Originally posted by queeq
And then your life would be complete?What does it matter?
It's just interesting, that's all. We've seen the movies so often now that whenever a mistake is coming in the dvd, we all wait for it, like the stormtrooper bumping his head. And the fact that Lucas did a good job of hiding the switched lightsabers is just another mcguffin when you've seen the movie before.
Originally posted by chinabing
It's just interesting, that's all. We've seen the movies so often now that whenever a mistake is coming in the dvd, we all wait for it, like the stormtrooper bumping his head. And the fact that Lucas did a good job of hiding the switched lightsabers is just another mcguffin when you've seen the movie before.
That's not what a McGuffin is about...
Movie mechanism. Alfred Hitchcock's favorite. He explained it like this:
It might be a Scottish name, taken from a story about two men in a train. One man says, 'What's that package up there in the baggage rack?' And the other answers, 'Oh that's a McGuffin.' The first one asks 'What's a McGuffin?' 'Well' the other man says, 'It's an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands.' The first man says, 'But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands,' and the other one answers 'Well, then that's no McGuffin!' So you see, a McGuffin is nothing at all.
Originally posted by queeqIn a way, it is. It's not exactly what a mcguffin is. But what do you call it when you watch a movie you've seen time and time again, and it comes to your favorite part and you wait for it, wait for it, and then there it is, what we've all been looking for.
That's not what a McGuffin is about...