The film takes its title from Chaucer's " The Knight's Tale " in his Canterbury Tales, though the plot is not especially similar.

The plot is a variant of the medieval tale of patient Griselda, as told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Its plot derives from " The Knight's Tale " in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which had already been dramatised by Richard Edwardes.

The title and plot are a play on the titles of romance comic books with their overwrought love stories — very popular in earlier decades — such as " True Life Secrets ," " True Stories of Romance ," " Romance Tales ," " Untamed Love " and " Strange Love.

Similar to Amazing Stories, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, The Outer Limits, Tales From The Crypt, and Lee Martin's The Midnight Hour, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist.

The manga, titled Tales of the Microns: Linkage, feature these repaints in an original story which served to fill in many of the blank spots and plot holes in the animated series.

Writing segments for " Simpsons Tall Tales " was much different from normal episodes ; for example, the writers only had one day to outline each segment's plot, and three to four days to write the first draft of each script, which is much less time than the writers usually get for an episode.

Many modern English editions of the Tales ( such as the Penguin Classics edition translated by Nevill Coghill ) omit it entirely, providing a brief plot summary and discussing the religious and philosophical intentions of the story briefly.

Brown returns to plot his creation after 19 years in the September 2007 issue of Tales of the TMNT.

The musical style of the show's score was primarily Doo-Wop as the plot revolved around Doo-Wop group singers of the 1960s.

In successive chapters, Propp analyzes the characters, plot events, and other elements of traditional folktales ( primarily from Russia and Eastern Europe ).

While The Diamond Age can be viewed primarily as a coming-of-age or Bildungsroman central plot centered on a female character, deeper analysis reveals several interconnected themes.

Riskin's version deviated from the original Runyon story primarily in that it linked its central character and a number of plot developments to millions of Americans who were suffering from an economic crisis as a result of the onset of the Great Depression.

The story deals primarily with a fictional assassination plot against De Gaulle, where the organization hires a British contract killer ( the Jackal ) to kill De Gaulle.

The plot of the film revolves primarily around a vacationing family who lose their way on a road trip.

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 cloister garth, a claustrum consisting of the viridarium, a rectangular plot of grass surrounded by peristyle arcades, was barred to the laity, and served primarily as a place of retreat, a locus of the ‘ vita contempliva ’.

In November 2000, Showcase Television Inc., a division of Alliance Atlantis, was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to launch a television channel called Action Television, described as " a national English-language Category 2 specialty television service devoted to action movies and series primarily driven by a fast-paced fictional plot featuring car chases, explosions, special effects, or martial arts.

It was shot primarily from helicopters, simplifying and downplaying the drama of the plot.

" Although at this stage the question is primarily presented to make a plot point ( the Doctor's name is not Foreman ), the question is later asked for humorous effect many times in the series, and as a dramatic plot device beginning with the conclusion of " The Wedding of River Song ".

The plot of Manas revolves around a series of events that coincide with the history of the region in the 17th century, primarily the interaction of the Turki-speaking people from the mountains to the south of the Dasht-i Qipchaq and the Oirat Mongols from the bordering area of Jungaria.

They are primarily used in the normal probability plot, a graphical technique for normality testing.

The essential point of the dichotomy is that Rowley wrote the subplot and the opening and closing scenes, while Middleton was primarily responsible for the main plot — a division of labor that is unsurprising, given the examples of other Middleton / Rowley collaborations.

His settled the newly-built central section primarily with burghers, with a plot set aside for the Augustinian order next to Skałka.

Gregory Maguire's most recent book, A Lion Among Men, is told primarily from the Lion's viewpoint, and its plot is centered around Brrr's account of his own origins, or lack thereof ( he is unsure, as his narration begins, of the whereabouts of his parents, herd, etc.

The plot primarily follows the adventures of a character known only as Our Heroine as she attempts to solve the mystery of her friend's murder while repeated flashbacks detail her family's past adventures in the underground Icelandic kingdom of Vanaheim.

The original plot was considerably altered yet many following adaptations were primarily based on this film rather than on the novel itself ( e. g., the former marshal of nobility from the novel was replaced in the Polish-Czech film by a barber who then appeared in several later adaptations ).

Although it is a crossover film, it is primarily a Rugrats movie as the main plot focuses on those characters, and the characters from The Wild Thornberrys are supporting characters, not counting Nigel Thornberry ( voiced by Tim Curry ) who is in fact a main character.

The plot concerns the marriage of Michael Anton and Pauline Barclay, who meet when he tends to her bloodied brow in his family's grocery store, located in a primarily Eastern European conclave in Baltimore, in December 1941.

* The 1977 film The American Friend, primarily based on Ripley's Game, also uses plot elements of Ripley Under Ground.

The plot was adapted primarily from the books Asterix the Legionary and Asterix the Gladiator by Goscinny and Uderzo's friend Pierre Tchernia.

The plot of Pita-Ten centers primarily on the upbeat character Misha and her attempts to become a licensed angel, and Kotaro, her neighbor.

The plot revolves around a sinister construction corporation's plans to depopulate, destroy and redevelop the Bronx, and a band of rebels who are out to expose the corporation's murderous ways and save their homes.

The plot revolves around species-related humor, satire, and interpersonal conflict.

" 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.

It incorporates elements of dark humor and existentialist drama, with a plot that revolves around the exploits of a young man named Harold ( played by Bud Cort ) intrigued with death.

The 2005 film The Island revolves around a similar plot, with the exception that the clones are unaware of the reason for their existence.

Often, much of the plot revolves around his heritage or mysterious nature.

Work is not glorified either, since the plot revolves around a group of villagers using their vacation time to go on a trip up the Volga to perform in Moscow.

* Machiavelli wrote in 1518 a play Mandragola ( The Mandrake ) in which the plot revolves around the use of a mandrake potion as a ploy to bed a woman.

In the mystery novel The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters ( 1974 ) the central plot revolves around the debate as to whether Richard III was guilty of these and other crimes.

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.

Labor unions, which had been treated negatively in " The Roads Must Roll ", are here subjected to even more severe and categorical criticism, where a significant portion of the plot revolves around Max's attempts to enter the closed guild system of the spacelines ' officers and crew.

The plot revolves around the behind-the-scenes antics of a group of Munchkins on the set of The Wizard of Oz.

The plot of Rebel Assault II revolves around destroying the Empire's ability to manufacture the cloaking TIE phantom starfighter, and a campaign in X-Wing Alliance centers on destroying experimental remote-control TIE fighters.

The plot of " Evidence " revolves around the question of telling a human being apart from a robot constructed to appear human – Calvin reasons that if such an individual obeys the Three Laws he may be a robot or simply " a very good man ".

The plot revolves around a murder where the forensic investigation discovers that the victim was killed by a hug from a humaniform robot.

In TV interviews, Hitchcock defined a MacGuffin as the object around which the plot revolves, but, as to what that object specifically is, he declared, " the audience don't care ".

Moreover, The Patriot does not depict the American character Benjamin Martin as innocent of atrocities ; a key plot point revolves around the character Benjamin Martin's guilt over acts he engaged in, such as torturing, killing, and mutilating prisoners during the French and Indian War.

Set in a dystopian present, the plot revolves around the contestants of a gruelling walking contest, held annually by a somewhat despotic and totalitarian version of the United States of America.

The film's plot revolves around two characters, Weyak and Pua.

In Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne's novel The Wrong Box, much of the farcical plot revolves around the mis-delivery of two boxes at Waterloo station, and the attempts by the various protagonists to retrieve them.

The plot of the film revolves around the one pharmaceutical corporation that has found a cure but chooses to withhold it from the public in favor of a more lucrative treatment program.

The plot is set in the fictional Indiana Jones universe and revolves around the eponymous protagonist's global search for the legendary sunken city of Atlantis.

The plot revolves around Sylvia, a ditzy psychic, and Nick, her equally odd psychic friend and their trip into the Ecuadorian Andes to find the " source of psychic energy ".

However, the Galactic Empires from Foundation and the CoDominium universe are relatively benign organizations ; indeed, much of the plot of the Foundation series revolves around the issue of who can best and quickest revive the fallen galactic empire, it being taken for granted that this is a positive and worthy aim.

Set in Baltimore, Maryland, the plot revolves around Macon Leary, a writer of travel guides whose son has been killed in a shooting at a fast-food restaurant.