YMMV / The King and the Mockingbird

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• Awesome Music: The soundtrack by Wojciech Kilar is absolutely beautiful.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The slinky clown dancing for the bored King.
• Complete Monster: The Portrait of King Charles is a tyrant who views himself as entitled to have the love of the Shepherdess. He murders his creator and takes his place in order to send the police force after her and the Chimney Sweep, killing any of them who displease him without a second thought. In order to get his bride, Charles endangers his subjects without a second thought and threatens to force the Shepherdess to watch him feed her love to lions to force her to marry him, and attempts to do so to a blind musician for annoying him. Even after she agrees, he condemns the Chimney Sweep and the Mockingbird to hard labor, and later attempts to have them fed to the lions anyway. When his plans are foiled, he attempts to kill the Chimney Sweep and Shepherdess in a fit of spite. Despite being only a portrait of the original, the Painting of King Charles proves himself viler than his creator ever was.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The portrait king emerging from a portrait and stalking the real king.
  • The end of the chase sequence, where the King's secret police spy on the unsuspecting lovers. It's one of the few times the State Sec poses a credible threat.
• Too Dumb to Live:
  • The Police Chief, who reveals himself from behind to cheer the wedding after he said yes in place of the Shepherdess. His boss rewards him accordingly.
  • The Mockingbird's yellow child shows shades of this, getting caught in the same trap repeatedly.

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