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And if you compare the first and third Indiana Jones films to the second (Temple of Doom), the reason #2 is the inferior movie is that the Macguffin was a lot less compelling; sacred Indian stones that magically control kidnapped children vs. two of crucial elements of Christian theology.
Jack Donaldson: 3 Summer Movies I Really Hope Don't Suck 2008
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This is what Hitchcock would have called a Macguffin - the object that provides Sykes with the motivation he needs to run through a series of levels, racing from objective to objective to objective to objective.
TrustedReviews Site-wide Feed Alan Downing 2008
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Ultimately, 'Tales of the Zombie' tries to ring in a number of twists on the classic "Macguffin" story, some successful, some not.
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The "Macguffin", to use Alfred Hitchcock's term, the "thing that everyone wants."
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The only problem with that original concept is that the 'Macguffin' was a generic alien doomsday device.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) Michael May 2008
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As the article in Vanity Fair explains, and without giving away too much for anyone who wants to go in fresh, it concerns a specific "Macguffin," which is, "an object or device that kicks the story into action and drives it to the third act."
Jack Donaldson: 3 Summer Movies I Really Hope Don't Suck 2008
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Gentlemen of Fortune were also amongst the winners for their physics based action-stealth game 'Quick as Thieves', in which the player is challenged to navigate round their way around a museum at night to steal the valuable 'Macguffin'.
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Or he would if he hadn't been castrated and otherwise mangled during a brief encounter with Spall in a descending lift to which in a piece of derivative mystifcatory Macguffin we weren't privy.
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In issue #3, the hero confronts the villain as the villain tries to pick up some intermediate Macguffin, like the diamonds he needs to power his death-ray or whatever.
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I find this very odd and almost turned him into a Macguffin.
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