The McGuffin is the trigger for a story, a pretext that catches the audience's attention but is not relevant to the plot.
El McGuffin es el desencadenante de una historia, un pretexto que llama la atención del público pero no es relevante para la trama.
| Front | McGuffin |
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| Back | The trigger for a story, the pretext on which the action depends that is used to catch the attention of the audience, but which isn’t important or relevant to the plot. It’s merely a catalyst, what one writer has called a “indispensable inconsequentiality”. |
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