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* YouShouldKnowThisAlready: Certain plot points are skipped because the viewer is expected to already know them, such as the king learning Mordecai was never rewarded when his chronicles are read at night, or Esther inviting him and Haman to two dinners, instead cutting directly to the second dinner.
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* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: BaldOfAuthority: Hegai the head eunuch.
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* NonNaziSwastika: Subverted, since the character using it just happens to be the one who want to exterminate the Jews.
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* DemocracyIsBad: According to the Persians.
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* DemocracyIsBad: According to the Persians.Persians, since their Greek enemies practice it.
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palace, taking her TragicKeepsake from her parents. Fortunately, Hegai manages to recover it.
* TheEmpire: Babylon is a very evilempire.empire, rife with backstabbers, corruption, slavery, and warmongering. Genocide is also perfectly legal and permissible, as long as proper protocol is followed.
* TheEmpire: Babylon is a very evil
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* ResignInProtest: When Xerxes appears to give into his advisors' desire for war, Memucan is disgusted and tells him that if he marches on Greece, he'll march without a general.
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* {{Warhawk}}: Haman and many of other princes are very eager to go to war with Greece, and pressure the King to be the same.
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* DeadlyDecadentCourt: Where traitors just keep betraying each other and everyone else.
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* JesusWasWayCool: While not mentioning Jesus by name, this being set in old testament times after all, Mordechai manage to squeeze in some gushing about the future Messiah.
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* ScaryBlackMan: Hegai is a subversion. The first time the girls see him is right after they've been abducted, so he's seen as frightening. Soon after, however, he's found to be a surprisingly erudite GentleGiant who sympathizes with the girls and helps them adjust to their new life in the harem.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Haman. In contrast to his Biblical portrayal where he begs for his life after in the scene where Esther reveals his plan in front of the king, here he ''doesn't lose his cool'' and instead calmly casts doubt on her Jewish heritage, accusing ''her'' of trying to usurp a good position, then {{Hannibal Lecture}}s her as she fears the king may not believe her.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Haman. In contrast to his Biblical portrayal where he begs for his life after in the scene where Esther reveals his plan in front of the king, here he ''doesn't lose his cool'' and instead calmly casts doubt on her Jewish heritage, accusing ''her'' of trying to usurp a good position, then {{Hannibal Lecture}}s {{breaking speech}}es her as she fears the king may not believe her.
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* DramaticNecklaceRemoval: The guards do this to Esther before taking her to the palace.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Haman is very reminiscent of AdolfHitler.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Haman is very reminiscent of AdolfHitler.UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler.
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* MissedMomentOfAwesome: Movie legends Creator/PeterOToole and Creator/OmarSharif were cast together for the first time since their famous roles in ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia''... and they never shared any screen time, playing characters who are separated by a 400-year TimeSkip.
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* MissedMomentOfAwesome: Movie legends Creator/PeterOToole and Creator/OmarSharif were cast together for the first time since their famous roles in ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia''... and they never shared any screen time, playing characters who are separated by a 400-year TimeSkip.
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* DemocracyIsBad: According to the Persians.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Haman is very reminiscent of AdolfHitler.
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* GentleGiant: Hegai
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* MyCountryRightOrWrong: This trope is how one of the main characters manages to be a rather nice guy and come across as a decent LoveInterest for the protagonist while still being the leader of the EvilEmpire.
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* MyCountryRightOrWrong: This trope is how one of the main characters manages to be a rather nice guy and come across as a decent LoveInterest for the protagonist while still being the leader of the EvilEmpire.TheEmpire.
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A film based on the [[FilmOfTheBook book of the same name]] which was, in turn, based in the [[Literature/TheBible Biblical]] story of Esther.
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A film based on the [[FilmOfTheBook book of the same name]] which was, in turn, based in the [[Literature/TheBible Biblical]] [[Literature/BookOfEsther story of Esther.
Esther]].
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* AsTheGoodBookSays: Esther recites older parts of TheBible. This is actually how she wins the King's heart.
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* AsTheGoodBookSays: Rather than read from the boring history books like all the other wife candidates have had to do, Esther recites older parts of TheBible. This is actually how she wins chooses to tell the King's heart.king the story of Jacob, Rachel, and Leah, him becoming fascinated by it and her audacity to read something else when that could risk death.
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* CrapsackWorld: A world where genocide is considered cool, TheEmpire is evil and brutal, and TheFederation exist only in the paranoid delusions (or lies) of the worst bigots.
* DeadlyDecadentCourt: Where betrayers just keep betraying each other and everyone else.
* DownerBeginning: Unless you happen to think that genocide happens to be awesome. DeliberateValuesDissonance is used so that the film can have it both ways.
* TheEmpire: Babylon is a very evil empire.
* TheFederation: A great alliance of democratic Greeks and monotheistic Jews, unified in the belief that all humans are created equal. The whole thing sounding very much like EagleLand. Of course, this alliance does not exist in the setting itself. However, it is often invoked as one of the main excuses to go genocidal on the Jews.
* FinalSolution: Both the Jews in the backstory and the enemy of the Jews in the story are openly and proudly genocidal.
* CrapsackWorld: A world where genocide is considered cool, TheEmpire is evil and brutal, and TheFederation exist only in the paranoid delusions (or lies) of the worst bigots.
* DeadlyDecadentCourt: Where betrayers just keep betraying each other and everyone else.
* DownerBeginning: Unless you happen to think that genocide happens to be awesome. DeliberateValuesDissonance is used so that the film can have it both ways.
* TheEmpire: Babylon is a very evil empire.
* TheFederation: A great alliance of democratic Greeks and monotheistic Jews, unified in the belief that all humans are created equal. The whole thing sounding very much like EagleLand. Of course, this alliance does not exist in the setting itself. However, it is often invoked as one of the main excuses to go genocidal on the Jews.
* FinalSolution: Both the Jews in the backstory and the enemy of the Jews in the story are openly and proudly genocidal.
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* NonNaziSwastika: Subverted, since the character using it just happens to be the one who want to exterminate the Jews.
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* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: Of the kind where you call a genocide a glorious victory. To the point where the problem isn't the slaughter of women and children, but rather the failure to kill one pregnant woman.
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*PuttingOnTheReich: Haman bears a very familiar Hindu good luck symbol.
*SmugSnake: Haman.
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