History Film / ThreeThousandYearsOfLonging

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: All of the Djinn's masters make ill-thought out wishes with tragic consequences, despite his best intentions.
** Gülten becomes obsessed with Prince Mustafa and wishes for him to be in love with her, and then to be pregnant with his child. [[spoiler: This causes Hurrem to panic and have both killed.]]
** [[spoiler: Sugar Lump immediately assumes the Djinn is a JackassGenie and traps him in his bottle, causing her to lose out on a wish and for him to be trapped. Also applies to the Djinn - when he appeared to her he was desperate with the nearness of freedom and rushed at her, shouting and demanding that she make a wish ''now''. Unsurprisingly she didn't trust him.]]
** Zefir's wishes for knowledge and to see the world as a Djinn sees [[spoiler:cause quite a bit of SanitySlippage, until eventually, between her stress and the Djinn's refusal to grant her third wish, she wishes to forget him in the spur of the moment, costing her the knowledge she gained from the first two wishes.]]
** Alithea [[spoiler: wishes for the Djinn to love her and takes him home with her. However, the intense electromagnetic radiation of the modern world messes with his physiology to the point that he's dying simply from being in England.]]

* EnergyBeing: Djinn being made of smokeless fire is interpreted by the film as them being made of electromagnetic forces like humans are made of matter. This becomes a plot point as they're always conscious of the electromagnetic transmissions of the modern world, and the intensity of this would eventually kill any that remain on Earth too long.
* ExternalRetcon: Alithea points out that all the famous tellings of the legend have the Queen of Sheba traveling to meet King Solomon, but the Djinn tells her it was actually the other way around.
* FailedASpotCheck: [[spoiler: Alithea is so enamored with the Djinn during the film's third act that she completely misses the signs of the Djinn's ill health until it's almost too late.]]

* AFateWorseThanDeath: First when the Djinn is trapped in the bottle, [[spoiler:then later when he is made imperceptible for not granting three wishes before his master's death.]]

** The djinn's first master is motivated by love in her first two wishes, and the results are disastrous. [[spoiler: Her lover's father becomes paranoid that his son will usurp him and has him executed, and the girl is so blinded by her devotion that she refuses to believe the djinn's warnings to use her last wish to flee until it is too late, resulting in the deaths of herself and her unborn child.]]

* TheMagicGoesAway: On a more literary level, Alithea gives a speech in Istanbul about the nature of mythology, and how ancient religions and myths existed to give meaning to all the unknowns of the world, but such myths and beliefs drifted into history as science began to more concretely explain the world around us. More concretely, [[spoiler:the Djinn and those like him cannot exist in the modern world for extended periods of time. They are beings of electromagnetism, and as the world at large has become a giant web of electronic devices, beings such as the Djinn begin to fray and dissolve into nothing if they attempt to stay in our world for too long. Ultimately, the Djinn has to return to his plane of existence for years at a time before he can return to ours to spend time with Alithea, an arrangement she is okay with.]]

* HalfHumanHybrid: The Queen of Sheba is said to have been half-djinn, as humans and Djinni can procreate, with furry legs being a sign of this heritage.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: King Solomon gets hit with this big time. While most sources portray Solomon as a mostly benevolent ruler, if a bit of a cad, in this film, he's a ruthless sorcerer who is the one who trapped the Djinn in his bottle in the first place since he didn't want him to interfere in his seduction of the Queen of Sheba.