Sentence examples for plot premises from inspiring English sources

Charlie Kaufman's plot premises have tended to be somewhat baroque: identical twin screenwriters, one named Charlie Kaufman, agonise over a script (Adaptation); a playwright mounts an autobiographical drama that threatens to engulf the world (Synecdoche, New York); most notoriously, an office building contains a secret portal into the mind of a movie actor (Being John Malkovich).

After reading it I know more names of thriller writers than I could previously recite, and have a small list of writers I'd like to check out — largely on the basis of their settings or plot premises — but I am no closer to knowing "how cops, crooks, and cannibals captured popular fiction".

But it's also more mature than its plot, premise and even its ancestry suggest.

One story is in fact very similar to the plot premise of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 2008 movie Three Monkeys.As one divorce lawyer says Ricardo Darin's character: "I see violence all over the place".

But it is not, of course, the first plot premised on an accidental marooning.

However in WHEN ALL THE GIRLS HAVE GONE she lays out a good plot premise but then lets it wander all over the place before she ties it all up.

The episode was listed as a series highlight in issue 61 of Cult Times, published in 2000; writer Mike Fillis referred to "Trapped in the Sky" as "riveting", and its bomb plot premise as "very topical".

The game's plot premise has remained similar to that of Curse of Enchantia, featuring a young man (the protagonist's name was changed from Brad to Boris, but he also has a sister named Jenny ) who is transported to another world which has to save from an evil overlord.

Plots, premises, gimmicks, outsized concepts -- these are the bells and whistles that the networks apparently think will pull viewers away from their Netflix marathons and their On Demand viewings of more addictive and appealing fare.

These works interweave social criticism and their author's moralistic aims with imaginative plots and premises.

She oversees production and script, with Mr. Graff signing off on the basic plots and premises.