* 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.

Two months later, Gaddafi asserted that he wanted his agents to assassinate dissident refugees, even if they were just on pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca — in August 1984, a Libyan plot in Mecca was thwarted by Saudi Arabian police.

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.

Filmed in late 1983 and early 1984, the primary plot centres on two families, the Kemps and the Becketts, as an international crisis between the United States and the Soviet Union erupts and escalates.

Icehenge ( 1984 ), Robinson's first novel about Mars, is not set in this universe but deals with similar themes and plot elements.

* In 1984 in the play ( and later film ) A Chorus of Disapproval by Alan Ayckbourn, an amateur production of The Beggar's Opera is a major plot driver and excerpts are performed.

The film's plot is based on the song " Earth Girls Are Easy " from Julie Brown's 1984 mini-album Goddess In Progress.

In other words, in a science fiction novel, the world itself is a distinctive and crucial character in the plot, without whom the story could not take place, whether it's the world of Dune or Neuromancer or 1984.

The second investigations performed between 1981 and 1984 by the legislature, the U. S. Justice Department, and the local press uncovered a plot to assassinate the activists and a possible, though not conclusive, conspiracy to cover-up these actions.

There is a movie titled Pedro Navaja, filmed in Mexico in 1984, starring Andres Garcia as Pedro Navaja, a young Maribel Guardia as his girlfriend, and Resortes as his best friend, which is based on this song ; it was made without Blades's input, which caused him to record " Sorpresas " ( Surprises ), a song that continues the story, turning the movie's plot around by revealing Navaja was still alive and had killed another panderer while he was being registered, provided that the other panderer believed he was truly dead.

In late 1984, at least two informers reported to authorities of the first abortive plot to bomb Air India Flight 182, which flew out of Montreal at that time.

In February 1984, Ahidjo was put on trial in absentia for alleged involvement in a 1983 coup plot, along with two others ; they were sentenced to death, although Biya commuted their sentences to life in prison, a gesture seen by many as a sign of weakness.

* In the 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, the bowler is a vital plot device.

Northwest College also extended a 20 year lease to the Seattle Seahawks team in 1984 on a plot of undeveloped land on the west side of campus.

The 1984 film Body Double, directed by Brian De Palma, featured a plot that hinged on the discovery that one character had in fact served as a body double for another.

Many authors ( Sternberg, 1993, Ricoeur, 1984, and Baroni, 2007 ) have insisted that thematic and modal narratology should not be looked at separately, especially when dealing with the function and interest of narrative sequence and plot.

Sollers's other novels include Women ( 1983 ), Portrait du joueur ( 1984 ), Le coeur absolu ( 1986 ), Watteau in Venice ( 1991 ), Studio ( 1997 ), Passion fixe ( 2000 ), L ' étoile des amants ( 2002 ), which have all introduced a degree of realism to his fiction to the extent that they make more recognizable use of plot, character and thematic development.

Jean-Pierre Thystère Tchicaya, a leftist ideologue who was one of the PCT's top-ranking leaders, was accused of organizing a bomb plot and removed from the leadership at the 1984 party congress.

In February 1984 he was sentenced to death in absentia for alleged involvement in the 1983 coup plot, although the sentence was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment by Biya.

In early April 1984, President Biya ordered a transfer of all presidential palace guards who came from the predominantly Muslim north, probably because he had been alerted to a coup plot involving those soldiers.

The 1973-74 Goodwin / Simonson Paul Kirk Manhunter stories from Detective Comics have been collected several times: first in 1979 in oversized, black-and-white format by Excalibur Enterprises ; then in color by DC in 1984 ; they were reissued yet again by DC in 1999 with additional material, namely a silent story illustrated by Simonson from a plot breakdown by Goodwin and him ; the new collection was dedicated to Goodwin's memory, who had died before he could write the captions and dialogue ( as explained in the book's text piece ).

The first UK staging was in 1984 at English National Opera, in a translation by David Poutney, but with Janáček's original plot structure intact.

In 1984 Klein published the novel The Ceremonies, which uses the same basic plot as the novella to more expansive ends ; the threat this time is not to one man or one community, but to the entire world.

* Many of the parts of the " conspiracy " are based on errors or plot holes identified by fans of the original movie, such as Leon's ability to bring a gun into the Tyrell building, or the reference to the sixth replicant.

Each of these movies also shares a hallmark plot development, where the movie leads up to some kind of a highly anticipated performance, or the outcome of a performance.

* Gene therapy also plays a major role in the plot of the James Bond movie Die Another Day, where a scientist has developed a means of altering peoples ' entire appearances through the use of DNA samples acquired from others-generally homeless people that would not be missed-that are subsequently injected into the bone marrow, the resulting transformation apparently depriving the subjects of the ability to sleep.

* In November 1999, Galaxy Quest was novelized by science fiction writer Terry Bisson, who stayed very close to the plot of the movie.

The plot of the now famous movie, Hoosiers, was based on the story of the 1954 Milan team and seems to typify the hysteria related to basketball in the state of Indiana.

In August 2008, Bradley Blakeman, a former aide to George W. Bush, filed a copyright lawsuit in federal court on Long Island over Grammer's movie Swing Vote, claiming that parts of its plot and marketing had been stolen from him.

Shahid Khan of Planet Bollywood praised Dixit's dancing and acting skills in the movie " n any other film, the heroine would not have much to do with a plot like this.

It is also part of the plot of the movie Total Recall and the television series Babylon 5.

The movie altered the novel's plot substantially.

In the children's book and movie, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a pair of red ruby slippers play a key role in the plot.

* In the Disney channel movie The Color of Friendship, Biko's death is used as a plot turner in breaking the two teens apart.

The South Korean western movie The Good, the Bad, the Weird ( 2008 ) is inspired by the film, with much of its plot and character elements borrowed from Leone's film.

* In Ultimate Avengers 2: Rise of the Panther, vibranium serves as a bigger plot device than the previous movie as the reason for the invasion on Wakanda is their large mound of vibranium.

The movie plot involves Hercules ' mother being kidnapped by Zeus and the release of the Titans.

The theory professes to explain why a subset of action movie fans are willing to accept the idea that, for example: The good guy can get away with shooting guns in public places ( without getting in trouble with the local law-enforcement himself ), never running out of ammunition ( Rambo movies ), or that cars will explode with a well-placed shot to the gas tank ( numerous action movies use this cliché / plot element ).

This was a plot point in the movie Closer, where one character imitated a female in an anonymous London sex chat room in order to induce a meeting between his own girlfriend and the chat partner.

Often, but not always, and depending on the type of movie, the soundtrack album will contain portions of the score, music composed for dramatic effect as the movie's plot occurs.

In the first Kingdom Hearts and in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Mushu is a summonable character, and in Kingdom Hearts II, the movie is featured as a playable world named " The Land of Dragons ", with the plot being changed to accommodate the game's protagonists ( Sora, Donald and Goofy ) and Mulan ( both as herself and as " Ping ") able to join the player's party as a skilled sword fighter.

New York Times writer Gerald Jonas admits that the novel's plot summary reads like a " grade Z, made-for-television, science-fiction rip-off movie ," but then says that Card develops the elements well despite this " unpromising material.

In addition to more unusual words, Beyond Balderdash offers obscure acronyms, dates, names, and movie titles, for which the players have to provide full names, major events, major accomplishments, and plot summaries, respectively.

The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns British soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious natives.

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

* Brooke's poetry is used as character and plot device in the 1981 movie Making Love and the child ultimately born to the character Claire Elliott, played by Kate Jackson, is named after him.

In the TV movie Shredderman Rules, the main character and the main character's crush both have guinea pigs which both play a minor part in the plot.

Little of the original plot exists, with only a few basic elements remaining ; notably the underground army base near the end of the movie, and some of the characters names.