Perhaps the most clearly formulaic plots characterize the romantic comedy genre ; in a book or film labeled as such, viewers already know its most basic central plot, including to some extent the ending.

The game session ( or " adventure ") can be metaphorically described as a play, in which the players are the lead actors, and the GM provides the stage, the scenery, the basic plot on which the improvisational script is built, as well as all the bit parts and supporting characters.

The basic plot created many other Gothic staples, including a threatening mystery and an ancestral curse, as well as countless trappings such as hidden passages and oft-fainting heroines.

To this basic plot ( which comes from the Yahwist ) the Priestly source has added a series of covenants dividing history into stages, each with its own distinctive " sign ".

The lawsuit claims that Blakeman's copyrighted screenplay had the same basic plot as Swing Vote.

The pilot featured plot changes and some minor visual touches, but retained the same basic storyline.

The basic plot of a romantic comedy is that two characters, usually a man and a woman, meet, part ways due to an argument or other obstacle, then ultimately reunite.

The story follows the basic Biblical plot.

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

He tended to sketch out only a basic plot for the film, referring to the screenplay as a " blueprint " for action.

Kenneth Von Gunden's 1990 novel Starspawn takes the same basic premise into a Medieval setting: England in the time of the Third Crusade is secretly invaded by parasites from space who attach themselves to knights and gain control of castles, and whose plot is eventually foiled by a wise and dedicated monk.

The basic plot concerns Groucho, as explorer Captain Geoffrey ( or Jeffrey ) T. Spaulding, attending a party in his honor at the estate of society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse, and investigating the theft of a valuable painting during the party.

The basic plot line is derived from a 1911 thought experiment in special relativity, commonly called the twin paradox, proposed by French physicist Paul Langevin.

Little of the original plot exists, with only a few basic elements remaining ; notably the underground army base near the end of the movie, and some of the characters names.

In a foreword to a subsequent edition of No Bed for Bacon ( which traded on the association by declaring itself " A Story of Shakespeare and Lady Viola in Love ") Ned Sherrin, Private Eye insider and former writing partner of Brahms ', confirmed that he had lent a copy of the novel to Stoppard after he joined the writing team, but that the basic plot of the film had been independently developed by Marc Norman, who was unaware of the earlier work.

Her story is called " Ice ," and while she retains some of the main elements of the original fairy tale, such as the basic plot and the proximity of their houses and the window-box gardens, she does not mention the grandmother or much of the back story.

Some critics thought the basic plot of " Sanctuary ," and some of the descriptions and dialogue, were virtually identical to her work.

While the basic plot of the live-action adaptation of The Cat in the Hat rotates around that of the book, the film filled out its 82 minutes by adding new subplots and characters quite different from those of the original story, similar to How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

He fabricated the author ( Frederick R. Ewing ) of this imaginary novel, concocted a title ( I, Libertine ), and outlined a basic plot for his listeners to use on skeptical or confused bookstore clerks.

The Ass () is probably a summarized version of a story by Lucian and contains largely the same basic plot elements as The Golden Ass ( or Metamorphoses ) of Apuleius, but with fewer digressions and a different ending.

In June 1977, a Newsweek preview of the fall season written by Harry F. Waters panned the show while mischaracterizing some of its basic plot elements and offering exaggerated reports of its sexual content.

The basic plot remained essentially the same for more than 150 years.

The basic plot of the subsequent episodes involves Satan taking on the guise of a leading world figure in order to meet influential people, such as Queen Elizabeth II, whom he tries to convince to lead more of mankind to Heaven by encouraging them to change their ways.

The basic plot of an episode generally involved Satan trying to find out more about Edith's death, while Edith interviewed members of the damned about Satan's past.

Ken Russell's 1971 film version of the show, starring Twiggy and Christopher Gable, was an alternative interpretation, weaving the basic plot into a more complicated story in which a seaside dramatic company, performing the show, is visited by a film producer ( Vladek Sheybal ) on the very night that the leading lady ( Glenda Jackson ) has to be replaced by her shy understudy Polly Browne ( Twiggy ).

This activity is performed through the verbal impersonation of the characters by the players, while also employing a variety of social and other useful cognitive skills, such as logic, basic mathematics and imagination.

Capra's basic themes of championing the common man, as well as his use of spontaneous, fast-paced dialogue and goofy, memorable lead and supporting characters, made him one of the most popular and respected filmmakers of the 20th century.

The basic Internet email transmission protocol, SMTP, supports only 7-bit ASCII characters ( see also 8BITMIME ).

Games such as fighting games typically have a larger amount of player characters to choose from, with some basic moves available to all or most characters and some unique moves only available to one or a few characters.

With such characters helping update the basic concept, the " Sickness and Health " series ran until 1992.

Although the form, usually in quarter-hour episodes, proliferated widely in the middle and late 1930s, they all had the same basic premise: that characters " fell into two categories: 1 ) those in trouble and 2 ) those who helped people in trouble.

The document is " an arrangement of basic graphical elements " such as characters, lines, other shapes, etc., that " capture the total information content of the document "( pp35 ).

The standard edition of Cluedo comes with six basic tokens representing these original characters:

However, the phonetic element is basic, and these might be better thought of as characters used for multiple near homonyms, the identity of which is constrained by the determiner.

** The single character 永 ( permanence ) incorporates every basic stroke used to write Chinese characters exactly once, as described in the Eight Principles of Yong.

Meisner broke from Strasberg on the subjects of sense memory and affective memory, basic techniques espoused by Strasberg through which actors access their own personal experiences in order to identify with and portray the emotional lives of their characters.

The ISO 9660 file system ( mainly used on compact discs ) has similar limitations at the most basic Level 1, with the additional restriction that directory names cannot contain extensions and that some characters ( notably hyphens ) are not allowed in filenames.

Most such " primary " ( or " primitive ") J words serve as mathematical symbols, with the dot or colon extending the meaning of the basic characters available.

In his book Aspects of the novel, E. M. Forster defined two basic types of characters, their qualities, functions, and importance for the development of the novel: flat characters and round characters.

While unrelated in basic gameplay, the characters and graphical style are heavily based on those of Yoshi's Island.

According to the Shuowen Jiezi, Chinese characters are developed on six basic principles.

Much of the dialogue between Mexican characters is in English and the small amount of Spanish that peppers the dialogue consists of basic greetings, goodbyes, exclamations, and misplaced references to popular Mexican foods.

VDM-SL includes basic types modelling numbers and characters as follows: