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* NeverLearnedToTalk: Kaspar when he is discovered, as he is a WildChild that has spent his whole life locked in a tower.
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* CuttingTheKnot: the title dolt confounds a doctor who asks him a version of the Knights and Knaves problem. Kaspar's response: "I would ask him if he is a tree-frog." ItMakesSenseInContext.
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* CuttingTheKnot: the The title dolt confounds a doctor who asks him a version of the Knights and Knaves problem. Kaspar's response: "I would ask him if he is a tree-frog." ItMakesSenseInContext.
* GrammarCorrectionGag: The letter of introduction left by Kaspar's caretaker is full of spelling and grammar mistakes. When the cavalry captain reads it during Kaspar's interrogation, he tells the notary to transcribe it verbatim, including the mistakes.
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* KnightsAndKnaves: Kaspar Hauser is asked this question by a doctor trying to test his intelligence. The doctor will accept only a complex answer, but Kaspar responds simply (and correctly, since the doctor did not include the proper constraints), "I would ask him if he is a tree-frog."
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* KnightsAndKnaves: Kaspar Hauser is asked this question by a doctor trying to test his intelligence. The doctor will accept only a complex answer, but Kaspar responds simply (and correctly, since the doctor did not include the proper constraints), "I would ask him if he is a tree-frog.""[[note]] The doctor could have said the man Kaspar meets at the crossroads has just come from one of the villages, but not necessarily from ''his own'' village (in which case the doctor's solution is still overcomplicated; "If I asked you if this road leads to the truth-tellers' village, would you say 'Yes'?" would suffice). Kaspar's question would determine whether the man is a truth-teller or liar, but not which village is down which road - but then we wouldn't get to see Kaspar outwit the doctor.[[/note]]
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* CharacterTic: Kaspar learns to speak, but when he speaks, his cadence is oddly formal and rigid. Even more noticeably, when he talks he presses his thumb and forefinger together and gestures in rhythm with what he's saying. One of the theologians debating God with Kaspar gets irritated by this and tells him to stop.
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* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Ends with the town notary walking away down the street, inordinately pleased with the autopsy results that show Kaspar to have had an enlarged liver and brain.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Kaspar is prone to this when his teachers try to educate him about the world. Prof. Daumer shows him the tower where he was held captive. Kaspar says this cannot be: when he was held captive in the room, everywhere he turned, there was nothing but room, while if he turns his back on the tower the tower disappears. Therefore the room must be bigger than the tower.
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* BlindMusician: One plays the piano for Kaspar. Prof. Daumer points out that the musician is blind and lost his family in a fire, but he doesn't feel sorry for himself, and neither should Kaspar.
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* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: The "King of Punt" is an elderly little person, who is one of the attractions in a circus freak show that briefly features Kaspar.
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Creator/WernerHerzog {{film}} from 1974. The original German title translates as "Every Man for Himself and God Against All". A dramatization of the story of real-life [[WildChild feral child]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspar_Hauser Kaspar Hauser]].
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It's dramatization of the story of real-life [[WildChild feral child]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspar_Hauser Kaspar Hauser]]. The story begins in 1828. A man[[note]]the real Kaspar Hauser was believed to be in his late teens but actor Bruno Schleinstein was 42[[/note]] is kept chained up in a cell. He appears to have been kept there his whole life and to have never heard any language, as he can only communicate with grunts and he can barely walk. A man clad in black, who is apparently Kaspar's caretaker, liberates him one day. He teaches Kaspar to say the single German sentence "I want to be a cavalryman, as my father was." He gives Kaspar a letter of introduction to the commander of the local cavalry regiment. Then the man leaves Kaspar alone in the center of Nuremberg.
The story of the WildChild soon attracts a great deal of attention from around Europe, and Kaspar becomes a sensation. Kaspar learns to read and write under the tutelage of a local academic, Professor Daumer. However, an unknown someone is out to kill the mysterious young man.
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* BilingualBonus: The actual German title is a little more blunt: ''Every Man for Himself, and God Against All'' (''Jeder für Sich und Gott Gegen Alle'').
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* BilingualBonus: The actual German title is a little BasedOnAGreatBigLie: Or more blunt: ''Every Man for Himself, accurately, based on a scam and God Against All'' (''Jeder für Sich und Gott Gegen Alle'').myth. The real-life Kaspar Hauser is believed to have been a con artist and fraud. This film presents his story as true.
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* DoorstopBaby: Doorstop grown man, as Kaspar is found in the town square of Nuremberg, unable to communicate, or explain himself. He's taken in by the town. (He's even called a "foundling.")
* DownerEnding:[[spoiler:Hauser's Hauser's murdered, probably by his real family.]]
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* CuttingTheKnot: the title dolt confounds a doctor who asks him a version of the Knights and Knaves problem. Kaspar's response: "I would ask him if he is a tree-frog." ItMakesSenseInContext.
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* SilenceIsGolden: Almost no dialogue over the first thirteen minutes, as Kaspar Hauser is being held captive in a cell where no one ever talks to him. He has never heard a language, and consequently only grunts.
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* DawsonCasting: The 41 year old Bruno Schleinstein as the 17 year old Hauser. We probably aren't supposed to believe that he's 17 though.
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* UnwittingTestSubject: It's suspected that Kaspar Hauser was part of an early rogue experiment in psychology.
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* NonActorVehicle: Stars Bruno S., Schleinstein, a ''street musician''.
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Creator/WernerHerzog {{film}} from 1974 about 1974. The original German title translates as "Every Man for Himself and God Against All". A dramatization of the story of real-life [[WildChild feral child]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspar_Hauser Kaspar Hauser.Hauser]].
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!! This film provides examples of:
* BilingualBonus: The actual German title is a little more blunt: ''Every Man for Himself, and God Against All'' (''Jeder für Sich und Gott Gegen Alle'').
* DawsonCasting: The 41 year old Bruno S. as the 17 year old Hauser. We probably aren't supposed to believe that he's 17 though.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Hauser's murdered, probably by his real family.]]
* GorgeousPeriodDress: In a Ballroom scene.
* ParentalAbandonment: Thank God!
* TheFullNameAdventures
* NonActorVehicle: Stars Bruno S., a ''street musician''.
* WildChild: Kaspar Hauser was raised in an environment that completely cut him off from human contact. He also shows signs of having some sort of neurological illness.
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!! This film provides examples of:
* BilingualBonus: The actual German title is a little more blunt: ''Every Man for Himself, and God Against All'' (''Jeder für Sich und Gott Gegen Alle'').
* DawsonCasting: The 41 year old Bruno S. as the 17 year old Hauser. We probably aren't supposed to believe that he's 17 though.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Hauser's murdered, probably by his real family.]]
* GorgeousPeriodDress: In a Ballroom scene.
* ParentalAbandonment: Thank God!
* TheFullNameAdventures
* NonActorVehicle: Stars Bruno S., a ''street musician''.
* WildChild: Kaspar Hauser was raised in an environment that completely cut him off from human contact. He also shows signs of having some sort of neurological illness.
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