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предмет, служащий для развития сюжета (Alexey Lebedev); Макгаффин (предмет, движущий сюжет, но не играющий роли сам по себе, напр., – "бриллиантовый стул" в "12 стульях"; подробней см. по ссылке  film.ru bojana) | |||
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| A term used by Alfred Hitchcock to refer to an item, event, or piece of knowledge that the characters in a film consider extremely important, but which the audience either doesn't know of or doesn't care about. Examples: the engine plans in The 39 Steps, the statue with the microfilms in North by Northwest, and the contents of the briefcase in Pulp Fiction. | |||