[Q]: Build a movie plot around this: What does Lovecraft order the taxi to do? Leave
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[A]: This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. (March 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)The film is broken into four separate features: "The Library", "The Drowned", "The Cold" and "Whispers". "The Library" segment is the wrap-around story, which begins and ends the movie.The Library[edit]In the wrap-around story of the film, H. P. Lovecraft (Jeffrey Combs) learns of a monastery where a copy of the Necronomicon is held. Having been a regular there for his research, he sets up an appointment, his cab driver told to wait outside. Taking insult when the head monk calls his work "fiction", Lovecraft insists that all his writings are true. Requesting to read the Alchemical Encyclopedia Vol. III, Lovecraft steals a key from another monk and flees to the cellar where the Necronomicon is being held. Unknown to him, a monk has seen him. Unlocking the vault where the book is held, the door closes behind Lovecraft unexpectedly, making him drop the key down a grating and into the water below. As that happens, one of the seals is opened.Lovecraft sits to read and record what he is reading. It's not specified if he sees visions of the future through the book, or if the book contains future accounts. It's likely the stories will come to pass, and for the Necronomicon have already passed, alluding to the Necronomicon's timelessness, as all the stories take place well beyond the 1920s.The Drowned[edit]Edward De LaPoer, a member of the De La Poer family, is tracked down in Sweden after inheriting an old, abandoned family hotel. Left a sealed envelope from Jethro De La Poer, he learns of his uncle's tragic death. Upon a boat trip return to New England, a crash on the shore killed Jethro's wife and son. Distraught, Jethro picked up a copy of the Holy Bible in front of several funeral mourners, tossed it into the fireplace and announced that any god who would take from him is not welcome in his...

[Q]: Build a movie plot around this: Where does Hinkle stuff Hocus-Pocus? a hat
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[A]: In an unnamed town, the local schoolchildren are enraptured by the snowfall happening the day before Christmas.Their teacher has hired a magician named Professor Hinkle to entertain the children, but his magic is less than stellar. When attempting to pull his rabbit Hocus-Pocus out of his hat, the magician gets angry and throws it away. It is then that Hocus-Pocus appears, and hops off with the hat, causing Hinkle to give chase.As soon as the school bell rings, the children head outside to play in the snow. Several boys talk a girl named Karen to help them build a snowman. Once they've completed him, they discuss what to name him. On Karen's suggestion, they go with the name Frosty.Just then, Hinkle runs outside, chasing his rabbit. As a gust of wind blows the hat away from them, Karen grabs it, and puts it on Frosty's head. This causes him to come to life, proclaiming, "Happy Birthday!" Karen eagerly explains that the hat must be magic, causing Hinkle to take it back, making Frosty inanimate again.The kids want Hinkle to return the hat, but the magician denies he saw anything magic happen. Secretly, he hopes the magic in the hat will help his own magic act. Hinkle stuffs Hocus-Pocus in the hat, and walks off.Shortly afterward, Hocus escapes with the hat, and returns with it to the kids. Frosty comes to life, and the kids celebrate his return. However, Frosty soon begins to feel a little strange. Observing a thermometer going up, Frosty fears that he will melt soon. The kids then decide to get him on a train to the North Pole.Frosty leads the children on a parade through town, causing the heads of many adults to turn. At the train yard, they find that a ticket to the North Pole is too expensive, and sneak Frosty onto a refrigerated boxcar. Frosty invites Karen and Hocus to come along, just as the train pulls away. However, just before the train leaves town, Professor Hinkle sneaks on, still determined to get his hat back.As the train gets further north, Frosty and Karen eventually depart, with Hinkle trailing...

[Q]: Build a movie plot around this: Who is John and Max's rivalry over? Ariel
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[A]: John and Max are elderly neighbors in a cold Minnesota town. They both live alone in their homes since their wives have died, and exchange stories about how their friends are now dying when they are not busy insulting each other. They have a contemptuous rivalry that goes back over 50 years.A very attractive woman named Ariel, who is a little younger than them, moves in across the street during the days before Thanksgiving. She is so adventurous that she rides a snowmobile on the streets at night.Johns daughter Melanie has a baby girl but is separating from her husband. Maxs son Jacob is running for mayor of their town. Melanie and Jacob have an ongoing flirtation with each other.John is trying to evade the IRS, to whom he owes back taxes. One night he thinks the IRS has come for him, so he jumps out his bedroom window, and Ariel surprisingly shows up, asking to use his bathroom for no particular reason. She discloses that she has been watching how John and Max both ogle her.The next day, John tries to convince Max that his visit from Ariel was amorous in intent. Their bitter bickering at each other continues apace.Chuck is another older man who runs a local bait shop. He challenges John and Max to think about how attractive they actually are to women anymore.Johns father, known as Grandpa, goes ice-fishing out on a frozen lake, where his son and Max (and many other local men) also have their own little fishing shacks. Grandpa is a blithe spirit at the age of 94, enjoying a bounty of liquor and non-filtered cigarettes.One evening Chuck goes to visit Ariel at her home, which John and Max intently spy upon. When later asked why he was with her, Chuck says they did not have sex but something more like a spiritual awakening.John and Max thus both plan visits to Ariel and spend much time making themselves presentable. As we learn, Ariel used to teach art and now teaches classics, and her tastes are revealed through her houseful of eccentric pieces. She also had a husband who died five years earlier, and keeps a...

[Q]: Build a movie plot around this: Why does Blanche decide to leave? Rochester asserts she is a gold digger.
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Peggy Ann Garner as young JaneOrson Welles and Joan FontaineOrson Welles, Margaret O'Brien and Joan FontaineOrson Welles and Joan FontaineOrphaned, unloved, and unwanted ten-year-old Jane Eyre (Peggy Ann Garner) lives with her cruel and selfish, uncaring paternal aunt, Mrs. Reed (Agnes Moorehead) of Gateshead Hall. Jane is ecstatic when Mrs. Reed, eager to be rid of the child, arranges for Jane to be sent to Lowood Institution, a charity boarding school for young girls, run by the disciplinarian Reverend Brocklehurst (Henry Daniell).Based on what Mrs. Reed has told him, Mr. Brocklehurst labels Jane a liar in front of her schoolmates and orders her to stand on a stool for hours on her first day of attendance. She is comforted and befriended by another student, Helen Burns (Elizabeth Taylor). Later, Jane protests when Brocklehurst orders that Helen's naturally curling hair be cut. Both are punished by being forced to walk circles in a courtyard during a downpour. Dr. Rivers (John Sutton), a sympathetic physician who periodically checks on the students, brings them inside, but it is too late for Helen, who dies that night.Ten years later, in 1840, 20-year-old Jane (Joan Fontaine) turns down Brocklehurst's offer of a teaching position. She advertises for and accepts a job as governess for a young girl named Adele (Margaret O'Brien). When she arrives at Thornfield, a gloomy, isolated mansion, she initially thinks her employer is Mrs. Fairfax (Edith Barrett), who is only the housekeeper for the absent master.Jane goes for a walk one night, only to startle a horse into throwing and slightly injuring its rider, Edward Rochester (Orson Welles)who she doesn't realize is her employer. When Jane arrives back at Thornfield, she discovers this fact, and Rochester calls her into his library to interview her.That night, Jane is awakened by strange laughter. She investigates, and discovers that Mr. Rochester's bed curtains are on fire. She rouses the sleeping man and they extinguish the fire without...