Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thus the plot: Lestat, in a male human body, charges about the world with his mortal friend David Talbot, trying to reclaim his vampire body. As usual, author Rice is eerily good at making the impossible seem self-evident, in this case, showing how painfully uncomfortable it is for the con man, Lestat and finally Talbot to be stumbling about in the wrong bodies. Of course there are a couple of breathless, will-he-or-won't-he subtexts. Will Talbot and Lestat make love? And -- the same theme restated -- will Talbot let Lestat turn him into a vampire...
...Bram Stoker's Dracula"? Though the screenplay is more faithful than most vampire movies to the book's plot, its Dracula is light-years from Stoker's. The novel's count was no demon lover; he was a pestilence, the lord of bats and rats, and his touch was not romantic but rabid. He represented unseductive evil. Bram Stoker's Dracula proposed that English innocence could be sucked dry by European decadence, until English common sense drove a stake through its lurid heart...
Robb Hirsch, the 119th Captain of the Harvard Crimson, will step onto that vestigial plot of grass across the river for the last time today in a crimson uniform...
...first to buy projectors and cameras. Our inspiration was the fact that it would be unique to use techniques that are inexpensive and fresh and that no one has really seen in a long time." In fact, the novelty film craze of Victorian England makes its way into the plot of "Dracula," as the ardent vampire pursues Mina through the London cinematograph exhibition. The characters watch images on a screen as we watch them. The film constantly dances around the subject of images--projections on movie screens, shadows which act on their own accord, and a mirror, which Dracula smashes...
...Creditors unfolds its plot in a direct, uninterrupted, concise way," read the program notes. Right. And the lunch lines in the Union are efficient. Creditors, in fact, opens with an interminable and flat dialogue between Pat and Ronnie. It then moves on to interminable and flat dialogues between Pat and Taimi and, finally, Taimi and Ronnie. All that action in just under two hours...