In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin) is an object, device, or event that is necessary to the plot and the motivation of the characters, but insignificant...
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dialect for Young MacGuffin, and one of the running gags of his lines is that not even Lord MacGuffin is entirely sure what Young MacGuffin is saying. McKidd...
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In cryptography, MacGuffin is a block cipher created in 1994 by Bruce Schneier and Matt Blaze at a Fast Software Encryption workshop. It was intended...
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Foreshadowing Flashback Flashforward Frame story In medias res Kishōtenketsu MacGuffin Pace Plot device Plot twist Poetic justice Red herring Reveal Self-insertion...
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Meeting MacGuffin is a stop-motion animated short film written, directed and animated by Catya Plate. The film screened at the Academy Awards qualifying...
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Camera setup Multi-camera Running time 43—59 minutes Production company Macguffin Pictures Original release Network Netflix Release 11 January 2024 (2024-01-11)...
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The Double McGuffin (redirect from Double macguffin)
The Double McGuffin is a 1979 American mystery film written and directed by Joe Camp. The film stars Ernest Borgnine and George Kennedy. Elke Sommer and...
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Plot device (section MacGuffin)
Hitchcock’s understanding of a MacGuffin. According to George Lucas, "The audience should care about it [the MacGuffin] almost as much as the dueling...
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observed that in the TV episode itself the Dyson sphere was effectively a MacGuffin, with "just nothing about it" in the story, and decided to flesh out the...
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who would like to "correct" some mistakes of the past with the film's MacGuffin to make the world "a much better place to live in," matching wits against...
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Khafre KN-Cipher Kuznyechik Ladder-DES LOKI (97, 89/91) Lucifer M6 M8 MacGuffin Madryga MAGENTA MARS Mercy MESH MISTY1 MMB MULTI2 MultiSwap New Data Seal...
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John Rea (artistic director) (redirect from John Rea (macguffin))
is an American playwright/lyricist/composer and Artistic Director of MacGuffin Theatre & Film Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA since 1998....
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The main thrust of the story essentially hinges on what is called a macguffin, a gimmick ... So really the plot itself is of no great consequence ....
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theme. MacGuffin – Alfred Hitchcock pioneered the concept of the MacGuffin, a goal or item that initiates or otherwise advances the plot. The MacGuffin is...
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Ralph Senensky, "Mrs. Livingstone’s flunking her exam was a Hitchcock MacGuffin to get us into the main story — of what occurs when a seven year old boy’s...
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Dickensian elements, writing, "Ms. Tartt has made Fabritius's bird the MacGuffin at the center of her glorious, Dickensian novel, a novel that pulls together...
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