NaNo 4328 / 50,000
#2: Apr 24th 2018 at 7:02:24 PM
If you want to use Wikipedia as your source (and there's plenty of others if you want an alternate), then see here
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The MacGuffin's importance to the plot is not the object itself, but rather its effect on the characters and their motivations. The most common type of MacGuffin is a person, place, or thing (such as money or an object of value).
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As it would seem, MacGuffin is something that 1) is sought after, and 2) does nothing more than being sought after, plot-wise, so what the specific thing is is irrelevant and interchangeable.
But many of the Macguffin Snowclones and many of tropers' usage of the term refer to only 1) and not 2).
So if I may ask: where does the 2) come from? I wish it doesn't just come arbitrarily (i.e not something we tropers made up) because Alfred Hitchcock doesn't say anything like that in said page. That is, I'd like some better literary source about it.
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