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 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.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything – the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series – features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.

De Palma gravitated toward the project and changed crucial plot elements based upon his own predilections, not the saleability of the novel.

" Johnston took the-vril suffix from Bulwer-Lytton's then-popular " lost race " novel The Coming Race ( 1870 ), whose plot revolves around a superior race of people, the Vril-ya, who derive their powers from an electromagnetic substance named " Vril.

A. E. van Vogt used the idea as a plot device in his story " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ), which was later combined with the three other Space Beagle stories to became the novel, The Voyage of the Space Beagle.

At least one published mystery novel uses aspects of the myth as the centerpoint of the plot.

The novel was critically well-received for its gripping plot, action, and atmosphere, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1977.

The concept of reversed chirality also figured prominently in the plot of James Blish's Star Trek novel Spock Must Die !, where a transporter experiment gone awry ends up creating a duplicate Spock who turns out to be a perfect mirror-image of the original all the way down to the atomic level.

Even if they do not mean to, advertisers, reviewers, scholars and aficionados sometimes give away details or parts of the plot, and sometimes — for example in the case of Mickey Spillane's novel I, the Jury — even the solution.

The other theory claims that the epistolary novel arose from miscellanies of letters and poetry: some of the letters were tied together into a ( mostly amorous ) plot.

It is thought that her lost novel First Impressions, which was redrafted to become Pride and Prejudice, may have been epistolary: Pride and Prejudice contains an unusual number of letters quoted in full and some play a critical role in the plot.

In the BBC television production of Graves ' novel, Piso and his wife, Plancina, were indeed at the root of the plot to poison Germanicus, with tacit consent from Tiberius ' mother, Livia, working through a local poisoner named Martina.

However, genres of Gespensterroman / Geisterroman („ ghost novel “), Räuberroman („ robber novel “) and Ritterroman („ chivalry novel “) also frequently share plot and motives with British „ gothic novel “.

She perceives and models reality according to the stereotypes and typical plot structures of the Gothic novel, leading to a series of absurd events culminating in catastrophe.

Radcliffe sets up suspense throughout the course of the novel, insinuating a supernatural or superstitious cause to the mysterious and horrific occurrences of the plot.

For example, P. Schuyler Miller called Arthur C. Clarke's 1961 novel A Fall of Moondust hard SF, and the designation remains valid even though a crucial plot element, the existence of deep pockets of " moondust " in lunar craters, is now known to be incorrect.

He borrowed it from the writings of the 16th-century chronicler John Mair or a 17th-century ballad presumably to make the plot of his novel more gripping.

* The 1984 Frederick Forsyth novel The Fourth Protocol features an elderly Kim Philby's involvement in a plot to trigger a nuclear explosion in Britain.

When it was pointed out to Niven that the Ringworld was dynamically unstable, in that once the center of rotation drifted away from the central sun, gravity would pull the ring into contact with the star, he used this as a plot element in the sequel novel, The Ringworld Engineers.

* Daedalus's Labyrinth served as a central plot element in Rick Riordan's 2008 novel, The Battle of the Labyrinth.

The plot of the novel has two distinct movements: the events at Microsoft and in Redmond, Washington, and the movement to Silicon Valley and the " Oop!