Hitchcock's name for a plot device; he said it "is actually nothing at all"
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"Hitchcock's MacGuffin in the Works of David Mamet" by Digou, Mike ...  As a literary device, the MacGuffin predates Hitchcock. Rudyard Kipling first ... One man says, ... So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all. (Truffaut...
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MacGuffin - Wikipedia  In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or maguffin) is a plot device in the form of some ... So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all. ... Hitchcock's term "MacGuffin" helped him to assert that his films were in fact not what ... around which the plot revolves, but as to what that object specifically is, he declared,...
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MacGuffin | Open Access articles | Open Access journals ...  In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or maguffin) is a plot device in the ... The director and producer Alfred Hitchcock popularized the term "MacGuffin" (a plot device that motivates the ... So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all. ... which the plot revolves, but as to what that object specifically is, he declared,...
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MacGuffins and Myth  Mysteristas  Mar 23, 2016 ... Here is how he explained the term MacGuffin, according to Wikipedia: It might be a ... So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all.
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MacGuffin Feature - Bridge Guys  The term MacGuffin was coined by Mr. Angus MacPhail from Scotland, a friend of and ... In a whimsical anecdote told by Mr. Alfred Hitchcock, he compared the MacGuffin to a ... be aware that it represents the ultimately irrelevant plot element every listener or viewer is ... So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all.
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Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 216, Bret Easton Ellis  The book is about a group of burned-out rich kids in L.A., with names like Clay .... To the extent that there's a plot in Less Than Zero, it's Clay trying to get his money ..... I think American Psycho was just the preparation for writing Glamorama, and I ... which you could argue is most of my novels, you need a sense of mystery,...
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The 39 Steps (1935) - IMDb  Mystery  A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent. But when the agent is killed ... Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ... Crime | Mystery | Thriller ..... Many of the copies of Hitchcock's film still being sold are particularly bad in this...
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and ...  Without these things, one tended to notice the bright eyelet curtains, the vase ... Inspired, she stood up and took the stack, then walked to the edge of the driveway. ...... a packet of gum, and some lint fall onto the Formica, but nothing that would ...... Perhaps because they were the very last words Cam had anticipated as a...
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Taking Lives Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or Angelina ...  You have a license? - I had one. They took it away, though. Looks like you're driving ... No. Forget about it, man. We're lucky this piece of shit had a spare. Fuck. ... Oh, yeah, I'll have us back on the road in no time, no time at all. .... If he were the killer, chances are he'd be trying to take a look. .... Anything that might be helpful.
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Infinite Test | Reading David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest  Reading David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. ... Or if not a circle, a fractal: Foster Wallace once reported that the book was structured like .... courtesy of a rather fearsome gangster, immeasurable violence, and a great deal of drugs, ... William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the play that gives Infinite Jest its title (Alas, poor Yorick!
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Time'S Eye, ,, English  Part 1. Discontinuity. 1. Seeker. 2. Little Bird. 3. Evil Eye. 4. RPG. 5. Soyuz. 6. ... Seeker's kind had no namesthese creatures' language was still little more .... I can tell you're checking me out, despite that stupid visor, Bisesa said laconically. ...... Ruddy said dryly to Grove, If you'd never seen a gun, Captain, you'd be...
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Vertigo (film) - Wikipedia  Vertigo is a 1958 American psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. ... The film stars James Stewart as former police detective John "Scottie" ... extreme fear of heights) and vertigo (a false sense of rotational movement). ...... Plays. Short Circuit (1935); The Stars Foretell (1936); I Killed the Count...
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Person on Tape (Character) - Quotes - IMDb
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idiom requests - English equivalent for the Persian proverb "The ...  I just found "much ado about nothing"; would it convey the same connotation .... @BinaryWorrier I've always heard it the other way around. .... The one I've heard is he's only a fart in a teacup meaning a small sound has been excessively amplified. .... Any English equivalent for the Persian idiom to play dead like a mouse?
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Rope (1948) - Hitchcock's cameo - The Alfred Hitchcock Wiki  Hitchcock's cameo in Rope (1948) occurs about 55 minutes into the film, ... of the "Obesity Slayer" which formed Hitchcock's cameo in Lifeboat (1944). ... One of these signs depicts beforeandafter figures advertising a product called Reduco. ... He had used the Reduco gag as a newspaper ad in Lifeboat (1943), another...
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MoMA.org | Interactives | Exhibitions | 1999 | Alfred Hitchcock  The husband of an actress is murdered and suspicion falls where it shouldn't. ... leaps from one incident to another; in many ways it anticipates North by Northwest. .... In truth perhaps The Wrong Man should have been done as a documentary.
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Jeopary Questions page 1804 - ANAGRAMMED HITCHCOCK ...  WEATHER: A boundary between 2 dissimilar air masses, it may be cold, warm .... at the end of the novel "Crime And Punishment" is servitude in this cold region.
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Suicide Is Painless - TV Tropes  The Suicide Is Painless trope as used in popular culture. ... Ironically, the trope namer, the 1970 film M*A*S*H, actually averts the trope by being featured in a...
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The Shadow - Wikiquote
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Problem set in postscript format  An object will give you a method to nd out its name if you. send it the .... mrs-peacock moves from study to library ... You should set *deity-mode* to false when you are ready to \play" the game .... An alibi is simply a report from a Clue character (now turned suspect) that says ... Value: (conservatory (knife) (miss-scarlet)). If you...
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Rope (film) - Wikipedia  Rope is a 1948 American psychological crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton and adapted by Hume Cronyn and Arthur Laurents. The film was produced by Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein as the first of their ... John Dall and Farley Granger, this is the first of Hitchcock's Technicolor films,...