The scene of the Persian ambassador's entry into Paris, 7 February 1715, was described by François Pidou de Saint-Olon ( 1646 – 1720 ), a nobleman who was delegated the diplomatic position of liaison officer to the Persian delegation.

Almost the whole of The Taming of the Shrew is a play-within-a-play, presented to convince Christopher Sly, a drunken tinker, that he is a nobleman watching a private performance, but the device has no relevance to the plot ( unless Katharina's subservience to her " lord " in the last scene is intended to strengthen the deception against the tinker ) and is often dropped in modern productions.

The proverbs are found at the very beginning ( as Shasta's father and a Calormene nobleman haggle on a price for Shasta ) and later in a scene where the Tisroc, the Vizier, and Prince Rabadash have a secret counsel.

Unusually, the play begins on its second level: the opening scene introduces the nobleman Donobert, his daughters Constantia and Modestia, and their suitors Cador and Edwin, and begins the story of Modestia's conflict between her desire for a religious vocation versus social pressures to marry.

His acceptance of his guilt for his multiple sins is also notable in his allowing Shatov, whose wife Stavrogin has had an affair with, to punch him in the face without responding, a seemingly shameful reaction for a nobleman to a former serf ( this takes place in perhaps the best scene of a type seen often in Dostoyevsky's work — most of the major characters are gathered together and then all hell breaks loose in a way that is puzzling until the novel later fills in the back story ).

The first such scene took place immediately after the excavation of the Stargate in 1928 and showed petrified Horus guards near the cover stones ; the producers had tried to introduce the idea that beings had attempted to come through the Stargate after its burial, but they cut the scene for time concerns.

The group is then shot by Federation guards, who surround Avon in the final scene.

There is then a dramatic scene where Norfolk and the king's guards come to arrest Catherine and the Lady Rochford.

Another set of paintings celebrated traffic safety, complete with smiling, chubby crossing guards and schoolchildren ( one such painting appears as a calendar print in the background of a bar scene in the movie Hud ).

Pursued by a group of security guards, they are able to escape by riding a bicycle over a ramp ( a reference to the iconic E. T., the Extra-Terrestrial moon scene ), propelling them through the window of a nearby building.

* The fight scene with the guards in Rathbone's library and treasure room, where Chon Wang used ancient Chinese vases to distract the guards, pays homage to Chan's previous film, Rush Hour.

The standard DVD release includes a nearly complete deleted scene, in which Pacha witnesses a practice attack by royal guards on a mock-up of his village.

In an iconic scene, Lucia sings a Marlene Dietrich song to the concentration camp guards while wearing pieces of an SS uniform, and Max " rewards " her with the severed head of a male inmate who had been bullying the other inmates, a reference to Salome.

The guards used an all-weather patrol road ( Kolonnenweg, literally " column way ") to patrol the border and travel rapidly to the scene of an attempted crossing.

This includes the arrival of the delegation from Urland, the arrival of guards from Urland, Ulrich's first death scene and funeral burning.

By the time the other guards had got their guns out and started to fire Huey had run from the scene.

In an iconic scene, Lucia sings a Marlene Dietrich song and dances for the concentration camp guards while wearing pieces of an SS uniform, and her Nazi abuser Max rewards her with the head of a male inmate who had been bullying the other inmates.

He is about to be beaten by two studio guards, when, in a reversal on their earlier confrontation, Stone aids him by typing a scene allowing Stine to defeat the guards and win back both his wife and his self-respect.

In the former, Aldo witnesses Luca Brasi's murder, kills Luca's assassin, plants the gun for Michael Corleone ( Joseph May ) to kill Sollozzo ( Richard Newman ) and Captain McCluskey ( Gavin Hammon ), helps Rocco Lampone ( Michael Dobson ) put the horse's head in Jack Woltz's bed, guards Don Corleone at the hospital, witnesses the death of Sonny Corleone ( James Caan ), kills Sonny's assassins, appears at the meeting of the Five Families and kills the Dons of the four other families during the baptism scene.

There is a scene when the Baron's guards have just captured Chitty, and she gets ejected out of the back seat, the Baron shoots at her, but her dress rises up, showing her bloomers, and she lands in the lake.

Ganz and Billy exchange insults and proceed to stage a fight with each other, wrestling in a river, and when the guards try to break up the fight, Billy slips a gun to Ganz, and Billy and Ganz kill two of the three guards and flee the scene.

In another scene he attaches a trailer, camera and a gun to the car, and by remotely controlling the car via the camera, uses it to hold up two security guards at a bank and steal a bag full of money.

And the tonfa fight scene between the two security guards, they quote the battle between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader during their fight on Cloud City.

Talitzou station was a scene of panic, with civilians desperately attempting to board the overcrowded last trains " crying and bribing guards to let them enter and between guards there were fights.

They soon discover that the blockade had protected a large medical research complex, the same one featured in the first scene of the film where the virus was developed.

* The ending scene of Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes features hundreds of people evacuating the city as a deadly virus spreads throughout San Francisco

The ending cut scene shows Aramov recovering a shipment of the Syphon Filter virus from the S. S. Lorelei's wreckage.

Beaver Valley Mall was the scene of the largest hepatitis A outbreak in U. S. history, when 660 people contracted the virus and 4 people died after eating at the defunct Chi-Chi's Mexican restaurant during the months of October and November in 2003.

The computer monitors show death and destruction come to life around a thrashing, infected Jim, who is strapped to the same table as the chimp had been in the opening scene.

It was concluded that James had possibly been infected while engaging in unprotected anal sex with Brazilian actress Bianca Biaggi during a scene for the video Split That Booty 2 in Rio de Janeiro .< ref >

First forces arriving on the scene found Ramsey apparently infected by some sort of carbon / silicon alien matter.

In 1998, Devereaux was infected with HIV during a scene with Marc Wallice.

A scene from the E3 trailer depicting Chris firing on infected villagers.

In the episode's final scene, Larson's character ingests an overdose of sleeping pills, disinherits his grandson and sets up a trust fund to take care of the women whom the grandson may have infected with HIV / AIDs.

The film's final scene shows a disconcerted Colonel Peckem being ordered to relocate to another infected city.

There is no evidence that Claudius had a direct hand in the assassination, although it has been argued that he knew about the plot — particularly since he left the scene of the crime shortly before his nephew was murdered.

Guest and Levy write backgrounds for each of the characters and notecards for each specific scene, outlining the plot, and then leave it up to the actors to improvise the dialogue, which is supposed to result in a much more natural conversation than scripted dialogue would.

Most releases that contain the label " director's cut " or " extended edition " include minor changes and / or scene additions not seen in a film's theatrical release, but that do not tend to greatly affect or change the plot, story or overall product.

Love and Rockets is a notable comic with a plot involving the Los Angeles punk scene.

** Farce – aims at entertaining the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include word play, and a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases, culminating in an ending which often involves an elaborate chase scene.

Although no formal script had been completed or leaked, Leone came up with the opening scene and basic plot.

During each episode, he provided an omniscient viewpoint of the situations presented, and regularly interjected comical asides during crucial plot points ( often, during a freeze frame of a cliffhanger scene right before a commercial break ) and " down home " aphorisms.

The most significant difference between the plot and the historical events is the scene that replaces an incident where the captain threw almost all the submarine's small arms overboard out of concern about the possibility of a mutiny ; the film instead portrays an actual attempt at mutiny.

In the Mega Drive version, to expand on the game's plot, Toaplan added an introductory cut scene to the game.

Joh and Rotwang watch the entire scene unfold, and plot to kidnap Maria, give the robot her appearance and use it to discredit her.

At the same time, the fashion in theatre was " pictorial ": valuing visual spectacle above plot or characterisation and often required lengthy ( and time consuming ) scene changes.

" Working from a translation of the First Folio text by Wolf Graf von Baudissin, Dürrenmatt altered much of the dialogue and changed elements of the plot ; the fly killing scene ( 3. 2 ) and the interrogation of Aaron ( 5. 1 ) were removed ; Titus has Aaron cut off his hand, and after he realises he has been tricked, Marcus brings Lavinia to him rather than the other way around as in the original play.

Much of the plot is also similar ; Petruchio vows to marry Catharine before he has even seen her, she smashes a lute over the music tutor's head, Baptista fears no one will ever want to marry her ; the wedding scene is identical, as is the scene where Grumio teases her with food ; the haberdasher and tailor scene is very similar ; the sun and moon conversation, and the introduction of Vincentio are both taken from Shakespeare.

" There is no central plot to the comic, leaving only a forced fight scene between Superman and Batman as an out of place climax to the story.

After filming the film's opening sequences of the arrival in America, he reshot parts of the restaurant scene to be consistent with the new plot ( bringing Bergman back in a new role as an artist who resolves the subplot of Charlie being unable to pay for dinner ), and added the epilogue in which the Tramp and Purviance are married.

The Flying Stage at Roehampton is the scene for a major battle within the plot.

In theatre, a farce is a comedy which aims at entertaining the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humor of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include word play, and a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases, culminating in an ending which often involves an elaborate chase scene.

The novel enjoyed a later influence in connection with the story tradition of Apollonius of Tyre — Eustathius ' scene of the storm at sea and the heroine offered as a sacrifice being adapted in Book 8 of the Confessio Amantis of John Gower and, by way of that, forming a portion of the plot of William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre ( particularly in Act III ).

After some plot twists, a second murder and a scene involving the hidden rivers and Victorian sewers that run under London, it is revealed that Harwell unintentionally killed his wife in a jealous rage, in the belief she was preparing to entertain a lover, although ironically her preparations had really been for him.

In one scene, Danny, as Satan, sings a version of Calloway's " Minnie the Moocher " with modified lyrics integrated into the plot of the film.

Other plot devices are simply intended to get the protagonist to the next scene of the story.

Without this ' device ' the hero would never find the headquarters and be unable to reach the climactic scene ; however the character becomes less of a plot device if the author gives them a back-story and a plausible motivation for defecting and makes them an interesting character in their own right.