History Literature / WintersTale

* FullNameBasis: Peter Lake is always called by both his names, first in order to differentiate him from the other Baymen children named Peter, and later simply because he's used to it.
* ValuesDissonance: InUniverse. One of the reasons Peter is sent to New York City after twelve years on the marshes is that he'll never be able to fully participate in the Baymen community since, as a foundling, he can never engage in a truly incestuous relationship, which is considered a rite of passage.

TheFilmOfTheBook was released on Valentine's Day in 2014, starring Colin Farrell as Peter Lake, Jessica Brown Findlay as Beverly Penn, and Creator/RussellCrowe as Pearly Soames.

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''Winter's Tale'' (alternatively titled ''A New York Winter's Tale'' in the UK and some other markets) is a 1983 novel by Mark Helprin. It's usually described as belonging to the school of MagicRealism, incorporating elements of fantasy, romance, and historical fiction. It follows a burglar named Peter Lake, who meets a dying young woman, Beverly, when robbing her father's fortress-like home in New York, and his subsequent efforts to save her life.

* WhiteStallion / CoolHorse: Athansor

** A very minor one. Beverly is aged up to 21 from 18 in the book.
** Willa is aged up from a three-year-old toddler to a kid of six or seven.

* NoodleIncident: What happened the last time Pearly was allowed out of the city.
* {{Satan}}: [[spoiler:The Judge, whom Pearly also addresses as either "Lucifer" or "Lu."]]

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Not to be confused with the play ''TheWintersTale'' by WilliamShakespeare.

* VictorianNovelDisease: Beverly suffers from consumption (tuberculosis), which is ''the'' physical illness associated with this trope, since it allows the heroine to die tragically while retaining her beauty right up until the end.[[note]]RealLife cases of tuberculosis are not quite as pretty, it's important to note.[[/note]]
** It's somewhat {{Averted}} in the novel in that she's often flushed bright red as a side-effect of her symptoms, and when she eventually dies Peter Lake describes her as ranting mad and horribly emaciated. PlayedStraight in the film adaptation, though.

* AgeLift: A very minor one. Beverly is aged up to 21 from 18 in the book.

* EvilIsHammy: Both the Judge and Pearly.

* TheFilmOfTheBook: Obviously.

* ScaryBlackMan:[[spoiler: Creator/WillSmith]] as The Judge, complete with VoiceOfTheLegion at certain points in his scenes.

* VoiceOfTheLegion: The Judge

* CanonForeigner: [[Spoiler: Creator/WillSmith]]'s character "The Judge" [[spoiler:a.k.a. [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]]]] is not an explicit presence in the novel.

* ScaryBlackMan:[[Spoiler: Creator/WillSmith]] as The Judge, complete with VoiceOfTheLegion at certain points in his scenes.

* CanonForeigner: [[Spoiler Creator/WillSmith]]'s character "The Judge" [[spoiler:a.k.a. [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]]]] is not an explicit presence in the novel.

* CanonForeigner: Creator/WillSmith's character "The Judge" [[spoiler:a.k.a. [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]]]] is not an explicit presence in the novel.

* ScaryBlackMan: Creator/WillSmith as The Judge, complete with VoiceOfTheLegion at certain points in his scenes.

* AnachronismStew: Deliberately with the Judge; he's wearing a Music/JimiHendrix t-shirt in 1915.

* AdaptedOut: Due to the difficulties of turning an 800-page novel into a two-hour film, a great many important characters from the book are entirely absent, including most of the Baymen and the Short Tails, Reverend Mootfowl, Jackson Mead, Hardesty Marratta and Martin Gamely (Virginia's husband and son from her first marriage, respectively), Virginia's mother, Harry's daughter Jessica, Jessica's fiancé Praeger de Pinto, and Asbury and Christiana (friends and co-workers of the Penns, Marrattas and Praeger, and later of Peter Lake as well). Peter's childhood friend Cecil Mature, a.k.a. Cecil Wooley, makes it into the film, but his role is greatly reduced, not to mention changed so much that all the two characters have in common is their name and their broad function as Peter's maybe-guardian angel. Basically, the only main characters from the exclusively modern-day sections of the book to make it into the film are Virginia and Abby, with the consequence that the Gamelys are no longer old family friends of the Penns, but just a couple of people Peter meets in the present day through sheer coincidence. Beverly and Willa's brothers do appear in a few scenes, making them two of the few supporting characters not to be cut entirely, though their roles are much smaller, since the elderly Harry is essentially a main character in the book but only makes a cameo appearance as a young adolescent in the film.

* AdaptedOut: Due to the difficulties of turning an 800-page novel into a two-hour film, a great many important characters from the book are entirely absent, including most of the Baymen and the Short Tails, Peter's childhood friend Cecil Mature (a.k.a. Cecil Wooley), Reverend Mootfowl, Jackson Mead, Hardesty Marratta and Martin Gamely (Virginia's husband and son from her first marriage, respectively), Virginia's mother, Harry's daughter Jessica, Jessica's fiancé Praeger de Pinto, and Asbury and Christiana (friends and co-workers of the Penns, Marrattas and Praeger, and later of Peter Lake as well). Basically, the only main characters from the exclusively modern-day sections of the book to make it into the film are Virginia and Abby, with the consequence that the Gamelys are no longer old family friends of the Penns, but just a couple of people Peter meets in the present day through sheer coincidence. Beverly and Willa's brothers do appear in a few scenes, making them two of the few supporting characters not to be cut entirely, though their roles are much smaller, since the elderly Harry is essentially a main character in the book but only makes a cameo appearance as a young adolescent in the film.

''Winter's Tale'' (alternatively titled ''A New York Winter's Tale'' in the UK and some other markets) is a 1983 novel by Mark Helprin. It's usually described as belonging to the school of [[MagicRealism Magical Realism]], incorporating elements of fantasy, romance, and historical fiction. It follows a burglar named Peter Lake, who meets a dying young woman, Beverly, when robbing her father's fortress-like home in New York, and his subsequent efforts to save her life.

TheFilmOfTheBook was released on Valentine's Day in 2014, starring Colin Farrell as Peter Lake, Jessica Brown Findlay as Beverly Penn, and RussellCrowe as Pearly Soames.

* WhiteStallion[=/=]CoolHorse: Athansor.

* BrotherSisterIncest: A common - one might even call it traditional - practice among the adolescents in the community of Baymen who raise Peter. Peter himself practices it with his foster sister Anarinda, though because they aren't blood relatives it's actually frowned upon by the community.

* ValuesDissonance: In-universe: One of the reasons Peter is sent to New York City after twelve years on the marshes is that he'll never be able to fully participate in the Baymen community, since as a foundling he can never engage in a truly incestuous relationship which is considered a rite of passage.

* AdaptedOut: Due to the difficulties of turning an 800-page novel into a two hour film, a great many important characters from the book are entirely absent, including most of the Baymen and the Short Tails, Peter's childhood friend Cecil Mature (a.k.a. Cecil Wooley), Reverend Mootfowl, Jackson Mead, Hardesty Marratta and Martin Gamely (Virginia's husband and son from her first marriage, respectively), Virginia's mother, Harry's daughter Jessica, Jessica's fiancé Praeger de Pinto, and Asbury and Christiana (friends and co-workers of the Penns, Marrattas and Praeger, and later of Peter Lake as well). Basically the only main characters from the exclusively modern day sections of the book to make it into the film are Virginia and Abby - with the consequence that the Gamelys are no longer old family friends of the Penns, but just a couple of people Peter meets in the present day through sheer coincidence. Beverly and Willa's brothers do appear in a few scenes, making them two of the few supporting characters not to be cut entirely, though their roles are much smaller, since the elderly Harry is essentially a main character in the book but only makes a cameo appearance as a young adolescent in the film.
* AgeLift: A very minor one: Beverly is aged up to 21, from 18 in the book.

* AnachronismStew: Deliberately with Judge: he's wearing a JimiHendrix t-shirt, in 1915.
* CanonForeigner: WillSmith's character, "The Judge" [[spoiler:a.k.a. {{Lucifer}}]] is not an explicit presence in the novel.

* MindScrew: The plot is amazing complicated, and any reviewer attempting to explain it tends to come across as insane.
* NoodleIncident: What happened the last time Pearley was allowed out of the city.

* TimeSkip: Following [[spoiler:Beverly's death]], the movie skips forward ninety-nine years.

* ValuesDissonance: One of the reasons Peter is sent to New York City after twelve years on the marshes is that he'll never be able to fully participate in the Baymen community, since as a foundling he can never engage in a truly incestuous relationship which is considered a rite of passage.

* AdaptedOut: Due to the difficulties of turning an 800-page novel into a two hour film, a great many important characters from the book are entirely absent, including most of the Baymen and the Short Tails, Peter's childhood friend Cecil Mature, Mootfowl, the bridge architect, and all of the extensive Gamely clan apart from Virginia and her daughter - with the consequence that the Gamelys are no longer old family friends of the Penns, but just a couple of people Peter meets in the present day. Beverly and Willa's brothers do appear in a few scenes, making them two of the few supporting characters not to be cut entirely, though their roles are much smaller.

* AdaptedOut: Due to the difficulties of turning an 800-page novel into a two hour film, a great many important characters from the book are entirely absent, including most of the Baymen and the Short Tails, Peter's childhood friend Cecil Mature, and all of the extensive Gamely clan apart from Virginia and her daughter - with the consequence that the Gamelys are no longer old family friends of the Penns, but just a couple of people Peter meets in the present day. Beverly and Willa's brothers do appear in a few scenes, making them two of the few supporting characters not to be cut entirely, though their roles are much smaller.

* ImprobableAge: Peter meets Beverly's young sister Willa in 1915, when she's about six years old. They meet again in 2014, when Willa looks to be in her early eighties at the eldest, despite the fact that she must be well over one hundred years old by this point.

* TimeSkip: Following [[spoiler:Beverly's death]], the movie skips forward one hundred years.

* TheFilmOfTheBook: Obviously.

TheFilmOfTheBook was released in 2014, starring Colin Farrell as Peter Lake, Jessica Brown Findlay as Beverly Penn, and RussellCrowe as Pearly Soames.