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The Masque of the Red Death

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The Masque of the Red Death	comment	The Masque of the Red Death is a 1964 film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's story of the same name, directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price.In medieval Italy, Prince Prospero (Price) is a wealthy, tight-fisted despot who rules over his land with cruelty, justifying his behavior through his devout faith in Satan. When he discovers that the Red Death—a plague that causes its victims to bleed from every pore of their skin—has arrived in a local village, he takes captive three poor but healthy individuals—Francesca (Jane Asher), her father Ludovico (Nigel Green), and her lover Gino (David Weston)—and orders the rest of the village to be burned to the ground. He sends out invitations to other nobles in the area to attend a masquerade ball at his castle, devoted to vice of all sorts, in an effort to stave off the Red Death, unaware that it has plans of its own.The seventh entry in Corman's so-called "Poe Cycle", the film greatly expands upon the original story and combines it with another Poe work, "Hop-Frog", as well as aspects of the French tale "The Torture by Hope" by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. It has been praised as one of Corman's best works (and, in fact, remains one of his favorite among his own films); while notorious for cutting corners, Corman maintained a high production value by filming in Britain (which gave him a British government subsidy) and using sets left over from the production of Becket.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_1246c26c	type	Villainous Lineage
The Masque of the Red Death / int_1246c26c	comment	Villainous Lineage: Prospero boasts that he comes from a long line of tyrants, and it's safe to assume that all of them were as decadent as he is; his father imprisoned a man in the yellow room for three years. While Prospero's devil worshipping might seem a bit too on the nose in terms of characterization, he states that one of his earliest ancestors was a fanatical Christian inquisitor who killed hundreds, so his heritage is messier than it looks.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
The Masque of the Red Death / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: Prospero doesn't even pretend that he's not the bad guy. In his speech before the masquerade, he celebrates the "triumph of evil over good". However, he also seems to operate on Blue-and-Orange Morality.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_13f7da6	type	Instant Expert
The Masque of the Red Death / int_13f7da6	comment	Instant Expert: Gino has never fought before, but proves very skilled when given a sword (although the guard is under orders not to kill him). Prospero lampshades this by claiming that it was precisely Gino's lack of skill that made him victorious; it's harder for experienced swordsmen to predict the chaotic moves of a novice.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Masque of the Red Death / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The trailers to the film openly give away the climactic scene of Prospero seeing his own face on the Red Death.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_15800db3	type	All Are Equal in Death
The Masque of the Red Death / int_15800db3	comment	All Are Equal in Death: According to the Red Death, "I called many: peasant and prince; the worthy and the dishonored."
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
The Masque of the Red Death / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Francesca's father, rather than cut his arm with the last dagger (that is sure to be the poisoned one), goes to stab Prospero with it...only for Prospero to anticipate this and run him through with a sword.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_1b465242	type	Conditioned to Accept Horror
The Masque of the Red Death / int_1b465242	comment	Conditioned to Accept Horror: What happens to poor Francesca in the end, as she grows less disturbed by the depravity of Prospero's party and watches a man burn alive blankly.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_1d9af117	type	Gender-Equal Ensemble
The Masque of the Red Death / int_1d9af117	comment	Gender-Equal Ensemble: Six people are left alive at the end of the film. The females include Francesca, Esmeralda and the little girl Prospero spared earlier. The males include Gino, Hop Toad and an old man from the village.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Masque of the Red Death / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Ludovico, who died in an attempt to save his daughter and her lover from Prospero.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Masque of the Red Death / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Everyone afflicted with the Red Death, who bleed through their pores until they become completely red. Alfredo's death counts as well, being humiliated while dressed as a gorilla and then tied to a chandelier and burned to death.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
The Masque of the Red Death / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: The Red Death. Its avatar is never malicious, and it actually goes out of its way to do in a bunch of evil nobles who might have survived by sequestering themselves. Likewise, the various incarnations of death that appear in the end; they do mention their respective body-counts, but it's shoptalk rather than gloating.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
The Masque of the Red Death / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Prospero displays an increased level of cruelty and folly here that his literary counterpart lacks. While abandoning the poor to die to a deadly plague was already a pretty callous move, he also directly cruelly offers the infected townsfolk a Sadistic Choice (either flee and die in agony, or kill themselves to spare themselves) before taking the choice away and having them murdered. He is also an avowed Satanist with a long, messy family history, though when Juliana bethroths herself to Satan, he cruelly kills her by sending a falcon after her.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The Masque of the Red Death / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Greatly. The original story had no inferences to Satanism, and the only real characters were Prospero and the Red Death figure. Hop-Toad and his plot for revenge are taken from Edgar Allen Poe's story "Hop-Frog." The original story has the Red Death working alone. Here, he works alongside the personifications of other deadly plagues, such as the Black Death and the Yellow Death.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Masque of the Red Death / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: When first arriving at the party, Prospero makes a speech on the "anatomy of terror," claiming that the most terrible things are those that remind you of your own mortality, such as the passing of time, one's own failing heart, or the sound of footsteps; he invokes a similar speech while Juliana stares at a ticking clock, before sending his falcon to kill her.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_237569e4	type	Ironic Hell
The Masque of the Red Death / int_237569e4	comment	Ironic Hell: After the Red Death reveals himself for what he truly is, Prospero finds himself surrounded by his now infected guests and frantically tries to escape their pleas for help.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
The Masque of the Red Death / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Hop Toad, who ultimately manages to get revenge on Alfredo and escape the castle with Esmeralda through nothing but his own cunning.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_2bb06191	type	Adaptational Sexuality
The Masque of the Red Death / int_2bb06191	comment	Adaptational Sexuality: Prospero in the original short story had no romantic interactions with women. Here, he not only had a mistress in Juliana, but also takes genuine interest and falls in love with the innocent Francesca.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_2cfee88	type	Everybody Hates Hades
The Masque of the Red Death / int_2cfee88	comment	Everybody Hates Hades: Averted. The Death entities are clearly saddened by the suffering they cause among humanity, but they must do their duty.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Masque of the Red Death / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Though Prospero is told that the child from the village would die regardless, he still orders his men to refrain from shooting her when killing what's left of the villagers. He also specifically requests that the Red Death spare Francesca, which the figure notes is "a charitable request...a rare thing with you, Prospero." The implication is that he admires the fact that her faith is completely genuine in contrast to the corrupt scumbags who are his friends. When Alfredo backhands Esmeralda for accidentally spilling his wine, Prospero asks Hop-Toad to tend to her, and gets his own form of revenge for the insult by hurling a glass of wine into Alfredo's face. The guests likewise seem shocked at Juliana and Alfredo's deaths, though admittedly forget about them quite quickly in favor of revelling.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_3678bb22	type	Russian Roulette
The Masque of the Red Death / int_3678bb22	comment	Russian Roulette: Prospero uses a variant of this against Gino and Ludovico using daggers; one dagger is laced with a fast-acting poison, and both must take turns to cut their arms. Both survive until the last blade is left; knowing it's poisoned, Ludovico attempts to stab Prospero with it but is run through with his sword instead.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Masque of the Red Death / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: A clock with a pendulum is visible in the castle, with a blade-like bob at the end - a nod to The Pit and the Pendulum, also directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price (and in fact was made because they didn't have the budget to adapt Masque of the Red Death at the time).
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Masque of the Red Death / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Prospero likes to force his guests to grovel before him and humiliate themselves as everyone watches on and laughs. At the end, he views the spread of the Red Death in his castle as an offering to Satan.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
The Masque of the Red Death / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: Something Prospero believes; that Francesca is a genuinely kind person is one of the things that prompts him to fall in love with her.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_3d5547b0	type	Perfect Poison
The Masque of the Red Death / int_3d5547b0	comment	Perfect Poison: Prospero claims to have laced one of the daggers with a poison that'll kill in five seconds. We never see if this is true, as Francesca's father uses the last dagger to stab Prospero...but gets impaled with the sword before he can.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
The Masque of the Red Death / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: The Red Death, more or less. He still serves his original purpose as in the original book, but he also spares those who he thinks have good character and worthy of living.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Masque of the Red Death / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: A step up from the original book. The majority of our heroes are alive and all of the villains are dead, but it's made explicit that the Red Death has killed many, many people.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_422cefe3	type	True Blue Femininity
The Masque of the Red Death / int_422cefe3	comment	True Blue Femininity: Francesca the female lead, and pure-hearted devout Christian, is often put in blue dresses when in Prospero's castle. She also gets a blue nightgown, and wears a blue veil for the climax.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_42d7e070	type	Face-Revealing Turn
The Masque of the Red Death / int_42d7e070	comment	Face-Revealing Turn: When Francesca attempts to escape the castle with Gino and her father, she comes across a guard she assumes has been bribed to help them; the soldier turns around and reveals himself to be Prospero. Apparently, Prospero went to the trouble of putting on a suit of armor and standing alone on the ramparts with his back to a door just so he could confront them in a more dramatic fashion.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_437820dc	type	Villainous Crush
The Masque of the Red Death / int_437820dc	comment	Villainous Crush: Prospero ends up falling for Francesca because of the latter's kindness, faith, and moral purity, much to the jealousy of Prospero's mistress, Juliana. His love for Francesca is so great that he later requests the Red Death to spare her from the plague; the Red Death, though bemused by Prospero's only charitable act, nonetheless grants the request and lets Francesca leave the castle. Alfredo also lusts after Esmerelda, which is made doubly creepy by the fact that Esmerelda's actress was a seven-year-old girl.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_4c59921a	type	Face Stealer
The Masque of the Red Death / int_4c59921a	comment	Face Stealer: The Red Death is a twist on this trope; instead of killing a person to assume their form, he assumes the form of the person to be killed. Hence, when Prospero removes the veil at the climax of the film, he sees his own face.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
The Masque of the Red Death / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: The Red Death gives one to Prospero in the end.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
The Masque of the Red Death / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: After Juliana becomes betrothed to Satan, Prospero has her killed for her betrayal.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_52aa0c4a	type	The Caligula
The Masque of the Red Death / int_52aa0c4a	comment	The Caligula: Prospero.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
The Masque of the Red Death / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: The Red Death entity, who ends the reign of Prospero and spares a select few that deserve salvation.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_59fe174d	type	Devil, but No God
The Masque of the Red Death / int_59fe174d	comment	Devil, but No God: An unusual variant. Prospero believes that Satan has killed God and taken his place; the Red Death doesn't dispute this but tells him Satan "does not rule alone".
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_5d86966a	type	Man on Fire
The Masque of the Red Death / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire: Alfredo; he doesn't run around as much as your typical example, since he's tied to a chandelier, but he ends up completely engulfed in flames.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_6040801a	type	Self-Inflicted Hell
The Masque of the Red Death / int_6040801a	comment	Self-Inflicted Hell: According to the Red Death, "Each man creates his own God for himself: his own Heaven; his own Hell. [...] Your Hell, Prince Prospero... and the moment of your death."
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_7012424f	type	Stealth Hi/Bye
The Masque of the Red Death / int_7012424f	comment	Stealth Hi/Bye: When Gino climbs the castle wall, he meets the Red Death. After the Red Death shows him a dead guard to ensure that Gino won't be caught, it vanishes abruptly.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_7095c87e	type	TheMasquerade
The Masque of the Red Death / int_7095c87e	comment	The Masquerade: The climax of the film. Prospero and Francesca don't wear masks, though Francesca compromises with a veil.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
The Masque of the Red Death / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Not only is the Red Death dressed in all-red, but the other incarnations of death wear similar robes but in different colors; White, Yellow, Gold, Blue, Violet and Black.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Masque of the Red Death / int_77468805	comment	God Is Dead: Invoked by Prospero, and heavily implied to be confirmed by the Red Death.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_790b1e6	type	Nasty Party
The Masque of the Red Death / int_790b1e6	comment	Nasty Party: The titular masquerade ball turns out to be where all the guests (including Prospero himself) meet their ends at the Red Death.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_7919a45b	type	Duel to the Death
The Masque of the Red Death / int_7919a45b	comment	Duel to the Death: Prospero attempts to incite this between Ludovico and Gino for the amusement of his guests, but their devotion to God and each other keeps them from conceding.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_7f080f98	type	Vague Age
The Masque of the Red Death / int_7f080f98	comment	Vague Age: Esmeralda. It's suggested that she is a dwarf like Hop Toad, but she is portrayed by a child actress (and dubbed over by an adult woman).
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
The Masque of the Red Death / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: When Hop-Toad kills Alfredo, Prospero asks the guards to reward him with gold for providing entertainment.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_81c23aae	type	Bloody Horror
The Masque of the Red Death / int_81c23aae	comment	Bloody Horror: When afflicted with the Red Death, the victims bleed through their skin until they are completely red.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_849d24d9	type	Last Kiss
The Masque of the Red Death / int_849d24d9	comment	Last Kiss: Francesca gives Prospero one of these before she leaves the castle unscathed, clearly heartbroken that his stubborn dedication to evil has done him in but touched that he asked for her safety.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
The Masque of the Red Death / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: The Red Death’s Anthropomorphic Personification here is arguably more human looking than it was in the source material and also capable of mercy, but it doesn’t stop it from being the avatar of an unnatural plague.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_85debad9	type	Plucky Girl
The Masque of the Red Death / int_85debad9	comment	Francesca is the only red-haired character and is a Plucky Girl who tries to protect her loved ones and resist Prospero's influence.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Masque of the Red Death / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Julianna approaches Francesca in a sinister manner and talks about how she is giving her soul to Satan and wants Prospero for herself in a scene that seems to be setting up a Murder the Hypotenuse attempt. Then, Julianna instead offers Francesca a means to escape the castle with her captive loved ones, choosing to remove her as a competitor through nonviolent means.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Masque of the Red Death / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Francesca and Gino are the heroes, but most of the film's focus is on Prince Prospero, his wickedness, and his eventual downfall; it's his face on the poster, after all, and Vincent Price was by far the biggest name in the cast. None of this is surprising, since in the original short story, Prospero was the only human character of note.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_8ce68789	type	Rambunctious Italian
The Masque of the Red Death / int_8ce68789	comment	Rambunctious Italian: Averted. Prospero stays pretty chill throughout. As the Red Death tells him, his soul has been dead for many, many years.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Masque of the Red Death / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Almost all the residents of the castle, but particularly Alfredo, who is publicly humiliated and then burnt alive by Hop Toad and deserves every second of it.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Masque of the Red Death / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Prospero and his guests wall themselves up in wealth and pleasure, ignoring the needs of the infected villagers and killing anyone who tries to get in. Fittingly, they die when the Red Death sneaks into Prospero's castle and infects them.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
The Masque of the Red Death / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: The little girl at the end of the movie seems unaware that the nice, red-cloaked man she's playing cards with is truly the Red Death who wiped out her village. Even as the other incarnations of death show up and talk about the number of people they killed with their respective plagues, the girl merely stares at them in curiosity.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
The Masque of the Red Death / int_96144372	comment	The Red Death. Yes, his job is to infect people with his designated plague, but he also does in Prospero and his guests; those who survive encounters with him do so because they had good character, and so are spared. He even plays cards with a little girl at the end.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_97e48376	type	The Elites Jump Ship
The Masque of the Red Death / int_97e48376	comment	The Elites Jump Ship: When a pestilence threatens the lives of everyone in the countryside, Prince Prospero gathers all of his aristocratic friends to his castle. Then he locks the building down and throws masquerade balls as scores of people die outside his walls.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
The Masque of the Red Death / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: Subverted by those who aren't granted safety by Prince Prospero; he often gives them a choice to flee and die of the disease or face immediate death, sometimes taking the choice away from them and having them shot on the spot.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Masque of the Red Death / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Hop-Toad does Alfredo in by making him wear a gorilla outfit, tying him to a chandelier, dousing him with brandy and then lighting him on fire. This is also how Prospero deals with the Red Death when he sees it in the village; he kidnaps Francesca and what's left of her family before ordering the village burnt to the ground.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Masque of the Red Death / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Hop Toad convinces Alfredo to dress as a gorilla for the masquerade party, who complains a bit that the costume is uncomfortably warm; Hop Toad says that it will get warmer than that, but it won't other him anymore by the end of the night. This is all a scheme by him to kill Alfredo by setting him on fire.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_a1575551	type	Living Prop
The Masque of the Red Death / int_a1575551	comment	Living Prop: Francesca's father gets few lines or characterization, existing mainly as the second person she has to protect. Gino by contrast is a developed character.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_a195310a	type	Red Is Heroic
The Masque of the Red Death / int_a195310a	comment	Red Is Heroic: The Red Death. Yes, his job is to infect people with his designated plague, but he also does in Prospero and his guests; those who survive encounters with him do so because they had good character, and so are spared. He even plays cards with a little girl at the end. Francesca is the only red-haired character and is a Plucky Girl who tries to protect her loved ones and resist Prospero's influence.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
The Masque of the Red Death / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License – Religion: The inverted cross as a symbol of Satanism, notably which Juliana brands herself with. This comes from Christianity actually; Saint Peter, one of the Twelve Apostles, was to be crucified and asked to have it done upside down (believing himself to be unworthy to die the same way as Jesus). The symbol is known as the Cross of St Peter, and was seen as a holy symbol - unlikely to be used by a Satan worshiper, at least at that point in time.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_a2b998a0	type	Wouldn't Hurt a Child
The Masque of the Red Death / int_a2b998a0	comment	Wouldn't Hurt a Child: This is one of Prospero's very few redeeming qualities, since he seems to value innocence (though his carriage does nearly run over an infant). The Red Death himself is also seen at the end playing cards with a little girl who survived the village massacre. His other brightly-colored fellows also spare the girl rather than infect her, merely leaving with the Red Death to spread their plagues elsewhere.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_a448674	type	Gratuitous Latin
The Masque of the Red Death / int_a448674	comment	Gratuitous Latin: The last spoken phrase in the film is by the Red Death: "Sic transit gloria mundi."note "Thus goes the glory of the world."
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
The Masque of the Red Death / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Juliana believes herself betrothed to Satan, only for Prospero to cruelly send his falcon to kill her. Even the guests are shocked by his casual dismissal of her. Prospero from Francesca's perspective. It seems she senses she won't be seeing him again after the Red Death sends her to the battlements, and she gives him a kiss on the cheek.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_b42e16fb	type	Feathered Fiend
The Masque of the Red Death / int_b42e16fb	comment	Feathered Fiend: Prospero is a falconer and uses his bird to murder Juliana after her final Satanic ceremony.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_b4922dc8	type	Reflexive Response
The Masque of the Red Death / int_b4922dc8	comment	Reflexive Response: Prospero tells Francesca a story about how his father imprisoned a "friend" in the yellow chamber for three years, thus instilling in him a phobia of the color yellow. "When he was released, he could never again bear to look at the sun, or even a daffodil."
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Masque of the Red Death / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: The Red Death entity is pretty stoic about most things humans do, but is visibly Not Amused by Prospero's "jests".
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_b5c56995	type	Corrupt the Cutie
The Masque of the Red Death / int_b5c56995	comment	Corrupt the Cutie: Prospero prefers to think of it as "instructing," but either way, he has a fascination with innocence for this reason, and he delights in the prospect of converting Francesca, a pure-hearted Christian girl, to Satanism. But despite the horrors she witnesses, she never loses her benevolence, and Prospero comes to respect her in his own twisted way.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_b63019a5	type	High-Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Masque of the Red Death / int_b63019a5	comment	High-Heel–Face Turn: Possibly with Juliana, who helps Francesca with an escape attempt. On the other hand, she's motivated by a desire to get Francesca out of the way so she can have Prospero to herself again. Juliana probably knows that if she arranged for Francesca to die, Prospero would immediately know to blame his scorned consort.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_b9db28ab	type	Emotionless Girl
The Masque of the Red Death / int_b9db28ab	comment	Emotionless Girl: Princess Scarlatti is quite stoic as Prospero tauntingly refuses to give her and her terrified husband refuge. Even having her husband shot with a crossbow and her former lover Prospero tossing her a knife and suggesting she use it on herself don't faze her. Her reaction might also count as a Face Death with Dignity moment.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_bd3b726e	type	Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad
The Masque of the Red Death / int_bd3b726e	comment	Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Openly embraced by Prospero; at the same time it's implied that one of the things that makes him attracted to Francesca is the fact that her goodness is completely genuine.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_bf9c6b5e	type	Faithâ€“Heel Turn
The Masque of the Red Death / int_bf9c6b5e	comment	Faith–Heel Turn: Francesca very nearly suffers this after giving herself to Prospero in return for the supposed safety of Gino; she would likely be lost were it not for the intervention of the Red Death.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_c181a846	type	Dies Differently in Adaptation
The Masque of the Red Death / int_c181a846	comment	Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the short story, Prospero died before all the guests, who only succumb to the disease after discovering his body. Here, the guests drop dead first - and Prospero is the last to die.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
The Masque of the Red Death / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": When Prospero pulls away the mask of the Red Death and discovers his own face beneath it, outing his "guest" as the plague he's been trying to avoid.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_c3c91506	type	Depraved Dwarf
The Masque of the Red Death / int_c3c91506	comment	Depraved Dwarf: Subverted; Hop-Toad deceives Alfredo into believing he is as depraved as the rest of the party, but he is secretly plotting revenge against Alfredo's abuse of Esmerelda. Because of this, Hop-Toad and Esmerelda are spared by the Red Death in the end.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_c4db3679	type	The Dark Side
The Masque of the Red Death / int_c4db3679	comment	The Dark Side: Prospero embraces Satanism to seek power and control, most of all over Death itself. He successfully converts Juliana to it and attempts to pull in Francesca as well.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_c4dc0698	type	The Soulless
The Masque of the Red Death / int_c4dc0698	comment	The Soulless: Right before fatally infecting him, the Red Death asks why Prospero would flee his impending death if his soul has been dead for "a long, long time" — the implication being that Prospero is so evil that any goodness he had in him had long burnt out.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
The Masque of the Red Death / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Hop-Toad, even though he pretends otherwise. Aside from his kindness to Esmeralda, he can be seen comforting Francesca during Prospero's deadly dagger-game.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_d4bf11d1	type	Dramatic Unmask
The Masque of the Red Death / int_d4bf11d1	comment	Dramatic Unmask: Near the end, Prospero demands to know the identity of his mysterious, red-clad guest and forcibly takes off his mask... and discovers his own face beneath it. The "guest" is the Red Death personified.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_def127cc	type	Leave Behind a Pistol
The Masque of the Red Death / int_def127cc	comment	Leave Behind a Pistol: When another lord and his wife attempt to enter the castle, Prospero points out that they passed through the plague-ridden village and will not be allowed to enter; the lord pleads for salvation from the Red Death, and Prospero gives it to him by shooting him with a crossbow. He then tosses a dagger down for the woman to kill herself with.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_dfc3e10a	type	The Dung Ages
The Masque of the Red Death / int_dfc3e10a	comment	The Dung Ages: The film's setting fits this to a T, with decaying peasant villages being wiped out by the plague as the corrupt, decadent aristocracy hold lavish parties in Prospero's castle.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_e2dae05d	type	Liberty Over Prosperity
The Masque of the Red Death / int_e2dae05d	comment	Liberty Over Prosperity: Prospero compares Francesca to his trained falcon: blind in her obedience to God.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_e390612a	type	Hollywood Satanism
The Masque of the Red Death / int_e390612a	comment	Hollywood Satanism: Mysterious rituals, hatred of God, sadism for personal pleasure, and even the branding of an inverted cross on Juliana's right breast.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_e39638a1	type	Turncoat
The Masque of the Red Death / int_e39638a1	comment	Turn Coat: Though Juliana's devotion to Satan is complete, her jealousy of Prospero's desire for Francesca leads to her giving Francesca the key to Gino and Ludovico's cell.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_e46f71c3	type	Hollywood Costuming
The Masque of the Red Death / int_e46f71c3	comment	Hollywood Costuming: Many of the men's hats are about three hundred years out of date with the movie's time period. Francesca's hairstyle looks more 1960s than Middle Ages. Especially the fringe and layers.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_e8491efa	type	Don't Fear the Reaper
The Masque of the Red Death / int_e8491efa	comment	Don't Fear the Reaper: The Red Death is never feared despite his ominous appearance; the old woman from the village and Gino both take him to be a religious monk, and Prospero interprets him at first to be an ambassador of the devil. At the end of the film, he plays card games with the surviving little girl before departing with his brethren.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_ebd01bc5	comment	Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me: Prospero orders this be done to Francesca.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_ece07747	comment	Bright Is Not Good: Played straight with Prince Prospero and his noble friends, who all dress in vivid colors. But averted with the various Death Entities, who dress in bright colors such as yellow and blue, but only go around infecting people because it's their duty and are decent people when not.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: Prospero tosses a dagger down to a woman outside the castle for her to kill herself with; the scene then cuts to a sword clattering to the ground in his dungeon, where Gino is being forced to swordfight.
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The Masque of the Red Death / int_fa7d3dfe	comment	Number Two: Alfredo, though he wishes to succeed Prospero eventually.
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