Instead, the virus simply serves as a
macguffin to kick-start a story more interested in insane chases, slick CGI stunts, juvenile insults, and lighthearted depictions of torture and violence that have become the hallmarks of the "Fast & Furious" franchise.
The storyline is nominally concerned with the Staff of Moses, a relic which actually exists and functions here as a Hitchcockian
MacGuffin, but the action tumbles along at breakneck speed, so fast that it is difficult sometimes to keep up with the plot.
Fortunately, Forky, like the
MacGuffin in Alfred Hitchcock's films, only seems to be what 'Toy Story 4' is about.
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Macguffin pictures, Radhika."
Utilizing what initially seemed to be a
MacGuffin, the film's ending clearly indicates this is meant to be the start of a new cycle of films and a new direction for the franchise.
Mostly these motivations are what Alfred Hitchcock called the
MacGuffin, an explanation for the struggle but not really of interest in itself--like the uranium in Notorious, or the stolen payroll in Psycho.
"We're using this notion of survival as a
MacGuffin," Fullerton says.
The Force was a "Kiber Crystal," a red
MacGuffin at the centre of the conflict with mystical powers.
GirardAEs mimetic theory is presented as an alternative to Freudian and Lacanian theory for examining the violence in HitchcockAEs films and themes such as the innocent victim, the wrong man, the scapegoat, and the
MacGuffin. The films discussed are: The Birds, Shadow of a Doubt, Rope, Strangers on a Train, The Wrong Man, Vertigo, and Psycho.
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MacGuffin, Pennsylvania English, and Watershed
That was the genius of the first Iron Man movie--the
macguffin, nerds will recall, was the "arc reactor," a fantastically small source of huge amounts of power.
When I emerged from this show, feeling that I hadn't sunk beneath its systemic surfaces, the nameless aspect began to feel like a
MacGuffin or an unexamined piety.