Perhaps it is also helped by the fact there are similarities between its story and key plot points and the phenomenally successful Batman trilogy that just wrapped up.
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The story's plot is based on Steve Jobs' real-life run-in with authorities over Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people )'s backdating of stock options to increase their value.
The film, which opens this weekend, tells the amazingly true story of a CIA plot to rescue six American stuck in the Canadian embassy during the Iranian hostage crisis with a fake movie.
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What opera-goers seem to want is the tried and trusted formula which attracts them to the operatic classics not media images, post-modern playfulness, overt politics or heavy symbolism, but a compelling human story, a gripping plot and a varied but fundamentally tuneful score.
Tolkien's poetry enriches and complements not only the plot of the story but the development of his fictional world.
The wire service said the investigation into its records appears related to an AP story about a thwarted terrorist plot in Yemen to bomb an airplane bound for the United States.
The story focuses on character and plot more than many Chinese epics do, and its presentation is modern, using slow-mo fight replays and computer-animated anatomy sequences to illustrate the forensic detective work.
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Officials have previously said in public testimony that the U.S. attorney in Washington is conducting a criminal investigation into who may have provided information contained in a May 7, 2012, AP story about a foiled terror plot.
Entwined with this plot is a love story in which Wallace finds a soul mate.
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The story of how Saatchi lost the plot in the late 1980s and early '90s is itself a case study in being led astray by still trying to act a part in a play that ended a while back, but what's equally interesting is how the company was able to rethink its plot, as Saatchi's chief executive, Kevin Roberts, has noted in his blog.
There is no plot as such and what story there is resists any kind of summary.
But the story told in the poem's plot became a British stage play that made it across the ocean within a few years.
The Justice Department was interested in the conversations of anyone who worked on a May 7, 2012, story about the CIA thwarting a terrorist plot in Yemen.
Although it is called Anastasia, the film addles dates, kills off the ghoulish Rasputin by drowning (rather than poison) and advances the plot through a fairytale love story.
There is a lot more to the plot, but this little love story is the surprisingly touching core.
Current "Fantastic Four" writer Jonathan Hickman said that the plot twist grew from a multiyear story he pitched once he started working on the book.
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The information is understood to have been obtained as part of an inquiry into possible leaks, after the news agency last year ran a story about the CIA foiling a Yemeni bomb plot.
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.
Then this character, played so well by Alan Ruck, up and dies, allowing his story to pay off, rather than living on to fuel another plot.
The quirk of this movie is that, for all its pretensions to topical soothsaying and its sombre machinations of plot, it remains, in essence, a love story.
The movie, directed by Chris Weitz, is stuffed with subplots and characters (talking animals, witches, and water gypsies) who all have a story to tell, and the narrative gets so busy that the plot gets lost.
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.
Producer Kate Oates said the plot would centre on characters visiting the festival, although the story would not be about the music event itself.
While the idea for the story is generally created by an author, everything beyond that (developed plot, characters, images, interactivity, etc.) is created by a team, including the author.
Think of it this way: the hit novel Child 44 is loosely based on the Chikatilo killings but the author is quite open about the fact that pretty much everything has been moved around to contribute to the story he really wanted to tell which is really just using Chikatilo as a plot device.
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The story disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida plot in the spring of 2012 to detonate a bomb on an airplane bound for the United States.
The May 7, 2012, AP story that disclosed details of the CIA operation in Yemen to stop an airliner bomb plot occurred around the one-year anniversary of the May 2, 2011, killing of Osama bin Laden.
Although many advertisers tried to pull people in with lengthy story lines, there were a few that stuck with short, quirky spots with no particular plot.
She said developing a story for the Web needed to have its own hook but not one that was outside the overall plot line they wanted to explore.
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