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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a 1921 film directed by Irish director/actor/playwright Rex Ingram, starring Rudolph Valentino and Alice Terry. Madariaga, the patriarch of an Argentine cattle ranch has two daughters. One marries a German against his wishes; their three sons are viewed with disfavor by the rancher. The other enters into an approved marriage with a Frenchman named Desnoyers, and their son Julio (Valentino) becomes the apple of his grandfather's eye. The old man dies, and the husbands take their wives back home to Europe. Julio lives a carefree life in Paris, a spoiled rich boy who cares only for painting pretty ladies, giving tango lessons, and having an affair with a married woman, Marguerite Laurier (Terry). This happy life is interrupted by the assassination of an Austrian archduke and the outbreak of war.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was a smash hit. Rudolph Valentino, who was a bit player when he was cast in this movie, became a huge star, and the personification of the Latin Lover, until his premature death from a perforated ulcer in 1926. Wallace Beery, who would become a big star in The '30s, has a small part as a brutish German officer.A remake came out in 1962, also titled The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but with a Setting Update, moving the story to World War II, directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Glenn Ford as Julio Desnoyers.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_12c6bf73	comment	Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Yep, they're in the movie. They are first shown when the Stranger brings out his illustrated copy of the Book of Revelation and tells his friends that the war represents the apocalypse. The Horsemen are used as a motif a few more times, including the last scene, where they're shown riding away in the sky after the war is over.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The Stranger describes "the four horsemen of the Apocalypse" as the "enemies of mankind".
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: As always happens upon the outbreak of war. In this case a woman is dressed as French national symbol Marianne, and wrapped in the tricolor flag, as "La Marseillaise" plays.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_2e032e41	type	Latin Lover
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_2e032e41	comment	Latin Lover: Ur-Example, Trope Maker. The studio had been hesitant to cast Valentino due to his very Latin looks. Valentino had been a taxi dancer before making it big in the movies. His tango scene, written into the film to showcase him, started a tango craze in the United States.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: A mother in the village of Villeblanche, where the Desnoyers castle is, after the village is shelled. Her two little children vainly try to wake her up.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: "They shall not pass", or so think the Frenchmen batting at the Marne. (In Real Life this did not become a famous saying until Verdun, later in the war.)
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_3cf44d4b	type	High-Class Glass
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_3cf44d4b	comment	High-Class Glass: Both the German general and the more junior officer played by Wallace Beery sport them, in true Prussian tradition. So does a lesbian (see Ambiguously Gay above).
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_43971f6f	type	Everything's Better with Monkeys
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_43971f6f	comment	Everything's Better with Monkeys: Julio has a pet chimp who is usually dressed in a matching outfit. The chimp takes Marguerite's hat and umbrella when she visits. Rather absurdly, the chimp is with him in the trenches, also in uniform.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: Some real clips of troop movements and artillery pieces being fired are spliced into the film.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_4b86a724	type	Getting Crap Past the Radar
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_4b86a724	comment	Getting Crap Past the Radar: A title card notes that a lot of the gauchos working Madariaga's ranch bear a suspicious resemblance to him.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: All four of the rancher's grandchildren are killed.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Twenty years pass between Julio's birth and the next scene, in which young Julio is partying with his indulgent grandfather.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_7142b38a	type	The Grim Reaper
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_7142b38a	comment	The Grim Reaper: One of the four horsemen, seen by himself after Julio and Julio's cousin are killed.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_8c80a69f	type	YourCheatingHeart
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_8c80a69f	comment	Your Cheating Heart: Julio is having an affair with a married woman.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: After M. Desnoyers' fancy castle is specifically stated to be "on the Marne", it's not hard to guess what will happen.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Apparently one of M. Desnoyers' servant girls was raped by the Germans. Says her mother, "My little girl longs to die."
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The Stranger, who is given a name in the credits—"Tchernoff"—but not in the narrative, and who has a vaguely Christlike mien. In the last scene M. Desnoyers, who is with the Stranger in the graveyard, asks if the Stranger knew Julio. The Stranger replies "I knew them all!".
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: One of M. Desnoyer's German nephews is among the officers who seize his castle. Julio later meets his cousin in no man's land. Marguerite winds up treating her own husband at an aid station, after she volunteers as a nurse.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_deea2fb5	comment	Idle Rich: Julio's lifestyle before the war—dancing, seducing pretty ladies, sponging off his parents.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: When Julio and Marguerite are dining out, there is a brief shot of a lesbian couple at another table. One woman is dressed in a traditionally feminine way, but the other is dressed like a man, in a tuxedo with a top hat, a High-Class Glass, and a cigarette holder. This was the style at the time, when gays and Lesbians could be relatively "out".
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: After the Germans sack his castle, M. Desnoyers says of war that "it is like a wild beast whose breath scorches and withers humanity." He still tells Julio that Julio has to kill Germans.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_f6c3d469	type	Fanservice Extra
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_f6c3d469	comment	Fanservice Extra: The three ladies posing for Julio's painting, one of whom is showing an exposed breast. Censors could be surprisingly permissive in The Twenties.
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