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MacGuffin
- ofalkaed 4y agoIn my experience people primarily use the term "MacGuffin" in reference to things they do not understand but see the significance of, they reduce theme to plot, they make the idea of a MacGuffin itself a MacGuffin. This irony seems lost on them but I can not help but hope that someday they will find humor in it; my optimism knows no bounds.
- cocacola1 4y agoThe unobtanium in 2009's Avatar, for example – something there to create conflict, but it has no deeper meaning.
- iancmceachern 4y agoAlso the turbidium from total recall
- fastball 4y agoA better source of information (and fun) for this kinda thing is definitely TVTropes[1]. A wikipedia article on the same thing is a bit sterile in comparison. The best part is that TVTropes includes copious examples of every such trope in every medium imaginable. Be warned though, internet adventurers have been known to go down a TVTropes rabbit-hole and never return... [1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MacGuffin https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MacGuffin