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El Cid

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El Cid	type	TVTItem
El Cid	label	El Cid
El Cid	page	ElCid
El Cid	comment	El Cid is a 1961 epic historical film directed by Anthony Mann and written by Frederic M. Frank and Philip Yordan. Miklos Rozsa composed the soundtrack. The film borrows to both historical records and the 1637 stage play Le Cid by Pierre Corneille.It is a loose adaptation of the stories around Don Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, a.k.a. "El Cid" (the Lord in Spanish). The real Rodrigo Diaz seems to have been a very successful soldier of fortune who served both Christian and Muslim kings without distinction in eleventh century Spain, eventually leveraging his military skill into a fiefdom in the then-mostly Arab/Berber city of Valencia. After centuries of multiple authors retelling the tale he became the Muslim slaying hero of the Reconquista. In this version Rodrigo is a multi-culturalist, working for a union of Christians and Spanish Moors against an invasion by ferocious Berbers.As per the source material, Rodrigo Diaz's (Charlton Heston) life gets complicated after he kills his betrothed's father in an informal duel. Needless to say, Jimena (Sophia Loren) takes this badly. In accordance with the best medieval ideals of vendetta, she makes an earnest effort to have Rodrigo killed. As Rodrigo is now the King's champion, replacing Jimena's dad, his majesty takes exception to this and thinks it's a fine idea to make the couple marry after all. Jimena chooses the wedding night to confess that she was party to an underhanded attempt to murder Rodrigo. Hurt but understanding he makes no attempt to consummate the marriage. This does nothing to help Jimena's state of mind as she is deeply in love with her husband, father killer or no.
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El Cid / int_26f68115	type	Art Imitates Art
El Cid / int_26f68115	comment	Art Imitates Art: At one point, Jimena is seen embroidering something that looks very much like a panel of The Bayeux Tapestry. It's unlikely that she would imitate Norman embroidery artists, but the time period kind of fits (roughly 30 years after 1066).
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El Cid / int_2dae4381	type	My Master, Right or Wrong
El Cid / int_2dae4381	comment	My Master, Right or Wrong: Rodrigo has a touch of this as he refuses to fight against Alfonso no matter WHAT he does to him because Alfonso is his rightful king. Probably counts as Honor Before Reason.
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El Cid / int_361a1d26	type	Anguished Declaration of Love
El Cid / int_361a1d26	comment	Anguished Declaration of Love: It's hard to top Jimena's heartbroken: "I will make myself worthy of you, Rodrigo. I will learn to hate you." after Rodrigo kills her father.
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El Cid / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
El Cid / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: Zig-zagged due to Values Dissonance. The historical El-Cid seems to have been a great deal more self seeking but also less hostile to Muslims than his legend.
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El Cid / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
El Cid / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Or Historical Hero Upgrade. The real Rodrigo was neither the Nice Guy nor the loyal Christian knight the film portrays him as being.
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El Cid / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
El Cid / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: Rodrigo uses a saddle for a shield in the Combat by Champion.
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El Cid / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
El Cid / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: During his exile, Rodrigo acquires a diagonal scar on his right cheek that runs from beneath his eye to his beard.
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El Cid / int_4fa986e	type	Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help
El Cid / int_4fa986e	comment	Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help: While heading into exile, Rodrigo stops to give water to a leper, giving no sign that he is afraid of risking infection himself. The leper says that only El Cid could humble a king and give water to a leper.
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El Cid / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
El Cid / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Heck, Rodrigo's wife has declared vendetta on him. She even states that she married him just to give him an Awful Wedded Life. By a lucky break it may have actually helped the plot that Heston and Loren couldn't get along in Real Life.
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El Cid / int_550f2108	type	Combat Breakdown
El Cid / int_550f2108	comment	Combat Breakdown: The Combat by Champion battle for Callohora.
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El Cid / int_5532b579	type	Acoustic License
El Cid / int_5532b579	comment	Acoustic License: The Cid arrives at Valencia (depicted by the coastal fortress of PeÃ±Ãscola about 145km to the north) where his army has surrounded and besieged the fortress for weeks to starve them out. The Cid addresses the starving denizens to inspire them to revolt and has his army lob bread loaves into the fortress with their siege engines. Charlton Heston as El Cid applies BRIAN BLESSED levels of vocal projection from the beach about 1/4 mile from the fort, and his words are heard over the surf to penetrate into every back alley within the fortress.
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El Cid / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
El Cid / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: Inevitable, as the film is based on admittedly embellished and quite imaginative historical sources. To begin with, the real Cid acted as more a self-serving mercenary than the cosmopolitan hero he is portrayed as being here. Furthermore, he didn't kill Diego FernÃ¡ndez, his father-in-law, in a duel. As Rodrigo never killed her father, Jimena obviously never tried to have him killed in revenge. Indeed, the historical sources point to the two of them being Happily Married (or at least stable and mutually supportive). The bit about Rodrigo making king Alfonso swear himself innocent of his brother's death on a bible in public is most likely a fabrication, though to be fair this bit of embellished history predates the film by centuries, as it's part of the Spanish oral tradition. Using "Spain" as the name of a country is another big one, since back then there was no such concept, and wouldn't be for several centuries. In the 11th century, the territory of modern day Spain was divided in multiple kingdoms, both on the Christian and Muslim sides, and the word "Spain"note or rather, it's 11th century equivalent, "Hispania", the Latin name that the Roman Empire used to refer to their province in the Iberian Peninsula was barely used at all. And the few times it would appear, would be used as the name of a geographical location instead. Kind of like "the Balkans", for instance. Now, to be fair, this was likely done for the sake of clarity for the audience. El Cid was actually exiled twice, at different points in his life, by Alfonso. While the popular legend holds that Rodrigo was exiled for forcing the king to swear his innocence, the real reason were essentially palace intrigues and the wariness of a king that believed Rodrigo was too prone to overstep his orders. Both the Moorish Andalusians and the Berber Almoravids wield curved scimitars. In reality, both factions used straight, double-edged swords. Andalusian swords in particular were often nigh-identical to those used by Christian knights. It should be noted that this is a fairly common misconception. The use of two-handed swords, jousting lances, and great helms during the jousting scene are more appropriate to the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries than the 11th. Yusuf never personally sieged Valencia. Rather, it was his nephew (acting on his orders) who did so. Additionally, the film depicts Yusuf dying during the final charge that breaks the Almoravid siege, when in reality he died of natural causes a good few years after El Cid himself.
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El Cid / int_566f1565	type	10-Minute Retirement
El Cid / int_566f1565	comment	10-Minute Retirement: About how long Rodrigo and Jimena get to dream of a peaceful life together before his army catches up with them. Literally—they step outside the barn, and find his army waiting for them.
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El Cid / int_5e2f5ad2	type	You Kill It, You Bought It
El Cid / int_5e2f5ad2	comment	You Kill It, You Bought It: Rodrigo accidentally kills his future father-in-law in a Duel to the Death (he didn't intend for it to be to the death, but Diego flies into a rage after being wounded). Rodrigo later succeeds him as Castilleâ€™s champion.
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El Cid / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
El Cid / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Jimena. Learning Alfonso exiling Rodrigo causes her true feelings to overwhelm her vengeance. She joins Rodrigo in exile. Ordonez. Rescues Jimena and her daughters from the dungeon and joins Rodrigo. Alfonso. Loses his arrogance and pettiness and reconciles with Rodrigo.
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El Cid / int_69f8d6a0	type	Older Than Steam
El Cid / int_69f8d6a0	comment	The bit about Rodrigo making king Alfonso swear himself innocent of his brother's death on a bible in public is most likely a fabrication, though to be fair this bit of embellished history predates the film by centuries, as it's part of the Spanish oral tradition.
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El Cid / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
El Cid / int_771f6307	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Incest: Implied with Alfonso and Urraca. Historians have speculated on evidence indicating that the real Alfonso and Urraca may have been incestuously attached to each other, and there are a number of scenes that portray them being a little too intimate with each other. Big brother Sancho even calls Alfonso out on it during their knife duel.
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El Cid / int_7b39c3d8	type	El Cid Ploy
El Cid / int_7b39c3d8	comment	El Cid Ploy: Trope Namer. See the page for more details.
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El Cid / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
El Cid / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Ben Yusuf takes the emirs of Spain to task for cultivating a peaceful, artistic culture instead of being badasses going out to conquer the world.
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El Cid / int_7efd2e30	type	Expository Hairstyle Change
El Cid / int_7efd2e30	comment	Expository Hairstyle Change: During the intermission that covers his years spent in exile, Rodrigo grows a beard streaked with gray.
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El Cid / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
El Cid / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: After their original engagement breaks off, Rodrigo asks the king to give him Jimena as his Standard Hero Reward.
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El Cid / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
El Cid / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Done by Rodrigo when he rescues Prince Alfonso from the men escorting him to prison.
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El Cid / int_88799cf4	type	Badass Cape
El Cid / int_88799cf4	comment	Badass Cape: Rodrigo. And Charlton Heston has the shoulders to pull it off, too.
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El Cid / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
El Cid / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Urraca is characterized as this, although her part is fairly small.
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El Cid / int_970cc8cd	type	Big
El Cid / int_970cc8cd	comment	Big "WHY?!": What Ximena screams when the exiled Spanish warriors catch up with Rodrigo. You can barely hear her over the cheers.
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El Cid / int_9c20a410	type	Knife Fight
El Cid / int_9c20a410	comment	Knife Fight: At their father's wake, Prince Alfonso attempts kill his brother Sancho for the control of all of Spain. His initial attack fails, and the two end up fighting each other with knives.
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El Cid / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
El Cid / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Religion: While treating Allah and God as different deities is hardly new when it comes to representing Muslims in film, a notable example happens when Yusuf declares to a dying Ordonez, before finishing him off: "This will be a battle between our God, and yours!" The statement implies a simultaneous and distinct existence of a Christian god and a Muslim god, which is a big no-no for Islam, even if wholly metaphorical, as it is a strictly monotheistic religion that outright rejects the existence of other deities other than God. It's unlikely that a religious fundamentalist like Yusuf would say such a thing.
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El Cid / int_a6275bef	type	Cool Sword
El Cid / int_a6275bef	comment	Cool Sword: Vivar's real-life sword, Tizona
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El Cid / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
El Cid / int_bec0417c	comment	As Rodrigo never killed her father, Jimena obviously never tried to have him killed in revenge. Indeed, the historical sources point to the two of them being Happily Married (or at least stable and mutually supportive).
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El Cid / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
El Cid / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: To Urraca. The film portrays her as encouraging Alfonso to imprison Jimena and her daughters, while historically, she protected them.
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El Cid / int_e46f71c3	type	Hollywood Costuming
El Cid / int_e46f71c3	comment	Hollywood Costuming: Let's just say that if we listed all the examples where the armour, clothes and dresses didn't match up to the historical reality of 11th-Century Spain, we'd be here a while.
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El Cid / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
El Cid / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: After being gravely wounded by an arrow to the chest, doctors inform Rodrigo they could likely save his life through a surgical procedure but he would be laid up for some time. Rodrigo refuses to leave his army and allies at such a critical moment and insists on riding out the next morning to meet Yusef's forces in battle, whether or not he is still alive, dying, or already dead when the morning comes.
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El Cid / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
El Cid / int_e7bfdba	comment	Divide and Conquer: Yusefâ€™s plan is to take advantage of Sancho and Alfonsoâ€™s power struggle for Castille and force the kingdom into civil war, eventually leaving them vulnerable for his own army. Although he successfully initiates his plan by having a sleeper agent kill Sancho and frame Alfonso as the guilty party, it is squashed when Rodrigo forces Alfonso to swear his innocence, maintaining Castilleâ€™s unity.
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El Cid / int_f0864fd9	type	Combat by Champion
El Cid / int_f0864fd9	comment	Combat by Champion: Rodrigo champions Castile.
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El Cid / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
El Cid / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Ordonez who is tortured to death by the Berbers but dies declaring his belief in El Cid.
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El Cid / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
El Cid / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: Ben Yusuf. He seeks to violently force Islam on the rest of the world and destroy all who oppose him. Including other, more tolerant Muslims.
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El Cid / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
El Cid / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: Yes, Rodrigo kills Jimena's father. She eventually gets over it, though not for a long time.
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El Cid / int_fcacf08e	type	The Lady's Favour
El Cid / int_fcacf08e	comment	The Lady's Favour: Jimena first gives her's to the Champion of Aragon in hopes he will kill Rodrigo. Then when that fails offers not just a scarf but her hand in marriage to Ordonez - a disappointed suitor - if he will do same.
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