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.

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And so I wanted a lot of the plot in these books to be driven by social issues, specifically social issues that are of interest to the black community and to me as a black woman.

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The novel's structure, which follows the seasons over the course of a year, is not driven by a linear sense of plot.

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Equally if not more important has been a change in plot, from the traditional martial violence, simple noble samurai defeating evildoers themes, to more character-driven and sympathetic themes, including love stories or stories of daily life conflict within the social constraints of the Edo period.

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