History Film / DonJuanDemarco

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Ana's reaction to John telling the number of women he had bedded.

* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Obviously.

* SexSlave: See entry under MadeASlave.
* TheShrink: Dr. Mickler is Type 3. He even knows when to let well enough alone.

* SpurnedIntoSuicide: What sets the plot in motion.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: See entry under DisguisedInDrag.

* BerserkButton: John doesn't like anyone to mention that [[spoiler: his Mom cheated on his Dad.]] Unless it's himself who's doing the mentioning.

* DrivenToSuicide: At the beginning John is threatening to jump off a building due to losing the woman he loves. Dr. Mickler gets him to back off by playing into (what he thinks are) John's Byronic delusions.

* FreudianExcuse: Dr. Michler's colleagues are inclined to apply the standard Freudian interpretation to John's account of [[spoiler: losing his father and donning the mask]]. Mickler himself decides to dig deeper.

* HappilyMarried: Jack and Marilyn Mickler. Ever more so, as John's example works it's magic on Jack's libido.

* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: Dr. Mickle does this with John starting out, as the latter is threatening to jump off a building over his lost love.

* AwardBaitSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq2KgzKETBw "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman"]] written by Music/BryanAdams, Michael Kamen and Robert Lange, performed by Mr. Adams. It occupied the number-one ranking for five weeks, on the 'Billboard Hot 100' in the United States (making it the team's third #1 song). The song went on to earn them their second Oscar nomination, though it lost to [[{{Disney/Pocahontas}} "Colors of the Wind"]]. It's now a standard make-out tune.

-->'''John:''' When I say that all my women are dazzling beauties, they object- the nose of this one is too large, the hips of another they are too wide, the breasts of a third are too small. But I see these women for how they truly are; glorious, radiant... perfect. Because I am not limited by my eyesight. Women react to me the way that they do because they sense that I search out the beauty that dwells within them, until it overwhelms everything else. And they cannot avoid their desire, to release that beauty and envelop me in it.

* DisguisedInDrag: The Sultana disguises John ([[http://www.deppimpact.com/gallery/albums/caps_djd/djd386.JPG most fetchingly!]]) in loose-fitting harem costumes, to prevent the Sultan from discovering her new personal attendant is an entirely 'unaltered' male. (One could suspect that the script-writers invented this to showcase Depp's talent for female impersonation, but it's actually lifted from Lord Byron's poem.)

* RoyalHarem: As in the original poem, Don Juan's backstory includes time spent in a sultans harem.

The eponymous character, 21-year-old John R. [=DeMarco=] (Creator/JohnnyDepp) is a charming young man who customarily dresses in a long cape and domino mask, and introduces himself as the legendary seducer Literature/DonJuan. Following a thwarted suicide attempt (prompted by a rejection from "the only (woman) who has ever mattered"), he's sent to a mental institution for treatment. A sympathetic psychiatrist, Dr. Jack Mickler (Creator/MarlonBrando) takes his case, and is given ten days to cure John of his delusions before his own retirement. But their analytical sessions have an unexpected effect; John's over-the-top romanticism and appealing (if wildly improbable) [[FantasticRomance tales of sexual conquest]] affect his would-be healer more than himself. Dr. Mickler is inspired to spice up his marriage to still-beautiful Marilyn ([[Film/BonnieAndClyde Faye Dunaway]]), whilst developing serious doubts whether John/ Don Juan should be 'cured' at all. "(I need) to get into this world that he’s in, and it’s a wonderful world."

The eponymous character, 21-year-old John R. [=DeMarco=] (Creator/JohnnyDepp) is a charming young man who customarily dresses in a long cape and domino mask, and introduces himself as the legendary seducer Literature/DonJuan. Following a thwarted suicide attempt (prompted by a rejection from "the only (woman) who has ever mattered"), he's sent to a mental institution for treatment. A sympathetic psychiatrist, Dr. Jack Mickler (MarlonBrando) takes his case, and is given ten days to cure John of his delusions before his own retirement. But their analytical sessions have an unexpected effect; John's over-the-top romanticism and appealing (if wildly improbable) [[FantasticRomance tales of sexual conquest]] affect his would-be healer more than himself. Dr. Mickler is inspired to spice up his marriage to still-beautiful Marilyn ([[Film/BonnieAndClyde Faye Dunaway]]), whilst developing serious doubts whether John/ Don Juan should be 'cured' at all. "(I need) to get into this world that he’s in, and it’s a wonderful world."

The eponymous character, 21-year-old John R. [=DeMarco=] (JohnnyDepp) is a charming young man who customarily dresses in a long cape and domino mask, and introduces himself as the legendary seducer Literature/DonJuan. Following a thwarted suicide attempt (prompted by a rejection from "the only (woman) who has ever mattered"), he's sent to a mental institution for treatment. A sympathetic psychiatrist, Dr. Jack Mickler (MarlonBrando) takes his case, and is given ten days to cure John of his delusions before his own retirement. But their analytical sessions have an unexpected effect; John's over-the-top romanticism and appealing (if wildly improbable) [[FantasticRomance tales of sexual conquest]] affect his would-be healer more than himself. Dr. Mickler is inspired to spice up his marriage to still-beautiful Marilyn ([[Film/BonnieAndClyde Faye Dunaway]]), whilst developing serious doubts whether John/ Don Juan should be 'cured' at all. "(I need) to get into this world that he’s in, and it’s a wonderful world."

* MrFanservice: [[http://www.deppimpact.com/gallery/albums/caps_djd/djd525.JPG To the max!]] This is JohnnyDepp at his poster-boy best. Watching him in his various flattering costumes is like savoring a assortment of very good chocolates.

''[=Don Juan DeMarco=]'' is a 1995 American romantic comedy/drama. The eponymous character, 21-year-old John R. [=DeMarco=] (JohnnyDepp) is a charming young man who customarily dresses in a long cape and domino mask, and introduces himself as the legendary seducer Literature/DonJuan. Following a thwarted suicide attempt (prompted by a rejection from "the only (woman) who has ever mattered"), he's sent to a mental institution for treatment. A sympathetic psychiatrist, Dr. Jack Mickler (MarlonBrando) takes his case, and is given ten days to cure John of his delusions before his own retirement. But their analytical sessions have an unexpected effect; John's over-the-top romanticism and appealing (if wildly improbable) [[FantasticRomance tales of sexual conquest]] affect his would-be healer more than himself. Dr. Mickler is inspired to spice up his marriage to still-beautiful Marilyn ([[Film/BonnieAndClyde Faye Dunaway]]), whilst developing serious doubts whether John/ Don Juan should be 'cured' at all. "(I need) to get into this world that he’s in, and it’s a wonderful world."

The movie is based on director/screenwriter Jeremy Leven's short story 'Don Juan [=DeMarco=] And The Centerfold', and Lord Byron's narrative poem ''Literature/DonJuan''.

* TheCameo: Popular Mexican-American singer {{Selena}} has a brief appearance, performing in a hotel lounge. Tragically, this was her first and last movie cameo- she was murdered by her fanclub's president who was stealing money from her, one week before the movie's release date.

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Nicely played with: John's charms prove to be a distraction for the female staff, so a ScaryBlackMan(''[[Film/{{Friday}} Tommy Lister]]'') is assigned to him. They seem to get along as well, though, and in a few days' time the guy quits his job and moves to Spain in order to study flamenco dancing.

* RoyalHarem: As in the original poem, Don Juans backstory includes time spent in a sultans harem.

* AwardBaitSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq2KgzKETBw "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman"]] written by Music/BryanAdams, Michael Kamen and Robert Lange, performed by Mr. Adams. It occupied the number-one ranking for five weeks, on the 'Billboard Hot 100' in the United States (making it the team's third #1 song.) The song went on to earn them their second Oscar nomination, though it lost to [[{{Disney/Pocahontas}} "Colors of the Wind"]]. It's now a standard make-out tune.

* CharacterFilibuster: John gets a couple of these, expounding on what it takes to be the World's Greatest Lover (it's very much to Depp's acting credit that he manages to deliver these convincingly.) Mickler does a more tongue-in-cheek one, complete with a playful fake accent, about being the World's Greatest Psychiatrist.

* EunuchsAreEvil: Averted. Baba, the eunuch assigned to watch over John in the Sultan's palace, is trustworthy and considerate (though, for fairly obvious reasons, he ''really'' doesn't want to hear about John's enjoyable liaisons with the Sultana.)

* MadeASlave: According to one of his yarns, John was sold into slavery and spent two years in the 'service' of lusty Sultana Gulbeyaz. Not that he seemed to've minded much. It probably helped that she [[spoiler: kept him hidden in the Sultan's harem of 1,500 young women (apparently she had no problem with sharing.)]]

* NearRapeExperience: Occurs during the Harem story. John initially resists Sultana Gulbeyaz's overtures, and for a few seconds she seems prepared to use violent means (a knife at his throat) to force his cooperation. But then she opts to try tactile persuasion instead (it works.)

* SoHappyTogether: John and Doña Ana (in his account), until he told her something he should've kept to himself (see The Funny Entry.)

* StalkerWithACrush: Chelsea Stokeler takes John for this (she ''is'' correct about the crush part.)

* AwardBaitSong: ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq2KgzKETBw&feature=relmfu Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman]]'' written by Music/BryanAdams, Michael Kamen and Robert Lange, performed by Mr. Adams. It occupied the number-one ranking for five weeks, on the 'Billboard Hot 100' in the United States (making it the team's third #1 song.) HYERLAW went on to earn them their second Oscar nomination, though it lost to ''[[{{Disney/Pocahontas}} Colors Of The Wind]]''. It's now a standard make-out tune.

* BedlamHouse: Averted. The mental institution where Dr. Mickler works is a clean & decent place, and the staff are invariably nice to 'Don Juan' (rather more than their by-the-book supervisor likes.)

* LatinLover: Well, duh.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Jack Sparrow]] gets therapy from Film/TheGodfather, who's inspired to rekindle his passion for [[Film/BonnieAndClyde Bonnie Parker.]]

* TheUnreveal: Mickler ''does'' find John's mother, who ''is'' a nun, but she never confirms or denies John's story.

-->''JOHN: "When I say that all my women are dazzling beauties, they object- the nose of this one is too large, the hips of another they are too wide, the breasts of a third are too small. But I see these women for how they truly are; glorious, radiant... perfect. Because I am not limited by my eyesight. Women react to me the way that they do because they sense that I search out the beauty that dwells within them, until it overwhelms everything else. And they cannot avoid their desire, to release that beauty and envelop me in it."''

--> ''JOHN: "Every true lover knows that the moment of greatest satisfaction comes when ecstasy is long over. And he beholds before him the flower which has blossomed beneath his touch."''

-->''JOHN: "There are only four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love."''

* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: [[Film/BonnieAndClyde Faye Dunaway]] is entirely credible as a 'woman of a certain age' who can still fog up hubby's lenses.

* AwardBaitSong: ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq2KgzKETBw&feature=relmfu Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman]]'' written by Music/BryanAdams, Michael Kamen and Robert Lange, performed by Mr. Adams. It occupied the number-one ranking for five weeks, on the 'Billboard Hot 100' in the United States (making it the team's third #1 song.) HYERLAW went on to earn them their second Oscar nomination, though it lost to ''[[{{Disney/Pocahontas}} Colors Of The Wind]]''.

* EunuchsAreEvil: Averted. Baba, the eunuch assigned to watch over John in the Sultan's palace, is trustworthy and considerate (though, for fairly obvious reasons, he ''really'' doesn't want to hear about John's enjoyable liaisons with the Sultana.)

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Nicely played with: John's charms prove to be a distraction for the female staff, so [[ScaryBlackMan a male orderly]] is assigned to him. They seem to get along as well, though, and in a few days' time the guy quits his job and moves to Spain in order to study flamenco dancing.

* InLoveWithLove: Like his ''Literature/DonJuan'', John is the very personification of this trope. And ''boy'', can he expound on it:

* KidAnova: In the backstory he told to Mickler, John recognized his vocation ''very'' early in life.

* LoveBeforeFirstSight: What motivates John's suicide attempt.
* LoveHurts: What prompted John's suicide attempt.