Q: Build a movie plot around this: Who does Hanshiro track down before coming to the Ii house? Hayato and Umenosuke
A: Edo, 1630. Tsugumo Hanshiro arrives at the estate of the Ii clan and says that he wishes to commit seppuku within the courtyard of the palace. To deter him Saito Kageyu (Rentaro Mikuni), the Daimyo's senior counselor, tells Hanshiro the story of another ronin, Chijiiwa Motome formerly of the same clan as Hanshiro.Motome arrived at the palace a few months earlier and made the same request as Hanshiro. Infuriated by the rising number of "suicide bluffs", the three most senior samurai of the clanYazaki Hayato, Kawabe Umenosuke, and Omodaka Hikokuropersuaded Saito to force Motome to follow through and kill himself. Upon examining Motome's swords, their blades were found to be made of bamboo. Enraged that any samurai would "pawn his soul", the House of Ii forced Motome to disembowel himself with his own bamboo blade, making his death slow, agonizingly painful, and deeply humiliating.Despite this warning, Hanshiro insists that he has never heard of Motome and says that he has no intention of leaving the Ii palace alive. After a suicide pavilion is set up in the courtyard of the palace, Hanshiro is asked to name the samurai who shall behead him when the ritual is complete. To the shock of Saito and the Ii retainers, Hanshiro successively names Hayato, Umenosuke, and Hikokurothe three samurai who coerced the suicide of Motome. When messengers are dispatched to summon them, all three decline to come, saying they are suffering from a life-threatening illness.After provoking their laughter by calling bushido a facade, Hanshiro recounts his story to Saito and the Ii retainers. He did, he admits, know Motome after all. In 1619, his clan was abolished by the Shogun. His Lord decided to commit seppuku and, as his most senior samurai, Hanshiro planned to die alongside him. To prevent this, Hanshiro's closest friend performed seppuku and left a letter assigning to Hanshiro the guardianship of his teenage sonMotome. Despite Hanshiro's pleas, his Lord forbade him to kill himself.In order to...

Q: Build a movie plot around this: Who adopted Cornelia and Joe? Santa Clause.
A: Somewhere in the 14th century, Claus is a peasant woodcutter in his mid-50s who, with his wife Anya, delivers his gifts to the children of a certain village. One night, Claus, Anya and their two reindeer, Donner and Blitzen, are rescued from certain death in a blizzard, only to be transported to the vast "ice mountains, way up at the top of the world." Their expected arrival is heralded with the appearance of several elves, or as Claus's people call them in their legends, the Vendegums, led by the venerable and wise elf named Dooley. Inside the elves' home, Claus and Anya also meet inventive elf Patch, and the more down-to-earth Puffy. Dooley tells Claus it is his destiny to deliver toys to the children of the world every Christmas Eve, which the elves will make in their large workshops. Donner and Blitzen are joined by six other reindeer and fed magic food that allows them to fly. When Christmas Eve comes, Claus is approached by the oldest of elves, the Ancient One, who renames him as "Santa Claus".Centuries pass as the mythology of Santa is created, until the 20th century, where Santa is exhausted by the continuous workload he must do every year due to the world's increasing population. Anya suggests he enlist an assistant, to which Patch and Puffy compete to earn via a competition to produce the most toys in a limited amount of time. Patch uses a machine he has invented, and although he wins, it begins to produce shoddy works without his knowledge. During his annual deliveries, Santa befriends a homeless 10-year-old orphan boy named Joe in New York City and takes him for a flight around the skyscrapers of Manhattan in his sleigh. Santa lets Joe take the reins, who flies the sleigh underneath the Brooklyn Bridge much to Santa's horror, who then playfully gets his own back on Joe by having his reindeer perform the "Super Duper Looper", around the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center - an aerial trick that involves them doing a complete 360 degree turn, but Donner always fails due to acrophobia. Santa takes...

Q: Build a movie plot around this: What is the name of the reporter covering the assasination of the president of San Marcos? Howard Cosell
A: In the opening scene, TV reporter Howard Cosell, playing himself, covers the assassination of the president of San Marcos, an imaginary Central American banana republic.The scene shifts to the US, where lonesome loser Fielding Mellish (Woody Allen) works as a product tester. Fielding has the hots for Nancy (Louise Lasser), the girl collecting petition signatures door to door for the liberation of San Marcos, so he pretends to be interested in her cause. A relationship develops between them, but when she dumps him, he is devastated. He reckons he'll have to get very involved in the situation in San Marcos to win her back.In San Marcos, Fielding's ineptitude leads to his capture by the rebels who are fighting to overthrow the military dictator, General Vargas (Carlos Montalban). Fielding is encouraged, despite his modest education, to become the rebels' figurehead. His mission is to solicit funding for the rebel cause, but he fails miserably.As a key figure in a revolution that America does not support, Mellish is no longer welcome in his own country. Wearing a disguise, he returns to America, where his ex-girlfriend has renewed interest in him, not knowing he is really Fielding Mellish. Things seem to be developing well for them until the CIA discovers that he is a representative of the San Marcos rebels.After a humiliating and politically charged trial, Mellish is fortunate to avoid imprisonment. He marries Nancy, who, remarkably, now admires him for making great sacrifices for a cause she believes in so deeply. In a final scene that echoes the movie's beginning, Cosell narrates the consummation of Nancy and Fielding's marriage and, in classic sportscaster style, interviews them in bed afterward. (They remain demurely covered throughout.)

Q: Build a movie plot around this: Who is the man Helen comes across? The fugitive, Lawson
A:
Doug and Helen Stilwin (Barry Sullivan and Barbara Stanwyck) along with their son Bobby (Lee Aaker) embark on a vacation into desolate Baja California in Mexico to a remote, deserted fishing spot along the coast that her father used to frequent with his old military buddies. At a roadside barricade heading into the Baja outback, they are inspected by police but are not told about an American killer who has escaped from prison and is at large in the area.Upon arrival at the secret fishing spot, young Bobby goes exploring out onto a precarious, rotting jetty high above the water. His foot gets stuck in a crack between boards, and when Doug gets him out, the jetty collapses and a wooden piling falls on Doug's leg and traps him on the beach just as the tide is coming in. Helen nearly succeeds in lifting the piling with their car jack, until the jack breaks. They quickly determine that if Doug is not freed within a few hours, he will drown in the rising surf.Helen leaves with the family car in an attempt to find help. She comes across a family of Mexican ranchers, but the language barrier prevents them from realizing that she is looking for rope until she is far gone. Helen then comes across a small house and finds rope, but seemingly out of nowhere, a man (Ralph Meeker) appears. Helen asks for help and the man gets in the car, but around the corner of the house, it is revealed that the man just killed a worker, and is the fugitive, Lawson, the police are looking for. He takes her hostage, and threatens to kill her if she reveals to the police that he is the fugitive.Meanwhile, the rising tide back at the jetty causes Doug to have a heart-to-heart with Bobby, telling him he is proud of his son and hopes he will face the challenges ahead with strength. A boat passes close to their location, and shouts are exchanged, but thinking the family is just tourists on a beach outing, the boat crew does not stop.Lawson runs through a police roadblock, and eventually blows out a tire. As he attempts to change the tire,...