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   What is a MacGuffin in a movie?

   • First popularized by master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, “MacGuffin” is the term used to describe a basic plot element that drives a film’s story forward. It often takes the form of an object, event, or character that’s being pursued — usually by opposing sets of characters — but it can also be more abstract, like a sense of love or power.

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   What is a MacGuffin?

   • Hitchcock explained the term "MacGuffin" in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University: [We] have a name in the studio, and we call it the "MacGuffin". It is the mechanical element that usually crops up in any story. In crook stories it is almost always the necklace and in spy stories it is most always the papers.

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   Which MacGuffins are the most interesting?

   • As MacGuffins go, the Genesis Device is certainly one of the most interesting on this list. There are plenty of examples of people being used as MacGuffins, but few have been as important as Private James Francis Ryan in the film named after his rescue.

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   Who invented the MacGuffin?

   • "The MacGuffin" — a web site owned by Hitchcock scholar and author Ken Mogg The director and producer Alfred Hitchcock popularized both the term "MacGuffin" and the technique, with his films Number Seventeen (1932) and The 39 Steps (1935) being early examples of the concept.

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   • The One Ring in The Lord of the Rings (2001) The Lord of the Rings was written by J. R. R. Tolkien in the 1950s, but it was Peter Jackson's illustrious movie adaptation that brought the epic story of The One Ring to visual life.
   • The Briefcase in Pulp Fiction (1994) Pulp Fiction is one of the most oft-cited movies when it comes to the MacGuffin. Quentin Tarantino's crime drama famously implements a MacGuffin that viewers never actually get to see, which is probably why we find it so intriguing...
   • Rosebud in Citizen Kane (1941) Rosebud is one of the most famous, sacred, and ultimately pointless MacGuffins in cinema history. Orson Welles flexes his talent for smart, thought-provoking filmmaking with Citizen Kane, and his use of the MacGuffin is a large element in that.
   • The Rug in The Big Lebowski (1998) We love this MacGuffin because it's so stupid and yet so funny. The Big Lebowski is a cult classic stoner-flick that became so popular that it even sparked its own religion.

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   Jun 7, 2018 · From the Ark of the Covenant and the Letters of Transit to a guy named Doug and a rug that ties the room together, these great movie MacGuffins proved that it isn't always the object of the ...

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   Oct 25, 2017 · Alfred Hitchcock gave name to a literary and film device called a MacGuffin (sometimes spelled “McGuffin”), which is any object or device that serves to trigger the plot. This boils down to anything that sets the plot in motion or keeps it going in one direction or another.