MacGuffin

When Hitchcock came to America he signed a kind of marriage agreement with the controlling and contentious/controversial David O.Selznick. Both of them had different perspectives. When one had an idea of how to mix reality and action in film the other stood for shaping the artists who worked for the duo by assigning them limits and teaching them discipline by controlling and surveilling their every move. During the American period of Hitchcock “marriage” became a centre piece of his oeuvre.…

In the short story White Elephants, written by Ernest Hemingway, he attempts to reveal that if someone wants something done they should perform altruistic actions in the hopes that it ends in personal gain. With little to no information provided about the characters in Hemingway’s story, he forces the reader to acknowledge that minimalistic ideals can result in complex/powerful ones as well. The opening paragraph of most stories often reveal characters and settings in which the reader will get…

In Psycho, the paper pocket of forty-thousand dollars is assigned as the films MacGuffin in order to devise an apparent plot involving Marion cunningly stealing away with it. Throughout the beginning half of the film, Hitchcock uses reoccurring close-ups after near all dramatic sequences, not only to reaffirm its existence as a potential…

“Ah, the audience doesn’t care.” But George Lucas, director of the Star Wars film series, isn’t talking about Alfred Hitchhock’s entire film The 39 Steps. Instead, he is referring to a MacGuffin, a common plot device that motivates the protagonist(s) without much additional development of its own. Lucas’s remark can be untraditionally applied to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, for the dragon Smaug’s ostensibly antagonistic role left the reader ambivalent. However, this is not entirely due to a…

This paper is a deep exploration of the cinematic world, focusing primarily on film directors, their styles and trademarks. This research paper endeavors to give a better understanding of the film world by answering a three part question: How does a film director develop his style and use trademarks to portray or affect viewers to his liking, using tools of film such as music, camera angles, post production, and the like; What are the elements that make up a film director’s style and what makes…

The noir genre was similarly reactionary as its predecessor, romanticism. At the end of the 21st century, the progress and development of the society showed its unlimited abilities and the abandonment of the religious faith. Romanticism and its “eventual child”, gothic genre, was a reaction against the rapidly materializing world and the negation of its former ideals. The beginning of the 20th century faced similar challenges and certain disappointment in the big brave world. The emerging…

Kane was a man who had everything in his life. But, the one thing he needed he would never have, and that was his childhood. AWKWARD. HE DID HAVE A CHILDHOOD, BUT WHAT WAS IT IN HIS CHILDHOOD THAT HE WAS MISSING? Searching for Rosebud was just a MacGuffin that demonstrates Kane 's life. At last, the journalist portrays Rosebud…

Alfred Hitchcock once said “there is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it”(Crow, Jonathan).One of the greatest filmmakers of all times, was nicknamed “The Master of Suspense” for he was creating a psychological suspense in his films, which resulted in a unique watching experience (Alfred Hitchcock." Bio.com.). He was also an acknowledge master of the thriller, a genre he virtually invented (Ramirez Berg, Charles) and a brilliant technician. Born in London on August 13, 1899…