* [[Twelfth Night Adventure]]: The film was set during a time when women were not to become educated.