Like the familiar plot-lines of a Hollywood blockbuster we already know what happens next.
But these revelations and plot-devices are recycled almost to the letter in The Heroes.
Plot-holders on an allotment in Bristol are campaigning to save the land from development after its owner went bust.
The options range from abstract, plot-free experiences to sparse narratives that invite the player to fill in the blanks.
Previous raids, hyped by the police before turning out to be false alarms, have instilled caution in a plot-weary public.
"We usually talk about plot--you might say that comedy ends in marriage but that it's about frustrated love and overcoming obstacles to romantic pairing, " says Witmore.
The British Crown Prosecution Service said it was a plot -- involving liquid explosives hidden in soft drink bottles -- that could have been pulled off.
Furthermore Coppola and Van Sant tend to make slow, impressionistic movies rather than plot-driven ones, which no doubt will have tweens bored to tears in the theater.
Countless modern writers have been influenced by Anton Chekhov's short stories and plays, which renounce plot-based structure, concentrating instead on the quasiabstract sketching of character and mood.
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These things do have their place, of course, and I enjoy the skill required to actually do well in a shooter, especially in their entirely plot-free multiplayer modes.
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Still, an achievement for Kepler, no doubt, but what we really want it to find is a planet home to beings who can explain the plot-line of Prometheus.
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Each storybook covered the same plot - three children and what happened when their cat got stuck in a tree - using colour illustrations and a simple text narrative.
This tiny plot - only four and a half acres - dates back to 1698 and in Olivier Krug's opinion provides the conditions to grow the perfect Chardonnay grape.
Two men - one a cabinet member and one said to be linked to the ringleader of a previous plot - were arrested on Sunday, a BBC reporter in Benin said.
The judge directed that Basildon Council should serve a schedule on the residents by midday on Tuesday specifying what enforcement measures were proposed on a plot-by-plot basis, with the residents responding by midday on Thursday.
In Matthew Weiner's 1960s-set serial - shown in the US on AMC and about to be a flagship series for the UK's Sky Atlantic - the focus is firmly on tone, mood and character development at the expense of plot-points.
Her suitors, in contrast -- especially Matty the player, who keeps a closet full of pink loungewear on his shelves for his many visiting ladies -- are more plot-functional than three-dimensional, even when Rudd gives adorable, well-meaning haplessness his best, Ruddiest shot.
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For the first few frames of the scene, one of the tablets is shown being used to scan radio frequencies, so it's justified as part of the plot -- and busy gents like these are bound to carry a few devices around with them.
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When you have a story as sprawling as Game of Thrones, with a cast that only continues to grow, and plot-lines sprouting up like magic beanstalks all over the place, the first episode of a season can feel a whole lot like tying up loose ends.
There is little hope of passing urgent legislative business, such as a long-stalled deal on sharing proceeds from deep-sea oil drilling between states, while politicians gossip, plot and counter-plot.
While the action is spectacular -- after all, the choreography was handled by kung-fu master Yuen Woo-ping, whose credits include Drunken Master and most recently The Matrix -- what really makes Crouching Tiger a gem is the wonderful blend of nostalgia, stunning cinematography, a fast-paced plot, and -- yes -- a good story.
Eva Longoria Parker, who plays the once highly-glamorous Gabrielle Solis, says she's particularly thrilled with the plot twist--and not just because her hair and makeup preparation time has been cut down from two hours to 10 minutes.
One of a small group of journalists, I was allowed through the fencing into the plot itself - this is crop science conducted inside a fortress.
The visuals are as gaudy as the lauguage (Bojan Bazelli did the look-at-me cinematography), and the plot is jolt-happy.
Which is how Onyok came to receive two cars, a million-peso cash prize, a house with a plot of land -- and a pension for life.
Col von Stauffenberg - played by Tom Cruise in the 2008 film of the plot, Valkyrie - placed the bomb in a conference room where Hitler was meeting his officials inside the "Wolf's Lair", Hitler's command post in East Prussia.
In the fall of 2010, a year after the document was written, European intelligence agencies were scrambling to investigate a Mumbai-style plot involving German and other European militants -- which sparked an unprecedented U.S. State Department travel warning for Americans in Europe.
While the Pentagon has backed Mr Chalabi, and air-lifted him into southern Iraq, both the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have severe doubts about the exile (who left Iraq in 1958 at the age of 13), even though he helped lead an aborted CIA-sponsored plot to overthrow Saddam in the mid-1990s.
Valkyrie - named after Operation Valkyrie, the plot's codename - will be directed by Bryan Singer and co-star British actor Kenneth Branagh.
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To economic liberals in the governing centre-right coalition, this looked like a plot to resurrect old-fashioned industrial policy.
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