GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — We may have had three college football games this past weekend, but for much of the country, this weekend is the official start of the season, with most teams in action ...
In the fall of 1939, director Alfred Hitchcock stood before Columbia University to tell a story we can only hope he invented. With a ruthless, dry delivery, Hitch spoke of two Scotsmen on a train. One ...
Alfred Hitchcock coined the term "MacGuffin" years ago. It's a plot device that is often a goal or a desire object that motivates the protagonist(s) and gets little to no narrative explanation. Many ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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