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...plot may seem familiar. In 1999 it was remade into Brian Helgeland’s sadomasochistic anger-porn “Payback,” starring Mel Gibson. The differences are astonishing...
...ruin a classic. Having spent my own formative years entranced by the catchy, kitschy tunes of “Willy Wonka” I wasn’t alien to this argument. Note to Wonka-snobs: Let. It. Go. It is possible for two movies with the same plot to coexist. The trick is not to recreate, but to reinvent...
Layering the seriousness of an inevitable life-and-death showdown with the day-to-day absurdity of flying newspapers and nine-handed clocks is like a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. But it’s also like, well, life. Although Rowling’s plot has been, for the most part, mapped out since 1997—she forecasted danger before even Richard Clarke—she says she writes each book fresh as she goes, so it’s fair to call this what it is: post-9/11 fiction at its best...
...Half-Blood Prince,” Rowling is also at her personal best. The author’s intricate plots have always carried the series, keeping us involved despite sometimes painfully plain prose. This time, the plot gets even better. Her technique works according to Chekhov’s formula—if there’s a gun in the first book, you can be sure there will be a death by the sixth—except J.K. Rowling doesn’t do guns; the clues she plants all have to do with biography, motive, and character. Earlier...
...videotape that showed Iraqis rejoicing alongside the bodies of seven Spanish intelligence agents who were killed outside Baghdad in November 2003; they spoke of the need to punish Spain (their adoptive country) for supporting America; they recruited others to fight in the insurgency. They began work on their plot the day after hearing an audiotaped bin Laden threaten "all the countries that participate in this unjust war [in Iraq]--especially Britain, Spain, Australia, Poland, Japan and Italy." It had been the first time Spain had been mentioned in an al-Qaeda hit list...