The political aspect of the film, with its people marching the streets for justice and a lack of understanding from local law enforcement, is reminiscent of another film involving
a plotline where a young boy is ostensibly stolen in a carjacking, Freedomland.
Not exact matches
According to Variety, the film «will feature a storyline that picks up
where the original series ended and resolves unanswered
plotlines — including the whereabouts of Arnold's parents, long missing from the program.
In a state - of - the - nation drama,
where a number of different ideas already jostle for attention, each
plotline could be more meaningfully developed with less singing.
Where the prior installments of the Shrek saga had a defining
plotline, Shrek 3 has three parallel stories, each, it would seem, pitched to a different demographic.
While the subject matter is the stuff that good films are made of, and the quality of the direction and acting are worthy of admiration,
where The East fails is in the contrivances involved in the farfetched
plotline and the unevenness in the thriller elements (such as a scene in which the cell dresses up to the nines to infiltrate a party for pharmaceutical bigwigs that would feel more at home in a Mission Impossible movie) that undermine what could have been a chilling and realistic story of corporations run amok.
From here we jump 18 months ahead to the present
where a seemingly endless number of characters with overlapping motivations and
plotlines flit from location to location at breakneck speed in order to force all the pieces into their positions of the board so that we can see The Dark Knight repeatedly punch The Big Blue Boy Scout.
This is really Tom Tykwer's (Perfume, Paris I Love You) showcase, and what the film lacks in terms of exciting and novel
plotlines, it makes up for with the director's more realistic approach to the action,
where the hero can get hurt, characters aren't always living or dying on cue, and one bullet isn't enough to kill every nameless henchman instantly.
A third
plotline was unfolding back in Chatham
where the worried families of the brave Coast Guardsmen, including Bernie's fiancee Miriam (Holliday Grainger), were wringing their hands.
The Amazing Spider - Man 2 never seems clear on
where it's going and stumbles from
plotline to
plotline and from character to character hoping for something to hang onto.
(An aside: I have no idea why, but drug - induced date rape appears to have been in the air as a
plotline in 1984 Hong Kong, you can find it as well in Patrick Tam's bizarre romantic comedy Cherie,
where Chor Yuen keeps trying and failing to drug Cherie Chung).
A scene
where Carla waxes the balls of an affable male stripper (Justin Hartley) doesn't add to the other
plotlines, but it's hard to argue when the scene is so funny and surprisingly sweet.
Her «living off the grid» approach to life is unique in a world
where everyone is connected all the time, but again, like most
plotlines in Anon, this story runs out of steam before it even gets going.
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The big red flag immediately is present from the very beginning of Watch Dogs story, essentially trying to play on an idea that a wrong can be amended by another wrong which essentially leads us to the
plotline of Watch Dogs
where you as supposed protagonist Aiden Pierce are performing a further wrong to deal with the second wrong.
However, if your story just happens to use a similar story framework as Dr.. Who, but
where the
plotlines, settings and and personality of main characters are all different from Dr.. Who, then it probably will not be considered a derivative work and you would be OK.
We live in a world
where «surreptitious genetic testing» and «revenge porn» are not TV
plotlines and
where the latest thing to be hyped is «Big Data.»