![]() One man says, ‘What’s that package up there in the baggage rack?’ And the other answers, ‘Oh, that’s a MacGuffin’. It might be a Scottish name, taken from a story about two men on a train. To put it in slightly more abstract terms, but terms better put, take Alfred Hitchcock‘s definition of it: Simply put, a MacGuffin is an object that jump-starts the plot. The fact of the matter is that most stories with a plot have a MacGuffin. I often see this word tossed around like it’s a filthy object that is only indicative of “bad” stories. Mystery Box vs MacGuffinīefore jumping further into the often chaotic world of mystery boxes, let’s take a moment to differentiate them from the word “ MacGuffin“. More or less, it’s a promise that you see X but that you don’t know what X exactly or why it’s so important, but the story will fill you in on those details later. A mystery box, in simplified terms, is a story object or idea that is meant to grab the audience’s attention via the withholding of information. A mystery box can be virtually anything, even a character or an intangible detail about them. What is a Mystery Box?Ī mystery box is a lightsaber. An easy way to draw people in is to raise a question about the world, or, to open a mystery box. This doesn’t mean that the audience has to love or even like the characters, but they have to be invested or inquisitive about the characters and their world. ![]() You have to draw the audience into the story and the lives of the characters before the film can have any real meaning. The biggest challenge for any movie is getting the audience to care.
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