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4	''Fanfan la Tulipe'' is a French {{Swashbuckler}} comedy film released in 2003, directed by Gérard Krawczyk and written by Jean Cosmos and Creator/LucBesson (who also produced it). It is a [[TheRemake remake]] of 1952's ''Film/FanfanLaTulipe''.
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6	At the time of the UsefulNotes/SevenYearsWar in France, Fanfan (Creator/VincentPerez) is an unrepentant charmer and unrivaled swordsman. In order to escape a forced marriage to a woman he just seduced, he enlists in the army of King UsefulNotes/LouisXV ([[Creator/LesInconnus Didier Bourdon]]).
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8	The film also stars Creator/PenelopeCruz as Adeline, Hélène de Fougerolles as Madame de Pompadour, Michel Muller as Tranche-Montagne and Creator/JacquesFrantz as Sergent la Franchise.
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10	!!''Fanfan la Tulipe'' provides examples of:
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12	* ActorAllusion: Fanfan boasts that he's been trained in fencing by two masters at arms named "Cocardasse and Passepoil". Then, when demonstrating secret fencing tricks to the {{crazy jealous guy}}s who caught him nearly having sex with a girl from their family, he (non-lethally) uses "la Botte de Nevers" when fighting them. Creator/VincentPerez played the Duke Philippe de Nevers in ''Film/OnGuard'' (which was also co-written by Jean Cosmos), an adaptation of ''Literature/LeBossu'' in which both masters at arms and the secret fencing SignatureMove appear (Nevers is training at their fencing hall at the beginning).
13	* AdaptationalComicRelief: In the 1952 film, Louis XV is outright villainous and kidnaps Fanfan's LoveInterest. Here, he's just a CluelessBoss and [[ArmchairMilitary Armchair General]] (and not a villain either).
14	* TheCavalierYears: The film is set in the mid-18th century, at the time of the Seven Years' War.
15	* TheCharmer: Fanfan is a ladykiller, of course. Practically no woman can resist him, and he's definitely not TheCasanova type.
16	-->'''Fanfan:''' She didn't know that she was beautiful. I taught her.
17	* LoveBeforeFirstSight: Fanfan believes a (fake) prediction done by Adeline. So, he believes he'll marry king Louis XV's younger daughter. [[FalseSoulmate But, he ends up disappointed after he meets her]], [[spoiler: and prefers Adeline]].
18	* MasterSwordsman: Fanfan's fencing talents are unrivaled.
19	* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Adeline la Franchise is French, yet Penelope Cruz kept her Spanish accent when talking.
20	* ShotgunWedding: Fanfan is forced to marry a FarmersDaughter that he just seduced. He escapes and enlists to avoid getting killed for it.
21	* TorchesAndPitchforks: A bunch of angry fathers and husbands (of girls/women that [[ReallyGetsAround Fanfan has seduced]]) come at him with pitchforks.

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