![]() Instant Sedation: The sip Alfonse takes from the skull goblet renders him unconscious immediately.In Love with Love: Lopez Soarez narrates that he is in love, but has no idea who or what is the object of his desire.Impoverished Patrician: Don Avadoro refuses offers to become a servant, stating that he's a nobleman by birth and upbringing, a beggar by choice.Hell Hotel: The not so deserted Venta Quemada.Framing Device: The Saragossa Manuscript itself.Forgotten Framing Device: The film ends without returning to the primary level of the Nested Story, the one with the two opposing soldiers reading the manuscript.The latter's entry is implied to happen in a house where the ladder may as well be a permanent fixture. Enter Stage Window: Used twice (on different windows), by Lopez and later Busqueros.Don Avadoro reveals that he saw one of them happen, and Alfonse confirms it. Alfonse's father, being an honorable sort, engaged in several. Duel to the Death: This being Spain, happens or is mentioned frequently.Dream Within a Dream: Implied to be the entire adventure of Alfonse, up until two foreign women invite him for dinner at the inn near the end.Demonic Possession: Pacheco suffers from this, until it's revealed that he's a Basque acrobat who's just playing along with the Sheik's plans.What Toledo hears later that night during a thunderstorm makes him abandon his philandering ways and become a penitent. Dead Person Conversation: Toledo's close friend dueled Toledo's own brother, and resolved to tell him the truth of the afterlife if he lost. ![]() Contemplate Our Navels: Don Pedro Velasquez entertains deep philosophical questions at the table which Alfonse admits to be unable to follow.By the time Gaspar catches up with Lopez, he has broken all four commandments by associating with Don Roque Busqueros, who addresses him as "Don Lopez Soarez" and has fought a duel with him when Lopez interrupted his story about Frasquetta, and by seeking the hand of Moro's daughter Inez in marriage. The Commandments: Gaspar Soarez gives his son Lopez a set of four strict instructions before sending him out into the world: do not associate with noblemen, do not use the title "Don", do not get into swordfights, and do not associate with the family of royal banker Moro.The Spanish Inquisition acts as a Border Patrol, preventing him from getting on with his journey to Madrid. Closed Circle: Alfonse seem to go be caught in a in closed circles between the gallows and the inn.
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