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The plot is a spoof of the traditional country-house whodunit, familiar to mystery fiction fans from classics such as Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, a form also parodied for the stage in Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound.
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There is no more `` plot '' than that ; ;
The difference is that the masters took the bare frame of a plot and filled it with their own world ; ;
As you have doubtless guessed already, the plot is plastered with Freudian, Jungian, and Meinckian theory.
They might, for example, plot it exactly as is, or they might make ten day moving averages of it, or longer moving averages, or they might simply plot the ratio of odd-lot purchases to odd-lot sales.
In addition, it is an important link in the plot, giving us a revealing glimpse of the people's attitude toward Boris and the false Dimitri.
A straight line relationship is usually observed in a plot of Af against load L, having slope k, and Af.
You get back to the captain and tell him this: Somebody's going to take a shot at the prime minister, and Mahzeer is in on the plot.
that its presentation in this country is part of a capitalist plot to boobify the American people ; ;
I know nothing of any plot, if there is such a thing ''.
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.
The remainder of the book is a collection of essays on the game, statistics for the new characters and an update of the older ones in light of their appearance in the second series, and ( perhaps most usefully for GMs ) plot summaries of each of the ten books.
Not much is known concerning this plot and the reasons behind it.
A long narrow strip of land is more efficient to plough than a square plot, since the plough does not have to be turned so often.
The grave site is located on the Arcadia Hebron plot of land at the corner of Summit Avenue and Dingle Road.
The ansible itself is a major plot element, nearly a MacGuffin in Moon's Vatta's War series.
the plot takes place only in a gigantic megastructure / arcology simply called the City, which is still being expanded by its automatic systems.
The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.
Dariush Mehrjui's film Sara ( 1993 ) is based on A Doll's House, with the plot transferred to Iran with Sara, played by Niki Karimi, is the Nora of Ibsen's play.
The second funeral is distinguished by themes contrasting with those of the first, as well as by a change in the direction of the plot which leads to Beowulf's fight against Grendel's Mother.
The setting and plot also suggest that the lament is funeral: the Last Survivor describes burial offerings similar to those in the funerals of Scyld Scefing, Hildeburg ’ s kin, and Beowulf.
First among them is the risk associated with portraying the king's ancestor as a murderer and conspirator in the plot to overthrow a rightful king, as well as the author's desire to flatter a powerful patron.
plot and spoof
A plot to steal the statue figures at the center of the 1966 spoof spy film The Last of the Secret Agents.
Quill noted that the pilot includes " every cliche in the western movie arsenal ", but that " everything, from characters to plot turns, is skewed away from the norm ", and that the pilot episode rose above the level of western spoof to become an " outrageously confident tribute to ... the best of the genre ".
The high-level plot strongly resembles the LAPD Rampart scandal and the game even culminates with a spoof of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
The film contains several plot points which parody or spoof several well-known works of science-fiction, most notably H. G. Wells ' The Sleeper Awakes and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
As a result, the film's plot and scenes were heavily parodied in the 2001 spoof Not Another Teen Movie.
The plot of Runway Zero Eight features prominently in the comedy spoof Airplane!
The plot of the episode is a reference to Mary Poppins ; Shary Bobbins is based on the character Mary Poppins and the episode title is a spoof of the word " Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ".
The review judges that the plot is a fast-moving and clever spoof of contemporary spy films.
: The crew become involved in a small-business espionage plot around biscuits in a spoof of the 1960s series of Batman.
plot and traditional
In the Bacchae, he restores the chorus and messenger speech to their traditional role in the tragic plot, and the play appears to be the culmination of a regressive or archaizing tendency in his later works ( for which see Chronology below ).
Many epic poems of various cultures were pieced together from shorter pieces of traditional narrative verse, which explains their episodic structure and often their in medias res plot developments.
His films often eschew traditional narrative structure, lacking clear plot progression and focusing more on mood and character development.
Recent films such as Clash of the Titans, Immortals or Thor continue the trend of mining traditional mythology in order to directly create a plot for modern consumption.
The film paid tribute to traditional American western movies, but significantly departed from them in storyline, plot, characterization and mood.
" Although describing the plot as " pretty traditional space opera ," he praised the novel for its " ably drawn " characters, its " well-imagined " background, and its " story told with zest.
In successive chapters, Propp analyzes the characters, plot events, and other elements of traditional folktales ( primarily from Russia and Eastern Europe ).
Lupa shatters the traditional action of the performances, stretching their tempos and concentrating on the poetic values of particular situations rather than the plot or conflict.
An intricate, complicated plot is called an imbroglio, but even the simplest statements of plot may include multiple inferences, as in traditional.
" Fritz Senn has also voiced concerns with some plot synopses, saying " we have some traditional summaries, also some put in circulation by Joyce himself.
Additionally, unlike many other forms of fiction, absurdist works will not necessarily have a traditional plot structure ( i. e., rising action, climax, falling action, etc.
Much of the dialogue and plot of the game pokes fun at traditional RPG and sci-fi clichés.
Several variations on the traditional box plot have been described.
" He reiterated his traditional sense of his duty as a soldier: had he supported the plot, he said, " I would have emerged and been considered for all time the greatest traitor to my Fatherland.
The third and final series focused on a different character each week but with the overlaps creating a more complex layering of the plot, more akin to a one-off episode of a situation comedy ( albeit with intertwined plots ) than a traditional sketch show.
The traditional view is that it was Northumberland's plot to maintain his power by placing his family on the throne.
Cremation plots or columbarium niches are usually cheaper than a traditional burial plot or mausoleum crypt, and require less space.
The show combined traditional sitcom style with violent slapstick, non sequitur plot turns, and surrealism.
" By the final third of the series, the writers had wrapped up the science-fiction plot with the Orb and focused more on traditional Western motifs.
The references to the traditional English fair, " Scarborough Fair " and the refrain " parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme " date to 19th century versions, and the refrain may have been borrowed from the ballad Riddles Wisely Expounded, ( Child Ballad # 1 ), which has a similar plot.
Only in the second installment were any elements of a traditional RPG plot added in, but the player could ( and probably did ) spend days playing before realizing the importance of any of their actions.
In the traditional manner of musical theater, every significant character in the stage version of Cabaret sings to express emotion and advance the plot ; but in the film version, the musical numbers are entirely diegetic, and only two of the film's major characters ( The Emcee and Sally ) sing any songs.
An example is that of a December 2004 case in which the Noonkanbah people were recognised as the traditional owners of a plot of land in Western Australia.
Frequently digressive, the novel subverts many of the traditional elements of plot and character development, and traverses detailed, specialist knowledge drawn from a wide range of disciplines.
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