The Dark Knight What will be the MacGuffin in TDK?

[The Only Woj]

a ham sandwich. and the twist at the end is that it was really a turkey sandwich, but the turkey was painted to look like ham.

 

[raybia]

I don't see how the Joker could be the MacGuffin considering he's a principle character, but rather it will probably be an act performed by him. Perhaps a murder. Perhaps it's something he steals. it's impossible to tell considering we have no clue what the story will be.

Well the story could certainly constructed where the Joker is a principle character OR it could be written to where he the wild card thrown into the mix to see how every else will react and how they will be affected. Played less as a character and more like a force of nature.

I'm pretty sure that Joe Doe, the psychopathic killer in Se7en, was the MacGuffin in that story.

 

[Keyser Sushi]

a ham sandwich. and the twist at the end is that it was really a turkey sandwich, but the turkey was painted to look like ham.

The Only Woj: Reigning champion and still the funniest poster on the Hype.

 

[david icke]

The MacGuffin for the bad guys will be control of the rackets etc now that falcones been taken down.

 

[Nepenthes]

In BB the MacGuffin was his parent's death and Rachel. That is what motivated the character.

Thats not a McGuffin ^ it's an intregral part of the character and entire mythos. And Raybia John Doe was the sole antagonist in Se7en, how is that a McGuffin?


Yeah I think a weapons deal or some kind of mob event in TDK sounds about right.

 

[Macphisto]

I think many of you may have misunderstood what a MacGuffin actually is. Here's a better explanation: http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tours/hitch/tour6.html

The whole point of the MacGuffin is that it is irrelevant. In Hitchcock's own words, the MacGuffin is:

the device, the gimmick, if you will, or the papers the spies are after... The only thing that really matters is that in the picture the plans, documents or secrets must seem to be of vital importance to the characters. To me, the narrator, they're of no importance whatsoever.

Angus McPhail, who may have been the first to coin the term, explained its meaning with a nonsense story. Two men were travelling on a train from London to Scotland. An odd shaped package sat on the luggage rack above their seat.

"What have you there?" asked one of the men.
Oh, that's a MacGuffin," replied his companion.
"What's a MacGuffin?"
"It's a device for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands."
"But there aren't any lions in the Scottish Highlands!"
"Well, then, I guess that's no MacGuffin!"

The MacGuffin is the engine that sets the story in motion. It can be anything, or nothing at all. In The 39 Steps, it is "secrets vital to your air defence"; in Number Seventeen it is a valuable piece of jewellery, while in The Lady Vanishes it is, in the most perfectly abstract of all Hitchcock's MacGuffins, a coded message contained in a piece of music.

Hitchcock didn't invent the MacGuffin, but he made it his own, employing it time and again throughout his career. Nowadays, it is so closely associated with him that when it is used by others, as for example in Roman Polanski's very Hitchcockian Frantic (1988), it is often seen as either homage to, or a theft from, Hitchcock.

 

[The Sage]

In other words, the MacGuffin in BB was the microwave emitter.

In Pulp Fiction, it's the briefcase or the watch of Bruce Willis' character.

 

[Keyser Sushi]

Exactly. In Batman Returns, it was Penguin's Mayoral Campaign, I guess. In Batman Forever, it was definitely Nygma's "box."

In LOTR it was the One Ring. In Die Hard With A Vengeance, it was the bomb.

In Star Wars, Episode IV, it was the mother of all MacGuffins... the dreaded DEATH STAR, with enough firepower to destroy an entire planet.

 

[Macphisto]

In other words, the MacGuffin in BB was the microwave emitter.

In Pulp Fiction, it's the briefcase or the watch of Bruce Willis' character.

Exactly.

 

[Motown Marvel]

In BB the MacGuffin was his parent's death and Rachel. That is what motivated the character.

i'd have to disagree with that. the parents death is what gave birth to batman, and in general what drives that particular character to be batman. but, the death of the wayne's was more the set up for the batman character than it was the macguffin.

a macguffin isnt necessarily what drives a character, or the characters motivation, rather than what drives the story as a whole. i'd say in BB, the macguffin was the actions of ra's al ghul, or more specifically, the microwave emitter.

 

[raybia]

a macguffin isnt necessarily what drives a character, or the characters motivation, rather than what drives the story as a whole. i'd say in BB, the macguffin was the actions of ra's al ghul, or more specifically, the microwave emitter.

That makes sense. I agree.