This, then, is to be the MacGuffin of The Mandalorian.
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Solondz's mutt, by contrast, is basically a MacGuffin with a tail.
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The "seventh function," palpably a MacGuffin from the outset, is not the point.
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The secret society plot this season has always seemed like a supremely complicated MacGuffin.
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The whole plotline feels more like a macguffin than a coherent exploration of a theme.
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Heck, turn her into the villain because she's tired of being treated like a MacGuffin!
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A visitor, Geraldus (Stanley Weber), arrives with papal orders to bring this MacGuffin to Rome.
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I am here to report that Vogel's Yeti is not only unscary, he's actually a MacGuffin.
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In a real way, the geek stuff is a MacGuffin — a plot device that drives the story.
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There will be no superdelegate MacGuffin to fulminate against and no obvious source of near-term momentum.
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Its complexity pays off with a better than usual MacGuffin and real teamwork against a global enemy.
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The MacGuffin is something that [the filmmaker] Philip Kaufman's orthodontist told him about when he was 11.
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The results could be genuinely sweet, but the approach meant the show treated politics as a MacGuffin.
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Also not on display itself, but still referenced in photographic form in Mike Cooter's mixed-media piece, "MacGuffin: some archetypes towards a definition," is the the legendary Maltese Falcon: a prop, a MacGuffin, a thing worth killing for, a worthless thing, and now a $4-million luxury item.
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The message, like Laura Palmer's death, feels like a MacGuffin for a deeper exploration of Peaks-y activity.
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"AI is Zuckerberg's MacGuffin," James Grimmelmann, a law professor at Cornell Tech, told The Washington Post at the time.
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Meanwhile, private companies like Jeff Bezos' Blue Origins using moon colonization as a climate-change MacGuffin for capitalist pursuits.
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Trump's is a MacGuffin, a pretense for talking about what he and his supporters miss about an irretrievable past.
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I guess you could liken that to Hitchcock's use of the term MacGuffin for the same type of thing.
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You come to suspect that the murder is a kind of MacGuffin, that maybe it doesn't matter at all.
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Which makes Josef himself the MacGuffin with a thousand faces, somehow golem and homunculus and gingerbread man at once.
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They literally devour their followers and want to get into the Vaults— Borderlands' MacGuffin—to steal power for … reasons?
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His Mission: Impossible III relied on a mystery MacGuffin — the "rabbit's foot" — whose true nature was never revealed at all.
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Thanos is trying to gather the six Infinity Stones, the MacGuffin items of power from across the various Marvel films.
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It kept Leia in the background, and deliberately didn't give Luke a single word — because he was the movie's MacGuffin.
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Alas, there's a world to save and all that, so off they go to chase a MacGuffin through the sky.
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Yes, it is a movie about an alleged UFO encounter from 1978, but the UFO is really just a MacGuffin.
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Others, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, appear to be exploiting the lack of a Trump-slaying MacGuffin to justify their inaction.
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The rest of the show is procedural detective work, and the quantum computer is in one sense just a MacGuffin.
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It's focused on the team of rebels who steal the Death Star plans that serve as the Macguffin for that film.
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There's no real opportunity for engaging in stealth mechanics, and anyway stealth is automatically blown thirty seconds after acquiring the macguffin.
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It's a MacGuffin which forces Christian, prone to intellectualizing society's problems with his arty chums, to engage with the real world.
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In the Good Place, the "reward" — our characters' ultimate salvation — is just a MacGuffin, designed to keep us invested in their journey.
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The final coup de grâce — the delivery of a final MacGuffin manuscript — will leave you with questions about the nature of reality and sanity.
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The White House's efforts to chase down the bioterrorist seem like a tired MacGuffin that distracts from the more intriguing characters and plot developments.
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Of course, the promise of a regionals-winning macguffin actually turns out to be a trick by Christian that eventually escalates to his own murder.
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Turning the mystery into such a complete MacGuffin as a way to foreground the domestic drama might make sense if that drama were, say, interesting.
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It's the MacGuffin of the movie, yet it's never once mentioned by name, because Jyn's desire to right her father's wrongs appears to be more important.
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The magical MacGuffin that gives you your superpowers in Prey are Neuromods that let you instantly download and receive the skills, training, and abilities of other people.
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A gun that might or might not have been used at the scene becomes a minor MacGuffin, but there are no repercussions, no riots, no civil unrest.
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Rogue One is kind of like Episode 3.5—it centers around the plot to steal the Death Star plans that are the MacGuffin in A New Hope.
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Despite appearances to the contrary, Whiterose's huge MacGuffin didn't send Elliot Alderson to a new world where the problems of the old one have been wiped clean.
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Casting a shadow over all of them is Michèle's father, a truly monstrous patriarch guilty of a crime that is at once the movie's Rosebud and its MacGuffin.
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He's the team's straight man, he's kind of the DCEU's visual answer to Iron Man, he's even a bit of this movie's MacGuffin, he's even kind of cool!
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This led an observer to the possibility that the stone was really a MacGuffin, in the classic Hitchcockian sense—an object that everyone's chasing but that doesn't really matter.
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Besides a few unavoidable references to the creature's specifications and bite strength, for the most part the dinosaur at the center of the story serves the role of MacGuffin.
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But the neighbor is a MacGuffin, a distraction from what strikes me as the real substance of the book: the narrator's ruminations on the nature of memory and time.
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Played by: Oprah WinfreyMacGuffinName: BoneCharacter: Traditionally, a MacGuffin is a plot device that doesn't really have any purpose or meaning within the story outside of simply driving the plot forward.
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The Defenders minimized Danny's impact by treating him more like a MacGuffin than a character and by openly letting his fellow heroes laugh at his ridiculous, out-of-place posturing.
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Finding out just how far that loyalty extends becomes just as important as the MacGuffin itself in "Blow the Man Down," which ends on a wry note of cheerful menace.
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The plot, frankly, is largely beside the point, with the trident serving roughly the same purpose as what Hitchcock called the MacGuffin -- any priceless artifact to set the chase in motion.
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They assemble, with support from Banks's Bosley, to traverse the globe tracking shadowy figures seeking to weaponize a revolutionary clean-energy device (one that might as well bear the insignia "MacGuffin").
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The narrator's screenplay is a MacGuffin, and we might consider the plot as a series of vivid set pieces, a loose scaffolding upon which the author can hang his grand philosophies.
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Apparently, the film's star chart MacGuffin—the map with the location of Ahch-To and the Jedi Temple, where Luke Skywalker was hiding out—had icons that could be translated into English.
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Taking advantage of the fact that most people now know what the stones are thanks to the Marvel movies, they are used as the MacGuffin for the game's new cinematic story mode.
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Front Mission 22013 is primarily a road trip story, with the protagonists hopping from country to country in pursuit of the game's MacGuffin, a nuclear weapon stolen from the USN called MIDAS.
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The first sequel, 2009's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, revolves around a MacGuffin called the Matrix of Leadership and a machine that makes suns explode, which requires the matrix to work.
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After all, what else are lowlife smugglers like Han, Lando and Chewie going to do — especially under the direction of the "criminal mentor" played by Woody Harrelson — but steal some sort of MacGuffin?
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That it's all in the service of an empty safe — an unwieldy MacGuffin if ever there was one — makes a stronger case to Hector than merely pointing out the seams of his story.
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Here's a book trailer for reference: In 1989, just before the fall of the Berlin wall, Lorraine Broughton (Theron) is an MI6 agent sent to East Germany to recover the List, the film's MacGuffin.
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The story of this Mega-MacGuffin baby may even be relevant to The Rise of Skywalker, the final episode in the Skywalker saga, which premieres after the first season of The Mandalorian is over.
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A long-gone royal named Corvax destroyed it in a disastrous attempt to resurrect her dead husband with the Bright Star, an extremely powerful MacGuffin that looks sort of like the new Firefox logo.
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I took this scene to mean that Lynch fully intends to complete the project he began in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me to do right by the dead girl MacGuffin who launched his franchise.
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There's a little Hitchcock in the story's roots, as they chase a MacGuffin around the city, and a little Chinatown, as institutional corruption and the lifestyles of the rich and famous get in their way.
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There is as much Macguffin-hunting and audacious double-crossing as you'd expect from Lawrence Kasdan, the guy who began his career penning Raiders of the Lost Ark before doing a rewrite on Empire Strikes Back.
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Books like Annie Murphy Paul's "The Cult of Personality" (2004) have examined the M.B.T.I.'s insidious social effects, but in "The Personality Brokers," it's more like a MacGuffin, the device that sets the plot in motion.
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At one point, there's an entire elaborate infiltration mission leading to a big fight-and-chase-and-fight sequence, all so a handful of characters can learn that the MacGuffin they're chasing is, effectively, in a different castle.
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Whether or not she ever somehow gets into the Barragán archive is beside the point; she has built this project around the battle of wills between individual and corporation, with the archive turned into a MacGuffin of sorts.
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Her bar just happens to be the scene of an attack on Amy Bendix (Giorgia Whigham), a juvenile delinquent being hunted by mercenaries and the murderous Christian fundamentalist John Pilgrim (Josh Stewart) who's looking for this season's MacGuffin.
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Simon Thompson, IGN: This time a music contest, the core plot element of the first two Pitch Perfect movies, where the prize is to open for DJ Khaled, is more of a MacGuffin that has to share the spotlight.
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As Metal Injection points out, it is indeed a steal, as they say that after three shows attended, the Black Ticket (it legit sounds like the MacGuffin from a dark fantasy version of Willy Wonka) would pay for itself.
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It's not hard to see why the president's defenders are leaning so heavily on the "national security" MacGuffin: That constitutional duty to keep the country safe is a realm where US presidents have always had unique authority and discretion.
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The "she" turns out to be Laura Palmer, a troubled 20033-year-old homecoming queen who serves as Twin Peaks' so-called MacGuffin, as well as a six-degrees nucleus of sorts to whom the rest of the town is variously connected.
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Waking before she does, Elliot sneaks into Olivia's bathroom with his stolen MacGuffin and discovers that Whiterose has set the all-important meeting of the Deus Group for mere hours from now in an effort to thwart the Elliot and Philip Price's schemes.
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Here, for science-fiction reasons, Picard is alone on the ship while a crew of thieves try to steal a valuable and dangerous space MacGuffin, and he has to rely on his guts, stunts, and knowledge of the ship to beat them.
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"The Ghost Script" skewers the infamous House Committee on Un-American Activities by way of a MacGuffin: a screenplay that names names, not of Communist Party members, but of curdled patriots like Cousin Joseph, who torment the left while keeping secrets of their own.
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When Dekker dies to the third lucky headshot in a row, or when Dekker misses a DFA attack and gets kneecapped and killed on the enemy's turn, or when Dekker is blown to bits standing in front of a mission-critical macguffin, those moments feel earned and weighty.
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Among her effects is a garage-door opener that provides the book's MacGuffin and the key to Raymer's quest: Convinced it was given to her by her lover, he reasons that if he can essay its effect on various garage doors around town, he'll be able to solve the puzzle.
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At any rate, the 1986 fire inside the Central Library, and the subsequent, inconclusive investigation of it, turn out to be a MacGuffin, a trick for luring the reader into a subject into which the reader never imagined he'd be lured: the history and present life of the Los Angeles Central Library.
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It would do the show's writers — in this case, the series co-creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien, joined by Matthew Fennell — a disservice to describe these financial machinations as merely a MacGuffin; too much effort is put into nailing the almost esoteric intricacy and jargon of these multi-hundred-million dollar transactions.
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In the buzzy first trailer for Jordan Peele's sequel to 1993's horror classic (also titled Candyman), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II plays Anthony McCoy, the grown-up version of the first film's infant MacGuffin whose connection to the Candyman legend draws him dangerously close to his roots in Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing project.
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") The new "Lost in Space" is set in 2048; the apocalyptic MacGuffin this time is an incoming asteroid named the Christmas Star — a doomsday event we later find out (spoiler alert) is not exactly what it seems; you might even, depending on what kind of NASA administrator you were, call it "fake news.
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You'll also have to be okay with displaying the MotherBox out on your nightstand, given that it looks something like a cross between a glowing, cybernetic soccer ball and Doctor Octopus' tritium fusion reactor from Spider-Man 2 (the superhero resemblance is fitting, as the company notes that the MotherBox is named after the famous DC Comics MacGuffin).
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Juliana Crain (Alexa Davalos), for instance, is supposed to be the crux of the series, as the man in the high castle himself (Stephen Root, a great actor wasted in a MacGuffin of a role) has named her as crucial in the collection of the newsreel-style films that tell of alternate universes and are at the heart of the series' resistance movement.
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There are some spoilers ahead for Unexplored, so hey, if you wanna watch what happens in my stream, go ahead to the top of the page and hit play now, and I'll see you back here in a couple of hours, otherwise you can keep on reading... Like many roguelikes, Unexplored gives you a truly game-y goal: Delve into a deep dungeon, recover a macguffin of power, and escape.
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The search for the boy, it turns out, is a giant MacGuffin: The very first sentence of the novel informs us that the child is dead, and James uses the search as an armature on which to hang dozens of other tales, much the way he used the story of an assassination attempt on Bob Marley in his award-winning 2014 novel "A Brief History of Seven Killings" as scaffolding to create a tangled, choral portrait of Jamaica and its relationship with the United States.
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The company name Mac Guff was inspired by the term MacGuffin. The director and producer Alfred Hitchcock popularized both the term "MacGuffin" and the technique.
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McKidd was in talks in 2008 to portray Connor MacLeod in a remake of the 1986 fantasy film Highlander, though the role has subsequently been associated with Ryan Reynolds. In 2012, he voiced the characters of Lord MacGuffin and his son Young MacGuffin in the Disney/Pixar film Brave. Having grown up in Elgin, McKidd used a variation of the Doric 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.
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The first one asks, 'What's a > MacGuffin?' 'Well,' the other man says, 'it's an apparatus for trapping > lions in the Scottish Highlands.' The first man says, 'But there are no > lions in the Scottish Highlands,' and the other one answers, 'Well then, > that's no MacGuffin!' So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at > all.
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In many of these movies, the stolen art piece is a MacGuffin.
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The use of a MacGuffin as a plot device predates the name MacGuffin. The Holy Grail of Arthurian legend has been cited as an early example of a MacGuffin. The Holy Grail is the desired object that is essential to initiate and advance the plot. The final disposition of the Grail is never revealed, suggesting that the object is not of significance in itself.
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Schneier and Blaze recommended using 32 rounds, and specified MacGuffin with a 128-bit key.
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At the same workshop where MacGuffin was introduced, Rijmen and Preneel showed that it was vulnerable to differential cryptanalysis. They showed that 32 rounds of MacGuffin is weaker than 16 rounds of DES, since it took "a few hours" to get good differential characteristics for DES with good starting values, and the same time to get good differential characteristics for MacGuffin with no starting values. They found that it is possible to get the last round key with differential cryptanalysis, and from that reverse the last round and repeat the attack for the rest of the rounds. Rijmen and Preneel tried attacking MacGuffin with different S-boxes, taken directly from DES.
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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, unimportant, or irrelevant in itself. The term was originated by Angus MacPhail for film, adopted by Alfred Hitchcock, and later extended to a similar device in other fiction. The MacGuffin technique is common in films, especially thrillers. Usually, the MacGuffin is revealed in the first act, and thereafter declines in importance.
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Director and producer Alfred Hitchcock popularized the term MacGuffin and the technique with his 1935 film The 39 Steps, an early example of the concept. Hitchcock explained the term MacGuffin in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University in New York City: > It might be a Scottish name, taken from a story about two men on a train. > One man says, 'What's that package up there in the baggage rack?' And the > other answers, 'Oh, that's a MacGuffin'.
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Two second quarter games were also schedule, a new Fluxx set and Get the MacGuffin card game.
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Interviewed in 1966 by François Truffaut, Hitchcock explained the term MacGuffin using the same story. Hitchcock also said "The MacGuffin is the thing that the spies are after but the audience don't care." Hitchcock's term MacGuffin helped him to assert that his films were in fact not what they appeared to be on the surface. Hitchcock also related this anecdote in a television interview for Richard Schickel's documentary The Men Who Made the Movies, and in an interview with Dick Cavett.
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Marks 2005, p. 126 Sorfa contends that the number zero is used as a sort of parody of a MacGuffin in the film.
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A similar example is the briefcase shown throughout Pulp Fiction (1994), in which the glowing contents of the briefcase are never revealed, despite being violently coveted by many major characters. In discussing the mixed critical reception of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), the primary criticism was that the crystal skull in the film was seen as an unsatisfying MacGuffin. The director Steven Spielberg said, "I sympathize with people who didn't like the MacGuffin because I never liked the MacGuffin." In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Infinity Stones serve at times as MacGuffins.
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Their purpose was to prevent the channel-switching that may occur during standard-length commercials. They were invented as a MacGuffin to drive the plot.
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In contrast to Hitchcock's view of a MacGuffin as an object around which the plot revolves but about which the audience does not care, George Lucas believes that "the audience should care about it almost as much as the dueling heroes and villains on-screen." Lucas describes R2-D2 as the MacGuffin of the original Star Wars film,Star Wars (1977) Region 2 DVD release (2004). Audio commentary, 00:14:44 – 00:15:00. and said that the titular MacGuffin in Raiders of the Lost Ark was an excellent example as opposed to the more obscure MacGuffins of the next two Indiana Jones films.
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For the filmmaker and drama writing theorist Yves Lavandier, in the strictly Hitchcockian sense, a MacGuffin is a secret that motivates the villains. North by Northwests supposed MacGuffin is nothing that motivates the protagonist; Roger Thornhill's objective is to extricate himself from the predicament that the mistaken identity has created, and what matters to Vandamm and the Central Intelligence Agency is of little importance to Thornhill. A similar lack of motivating power applies to the alleged MacGuffins of The Lady Vanishes, The 39 Steps, and Foreign Correspondent. In a broader sense, says Lavandier, a MacGuffin denotes any justification for the external conflictual premises of a work.
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Due to the successful reception of the commission, Greenberg was asked to choreograph again for the White Oak Project the following year, in 1999. For this commission he reworked his 1987 piece "Macguffin, or How Meanings Get Lost". The result was a piece entitled "Macguffin, or How Meanings get Lost (revisited)", which was mostly a solo for Baryshnikov, who was only joined for the last few minutes of the dance by the other White Oak Dancers; Raquel Aedo, Emily Coates, Emmanuele Phuon, Ruthlyn Salomons and Susan Shields. The dance was set to Bernard Herrmann's "Psycho, A Narrative for String Orchestra", a change from the original "Macguffin", which was danced in silence.
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This story collection will be released by Aqueous Books in November 2013 and includes stories published in storySouth, Gargoyle, Baltimore Review, The MacGuffin, 42 opus,and others.
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For example, in the episode, 20 Questions, the team appears on a talk show and in the episode, The MacGuffin Device, the team are greeted excitedly by children.
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One of the jewels of the museum is one of the prop bikes used as Pee-wee Herman's bicycle, the MacGuffin of the film Pee-wee's Big Adventure.
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Schneier and Blaze based MacGuffin on DES, their main change being that the data block is not split into equal halves in the Feistel network. Instead, 48 bits of the 64-bit data block are fed through the round function, whose output is XORed with the other 16 bits of the data block. The algorithm was experimental, intended to explore the security properties of unbalanced Feistel networks. The adjacent diagram shows one round of MacGuffin.
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John Rea (born 1967) is an American playwright/lyricist/composer and Artistic Director of MacGuffin Theatre & Film Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA since 1998. Rea earned a BA in music from Temple University and a MA in theater from Villanova University.Biographies , MacGuffin Theatre & Film Co. He was the director of Discovery Division for youth at the Walnut Street Theatre from 1995-99. He was the Literary Manager/Dramaturg for Philadelphia Theatre Company from 1997-99.
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The opening scenes of the film center on MacGuffin, a deranged occultist whose life has been dedicated to vengeance after being trampled and rendered a paraplegic as a child by overzealous Mardi Gras revelers in the throes of bead-catching madness. With the help of a Sumerian Goddess, MacGuffin performs a ritual that raises Zombie! (exclamation point mandatory) from his grave. Zombie! embarks on a killing spree in New Orleans during the Mardi Gras festivities.
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Catya Plate is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist. She is best known for her stop-motion animated short-films The Reading, Hanging by a Thread and Meeting MacGuffin.
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The DunBroch, MacGuffin, Macintosh, and Dingwall clans were once enemies locked in constant war. When Roman soldiers and Northern invaders threatened them from the seas, the four clans joined together under the sword of Fergus to defend their lands. The clans succeeded in protecting their lands from the invaders and formed the Kingdom of DunBroch. The clan leaders of Macintosh, MacGuffin and Dingwall became their feudal lordships of the kingdom; Fergus was crowned their king and Elinor their queen.
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The Route of Ages is a fictional portal in spacetime, in the fictional universe of the science fiction television show Andromeda, sought by many of the show's characters throughout season four (see MacGuffin).
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Alfred Hitchcock popularized the use of the MacGuffin technique. Examples from Hitchcock's films include plans for a silent plane engine in The 39 Steps (1935), radioactive uranium ore in Notorious (1946), and a clause from a secret peace treaty in Foreign Correspondent (1940). Many other films have also employed this technique; for example, the Maltese Falcon in the 1941 film of the same name, the meaning of "Rosebud" in Citizen Kane (1941), the Heart of the Ocean necklace in Titanic (1997), the letters of transit in Casablanca (1942), and the "Rabbit's Foot" in Mission: Impossible III (2006). To emphasize how the nature of the MacGuffin is not important, in the thriller-action film Ronin (1998) the MacGuffin is a metallic briefcase that the characters fight for, but whose contents are never revealed.
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He has directed or produced all MacGuffin productions and teaches a variety of classes there, as well. He has directed several film projects for MacGuffin including: Clueless, After Midnight Scream for Monty Python’s Ghostbusting Brother, Getting Out and Chasing the MacGuffin (documentary), Happy Birthday and A Real Kiss. He has composed music to many shows including Romeo and Juliet, Arcadia, and The Women of Argos. As a playwright/composer/lyricist he has written Dodger, The Skeleton Woman, Mak and the Shepherds, Cinderella Story, More Than Anything, The Three Trees, As I Do (Playwriting Award, Cleveland Public Theatre), The Lost, The Cruel Sister, A Place Called Up, The Tale of Orpheus, Mischief Manor, Dodger, The Tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, The Fiery Furnace and Jonah and the Big Fish and Vito.
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His first film for the company, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), was a success; his second, The 39 Steps (1935), was acclaimed in the UK and made Hitchcock a star in the US. It also established the quintessential English "Hitchcock blonde" (Madeleine Carroll) as the template for his succession of ice-cold, elegant leading ladies. Screenwriter Robert Towne remarked, "It's not much of an exaggeration to say that all contemporary escapist entertainment begins with The 39 Steps". This film was one of the first to introduce the "MacGuffin" plot device, a term coined by the English screenwriter Angus MacPhail. The MacGuffin is an item or goal the protagonist is pursuing, one that otherwise has no narrative value; in The 39 Steps, the MacGuffin is a stolen set of design plans.
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His next dance, "Macguffin, or How Meaning Gets Lost" (1987) shows Greenberg's early use of film as inspiration, later seen in his dances "This is What happened" (1999) and "Sequel" (2000). Greenberg has spoken about being influenced by Alfred Hitchcock in terms of using techniques found in suspense films, as well as filmmakers Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini and Martin Scorsese. Macguffin was also the first dance of Greenberg's to employ the use of text projections, a device that can be seen in many of his subsequent works.
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Aldur also possesses a tower, wherein furniture may appear or disappear as he wishes. The Belgariad's MacGuffin is the Orb of Aldur: a sentient stone polished into a roughly spherical shape by Aldur, and seized by Torak.
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The Hellmouth in Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been described as a kind of topological MacGuffin, or as Joss Whedon put it: "...a shortcut, in lieu of scientific explanation."Anne Billson, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2005) p. 65 Examples in literature include the television set in Wu Ming's novel 54 (2002) and the container in William Gibson's Spook Country (2007). In the online game The Kingdom of Loathing, the player's character eventually must complete a long and convoluted quest named "player name and The Quest for the Holy MacGuffin".
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The Hydrogen Sonata was Banks' last science fiction novel, as he died of gall bladder cancer in June 2013. The Hydrogen Sonata of the title is a MacGuffin: a fictional work of music which is woven into the plot.
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Is National Cinema Mr. MacGuffin? International Films. The Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK. To define a national cinema, some scholars emphasize the structure of the film industry and the roles played by "...market forces, government support, and cultural transfers..."Tom O' Regan Australian National Cinema, cited in Jimmy Choi. Is National Cinema Mr. MacGuffin? International Films/ The Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK. More theoretically, national cinema can refer to a large group of films, or "a body of textuality... given historical weight through common intertextual 'symptoms', or coherencies".Vitali, V., & Willemen, P. (2006). Theorising national cinema.
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In the discourse of the Master, one signifier attempts to represent the subject for all other signifiers, but a surplus is always produced: this surplus is objet petit a, a surplus meaning, a surplus of jouissance. Slavoj Žižek explains this objet petit a in relation to Alfred Hitchcock's MacGuffin: "[The] MacGuffin is objet petit a pure and simple: the lack, the remainder of the Real that sets in motion the symbolic movement of interpretation, a hole at the center of the symbolic order, the mere appearance of some secret to be explained, interpreted, etc." (Love thy symptom as thyself).
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A MacGuffin is a term, popularized by film director Alfred Hitchcock, referring to a plot device wherein a character pursues an object, though the object's actual nature is not important to the story. Another object would work just as well if the characters treated it with the same importance. Regarding the MacGuffin, Alfred Hitchcock stated, "In crook stories it is almost always the necklace and in spy stories it is most always the papers." This contrasts with, for example, the One Ring from The Lord of the Rings, whose very nature is essential to the entire story.
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In the novel MacLeod uses "alien space bats", a science fiction MacGuffin, as characters in the novel as an in-joke. Further, the text of the novel is inter-larded with re-contextualised quotations from the works of other famous science fiction writers.
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One of the latter's favourite devices for driving the plots of his stories and creating suspense was what he called the MacGuffin. His old friend Ivor Montagu, who worked with Hitchcock on several of his British films, attributes the coining of the term to MacPhail.
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In contrast, an adversarial character who has been struggling with himself and saves the day due to a change of heart would be considered dramatic technique. Familiar types of plot devices include the deus ex machina, the MacGuffin, the red herring, and Chekhov's gun.
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Blanton interviewed on The MacGuffin in 2012 Kirby Bliss Blanton (born October 24, 1990) is an American actress and model. She is known for her roles as Kirby in the comedy film Project X and as Amy in the horror film The Green Inferno.
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Liz once again prioritizes TGS, but is overheard by Tracy, Jenna and the crew. Finally, after seven years, everybody decides to step up and help Liz in the only way they have left—by informing the board that they are all quitting, and telling Liz to go and meet her children. As a final test for MacGuffin, Kenneth masquerades as a CBS executive, C.B. Essington, and (in reference to Arthur Slugworth) attempts to bribe him with money if he will go to Jack's office and steal an in- development script. MacGuffin refuses, convincing Kenneth once and for all that he is the right man to take over NBC.
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Sometimes clothing functions in a MacGuffin- like fashion.Resseguie, "A Glossary of New Testament Narrative Criticism with Illustrations," in Religions, 10 (3) 217), 30-31. The apparel is important to move the plot forward and something the characters care about (or should care about), but its significance is a mystery.
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Joe Camp had a huge financial success with the film Benji, which made over $30 million on a budget of $545,000. In 1975 he announced he wanted to make The Double MacGuffin as his second feature.New era in family films? Canine star points the way By Mary Sue Best.
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The new leftmost block is then rotated into the rightmost position of the resulting data block. The algorithm then continues with more rounds. MacGuffin's key schedule is a modified version of the encryption algorithm itself. Since MacGuffin is a Feistel network, decryption is easy; simply run the encryption algorithm in reverse.
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It involves going to several locations while following clues from the character's father's diary and collecting various items. Eventually, it ends in a boss battle and the MacGuffin is returned to the council. The game never reveals what exactly it is or how it will aid in saving the kingdom.
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She then tells him where she tipped the body, which is found by police frogmen. For Dobbs the case is closed and he does not tell the police about Mellie. Nor does he mention the 60,000 dollars. In a closing homage to Alfred Hitchcock, it is revealed that the rapist's name was MacGuffin.
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In his essay, "Action and Abstraction in Ronin", Stephen Prince wrote that the rōnin metaphor explores themes of "service, honor, and obligation to complex ways by showing that service may entail betrayal and that honor may be measured according to disparate terms". According to Stephen B. Armstrong, "Arguably Frankenheimer uses this story to highlight and contrast the moral and social weakness that characterize the band of rōnin in his film". The film features a MacGuffin plot device in the form of a briefcase, the contents of which are important but unknown. Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert wrote that its content is identical to that of the equally-mysterious case in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994), which itself is a MacGuffin.
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Allegretti has published short stories in The MacGuffin ("A Pair of Wings in Search of a Bird"), The Adroit Journal ("Bird-Boy"), Thrice Fiction ("The Intruders"), and The Nassau Review ("Reassignment Surgery: Patient #A-27"), among other literary magazines. Our Dolphin, a novella about a deformed Italian adolescent and a talking dolphin, appeared in 2016.
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During 1973, George Lucas wrote The Adventures of Indiana Smith.Hearn, p.80 Like Star Wars, it was an opportunity to create a modern version of the movie serials of the 1930s and 1940s. Lucas discussed the concept with Philip Kaufman, who worked with him for several weeks and decided upon the Ark of the Covenant as the MacGuffin.
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The story involves "The Manx Cat", a statuette of such a cat that at first seems to be a simple MacGuffin like the classic Maltese Falcon of the novel and films by that name, but which begins showing malevolent powers. The plot thickens with time travel, reincarnation, and Elder Gods. Like most modern comics, it features digitally-created art.
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Vol IX. Palermo: Libreria Internazionale. 1890. pp. 62-64 and 125-127. An Italian variant named El canto e 'l sono della Sara Sybilla ("The Sing-Song of Sybilla Sara"), replaces the magical items for an indescribable MacGuffin, obtained from a supernatural old woman. The strange object also reveals the whole plot at the end of the tale.
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Mourits, p.122 The four sentences of De la grammaire anglaise et hollandaise avec un coup de théâtre triste,Dremples 7/8 (1979) p/13 which are the same in English as in Dutch, are repeated in Zilah (2002).Dutch Foundation for Literature In general, the fantastic situations in these novels flow from a single initial supposition or macguffin.
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She graduated from Northeastern Illinois University, Alfred Adler Institute with an MA, in 1979, and from University of Illinois at Chicago with a Ph.D., in 1983. She teaches at Hofstra University. Her work has been published in Appalachee Review, Karamu, The Rambler Magazine, The MacGuffin, PMS, Rainbow Curve, Sou'wester, and StoryQuarterly. She lives in Waccabuc, New York.
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There isn't as much aimless wandering, or MacGuffin type things like The Mark. There is an underlying message here that is pointing us down a specific path. Since Dean came back from Purgatory, it's been the same beats with the Winchesters, with no real development in site. It was always about the brothers-over-all, and the co-dependency of the two.
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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 HollyShorts Film Festival and Rhode Island International Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prize:Best Animated Short Film in Vortex Edition. It is the sequel of Hanging By A Thread and second in a trilogy of animated shorts.
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Jim and Grace "never quite meet",p. 10 although Jim goes so far as to knock on Grace's door but then changes his mind. There is a MacGuffin in the guise of a never-performed opera Hamletin based on Hamlet by a Chilean woman, the mother of the zoologist Mena. The opera apparently has magical powers, anathema to fascists and dictators.p.
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" Bob Mosley III reviewed The Secret Wars in The Space Gamer No. 75. He commented that "Secret Wars has a few good points. One point that almost qualifies as being good is that the module reveals what abstract MacGuffin the Beyonder was after, as well as the Wars themselves. The problem is that both of these outcomes were rather droll.
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He said that in Meyjes' original script, "the father was sort of a MacGuffin ... they didn't find the father until the very end. I said to George, 'It doesn't make sense to find the father at the end. Why don't they find him in the middle?'" He wanted the father-son relationship to be the main point, rather than the Grail.
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Rory began to openly resent his father for forcing him to remain in their neighborhood and look after the shop. One holiday season Batman pursued the super-criminal MacGuffin into Ragman's neighborhood. Over the course of the adventure, Batman helped Rory come to terms with his feelings toward his father and see the good he had done for his community.
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Matthew Maddox's second novel, The Horn of Joy (1868), serves as a MacGuffin in A Swiftly Tilting Planet. Charles Wallace spends a significant portion of the book trying to remember or discover what Maddox wrote in it, or to reach Maddox himself. Readers sometimes wonderThe Horn of Joy: A Meditation on Eternity and Time, Kairos and Chronos . Retrieved 2008-02-26.
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Projected text has become a signature mark of Greenberg’s choreography. The first use of it was in "MacGuffin, or How Meanings Get Lost". It wasn’t until "N-A-A-D" that the text became a way to reveal information about the performers. In "Destiny Dance" Greenberg first used video in rehearsal as a way to cull set movement material from his own improvisation.
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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 as a catalyst for analysis of a new cipher structure, known as Generalized Unbalanced Feistel Networks (GUFNs). The cryptanalysis proceeded very quickly, so quickly that the cipher was broken at the same workshop by Vincent Rijmen and Bart Preneel.
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Examples in television include various Rambaldi artifacts in Alias, the orb in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., and Krieger Waves in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "A Matter of Perspective".A Matter of Perspective (1990) Region 1 DVD release (2002). Season 3, Disk 4. Carl Macek created protoculture as a MacGuffin to unite the storylines of the three separate anime that composed Robotech.
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The Spear of Destiny was also the MacGuffin in the second season of the show Legends of Tomorrow. In the show, the Spear of Destiny was secured by the Justice Society of America before being split into fragments across time. The Legion of Doom collected the pieces in order to re-form the Spear of Destiny, which would allow its wielders to rewrite history.
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One of Hitchcock's favorite devices for driving the plots of his stories and creating suspense was what he called the "MacGuffin". The Oxford English Dictionary, however, credits Hitchcock's friend, the Scottish screenwriter Angus MacPhail, as being the true inventor of the term. Hitchcock himself defined the term in a 1962 interview conducted by François Truffaut, published as Hitchcock/Truffaut (Simon and Schuster, 1967). Hitchcock used this plot device extensively.
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Bird stumps are generally made of ceramics like porcelain, though some are made of cast iron. They were popular from the Victorian period up through the 1920s in England. A so-called bird stump (actually a "firugeal urn" [sic]) plays a role as the MacGuffin in Connie Willis's 1998 time travel science fiction novel To Say Nothing of the Dog: How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last.
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She said that Nick and Norah's parents were written out of the script "to absorb what it's like to be young, [because] you're not thinking about your parents when you're out all night". In addition to searching for Where's Fluffy?, Sollett felt that the film needed a second MacGuffin to propel the story forwards, so Norah's best friend Caroline got drunk and then lost, giving Nick and Norah an additional objective.
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Wilson is a key character in Michael Dobbs' novel Winston's War. In the book Wilson is portrayed as an arch-manipulator who has the telephones of all potential enemies to Neville Chamberlain tapped and will use any methods he can to get rid of Winston Churchill. Wilson also appears in Jean-Paul Sartre's novel The Reprieve. Wilson is something of a macguffin in the alternative history writings of Harry Turtledove.
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We cannot imagine him defending either Gretchen or Thomas in this manner. Boylan serves as the macguffin that drives the plot for all three of the Jordache siblings. For Gretchen he is an introduction to the world of men and relationships. He awakens in her the realization that she is the kind of woman who reduces men to cowering wimps but who cannot, perhaps somewhat paradoxically, put together a sound, completely fulfilling relationship.
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He is one of the authors of the RIPEMD-160 hash function. He was also a co-inventor of the stream cipher MUGI which would later become a Japanese standard, and of the stream cipher Trivium which was a well-received entrant to the eSTREAM project. He has also contributed to the cryptanalysis of RC4, SOBER-t32, MacGuffin, Helix, Phelix, Py, TPypy, the HAVAL cryptographic hash function as well as the SecurID hash function.
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Accessed 9 March 2020. A website dedicated to Tékumel collecting comments that the pacing issues reflect Barker's inexperience as a novelist. A retrospective review, originally published on RPGnet in 1999, awarded the novel high points for substance but less so for style, criticizing its clichéd, clumsily constructed narrative, MacGuffin-driven action, and unsatisfying finale. Another source of criticism is a scene where a female character is tortured in a bizarre and highly sexualized manner.
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SaFranko has over 50 short stories published in a range of publications, including the likes of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, (“Acts Of Revenge”), The MacGuffin (“The Ecstasy”) and The Savage Kick Literary Magazine (“Role of A Lifetime”). His story “Rescuing Ravel” (Descant, 2005) won the Frank O’Connor Award for Best Short Fiction. “The Man In Unit 24” (Hawai’i Review) was cited in Best American Mysteries 2000. SaFranko's short stories fluctuate between realism and crime, but often combine both.
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The Owner follows a lost backpack on a journey around the world, meeting several fascinating characters along the way. As the story progresses, we learn details about the mysterious man to whom the bag belongs—a man named "MacGuffin." The film brings together a variety of cultures, languages and film styles into a singular narrative plot. The feature consists of 25 independently produced short segments (2 to 5 minutes) that are connected by the backpack's journey.
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In September 1984, after the critical and mixed reception of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, George Lucas wrote a script entitled Indiana Jones and the Monkey King for the third installment of the film series. The film had the Fountain of Youth as the MacGuffin. Spielberg was attached to direct, but at the final moment, Spielberg decided to hire Chris Columbus to rewrite the script, and the third film ended up being Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
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The film was released in theaters July 6, 2018. Critics felt that Pfeiffer used her limited screentime well. Variety's Owen Gleiberman described her presence as "lovely" and "wistful", while Josh Spiegel of Film wrote that the film suffers from a lack of the actress, describing her as "less of a character and more of a MacGuffin" and her performance as "cruelly brief". She reprised her role as Janet van Dyne in Avengers: Endgame along with Michael Douglas and Evangeline Lilly.
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Writer Michael Michaelian originally pitched a story idea based on andropause, sometimes referred to as "male menopause". He wrote a treatment and first draft script involving reverse aging. D. C. Fontana later explained that the terrorist MacGuffin (an ambiguous but central plot point) was not quite right. Fontana was brought in to overhaul the ending, and explained that a "lot of what I put in at the end was also in Michael's story and drafts, but approached with a different emphasis".
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At the presentation in front of the institute, Annie believes Jeff will uncover the human trafficking, but to her surprise and everyone else's, presents Alessandra Chang (Andrea De Oliveira), Chang's wife. The owner of the phone number Chang had been filmed calling and hanging up on numerous times. This doesn't faze Chang and in order to elicit a reaction, Jeff kisses Alessandra. After seeing the opposition displayed by Jeff, Lorraine (Lisa Long) of the MacGuffin Neurological Institute grants the funds to the college.
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Ijeoma Umebinyuo is a poet from Nigeria and considered one of Sub-Saharan Africa’s best modern poets. She started writing at the age of seven and her short stories and poems have appeared in publications such as The Stockholm Review of Literature, The Rising Phoenix Review and The MacGuffin. Her TEDx talk was called "Dismantling The Culture of Silence". She has a book of poems called Questions for Ada and her work has been translated into many languages, including Turkish, Portuguese, Russian and French.
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Coleman pinpoints "Frozen Forest" as the MacGuffin in the plot of The River. The ambient downtempo trip- hop song was analogized by Finlayson as someone driving through the woods after a snowstorm, which is represented using what he labeled as "chilly synths and glimmering repeating noises" that play over a set breakbeat-style drums and bass arpeggios. Finlayson compared its "cold feeling" to the works of Fever Ray, while Rauscher found its vibe and guitar pick sounds similar to "Teardrop" by English group Massive Attack.
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Eurogamer criticized the game, noting that while it had "a nice idea and some gorgeous artwork," it was "a mechanical MacGuffin hunt with no characters, no narrative, no substance or resonance beyond a couple of wistful haikus about seasons passing". It said the puzzles were not very elaborate, with movement being tedious. 218,000 downloads of Tengami have been sold across all platforms , with 196,000 on iOS devices, 11,000 on PC and Mac, and another 11,000 on Wii U, which exceeded Nyamyam's expected sales on the console.
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A Death In The Gunj is a 2016 Indian drama film written and directed by Konkona Sen Sharma. It features an ensemble cast of Vikrant Massey, Tillotama Shome, Om Puri, Tanuja, Gulshan Devaiah, Kalki Koechlin, Jim Sarbh and Ranvir Shorey. Produced by Ashish Bhatnagar, Vijay Kumar Swami, Raagii Bhatnagar, Abhishek Chaubey, and Honey Trehan under the banners of Studioz IDrream and MacGuffin Pictures, it is Sen Sharma's directorial debut feature. Principal photography began in February 2016 and was completed in March 2016 after a six-week shoot.
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Some episodes have a common theme or MacGuffin that the episode revolves around, for instance buying a guitar or discussing the 2008 financial crisis. The series generally takes place at Jake and Amir's desks, but some episodes are filmed in other parts of the office or different locations entirely. Dan Frommer of Business Insider explains how "a trip to Florida became a four-part miniseries...broken-arm casts become props...[and] girlfriends become actresses". Amir is obsessed with Jake, and often says or does annoying things to try to spend time with him.
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"On page 30 I lose my bike, on page 60 I find it. It's literally exactly what they said to do in the book...There should be like a MacGuffin kind of a thing, something you’re looking for, and I was like, 'Okay, my bike.'" Filming locations included Glendale, Pomona, Santa Clarita, Santa Monica, Burbank, Cabazon (at the Cabazon DinosaursFamous Movie Locations: Wheel Inn Restaurant from Pee-wee's Big Adventure (Cabazon, California) , by Kim Potts, Aug 10, 2010, Moviefone. Retrieved 2011-08-21.), Port Hueneme, California, and San Antonio, Texas.
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" Matt LeMaire from The MacGuffin net rated both episodes with 8/10. "...that moment when they both knelt down to change the tire and both said yes was quite sweet and heartfelt–ultimately perfect for these characters. Truthfully, that scene couldn’t have been written better." It closes the review with: "As a premiere, both episodes did a good job of bringing us back into the world of Modern Family and while there were certainly some predictable elements, it’s our love of these characters that shines through as they navigate through their daily lives.
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Ned Henry is a time traveler in 1940 studying Coventry Cathedral after the Coventry Blitz of World War II. He is specifically searching for the location of the "Bishop's bird stump", a MacGuffin that is not defined by the narrator. The narrator shows confusion explained by "time- lag", the time-travel-induced form of jet lag. He returns unsuccessfully to his time, 2057, at Oxford University. The Bishop's bird stump is needed for a restoration of the cathedral funded by Lady Schrapnell, a wealthy American neo-aristocratic woman with a will of iron.
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Other ideas from Fleming were also used in For Your Eyes Only, such as the Identigraph which comes from the novel Goldfinger, where it was originally called the "Identicast". These elements from Fleming's stories were mixed with a Cold War story centred on the MacGuffin of the ATAC. An initial treatment for "For Your Eyes Only" was submitted by Ronald Hardy, an English novelist and screenwriter in 1979. Hardy's treatment included the involvement of a character named Julia Havelock whose parents were assassinated by a man named Gonzales.
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A krytron was the "MacGuffin" in Roman Polanski's 1988 film Frantic. The device in the film was either a high-tech updated version or simply a fictionalized version made up for the story. The krytron, incorrectly called a "kryton", also appeared in the Tom Clancy nuclear terrorism novel The Sum of All Fears. The plot of Larry Collins' book The Road to Armageddon revolved heavily around American-made krytrons that Iranian mullahs wanted for three Russian nuclear artillery shells they had hoped to upgrade to full nuclear weapons.
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"Q-Less" highlights the differences between DS9 and TNG by comparing the reactions of Commander Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) and Captain Picard to Q. On its first broadcast, "Q-Less" received Nielsen ratings of 12.8 percent, placing it as the fifth most watched episode of the season. Reception was mixed, with reviewers criticizing the imbalance of time spent with Vash and Q in contrast to the rest of the cast, as well as the unnecessary technobabble in the story and the MacGuffin-like plot device represented by the alien crystal.
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They also decided that the adaptation would be a heist film, and considered a variety of artefacts that could serve as a unique MacGuffin, such as a "cursed diamond from the Smithsonian" and an "ancient Soviet tank with a giant treasure". Kitamura later hired Los Angeles-based journalist Joseph "Joey" O’Bryan – who he described as his "strongest weapon" – to co-write the screenplay with him. O’Bryan and Kitamura wrote three separate drafts, which were compiled by Yamamoto into a complete script. Monkey Punch acted as a creative consultant during scripting.
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Perkunas is occasionally mentioned in the novels of Harry Turtledove. He provides an important macguffin in The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump and is the patron god of one of the armies in Gunpowder Empire. Günter Grass, in his second novel Dog Years (1963), alludes to Perkūnas ("Perkunos") as a symbol of the dark human energies unleashed by the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s. The fictional parallel to Nazi Germany in the alternate history novel The Gate of Time by Philip José Farmer is called Perkunisha, named after Perkūnas.
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" In The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani pointed out what she saw as the novel's 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 all her remarkable storytelling talents into a rapturous, symphonic whole and reminds the reader of the immersive, stay-up-all-night pleasures of reading." Woody Brown, writing in Art Voice, described The Goldfinch as a "marvelous, epic tale, one whose 773 beautiful pages say, in short: 'How can we? And yet, we do.
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After she lets him go, he drives home, but the car has been rigged to blast rock music loudly through the radio. Wentworth is trapped in his car, his ears hemorrhage, and he dies from a stroke, aggravated by the loud music. Thorndyke and Brophy travel to San Francisco, where Thorndyke is to speak at a psychiatric convention. He checks into the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, where, much to his dismay, as he suffers from "high anxiety", he is assigned a room on the top floor, due to a reservation change by "Mr. MacGuffin".
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Tom Mankiewicz wrote a first draft for the script in 1973, delivering a script that was a battle of wills between Bond and the primary villain Francisco Scaramanga, whom he saw as Bond's alter ego, "a super- villain of the stature of Bond himself". Tensions between Mankiewicz and Guy Hamilton led to Richard Maibaum taking over scripting duties. Maibaum, who had worked on six Bond films previously, delivered his own draft based on Mankiewicz's work. Broccoli's stepson Michael G. Wilson researched solar power to create the MacGuffin of the "Solex Agitator".
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The action in The Trouble with Harry takes place during a sun-filled autumn in the Vermont countryside. The fall foliage and the beautiful scenery around the village, as well as Bernard Herrmann's light-filled score, all set an idyllic tone. The story is about how the residents of a small Vermont village react when the dead body of a man named Harry is found on a hillside. The film is, however, not really a murder mystery; it is essentially a romantic comedy with thriller overtones, in which the corpse serves as a Macguffin.
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Stanisław Lem's 1961 story "I ( Corcoran)", translated in English as "Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy I", dealt with a scientist who created a number of computer- simulated people living in a virtual world. Lem further explored the implications of what he termed "phantomatics" in his nonfictional 1964 treatise Summa Technologiae. A number of other popular fictional works use the concept of virtual reality. These include William Gibson's 1984 Neuromancer, which defined the concept of cyberspace, and his 1994 Virtual Light, where a presentation viewable in VR-like goggles was the MacGuffin.
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Kenneth immediately bonds with one candidate, Charlie MacGuffin, after the pair simultaneously refer to a joke that had appeared on the Today Show earlier that day. As the tour progresses, MacGuffin's passion for and knowledge about the history of the network convinces Kenneth that he is the man for the job. Jack, however, becomes annoyed with Kenneth for interfering and dismisses him from the tour. Finally, as the board meeting approaches, Liz receives another phone call from Criss, who tells her that Bev made a mistake, and that the children are arriving at the airport later that afternoon.
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Only the best shows can bring out that kind of dual reaction!" Matt LeMaire from The MacGuffin net rated both episodes with 8/10. "All in all, it’s a good episode that’s a bit too predictable given our knowledge of these characters, but it still provides some good laughs." It closes the review with: "As a premiere, both episodes did a good job of bringing us back into the world of Modern Family and while there were certainly some predictable elements, it’s our love of these characters that shines through as they navigate through their daily lives.
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Many of his suspense films use this device: a detail which, by inciting curiosity and desire, drives the plot and motivates the actions of characters within the story. However the specific identity of the item is actually unimportant to the plot. State secrets of various kinds serve as MacGuffins in several of the spy films, especially his earlier British films The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps, and The Lady Vanishes. Hitchcock has stated that the best MacGuffin, or as he put it, "the emptiest," was the one used in North By Northwest, which was referred to as "Government secrets".
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Vader's melted helmet appears in The Force Awakens (2015), in which Vader's grandson Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) is seen addressing him, though Vader does not appear in the film. At one point, his helmet was considered as the film's MacGuffin. The helmet appears again in The Rise of Skywalker (2019), when Kylo briefly meditates with it, and during the film's first duel between Kylo and Rey (Daisy Ridley), during which it is last seen on Kijimi, which is later destroyed. The film also reveals that the voice which Ren perceived coming from Vader's helmet in The Force Awakens was generated by Palpatine.
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Archive footage from Captain America: The First Avenger, including the apparent death of Captain America from the end of that film, is used throughout the episode, and the MacGuffin of the episode, molecular nitramene, is based on the Vita-Rays that were used to transform Steve Rogers into Captain America in the film. The Vita-Ray detector that Carter uses in the episode belonged to Dr. Abraham Erskine, who was portrayed by Stanley Tucci in The First Avenger. The Oil Refinery featured at the climax of the episode belongs to Roxxon Oil, a company that has appeared throughout the MCU.
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A similar story had been approached during the first appearance of the Trill in The Next Generation episode "The Host". In this story, however, when the symbiont is transferred from a male to a female host, the Trill is rejected by the character who was the Trill's female partner, Beverly Crusher. The subplot featuring Kahn's artificial wormhole was described as a "MacGuffin" by Moore, and simply a way to get the character into "Rejoined".Erdmann & Block (2000): p. 280 This was not the first subplot to be considered for the episode, with the main plot from "Bar Association" originally thought of as being suitable to appear in either "Rejoined" or "Crossfire".
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This is possibly the most frequent running gag in the series, and by Franquin's admission a MacGuffin: "Whatever's in the contracts is irrelevant. What we want to see is how Gaston will prevent them from being signed." Aimé De Mesmaeker is a hot-tempered businessman who often visits the office (which he increasingly, and with some justification, sees as a madhouse) in order to sign some important contracts. However, the contracts are irrevocably jinxed: before De Mesmaeker can apply pen to paper, Gaston's latest gimmick comes along, provokes mayhem and causes the hapless businessman to storm out, rip the contracts up, or in some cases pass out.
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Zack Handlen reviewed the episode for The A.V. Club in 2012, calling Q an "iconic figure". Handlen said Q allowed the writers to compare the different reaction of the characters to his presence in DS9 and TNG. However, Handlen felt that Q was not a good fit for DS9, as the character seemed like an afterthought. Also, the pairing of Vash and Q took up too much screen time compared to the main cast, Handlen noted, while the overall plot involving the "stealth alien" embryo "plays like an abandoned script from early in TNGs run, and an example of a fascinating concept reduced to a perfunctory MacGuffin," Handlen wrote.
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According to voice actor Nolan North, the original plan for Desmond would be that he would feature in six respective games acquiring the skills of his Assassin ancestors and would eventually become 'The Ultimate Assassin' and would be able to time- travel between time periods; North became greatly interested in the concept, this idea unfortunately was scrapped, adding upon this, North personally noted Desmond as a 'boring' protagonist whom ultimately had no direction to go forward, describing the character as 'a fork in the road'. He has been defined as a MacGuffin: "he exists to move the story forward, but he provides little substance".
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Vader is featured prominently in novels set in the Star Wars universe. In the 1978 novel Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster, Vader meets Luke Skywalker for the first time and engages him in a lightsaber duel that ends with Luke cutting off Vader's arm and Vader falling into a deep pit. Shadows of the Empire (1996) reveals that Vader is conflicted about trying to turn his son to the dark side of the Force, and knows deep down that there is still some good in himself. Vader's supposedly indestructible glove is the MacGuffin of the young-reader's book The Glove of Darth Vader (1992).
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Abed is making a documentary for Greendale about Chang in order to secure a $40,000 grant from the MacGuffin Neurological Institute to study Changnesia. Dr. Ken Kedan (Marc Jablon) is studying the rare disease citing that it affects the memory, but not the ability to make forced puns. Dean Craig Pelton (Jim Rash) recounts his history with Chang, from his hiring as a Spanish teacher up to the overthrow of season three. Britta posits a theory that the current Kevin Chang is the real Chang and the power-crazy Benjamin Chang was the alter-ego and a hit on the head reverted Chang back to Kevin.
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Blue Box is a BBC Books original novel written by Kate Orman and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Sixth Doctor and Peri, written from a first-person perspective by a fictional journalist, in a similar manner to Who Killed Kennedy by David Bishop. The character Ian Mond is named after a well-known fan who is a member of various internet forums including Jade Pagoda and the Outpost Gallifrey forums. The title of this novel does not refer to the TARDIS, but to the blue box used by phreakers, and by analogy, the alien hacking tool that is the book's MacGuffin.
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Although many forms of natural disaster appear in fiction and literature, tropical cyclones serve a number of useful literary functions because they are both extraordinarily powerful and, to those who have some experience with them, their occurrence can be portended several days in advance. The NOAA page notes that: The strength of the tropical cyclone has made it a device by which authors explain the upending of characters' lives, and even transformations of the personalities of those who live through such an event. Their somewhat hazy predictability also makes them a useful MacGuffin, an impetus for characters to set to action. In some instances, the storm provides cover for characters to engage in covert behavior.
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The 39 Steps is another in a line of Hitchcock films based upon an innocent man being forced to go on the run, including The Lodger (1926), Saboteur (1942) and North by Northwest (1959). The film contains a common Hitchcockian trope of a MacGuffin (a plot device which is vital to the story, but irrelevant to the audience); in this case, the designs for a secret silent aeroplane engine. This film contains an Alfred Hitchcock cameo, a signature occurrence in most of his films. At around seven minutes into the film, both Hitchcock and the screenwriter Charles Bennett can be seen walking past a bus that Robert Donat and Lucie Mannheim board outside the music hall.
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Her second stop-motion animated short film Hanging By A Thread, premiered at Nevada City Film Festival, where it won the Best Animated Short. It also won Spirit Award for Animation at the Brooklyn Film Festival. In 2017, the second short in the trilogy, Meeting MacGuffin, the sequel of Hanging By A Thread, screened at the Academy Awards qualifying Holly Shorts in 2017, won Grand Prize for Best Animated Short at the Academy Awards qualifying Rhode Island International Film Festival, Shorts Production Design Award at the Other Worlds Austin Festival, Merit Award at the Indie Fest, Best Animated Film at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival and Jury Citation Award for Best Animation at the Black Maria Film Festival.
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For one of the two main aspects of the plot, the screenwriters used the 1973 energy crisis as a backdrop to the film, allowing the MacGuffin of the "Solex agitator" to be introduced; Broccoli's stepson Michael G. Wilson researched solar power to create the Solex. While Live and Let Die had borrowed heavily from the blaxploitation genre, The Man with the Golden Gun borrowed from the martial arts genre that was popular in the 1970s through films such as Fist of Fury (1972) and Enter the Dragon (1973). However, the use of the martial arts for a fight scene in the film "lapses into incredibility" when Lt Hip and his two nieces defeat an entire dojo.
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The combination of the mysterious suitcase lock is 666, the "Number of the Beast". Tarantino has said there is no explanation for its contents – it is simply a MacGuffin, a pure plot device. Originally, the case was to contain diamonds, but this was seen as too mundane. For filming purposes, it contained a hidden orange light bulb that produced an otherworldly glow when the case was opened. In a 2007 video interview with fellow director and friend Robert Rodriguez, Tarantino purportedly "reveals" the secret contents of the briefcase, but the film cuts out and skips the scene in the style employed in Tarantino and Rodriguez's Grindhouse (2007), with an intertitle that reads "Missing Reel".
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On June 2, 2016, the band released a lyric video for "Drag Queen", featuring various vaporwave-themed GIF animations created by the artist KidMograph/Gustavo Torres, and edited and arranged by Liz Hirsch. Initially "Oblivius" was to have a music video, but Casablancas later stated that it was "shut down" by the band's publishers as it became "too political". "Threat of Joy" was chosen instead, and was shot by the band's frequent collaborator Warren Fu. Fu stated that the plot had been written with two days' notice, and features a tongue-in-cheek look at the failed attempt to make an "Oblivius" video as its "MacGuffin". It was released via Noisey on June 28, 2016.
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Presented as a stand- alone sourcebook, rather than as the third volume, the Black Dossier has a framing sequence set not in the Victorian era but in 1958. Events take place after the fall of the Big Brother government from Nineteen Eighty Four. (The in-story explanation for this apparent date-shift is that Orwell's book was published in 1948.) The story itself sees Mina Harker and Allan Quatermain—now immortal after bathing in the fire of youth from She—on their quest to recover the Black Dossier itself (a confessed macguffin), in a metafictional unravelling of the secret history of the now-disbanded League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Out to stop them is a trio of secret agents: James Bond, Emma Night, and Hugo "Bulldog" Drummond.
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Other regular actors included Ewan Roberts as Inspector Ames of Scotland Yard and Eric Pohlmann as Inspector Goron of the Paris Sûreté. (In the episode "The Second Mona Lisa", Pohlmann played a Middle Eastern character called The Emir.) Roberts' Scottish accent grows stronger as the series progresses, from plummy English in the first dozen episodes to full-on Scottish burr for the second dozen. The opening title sequence showed Colonel March taking off his coat in his office and writing the title of each episode in a book. This then dissolves to an image of an object from within the following story, what Alfred Hitchcock would call a MacGuffin, a fairly unimportant plot device that starts the story rolling and/or keeps it moving along.
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Dunham felt that the central mystery in the series—the murder of schoolgirl Laura Palmer—was simply a "MacGuffin" to compel what he saw as the real focus, the interaction of the large ensemble cast. As such, he took care to introduce meaningful interactions between characters wherever possible.Dunham, 05:02–06:47 Dunham also spent time with each of the cast to help them develop their characters, having studied the scripts involved and basing his take on the characters on his experience with "Pilot".Dunham, 12:29–13:13 Dunham retained the frequent use of static cameras seen in "Pilot", something he saw as a hallmark of Lynch's directing style;Dunham, 10:01–10:28 describing the result as "like framed pictures".
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Dr. Marjory T. Ward, "King Arthur Revisited" in Dr. Andrew Keen (ed.) "Proceedings of the Second History/Literature Conference on Medieval Literature" The World-War-I-era actress Pearl White used the term "weenie" to identify whatever object (a roll of film, a rare coin, expensive diamonds, etc.) impelled the heroes, and often the villains as well, to pursue each other through the convoluted plots of The Perils of Pauline and the other silent film serials in which she starred. In the 1930 detective novel The Maltese Falcon, a small statuette provides both the book's title and its motive for intrigue. The name MacGuffin was coined by the English screenwriter Angus MacPhail and was popularized by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1930s.
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Kevin Feige said, "We started to realize that a lot of these films required MacGuffins like the Orb in Guardians of the Galaxy, the scepter in the first Avengers film. And the notion that all of them could be a Stone started to come about right around the time Joss wrote that little tag in Avengers 1." In Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Peter Quill observes, "This orb has a real shiny blue suitcase, Ark of the Covenant, Maltese Falcon sort of vibe", a reference to MacGuffins in other fictional works. In both film and literature, the Holy Grail is often used as a MacGuffin.. The cult classic comedic film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) is structured around a knightly quest for the sacred relic.
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In a Kaba'il version from Northern Algeria (), the bird is replaced by a bat, who helps the abandoned children when their father takes them back and his second wife prepares them a poisoned meal. The bat recommends the siblings to give their meal to animals, in order to prove it's poisoned and to reveal the treachery of the second wife. In a specific folktale from Egypt, , the Brother is the hero of the story, but the last item of the quest (the bird) is replaced by "a baby or infant who can speak eloquently", as an impossible MacGuffin. The fairy (or mystical woman) he sought before gives both siblings instructions to summon the being in front of the king, during a banquet.
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Bob Shairp is being recorded for test purposes on the tapes when there is an accident and the chair he is sitting in explodes, destroying his body. Only from the tapes can he be resurrected. This somewhat conventional science-fiction premise is something of a MacGuffin, as the novel's other major characters struggle to possess the Müller-Fokker tape in numerous subplots that satirize various prominent forces in 1970s America, including the military, evangelism, men's magazines, and radical anticommunist groups such as the John Birch Society. The novel also focuses heavily on parallels between the right-wing politics of Sladek's time and Nazism: one main character is closely based on Adolf Hitler, recast as a semi-literate American racist obsessed with African Americans.
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Luther is reunited with Ethan in Shanghai after Musgrave allows him to escape and, once again, becomes his eyes, helping him to steal the "Rabbit's Foot", the film's MacGuffin and escape the building in one piece, musing, "Langley was a cakewalk compared to this." However, that is the extent of Luther's help as Ethan is instructed to bring the Rabbit's Foot to Davian alone. He doesn't meet with Ethan again until the mission is over and everything is settled. It is revealed in later film Fallout that after Ethan and Julia faked her death, Luther was responsible for teaching Julia how to be a 'ghost' so that she could disappear and avoid being hunted by anyone looking to use her against Ethan.
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One of the "Post Office" stamps is the MacGuffin in a 1962 episode of The Avengers titled "The Mauritius Penny". Theresa Rebeck's play Mauritius is about two sisters who inherit a stamp collection perhaps worth a fortune, which includes both the deep blue two penny and the orange one penny "Post Office" stamps (to which the title refers). One of the Billy Bunter novels is titled "Billy Bunter and the Blue Mauritius", where the blue two pence stamp is stolen and recovered. The Case of the One-Penny Orange (1977) by E. V. Cunningham, the pen name of Howard Fast was the first of a series of novels in which Beverly Hills detective Masao Masuto is assigned to solve the murder of a well-known stamp dealer.
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In the early years, the third round was referred to as Take it or Leave it?. The final version of the show's format was amended in 1982 so that from the beginning of part two of the show, the two remaining couples from the quiz watched the first three variety acts together. At the end of each act, one of the performers would come over to the table and give Ted a clue object (or MacGuffin as Ted sometimes called them) and read a corresponding rhyme to provide clues for that particular prize. After three acts, the couples would decide on which object they would like to reject in the hope that it was Dusty Bin and then take part in the final elimination question.
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James L. Resseguie suggests that the missing wedding garment is a MacGuffin-like prop that reveals the guest's inner state or his desires and inclinations (he doesn't really want to be at this party).James L. Resseguie, "A Glossary of New Testament Narrative Criticism with Illustrations," in Religions, 10 (3) 217), 30-31. Bernard Brandon Scott notes that the parable immediately follows the parable of the Wicked Husbandmen in Matthew, and that the harsh treatment of the man without wedding clothes is related to the harsh treatment of the bad tenants in that parable: people hired or invited by the king (God) who do not perform their duties.Bernard Brandon Scott, Hear Then the Parable: A commentary on the parables of Jesus, Fortress Press, 1989, , pp. 161-168.
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The first encounter with folk music is when Miss Froy hears the serenader from the dining room. Before leaving to go to her room and listen more intently, she remarks “Do you hear that music? Everyone sings here, the people are just like happy children with laughter on their lips and music in their hearts.” The next encounter with folk music is Gilbert’s preoccupation with preserving the musical heritage of Mandrika which “helps establish the innocent and indigenous qualities of folk tunes—and his own innocent, awkward sincerity as well.” The irony of these set-ups is that folk music is the cause of trouble. In the serenader’s case, his playing of the tune—the film's MacGuffin—results in his murder. In Gilbert’s case, his playing results in complaint from Iris.
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Noseferatu's amulet grants Robin the power to glide, the Wocka Wocka Werebear's enables him to climb, the Muck Monster's allows him to dive underwater, Ker-monster's permits him to push and pull large blocks, and the amulet bearing the Ghoul-friend of Ker-monster gives him the ability to perform door-smashing karate chops. The mechanisms by which the game progresses are relatively simplistic. Each level requires a certain amount of 'evil energy' (dropped by enemies and scattered freely around all levels) to open it, and only three may be unlocked before a boss has to be fought. Bosses, however, do not require the collection of evil energy but instead need 'Muppet Tokens', a gaming MacGuffin similar to Super Mario 64's Power Stars that resemble a golden block shaped like Kermit's head.
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" Bradley also noted that the plot surrounding the villain, a "mad scientist MacGuffin," seemed rushed and the script and direction "jarringly unsubtle", but that the episode featured good performances with "great details in every scene". Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly named "A Short Story About Love" the fifteenth best episode of the series, explaining "The timeline reboot of season 4 frustrated some fans, but the premise yielded several truly cool capture-the-imagination ideas that made for provocative drama, most notably Fringes most romantic hour... The fact that the episode also featured one of the show's seediest creepazoids — a serial killer who murdered men for their pheromones so he could make a perfume that allowed him to seduce their grieving female significant others — was a bonus. Icky, but bonus.
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Hayes stated that on December 21, 2007, the writing process for their new album was almost done, and they planned to enter the studio in early 2008 to start recording. This would be followed by extensive touring in the spring. The songs that were played at live shows during the writing process but were not released on the album include: "Wondrous Miracle", "It's Not Worth It", "Push Away", "Holding a Remedy Potion", "Hurricane Felix", "Pieces of Gold", "Fleeing to Mexico", "2001", "MacGuffin" and "Fucking Smile Pt. 2". The band played at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California on April 26, 2008, during their tour to introduce the new tracks to their fans, with the exception of a few past hits and some tracks already performed such as "Long Days and Vague Clues".
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She had supporting roles in a number of other independent films that year, including as a public defender in Ulli Lommel's drama Every Minute is Goodbye, and the exploitation comedy Dinosaur Valley Girls. The following year, she co-starred with Tilda Swinton as Lady Byron in the feminist science fiction feature Conceiving Ada (1997), about a contemporary scientist who uses software to make contact with the Victorian pioneer of computer programming Ada Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron. She also had supporting roles in the independent drama Men, and as a singer in rural Missouri in George Hickenlooper's Dogtown. She continued to star in numerous independent features in 1998, including the camp comedy I Woke Up Early the Day I Died, the drama Charades, as well as the short film Waiting for Dr. MacGuffin.
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Based on this notion, he decided for the game to be an action-adventure, as he was particularly fond of the genre and its use of 3D worlds. Barwood also considered the Nazis to be overused as villains in the series and so instead set the title in the Cold War era with Russians as the antagonists. Originally, UFOs were planned to be used as a plot device, though George Lucas vetoed the idea, still reserving it for a then undeveloped fourth movie. In lieu thereof, Barwood became interested in ancient technology like the Antikythera mechanism, conceived the Infernal Machine as the MacGuffin, and placed it in the biblical Tower of Babel, which is believed to be identical with the Etemenanki, a temple dedicated to the god Marduk.
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Tyler Brennen (Jay Karnes) was a ruthless gunrunner and former military intelligence operative. He is the first villain-of-the-week to become a recurring character and the first person whom Michael can never smooth-talk into doing anything.2009 San Diego Comic-Con International panel, available on Season 3 DVD box set In the season two episode "Sins of Omission", he kidnaps the young son of professional thief (and Michael's former fiancée) Samantha Kees (Dina Meyer) to force her to steal the MacGuffin-of-the-week, which he expects will yield enough money to retire. Michael, dispensing with the use of cover identities and approaching Brennen as himself, frees Samantha's son and tricks Brennen into letting him return the item to its rightful owner, forcing Brennen to go on the run from his buyers.
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By extension, handwaving is used in literary, film and other media criticism of speculative fiction to refer to a plot device (e.g., a scientific discovery, a political development, or rules governing the behavior of a fictional creature) that is left unexplained or sloppily explained because it is convenient to the story, with the implication that the writer is aware of the logical weakness but hopes the audience will not notice or will suspend disbelief regarding such a macguffin, deus ex machina, continuity error or plot hole. The fictional material "handwavium" (a.k.a. "unobtainium", among other humorous names) is sometimes referred to in situations where the plot requires access to a substance of great value and properties that cannot be explained by real-world science, but is convenient to solving, or central to creating, a problem for the characters in the story.
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However, it transpires that MacGuffin's true reason for being so knowledgeable about NBC is that he is going to strip it for parts and turn the building into a Forever 21, since both he and Jack believe broadcast television has had its day. Kenneth argues that a network president needs to care about television, and not just the bottom line, and that MacGuffin is not right for the role, and neither was Jack. Later, Kenneth comes to Jack's office to resign from his role as page, but Jack surprises him by admitting that he was right: television is an unconventional medium, nearly every program he developed himself has failed, and the best skill for leading the network is, seemingly, loving television. For this reason, he has decided that the best candidate to be the new president is, in fact, Kenneth.
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The MacGuffin of the film is three data CDs which, when read simultaneously, detail the illegal dealings of Julian Grendel, who was getting rich from bootlegging his record company's music and murdered Bobby Black when he found out Black had acquired the CDs with the incriminating evidence. Both of Fairlane's beloved possessions, his house, and his car, are blown to bits, courtesy of Grendel. The first disc was with Colleen Sutton, the second with Zuzu Petals, and the third disc was hidden under the star for Art Mooney on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It is later revealed that Grendel killed Bobby Black and Johnny Crunch, as he considered them both greedy and stupid because they wanted more money for their involvement in pirating CD's to sell to the highest bidder, making the music industry corrupt.
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University of Chicago Press. 1980. pp. 63-72. the male twin is named Clever (name), while the female twin is called Mistress of Beauty, and both quest for the "dancing bamboo, singing water and talking lark". In the El-Schater Mouhammed tale, a variant from Egypt, the Brother is the hero of the story, but the last item of the quest (the bird) is replaced by "a baby or infant who can speak eloquently", as an impossible MacGuffin. In a Tunisian version (En busca del pájaro esmeralda, or "The quest for the emerald bird"), the older brother is the hero of the story and the singing branch is conflated with the titular emerald bird, which reveals the story at a feast with the Sultan.. En busca del pájaro esmeralda y otros cuentos tunecinos de Lela Ula.
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Olivas's fiction, poetry, essays, author interviews, and book reviews have appeared in many publications including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, Jewish Journal, The MacGuffin, Exquisite Corpse, High Country News, California Lawyer, PANK, and El Paso Times. Olivas is a contributing writer to more than a dozen anthologies including Fantasmas: Supernatural Stories by Mexican American Writers, edited by Rob Johnson (Bilingual Press, 2001), Love to Mamá: A Tribute to Mothers, edited by Pat Mora (Lee & Low Books, 2001), Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America, edited by Robert Shapard, James Thomas and Ray Gonzalez (W. W. Norton, 2010), and New California Writing 2012 (Heyday Books, 2012), edited by Gayle Wattawa. Olivas is featured in Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia: Conversations with Writers and Artists (University of Texas Press, 2006) edited by Frederick Luis Aldama.
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The book has received high praise from several science fiction writers. After criticizing unrealistic science fiction, Carl Sagan in 1978 listed The Stars My Destination as among stories "that are so tautly constructed, so rich in the accommodating details of an unfamiliar society that they sweep me along before I have even a chance to be critical". By 1987, when the author died, "It was apparent that the 1980s genre owed an enormous debt to Bester—and to this book in particular," Neil Gaiman wrote in the introduction to a 1999 edition of the book. "The Stars My Destination is, after all, the perfect cyberpunk novel: it contains such cheerfully protocyber elements as multinational corporate intrigue; a dangerous, mysterious, hyperscientific MacGuffin (PyrE); an amoral hero; a supercool thief-woman ..." James Lovegrove called it "the very best of Bester", and Thomas M. Disch identified it as "one of the great sf novels of the 1950s".
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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is a roguelike game where the player creates a character and guides it through a dungeon, mostly consisting of persistent levels, full of monsters and items, with the goal of retrieving the "Orb of Zot" (a MacGuffin) located there, and escaping alive. To enter the Realm of Zot where the Orb is located, the player must first obtain at least three "runes of Zot" of the 15 available; these are located at the ends of diverse dungeon branches such as the Spider Nest, Tomb, and Slime Pits. The game has an explicit design philosophy intended to provide interesting strategic and tactical choices within a balanced game; to offer replayability based on random dungeon generation; to make the game accessible and enjoyable without deep knowledge of its internal mechanics; and to present a friendly user interface that can optionally automate several tasks like exploration and searching for previously seen items. Conversely, the developer team seeks to avoid providing incentives for repeating boring actions without consideration, or providing illusory gameplay choices where one alternative is always superior.
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