The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.

Older avionics required a pilot or navigator to plot the intersection of signals on a paper map to determine an aircraft's location ; modern systems calculate the position automatically and display it to the flight crew on moving map displays.

The Nyquist plot displays these in polar coordinates, with magnitude mapping to radius and phase to argument ( angle ).

The Nichols plot displays these in rectangular coordinates, on the log scale.

A normal swept spectrum analyzer would produce max peak, min peak displays for example but a realtime spectrum analyzer is able to plot all calculated FFT's over a given period of time with the added colour coding which represents how often a signal appears.

The gardens are primarily rented by residents of apartments in the area and offer local residents the opportunity to express themselves in a small plot of dirt, which results in many colourful artistic displays.

The plot, based on German fairy tale and folklore, displays the conflict between the spirit of evil and the spirit of Christian love, represented by Asrael and Nefta respectively.

Typical vector signal analyzer displays feature the spectrum of the signal measured within the IF bandwidth, a constellation diagram of the demodulated signal, error vector magnitude measurements, and a time domain plot of the signal.

Whereas an oscilloscope or waveform monitor normally displays a plot of signal vs. time, a vectorscope displays an X-Y plot of two signals, which can reveal details about the relationship between these two signals.

" displays " the series ’ nefarious habit of using the first third of the episode as a clearinghouse for disconnected jokes before actually beginning the plot, a blight made that much more glaring here since the only connection to Christmas comes early with the rest not even taking place in winter.

The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review wrote that " the plot never settles into being much more than its collection of influences ", but added that " Christopher Lee ... is an effective Dracula ", " Roy Ward Baker conducts the action quite enjoyably ", and " the martial arts displays are all highly entertaining ".

Command Information Centers ( or equivalently Command Centers ) are widely depicted in film and television treatments, frequently with large maps, numerous computer consoles and quite often radar and sonar repeater displays or consoles, as well as the almost ubiquitous grease-pencil annotated polar plot on an edge lighted transparent plotting board.

Today, maintaining strong plot and character continuity is also a high priority for many writers of long-running television series.

The plot is described as having been planned by three men, but many in the Senate, army and equestrian order were said to have been informed of it and involved in it.

In terms of content, enforcement of the Production Code ensured that no film character could literally get away with murder or be seen sharing a bed with anyone but a spouse ; within those bounds, however, many films now identified as noir feature plot elements and dialogue that were very risqué for the time.

For example, many horror movies and books include characters who fear the antagonist of the plot.

While many cases an alien language is but an element of fictional reality, in a number of science fiction works the core of the plot are linguistic and psychological problems of communication between various alien races.

( Rossum's Universal Robots ), Karel Čapek's 1921 play which coined the term robot ; the play was written in Prague and while Capek denied that he modeled the robot after the Golem, there are many similarities in the plot.

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.

Public performance followed, with W. S. Gilbert ( then writing dramatic criticism for Fun ) saying that Sullivan's score " is, in many places, of too high a class for the grotesquely absurd plot to which it is wedded.

According to Coke, Garnet instigated the plot: " hath many gifts and endowments of nature, by art learned, a good linguist and, by profession, a Jesuit and a Superior as indeed he is Superior to all his predecessors in devilish treason, a Doctor of Dissimulation, Deposing of Princes, Disposing of Kingdoms, Daunting and deterring of subjects, and Destruction.

Ten years later, Dickens's Great Expectations contains many Hamlet-like plot elements: it is driven by revenge-motivated actions, contains ghost-like characters ( Abel Magwitch and Miss Havisham ), and focuses on the hero's guilt.

The plot is also viewed by many historians as an antisemitic provocation.

Ribbentrop hadn't known of the plot, but the involvement of so many current and former Foreign Ministry members reflected badly on him.

As with other action films, martial arts films are dominated by action to varying degrees ; many martial arts films have only a minimal plot and amount of character development and focus almost exclusively on the action, while other martial arts films have more creative and complex plots and characters along with action scenes.

Before such elements were forced out of opera seria, many libretti had featured a separately unfolding comic plot as sort of an " opera-within-an-opera.

The Athenians however allowed Alcibiades to go on the expedition without being tried ( many believed in order to better plot against him ).

The 1994 film The Punk uses both the rough plot outline of Romeo and Juliet and names many of the characters in ways that reflect the characters in the play.

An anime series produced by Gonzo and SKY Perfect Well Think, called Romeo x Juliet, was made in 2007 ; its plot was an edited version of the original story's, and had many new supporting characters whose names were often derived from those of characters in other Shakespeare works.

They share many common features, often opening with praise of the greenwood and relying heavily on disguise as a plot device, but include a wide variation in tone and plot.

A plot of the temperature of many stars against their luminosities, known as a Hertzsprung – Russell diagram ( H – R diagram ), allows the age and evolutionary state of a star to be determined.

The main characters are parodies of Star Trek characters, and many of the plot elements refer to or parody popular 1960s TV-series customs.

As with many Star Trek productions, new, disposable redshirt characters are killed off over the course of the plot.

In the video, many future 9 / 11 hijackers swear to become martyrs, although no details of the plot are revealed.

Many critics and audiences have likened the film to a modern Western, while many others dispute this, or liken it to a crime novel that revolves around mistaken identity plot devices.

The mixing and pushing against the boundaries of established operatic genres would be a continuing hallmark of Salieri's own personal style, and in his choice of material for the plot ( as in his first opera ), he manifested a lifelong interest in subjects drawn from classic drama and literature.

The novel is considered a classic of English literature, though some critics claim that it has structural problems ; Thackeray sometimes lost track of the huge scope of his work, mixing up characters ' names and minor plot details.

Duck Amuck is widely heralded as a classic of filmmaking for its illustration that a character's personality can be recognized independently of appearance, setting, voice, and plot.

Initially the reception for this film was mixed, with complaints about the anachronisms ( the classic rock music in a movie that takes place during the Middle Ages ), the many jousting scenes and the thin plot.

There are various examples of remakes which are most associated with the reimagine or renovate terms, and these include Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, Nora Ephron's Bewitched, Marcus Nispel's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th, Rob Zombie's Halloween, Samuel Bayer's A Nightmare on Elm Street, Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica, David Eick's Bionic Woman, Nelson McCormick's Prom Night, Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, and Kenneth Johnson V. Tim Burton has denied that his 2010 film Alice in Wonderland is a renovation of Lewis Carroll's classic novel ; however, the plot line of the film bears very little resemblance to the original or derivatives of it, such as the classic 1951 animated film from Walt Disney.

His grave is located within the prestigious plot 23 and has a sculpture of the thumb and forefingers of two hands forming an oblong space — the classic view as if through a movie camera.

The main plot is a rewriting of Alexandre Dumas, père's The Count of Monte Cristo, but there are references to many classic novels.

For example, Tom Sawyer's plot to steal Jim out of slavery in the last part of Huckleberry Finn is a classic caper.

The plot also shows some parallels with an earlier murder mystery story by the English novelist Sarah Burney The Hermitage ( 1839 ): the return of a childhood companion, the sexual symbolism of defloration implied in the crime, and almost catatonic reactions of the heroine to it, for instance but The Moonstone introduces in novel form, as opposed to Poe's short story form, a number of elements that were to become classic attributes of the twentieth-century detective story:

Such historical considerations have made modern critics sceptical of Norman Holland's classic 1959 " right way / wrong way " interpretation of the play, which positions the true-love plot as the most important one.

* A music hall with a ' memory man ' act provides a pivotal plot device in the classic 1935 Alfred Hitchcock thriller The 39 Steps.

Most Doctor Who novels try to clarify facts or expand on plot points from earlier episodes, often taking place " in between " episodes of the classic ( 1963 – 1989 ) series.

It is a major plot element in the classic silent German Expressionist film Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari ( English title: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ).

This movie has plot similarities to the classic Western Shane ( 1953 ), including in its final scene, as well as previous Eastwood films featuring his Man with No Name character and his 1973 western High Plains Drifter.

According to Michael Booth in his classic study English Melodrama the Victorian stage melodrama featured a limited number of stock characters: the hero, the villain, the heroine, an old man, an old woman, a comic man and a comic woman engaged in a sensational plot featuring themes of love and murder.

A continuity of plot and almost classic clarity obtains.

In a classic noir plot, the film stars Woody Harrelson as a falsely accused journalist who was sent to jail after uncovering corruption in the local government.

Kurosawa stated that a major source for the plot was the 1942 film noir classic The Glass Key, an adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's 1931 novel.

A loose ball cap finial on the newel post at the base of the stairway is a plot device in the 1946 classic " It's a Wonderful Life.

The plot concept is predicated on a vast fictional conspiracy beginning with the revelation that Jules Verne did not merely write the stories behind his famous science fiction classic books Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth or Around the World in Eighty Days — but actually experienced these adventures personally.

These few plot devices provide the basic storyline throughout the entire series, on which are hung classic farce set-ups, physical comedy and visual gags, amusingly ridiculous fake accents, a large amount of sexual innuendo, and a fast-paced running string of broad cultural clichés.

The plot of the strip was simple, but had proved so popular with readers that it is now considered a classic.

* The plot of this episode bears more than a passing resemblance to the classic film Casablanca ( film ), with Quark as Rick and Natima as Ilsa, and the two dissident students in the place of Laszlo.