Adam Schoales is a filmmaking, video editing, acting, graphic designing, music loving, freelance working, iPod sporting, tech-geek, student currently residing in Toronto, Ontario.
A MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin) is “a plot element that catches the viewers’ attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction.”
Sometimes, the specific nature of the MacGuffin is not important to the plot such that anything that serves as a motivation serves its purpose. The MacGuffin can sometimes be ambiguous, completely undefined, generic or left open to interpretation.
Y’know how, at first, Psycho seems like it’s going to be a heist movie about Janet Leigh’s embezzling then going on the lam? Yeah. That.
Hitch was the master of the MacGuffin:
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I used to let people pass me in line for the Hitchcock show at Universal Studios in Florida just so I could hear...
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(sometimes McGuffin) is “a plot element that catches the viewers’ attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction.”...
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Read More I remember using MacGuffin...a sentence while on the phone with my long-distance...
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