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What's a MacGuffin in Films and Why is It Called That (2017x127)


Udgivelsesdato: Maj 23, 2017

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Was Sherlock Holmes Based on a Real Person? https://youtu.be/xRLW1FvDMZc?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0GESJ0DgpgTcThLJVEbFs8 The Famous "Crying Indian" Who Wasn't https://youtu.be/mErdqTpl-mQ?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR In this video: In the last scene of the 1941 film classic, The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade (played by Humphrey Bogart) hands over a murderer (played by Mary Astor) and a black falcon statuette to authorities. When asked what the statuette was exactly, Spade looks off in the distance and rather unsatisfactorily explains, “It’s stuff that dreams are made of.” Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/04/whats-a-macguffin/ Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20140218224045/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4e85e2047df93 https://www.amazon.com/Art-Alfred-Hitchcock-Motion-Pictures/dp/0385418132/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1491079215&sr=8-1&keywords=the+art+of+hitchcock&linkCode=ll1&tag=vicastingcom-20&linkId=54ca0ed03488f8edd31c7ffd32c4ea4c http://www.openculture.com/2013/07/alfred-hitchcock-explains-the-plot-device-he-called-the-macguffin.html https://books.google.com/books?id=eSEWBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA221&lpg=PA221&dq=angus+macphail+macguffin&source=bl&ots=87A_7isPZ4&sig=BzguQZ6k2vc2B2aeGuBQzd_nsWA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVr6bXz_fSAhXs64MKHenOCkY4ChDoAQgvMAc#v=onepage&q=angus%20macphail%20macguffin&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=9oIkYvZQr0MC&pg=PA145&lpg=PA145&dq=Angus+MacPhail+macguffin&source=bl&ots=RnvM_1i76x&sig=Pm2LLG5sOkEfH9wFRZoUpHDb39k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3pozEzvfSAhVM44MKHfs7BMsQ6AEIUDAJ#v=onepage&q=Angus%20MacPhail%20macguffin&f=false https://www.

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