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The Fall (2006)

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The Fall (2006)	comment	A 2006 fantasy film by Tarsem Singh, based on the 1981 Bulgarian film Yo Ho Ho by Valeri Petrov. The film took four years to shoot, in 26 locations in over 18 countries, and was funded by Spike Jonze and David Fincher. The trailer spoils most of its plot twists.The Fall tells the story of Roy (Lee Pace), a crippled stuntman in early 20th-century Hollywood, and Alexandria, an inquisitive 5-year-old girl he befriends during his hospital stay. Roy has a broken heart and a death wish: during his last (and so far only) film, he tried a stunt his fellow stuntmen called downright suicidal, and was left crippled by his fall.Confined to his hospital bed, Roy has a plan: he begins weaving for Alexandria the most epic adventure story ever told. It stars seven heroes — the Black Bandit, an Italian, an Indian, a Mystic, ex-slave Otta Benga, Charles Darwin, and Wallace the monkey — on a quest of revenge against the evil Governor Odious, each for their own reasons. With the story, Roy tries to get Alexandria excited about bandits, and about stealing… and for each installment of the story he tells her, he wants her to steal a little something for him in return.But Roy has little idea how to talk to young children, and Alexandria is stubborn, barely 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 sinister 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.The end result is a combination of epic fantasy and Scenery Porn, taking its cues from The Wizard of Oz and The Princess Bride. It's not for kids.The Fall won a slew of "Best Picture" awards.It is not based on, and should not be confused with, the Albert Camus novel of the same name. Nor does it have anything to do with the 2014 videogame, or with the Post-Punk band led by Mark E. Smith also called The Fall, or the survival-thriller Fall.
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The Fall (2006) / int_10f35f3a	comment	Creator Breakdown: In-universe. The story's tone becomes darker and darker as Roy's emotional state worsens, and near the end he kills off every character just so Alexandria will leave him alone.
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The Fall (2006) / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The trailer spoils a majority of the plot twists including the fact Roy is initially manipulating Alexandria and eventually proceeds to kill off most of the characters.
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The Fall (2006) / int_1badfb3a	type	The Heart
The Fall (2006) / int_1badfb3a	comment	The Heart: Sister Evelyn.
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The Fall (2006) / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The Fall (2006) / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Roy asks Alexandria to get Morphine pills, which she reads as Morphin-3. Because he didn't clarify that he wanted a full bottle, she literally assumed that he wants three pills and flushed everything down the toilet.
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The Fall (2006) / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: Exploited to great effect. The Indian is clearly Native American by Roy's description but the visual shows him as an undefined Indian royal. The confusion is deliberate. Roy is thinking of an actor he knew while Alexandria is thinking of her friend the orange-picker.
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The Fall (2006) / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Fall (2006) / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: On purpose, even including the Eiffel Tower. Seeing Odious' car in the fantasy setting of the story is particularly jarring, signifying the story's finale. (The car is at home in the 1920's, though: in the DVD Commentary director Tarsem states that, despite what most people thought, that car was a real model from the era.
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The Fall (2006) / int_2726d167	type	The World Is Just Awesome
The Fall (2006) / int_2726d167	comment	The World Is Just Awesome: Just take in any of the scenery.
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The Fall (2006) / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Fall (2006) / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Catinca Untaru has dialog in her native Romanian.
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The Fall (2006) / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Fall (2006) / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: Occasional, such as when Alexandria questions the plot. Even the characters notice on occasion:
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The Fall (2006) / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
The Fall (2006) / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: Well, one of the characters in the story-within-the-story is an explosives and ballistics expert.
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The Fall (2006) / int_33c2b1e2	type	Best Served Cold
The Fall (2006) / int_33c2b1e2	comment	Best Served Cold: Most of the plot revolves around this.
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The Fall (2006) / int_348c7ded	type	Sword Cane
The Fall (2006) / int_348c7ded	comment	Sword Cane: The villain has one.
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The Fall (2006) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Fall (2006) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Roy, upon seeing the finished film learns that the his life-threatening fall had been replaced by another stunt.
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The Fall (2006) / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
The Fall (2006) / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: Justified in the story-within-a-story by being imagined by a child; very much averted outside of it.
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The Fall (2006) / int_3946634e	type	The Smart Guy
The Fall (2006) / int_3946634e	comment	The Smart Guy: Charles Darwin.
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The Fall (2006) / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
The Fall (2006) / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: Oh very YES!
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The Fall (2006) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Fall (2006) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Both in the reality and in the fantasy. Alexandria will never see Roy again, and Roy is almost certainly permanently crippled, but she thinks he's the stuntman in every film she sees.
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The Fall (2006) / int_424d15ad	type	Love Hurts
The Fall (2006) / int_424d15ad	comment	Love Hurts: Used in the fantasy and in reality. In the story, The Black Bandit finds out that Sister Evelyn didn't actually love him. In reality, Roy is bitter over the fact that his girlfriend left him for someone else.
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The Fall (2006) / int_43f2f606	type	Annoying Arrows
The Fall (2006) / int_43f2f606	comment	Annoying Arrows: The ones that kill Otta Benga barely pierce him.
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The Fall (2006) / int_454d9422	comment	Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies: As part of Roy's Creator Breakdown.
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The Fall (2006) / int_47d35854	comment	Intergenerational Friendship: The film is centered on the relationship between Alexandria (5) and Roy (20s).
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The Fall (2006) / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Fall (2006) / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The Movie. It's quite difficult to state just how many inconsequential shots of vast landscapes and beautiful buildings are crammed into this film.
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The Fall (2006) / int_4f6d87f7	comment	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Lee Pace is 6'5", so this happened. A lot. Particularly noticeable whenever the Black Bandit and Alexandria are together in the story.
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The Fall (2006) / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
The Fall (2006) / int_500ecfb7	comment	The Big Guy: The Indian and Otta Benga.
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The Fall (2006) / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Fall (2006) / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: Done in-universe with gusto with Roy's story, although with some nuances outside as well. In particular, he throws in that Governor Odious is Spanish when it's Otta Benga's turn to have a grudge against his former slavemaster, despite the historical Ota Benga was bought by an American and never had anything to do with Spain. The implication that Spaniards are a codifier for working black slaves to death is also ironic; while the Spanish Empire did participate in the Atlantic slave trade like most other nations that could afford it, its slavery policies were actually much softer than average, to the point that Spanish domains were a favorite haven for fugitive slaves from English or French colonies because they could easily become free citizens there.
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The Fall (2006) / int_5692bfd9	type	Human Notepad
The Fall (2006) / int_5692bfd9	comment	Human Notepad: Partway through the story the Mystic gains a full-body tattoo of a map to Odious' mansion.
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The Fall (2006) / int_5a23602	type	Big Ol' Eyebrows
The Fall (2006) / int_5a23602	comment	Big Ol' Eyebrows: Lee Pace has a very nice pair.
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The Fall (2006) / int_5f70322e	comment	Public Domain Soundtrack: The second movement Allegretto from Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92. And it is awesome.
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The Fall (2006) / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
The Fall (2006) / int_60b21fa3	comment	The Lancer: The Italian and, at times, The Indian.
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The Fall (2006) / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The Fall (2006) / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Governor Odious.
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The Fall (2006) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Fall (2006) / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Just about everyone does this in the final act as it coincides with Roy's breakdown.
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The Fall (2006) / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
The Fall (2006) / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Much of the visuals and mythology are based on Indian culture.
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The Fall (2006) / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
The Fall (2006) / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: Most of the characters. The Italian blowing himself up to destroy all of the guards. Otta Benga shields Alexandria with his own body, taking so many arrows in the back that they support his body weight. The Indian cutting the rope he's climbing to kill the last few guards climbing the same rope. Charles Darwin's "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner, see below.
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The Fall (2006) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Governor Odious.
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The Fall (2006) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Fall (2006) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The Indian's wife was thrown into the Labyrinth of Despair when she refused Odious's advances. The only way to escape was to throw herself off the tower. Roy planned to overdose on morphine after becoming paralyzed and losing his girlfriend to the actor he does stunts for.
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The Fall (2006) / int_6d5ab39e	type	Fractured Fairy Tale
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The Fall (2006) / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Roy Walker is likely paralysed from the waist down.
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The Fall (2006) / int_7319a7de	type	Potty Dance
The Fall (2006) / int_7319a7de	comment	Potty Dance: The Princess starts doing this while speaking to the Black Bandit reflecting the fact that in the real world Alexandria needs to pee. The Bandit/Roy tells her to go to the bathroom because her fidgeting is distracting him.
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The Fall (2006) / int_79ba6777	comment	Pocket Protector: The locket.
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The Fall (2006) / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: Again, "Governor Odious." It's lampshaded by the characters.
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The Fall (2006) / int_7f3be191	type	Impossibly Cool Clothes
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The Fall (2006) / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Fall (2006) / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Each of the heroes has a personal vendetta against Governor Odious ranging from the death of a brother, death of a wife and the death of a butterfly.
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The Fall (2006) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Fall (2006) / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: The Black Bandit. Justified, though, as it is the imagination of a 5-year-old; Roy is played much more naturally.
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The Fall (2006) / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
The Fall (2006) / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: In-story, Odious' guards are based on Alexandria's fearful image of an early X-ray operator clad in leather and lead, and instead of speaking they make a variety of animal howls and snarls.
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The Fall (2006) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Fall (2006) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The Princess's nephew, left behind at the carriage. Justified in that this story is being made up on the fly by the main characters who likely just forgot about him.
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The Fall (2006) / int_8b200e5f	type	Hypochondria
The Fall (2006) / int_8b200e5f	comment	Hypochondria: Walt, one of the other patients in Roy's room, is this. The doctor humours his complaints about his "symptoms" but is secretly prescribing him sugar pills and passing them off as morphine.
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The Fall (2006) / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
The Fall (2006) / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: The Indian only speaks one or two words during the whole movie. He speaks when he cuts the rope (killing himself and a handful of the mooks), saying "How!" (the joke being that he's a movie stereotype Native American Indian in Roy's narration and a from-India-Indian in Alexandria's imagination). Otta Benga is almost this.
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The Fall (2006) / int_90bc139e	type	Justified Title
The Fall (2006) / int_90bc139e	comment	Justified Title: Both Alexandria and Roy are in the hospital because of injuries sustained in falls—and each undergoes a loss of innocence. And the event that starts to pull Roy out of his depression is when Alexandria, stealing drugs for him, falls again.
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The Fall (2006) / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
The Fall (2006) / int_912b24c4	comment	The Art Shift after Alexandria falls in the pharmacy, with wooden doctor-puppets taking apart and then reassembling an injured Alexandria doll, closely resembles a contextually similar scene in Frida.
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The Fall (2006) / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
The Fall (2006) / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: A lot of scenes deal with Alexandria overhearing conversations and not understanding the gravity of them, mostly due to the fact she's only five years old. At one point she steals communion wafers from a priest and starts eating them, even offering them to Roy, but it's made very clear she has no idea what their intended purpose is or even what they are. Later on Roy is able to dupe her into fetching him morpine pills so he can commit suicide because she could never figure out his true intentions.
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The Fall (2006) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Fall (2006) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Darwin mentions that the birds are safe inside the Mystic's belly.
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The Fall (2006) / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
The Fall (2006) / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Parodied and taken to increasingly goofy extremes when the five heroes' motivation for revenge against Odious goes from the death of a brother to the death of of a butterfly.
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The Fall (2006) / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
The Fall (2006) / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly-Long Gag: The montage for why everyone hates Odious, complete with a Skyward Scream every single time.
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The Fall (2006) / int_a3c6c2b7	type	"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner
The Fall (2006) / int_a3c6c2b7	comment	"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: "Shoot, you animals. They'll pay you well for Darwin's hide."
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The Fall (2006) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Fall (2006) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: A lot of the more depressing scenes have elements of this. While the Black Bandit is being beaten to death and starts drowning, Odious points out in exasperation that the pool is only "a few feet deep". In the same scene, Roy keeps trying to justify killing off the Black Bandit by listing his misdeeds: he's a coward, a liar, and he had his fingers crossed when he took his oath.
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The Fall (2006) / int_aa87556f	type	Orange/Blue Contrast
The Fall (2006) / int_aa87556f	comment	Orange/Blue Contrast: The vast majority of scenes. Even the shots that aren't orange/blue are some other equally complementary pairing like red/green.
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The Fall (2006) / int_acedc6c4	type	Butterfly of Death and Rebirth
The Fall (2006) / int_acedc6c4	comment	Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: Darwin's personal vendetta against Odious was for the death of a butterfly. Wallace himself chases after a butterfly — one of the same species that Darwin is looking for — and gets shot for it.
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The Fall (2006) / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
The Fall (2006) / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: The only motivation of Governor Odious in the fantasy.
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The Fall (2006) / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Fall (2006) / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "Googly Googly". This was used by an elderly patient who uses it when things frighten him.
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The Fall (2006) / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
The Fall (2006) / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: In-story example: The Masked Bandit starts out as a Spaniard who resembles Alexandria's father (and is played by the same actor) due to Roy basing him on her father. She then reveals that her father is dead and asks Roy to make the character speak like he does, at which point Lee Pace starts playing him. Additionally, after Odious kills the Bandit's brother the Bandit swears to destroy "every Spanish thing" in revenge. Cue Alexandria pointing out that the Bandit himself is Spanish and Roy hurriedly insisting that he was actually French.
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The Fall (2006) / int_b9f472b	type	Storming the Castle
The Fall (2006) / int_b9f472b	comment	Storming the Castle: The bandits' story reaches its climax with the team storming Odious' palace. The Masked Bandit and his daughter are the only ones who survive..
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The Fall (2006) / int_bb067aba	type	Cool Mask
The Fall (2006) / int_bb067aba	comment	Cool Mask: Worn by the Black Bandit.
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The Fall (2006) / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
The Fall (2006) / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Used as a joke at the start, played very, very straight at the end.
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The Fall (2006) / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
The Fall (2006) / int_c36cba70	comment	Mooks: Clone after clone after clone of Alexandria's real-life nightmare, the X-ray technician wearing a leather apron, swarming through an M.C. Escher-esque maze (which was not CGI, but filmed at a real place).
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The Fall (2006) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Fall (2006) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Beneath the colorful coat, Charles Darwin's outfit (white shirt, suspenders, black boots and bowler hat) resembles that of a Droog from A Clockwork Orange. The Art Shift after Alexandria falls in the pharmacy, with wooden doctor-puppets taking apart and then reassembling an injured Alexandria doll, closely resembles a contextually similar scene in Frida. The film's poster (seen above) alludes to the work of Salvador Dalí, especially his portrait of Mae West. Clips from Never Weaken, Cops (1922), Three Ages, Steamboat Bill, Jr. and other silent movies are shown in the final montage.
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The Fall (2006) / int_c8db76f6	type	And You Were There
The Fall (2006) / int_c8db76f6	comment	And You Were There: Every character (and prop) in Roy's story is imagined by Alexandria as someone (or something) she sees in daily life. Particularly noticeable once Roy includes an "Indian" (Native American) in his story — and Alexandria consistently imagines him as being from India. More specifically: The Black Bandit is initially revealed to be Alexandria's father, as seen in a photograph. When she notes that the Black Bandit isn't her father (as he died), he is switched out to Roy. Both the Indian and the Mystic are workers Alexandria knows from the orange groves, and are seen at the end and briefly in photographs. Otta Benga is the delivery man for the ice company, and Luigi is the one-legged stuntman who visits Roy, and Odious is Sinclair, the actor who stole Roy's girlfriend. Charles Darwin is one of the orderlies, one of the doctors is Alexander the Great, and Nurse Evelyn is Sister Evelyn.
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The Fall (2006) / int_c9d80884	type	Scheherezade Gambit
The Fall (2006) / int_c9d80884	comment	Scheherezade Gambit: Attempted both by Roy and by Alexandria.
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The Fall (2006) / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
The Fall (2006) / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: The Indian and Luigi. Ka-boom indeed.
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The Fall (2006) / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Fall (2006) / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The entire Five-Man Band is on one against Odious.
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The Fall (2006) / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
The Fall (2006) / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: The film's opening titles sequence is shot in black and white. It's actually footage of the film Roy was in.
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The Fall (2006) / int_d24c0700	type	The Foreign Subtitle
The Fall (2006) / int_d24c0700	comment	The Foreign Subtitle: Released in Spain as The Fall: El Sueno de Alexandria ("The Fall: Alexandria's Dream").
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The Fall (2006) / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Fall (2006) / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Exaggerated to the point of parody with Odious's death. Subverted with Roy's plan to make Alexandria get him morphine, which made him become close to her, which in turn made him get past his broken heart and forget his suicide wish.
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The Fall (2006) / int_d3beb0de	type	Precocious Crush
The Fall (2006) / int_d3beb0de	comment	Precocious Crush: Alexandria's behaviour towards Roy has hints of this, particularly when she covers his face with kisses while he's sleeping and also when she's shown drawing a heart on the drawing she makes for him.
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The Fall (2006) / int_d4bb4e51	type	Walking Shirtless Scene
The Fall (2006) / int_d4bb4e51	comment	Walking Shirtless Scene: Otta Benga and the Mystic. The latter in particular as his costume is little more than a Loincloth and, eventually, full-body tattoos.
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The Fall (2006) / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
The Fall (2006) / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Most of the characters.
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The Fall (2006) / int_dabc7a46	type	Sixth Ranger
The Fall (2006) / int_dabc7a46	comment	The Sixth Ranger: The Mystic.
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The Fall (2006) / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
The Fall (2006) / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: Charles Darwin's pet monkey and muse Wallace is a Shout-Out to Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace famously came up with the theory of evolution independently of Darwin but published later.
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The Fall (2006) / int_e49686	type	The Hero
The Fall (2006) / int_e49686	comment	The Hero: The Black Bandit.
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The Fall (2006) / int_e53426b9	type	Desert Bandits
The Fall (2006) / int_e53426b9	comment	Desert Bandits: The main characters turn into heroic versions of this when they attack the Big Bad's caravan in the desert.
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The Fall (2006) / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
The Fall (2006) / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: Used sparingly, but when it's used, it's reeeeal pretty.
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The Fall (2006) / int_e598d4ac	type	Innocent Inaccurate
The Fall (2006) / int_e598d4ac	comment	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.
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The Fall (2006) / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Fall (2006) / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Roy writes to Alexandria to get him Morphine pills, but the 'E' looks like a 3. So not only does she read it as Morphin-3, but also assumed that he only wanted 3 pills and dumped everything else down into the toilet. Moreover, Roy says to Alexandria that these pills will help him go to sleep. A permanent type of sleep that is.
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The Fall (2006) / int_ea08e9	type	The Team
The Fall (2006) / int_ea08e9	comment	The Team: The Hero: The Black Bandit. The Lancer: The Italian and, at times, The Indian. The Smart Guy: Charles Darwin. The Big Guy: The Indian and Otta Benga. The Heart: Sister Evelyn. The Sixth Ranger: The Mystic. Team Pet: Wallace the monkey. Tagalong Kid: Alexandria.
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The Fall (2006) / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
The Fall (2006) / int_ed503b22	comment	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 and is currently the page image for the trope.
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The Fall (2006) / int_f12d9d83	type	Promotion to Parent
The Fall (2006) / int_f12d9d83	comment	Promotion to Parent: Roy gives the Black Bandit a couple of the traits that her father would have, such as a gap in his teeth and Alexandria originally pictures him looking like her father. Alexandria eventually appears in the story as the Bandit's daughter.
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The Fall (2006) / int_f2a6d76d	type	Rage Against the Author
The Fall (2006) / int_f2a6d76d	comment	Rage Against the Author: Roy's story isn't always a happy one, and Alexandria is very young. It gets especially heart-wrenching when Roy's increasing depression and its effect on the story reminds her about her house being burnt down and the death of her father.
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The Fall (2006) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Fall (2006) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Every time Roy introduces a character, he adds that "X would be the one to kill Governor Odious" with said character giving a Skyward Scream as emphasis.
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The Fall (2006) / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
The Fall (2006) / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: And brother (the brother was attempting to avenge their father's death). And wife, and butterfly, and... yeah, this is most of the motivation for the main characters, in fact.
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The Fall (2006) / int_fb9e2ffd	comment	Team Pet: Wallace the monkey.
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The Fall (2006) / int_fd5f23a7	comment	Skyward Scream: Done by many of the characters in the story-within-the-story.
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The Fall (2006) / int_fdbdc112	comment	Practical Effects: The vast majority of effects is all practical. CGI was used for simple visual cleanup and for a scene of a moving map on a character's skin, but all the Scenery Porn and impossibly fantastic architecture were shot on location.
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