Word: plot
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...Titanic may go down (no pun intended) as the most-acclaimed movie in history. It has received a record-tying 14 Academy Award nominations. While some of the nominations should have been expected, others come as a surprise, especially the one for Best Picture. A film with a predictable plot and trite dialogue should not be ranked as one of the top five movies...
...explain my position about this little utopia of movie plot scenarios. There's a scene in U.S. Marshals where Gerard catches Sheridan picking his handcuffs off and asks him whether or not he's going to escape because Gerard is busy and can't watch him just now that characterizes the mood of the film. Jones is aboard the prison transport plane because of this stupid public relations reason that his superior all but made up. (Didn't these people see ConAir? Why is it that people have to fly criminals anywhere? It's not like they have anywhere...
...figure out The Big Lebowski's loopy plot, but an even better time can be had just watching Bridges' character trying to make sense of the confusion. The plot of The Big Lebowski is a spin on a detective yarn, which begins when the Dude meets a cranky old rich man who also happens to share his name, Jeffrey Lebowski...
...shocking from the creator of Song of Solomon's galvanizing Milkman and Pilate, or Beloved's triumvirate of mother and daughters--detract from the novel as a whole. Again, though, this ailment of the text proved ironically rewarding for the Faneuil Hall audience, who could follow the movements of plot and character easily without the impediments of tortuous internal conflicts or irreducible psychic complexities...
When another reader asked how she gauges the amount of plot and character information to include, Morrison responded, "I don't know how I do it, but I'll tell you this--knowing that is the difference between an amateur and a professional...