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* HeroesWantRedheads: Virgilia, Martius' wife, who is played by redhead Creator/JessicaChastain.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: After Coriolanus is banished from Rome he arrives in the Volscian capital he sees Alfiduis being happily greeted by the citizens. In this moment he recognises that although they are equal in battle Alfiduis is also loved by the citizens, unlike himself.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Played with. Coriolanus and his wife Virgilia seem to genuinely love each other, however she is clearly unhappy to spend long periods of time raising their son alone while worrying her husband is going to come home in a coffin because he continues to goes off to war at his [[ObnoxiousInLaws power-hungry and domineering mother]]’s encouragement.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Played with. Coriolanus and his wife Virgilia seem to genuinely love each other, however she is clearly unhappy to spend long periods of time raising their son alone while worrying her husband is going to come home in a coffin because he continues to goes off to war at his [[ObnoxiousInLaws power-hungry and domineering mother]]’s encouragement.
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* HiddenDepths: After his banishment Martius is walking along a road across a bridge and a passing motorist offers him a ride, despite his contempt for the commoners and prideful nature, he has a small humbling moment when he accepts the ride (it also shows that not all the people disliked Martius).
* HumbleHero: Played with. Coriolanus is so uncomfortable about being praised for his military service that he has to leave the room, on the other hand he is still prideful and looks down on the common people or anyone who isn’t as willing to fight as him.
* HumbleHero: Played with. Coriolanus is so uncomfortable about being praised for his military service that he has to leave the room, on the other hand he is still prideful and looks down on the common people or anyone who isn’t as willing to fight as him.
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The 2011 film adaptation of the play ''Theatre/{{Coriolanus}}'' by Creator/WilliamShakespeare. It was directed by Creator/RalphFiennes, who also stars as Coriolanus himself. It transfers the story to a modern setting akin to that of UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars.
Coriolanus achieves success in the military, but after he is banished from Rome, he falls in with his old enemies, the Volscians.
The supporting cast is comprised of Creator/GerardButler as Tullus Aufidius, Creator/VanessaRedgrave as Volumnia, Creator/BrianCox as Menenius, and Creator/JessicaChastain as Virgilia.
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* BeardOfSorrow: Coriolanus does not shave his head nor his beard while walking the Earth after his shameful banishment. [[ImportantHaircut He tidies up once he allies with the Volscians.]]
* DeathByAdaptation: Unlike in the play, Menenius [[DrivenToSuicide kills himself]] shortly after Coriolanus rejects his offer of peace.
* DestinationDefenestration: Aufidius and Martius go out the window together in their first confrontation.
* {{Foil}}: When Coriolanus arrives in Antium, the movie takes care to show that Aufidius has good public relations among the common Volscians, unlike Coriolanus himself among the Roman commons.
%%* GoodGunsBadGuns: The Romans use Colt [=M933=] carbines, while the Volscians use Zastava [=M70=] rifles.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Virgilia, Martius' wife, who is played by redhead Creator/JessicaChastain.
* ImportantHaircut: The Volscians start shaving their heads in imitation of Coriolanus, and the 'throne' he sits on is the barber's chair they use for this initiation. The bearded Aufidius is not happy.
* JitterCam: There is quite a lot of it to go around, even in relatively sedate scenes. Combined with the [[SettingUpdate more modern setting]] and [[RealIsBrown toned-down visuals]], this makes the film aesthetically resemble a military/political documentary more than a traditional Shakespeare play.
* KnifeFight: In their first confrontation, Coriolanus and Aufidius [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen put down their rifles to duel each other with knives]]. Things are less gentlemanly in the final scene, when a group of Aufidius’s men attack Coriolanus en masse.
* LargeHam: Coriolanus but also a great part of the cast such as his mother Volumnia. Being a Shakespeare play, it is mandatory to chew up the scenery with grandiloquent speeches.
%%* MirroredConfrontationShot: The poster of the movie. [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows It wasn't the first time for a film with Ralph Fiennes released the same year]].
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Gerard Butler speaks in a Scottish accent throughout his appearance. In a BBC Channel 4 segment on the film, a Shakespeare scholar speculates that this was -- like the choice to echo the Yugoslav Wars -- deliberate, to better bring out the ethnic conflict undertones present in the play. Nevertheless, Aufidius is the only Volscian character to have such an accent.
* PietaPlagiarism: The end of the movie features Aufidius kneeling over Coriolanus's corpse in a pose reminiscent of this.
* SettingUpdate: The film shows an anachronistic Rome and its surrounding provinces as a modern city from the 2010s.
%%* ShellShockedVeteran: Coriolanus certainly has elements of this.
* SpitefulSpit: After Coriolanus gives the protestors TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, a female protestor spits on the ground. His only response is a contemptuous DeathGlare and to walk off while his riot troops advance on them.
* ThisJustIn: Much of the exposition on the setting is delivered in the form of television news reports. The Messenger in the play becomes a reporter for the Fidelis TV network.
-->'''Reporter:''' ''(against footage of soldiers fighting)'' The citizens of Corioli have issued and given to Lartius and to Marcius battle. I saw our party to their trenches driven, and then I came away--''(television switched off)''
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