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	MacGuffin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Commonly, though not always, the MacGuffin is the central focus of the film in the first act, and then declines in significance as the struggles and motivations of the characters take center stage.
		MacGuffins may be acceptable to the general audience, but fail to be believable for experts in the subject matter (such as a particular technology, or historical detail).
		The briefcase in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction is a MacGuffin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MacGuffin (1955 words)

	MacGuffin (cipher) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Schneier and Blaze based MacGuffin on DES, their main change being that the data block is not split into equal halves in the Feistel network.
		MacGuffin's key schedule is a modified version of the encryption algorithm itself.
		At the same workshop where MacGuffin was introduced, Rijmen and Preneel showed that it was vulnerable to differential cryptanalysis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MacGuffin_(cipher) (501 words)

	Boon: MacGuffin's Transputer - TV.com
		Robert MacGuffin, a hardware designer who works for a computer company, Pictel, believes that his former secretary, Alexandra Wilton, is stealing the design for the company's latest transputer.
		When MacGuffin comes to the warehouse where Ken and Rocky are watching Alex's flat, he sees their photographs of her boyfriend, Jim Parham, and tells them that Jim works for Wyatt Corporation, a rival electronics firm.
		Angry at the way MacGuffin has deceived her and for the way that he sacked her without any explanation, she suggests that they put back the transputer in his safe to thwart his claim that it has been stolen.
	www.tv.com /boon/macguffins-transputer/episode/163874/summary.html (853 words)

	MacGuffin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A MacGuffin is a plot device that holds no meaning or purpose of its own except to advance the story.
		The term "MacGuffin" was invented by Alfred Hitchcock, and he made extensive use of MacGuffins in his films.
		One example of a MacGuffin in Hitchcock's movies is the bottle of "radioactive diamonds" in Notorious: it is the reason the story takes place, but it means nothing.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/m/ma/macguffin_1.html (431 words)

	The MacGuffin
		The MacGuffin is simply an irrelevant action that triggers the characters into movement and grabs the reader’s attention.
		By the end of the first chapter, say, the drama of the MacGuffin fades away but the readers carry on because of their fascination with characters.
		In Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend the MacGuffin is Harriet’s vow to solve the mystery of her brother's death.
	www.gregnorris.freeserve.co.uk /macguffin.htm (725 words)

	EricEnders.com - The MacGuffins
		Often, the MacGuffin turns out to be a decoy, causing men to make fools of themselves in pursuit of futile ends.
		The MacGuffins crept closer to the.500 mark on Thursday as they won two games of a three-game set, handing the much-heralded Spongeworthy Clowns their first two losses of the season.
		The MacGuffins managed to bring the tying run to the plate in the 9th inning, but it was all in vain.
	www.ericenders.com /macguffins.htm (2740 words)

	Schoolcraft College - The MacGuffin
		The MacGuffin, established in 1984, is a national literary magazine from Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan.
		The mission of The MacGuffin is to encourage, support, and enhance the literary arts in the Schoolcraft College community, the region, the state, and the nation.
		By fulfilling its role as a national literary journal, The MacGuffin exists to bring national and international prestige to Schoolcraft College and to be the main vehicle for its contribution to literary excellence.
	www.schoolcraft.edu /macguffin (189 words)

	Hannibal´s screenwriting page - Something really important
		A MacGuffin must have an intrinsic value, or the audience won´t understand why more than one character is looking for it.
		The best MacGuffins are intimately connected with the theme of the story and its characters, so as to amplify the theme, rather than to distort it (cf: all stories that deal with people chasing a treasure, and at the same time talks about generosity...).
		Even if the MacGuffin you have in mind might not exist precisely in the mind of the audience, it should be easy to put there.
	members.fortunecity.se /hannibal/important.html (1887 words)

	The Security of MacGuffin (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Next, a comparison of the resistance of MacGuffin and DES against several elementary attacks is presented.
		MacGuffin's strength against differential cryptanalysis is investigated, and a differential attack requiring 2 51:5 chosen plaintexts is described.
		MacGuffin is shown to be weaker than DES...
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /97016.html (657 words)

	History of MacGuffin Theatre and Film Co.
		“MacGuffin” is a term that film director Alfred Hitchcock used to describe the secret plans or jewels the spies were after.
		The quest for the MacGuffin is perhaps all of our individual and societal journeys, for it’s not the end that is important, but rather how we get there.
		Our instructors are some of the best actors in the Philadelphia area and their leadership has created a family-like atmosphere where students can feel free to take chances and develop a strong sense of self.
	www.macguffintf.com /history_MTF.html (377 words)

	MacGuffin
		Alfred Hitchcock, he compared the MacGuffin to a mythical apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands.
		Alfred Hitchcock's most prescient MacGuffin is in Torn Curtain, whose Gamma Five project, concerning an anti-missile missile, anticipated by more than a decade President Reagan’s Star Wars project.
		Though the word MacGuffin is not used in any of Hitchcock's own movies, it is sometimes mentioned, as a kind of homage, in films by other directors.
	www.bridgeguys.com /MGlossary/MacGuffin.html (760 words)

	screenonline: Hitchcock's Style: The MacGuffin
		The whole point of the MacGuffin is that it is irrelevant.
		The MacGuffin is the engine that sets the story in motion.
		Hitchcock didn't invent the MacGuffin, but he made it his own, employing it time and again throughout his career.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /tours/hitch/tour6.html (262 words)

	The Bait (aka The MacGuffin)
		Then again, maybe it's just a MacGuffin, the term Alfred Hitchcock coined to describe the ficticious fool's gold that really doesn't mean much of anything, but is employed as an excuse to push the plot along -- like the unsolvable mystery of "Rosebud" in Citizen Kane.
		It's also the MacGuffin that drives the plot of John Huston's The Maltese Falcon (1941).
		So we dropped the whole idea in favor of a MacGuffin that was simpler, but concrete and visual: a sample of uranium concealed in a wine bottle." From Hitchcock/Truffaut, the classic book of interviews between the two great directors.
	www.cinepad.com /filmnoir/bait.htm (497 words)

	Testimonials for MacGuffin Theatre
		At MacGuffin, acting is a fun thing to do, but it is also a craft that we learn how to perfect and master.
		love being involved with Macguffin because you meet a lot of new people and you can be with your friends and act at the same time.
		All the instructors at MacGuffin Theater and Film Company push actors to do their best and I've seen many shy, quiet kids become excting, expressive actors in my time here.
	www.macguffintf.com /testimonials.html (673 words)

	The MacGuffin Block Cipher Algorithm
		Many of its characteristics (block size, application domain, performance, and implementation structure) are similar to those of the U.S. Data Encryption Standard (DES).
		MacGuffin is unusual in that it is based on a generalized unbalanced Feistel network (GUFN) in which each round of the cipher modifies only 16 bits according to a function of the other 48.
		We describe the general characteristics of MacGuffin architecture and implementation and give a complete specification for the 32-round, 128-bit key version of the cipher.
	www.schneier.com /paper-macguffin.html (175 words)

	Graves & MacGuffin
		Graves & MacGuffin is a noir-ish murder mystery series set in the world of video game development.
		As mentioned above, the first Graves & MacGuffin adventure is called 'The Case Of The Deadly Disc', and it starts at Graves' contract game testing job, and the grisly discovery of a dead game coder, with a sharpened game disc buried in his forehead.
		MacGuffin is an extremely sardonic virtual rodent who appears on Graves' handheld gaming system.
	www.mono211.com /macg (679 words)

	The Security of MacGuffin (ResearchIndex)
		This paper examines MacGuffin, a recently proposed block cipher based on a new DES-like architecture.
		The strength of MacGuffin against differential cryptanalysis is investigated: DES is more resistant to these attacks.
		In addition, the internal components of MacGuffin are shown to be sub-optimal with respect to differential cryptanalysis.
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /103809.html (371 words)

	The Straight Dope Mailbag: The Straight Dope Mailbag: What's in the briefcase in Pulp Fiction?
		In a 1939 lecture at Columbia University, Alfred Hitchcock spoke of the MacGuffin.
		In the case of Pulp Fiction, chronologically, pretty much everything that happens with Butch and Marcellus (except for when they first make arrangements for the boxing match) occurs after the case is returned.
		So, unless I've missed an interview wherein Tarantino spilled the beans (entirely possible--me missing it, not him talking about it, and if I did then give me the flaming I deserve), what's in there is pretty much open to your imagination.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mpulpfiction.html (768 words)

	Frequently asked questions on Hitchcock
		There, the MacGuffin is a necklace, a planned assassination, and the top-secret plans of a new aircraft engine, respectively.
		For him, the MacGuffin 'is not just an empty hole in the middle of Hitchcock's discourse; rather, this missing object ("the maternal phallus") takes on a great significance as the sign of the missing "primal scene"'.
		It was typical of him to reduce the notion of the MacGuffin to a nonsense-story about trapping lions in Scotland (a story, J. Lary Kuhns tells me, itself based on an old joke about a non-existent mongoose and a man who sees snakes), but nonsense in Hitchcock nearly always conceals profundity and/or potency...
	www.labyrinth.net.au /~muffin/faqs_c.html (3918 words)

	The MacGuffin
		The MacGuffin is a new work by muf and the second in a series of three temporary public art commissions concerning the future of the Beaufoy Institute in Vauxhall.
		The MacGuffin will create a captivating moment of transformation; it will value the role of the imaginary and thereby make space for people to speculate on other possibilities for the site and wider locale.
		The MacGuffin is part of the Beaufoy Arts Project, which will be delivered by a unique partnership of Vauxhall St. Peter’s Heritage Centre, Lambeth Arts, Gasworks Gallery and Danielle Arnaud contemporary art.
	www.daniellearnaud.com /the_macguffin.htm (281 words)

	A.Word.A.Day--Today's Word
		Hitchcock explained the term in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University: "In regard to the tune, we have a name in the studio, and we call it the 'MacGuffin'.
		Hitchcock borrowed it from a shaggy-dog story where a train passenger is carrying a large odd-shaped package.
		The passenger calls it a MacGuffin and explains to the curious fellow passengers that it's a device used to catch lions in Scottish Highlands.
	www.wordsmith.org /words/McGuffin.html (374 words)

	Hitchcock's MacGuffin In the Works of David Mamet Literature Film Quarterly - Find Articles
		Among the Hitchcock films that employ the MacGuffin are Notorious, Saboteur, and North By Northwest.
		The MacGuffin in North is a statue of a Tarascan Warrior that is being used to smuggle microfilm out of the United States.
		It is essential, according to Hitchcock, that the MacGuffin be explained midway through the story or the anticipation will continue to build and distract the audience from the characters (Truffaut 139).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3768/is_200301/ai_n9219436 (920 words)

	Mc Guffin
		The first recorded usage of this word is in a typescript of AlfredHitchcock's lecture at the Columbia University on 30, March 1939.
		Also, MacGuffin is the reportedly the original spelling in the two men on a train story.
		The briefcase would be a McGuffin because it never matters what is in the case and it is never used.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?McGuffin (1403 words)

	One Hand Clapping
		I began mulling the idea of writing a novel in 1986 when I was matriculating at the Defense Information School, then located at Ft Ben Harrison, Ind. I figured for a first effort, it would be best to keep it simple: bad guys, good guys, both want the same thing badly, yielding dramatic conflict.
		The MacGuffin is the source of the conflict; it is what everyone wants.
		"A MacGuffin is a device for capturing the lions roaming the Scottish highlands."
	www.donaldsensing.com /2003/11/congrats-to-austin-bay.html (851 words)

	In Search of the MacGuffin - What is it?
		Many of them were spy stories, and they were concerned with the efforts to steal the secret plans out of a fortress.
		So the “MacGuffin” is the term we use to cover all that sort of thing: to steal plans or documents, or to discover a secret, it doesn’t matter what it is. And the logicians are wrong in trying to figure out the truth of a MacGuffin, since it’s beside the point.
		The only thing that really matters is that in the picture the plans, documents, or secrets must seem to be of vital importance to the characters.
	www.jigsawlounge.co.uk /macguffin/what2.html (353 words)

	Pancakes and Side Dishes
		On a holiday retreat at an experimental theater workshop, the cleverest girl in the world comes face to face with her greatest foe of all time: her own public persona.
		If perhaps Strategic Strike Squad Seven had not wrapped filming more than ten months earlier, Mongol might have retained enough nimbleness and athleticism not to have then collapsed awkwardly into the crowd, fracturing his wrist, splitting his lip, and providing tabloids around the globe with the week’s most obvious headline photos.
		In addition to my regular duties as goodwill ambassador of Somerville, I sometimes write stories and post them here in the unexpressed hope that I'll be discovered and whisked into a high-voltage life of literary fame, keeping late hours with the after-theater crowd and frequently sipping champagne from the slippers of professional ballerinas.
	pancakesdunst.blogspot.com (842 words)

	The Blog \| Peter Allan: Waiting for Macguffin \| The Huffington Post
		In his films Alfred Hitchcock often introduced characters and sub-plots whose sole purpose was to distract the viewer while more important information was kept unobtrusively in the background for maximum effect when later revealed during a film's climactic moment.
		Hitchcock called these cinematic devices "Macguffins." The Macguffin should be familiar to any voter who has watched Republican electoral strategy evolve over the past several decades.
		During the Presidential election Macguffin reared his head in the now forgotten push for a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /peter-allan/waiting-for-macguffin_b_18012.html (1076 words)

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