History Film / RolliAmazingTales

* SignatureHeadgear: Seesteinen wears a hunt cap while Lerkkanen wears a bowler hat. When they're converted into Trashers, they retain their (already black) headgear instead of having to wear the helmets worn by the FacelessGoons. The High Priest in turn wears a black skullcap.* SinisterMinister: The High Priest of the Kingdom of Evil, the main antagonist of the film.

The film begins with Rölli meeting and befriending the Forest Fairy (Maahiskeiju) after they escape from the clutches of the Big Rölli (Suuri/Iso Rölli). A toy industrialists Seesteinen and Lerkkanen arrive in the Rölli Forest with the intention to establish there an amusement center. However, they're soon forcefully recruited as two of the evil Trashers (Roskanheittäjät), a cult of black-clad litterbugs who're led by the High Priest of the Kingdom of Evil. The Trashers worship the Great Trash (Suuri Roska), a destructive deity that appears as a large disgusting head. Intending to destroy the Rölli Forest, the Trashers spread everywhere junk and trash for the forest residents to marvel and fight over. Only the Forest Fairy understands how the strange and numerous human goods are destroying the forest and tries to convince Rölli to see that. It takes relentlessness and reconciliation before the Trashers can be stopped and the Rölli Forest saved.

The film begins with Rölli meeting and befriending the Forest Fairy (Maahiskeiju) after they escape from the clutches of the Big Rölli (Suuri/Iso Rölli). A toy industrialists Seesteinen and Lerkkanene arrive in the Rölli Forest with the intention to establish there an amusement center. However, they're soon forcefully recruited as two of the evil Trashers (Roskanheittäjät), a cult of black-clad litterbugs who're led by the High Priest of the Kingdom of Evil. The Trashers worship the Great Trash (Suuri Roska), a destructive deity that appears as a large disgusting head. Intending to destroy the Rölli Forest, the Trashers spread everywhere junk and trash for the forest residents to marvel and fight over. Only the Forest Fairy understands how the strange and numerous human goods are destroying the forest and tries to convince Rölli to see that. It takes relentlessness and reconciliation before the Trashers can be stopped and the Rölli Forest saved.

The film begins with Rölli meeting and befriending the Forest Fairy (Maahiskeiju) after they escape from the clutches of the Big Rölli (Suuri/Iso Rölli). A toy industrialist Seesteinen arrives in the Rölli Forest with the intention to establish there an amusement center. However, he's soon forcefully recruited as one of the evil Trashers (Roskanheittäjät), a cult of black-clad litterbugs who're led by the High Priest of the Kingdom of Evil. The Trashers worship the Great Trash (Suuri Roska), a destructive deity that appears as a large disgusting head. Intending to destroy the Rölli Forest, the Trashers spread everywhere junk and trash for the forest residents to marvel and fight over. Only the Forest Fairy understands how the strange and numerous human goods are destroying the forest and tries to convince Rölli to see that. It takes relentlessness and reconciliation before the Trashers can be stopped and the Rölli Forest saved.

* NiceHat: Seesteinen wears a hunt cap while Lerkkanen wears a bowler hat. When they're converted into Trashers, they retain their (already black) headgears instead of having to wear the helmets worn by the FacelessGoons. The High Priest in turn wears a black skullcap.

* SinisterMinister: The High Priest of the Kingdom of Evil, the main antagonist of the film.

* KnifeNut: The High Priest holds a large ritual dagger, and he eventually tries to kill with it Rölli and the Forest Fairy.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: The ambitious toy industrialist Seesteinen and his inept butler Lerkkanen.

* ManInWhite: The CorruptCorporateExecutive Seesteinen wears a white suit, though he has to don the Trashers' black uniform.

* BigShutUp: When Rölli's listing products he wants from Seesteinen who's pretending to be a wish-grating elf, Seesteinen can hardly write them all down in his laptop. Finally losing his patience, Seesteinen roars Rölli to shut up before he quickly covers that slip.

''Rolli – Amazing Tales'' (Finnish: ''Rölli – hirmuisia kertomuksia'') is a 1991 Finnish children's fantasy-comedy film directed by Olli Soinio. It is the first feature-length film based on the children's television character ''[[Series/{{Rolli}} Rölli]]''. Allu Tuppurainen, the musician and actor who created and portrayed Rolli in the television series, not only portrayed Rolli in the film, but also composed the movie's songs as he did in the television series. However, the film doesn't have much similarities with the television series, other than the characters of Rölli and the Big Rölli, as well as Rölli's attire, and the setting place being the Rolli Forest.

The film begins with Rolli meeting and befriending the Forest Fairy (Maahiskeiju) after they escape from the clutches of the Big Rolli (Suuri/Iso Rölli). A toy industrialist Seesteinen arrives in the Rolli Forest with the intention to establish there an amusement center. However, he's soon forcefully recruited as one of the evil Trashers (Roskanheittäjät), a cult of black-clad litterbugs who're led by the High Priest of the Kingdom of Evil. The Trashers worship the Great Trash (Suuri Roska), a destructive deity that appears as a large disgusting head. Intending to destroy the Rolli Forest, the Trashers spread everywhere junk and trash for the forest residents to marvel and fight over. Only the Forest Fairy understands how the strange and numerous human goods are destroying the forest and tries to convince Rolli to see that. It takes relentlessness and reconciliation before the Trashers can be stopped and the Rolli Forest saved.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Big Rolli is implied to be one for the Forest Fairy. After she hits his head with a broomstick, he keeps the handless broom. He's later happy to spot her in the Trashers' cave and starts brushing his hair with her broom.
* AccidentalHero: [[spoiler:Big Rolli]] in the climax. [[spoiler:He enters the Trashers' lair when Rolli and the Forest Fairy are bound and all the other forest inhabitants are converted into Trashers. He doesn't much understand what's going on, yet semi-accidentally he ends up causing the destruction of the Great Trash and the lair when the broom he has ends up down the throat of the Great Trash.]]
* AndroclesLion: Invoked right in the beginning and later double subverted. When Rolli wants to fell the giant old tree, it pleads for him to spare it, promising to repay the debt if it can. When Rolli is trying to evade the Trashers near the ending, he hides behind the tree and asks for its help, but the Trashers capture him and take him away as the tree pities Rolli. Later the tree finally repays its debt by [[spoiler:letting itself fall all over the High Priest before the villain can kill Rolli and the Forest Fairy]].
* AgonyOfTheFeet: The Forest Fairy frees Rolli from the Big Rolli's grasp by hitting on his foot with a log.

* BigBad: The High Priest of the Kingdom of Evil. Though he's technically TheDragon to the Great Trash, he has a lot more screen-time and takes forward the EvilPlan by giving orders to the other Trashers and making their plans. [[spoiler:After the Great Trash has died, the High Priest threatens to rekindle the Trashers and his plans to destroy the Rolli Forest. His death puts a stop to this threat.]]
* BigShutUp: When Rolli's listing products he wants from Seesteinen who's pretending to be a wish-grating elf, Seesteinen can hardly write them all down in his laptop. Finally losing his patience, Seesteinen roars Rolli to shut up before he quickly covers that slip.

* ChekhovsGun: The Forest Fairy has an hairbrush, and when she hits the Big Rolli in the head with a broomstick, he ends up keeping the loosened broom. Both items prove to be essential in the climax when it's revealed that the Trashers fear brushes.
* TheChessmaster: The High Priest works phase by phase to destroy the Rolli Forest. This includes getting Seesteinen and Lerkkanen abducted and forcefully recruited, and getting rid of [[OnlySaneMan the Forest Fairy]] by destroying her friendship with Rolli.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Seesteinen runs a company that owns most of the country's toy and entertainment industry. Believing that the more goods there are, the happier people are, he plans to buy the Rolli Forest, hack it down and build in its place the largest amusement center in the country.

* DumbMuscle: Big Rolli.

* EvilPlan: The Trashers intend to destroy the Rolli Forest through pollution and increase their numbers.

* ExtremeOmnivore: Big Rolli chews and swallows a soda can.

* FacialHorror: [[spoiler:When the High Priest escapes into the Rolli Forest, his face starts deteriorating [[WeakenedByTheLight because of the light]] and purity of the forest.]]
* FancyCamping: When they go to explore the Rolli Forest, Seesteinen and Lerkkanen bring a lot of junk with them.

''[they're released from their bindings, converted into Trashers, and ordered to go to the Rolli Forest]''\\

* TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil: The protagonists Rolli and the Forest Fairy come into conflict with the Big Rolli, Seesteinen, Lerkkanen and the Trashers. However, only the Trashers (or more specifically, the High Priest and the Great Trash who brainswashes the other Trashers into his servitude) are unambiguously evil. Seesteinen and his butler Lerkkanen do litter unthinkingly before they're forcibly recruited as the Trashers, and Seesteinen wants to hack the Rolli Forest down and build in its place an amusement center. However, Seesteinen genuinely believes that higher consumption will increase happiness, while Lerkkanen comes off as a credulous servant. The Big Rolli in turn doesn't really do much harm even though the protagonists fear him, and he [[spoiler:ends up being essential in bringing the Trashers down]].

* ImpliedLoveInterest: Rolli's friendship with the Forest Fairy is implied to be deeper than that, but it's never brought to that territory.
* IntoxicationEnsues: Seesteinen gives Rolli a bottle of Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey, lying that it's a magic potion that'll give him courage and happiness. Rolli ends up breaking his window, falling through the roof of his house and driving the Forest Fairy away.
* KnifeNut: The High Priest holds a large ritual dagger, and he eventually tries to kill with it Rolli and the Forest Fairy.
* KnightOfCerebus: The High Priest is the one antagonist who's ''never'' played for laughs and who means business in every scene he appears in. [[spoiler:Even after the Great Trash is killed, the other Trashers are freed from his influence, their headquarters are destroyed, and the High Priest suffers [[FacialHorror facial disfigurement]], he remains a menacing figure who brandishes his knife to kill Rolli and the Forest Fairy before he's gruesomely crushed by a falling tree.]] No other Rolli villain before or after has been as terrifying as the High Priest.

* LowClearance: Big Rolli is knocked out of Seesteinen and Lerkkanen's speeding jeep by a branch.

* ManipulativeBastard: By pretending to be an invisible, wish-granting elf, Seesteinen convinces Rolli that filling the Rolli Forest with human goods will bring everyone happiness.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Rolli when he wakes up and remembers how mean he was to the Forest Fairy while intoxicated. It's intensified when he realizes she has left from the Rolli Forest.

* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:When the old tree falls on the High Priest, only his clothes remain.]] Rolli lampshades this.
-->'''Rolli''': His coat became quite empty!
* OneManArmy: When Big Rolli stumbles upon the Trashers' lair, they try to capture him before they realize [[spoiler:he has a broom]], but they're unable to subdue the big and strong creature.
* OnlySaneMan: The Forest Fairy is the only resident of the Rolli Forest who thinks about what damage the large amounts of junk will cause if allowed to spread. The High Priest recognizes her as a threat because of this.

* SayMyName: After finding out that the Forest Fairy has moved away, Rolli searches for her futilely, finally going to a cliff to shout her name.
* ScarecrowSolution: When Rolli and the Forest Fairy find Seesteinen and Lerkkanen littering and making noise, they disguise themselves as a giant to scare them. It fails miserably.

* ShoutOut: Near the end of "Röllin tavaralaulu" ("Rolli's ware song"), Rolli's hairstyle changes to that of Music/LeningradCowboys.

* SinisterSurveillance: The Trashers have a large surveillance room from where the High Priest monitors what happens in the Rolli Forest.

* SolemnEndingTheme: The film ends with Rolli and the Forest Fairy singing the rather melancholy "Me ollaan hänen lapsiaan" ("We are his/her children") song that resembles at the same time an eulogy for [[spoiler:the old tree that let itself fall to rescue them from the High Priest]] and a praise for the purity of the forest surviving. The song plays over the credits.

* TotemPoleTrench: In order to scare Seesteinen and Lerkkanen for their littering and noisemaking, Rolli and the Forest Fairy pretend to be a giant, with the Forest Fairy sitting on Rolli's shoulders while she wears Lerkkanen's hat, uses her long hair as a makeshift beard, and covers them with a quilt. This disguise, combined with Rolli's clumsy threats, only makes the men confused rather than scared, and the quilt soon falls off.

* WeakenedByTheLight: [[spoiler:As soon as he enters the Rolli Forest, the face of the High Priest turns ashen because of the forest light.]]

* WhenTreesAttack: [[spoiler:Just as the High Priest is about to kill Rolli and the Forest Fairy, the old tree kills him instead by falling right over him.]]
* WiseTree: Rolli finds in the beginning a large old tree and intends to make firewood out of it before it starts talking. Advising Rolli to use dead branches as firewood, the tree says that trees are worth protection and can protect others as well.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Big Rolli is implied to be one for the Forest Fairy.

* CollapsingLair: The Trashers' underground lair begins crumbling and rocks start falling when the Great Trash [[spoiler:gets a broom down his throat]].