The stereotyped plot line follows the " boy-gets-girl ", " boy-loses-girl ", " boy gets girl back again " sequence.

In the screenplay by Anthony Hinds, the main character's name was changed from Doctor Syn to Parson Blyss to avoid rights problems with Disney's upcoming film version, and Captain Cleggs screenplay follows the novel Doctor Syn and the screenplay of the 1937 film closely with the exception of a tightening of the plot.

This version of the film follows the same plot but pays more attention to popular jazz music and includes such jazz legends as Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, and Benny Carter playing themselves.

The plot follows his amoral and manipulative scheme to become leader of the governing party and Prime Minister.

His book The Diamond Age follows a simpler plot but features " neo-Victorian " characters and employs Victorian-era literary conceits.

The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who is faced with " retiring " six escaped Nexus-6 brain model androids, the latest and most advanced model, while a secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-normal intelligence who aids the fugitive androids.

The story follows the basic Biblical plot.

The plot follows five students at fictional Shermer High School in the fictitious Chicago suburb of Shermer, Illinois as they report for Saturday detention on March 24, 1984.

The plot follows a mysterious stranger ( Eastwood ) who arrives in a brooding Western town where the people hire him to protect them against three soon-to-be-released felons.

* British — Ashton, Helen: Pierrot in Town ( 1913 ); Barrington, Pamela: White Pierrot ( 1932 ); Callaghan, Stella: " Pierrot and the Black Cat " ( 1921 ), Pierrot of the World ( 1923 ); Deakin, Dorothea: The Poet and the Pierrot ( 1905 ); Herring, Paul: The Pierrots on the Pier: A Holiday Entertainment ( 1914 ); Priestley, J. B .: The Good Companions ( 1929 ; plot follows fortunes of a Pierrot troupe, The Dinky Doos ; has had many adaptations, for stage, screen, TV, and radio ).

The film contains no scenes, characters, or dialogue from Red Harvest, whereas it follows the plot and main characters of The Glass Key fairly closely.

The plot of the movie basically follows Hugo's novel, but there are a large number of differences.

The plot of the epic costume drama follows the globe-trotting adventures of the title character, the illegitimate offspring of Maria Bonnyfeather, the bride of the cruel and devious middle-aged nobleman Marquis Don Luis, and Denis Moore.

The film loosely follows the novel ’ s plot, emphasizing the human relationships instead of Lem ’ s astrobiology theories — especially Kelvin ’ s Earth life, before his space travel to the planet.

The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide during the Final War of the Roman Republic.

The plot follows a secret branch of the United States ' National Security Agency who have developed a time travelling device based upon alien technology found at Roswell.

If rage is accepted as a pre-verbal, pre-cognitive phenomenon ( and sufferers describe it colloquially as " losing the plot ") then it follows that cognitive strategies, eliciting commitments to behave differently or educational programs ( the most common forms of interventions in the UK presently ) are contra-indicated.

Its screen story fairly closely follows the plot of " Second Variety ".

In a play that follows a climatic plot construction, Dionysus the Protagonist, instigates the unfolding action by simultaneously emulating the play's author, costume designer, choreographer and artistic director.

The plot follows the novel by Franz Werfel, which is not a documentary but a historical novel blending fact and fiction.

The plot closely follows, and expands upon, the film of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

The arcade-style game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis: The Action Game designed by Attention To Detail was released almost simultaneously with its adventure counterpart, and loosely follows its plot.

Kirk and Chapel beam down to join him and his party and they both soon discover Korby's sinister plot: Korby has been exploring and exploiting a sophisticated android manufacturing technology, the legacy of a long-dead civilization.

However, the Tornado's adventures with the League caused him to repeatedly be destroyed, such as when he sacrificed himself to help defeat the alien villain Nekron, and was later reassembled once more under the control of the Construct in a plot against the League, which the android managed to overcome.

" She argued, though, that a " big and frustrating plot hole " is Sargon's dismissal of the idea that Starfleet might build them android bodies.

A jealous android assistant of his father, named Karth Arn, switched identities with Brin, but the plot was eventually revealed when " Lone Wolf " first meets the Legion.

This funeral also helps the poet to develop the plot to lead into the confrontation between the protagonist, Beowulf, and the main antagonist, Grendel.

Lang's magnum opus, M — released in 1931, two years before his departure from Germany — is among the first major crime films of the sound era to join a characteristically noirish visual style with a noir-type plot, one in which the protagonist is a criminal ( as are his most successful pursuers ).

* In the game series Splinter Cell there are numerous references to the Four Freedoms, with the commanding officer of protagonist Sam Fisher, stating at one point, " this is fifth freedom territory ", indicating that the situation ( in the game plot ) has gotten so grave that one or more of the Four Freedoms are threatened.

They also generally feature a self-confident and often stubborn central female protagonist and a plot involving courtship and marriage or remarriage.

The plot will gradually meander to a final dramatic showdown between the protagonist and his nemesis.

The plot concerns a power struggle between two rival gangs and how the protagonist, Tom Reagan ( Gabriel Byrne ), plays both sides off each other.

In fiction, a MacGuffin ( sometimes McGuffin or maguffin ) is a plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or other motivator that the protagonist ( and sometimes the antagonist ) is willing to do and sacrifice almost anything to pursue, often with little or no narrative explanation as to why it is considered so desirable.

Formula plot devices were followed for all but a handful of episodes: the protagonist was usually a normal person suddenly dropped into a threatening or bizarre situation ; solutions were " withheld until the last possible second "; and evildoers were usually punished in the end.

The plot follows the protagonist, Duncan Makenzie, on a trip to Earth from his home on Titan, ostensibly for a diplomatic visit to the U. S. for its 500th birthday, but really in order to have a clone of himself produced.

Sonic the Hedgehog, the protagonist of the game, must fight these robots, rescue the trapped animals and put an end to Dr. Robotnik's plot.

The protagonist, Sonic, must penetrate the Veg-O-Fortress's pinball-style defense systems, free the animals, collect the Chaos Emeralds that power the Fortress and put a stop to Robotnik's plot.

Set in the fantasy land of Hyrule, the plot centers on a boy named Link, the playable protagonist, who aims to collect the eight fragments of the Triforce of Wisdom in order to rescue Princess Zelda from the antagonist, Ganon.

MacGuffins are sometimes referred to as " plot coupons " ( especially if multiple ones are required ) as the protagonist only needs to " collect enough plot coupons and trade them in for a dénouement ".

Another form of plot device is the object, typically given to the protagonist shortly before, that allows them to escape from a situation that would be otherwise impossible.

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

The main narrative is introduced using a frame story in which most of the plot is presented as a flashback, as told by the protagonist, Francis ( one of the earliest examples of a frame story in film ).

* CHRISTIAN, whose name was Graceless at some time before, the protagonist in the First Part, whose journey to the Celestial City is the plot of the story.

2011 Action-Adventure video game " Portal 2 " features a game-mode entitled " Perpetual Testing Initiative " And where a plot item features protagonist " Bendy " through thousands of different worlds of which character Cave Johnson exist in different roles entitled " The Multiverse "

Part of the film's plot revolves around the taxi driver being asked to pose as Jähn in mocked up news footage, while the real Jähn is a boyhood idol of the protagonist.

* Cyborg-The protagonist of the plot and player character of the single-player mission mode, is Cyborg, also known as ECO35-2 or " Coton ".

While there is a plot involving a series of assassination attempts on the protagonist, the novel's main strengths lie in the unique nature of the setting, character development, structure and the short vignettes on each of the would-be assassins.

Leo Frankowski made glories a key plot element in his Conrad Stargard saga, where the protagonist and title character is sent back in time to the 13th century where he has to establish himself and cope with various crises including planning for the eventual Mongol invasion of Eastern Europe in 1241.

The narrative employs a simple plot — the protagonist ’ s drive ( from Vernon ) past Kalamalka Lake, then Wood Lake, and finally Duck Lake and into Kelowna.

The amusing contrast between what the protagonist thinks to himself and what he says out loud to the other characters enlivens one of Cooper's favorite plot devices, the love triangle.