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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Victor is afraid of shoes, thinking they'll hurt him. Itard forces shoes onto his feet, and then Madame Guérin helps him walk across the room, showing him he has nothing to fear.
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* NeverLearnedToTalk: Victor, although he eventually learns to make a sound approximating "lait."
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* TheSpeechless: Victor, although he eventually learns to make a sound approximating "lait."
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* TheRunaway: After Itard has been sick with fever for a few days, meaning he can't take Victor on his usual walks, Victor escapes out a window and flees into the forest. [[spoiler:He returns the next day, choosing civilization over the wild once and for all.]]
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Victor is afraid of shoes, thinking they'll hurt him. Itard forces shoes onto his feet, and then Madame Guérin helps him walk across the room, showing him he has nothing to fear.
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* ClosetPunishment: When Victor misbehaves, Itard locks him in a closet for about a minute. He is careful not to overuse the punishment, or it will lose meaning for Victor.
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* TantrumThrowing: Frustrated with his inability to match carved wooden letters with letters written on paper, Victor throws a fistful of letters across the room. Itard tells him to pick them up, which he does, but then throws them again.
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* BridalCarry: Itard carries Victor to bed this way after one of his tantrums.
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* {{Dramatization}}: The movie opens with "This is a true story. It begins in a forest in France one summer day in 1798."
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* {{Dedication}}: "For Creator/JeanPierreLeaud."
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* {{Dedication}}: "For Creator/JeanPierreLeaud."Creator/JeanPierreLeaud," because the experience of working with Jean-Pierre Cargol was similar to working with Léaud on ''Film/The400Blows''.
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* {{Dedication}}: "For Creator/JeanPierreLeaud."
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* CharacterNarrator: Itard narrates passages from his diary.
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* IrisOut: Iris in and out are often used as scene transitions.
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* MessyHair: Victor, as shown on the poster, until Madame Guérin gives him a haircut.
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* UnableToCry: It's noted that despite his cruel treatment at the institute, Victor has never been seen crying. He cries for the first time late in the movie when Itard punishes him.
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In the summer of 1798, a young boy (Jean-Pierre Cargol) is found running naked around a forest. He is captured by hunters and transported to France, where he is diagnosed as deaf and placed in an institute for deaf-mute boys. The boy suffers from severe behavioral problems and seems to be uncommunicative and ineducable, and he is almost transferred to a lunatic asylum. But Dr. Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (Truffaut) thinks that he's capable of learning, and takes him to his home. There, he is cared for by housekeeper Madame Guérin (Françoise Seigner) while Itard begins the slow process of educating him.
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In the summer of 1798, a young boy (Jean-Pierre Cargol) is found running naked around a forest. He is captured by hunters and transported to France, Paris, where he is diagnosed as deaf and placed in an institute for deaf-mute boys. The boy suffers from severe behavioral problems and seems to be uncommunicative and ineducable, and he is almost transferred to a lunatic asylum. But Dr. Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (Truffaut) thinks that he's capable of learning, and takes him to his home. There, he is cared for by housekeeper Madame Guérin (Françoise Seigner) while Itard begins the slow process of educating him.
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* HappyRain: When it rains during one of Itard's walks with Victor, Victor scampers around a field, squealing with delight.
* KidsAreCruel: In the village where Victor is originally kept, local kids hit Victor, and he hits them back. At the institute, the deaf-mute kids are initially friendly, but soon they start harassing him and mimicking his odd behavior.
* KidsAreCruel: In the village where Victor is originally kept, local kids hit Victor, and he hits them back. At the institute, the deaf-mute kids are initially friendly, but soon they start harassing him and mimicking his odd behavior.
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* SoftGlass: The night after his capture, Victor breaks a window by headbutting it. He still can't escape because he's tied up by the leg.
* TheSpeechless: Victor, although he eventually learns to make a sound approximating "lait."
* TheSpeechless: Victor, although he eventually learns to make a sound approximating "lait."
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''The Wild Child'' (''L'enfant Sauvage'') is a 1970 French film written and directed by Creator/FrancoisTruffaut about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_of_Aveyron Victor of Aveyron]].
In the summer of 1798, a young boy (Jean-Pierre Cargol) is found running naked around a forest. He is captured by hunters and transported to France, where he is diagnosed as deaf and placed in an institute for deaf-mute boys. The boy suffers from severe behavioral problems and seems to be uncommunicative and ineducable, and he is almost transferred to a lunatic asylum. But Dr. Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (Truffaut) thinks that he's capable of learning, and takes him to his home. There, he is cared for by housekeeper Madame Guérin (Françoise Seigner) while Itard begins the slow process of educating him.
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!!''The Wild Child'' contains examples of:
* LeftForDead: Based on a scar on Victor's throat that seems to be from a knife rather than an animal bite, a doctor concludes that Victor's parents cut his throat, then left him to die in the forest, but leaves stopped up the wound.
* NameAmnesia: Whatever Victor's original name was, he's long forgotten it. Itard names him Victor because he reacts more to "O" than to to other sounds.
* WildChild: Victor is believed to have been alone from the age of about three or four. When he's found, he's about eleven.
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In the summer of 1798, a young boy (Jean-Pierre Cargol) is found running naked around a forest. He is captured by hunters and transported to France, where he is diagnosed as deaf and placed in an institute for deaf-mute boys. The boy suffers from severe behavioral problems and seems to be uncommunicative and ineducable, and he is almost transferred to a lunatic asylum. But Dr. Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (Truffaut) thinks that he's capable of learning, and takes him to his home. There, he is cared for by housekeeper Madame Guérin (Françoise Seigner) while Itard begins the slow process of educating him.
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!!''The Wild Child'' contains examples of:
* LeftForDead: Based on a scar on Victor's throat that seems to be from a knife rather than an animal bite, a doctor concludes that Victor's parents cut his throat, then left him to die in the forest, but leaves stopped up the wound.
* NameAmnesia: Whatever Victor's original name was, he's long forgotten it. Itard names him Victor because he reacts more to "O" than to to other sounds.
* WildChild: Victor is believed to have been alone from the age of about three or four. When he's found, he's about eleven.
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