History Film / EverAfter

-->'''LeonardoDaVinci:''' "Horseshit!"

-->'''King Francis''': I shall deny you the throne and live...[[{{Immortality}} forever!]]

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* CrazyAwesome: Leonardo da Vinci. Everything he says or does is awesome.
-->'''Leonardo da Vinci''': "I shall go down in history as the man who opened a door!"

* TearJerker: This troper always had a hard time getting through Danielle's [[spoiler:father's death scene]].
** This troper can't even ''watch'' the scene where Danielle's book gets burned.
** The incident at the Masque has always reduced this troper to InelegantBlubbering.
-->[[spoiler:"DO NOT address me so informal, Madame!"]]

-->'''Leonardo da Vinci''': [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "I shall go down in history as the man who opened a door!"]]
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: "My father was an expert swordsman, ''monsieur.'' He taught me well. Now hand me that key, or I swear on his grave, I will slit you from navel to nose."
** Also, the scene at the end where the Baroness and Marguerite re-encounter Danielle.
** When Danielle and Henry are attacked by gypsies, Danielle is told she can take "anything she can carry." She proceeds to pick up Henry and walk away carrying him on her shoulders. Charmed by her audacity, the gypsies invite them to stay for a meal.
** Danielle punching Marguerite in the face and chasing her through the house with the threat that she's going to "rip her hair out" after [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead the latter insults her dead mother]].
** Danielle refusing to let Marguerite wear her mother's dress. "I would rather die a thousand deaths than ''see my mother's dress on that'' '''[[ThisIsSparta SPOILED! SELFISH! COW!]]'''"
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The Queen advising her son to choose his spouse carefully, because "Divorce is something they only do in ''England''."
** This is possibly some FridgeBrilliance, as the Queen could be Henry VIII's sister Mary.
** When a couple of sympathetic servants are trying to get into a locked room to help Danielle, Leonardo Da Vinci comes along and removes the pins from the hinges, and drops the quote above when the servants declare this to be a stroke of genius.
** (after an enormous shrieking tantrum) "...There was a bee."
** "I shall deny you the crown and...live forever!"
** After Danielle punches Marguerite, the baroness orders her whipped. Later, Jacqueline is dressing her wounds and admonishing her behavior, but takes a moment to admire her stepsister - "I shall never forget the way Marguerite's feet went up over her head like that!"
** Henry's entire wedding. "Don Pepito! Don Pepito!"
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Jacqueline cleaning the cuts on Danielle's back after the latter was whipped, while agreeing that Marguerite deserved the beating she got.

* ExactWords: The previously mentioned CrowningMomentOfAwesome when Danielle picks Henry up after being told she can leave with "anything she can carry".

* IronicEcho: Jacqueline hands an [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] one to her mother at the end - see below.

-->'''Jacqueline:''' [''[[SarcasmMode sarcastically]]''] "[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome 'Course not, Mother.]] [[IronicEcho I'm only here for the food.]]"

* SayMyName: Danielle, in a [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heartwarming scene]] where Prince Henry (in apologizing for being a JerkAss) spontaneously calls Danielle by her real name (instead of Nicole, her mother's name, which he has been using up this point). She begs him to repeat [[spoiler: not the apology, but the part where he says her name.]]

** When a couple of sympathetic servants are trying to get into a locked room to help Danielle, Da Vinci comes along and removes the pins from the hinges, and drops the quote above when the servants declare this to be a stroke of genius.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Da Vinci's EstablishingCharacterMoment involves him unrolling a canvas to reveal the ''Mona Lisa''. Unfortunately, the actual ''Mona Lisa'' was painted on a wooden panel, not exactly a medium which can be easily rolled up and stored in a tube.
* DistressedDamsel: Again, subverted: by the time that Henry shows up to rescue Danielle, she has already freed herself. Also, she saves *him* from gypsies in the CMoA listed above.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: If this movie is to be believed, Cinderella's fairy godmother was really Leonardo da Vinci.

--->'''Leonardo da Vinci''': [[CrowningMomentOfFunny I shall go down in history as the man who opened a door!]] (the joke is that the servants have spent hours trying to pick the lock of the door to the storeroom Danielle is locked in - da Vinci walks up and simply takes the bolts out of the hinges, opening it the other way).
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: "My father was an excellent swordsman, ''monsieur.'' He taught me well. Now hand me that key or I swear on his grave that I will slit you from navel to nose."

** When Danielle and Henry are attacked by gypsies, Danielle is told she can take "anything she can carry." She proceeds to pick up Henry. Charmed by her audacity, the gypsies invite them to stay for a meal.

** "'Course not, mother. I'm only here for the food."

** After Danielle punches Marguerite, the baroness orders her whipped. Later, Danielle is dressing her wounds and admonishing her behavior, but takes a moment to admire her stepsister - "I shall never forget the way Marguerite's feet went up over her head like that!"

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Da Vinci's EstablishingCharacterMoment involves him unrolling a canvas to reveal the ''Mona Lisa''. Unfortunately, the ''Mona Lisa'' was painted on a wooden panel, not exactly a medium which can be easily rolled up and stored in a tube.

* TheDogBitesBack: "Of course not Mother, [[IronicEcho I'm only here for the food.]]"

* HistoricalFiction: The Cinderella story minus the magic

** How could we forget Marguerite dropping Danielle's favorite book in the fireplace, even after Danielle had given up her mother's dress and the shoes to her?

--->'''Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent:''' Jacqueline, ''darling'', I should hate to think ''you'' had anything to do with this.
--->'''Jacqueline:''' [[SarcasmMode [sarcastically]]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Of course not, Mother.]] [[IronicEcho I'm only here for the food.]]

* MementoMacGuffin: The shoes; the copy of ''Utopia'' which was Danielle's last gift from her father.

-->'''Rodmilla:''' You like to call her Cinderella.

* TearJerker: this troper always had a hard time getting through Danielle's [[spoiler:father's death scene.]]

--->No one will be looking at your feet.

--->'''Prince Henry:''' I have been born to privilege, and with that comes specific obligations.
--->'''LeonardoDaVinci:''' Horseshit!

** Jacqueline's description of Danielle punching Marguerite - "If I live to be a hundred, I shall never forget the way her feet went above her head!"

** LowLowFantasy

** Well, if Marguerite marries Captain Laurent...
*** Do you mean Jacqueline?

* DistressedDamsel: Again, subverted: by the time that Henry shows up to rescue Danielle, she has already freed herself.

--->'''Leonardo da Vinci''': [[CrowningMomentOfFunny I shall go down in history as the man who opened a door!]]

The movie skips ahead ten years, to when Danielle is eighteen. Their estate has fallen onto hard times and things keep "disappearing," to the anger of the Baroness. Danielle has, of course, become a virtual house slave to the family, but takes comfort in the familial love she shares with the servants and the kindness she receives from Jacqueline. One morning, she is gathering apples in the estate's orchard when she spies someone stealing the horse of her late father. Enraged, she chucks apples at him, ultimately causing him to fall. It turns out to be the Crown Prince of France, running away from a father who wants to [[ArrangedMarriage marry him off]].

A [[IncrediblyLamePun courtship]] ensues, in which Danielle keeps trying to tell Henry that she is really not a countess and the Baroness gets increasingly suspicious of Danielle's odd appearances and disappearances. The King and Queen, desperate to marry their son off, are delighted that he has found a girl...but are keen to meet her, something Danielle wishes to avoid. Meanwhile, LeonardoDaVinci, who has been invited to court, befriends both Danielle and Henry and everything seems to be going along well, save for Danielle's growing anxiety about maintaining the masquerade.

--> This is possibly some FridgeBrilliance, as the Queen could be Henry VIII's sister Mary.

Danielle de Barbarac (DrewBarrymore) is the beloved only child of the widowed Auguste de Barbarac and his late wife, Comtesse Nicole de L'incre. When she is eight years old, he remarries the Baroness [[WickedStepmother Rodmilla de Ghent]] (portrayed by AnjelicaHuston), and brings her home along with her two daughters, [[RoyalBrat spoiled and cruel Marguerite]] and [[ShrinkingViolet gentle but timid Jacqueline]], into the family. Shortly thereafter, he dies, leaving Danielle to the care of her stepmother, who already resents the love that he displays to his daughter, and the estate's three devoted servants, housemaids Paulette and Louise and Paulette's husband Maurice.

The movie skips ahead ten years, to when Danielle is eighteen. Their estate has fallen onto hard times and things keep "disappearing," to the anger of the Baroness. Danielle has, of course, become a virtual house slave to the family, but takes comfort in the familial love she shares with the servants and the kindness she receives from Jacqueline. One morning, she is gathering apples in the estate's orchard when she spies someone stealing the horse of her late father. Enraged, she chucks apples at him, ultimately causing him to fall. It turns out to be the Crown Prince of France, running away from a father who wants to [[ArrangedMarriage marry him off]]. To buy her silence, he gives her a great amount of gold. When Danielle returns to the estate, she learns that, in order to pay off some of the debt, the Baroness has sold Maurice, who is to be shipped to the Americas as a slave. Not willing to lose her old friend without a fight, Danielle decides to go to the castle to rescue him. Disguised in her mother's fancy clothing and using her name, she makes her way to the castle... where she catches the eye of the Prince, who does not recognize her. He admires her spunk, though, and asks to meet her again.

Driving the "masquerade" metaphor home even further, the King and Queen hold a [[MasqueradeBall masked ball]] and tell Henry he must choose his bride by the end of the evening...unfortunately, the suspicious stepmother has figured out what Danielle is up to, and forbids her to attend. Luckily, Leonardo shows up and tricks her out for the ball after the family has left. When she arrives at the ball, all eyes fall upon the beautiful young woman. Just as she is about to meet Henry, though, Rodmilla reveals her true identity. Furious, Henry belittles her in front of the entire court, and Danielle runs away, humiliated. Henry then accepts his parents' choice of wife, the Princess of Spain, and goes up on a rampart to brood. There he encounters Leonardo, who proceeds to give him an incredible dressing down, ending with "you don't deserve her."

Back on the farm, Danielle buries herself in her work, causing Rodmilla to comment on her newfound productivity. However, that isn't enough to cause Rodmilla to keep her around. Instead, it is revealed that nothing has been stolen after all - the Baroness had been selling household articles all along to make some money. The buyer, Monsieur le Peu, agrees to trade back everything he's purchased in exchange for ownership of Danielle, and takes her away. Kept in chains, Danielle is forced to be the man's slave. He constantly sexually harasses her, but she has no recourse. Ultimately, however, he goes one step too far and Danielle, [[InformedAbility apparently a very good swordswoman]], tells him either to let her go or she will "slit him from navel to nose."

In the meanwhile, Henry tries to go through with his marriage to the Spanish Princess, but the ceremony is disrupted by her increasingly desperate sobbing. Although Henry does not know a word of her language, she manages to make him understand that she is in love with one of her parents' courtiers, and does not want to marry Henry at all. He releases her from their betrothal contract, encouraging her to go and be with the man she loves, and promptly leaves the wedding with a similar goal in mind for himself. Outside, however, he encounters Jacqueline and the servants, who tell him what's become of Danielle. Chilled and angry, he rushes to her rescue... only to find that she has rescued herself. He begs her forgiveness and, once that is received, takes her to the castle and they marry off-screen.

The Baroness and her daughters are invited to the castle, and Henry's manservant Laurent even brings the carriage to collect them, saying that the King wants them to arrive in style. They promptly dress in their finest and make their way to court, where the Baroness and Marguerite are sure that Henry will ask for Marguerite's hand in marriage. However, upon their arrival, they discover that some shady dealings that Rodmilla made in the beginning of the film are coming back to bite them. Jacqueline, who has been aware the whole time that the situation is not what her mother and sister were expecting, has done nothing wrong and is left alone by the monarchs. Rodmilla and Marguerite, on the other hand, are stripped of their noble titles and are going to be sold into slavery in the New World -- unless someone will speak up on their behalf. After they endure the stony silence of the entire court, they are saved when ''Princess'' Danielle comes in and is introduced to them as Henry's wife. They curtsey to her, against their will, and she rescues them from slavery in the sugar fields, instead asking the King to show them the same courtesy they have shown her. He sentences them to work in the palace laundries, and Danielle and Henry live HappilyEverAfter.

*** Possible FridgeBrilliance: when she first begins to impersonate a noblewoman, she's taught how to act so that people don't recognise her as a commoner. The swordsmanship isn't an InformedAbility, but her ability to bluff convincingly enough to fool pretty much anyone is a ChekhovsSkill.

** How could we forget Marguerite dropping Danielle's favourite book in the fireplace, even after Danielle had given up her mother's dress and the shoes to her?