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#64 - Black Widow (2021)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The McGuffin

Hitchcock gave it the name and he gave it the silly name called McGuffin just as like to say it could be anything. So in that movie, that lock in to overcome that problem is at 52 minutes. And as we know, every chase has something that's being chased. What's being chased is a thing called a McGuffin, which is a word that I think a lot of people know, but I don't know if everyone knows what McGuffin is. Do you guys want to define what a McGufflein is? Go for it, Jamie. Sure.

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