A Maguffin is a plot device that motivates the characters and advances the story, but has little other relevance to the story.
Hitchcock explained the term McGuffin in a 1939 lecture at a columbia university.
" We have a name in the studio, and we call it the ' Mc Guffin'. It is a mechanical element that usually crops up in any story. In crook stories, it is always the necklace and in spy stories, it is always the papers".
A mcGuffin was used in the beginning of the film ' psycho'.
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