- Adaptation Displacement: The Douglas Fairbanks version is the source for the classic costume of Zorro and the use of a Royal Rapier in place of a cavalry sword, and also influenced the author, who was still alive, to revise his stories to use that costume.
- Audience-Coloring Adaptation: While in the original novel, Zorro wore a poncho, a sombrero, and a full-face mask and used a cavalry sword and a pistol as his main weapons, this film introduced the costume and weapons that have been used in all later adaptations, with even the original author Johnston McCulley revising his newer stories to fit. Also, the 1920 movie implied his costume was red, it wasn't until The Mark of Zorro (1940) that it became definitively black. And finally, although Zorro's cloak billowing on horseback is the iconic image, the cape didn't arrive until Zorro (1957).
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