Narendra Patil·Jan 31Vertigo — Spiralling into MelancholyAlfred Hitchcock takes a banal criminal motive as a starting point, turns it into a love story, and ultimately transforms the passion and…A response icon2A response icon2
Jim Ekanem·Oct 15, 2025Here's how To Design Workshops Like MoviesThe Mac Guffin is an infamous plot device that will make the storyline of your next experience design 10x more coherent and add a…
Lewis Rollow Strasburg·Aug 4, 2024I Broke My MacGuffinShattered it, even, just so I didn’t have to share the whole thing.
Tracie Reddick·Oct 23, 2022Is NOPE an Example of a MacGuffin?The title’s hype meets the gimmick rule for this film trope.
Elena Yatzeck·Jan 26, 2021Is Your Novel the MacGuffin of Your Life? (If So: Good!) — Elena YatzeckJavier Marias says there are seven reasons not to write novels, and only one reason to write them :
Sally Yang·Jan 10, 2021Take the Scenic RouteIf you are given a choice between taking a scenic route or a shortcut, what would you choose? It depends, most people would say — If I’m in…
Trevor Kraus·May 14, 2019The Meaning of UpWhy the movie “Up” is so much more than an animated kids’ flick.
Stuart James·Oct 19, 2016In HitchcocklandI’m here to read, not to write.A response icon2A response icon2
