describes an artificial, or improbable, character, device, or event
introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a
situation or untangle a plot. Having its origins in the conventions
of Greek tragedy, it refers to situations in which a mechane (crane)
was used to lower actors playing a god or gods onto the stage.
The deus ex machina plot device is parodied in Mel Brook's
"History of the World: Part 1." Near the end, the king's body
double is about to be executed when a horse named "Miracle"
arrives and rescues the double and his friends. When the
double comments that the time gap is too big for one man to
live through, the driver retorts that the movie is only fiction
so it does not matter.
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