The border wall is now a MacGuffin, and that’s the problem. A MacGuffin is a term of art in screenwriting. It’s the thing the hero wants but the bad guys are trying to get, and therefore it drives the ...
At the end of January, the leadership of the Kansas City Public Schools gathered the local media and unveiled (literally), the state’s most recent accountability scores for the district. As the ...
Playing through MacGuffin's Curse, I started to feel a sense of familiarity. Brawsome's top-down puzzler would often have me pushing boxes, activating switches, and looting safes. In other words, it ...
Award-winning Australian indie MacGuffin's Curse is almost upon us; check out Tim Schafer's unofficial contribution to the project in the trailer through the break. As the developer notes, Schafer ...
How would Trump win? The same way he won the primaries: by selling a more entertaining story.This has to terrify Clinton. She knows how to run against a normal Republican. Unfortunately for her, a ...
The unquestioned master of suspense, filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock was especially fond of staging a MacGuffin, an element of the story that helped move the plot along but turned out to be insignificant ...
“MacGuffin” is the word Hitchcock used to describe a plot device that is little more than a pretext for creating action and suspense. In “Notorious,” for example, Hitchcock’s MacGuffin was fugitive ...
Nan Glass of Hartford wonders about the term “MacGuffin.” She encountered it twice on the same day, but with two conflicting meanings and two different spellings. Her first MacGuffinization came when ...
The border wall is now a MacGuffin, and that’s the problem. A MacGuffin is a term of art in screenwriting. It’s the thing the hero wants but the bad guys are trying to get, and therefore it drives the ...
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