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baesparzaMar 17, 2006 11:19pm
My fave is using a dead body as a shield especially for bullets.
Total Recall comes to mind. What other films use that same trick?

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JohnnyumaMar 23, 2006 4:53pm
I think that trick was used in Pork Chop Hill.

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LightChaserMar 23, 2006 4:56pm
The macguffin. It's the priceless, elusive object of the noir hero's quest -- and often the noir villain's as well. Perhaps it's the incriminating "smoking gun" clue that's gonna blow the whole case wide open. Or maybe it's a treasure so valuable that some people would kill for it. It may take the form of guilty secrets, providing the catalyst for blackmail or extortion. Then again, maybe it's just a MacGuffin, the term Alfred Hitchcock coined to describe the ficticious fool's gold that really doesn't mean much of anything, but is employed as an excuse to push the plot along -- like the unsolvable mystery of "Rosebud" in Citizen Kane. Or the contents of the briefcase in 'Pulp Fiction'.


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