Word: plotting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bruce Cabot as Jack Driscoll What is it about "King Kong"? Kind of ridiculous on a plot level, isn't it? Expedition sails to uncharted island to make an adventure documentary; they bring along a blonde, Ann Darrow (Fay Wray), for "love interest." Natives on island make sacrifices to local god, figure the blonde would work better than one of the local maidens. Kidnap blonde, tie her up on altar on other side of huge wall, call on the god. God turns out to be giant ape who feels immediate love interest and grabs the blonde. Expedition pursues them into...
Cooper (L) and Schoedsack (R) Thus "Kong" was born from Cooper-Schoedsack's own experience as documentary filmmakers, Willis O'Brien's test reels, a fairy tale plot line conceived by Hollywood veteran James Creelman and Schoedsack spouse Ruth Rose, and a naïve '30s view of the great ape as nature's ultimate killing machine. Like the dragons, the displaced ape would die in the city; even better, he would die on the just-completed Empire State Building, the ultimate expression of human technical achievement, and he would be killed by airplanes, the ultimate engine of destruction. Cooper...
...that have the same breakneck speed, most particularly the work of W. S. Van Dyke in "Tarzan and His Mate," "Trader Horn" and my favorite, "San Francisco." Certainly influenced by Cooper-Schoedsack (some of their jungle footage turns up in both "Horn" and "Tarzan"), Van Dyke sets up the plot and gets us involved in the characters with an economy that is unimaginable today...
...Waller: This was not due to one person's mistake. The fire control technician mans what's called the "contact evaluation plot" - a vertical sheet of paper in the control room that he marks up with different colored pencils to keep track of the locations of other ships and submarines. A contact evaluation plot is often just used as an historical record so crews can keep track of where things are - it's one of maybe a dozen tracking devices they...
Bill and Hillary Clinton have always maintained a hygienic distance between their scandals, like His and Hers towels. He had Monica; she had cattle futures. He rented out the Lincoln Bedroom; she emptied out the Travel Office. Whitewater had separate plot lines: his lost memory, her lost billing records. And for a month, it looked as if the 177 clemencies Clinton granted in his final days were falling neatly into the His column. But last week it became clear that U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White was investigating some that have signs of being community property--the commuted sentences of four...