History Film / Cantinflas

* TranquilFury: [[spoiler:After Estanislao humiliates Cantinflas at a party, insulting him and bringing up Valentina's infertility. His BerserkButton pressed,
Cantinflas decides to exclude Estanislao from any event with him at the spotlight, without showing any trace of rage in his face. Justified, being a public figure now, he has to now keep his face]].

The film begins when the producer (and future husband of Creator/ElizabethTaylor) Mike Todd (played by Michael Imperioni) tries to bring together the cast for ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays1956'' and he tries to ask Cantinflas, on the top of his career, to participate in the film. He has a few days to do so, otherwise he'll lose all the financial backing and the rights of the film.

While this is happening, most of the film shows the life of Cantinflas from his beginnings, first as a boxer, as a bullfighter and later as a theater comedian and as a movie actor, while finding the love of his live in the face of the Russian actress Valentina Ivanova and dealing with his new acquired fame.

* AnachronicOrder: The film begins in the 1950s, and later it jumps from the 1930s, when dealing with Cantinflas' life and returns from time to time to the 50s again when dealing with Mike Todd.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: In the film, Cantinflas is depicted as being as playful in his personal life as he was in his own films. In RealLife, Cantinflas was a [[FunnyCharacterBoringActor very serious and demure person]] outside his own character.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: Both Cantinflas and Mike Todd share similar screen time, in Cantinflas' case, it shows his life, and in Todd's case, it shows how he managed to get Cantinflas in ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays1956.''

* MarriedToTheJob: Cantinflas. [[spoiler:It ends up damaging his matrimony]].
* MeaningfulName: The way Cantinflas got his name and also overlaps with InsultBackfire: During one theater show, Cantinflas is insulted by a drunkard telling him he's too annoying (in Mexican Spanish, he called him ''¡Cuanto inflas!''). Due to his slurred speech, and while the same drunkard asked for Mario's name, Mario quickly improvised and used the drunkard's insult as his famous nickname.[[note]]In RealLife, how Mario Moreno got that nickname is more complex than the events shown in the film, with several theories being thrown around; the "¡Cuanto inflas!/¡Cantinflas!" incident being just one of them.[[/note]]
* MoodWhiplash: The movie took a more tragic tone when Cantinflas [[spoiler:finds out Valentina is infertile, and later she decides to get separated from him, when her husband's work is taking a toll in their relationship]].
* LonelyAtTheTop: Oddly enough, ''not'' Cantinflas, but [[spoiler:his wife Valentina suffers this, and it's PlayedForDrama, since Cantinflas is more worried for his job than his personal life]].

* TranquilFury: [[spoiler:After Estanislao pressing the already mentioned BerserkButton for Cantinflas, he decides to exclude Estanislao from any event with him at the spotlight, without showing any trace of rage in his face. Justified, being a public figure now, he has to now keep his face]].

** [[spoiler:Mike Todd marries Liz Taylor and dies a year later in a plane crash]] just like in RealLife.

* MeaningfulName: The way Cantinflas got his name and also overlaps with InsultBackfire: During one theater show, Cantinflas is insulted by a drunkard telling him he's too annoying (in Mexican Spanish, he called him ''¡Cuanto Inflas!''). Due to his slurred speech, and while the same drunkard asked for Mario's name, Mario quickly improvised and used the drunkard's insult as his famous nickname.[[note]]In RealLife, how Mario Moreno got that nickname is more complex than the events shown in the film.[[/note]]

''Cantinflas'' is a 2014 Mexican film, based on the life and exploits of the Mexican comedian Mario Moreno aka "Cantinflas" (played by the Spaniard actor Oscar Jaenada) and showing his humble beginnings to his rise to international stardom.

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:While the film didn't show it, the scene when Cantinflas is alone with some dancers in his room can be interpreted as the part when the RealLife Cantinflas cheated with Valentina after he found out she was infertile. Besides, in RealLife this also caused problems to him later on when he had a son with one of those ladies]].

''Cantinflas'' is a 2014 Mexican film, based in the life and exploits of the Mexican comedian Mario Moreno aka "Cantinflas" (played by the Spaniard actor Oscar Jaenada) and show his humble beginnings to his rise to international stardom.

The film begins when the producer (and future husband of Creator/ElizabethTaylor) Mike Todd (played by Michael Imperioni) tries to reunite the cast for ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays1956'' and he tries to ask Cantinflas, on the top of his career, to participate in the film. He has a few days to do so, otherwise he'll lose all the financial backing and the rights of the film.

* {{Blackface}}: Cantinflas does a minstrel show this way, but fails big time. He removes the paint later after thinking he could be more funnier without paint and also for avoid being recognized.
* ButtMonkey: Cantinflas and Estanislao. The former did get better, the later, ''didn't not''.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Both Cantinflas and Mike Todd share similar screen time, in Cantinflas' case, it shows his life, and in Todd's case, it shows how he did managed to get Cantinflas in ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays1956.''

* MarriedToTheJob: Cantinflas. [[spoiler:It ends damaging his matrimony]].
* MeaningfulName: The way how Cantinflas got his name and also overlaps with InsultBackfire: During one theater show, Cantinflas is insulted by a drunkard telling him he's too annoying (in Mexican Spanish, he called him ''¡Cuanto Inflas!''). Due to his slurred speech, and while the same drunkard asked for Mario's name, Mario quickly improvised and used the drunkard's insult as his famous nickname.[[note]]In RealLife, how Mario Moreno got that nickname is more complex than the events shown in the film.[[/note]]

* LonelyAtTheTop: Oddly enough, ''not'' Cantinflas, but [[spoiler:his wife Valentina suffers of this, and it's PlayedForDrama, since Cantinflas is more worried for his job than his personal life]].
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler:This ''almost'' happens with Valentina when she found she cannot bear children with Cantinflas]]

* TheResenter: [[spoiler:Estanislao, and he is ready to make sure Cantinflas remember his beginnings, while trashing him verbally in front of everybody else in a party, and [[BerserkButton pointing out the fact Valentina cannot bear children]]]].

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:While the film didn't show it, the scene when Cantinflas is alone with some dancers in his room can be interpretated as the part when the RealLife Cantinflas cheated with Valentina after he found out she was infertile. Besides, in RealLife this also caused problems to him later on when he had a son with one of those ladies]].
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Being a biographical movie, the film shows the fate of many of the people, Cantinflas included, who appears in the film:

The film begins when the producer (and future husband of Creator/ElizabethTaylor) Mike Todd (played by Michael Imperioni) tries to reunite the cast for ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays1956'' and he tries to ask Cantinflas, on the top of his career, to participate in the film. He have a few days for do so, before losing all the financial backing and the rights of the film if he can't get Cantinflas on the cast.

* MalignedMixedMarriage: Surprisely averted between Cantinflas (Mexican) and Valentina (Russian), as Valentina's ''Russian'' grandfather seems to be OK with the relation, despise the [[ValuesDissonance time period]].

* {{Deuteragonist}}: Both Cantinflas and Mike Todd share similar screen time, in Cantinflas' case, it shows his life, and in Todd's case, it shows how he did manage to get Cantinflas in ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays1956.''

While this is happening, most of the film shows the life of Cantinflas from his beginnings, first as a boxer, as a bullfighter and later as a theater comedian and as a movie actor, while finding the love of his live in the face of the Russian actress Valentina Ivanova and dealing with his new adquired fame.

* TranquilFury: [[spoiler:After Estanislao pressing the already mentioned BerserkButton for Cantinflas, he decides to exclude Estanislao from any event with him at the spotlight, without showing any trace of rage in his face. Justified, as being now a public figure, he has now to keep his face]].

** [[spoiler:Estanislao dies [[DramaticIrony in one of asylums created by Cantinflas for retired actors]]]].
** [[spoiler:Mike Todd marries with Liz Taylor and dies a year later in a plane crash]] just like in RealLife.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: Both Cantinflas and Mike Todd shares similar screen time, in Cantinflas' case, it shows his life, and in Todd's case, it shows how he did manage to get Cantinflas in ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays1956''.

The film begins when the producer (and future husband of Creator/ElizabethTaylor) Mike Todd (played by Michael Imperioni) tries to reunite the cast for ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'' and he tries to ask Cantinflas, on the top of his career, to participate in the film. He have a few days for do so, before losing all the financial backing and the rights of the film if he can't get Cantinflas on the cast.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: Both Cantinflas and Mike Todd shares similar screen time, in Cantinflas' case, it shows his life, and in Todd's case, it shows how he did manage to get Cantinflas in ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays''.

** [[spoiler:Mike Todd marries with Liz Taylor and dies a year later in a plane crash]] just like in RealLife.

''Cantinflas'' is a 2014 Mexican film based in the life and exploits of the Mexican comedian Mario Moreno aka "Cantinflas" (played by the Spaniard actor Oscar Jaenada) and show his humble beginnings to his rise to international stardom.

* FakeNationality: The titular Cantinflas is played by an Spaniard actor, with the sole exception of Michael Imperioni (Mike Todd), all the non-Mexican characters are played by Mexicans, some of them even speaking in English, (like Creator/ElizabethTaylor, played by the Mexican actress Barbara Mori) albeit speaking the language very well despise this.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: Both Cantinflas and Mike Todd shares similar screen time, in Cantinflas' case, it shows his life, and in Todd's case, it shows how he did manage to get Cantinflas in the film.

While this is happening, most of the film shows the life of Cantinflas from his beginnings, first as a boxer, as a bullfighter and later as a theater comedian and as a movie actor, while finding the love of his live in the face of the Russian actress Valentina Ivanova.

The film begins when producer (and future husband of Creator/ElizabethTaylor) Mike Todd (played by Michael Imperioni) tries to reunite the cast for ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'' and he tries to ask Cantinflas, on the top of his career, to participate in the film. He have a few days for do so, before losing all the financial backing and the rights of the film if he can't get Cantinflas on the cast.

* RagsToRiches: Cantinflas.

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:While the film didn't show it, the scene when Cantinflas is alone with some dancers in his room can be interpretated as the part when the RealLife Cantinflas cheated with Valentina after he found out she was infertile]].