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* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Catharina tries to create this in her home, but the stress of having so many children pushes her husband away instead of pulling him closer. Inverted. Every new baby in the Vermeer family is another mouth to feed and more stress on their already strained finances.
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* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Catharina tries to create this in her home, but the stress of having so many children pushes her husband away instead of pulling him closer. Inverted. Every closer, as every new baby in the Vermeer family is another mouth to feed and more stress on their already strained finances.
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As Griet folds herself into the life of this strange family, she finds herself growing closer to the master because they see the world in much the same way. She is the only member of the household allowed into the studio, which sparks jealousy in Vermeer's daughters and especially in Vermeer's wife Catharina. This only grows worse as Griet begins to help Vermeer in his work, mixing paints. However, all of this is necessary in order to please Vermeer's patron, van Ruijven, who is their main source of income.
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As Griet folds herself into the life of this strange family, she finds herself growing closer to the master because they see the world in much the same way. She is the only member of the household allowed into the studio, which sparks jealousy in Vermeer's daughters and especially in Vermeer's wife Catharina. This only grows worse as Griet begins to help Vermeer in his work, mixing paints. However, all of this is necessary in order to please Vermeer's patron, van Ruijven, who is their main source of income.
income. Soon, Vermeer starts working on a [[Art/GirlWithAPearlEarring portrait of Griet]].
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Griet is entirely fictional, no-one knows who ''Art/GirlWithAPearlEarring'' depicted.
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* WhatBeautifulEyes: Griet's eyes appear to have an entrancing affect on a few characters, all who say something along the lines of: "You have very wide eyes."
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* WhatBeautifulEyes: Griet's Creator/ScarlettJohansson plays Griet, and her bright green eyes appear to have an entrancing affect on a few characters, all who say something along the lines of: "You have very wide eyes."are shown often in close-up. Everyone compliments them and Vermeer is drawn toward her because of them.
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As Griet folds herself into the life of this strange family, she finds herself growing closer to the master because they see the world in much the same way. She is the only member of the household allowed into the studio, which sparks jealousy in Vermeer's daughters and especially in Vermeer's wife Catharina. This only grows worse as Griet begins to help Vermeer in his work, mixing paints. However However, all of this is necessary in order to please Vermeer's patron, van Ruijven, who is their main source of income.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The film is about the famous "Girl with a Pearl Earring" painting so naturally, the people behind it are the main focus in the film such as Johannes Vermeer (including his family), Pieter van Ruijven, and Maria Thins. The only notable exception is Griet, an OCStandIn for the girl in the famous portrait.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The film is about the famous "Girl with a Pearl Earring" "Art/GirlWithAPearlEarring" painting so naturally, the people behind it are the main focus in the film such as Johannes Vermeer (including his family), Pieter van Ruijven, and Maria Thins. The only notable exception is Griet, an OCStandIn for the girl in the famous portrait.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: In order to keep the film at a decent 103-minute running time, different scenes in the book were sometimes compressed together into one scene. The best example being the birth feast for Franciscus and the viewing of van Ruijven's painting. The DVD release has a feature about how these scenes from the book were combined to form the film scene.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: In order to keep the film at a decent 103-minute running time, different scenes in the book were sometimes compressed together into one scene. The best example being the birth feast for Franciscus and the viewing of van Ruijven's painting.{{painting|s}}. The DVD release has a feature about how these scenes from the book were combined to form the film scene.
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Directed by Peter Webber, ''Girl with a Pearl Earring'', [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on the novel]] [[Literature/GirlWithAPearlEarring of the same name]], garnered numerous awards both in the States and abroad. They include three Academy Award nominations, a Best Photography Oscar, and two Golden Globes for Best Actress and Best Score. In England, it won a London Critics Circle Film Award and a British Independent Film Award, both for Best Actress. It stars Creator/ColinFirth as Creator/JohannesVermeer, Creator/ScarlettJohansson as Griet, and Creator/CillianMurphy as Pieter.
Delft, Holland, 1665. After an accidental kiln explosion leaves her father blind and her family desperately poor, Griet becomes a maid to the Vermeer family. She is to clean the master's studio. Though the Vermeers appear to be wealthy, at least to Griet's eyes, she soon finds out that this is a façade and the family is actually in ever-deepening debt and they can barely afford to pay her.
Delft, Holland, 1665. After an accidental kiln explosion leaves her father blind and her family desperately poor, Griet becomes a maid to the Vermeer family. She is to clean the master's studio. Though the Vermeers appear to be wealthy, at least to Griet's eyes, she soon finds out that this is a façade and the family is actually in ever-deepening debt and they can barely afford to pay her.
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* HollywoodScience: A case of artistic perception of housework. Anyone doing their chores as slowly as Griet would never get ''anything'' done. A good example is cleaning windows scene, where Griet starts cleaning a whole wall of windows so slowly and meticulously it would probably take her a whole day to clean them all in RealLife.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The film is about the famous "Girl with a Pearl Earring" painting so naturally, the people behind it are the main focus in the film such as Johannes Vermeer (including his family), Pieter van Ruijven, and Maria Thins. The only notable exception is Griet, an OCStandIn for the girl in the famous portrait.
* HollywoodScience: A case of artistic perception of housework. Anyone doing their chores as slowly as Griet would never get ''anything'' done. A good example is the cleaning windows scene, where Griet starts cleaning a whole wall of windows so slowly and meticulously it would probably take her a whole day to clean them all in RealLife.
* HollywoodScience: A case of artistic perception of housework. Anyone doing their chores as slowly as Griet would never get ''anything'' done. A good example is the cleaning windows scene, where Griet starts cleaning a whole wall of windows so slowly and meticulously it would probably take her a whole day to clean them all in RealLife.
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* BabiesEverAfter: Catharina tries to create this in her home, but the stress of having so many children pushes her husband away instead of pulling him closer.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Inverted. Every new baby in the Vermeer family is another mouth to feed and more stress on their already strained finances.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Inverted. Every new baby in the Vermeer family is another mouth to feed and more stress on their already strained finances.
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* BabiesEverAfter: BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Catharina tries to create this in her home, but the stress of having so many children pushes her husband away instead of pulling him closer.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter:closer. Inverted. Every new baby in the Vermeer family is another mouth to feed and more stress on their already strained finances.
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* BigFancyHouse: The Vermeers' house, at least to Griet.
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* MeaningfulName: Griet is the Dutch form of 'Margaret,' which is Greek for ''pearl.''
** in Dutch, 'griet' is also a generic term for 'girl'.
* MultigenerationalHousehold: The Vermeer family lives with Maria Thins in her house.
** in Dutch, 'griet' is also a generic term for 'girl'.
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* PerpetualPoverty[=/=]PotteryBarnPoor: The Vermeer household looks well off but lives on the verge of going bankrupt every day and only goes deeper into debt.
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* PerpetualPoverty[=/=]PotteryBarnPoor: PotteryBarnPoor: The Vermeer household looks well off but lives on the verge of going bankrupt every day and only goes deeper into debt.
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Vermeer and Griet. [[spoiler: It never resolves.]]
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* AttemptedRape: Van Ruijven begins making moves on Griet immediately after spotting her and tries repeatedly through the film to force her into sex.
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* AttemptedRape: Van Ruijven begins making moves on Griet immediately after spotting her and tries repeatedly through the film to force her into sex. [[spoiler:He almost succeeds.]]
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* BookDumb: Catharina, in a fit of rage, points out that Griet is illiterate. This is in contrast to the book where she sometimes reads a prayer book.
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* BookDumb: Catharina, [[spoiler:Catharina, in a fit of rage, points out that Griet is illiterate. This is in contrast to the book where she sometimes reads a prayer book.]]
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* ClingyJealousGirl: Catharina is constantly trying to get her husband's attention, and is jealous that he never paints her.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: Catharina is constantly trying to get her husband's attention, and is [[spoiler:is jealous that he never paints her.]]
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Tanneke in the film is a much more pleasant CoolBigSis to Griet whilst in the book she was often much more moody and by the end she had come to resent Griet and contributed to her woes. When Catharina is accusing Griet in the book, Tanneke agrees with her, whilst in the film she's surprised when Catharina says that Tanneke has been complaining about Griet implying that Catharina's just lying.
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* RetargetedLust: after the married artist and his model have an unplanned steamy moment, they separate. She goes off to have her way with the butcher's boy who always liked her, while he has sex with his wife.
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* ActorAllusion: Colin Firth in ''Film/StTrinians'' jokes about the painting.
** Not to mention that his character was right to want to shag the titular model.
** May also be considered CelebrityParadox as there were many references to Colin Firth's previous works in ''Film/StTrinians''.
** Not to mention that his character was right to want to shag the titular model.
** May also be considered CelebrityParadox as there were many references to Colin Firth's previous works in ''Film/StTrinians''.
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** Not to mention that his character was right to want to shag the titular model.
** May also be considered CelebrityParadox as there were many references to Colin Firth's previous works in ''Film/StTrinians''.
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Directed by Peter Webber, ''Girl with a Pearl Earring'', [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on the novel]] [[Literature/GirlWithAPearlEarring of the same name]], garnered numerous awards both in the States and abroad. They include three Academy Award nominations, a Best Photography Oscar, and two Golden Globes for Best Actress and Best Score. In England, it won a London Critics Circle Film Award and a British Independent Film Award, both for Best Actress. It stars Creator/ColinFirth as Johannes Vermeer, Creator/ScarlettJohansson as Griet, and Creator/CillianMurphy as Pieter.
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Directed by Peter Webber, ''Girl with a Pearl Earring'', [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on the novel]] [[Literature/GirlWithAPearlEarring of the same name]], garnered numerous awards both in the States and abroad. They include three Academy Award nominations, a Best Photography Oscar, and two Golden Globes for Best Actress and Best Score. In England, it won a London Critics Circle Film Award and a British Independent Film Award, both for Best Actress. It stars Creator/ColinFirth as Johannes Vermeer, Creator/JohannesVermeer, Creator/ScarlettJohansson as Griet, and Creator/CillianMurphy as Pieter.
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* WomanInBlack: Maria Thins. Make no mistake about who's actually running things in the Vermeer household.
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Directed by Peter Webber, ''Girl with a Pearl Earring'', [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on the novel]] [[Literature/GirlWithAPearlEarring of the same name]], garnered numerous awards both in the States and abroad. They include three Academy Award nominations, a Best Photography Oscar, and two Golden Globes for Best Actress and Best Score. In England, it won a London Critics Circle Film Award and a British Independent Film Award, both for Best Actress. It stars Creator/ColinFirth as Johannes Vermeer, Creator/ScarlettJohansson as Griet, and CillianMurphy Creator/CillianMurphy as Pieter.
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* BirdsOfAFeather: Griet and Vermeer are attracted to each other because of their similar ways of looking at the world.
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Directed by Peter Webber, ''Girl with a Pearl Earring'', based on [[TheFilmOfTheBook novel based on the novel]] [[Literature/GirlWithAPearlEarring of the same name]], garnered numerous awards both in the States and abroad. They include three Academy Award nominations, a Best Photography Oscar, and two Golden Globes for Best Actress and Best Score. In England, it won a London Critics Circle Film Award and a British Independent Film Award, both for Best Actress. It stars Creator/ColinFirth as Johannes Vermeer, Creator/ScarlettJohansson as Griet, and CillianMurphy as Pieter.
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* DirtyOldMan: Van Ruijven, who gets creepily flirty with Vermeer's daughters. Maria Thins redirects him ''immediately''.
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Directed by Peter Webber, ''Girl with a Pearl Earring'' Earring'', based on [[TheFilmOfTheBook novel of the same name]], garnered numerous awards both in the States and abroad. They include three Academy Award nominations, a Best Photography Oscar, and two Golden Globes for Best Actress and Best Score. In England, it won a London Critics Circle Film Award and a British Independent Film Award, both for Best Actress. It stars Creator/ColinFirth as Johannes Vermeer, Creator/ScarlettJohansson as Griet, and CillianMurphy as Pieter.
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Directed by Peter Webber, ''Girl with a Pearl Earring'' garnered numerous awards both in the States and abroad. They include three Academy Award nominations, a Best Photography Oscar, and two Golden Globes for Best Actress and Best Score. In England, it won a London Critics Circle Film Award and a British Independent Film Award, both for Best Actress. It stars Creator/ColinFirth as Johannes Vermeer, Creator/ScarlettJohansson as Griet, and CillianMurphy as Pieter.
Delft, Holland, 1665. After an accidental kiln explosion leaves her father blind and her family desperately poor, Griet becomes a maid to the Vermeer family. She is to clean the master's studio. Though the Vermeers appear to be wealthy, at least to Griet's eyes, she soon finds out that this is a façade and the family is actually in ever-deepening debt and they can barely afford to pay her.
As Griet folds herself into the life of this strange family, she finds herself growing closer to the master because they see the world in much the same way. She is the only member of the household allowed into the studio, which sparks jealousy in Vermeer's daughters and especially in Vermeer's wife Catharina. This only grows worse as Griet begins to help Vermeer in his work, mixing paints. However all of this is necessary in order to please Vermeer's patron, van Ruijven, who is their main source of income.
When van Ruijven takes an interest in Griet, everyone knows exactly what that means for her. In order to keep her position, Griet must fight her feelings for her master, not offend his patron, and keep her head down around Catharina. It's only a matter of time before something gives way.
!! ''Girl with a Pearl Earring'' includes examples of the following tropes
* ActorAllusion: Colin Firth in ''StTrinians'' jokes about the painting.
** Not to mention that his character was right to want to shag the titular model.
** May also be considered CelebrityParadox as there were many references to Colin Firth's previous works in ''StTrinians''.
* AdaptedOut: Griet does not have a younger sister named Agnes in the film. It's easy to miss her brother, but they did at least show him.
* AttemptedRape: Van Ruijven begins making moves on Griet immediately after spotting her and tries repeatedly through the film to force her into sex.
* BabiesEverAfter: Catharina tries to create this in her home, but the stress of having so many children pushes her husband away instead of pulling him closer.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Inverted. Every new baby in the Vermeer family is another mouth to feed and more stress on their already strained finances.
* BettyAndVeronica: A gender-flipped example: Pieter the son as Betty and Vermeer as Veronica, with Griet as the Archie.
* BigFancyHouse: The Vermeer's house, at least to Griet.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Griet manages to extricate herself from the web of the Vermeer household, but she will never see the master again.]]
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Cornelia.
* BrokenBird: Van Ruijven's wife, as shown during the birth feast and viewing. Her husband is having a grand old time, and she's sitting there in silence like she's praying for the humiliation to end.
* ChristianityIsCatholic: Inverted. Most people in Delft are Dutch Calvinists, and it is the Vermeers and their Catholicism that are strange and out of place.
* CityOfCanals: Delft.
* CoolBigSis: The film's interpretation of Tanneke is more like this, where she is something of an older sister and mentor figure to Griet, wiser in the ways of the world. In the book she is like this in a good mood, but she is a fairly simple woman and prone to jealousy.
* DemotedToExtra: As part of compressing the story for the film adaptation, Griet's family and her growing conflicts with them were mostly written out of the story. Her brother Frans is only seen once and never heard.
* EveryProperLadyShouldCurtsy: Griet does this a lot.
* FieryRedhead: Cornelia.
* HandsOnApproach: Johannes Vermeer attempts to teach Griet to grind paints by placing his large manly Dutch Master hands over hers, totally obliterating the proper social barriers between them —- she gets pretty flustered.
* HollywoodScience: A case of artistic perception of housework. Anyone doing their chores as slowly as Griet would never get ''anything'' done. A good example is cleaning windows scene, where Griet starts cleaning a whole wall of windows so slowly and meticulously it would probably take her a whole day to clean them all in RealLife.
* KeepingTheEnemyClose: Catharina agrees to let Griet sleep in the attic, where she is not allowed to go, on the condition that she get to lock the door to the studio so Griet doesn't make off with her jewelry.
* LadyInRed: The infamous maid in the red dress. Sadly for her, she was not a seductress, she was a victim.
* LonelyPianoPiece: The incidental music is incredibly sparing and this is virtually the only motif used in the entire film.
* MeaningfulName: Griet is the Dutch from of 'Margaret,' which is Greek for ''pearl.''
* NeverBareheaded: Griet always, always, always wears a cap, and while most women allow at least some hair to show, she does not.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted in the book, where the butcher and his son are both named Pieter, but played straight in the film where the father is renamed Paul.
* ParentalFavoritism: Cornelia is Catharina's favorite child, because Cornelia is the most like her.
* PersonWithTheClothing
* PragmaticAdaptation: In order to keep the film at a decent 103-minute running time, different scenes in the book were sometimes compressed together into one scene. The best example being the birth feast for Franciscus and the viewing of van Ruijven's painting. The DVD release has a feature about how these scenes from the book were combined to form the film scene.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Vermeer and Griet. [[spoiler: It never resolves.]]
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Griet's eyes appear to have an entrancing affect on a few characters, all who say something along the lines of: "You have very wide eyes."
* WhatTheHellHero: Pieter can't understand why Griet refuses to leave the Vermeer family, even though she is only getting into more and more trouble at the house.
* WomanInBlack: Maria Thins. Make no mistake about who's actually running things in the Vermeer household.
Directed by Peter Webber, ''Girl with a Pearl Earring'' garnered numerous awards both in the States and abroad. They include three Academy Award nominations, a Best Photography Oscar, and two Golden Globes for Best Actress and Best Score. In England, it won a London Critics Circle Film Award and a British Independent Film Award, both for Best Actress. It stars Creator/ColinFirth as Johannes Vermeer, Creator/ScarlettJohansson as Griet, and CillianMurphy as Pieter.
Delft, Holland, 1665. After an accidental kiln explosion leaves her father blind and her family desperately poor, Griet becomes a maid to the Vermeer family. She is to clean the master's studio. Though the Vermeers appear to be wealthy, at least to Griet's eyes, she soon finds out that this is a façade and the family is actually in ever-deepening debt and they can barely afford to pay her.
As Griet folds herself into the life of this strange family, she finds herself growing closer to the master because they see the world in much the same way. She is the only member of the household allowed into the studio, which sparks jealousy in Vermeer's daughters and especially in Vermeer's wife Catharina. This only grows worse as Griet begins to help Vermeer in his work, mixing paints. However all of this is necessary in order to please Vermeer's patron, van Ruijven, who is their main source of income.
When van Ruijven takes an interest in Griet, everyone knows exactly what that means for her. In order to keep her position, Griet must fight her feelings for her master, not offend his patron, and keep her head down around Catharina. It's only a matter of time before something gives way.
!! ''Girl with a Pearl Earring'' includes examples of the following tropes
* ActorAllusion: Colin Firth in ''StTrinians'' jokes about the painting.
** Not to mention that his character was right to want to shag the titular model.
** May also be considered CelebrityParadox as there were many references to Colin Firth's previous works in ''StTrinians''.
* AdaptedOut: Griet does not have a younger sister named Agnes in the film. It's easy to miss her brother, but they did at least show him.
* AttemptedRape: Van Ruijven begins making moves on Griet immediately after spotting her and tries repeatedly through the film to force her into sex.
* BabiesEverAfter: Catharina tries to create this in her home, but the stress of having so many children pushes her husband away instead of pulling him closer.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Inverted. Every new baby in the Vermeer family is another mouth to feed and more stress on their already strained finances.
* BettyAndVeronica: A gender-flipped example: Pieter the son as Betty and Vermeer as Veronica, with Griet as the Archie.
* BigFancyHouse: The Vermeer's house, at least to Griet.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Griet manages to extricate herself from the web of the Vermeer household, but she will never see the master again.]]
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Cornelia.
* BrokenBird: Van Ruijven's wife, as shown during the birth feast and viewing. Her husband is having a grand old time, and she's sitting there in silence like she's praying for the humiliation to end.
* ChristianityIsCatholic: Inverted. Most people in Delft are Dutch Calvinists, and it is the Vermeers and their Catholicism that are strange and out of place.
* CityOfCanals: Delft.
* CoolBigSis: The film's interpretation of Tanneke is more like this, where she is something of an older sister and mentor figure to Griet, wiser in the ways of the world. In the book she is like this in a good mood, but she is a fairly simple woman and prone to jealousy.
* DemotedToExtra: As part of compressing the story for the film adaptation, Griet's family and her growing conflicts with them were mostly written out of the story. Her brother Frans is only seen once and never heard.
* EveryProperLadyShouldCurtsy: Griet does this a lot.
* FieryRedhead: Cornelia.
* HandsOnApproach: Johannes Vermeer attempts to teach Griet to grind paints by placing his large manly Dutch Master hands over hers, totally obliterating the proper social barriers between them —- she gets pretty flustered.
* HollywoodScience: A case of artistic perception of housework. Anyone doing their chores as slowly as Griet would never get ''anything'' done. A good example is cleaning windows scene, where Griet starts cleaning a whole wall of windows so slowly and meticulously it would probably take her a whole day to clean them all in RealLife.
* KeepingTheEnemyClose: Catharina agrees to let Griet sleep in the attic, where she is not allowed to go, on the condition that she get to lock the door to the studio so Griet doesn't make off with her jewelry.
* LadyInRed: The infamous maid in the red dress. Sadly for her, she was not a seductress, she was a victim.
* LonelyPianoPiece: The incidental music is incredibly sparing and this is virtually the only motif used in the entire film.
* MeaningfulName: Griet is the Dutch from of 'Margaret,' which is Greek for ''pearl.''
* NeverBareheaded: Griet always, always, always wears a cap, and while most women allow at least some hair to show, she does not.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted in the book, where the butcher and his son are both named Pieter, but played straight in the film where the father is renamed Paul.
* ParentalFavoritism: Cornelia is Catharina's favorite child, because Cornelia is the most like her.
* PersonWithTheClothing
* PragmaticAdaptation: In order to keep the film at a decent 103-minute running time, different scenes in the book were sometimes compressed together into one scene. The best example being the birth feast for Franciscus and the viewing of van Ruijven's painting. The DVD release has a feature about how these scenes from the book were combined to form the film scene.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Vermeer and Griet. [[spoiler: It never resolves.]]
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Griet's eyes appear to have an entrancing affect on a few characters, all who say something along the lines of: "You have very wide eyes."
* WhatTheHellHero: Pieter can't understand why Griet refuses to leave the Vermeer family, even though she is only getting into more and more trouble at the house.
* WomanInBlack: Maria Thins. Make no mistake about who's actually running things in the Vermeer household.
