Monkey D. Luffy is a young man from a powerful familywhose greatest dream in life is to become the next pirate king. It's a dream that can only be realized if he manages to acquire the story's MacGuffin, a fabled treasure of immeasurable value acquired by the late great...
but lots of stories have similar sections, from Arkady Martine’sA Memory Called Empireto Stephen King’sIt. Sometimes authors forgo the label, but we can still identify the interlude by how disconnected it is. King uses this
Like the pandemic, the Blip caused a collective, boundless grief characterized more by uncertainty than the finality of death. This "ongoing grief," as it's called, forces you to live in a world where everything is the same but also irrevocably changed forever. Yes, most people will come ...
We almost got a Patty Jenkins’ Thor. Instead, we got this; a dreary chase for a mystical MacGuffin involving one of the most boring villains in the entire MCU. If there’s an upside here, it’s that without this movie cratering so badly, Marvel may not have been so willing to take...
the Tesseract fromCaptain Americabecoming the MacGuffin ofThe Avengers.Black Pantherturns that dynamic on its head. What makes this movie cool is that it gives us so much stuff that we have never seen before in a Marvel movie (up to and including its predominantly black cast). Wakanda’s te...
to retrieve the MacGuffin that powers her home. A news report mentions Superman’s off in another galaxy, so don’t expect to see Christopher Reeve except as a poster on a dorm room wall. The only other clear sign that this is set in the same world as hisSupermanfilms is a pointless...
And, it probably became a game not long after it became a prerequisite for survival. Some time around 1650BC, according to a fresco which has survived since the Bronze Age, man began using gloves. Centuries later boxing became the big stakes, big money sport that it is today. And, oh ...
As I understand through IMDb, Chipman first made this tale into a film short. I’d be up for seeing a director’s cut of The Shade now that it is a full movie. I want to learn more about The Harpy and her direct connection to Ryan and his family. I imagine mom and Jason have ...
Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Red Shoes,” from 1845, is a parable about such power. It describes the fate of a young girl called Karen, who one day acquires a pair of red leather shoes. She falls instantly in love with her new possessions, but they soon exert a sinister...
“Yes, fine. How’s your cocker spaniel, Macguffin?” “Oh, fine, fine. Nice weather we’re having, isn’t it?” “Very. We could use some rain, though.” “Sure could use it.” “Sure could. Ah-choo!” “Bless you.”