| 单词 | MacGuffin |
| 例句 | She posted these great rambling essays about her search for Halliday’s egg, which she called a “maddening MacGuffin hunt.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Two mysteries await their endgame – the true identity of Clara Oswald, the impossible girl, and the even more tantalising MacGuffin of the Doctor's real name. Has Doctor Who really lost its way? 2013-05-17T11:02:27Z Meanwhile, the Dark Elves, who existed before time began, have unleashed a powerful force called the Aether; it’s like the Tesseract, the MacGuffin from The Avengers, times a quillion. Thor: The Dark World: A God-Awful Villain Steals the Thunder 2013-11-06T23:49:43Z Clooney in fact plays the MacGuffin in this movie, to use Hitchcock’s terminology; he’s a plot device around whom the main characters revolve. “Hail, Caesar!”: The Coens’ hilarious yarn of ’50s Hollywood goes far beyond farce 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z 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. Movie Trailers: ‘Rogue One,’ ‘Fantastic Beasts’ and the Franchise Challenge 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Some are MacGuffins, like Quentin Tarantino’s golden glowing prize. Women come first, sexposition second in TV’s recent depictions of female pleasure 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z And he it was who perfected the art of the MacGuffin – the secret formula or tchotchke that sets the plot in motion. Anne Billson 2011-01-06T22:00:03Z You may think the scene is some kind of a MacGuffin, a false clue, but it isn't. PBS brings back beloved Inspector Morse — as a young man 2012-06-29T19:10:04Z The Maltese Falcon is a MacGuffin, as are the letters of transit in “Casablanca,” and a MacGuffin par excellence is all the more potent, dramatically, because its exact significance and innate value go unexplained. | To Have and To Hold 2014-03-06T14:00:39Z The chief MacGuffin of the series is a substance with a classic comic book name: stellarium. One of comics’ best writers is former CIA agent 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z Just as a team of mercenary soldiers appears to "debrief" her unit, Odelle manages to download the files to a thumb drive, which will become one of the more mobile MacGuffins in television history. 'American Odyssey' a clever and exciting conspiracy thriller 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z But we all need some sort of MacGuffin when we watch a movie. Anne Billson 2011-01-06T22:00:03Z Arguably, the quest for a bullet-train miracle is something of a MacGuffin in “I Wish.” Pick of the week: A class-war thriller from Putin?s Russia 2012-05-18T00:00:00Z In Hitchcock terms, the movie has both a goal and a MacGuffin. Bourne again: "Green Zone" a remarkable movie 2010-03-05T06:26:00Z You begin to suspect almost immediately that a lot of narrative misdirection is at work here, as MacGuffins and red herrings spawn and swarm. Movie Review | 'Shutter Island': All at Sea, Surrounded by Red Herrings 2010-02-18T15:49:00Z Cats are a perfectly adequate MacGuffin for this pleasant ramble through what philosophy can and can’t help us with. Review | We’ve been looking to philosophers to make sense of life. Maybe we should be looking at cats instead. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z The tech: Would you believe there are a few MacGuffins this time around? Tracing the evolution of "The Fast and the Furious" franchise, movie by movie 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Not surprisingly, the project, though real and apparently dear to Nessa's heart, is mostly a fiber-optic MacGuffin; there are more layers of money, murder and political manipulation at work than sheets of phyllo in baklava. Sundance's 'The Honorable Woman' a brave foray into conflict 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z 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. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Which makes Josef himself the MacGuffin with a thousand faces, somehow golem and homunculus and gingerbread man at once. A Psychedelic Epic That Wants to Consume the World 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z This is jacket as plot point, Alfred Hitchcock's MacGuffin in action. Clip joint: great movie jackets 2012-11-28T16:36:22Z The tech: The Ares device is even more nonsensical than the usual MacGuffin because its many parts just creates a MacGuffin turducken and who needs that? Tracing the evolution of "The Fast and the Furious" franchise, movie by movie 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Alfred Hitchcock liked to talk about the MacGuffin, a plot device of great interest to the characters onscreen that keeps the story moving along, yet turns out to be of little consequence. A Louche Life Set to a Show-Tunes Score 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Puttering around with strongbox in hand, Kelsey Painter paints a droll version of the avaricious Bernard Bottomdollar, who arrives at the Hotel MacGuffin on a dark and stormy night. Review | Constellation Theatre conjures up a sensory-rich ‘White Snake’ 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z The MacGuffin is a small notebook an Iraqi general grabbed four months earlier as the U.S. invasion began. Bourne again: "Green Zone" a remarkable movie 2010-03-05T06:26:00Z Meanwhile, it seems like creator and writer Chris Chibnall is going to continue to string us along with this whole bluebell MacGuffin. 'Broadchurch' Season 2, Episode 3 Recap: The Revenge of Sharon Bishop 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Little seems to be much at stake even after the value of the MacGuffin, er "The Handle," is revealed to be something that could permanently alter the world forever. In "Operation Fortune," Aubrey Plaza saves Guy Ritchie's latest action-packed but lackluster caper 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z The movie’s MacGuffin is a trio of metallic spheres, about the size of bocce balls, that contain plutonium and are adorned with gizmos to plug them catastrophically into detonators. “Mission: Impossible—Fallout” Is Basically a Two-and-a-Half-Hour Making-Of Sequence 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z 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. Review: In ‘Elle,’ Isabelle Huppert Subverts the Role of Rape Victim 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Scratch that: The platform is just a MacGuffin. ‘Silicon Valley’ Season 3, Episode 4: Irrepressible Genius 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z As he told Truffaut, the best MacGuffin is "the emptiest, the most non-existent and the most absurd". Anne Billson 2011-01-06T22:00:03Z And the story is the emptiest, most absurd MacGuffin of all. Anne Billson 2011-01-06T22:00:03Z During this suspenseful voyage, a middle-aged British spy posing as Miss Froy, an eccentric governess, and carrying the film's MacGuffin, is abducted by foreign agents, and her disappearance is covered up. My favourite Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes 2012-07-24T09:23:46Z And the search is so full of red herrings and MacGuffins. "We Keep the Dead Close" author Becky Cooper's on the ritualistic murder that shocked Harvard 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z But a conspiracy is the MacGuffin that keep characters in peril and the plot in motion. Review: ‘American Odyssey,’ a New NBC Series, Stars Anna Friel 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z I was crossing the street in Los Angeles and this very simple idea popped in my head: “What if there was a ‘Mad Max’ movie that was one long chase, and the MacGuffin was human?” ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: The Oral History of a Modern Action Classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z One thinks also that, in real life, the briefcase — every briefcase and every satchel and knapsack and tote and much derided so-called murse — is itself a kind of MacGuffin. | To Have and To Hold 2014-03-06T14:00:39Z Most good serials dangle at least the promise of an ending, even if that ending is illusory; even if it's what Hitchcock referred to as a MacGuffin. Where now for the British film industry? 2010-10-07T22:00:00Z The MacGuffin in this mystery is the iPhone that one of the girls — an orphan living with relatives — has received as a gift. The Deaths of Teenage Cousins in a Village in India Have Global Ramifications 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Its complexity pays off with a better than usual MacGuffin and real teamwork against a global enemy. Review: It’s 1996, and Jack Reacher Is Playing Nice With Others 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The MacGuffin here is the competition between the United States and China to develop a quantum computer that will crack codes and perform other spy work millions of times faster than conventional machines. Review | For the inside dope on how the CIA works, ‘The Quantum Spy’ can’t be beat 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Most of the action takes place off camera and before the series was shown to the public; television is the MacGuffin that brings strangers together and tears one couple apart. | 'Cinema Verite': The First Airing of Dirty Laundry 2011-04-21T22:02:46Z They all want Komarov to lead them to a hidden file - it sounds so Cold War, it may as well have been microfilm - but of course the file is the MacGuffin. Review: The latest `Die Hard' movie simply won't 2013-02-13T22:46:05Z The longer one looks at the film, the less it seems to reveal; the more Nénette appears to be just a great, hairy MacGuffin. Nicolas Philibert: the future's orange 2011-01-27T22:45:01Z Ackroyd equates a MacGuffin with a red herring, which means almost the opposite: a false clue. Alfred Hitchcock: ‘A superb fantasist of fear’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z It was espionage in pursuit of a MacGuffin stored within a cargo crate, which looked sometimes like a coffin and sometimes like a dagger, in adherence to the sinister tradition of Sith design culture. The VOID Is Where Virtual Reality Enters the Dying Meatspace of the Mall 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The lighter may be the MacGuffin but the girl is an irrelevance, a token, an afterthought. My favourite Hitchcock: Strangers on a Train 2012-08-02T16:55:00Z 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. Was That Really Me? A Novelist Discovers Her Younger Self 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Big Red himself is a big, handsome MacGuffin, symbolic window dressing for a quasi-inspirational fantasia of American whiteness and power. "Secretariat": A gorgeous, creepy American myth 2010-10-07T00:30:00Z “The plot is a MacGuffin for making you think you’re in a play,” he said. Andr? Gregory and Louis Malle?s ?Vanya on 42nd Street? 2012-02-24T19:56:07Z The MacGuffin, in Alfred Hitchcock’s formulation, is “the mechanical element that usually crops up in any story” — the object of desire, the ball all eyes are kept on. | To Have and To Hold 2014-03-06T14:00:39Z 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. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 8: Priorities and Principles 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Does violence lurk or is this whole subplot nothing more than a MacGuffin? Hitchcock: To Psycho with Love 2012-11-20T13:00:50Z AMC Entertainment, which operates the nation's second-largest theater chain, doesn't disclose alcohol sales figures but says there is growing demand for its bar concept, called MacGuffins Bar and Lounge. Theater chains boost bottom line with booze sales 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z She’s the MacGuffin, in Hitchcock’s words, the thing that sets the plot going: the secret plans, or the unlocked suitcase, or the mysterious woman wearing a veil, or whatever it is. The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z The action sequences and convoluted pursuit of various MacGuffins — way stations toward the ultimate MacGuffin — are masterfully done, with cinematic set pieces, noirish interludes and horrifying bad guys. Review | Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Hummingbird Salamander’ is a gripping eco-thriller full of cinematic set pieces 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z His MacGuffin – the plot device to explore what science is – is ignorance, on which he runs a course at Columbia University in New York. Ignorance by Stuart Firestein; It's Not Rocket Science by Ben Miller – review 2012-07-19T10:00:04Z So this is the kind of novel that strives, despite its MacGuffin, to be called "haunting"; and it achieves this by not striving too hard, and by balancing itself with quite astonishing ease. Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke by Peter Benson ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:04Z The MacGuffin in the suitcase proves an essential unifier, bringing together the threads of past and present in the quest to obtain it and understand the importance of its contents. Lev Grossman's 'The Magician's Land' closes the book 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z A seamless sequence of vivid episodes, the piece is a craggy MacGuffin that shouldn’t work but does, stapled together with a hiccupping three-note motto and capped with a raging duel between two timpanists. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Continues an Exploration 2014-03-13T22:40:45Z Erin's murder drove the A-plot, often weaving down the road through an obstacle course of misdirects and MacGuffins as the mystery of her life informed her death. "Mare of Easttown" is twisty until the very end, but the best part is its grace 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z One thinks of the briefcase in “Pulp Fiction” as an iconic MacGuffin: What is in it? | To Have and To Hold 2014-03-06T14:00:39Z He told her to look for Alan, whom she’d “met” online, gather information about him and — here was the MacGuffin — “make sure the doll stays with its owner.” If Your Life Were a Movie 2011-01-23T04:45:10Z The final coup de grâce — the delivery of a final MacGuffin manuscript — will leave you with questions about the nature of reality and sanity. Friendship or Identity Theft? In This French Best Seller, It’s Hard to Tell. 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z And even now that fusion energy might be in our future, my relationship with it remains unchanged: Leave science to the scientists and MacGuffins to the writers. Fusion? We’ve Seen This Movie Before. 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Even the movies this movie steals from have been widely and recently filched. uses Raiders of the Lost Ark as a template; but the makers of already filched the Ark of the Covenant as MacGuffin. Captain America: Been There, Saved That 2011-07-22T19:45:00Z A MacGuffin of course, and by the time Psycho premieres, Hitch and Alma are ready to walk off into the sunset together, she appreciated again, he tamed, just a big fat pussycat. Hitchcock: To Psycho with Love 2012-11-20T13:00:50Z The bag is a tried-and-true MacGuffin if there ever was one, and Boyle is just the writer to make the most of it. Review | William Boyle captures a slice of Brooklyn in ‘Shoot the Moonlight Out’ 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z And yet when we get our hands on the longed-for MacGuffin, it doesn’t do away with our feelings of emptiness or brokenness, and may well deepen them. Christians should abandon Christianity 2013-04-21T16:00:00Z 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. The Bizarre Tale of the ‘Dinosaur Artist’ Who Trafficked in Stolen Fossils 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Was the plot of this story, “Cream,” just a MacGuffin to get us to this scene? Eight Ways of Looking at Haruki Murakami 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Whatever Maths is often reduced to nothing more than a MacGuffin. Genius by numbers: why Hollywood maths movies don't add up 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z In another story he’d be the hero and Theseus, fighting on Zeus’ side, would be the counterrevolutionary villain, with the Epirus bow, the movie’s mythological MacGuffin, going to the rebel winner. Immortals: Crash, Bash and Flash of the Titans 2011-11-11T10:00:47Z Though one might think it not hard to find — just sail until you hit it — a map to the place is the season’s major MacGuffin. 'One Piece' review: A popular manga becomes a lively, nonsensical series 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z This sequence is ostensibly there to introduce the film’s MacGuffin, Archimedes Antikythera, a real celestial calculation machine with extraordinary predictive capabilities that in the film is bestowed with some otherworldly powers. Movie Review: Harrison Ford gets a swashbuckling sendoff in ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z The resistance says no: “Algorithms love cliches,” declares JQ, “and there’s no cliche bigger than the quest for the Holy Grail — most overused MacGuffin ever.” 'Mrs. Davis' review: Betty Gilpin brilliantly battles artificial intelligence 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z While “King Lear” is, Bausch notes, the novel’s MacGuffin, the vehicle for exploring the toil and trouble of his own cast, it is a play that inspires great passion in the author. How Richard Bausch learned to stop worrying and trust his instincts 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z By contrast, when "The Core" introduces its own substance called "unobtanium," it is presented not as a MacGuffin but as a potentially viable scientific material. How this laughable sci-fi flick embarrassed Hollywood into doing better science 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z It sounds strange to say in a book with so many gruesome bits, but in some ways the killings are a MacGuffin — the mere catalyst for the unraveling and downfall of the protagonist Ness. Review | The grisly Cleveland murders that unraveled Eliot Ness 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z “The MacGuffin distracted attention from the really important things going on in the story to make the startling conclusion even more surprising in the end.” The Carried Interest Loophole Survives Another Political Battle 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Boxer represents a case in point: If not a MacGuffin, exactly, he is something of a red herring, a dead end. Review: A master of Taipei noir proves every good crime novel is a social novel 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z It’s a pretty good surprise, and I didn’t see it coming, even though I did catch some other MacGuffins floating around in the middle distance of this espionage stew. Review | Spy thriller ‘All the Old Knives’ is complicated, with an okay twist 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z The MacGuffin that unites the thriller with the bildungsroman is a fiddle once played by PopPop, Ray’s enslaved great-great-grandfather, probably the son of the master of the Marks plantation. The 7 best crime novels of the winter 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z The big MacGuffin that will save your planet, however, is broken, requiring you to defeat several kaiju-like monsters called remnants in order to get the machine back online. Solar Ash’s world and combat can’t keep up with its incredible movement 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z “We just started with that. And the first question after those two sentences, is, ‘Well, what’s the MacGuffin? Why you shouldn't text while watching Steven Soderbergh's 'No Sudden Move' 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z This too is a MacGuffin, as the detectives working the case admit the evidence does not add up. Review: A master of Taipei noir proves every good crime novel is a social novel 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z But while that document might be indecipherable to most, it wouldn’t be accurate to call it a MacGuffin. Review: All due respect to 'F9,' but 'No Sudden Move' is the car movie of the summer 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z The circumstances behind their reunion — involving a downed plane, a sneering Charlize Theron, a fictional Central American republic and some items from the discount bin at MacGuffins “R” Us — are barely worth unpacking here. Review: With ‘F9,’ the ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise mostly recovers from its days of blunder 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Administrative officer Masaki Tsuge is assigned to gather information, but this is a MacGuffin; the real drama involves his own domestic life. Review: Bureaucracy noir? Japanese novellas wring soulful suspense out of cop office politics 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z The whole journey east is really an elaborate MacGuffin, less about the search for a birth mother than it is about the sisters’ damaged dynamic. When the universe curses you back: a razor-sharp novel about a road-trip to acceptance 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z The elder Fowl, a dealer of antiquities, is kidnapped and held hostage for a missing MacGuffin called the Aculos. Review: ‘Artemis Fowl’ wasn’t worth the wait after all 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Though where Hitchcock relied on the MacGuffin, the meaningless central device that excites the characters and drives the plot, Garland is fully invested in the implications of his thought-experiment gizmos. You may want to watch 'Devs' twice 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z As Hitchcock explained it once: “The MacGuffin is the thing that the spies are after but the audience don’t care.” Who needs football when Premier League winter break provides prime content? | Marina Hyde 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z His latest foolhardy scheme rests on those stolen opals, which function on one level as a classic movie MacGuffin — an accursed, much-coveted artifact that rapidly changes hands, sowing confusion and bad blood in its wake. Review: Adam Sandler gives the performance of his career in the razor-sharp 'Uncut Gems' 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z 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. Vader Immortal is what a "theme park film" actually looks like, and it’s great 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z During her time as a reporter at The Journal, Ms. Marr, one of the show’s consultants, covered this unusual debt arrangement, which serves the series as a kind of MacGuffin. HBO’s ‘Succession’ Tries to Get the Merger-Mad Media Industry Right 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Fortunately, Forky, like the MacGuffin in Alfred Hitchcock’s films, only seems to be what “Toy Story 4” is about. ‘Toy Story 4’ grows up but still keeps the joy of toys 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z We do not know what the MacGuffin actually is. Is the Trump-Russia political drama over? Not at all: Bill Barr's ending fell flat 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z The story is more than just a helpful MacGuffin. Famous Men Who Never Lived is a powerful novel about alternate worlds and the plights of refugees 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z A “MacGuffin,” as one former top GOP aide put it Tuesday, only there to motivate action - in Trump’s case, for support. Analysis: Missing piece in Trump’s wall is GOP support 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z A key narrative device in “Capernaum” — one might almost call it a MacGuffin — is Zain’s announcement in a Beirut courtroom that he wants to sue his abusive, neglectful parents. Director Nadine Labaki's 'Capernaum' took her on a journey from the slums of Beirut to the United Nations 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z 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. Season 2 of Iron Fist recognizes that Danny Rand is the worst 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z The MacGuffin was a fraud of sorts, a cheap trick. Is the Trump-Russia political drama over? Not at all: Bill Barr's ending fell flat 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z This is another MacGuffin: Mourinho will always correctly command great esteem for a phenomenal record. Is José Mourinho still the man to fix Manchester United’s problems? | Jamie Jackson 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Within short order, Drew himself will be dead, gunned down in front of Audrey, who obeys his dying words and jets off to Vienna so she can ensure delivery of a particularly perfunctory MacGuffin. Review: Kate McKinnon seizes control of the frenzied action-comedy ‘The Spy Who Dumped Me' 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z This leads me to speculate wildly that Jake is, in fact, the shiny MacGuffin living in Marsellus Wallace’s briefcase from “Pulp Fiction.” ‘A Kid Like Jake’: a light but daring take on 4-year-old’s gender identity 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Taken collectively, these artifacts are the mother of all MacGuffins — plot devices that drive the narrative, but may or may not have much to do with the true message of the story. Review | ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ is stunningly dark. But it’s still wildly entertaining. 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z There are some minor nitpicks — the narrative’s heavy use of magical MacGuffins, a needlessly complex loot system, and an over-reliance on particularly gruesome kills — but they do little to detract from the overall experience. God of War review: an incredible reimagining of a PlayStation icon 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Thanos is trying to gather together the six Infinity Stones, the MacGuffin items of power from across the various Marvel films — and judging by the trailer, it’ll be an uphill battle to stop him. The final trailer for Avengers: Infinity War is here 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The whole story is nothing more than an elaborate MacGuffin. ‘The Commuter’: Liam Neeson rides again, this time on a train 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Swiss director Frédéric Mermoud is no Hitchcock, yet he presents this story as if it’s a real puzzler, even though there are no MacGuffins to throw off amateur sleuths. Review | The French mystery ‘Moka’ is less a whodunit than a double character study 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z He refers, in a typical cascade of inspirations, to the castle in Kafka, the golden bowl in Henry James and the Hitchcockian object, the MacGuffin, that is both everything and nothing. Jonathan Lethem: ‘I’ve always thought of myself as a dark writer, but this is utterly different’ 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z He’s a composite invented to connect the movie’s many parts, a movie-star MacGuffin who happens to be there for every plot turn. Review: In ‘Patriots Day,’ a community disarms terrorism 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z But the debate here, contentious though it is, ultimately seems like a bit of a MacGuffin — the pretext for a deeper moral and professional inquiry that transcends any specific political issue. Jessica Chastain galvanizes in the timely political melodrama 'Miss Sloane' 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z How do we explain a MacGuffin overtaking our politics? All noise, no sense: Alfred Hitchcock explains James Comey, the media and 2016’s MacGuffin 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Just as film characters might be lost without their MacGuffins or symbolic weapons, we'd be lost without the stuff we imbue with cultural meaning. Let's think about why props matter in movies 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Tomorrowland is part location, part MacGuffin, but mostly it’s a conceptual stand-in for what the movie is really interested in: hope and optimism. Tomorrowland review 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Roche introduced the object as the “MacGuffin” and handed it off to the actors, who recited lines in French while Roche filmed them. Going Places: François Roche and Pierre Huyghe's Train to Nowhere 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z I also don't think the villain is the Golden Fang, which is a MacGuffin disguised as a crime syndicate. Inherent Vice is the best or worst movie of the season, depending on who you ask 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z That these MacGuffin objects sometimes fall from the sky is a gimmick with a short shelf life. Defiance – review 2013-04-20T23:04:07Z Will whoever wins it actually tell the world what it is, or will it be the ultimate MacGuffin? The Priceless Social Gaming Data That Lies At The Heart Of Peter Molyneux's Curiosity Cube 2012-11-06T11:47:22Z However unfair and misleading, MacGuffins work in our current national politics. 'Show Me Papers' Politics: Romney Paid 13% Taxes 2012-08-17T00:05:24Z That’s the trouble with stagings that rely on “it’s all in his head” as the chief MacGuffin. Kinky Brothel Games Intrigue in ENO’s ‘Hoffmann’: London Stage 2012-02-15T14:58:22Z THE studio at MacGuffin Films, on the first floor of a nondescript office building near Astor Place in Manhattan, has been home to some canny feats of visual theater. In Food Commercials, Flying Doughnuts and Big Budgets 2011-10-08T18:30:13Z It was the MacGuffin, the symbolic, hollow device for moving forward a narrative. Obama Releases Long-Form Birth Certificate: 'We Do Not Have Time for this Kind of Silliness' 2011-04-27T15:46:50Z A dozen men at MacGuffin Films, a studio in Manhattan, are struggling to capture this moment. In Food Commercials, Flying Doughnuts and Big Budgets 2011-10-08T18:30:13Z Alfred Hitchcock, the great director, once explained how the MacGuffin worked. Obama Releases Long-Form Birth Certificate: 'We Do Not Have Time for this Kind of Silliness' 2011-04-27T15:46:50Z Obama, too, knows how to use a MacGuffin. Obama Releases Long-Form Birth Certificate: 'We Do Not Have Time for this Kind of Silliness' 2011-04-27T15:46:50Z |
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