What's the word for when language in a script is unnatural and clearly just explaining the plot?
What's the term?
Exposition?
'On the nose' is used in terms of dialogue.
Quote: Tom G @ November 7 2011, 11:05 PM GMTWhat's the word for when language in a script is unnatural and clearly just explaining the plot?
A Moffat.
Quote: Mr Ashdown @ November 8 2011, 6:14 AM GMTA Moffat.
I think the more up to date term is a 'Fellowes'.
Is this the famed McGuffin? I've seen this mentioned in several books, not often enough to know if I've spelt it correctly, though. It seems to be the bones of the idea explained somewhere in the plot.
No it's not the famed McGuffin. The expression as the typewriter says is 'On the nose!'
Quote: Buddy Sorrel @ November 8 2011, 12:56 PM GMTIs this the famed McGuffin? I've seen this mentioned in several books, not often enough to know if I've spelt it correctly, though. It seems to be the bones of the idea explained somewhere in the plot.
No, the McGuffin is a Hitchcockian term for a device of importance that drives the plot. Think the Ark in Raiders, the Grail from The Holy Grail, or Linda Lovelace from Deep Throat.
In the Donald Duck movies they employed an Egg McGuffin.
Quote: David Bussell @ November 8 2011, 2:48 PM GMTLinda Lovelace from Deep Throat.
Wasn't that a McGaggin ?