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* VillainBall: Whilst he may be forgiven for not noticing that all his soldiers have been [[MuggedForDisguise robbed of their uniforms.]] Chauvelin would have to be a complete idiot not to notice the commander of his escort is a completely different person.
** Also the Corporal who fails to notice that Chauvelin is not in the carriage on the way back.
** Also the Corporal who fails to notice that Chauvelin is not in the carriage on the way back.
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CharacterTitle: Unlike the book, the Scarlet Pimpernel is clearly the protagonist.
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ClarkKenting: A vocal version. Sir Percy's physical disguises are quite extensive, but he affects a particularly foppish voice as Percy that he sheds as the Pimpernel, and is able to have a full conversation with Marguerite as the Pimpernel without her realizing that he has the same voice as her husband.
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* CulturallySensitiveAdaptation: The original novel had an extensive sequence where Sir Percy disguises himself as a GreedyJew to fool Armand, playing into many antisemitic stereotypes as he did. The movie does away with the sequence entirely and has Percy disguise himself as a laborer.
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** When Sir Percy realizes that Marguerite was framed for the deaths of the St. Cyr family, he's stricken with remorse for how he treated her.
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* PaperThinDisguise: Armand passes himself off as Chauvelin (abeit briefly) with little more than a hat, a cloak, and a handkerchief held over his face.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: Percy gets shot in the arm while smuggling the Dauphin out of the prison but it seems to offer little trouble after that.
* PaperThinDisguise: Armand passes himself off as Chauvelin(abeit (albeit briefly) with little more than a hat, a cloak, and a handkerchief held over his face.
* PaperThinDisguise: Armand passes himself off as Chauvelin
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* WouldHurtAChild: The men in charge of the French Republic have no problem sentencing children to the guillotine. When one aristocrat protests against the sentence passed on his young son, the bailiff sneers at him
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* AMillionIsAStatistic: Chauvelin attempts to downplay the Scarlet Pimpernel's threat by saying he's only rescued a few out of thousands of aristocrats
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* AdaptationAmalgamation: The movie is mostly based on the first Scarlet Pimpernel novel, but with the addition of the Dauphin rescue from ''Eldorado'' in order to give it a more dramatic final mission with higher stakes.
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* ContrivedClumsiness: Marguerite pretends a moment of clumsiness and knocks over a bowl of fruit to distract Sir Andrew so she can sneak a look at his secret message.
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* MoodWhiplash: In an early scene, Percy and several other members of the League are cheerfully discussing the League's success, even making jokes about it, when another member arrives with news that the Terror has escalated to the point where they've executed the King himself, and also that one of Percy's personal friends is now under threat.
* MuggedForDisguise: [[spoiler:During the final confrontation, it's revealed that Chauvelin's guards are actually members of the League in disguise, having captured the real guards and stashed them in a closet after stealing their uniforms.]]
* MuggedForDisguise: [[spoiler:During the final confrontation, it's revealed that Chauvelin's guards are actually members of the League in disguise, having captured the real guards and stashed them in a closet after stealing their uniforms.]]
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* ThwartedEscape: When Chauvelin captures Percy and Armand in Paris, they exchange some banter and then almost immediately escape. Percy pauses to give Chauvelin a mocking look before disappearing stylishly from view... only to immediately reappear, less stylishly held at gunpoint by the extra guards Chauvelin had stationed outside.
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* AdaptationExpansion: This version spends a lot of time on Percy and Marguerite meeting and falling in love, including their introduction via Percy's rescue of Armand from the thugs sent by the Marquis de St. Cyr to beat him up.
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* AdaptationExpansion: This version spends a lot of time on Percy and Marguerite meeting and falling in love, including their introduction via Percy's rescue of Armand from the thugs sent by the Marquis de St. Cyr to beat him up. The entire first half depicts events that, in the original novel, were only briefly related as backstory.
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* BurnBabyBurn: One of the Pimpernel's associates tries to burn his instructions to prevent Marguerite reading them, and Baron de Batz twice attempts to dispose of compromising documents in fireplaces, with varying degrees of success.
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** Baron de Batz is passed a secret message at Marguerite's soiree, and attempts to burn it in the fireplace. He fails to notice that it falls out of the fire only partly burned, and it is later retrieved by Marguerite.
** In a later scene, the Baron again disposes of an incriminating document in the nearest fireplace, this time more successfully.
** One of the Pimpernel's associates tries to burn his instructions to prevent Marguerite reading them, but she interrupts him before the paper is completely consumed, andBaron de Batz twice attempts to dispose of compromising documents in fireplaces, with varying degrees of success.then distracts him while she reads the message.
** Baron de Batz is passed a secret message at Marguerite's soiree, and attempts to burn it in the fireplace. He fails to notice that it falls out of the fire only partly burned, and it is later retrieved by Marguerite.
** In a later scene, the Baron again disposes of an incriminating document in the nearest fireplace, this time more successfully.
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** The French have Marguerite's brother.
** Chauvelin threatens Armand's safety to force Marguerite to help him find the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
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* LudicrousMeleeAccuracy: During the climactic duel near the end of the film, Percy uses his sword tip to deftly [[ClothingDamage slice Chauvelin's buttons off and undo his cravatte.]]
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* SplitEdit: The first scene, in which the disguised Pimpernel rescues the de Beaulieu family, transitions into a drawing room scene in which Sir Percy recites his famous poem to the de Tournays. However, Percy is heard to announce the title of the poem in his exaggerated fop voice - "The Scarlet Pimpernel by Sir Percival Blakeney, Baronet" - ''before'' the scene visually changes to the drawing room, while the camera focusses on the disguised Pimpernel outdoors wiping the makeup off from his face.
