mcguffin

the mcguffin created by none other than Alfred Hitchcock himself is a object of interest that the films plot a revolves around, for example if the film was about someone was smuggling gold i and out of the country the gold would be the mcguffin. we don't really care about the mcguffin all we care about is the film getting under way so we can see some gunfights and explosion when that occurs we don't even realize the mcguffin exists. the mcguffin is mainly a expensive object like in my example gold. at times when the mcguffin is not valuable it is usually a object of interest like in the film the birds, the mcguffin is two lovebirds and the reason they are objects of interest is because the viewers want to know why they are acting the way they are and why they are there. the mcguffin doesn't  always need to be a object it could also be a person like in the film good will hunting the mcguffin is will hunting who matt daemon plays.