The Court Jester
Movie • 1955 • Action
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A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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No, but a woman is concerned she's going to be forcefully married to a brute. SPOILER but at the end she willingly ends up with him, so is he not a brute or something? I think it's just pressure in the 1950s to have things end in a cheesy happy way.
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Is rape mentioned?
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A "wench" is presented to the king (these women are kidnapped by soldiers) who expects to see her in his bed chambers. She willingly enters, but only because she has another purpose. He starts to make an advance on her, and the scene is tense as she tries to avoid it. He barely touches her though and doesn't use threats but seduction. SPOILER: she is able to worm her way out of it.
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Is a trans person depicted predatorily?
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Not trans, but a tomboy is treated like she's a real catch all throughout the movie and has no business being the mastermind, and really should be holding the baby and not stealing the job from a fellow comrade (who is forced on baby duty). Two men are seen interacting with her in a seductive way, when she's trying to be all business. Throughout the movie she's "redeemed" by being shown as gradually more and more feminine, until at the end SPOILER she's barefoot in a dress holding a baby and placing him on the throne--it's implied that she'll take care of him from now on.
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Abandonment
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Not really, the baby's parents have been killed. It's still borderline neglect for me because at one point a loving man and woman hold the baby, but later the baby ends up in a lot of hands, and many times the baby is enclosed and hidden out of sight. The idea of the baby finally having a permanent family isn't made super clear.
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HappyMom
The king tells the princess she'll marry who he wishes. The baby has to endure neglect in order to end up on the throne, spending much of its time in a basket.
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Is someone stalked?
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Assasinations take place, which naturally involves stalking. A witch is determined to stop a wedding and suddenly shows up in a room--she wants to forcibly enlist a man to woo the princess so she won't be married off to someone else. She follows the man around and keeps trying to bewitch him. Fergus, a palace spy, keeps trying to corner the court jester, but he had agreed to be cornered by him (although he doesn't know Fergus is on his side and is the one he's supposed to meet up with)--he's bothered that Fergus keeps showing up.
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The king is a lusty man apparently
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We see people poisoned to death, and another attempted poisoning.
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HappyMom
Not in sight but the jester is pushed towards a pig, it's implied that the jester wrestled it to the ground, simply by being forced to fall on it.
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Is there a dead animal?
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The jester is commanded to shoot a hawk with a bow and arrow, and after a live hake takes off, a fake dead hawk is then dropped down. It's pretty obviously fake.
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I put yes, women are kidnapped for se* with the king (that word isn't used but it's implied)--although they are made to look super happy about it for some reason, giggling and looking excited as they are transported in a prison-like cart. And the protaganist has a close call intimately. The king keeps approaching her to touch her cheek, and the hero of the story is seen lying next to her in the hay and starts necking her--for a while we don't know if she'll run off, but she sort of gives in, and then changes her mind.
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Is there excessive gore?
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No, but talk of it, "Go ahead, spill my guts" and more descriptive stuff than that--it looks like he really is going to with a sword.
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Is someone tortured?
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Off-screen, it’s mentioned that the Fox’s contact at the castle was tortured for information after being caught.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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When flustered, the protagonist gasps and sputters but his breathing isn’t obstructed
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Humorously, a baby's buttock keeps being exposed (no crack, just one side). I thought it was played for laughs--a ridiculously unnatural mark on his b*m (looks like a purple tattoo of a flower) proves he is the king, but my friend thought that was in poor taste.
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Is an infant abducted?
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he's technically abducted by the heroes saving his life
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The infant heir to the throne is the only surviving member of the family
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Captain Jean is kidnapped by the castle guards after the ruler orders attractive women be abducted from the surrounding towns and brought to the castle
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Is someone possessed?
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HappyMom
A man is put under a spell. Whenever fingers are snapped, he goes from the coward/awkward man he naturally is, to a seductive superhero. This helps bring a lot of the laughs. At one point when he returns to his natural self, he goes totally beserk in fear over the other man using a sword. And I'm not sure where to put this, but his armor is struck by lightning, and somehow that makes his armor magnetized--it's unreal.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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The princess repeatedly threatens she will kill herself if her father forces her to marry, if her nurse is harmed, and if her romantic interest is harmed.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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The baby repeatedly is put into small spaces, like into a basket, and into small compartments.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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there are little people (prior circus workers) who are disregarded by the actual black fox at first, but they later save the day
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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No but a man's pants start sagging, making it difficult for him to walk. The captain being a woman is a big to-do.
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Suri
Young women are pursued by men much older than them, but not successfully.
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Is there sexual content?
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Talk of it, "make love to the princess". The jester says, "hold me, beat me, kick me, I am yours"
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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The ruler leers at women and orders young women be kidnapped and brought to the castle as novelty and entertainment
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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The protagonists pretend to have chronic illness and disability to sneak through a checkpoint. Jean pretends to be mute, and the jester pretends to have chronic cough/lung problems.
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A group lives in a forest, little people keep trying to earn their keep, but they are chased away. The movie does have a positive message about the little people deserving equality.
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Does someone drown?
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Possibly, a bunch of castle guards are launched into the water and they appeared to be unconscious at the time so it could be read that way.
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