Although the remake has retained some plot elements of the 1957 Sidney Lumet movie, which originated as a 1954 teleplay written by Reginald Rose, it is essentially a different animal.
Combinations of these physical limitations place some plot elements later in the game.
Some plot elements were borrowed from the Indian films Mera Gaon Mera Desh (1971) and Khote Sikkay (1973).
The film uses characters from Alexandre Dumas' d'Artagnan Romances, and is very loosely adapted from some plot elements of The Vicomte de Bragelonne.
This was a workmanlike episode, Mad Men moving some plot elements further into place, another chapter in Matt Weiner's novel for television, with some deft direction from series star Jon Hamm.
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The religious elements, like those in Narnia, work more subtly: they provide a viewpoint and some basic plot elements, but they remain in the background.
Fans of the movie Dreamscape will recognize some basic plot elements there.
The actual rewriting took only a day or so, he said, and was mostly a matter of building some clues and plot elements back into the story.
For some of the plot elements, Gilbert had reached back to his 1875 tragedy, Broken Hearts.
In a review of Stranger than Fiction for Cinematical, Jette Kernion also compared the film's plot to Hubbard's story, noting that the two stories share "some strikingly similar plot elements".
