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The Iron Mask

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The Iron Mask	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Iron Mask is a 1929 silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks. It is one of many film adaptations of Alexandre Dumas's novel The Three Musketeers, drawing plot elements from that novel but taking most of the plot from Dumas's sequel The Vicomte de Bragelonne. The film is also a sequel to Fairbanks's 1921 film The Three Musketeers. It was directed by Allan Dwan.In this one Fairbanks returns as D'Artagnan, and he and the Three Musketeers are having swashbuckling fun in 1638 France. Meanwhile, King Louis XIII is thrilled by the birth of his son and heir, the future King Louis XIV. The situation is immediately complicated when the birth of the boy is followed by the birth of a second boy, an identical twin brother. Cardinal Richelieu, fearing that the presence of two twin sons of the king raises the threat of dynastic instability and war, packs the second child, Phillipe, off to the country to be raised in secret. D'Artagnan's lover, Constance, was the lady-in-waiting at the birth, and for this Richelieu has his dragon Count De Rochefort send Constance away to be imprisoned in a convent. D'Artagnan tries to rescue her but fails to arrive before tragedy strikes. Richelieu in turn breaks up the Musketeers, ordering Athos, Porthos, and Aramis to their home properties while assigning D'Artagnan to be a guardian of the boy Louis. De Rochefort has his own schemes, however, which involve a switcheroo of twin brothers.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The Iron Mask was one of the last major silent films released in Hollywood. It was Douglas Fairbanks' farewell to both the silent film medium and the action-adventure films that he had been making throughout The Roaring '20s. Fairbanks had no enthusiasm for talking films, and in any case he was 46 years old in 1929 and aging out of the action film genre. Fairbanks dabbled in talkies, making five films before he retired in 1934, but never made an action film again.The story has been adapted for film several times, See also the the 1962 French film The Iron Mask and the 1998 American film The Man in the Iron Mask.
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The Iron Mask / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: Both in-story and in a meta sense. The film, while being a fun, zippy adventure like all of Fairbanks' other swashbucklers, is also filled with a sense of loss and times passing. The Musketeers are growing old and gray, but they still have enough life for one last adventure. In a meta sense, of course, the same was true of Douglas Fairbanks and the silent film era. As noted above, Fairbanks conceived of this film and made it as his farewell to silent movies and the action film genre.
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The Iron Mask / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
The Iron Mask / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: How Louis kills D'Artagnan, after D'Artagnan returns with the rightful king in tow. He picks up a knife from the dinner table and stabs D'Artagnan in the back.
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The Iron Mask / int_1df37537	type	Mutual Kill
The Iron Mask / int_1df37537	comment	Mutual Kill: Athos and de Rochefort's duel ends with them fatally stabbing each other.
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The Iron Mask / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
The Iron Mask / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: See Tableau below.
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The Iron Mask / int_1f60add	type	Locked in the Dungeon
The Iron Mask / int_1f60add	comment	Locked in the Dungeon: This is the fate of the real Louis XIV when his brother seizes the throne and has him put in an iron mask and imprisoned.
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The Iron Mask / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Iron Mask / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: D'Artagnan is standing in the street, talking to his girlfriend Constance who is looking down at him from a second-story window. While they are playfully flirting, a woman in the background can be seen dumping a chamberpot from her own second-story window, onto the head of a pedestrian below.
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The Iron Mask / int_2e338ce4	type	The Cavalry Arrives Late
The Iron Mask / int_2e338ce4	comment	The Cavalry Arrives Late: D'Artagnan and the Musketeers arrive seconds too late to stop Milady de Winter from fatally stabbing Constance.
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The Iron Mask / int_3a4522df	type	PietÃ Plagiarism
The Iron Mask / int_3a4522df	comment	Pietà Plagiarism: Seen when D'Artagnan cradles Constance as she dies.
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The Iron Mask / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Iron Mask / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: D'Artagnan and the Musketeers all die, but their spirits are still chasing adventure in the afterlife, and the rightful king has been restored to the throne.
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The Iron Mask / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
The Iron Mask / int_423f5a19	comment	Killed Offscreen: Presumably the fate of Milady de Winter, last seen being taken away as the Musketeers promise to deliver her to the executioner.
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The Iron Mask / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Iron Mask / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Four years to show Louis being groomed for kingship while Phillipe has become an awful brat out in the countryside. Then twenty more years to the second part of the story, wherein Count De Rochefort launches his plan to substitute Phillipe for Louis.
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The Iron Mask / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Iron Mask / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: As the Musketeers are whisking Louis away through the sewers of de Rochefort's dungeon, with Mooks in hot pursuit, they run right through a powder room. Porthos uses a torch to blow up the gunpowder, killing himself, but blocking the passage and giving the others time to get the king away.
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The Iron Mask / int_65331274	type	Flynning
The Iron Mask / int_65331274	comment	Flynning: Lots of classic swashbuckling swordfights.
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The Iron Mask / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
The Iron Mask / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: As indicated in the last dialogue card. After D'Artagnan's soul leaves his body and joins his friends up in the heavens, Porthos provides the page quote (see above). And then they turn their backs to the camera and run off to seek that "further adventure".
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The Iron Mask / int_7a6fc5ab	type	Man in the Iron Mask
The Iron Mask / int_7a6fc5ab	comment	Man in the Iron Mask: Phillipe was hidden away but allowed to live in comfort, in a chateau with servants. When he replaces his brother he has Louis fitted with an iron mask and clapped in a dungeon. This is a change from the Dumas novel and from later film adaptations, in which it's Phillipe being held in a dungeon in an iron mask by evil King Louis. In this version, Louis doesn't even know his brother exists until Phillipe shows up to replace him.
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The Iron Mask / int_ab1c1cca	type	Characters Dropping Like Flies
The Iron Mask / int_ab1c1cca	comment	Characters Dropping Like Flies: D'Artagnan, all three of the Musketeers, de Rochefort, Richelieu, and Constance all die over the course of the movie. The only main characters still alive at the end are Louis and Phillipe. This is also the only film Douglas Fairbanks ever made where his character dies in the end.
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The Iron Mask / int_b0cac376	type	The Usurper
The Iron Mask / int_b0cac376	comment	The Usurper: Phillipe, impersonating his brother Louis XIV.
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The Iron Mask / int_b5b4c0cf	type	The End
The Iron Mask / int_b5b4c0cf	comment	The End: Inverted. After the spirits of D'Artagnan and the Musketeers go scampering off in search of their next adventure, the last title card, right before the film ends, says "The Beginning."
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The Iron Mask / int_b8bf00fd	type	Poison Ring
The Iron Mask / int_b8bf00fd	comment	Poison Ring: Phillipe has and uses one of these.
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The Iron Mask / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
The Iron Mask / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Averted in this case, as de Rochefort gives a perfectly reasonable explanation for not having the real Louix XIV killed—the fact that the king is still alive gives him control over Phillipe.
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The Iron Mask / int_bd5e9702	type	His Name Is...
The Iron Mask / int_bd5e9702	comment	His Name Is...: Both Constance and Cardinal Richielieu die (of a stab wound and of natural causes, respectively), just as they're trying to tell D'Artagnan about "the other one".
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The Iron Mask / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Iron Mask / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: "Sire, you are twice as great as I thought you were", says Cardinal Richelieu to the king, after finding out that the queen delivered twins.
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The Iron Mask / int_c3e4a2f0	type	Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo
The Iron Mask / int_c3e4a2f0	comment	Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo: Phillipe doesn't even try to be subtle about this, switching his goblet with his mother's right in front of her. But he's the king (or rather he's usurped the king), so she feels compelled to drink it.
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The Iron Mask / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Iron Mask / int_e061cb06	comment	Rightful King Returns: Louis XIV, returned by D'Artagnan in the end.
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The Iron Mask / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
The Iron Mask / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers sleep in the same bed. All for one and one for all, indeed.
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The Iron Mask / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
The Iron Mask / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: There was a real "man in an iron mask" who was held in French prisons from either 1669 or 1670 until his death in 1703. Speculation as to his identity continues to this day, although the best guess is that he was jailed for something he knew rather than who he was. And d'Artagnan was a real guy, although the stories of his life were already heavily fictionalized even before Dumas got to them.
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The Iron Mask / int_f1e6402d	type	Suddenly Speaking
The Iron Mask / int_f1e6402d	comment	Suddenly Speaking: Douglas Fairbanks, in a meta sense. While Fairbanks insisted on making The Iron Mask as a silent film—in fact, with the primitive nature of sound recording in 1929, making a stunt-filled action movie like this would have been impossible—he did concede to insert two talking scenes in which D'Artagnan addresses the audience.
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The Iron Mask / int_f2dadf81	type	Evil Twin
The Iron Mask / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: Phillipe, who is shown throughout to be mean-tempered and vicious. Even if he does have a gripe about being pushed aside, imprisoning his brother and trying to poison his mom is not cool.
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The Iron Mask / int_f4d8befd	type	Tableau
The Iron Mask / int_f4d8befd	comment	Tableau: The film opens with Fairbanks and the other Musketeers posed in a tableau vivant that resembles a portrait. Then Fairbanks jumps down from the tableau and gives a spoken prologue in which he invites the audience to come with him on an adventure. The second half of the film opens with a similar tableau, this time with Fairbanks alone, moving the action forward 20 years.
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The Iron Mask / int_feba704d	type	Princeling Rivalry
The Iron Mask / int_feba704d	comment	Princeling Rivalry: To be fair, it must be irritating to see your twin brother get to be King of France while you are spirited off to the countryside to do nothing.
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