According to Michael Jeck's DVD commentary, Seven Samurai was among the first films to use the now-common plot element of the recruiting and gathering of heroes into a team to accomplish a specific goal, a device used in later films such as The Guns of Navarone, Ocean's Eleven, The Dirty Dozen, and the western remake The Magnificent Seven.

The plot of Stephen King's 2003 novel Wolves of the Calla is loosely based on The Magnificent Seven ( Or, rather Seven Samurai ).

Roy Thomas from Marvel Comics wrote a 3-issue story arc ( issue numbers 7, 8 & 9 from the Original Marvel series ) Star Wars story based on The Seven Samurai / Magnificent Seven plot.

The plot is loosely based on Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film, Seven Samurai, and the subsequent western adaptation, The Magnificent Seven.

Though the characters were inspired by such American novels as The Great Gatsby and The Magnificent Ambersons, the plot has been compared to Moby-Dick.

After collecting these powers, Bartman must find Radioactive Man and team up with him to defeat Brain-O the Magnificent, the mastermind behind the evil plot.

The historical setting, which provides many plot elements and prominent characters for the novels, is the incessant jockeying for position through treaties, alliances of convenience, political marriages, wars, and even piracy, among the English Tudors, the Holy Roman Empire of the Habsburgs, the French Valois, the Ottoman Empire of Suleiman the Magnificent, and their respective secular and religious allies, including the Stewarts of Scotland, the Knights of St. John, the corsairs of North Africa, and even Tsar Ivan the Terrible of Russia.

The plot was based on the 1522 siege of Rhodes, when the island was besieged by the Ottoman fleet of Suleiman the Magnificent.

Another son, Daniel, received an area east of the original plot, and a third son, George, received an area outside of the present borough known as " Seven Stars " ( located north of Schuylkill Haven on the Schuylkill River ).

Space Ship Earthling number Seven ultimately succeeds, and the consequences of their success form the basis of the plot for the novels which follow.

Andrew provides much of the comic relief in Season Seven along with the advancement of major plot points.

The cartoon begins with Hazel asking the genie of the magic mirror who's the ugliest one of all ( a plot similar to the one in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves but the opposite ).

The plot of the Dominion War is presented in a succession of shorter story arcs which span Seasons Two to Seven of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and are linked editorially by the decisions of the producers and writers.

Bride kidnapping is also a central plot device in the Hollywood musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ( 1954 ).

The distinctive smell of burning match-cord was also a give away of a musketeer's position ( this was used as a plot device by Akira Kurosawa in his movie Seven Samurai ).

He outlined his thinking on the issues of continuity between the stories by stating that he " started writing Final Crisis # 1 in early 2006, around the same time as the 52 series was starting to come out, so Final Crisis was more a continuation of plot threads from Seven Soldiers and 52 than anything else.

The fictional plot of the classic Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai takes place in the 15th year of Tenshō.

* Part of the plot of the 2003 animated film Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas is based on Damon and Pythias.

He helps foil Arianne Martell's plot to name Myrcella Baratheon the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, killing Arys Oakheart in the process.

He is a close friend of Varys, and the pair engineer a plot to place House Targaryen back on the throne of the Seven Kingdoms.

This episode's plot was later re-used in Star Trek: Enterprise for the episode " Doctor's Orders " with Dr. Phlox playing the role of Seven, and T ' Pol playing the role of the Doctor.

Elements of episodes 6 and 7 (' Supermass ' and ' Deathship '), featuring the appearance of the artificial black hole Spaceguard Six which draws in the Challenger, have plot similarities to the Blake's Seven episode ' Dawn of the Gods '.

While the story is based on the film Seven Samurai, its story and plot have more in common with its animated counterpart, Samurai 7.

A plot of the first few factorials makes clear that such a curve can be drawn, but it would be preferable to have a formula that precisely describes the curve, in which the number of operations does not depend on the size of n. The simple formula for the factorial, n < nowiki >!</ nowiki > = 1 × 2 × … × n, cannot be used directly for fractional values of n since it is only valid when n is a natural number ( i. e., a positive integer ).

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.

According to Marples, Shakespeare drew directly from Plautus “ parallels in plot, in incident, and in character ,” and was undeniably influenced by the classical playwright ’ s work.

Some retcons do not directly contradict previously established facts, but " fill in " missing background details, usually to support current plot points.

Though several important plot points are different, there are significant parallels between the two stories, and many scenes and lines are culled directly from Hammett's novel.

Many of the plot lines and characters are derived directly from the pulps, as referenced by the first line of the novel:

Unlike the Induction and the main plot however, there is a recognised source for Shakespeare's sub-plot, first suggested by Alfred Tolman in 1890 ; Ludovico Ariosto's I Suppositi ( 1551 ), which Shakespeare used either directly or through George Gascoigne's English prose translation Supposes ( performed in 1566, printed in 1573 ).

Avery also endeared himself to intellectuals by constantly breaking through the artifice of the cartoon, having characters leap out of the end credits, loudly object to the plot of the cartoon they were starring in, or speak directly to the audience.

In another, Sandurz quickly explains the plot and situation to Dark Helmet, who then turns directly to the screen and says, " Everybody got that?

The 1924 film was directly remade in Europe in 1961 with Steve Reeves in the lead, while a 1978 made-for-television film combined plot elements of these with others from the Sabu version.

Delp was arrested in Munich on 28 July 1944 ( eight days after Claus von Stauffenberg's attempt on Hitler's life ), although he was not directly involved in the plot.

Although plot details and many of the characters in Aguirre come directly from Herzog ’ s own imagination, historians have pointed out that the film fairly accurately incorporates some 16th-century events and historical personages into a fictional narrative.

Given a table of costs and revenues at each quantity, we can either compute equations or plot the data directly on a graph.

even directly appropriates a Jekyll and Hyde plot.

The one episode that featured no musical act still fulfilled the variety criteria by including a lion tamer, whose presence also directly contributed to the plot.

The most common approach is for the events of the second work to directly follow the events of the first, either picking up dangling plot threads or introducing a new conflict to drive the events of a second story.

MicroStation Version 1, which allowed users to download files directly from their VAX system to their PC to view and plot them ( a very primitive Bentley View ), was introduced to the market in 1986.

Though the title suggests Universal Pictures ' 1932 film of the same name, the film actually derives its plot and characters entirely from two later Universal films, The Mummy's Hand and The Mummy's Tomb, with the climax borrowed directly from The Mummy's Ghost.

Copies form the conceptual spine of the story, and much of the plot deals directly with the " lived " experience of Copies, most of whom are copies of wealthy billionaires suffering terminal illnesses or fatal accidents, who spend their existences in VR worlds of their creating, usually maintained by trust funds which independently own and operate large computing resources for their sakes, separated physically and economically from most of the rest of the world's computing power, which is privatised as a fungible commodity.

In radio science, horizontal plane is used to plot an antenna's relative field strength in relation to the ground ( which directly affects a station's coverage area ) on a polar graph.

Vertical plane is used in radio to plot an antenna's relative field strength perpendicular to the ground ( which directly affects a station's coverage area ) on a polar graph.

However, for scientific analysis it usually better not to pre-manipulate the experimental data, but to plot the raw measured i-V data directly.

Its plot ( concerned with a German commando unit sent into England to kidnap Winston Churchill ) was fresh and innovative ( although the plot is clearly reminiscent of Alberto Cavalcanti's wartime film Went the Day Well ?, which itself was directly based on the 1942 Graham Greene short story The Lieutenant Died Last ), and the characters had significantly more depth than in his earlier work.