MacGuffin - traduction vers français
PLOT DEVICE
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MacGuffin
n. MacGuffin, device that gives impetus to a plot in a movie or a play or book but later turns, out to be insignificant (this term was invented by Alfred Hitchcock)
Définition
mcguffin
Movie term, invented by Hitchcock, to refer to any interchangeable object - diamonds, secret plans, computer disk, rare animal etc. - that is the focus of the action in the plot, but which has no significance to the plot itself.
In The Pink Panther, the diamond is the McGuffin. It could have been anything.
In The Pink Panther, the diamond is the McGuffin. It could have been anything.
Wikipédia
MacGuffin
In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin) is an object, device, or event that is necessary to the plot and the motivation of the characters, but insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant in itself. The term was originated by Angus MacPhail for film, adopted by Alfred Hitchcock, and later extended to a similar device in other fiction.
The MacGuffin technique is common in films, especially thrillers. Usually, the MacGuffin is revealed in the first act, and thereafter declines in importance. It can reappear at the climax of the story but may actually be forgotten by the end of the story. Multiple MacGuffins are sometimes derisively identified as plot coupons.
Exemples de prononciation pour MacGuffin
1. that the basic MacGuffin, the thing that everyone was
Mad Max - Fury Road _ George Miller _ Talks at Google
2. And I think when there's this MacGuffin, this thing
America the Anxious _ Ruth Whippman _ Talks at Google
3. So that kind of gave us a MacGuffin
Serial Box Book Burners _ Max Gladstone + More _ Talks at Google
