As with all his adaptations, he subverts the text to concentrate on the heroine Gwendolen, who he turns into a vapid but stroppy travesty of a modern woman, instead of allowing the original plot to speak for itself.

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The original draft contained a plot of latitude and historical temperature change.

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Though sticking closely to the plot of the original, Losey turns the story into pungent Americana through his attention to alluringly grubby Los Angeles locations.

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The plot will be familiar to anybody versed in Ealing comedy (the original movie, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, and graced with the same title, came out in 1955), but the existence of this new version is harder to explain.

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Inception was an original idea, with even more twists and turns with its dream within a dream within a dream plot.

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Hamilton has said the seed for her plot came from the 2005 Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Light in the Piazza, and the original novel by Elizabeth Spencer on which that was based.

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