Most notable among these, they say, are certain similar incidents found in Oxford's biography and Hamlet, and Henry IV, Part 1, which includes a well-known robbery scene with uncanny parallels to a real-life incident involving Oxford.

This resembles real-life incidents in which people see themselves as merely cogs in a machine, just " doing their job ," allowing them to avoid responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

Certain specific incidents in the fictional Keating's career are pointed to by Heynick as having been drawn from Hood's real-life career, such as their both suddenly gaining national fame by winning the highly-publicized skyscraper contest for a media corporation in the early 1920s with a design in the historicist style, and their both heading the committee for a " modernistic " World's Fair in the 1930s from which the hero architect ( Howard Roark in the novel, Frank Lloyd Wright in real-life ) was excluded.

Many of his films have taken inspirations from real-life incidents such as Nayagan, Bombay, Iruvar and films like Thalapathi and Raavan were based on Indian epics.

The incidents in Cook's book were inspired by his own mother's real-life experiences.

Overtly whimsical elements were now downplayed in favor of more grounded real-life incidents and stories, and some of the series ' running gags from the 1972 – 92 years were recast in a more serious light.

While some parts of the book were inventions, she also made use of real-life incidents.

Some of the plot points of the movie were based on real-life incidents, such as the sinking of the submarine USS Sealion at the pier at Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, Commander Sherman's letter to the supply department on the inexplicable lack of toilet paper ( based on an actual letter to the supply department of Mare Island Naval Shipyard by Lieutenant Commander James Wiggin Coe of the submarine USS Skipjack ), and the need to paint a submarine pink due to the lack of enough red or white lead undercoat paint.

The main accident described in the novel resembles two real-life incidents:

Court Chalu Aahe ( 1967 ), Ghāshirām Kotwāl ( 1972 ), and Sakhārām Binder ( 1972 ). Many of Tendulkar's plays derived inspiration from real-life incidents or social upheavals, which provides clear light on harsh realities.

Many of Tendulkar's plays derived inspiration from real-life incidents or social upheavals.

Based on real-life incidents and individuals, the film depicts organized crime in the late ' 90s in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India and how the State Police worked to tackle it.

Some characters and situations are loosely based upon real-life people and incidents.

The Witch Cult hypothesis states that such stories are based upon a real-life pagan cult that revered a horned god

Kelley, who in his youth wanted to become a doctor, in part drew upon his real-life experiences in creating McCoy: a doctor's " matter-of-fact " delivery of news of Kelley's mother's terminal cancer was the " abrasive sand " Kelley used in creating McCoy's demeanor.

: Sprawling across a mammoth canvas, crammed with the real-life acts and thrills, as well as the vast backstage minutiae, that make the circus the glamorous thing it is and glittering in marvelous Technicolor — truly marvelous color, we repeat — this huge motion picture of the big-top is the dandiest ever put upon the screen.

In Episode " Nothing Human " a holographic version of a real-life war criminal ( whose unethical research helps save a crew-member's life ) is held responsible for the crimes of the Cardassian he was modeled upon.

According to School of Visual Arts caricature instructor Sam Viviano, the term refers only to depictions of real-life people, and not to cartoon fabrications of fictional characters, which do not possess objective sets of physiognomic features to draw upon for reference, or to anthropomorphic depictions of inanimate objects such as automobiles or coffee mugs.

Georges Antoine Klein may have been the real-life individual upon whom Joseph Conrad based the character Kurtz.

The film was based upon the novel Operation Cicero by real-life " Cicero " L. C.

That name, bestowed in 1971 upon a real-life electronics chain in New York City, appeared in 1984 as advertising placement in Splash ; a 1989 parody, UHF, completed the circle by depicting a Crazy Ernie using a hard sell of " buy this car or I'll club a seal " as a TV ad campaign.

The second season episode " Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road ", featured country star Lynn Anderson as a singer being stalked by a deranged person and was based upon a real-life incident involving Dolly Parton.

Chabert played the title role in The Brooke Ellison Story, a made-for-TV movie produced by Christopher Reeve, based upon a real-life quadriplegic woman who overcame many obstacles to graduate from Harvard.

Adams had been arrested in March 1995 and spent some time in jail ; upon his return the WWF gave him a biker gimmick and used his real-life incarceration as part of a storyline, with Mason as his attorney.

The animated film was based upon the real-life World War II experiences of actress Ingrid Pitt and her survival against the Nazis, narrated by Pitt herself.

Possibly based upon the real-life Robert Stephenson.

Though Fleming's version of SMERSH supposedly was modelled upon the real SMERSH organization, which existed 1943-1946, the novels portray SMERSH as a massive Soviet counterintelligence organisation, much more resembling the real-life KGB, which aims its operatives abroad in subversion of the West, with the additional goal of killing Western spies, particularly James Bond of SIS.

In the case of Gore Vidal's character, the majority of the lines were not scripted, and instead Vidal based his role upon his own political beliefs, and his real-life positions on many of the fictional election topics.

This excerpt from an Australian newspaper reveals the possibility that Hampton Court's Mrs. Grundy was a real-life moral regulator who had an impact upon London society, or at least upon the residents of Hampton Court:

Using down-to-earth cases-actually based upon real-life ones from Liverpool private investigator Tony Smith-the show also starred Tom Ellis and John Henshaw.

The series was hosted by Boris Karloff, who also acted in every episode but one, and was allegedly based upon real-life reports of supernatural happenings and the unexplained.

This sitcom was based on Christopher's stand-up comedy act, more specifically his one-man show Norman Rockwell is Bleeding ( which itself would be broadcast on television in 2004 ), which was based loosely upon his real-life family ; lines from Norman Rockwell is Bleeding were spoken by Titus as commentary ( see below ).

He appears as a character in scenes drawing upon his real-life tragic flight over the Alps in John Berger's novel G. ( 1972 ), awarded the Booker Prize in 1972.

The movie is based upon real-life contract murderer Richard Kuklinski, who notoriously froze his victims.

Several researchers claim the character Christine Daaé was based upon the real-life Swedish-born opera star Christina Nilsson, also known as Kristina Nilsson or Christine Nilsson.

His father was a former police officer turned security guard at a San Francisco Coney Island-type amusement park called " Playland ", based upon the real-life Playland ( San Francisco ).

Interestingly enough -- although none of the real-life therapists involved could conceivably compare with Blauberman -- when groups of them began playing back interviews, they discovered any number of ways in which they wanted to polish their own interview techniques ; ;

According to a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radios, Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny, when asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan, before Mumy's first meeting with Harris on Lost in Space, he said at age 5, he was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man which was probably late at night, but was old enough to watch The Bill Dana Show ( which also starred Harris's real-life best friend Don Adams ).

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of programs were written for these machines, from practical scientific and business software, which were used in real-life offices and labs, to fun games for children.

)", describing a fictitious encounter with the San Francisco Giants, which was a hit during the real-life pennant chase of 1962.

The analytical constructs of an ideal type never exist in reality, but provide objective benchmarks against which real-life constructs can be measured.

* Nova Roma, a group claiming a worldwide membership of several thousand that has minted its own coins, maintains its own wiki, and which engages in real-life Roman-themed re-enactments.

The Nexus allows Bujold, paradoxically, to imagine a world in which travel and communication require far more time and effort than in the real-life 21st century, since the wormhole jumps present a special barrier.

Perfect competition serves as a benchmark against which to measure real-life and imperfectly competitive markets.

In the episode " Q2 ", which is the last televised appearance of Q, Q appears on Voyager with his immature, rebellious son, who appears as a human teenager ( played by John de Lancie's real-life son Keegan de Lancie, and referred to in the novels as " Little Q " or " q ").

( According to Leoncavallo, the plot of this work had a real-life origin: he claimed it derived from a murder trial, in Montalto Uffugo, over which his father had presided.

The light gun also features a blowback function which simulates real-life gun recoil.

" Elements of the novel mirror themes of the real-life Constance Kent case of June 1860 which gripped the nation for years with headlines.

The novel mirrors many of the same themes from the real-life Constance Kent case of June 1860 which gripped the nation with headline news for years.

The early scenes deal with the embarkation of Henry's fleet for France, and include a real-life incident in which the Earl of Cambridge and two others plotted to assassinate Henry at Southampton.

In 2012, Deneuve appeared in the musical Les Bien-aimés, in which she acts alongside her real-life daughter Chiara Mastroianni.

Clark's ploy is taken from a real-life incident related in Heinlein's Tramp Royale in which his wife answers the same question with " heroin " substituted for the fictitious but equally illegal happy dust.

Morris also appeared in two episodes of the revival series, in which the character's son, Grant Collier ( played by Morris's real-life son, Phil Morris ), is also an IMF agent.

The fictional social movement he calls functionalism, ( which is unrelated to the real-life sociological theory of the same name ), advances the idea that one's status and level of material reward in a society must and should depend on the functions one performs for that society.

Other early hit series on ABC during this period which helped establish the network included The Lone Ranger ( ABC's only Top 10 show before Disneyland ), The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet, ( starring the real-life Nelson family ), Leave It To Beaver ( which moved over from CBS ), The Detectives and The Untouchables.