[Q]: Build a movie plot around this: What does Harker try to kill Count Dracula with? Nothing.
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[A]: Jonathan Harker (Bosco Hogan) is on his way to Transylvania with some documentsconcerning the purchase of a property in England for Count Dracula tosign. When his fellow travelers find out where Harker is headed, they beghim not to go. Count Dracula (Louis Jourdan) turns out to be handsome and cultured,although he sleeps during the day, has hairy palms and sharp fingernails,casts no reflection in a mirror, crawls head first down the castle walls,does not eat, and his eyes and mouth glow red when he sees blood.Dracula requires that Harker remain at the castle for a month, duringwhich time fiancee Mina Westenra (Judi Bowker) worries about Harker and Harker worriesthat he's going mad. Meanwhile, the Westenras -- Mina, sister Lucy (Susan Penhaligon),and their Mother (Ann Queensberry) move to their summer home inWhitby. Three weeks pass, and Dracula prepares for his trip to England. Herequests that Harker write a letter saying that he has already left thecastle and is on his way home. Unable to tolerate being imprisoned anylonger in the castle, Harker attempts to escape but stumbles into thecrypt where he finds the three vampiresses and Dracula lying in theircoffin. His attempt to behead the count fails.Back in London, at Dr John Seward (Mark Burns)'s sanitarium, zoophagist patientRenfield (Jack Shepherd) is busy collecting flies and spiders while awaiting "theMaster's" arrival. In Whitby, a fierce storm is brewing. In the middle ofthe lightning, thunder, torrential rain, and raging seas, a ship isbeached in Whitby harbor. The next day Skipper Swales is found dead nearthe grave of a suicide. Shortly thereafter, Lucy starts sleepwalking. Onone of Lucy's sojourns into the cemetery, Mina sees her being embraced bya man who promptly disappears when Mina calls out Lucy's name. When Minanotices two punctures on Lucy's throat, she blames it on the brooch sheused to fasten Lucy's shawl the night that Lucy was found sleepwalking.Quincey P. Holmwood (Richard Barnes) comes to Whitby to visit Lucy, his...

[Q]: Build a movie plot around this: What does Grace rip? the paper
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[A]: The movie begins with Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) waking up from a nightmare. It is 1945 in Jersey, and her husband was fighting in France but he has yet to return home, even though the war has ended. She lives in a big, creepy house alone with her two kids, Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley). Recently, around a week or two ago, all the servants just upped and abandoned them, without a word or collecting their wages.Three servants-- mute Lydia (Elaine Cassidy), Mr. Tuttle (Eric Sykes), and Mrs. Bertha Mills (Fionnula Flanagan)-- come to her door, to respond to an ad that Kidman had posted for new servants. They are all shown around the house by Grace, who explains the rules... one must never open a door without closing the previous one, and the drapes must always be shut because her children are "photosensitive"-- they break out in rashes and sores if they are exposed to light stronger than candlelight.One day, Grace goes to the mailbox and sees that the letters she'd sent out to the newspaper announcing positions are still there. She confronts Mrs. Mills angrily, demanding to know who they are.. and how did they know of the jobs if the ad hasn't even come out yet? Mrs. Mills then tells Grace that all three of them had used to live in the house, and had loved it so much that they come back to see if they could be of any use, as a house as big as Kidman's always needs extra help. When she welcomed them thinking they had answered to the ad, they just did not want to tell her otherwise.Strange things happen in the house. Sometimes, there are people talking and whispering and crying; thuds and noises come from empty rooms; Ann talks to an invisible boy, Victor (Alexander Vince), and insists that there are others walking around the house. Grace refuses to believe her, and frequently tells her to stop and punishes her for "lying"; Mrs. Mills assures Anne that she believes her and that soon her mother will see. Mrs. Mills then tells Grace that sometimes the world of the living gets mixed up in the...

[Q]: Build a movie plot around this: Who gives Mathilda shelter after her family is killed? Leon
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[A]: Leon (Jean Reno) is a hitman (or "cleaner" as he would rather be known) living a solitary life in New York City's Little Italy. Most of his work comes from a mafioso named Tony (Danny Aiello), who operates from the "Supreme Macaroni Company" retail store. Leon spends his idle time engaging in calisthenics, nurturing a houseplant that early on he describes as his "best friend", and (in one scene) watching old Gene Kelly musicals.Leon is highly motivated and efficient. He kills plenty of bodyguards (Ed Ventresca) so that a fat guy called Fatman (Frank Senger) receives a phonecall threatening him. A dumb blonde (Ouin-Ouin) walks away non-noncommittally and says she will call him later, not wanting to get involved in the matter.On a particular day on his way home, he sees Mathilda Lando (Natalie Portman), a twelve-year-old girl with a black eye and smoking a cigarette, living with her dysfunctional family in an apartment down the hallway. Mathilda's father (Michael Badalucco) attracts the ire of corrupt DEA agents, who have been paying him to store cocaine in his residence, after they discover that he has been stealing some of the drugs for himself. A cadre of DEA agents storm the building, led by a ragged and drug-addicted Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman). Stansfield shoots Mathilda's entire family with a shotgun; the whore-looking mother (Ellen Greene), the aerobic-obsessed elder sister (Elizabeth Regen) and the friendly little brother (Carl J. Matusovich)- missing Mathilda only because she is out shopping when they arrive. An elderly lady (Jessie Keosian) comes back inquiring what the rackas is about, and Stansfield shoots the glass behind her, but considers her harmless so he lets her be, just barking at her "go back inside".When Mathilda returns with the groceries she was sent to buy and notices the carnage, she calmly continues down the hallway past the open door of her family's apartment, and receives sanctuary from a reluctant Leon. One of the agents () looks at Mathilda, quizzingly, as she has to...

[Q]: Build a movie plot around this: Who did Jean ask to deliver the letter? Arlette and Pierrette
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Jean and Pierrette, the two children of Pierre Amsler, mayor of a mountain village in the Haut-Valais (Switzerland), are about 12 and 4 years old when her mother dies. While Pierrette fails to understand the situation and believes her nanny telling her that her mother is on a voyage, Jean is deeply shaken, nearly losing himself in long and bitter mourning. His father, at first hardly less desperate than Jean, quickly realizes that he is unable to continue his former life while at the same time mourning for his wife: He feels overburdened by his duties as the mayor, his new domestic duties, the lonely raising of his children and the depressive mood filling his home since the death of his wife. When half a year has passed, he decides to marry a widow having lost her husband nearly at the same time - this seems to be both a marriage of convenience and of love.Seeing that his son is still inconsolably mourning his late mother, Pierre fails to muster the courage to talk to the boy about his plan. Instead, he sends the boy away with his friend, the village's priest, when the priest is visiting the neighbouring valley for a few weeks, and puts the burden to break the news to the child on the priest.When the boy comes back home, he is intensely looking forward to see his sister and his father again and at the same time very curious what may have changed at home. Unfortunately, Arlette, the daughter of his new mother, of about the same age as Jean, is alone at home when the boy comes back. Apparently, she fails to recognize the him, she refuses to open the door to him and is slow, even reluctant to understand her error. When she finally opens the door, he is enraged and arrogant and she is quite intimidated. Thus, they start mistrusting and disliking each other from the first.Jean soon finds out that, during his absence, he has been treated with astonishing lack of respect. Arlette is now using his room, and his parents have assigned another room to him, Arlette is using part of his toys, and there are several other...