Hangover MacGuffin

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After browsing the Design Assignments, I noticed that 70 people had completed the “Messing with MacGuffin Assignment”. This, by far, out numbers all the other number of completed assignments. Why is this? Probably because it is an easy assignment to complete, it doesn’t take much time, and man it is fun trying to come up with something that is different. This Hangover example was one of the first to pop in my head, so I ran with it.

I can totally see this as an introductory type assignment to ds106. Its quick, easy, and fun trying to brainstorm ideas. This is also a great example of a ds106 type assignment I would use to try and explain just exactly what ds106 is. Yes, this assignment is really only scratching the surface, but I think it is a great first stepping stone.

On another note,
With SOPA awareness on the brain (and internet) today, The Daily Create’s assignment went right along with it: Create an image that reflects SOPA in your eyes. Here’s what I came up with:

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Bond MacGuffin

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The Messing with the MacGuffin assignment through ds106 was a lot of fun.  Short and simple.  I used a list of 50 top movie one-liners to help get my memory going.  This could easily be applied to a K-12 classroom … Continue reading →

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Messing with the MacGuffin

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  • So far 64 people have completed this assignment.
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  • Submitted by: Michael Branson Smith
Wikipedia defines the MacGuffin as "a plot element that catches the viewers' attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction." For this assignment forever change the plot of a movie, tv show, etc. by changing a single line of dialogue. Put this new line of dialogue below a screen-cap of the moment in the movie you're changing. Credit to Tom Woodward for posting an example of this idea in the #ds106 Twitter stream.
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Assignment: Messing with the MacGuffin !!

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WHAT THE HECK IS THIS CRAP !?

THIS IS MORE LIKE THE GOOD CRAP !! COOKIEEE

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Kurtz MacSpubbleMuffin

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The idea for this one popped into my head on the way to the media center to do some work on a Windows machine. It consists of a hybrid between two of my favorite visual assignments: Messing with the MacGuffin and the Spubble.

Speaking of Spubble’s, Mr. Dangerfist might have just won the award for best Spubble forever with his Angry Birds /  Train Sleeper offering. The story in his blog post is killer.

I’ve heard that for a while Francis Ford Coppola was considering casting Orson Welles as Kurtz instead of Marlon Brando just as he’d considered Harry Dean Stanton instead of Martin Sheen as Willard. Imagine what a different film it would have been.

So the image below is my interpretation of how Brando would have taken the news that he didn’t get the part:

Kurtz MacSpubble

As for the process, I found the image through a Google image search, downloaded it, added the thought bubble  and text in Picnik, and sent it here after downloading from Picnik. Took about 5 minutes to do the image and another 15 to write up this post.

Doing this has caused me to imagine how different some of iconic films would have been had they been cast differently. Imagine Caddy Shack with Milton Berle instead of Rodney Dangerfield or Cool Hand Luke with Norman Fell instead of Paul Newman. This is verging on some sort of Triple Troll sort of visual assignment, but I need help in figuring out the specifics.

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So what happens when wizards use muggle spells?

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I’ve always had that question to myself.  We muggles have our own so called “spells” such as abracadra, hocus pocus, and what not.  So I wondered what it would look like if someone from Harry Potter’s world to use this spell for the Messing with the MacGuffin assignment.  Now that I look at it, abracadabra doesn’t sound as threatening as Avada Kedavra.
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Repoman MacGuffin

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It seemed appropriate to submit a Messing with the MacGuffin assignment using Otto Paertz’s favorite film: Repoman. Those who watch this classic film closely and repeatedly will understand the origin of our task master’s name. Anyhow, here’s the stuff:

My process involved:

  • grabbing the image from the Film Babble Blog post linked to above
  • as I’m working away from home, I opened the jpg in Aviary’s online Phoenix Image Editor
  • I enlarged the canvas (not the image) and filled in the background with black paint
  • using the text tool with white font, I added the text hitting the return key between “make” and “the” to get the text to display across two line – the font is 48 point Bauhaus93
  • exporting the image as png and uploading it to blogger 

To understand the MacGuffin, if it is actually a MacGuffin, you’ll have to watch this excellent film – many times.

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I choose you

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ds106 assignment on Messing with the MacGuffin.

Pokemon. Serious business.

UPDATE: Gonna talk a bit on my process here. So I was looking around ds106 for interesting assignments and I was attracted to this particular one because of a very interesting earlier submission.
One of the reasons I figured the thing worked though, was because it specifically drew on a movie that was really popular and that virtually “everyone” would recognise; the laugh is not only in putting new lines on pictures but also about having the original mood of the scene juxtaposed with your new work in the viewer’s head.
It’s with these concerns in mind that I worked on my own submission for the assignment, firstly looking through most of the past submissions to see what well-known franchises were already covered and trying to do something that had not (The Matrix). While looking through Google images for an appropriate picture I managed to stumble upon the one above, which I thought evoked enough of the “I know what this is from!” vibe while at the same time being ambiguous and strongly emotive enough to reappropriate.
Ironically with another well-known franchise: Pokemon. :P
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It’s a Friday MacGuffin

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Inspired by this MacGuffin, I couldn’t resist a Friday in which Chris Tucker was the responsible, worker bee :) Here is the “Messing with the MacGuffin” assignment if you are interested.

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Messing with the Mac Guffin

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For this assignment forever change the plot of a movie, tv show, etc. by changing a single line of dialogue. Put this new line of dialogue below a screen-cap of the moment in the movie you’re changing.

Can we stop by a pharmacy? I need to get a Nasonex refill before I sneeze my pointy little ears off.

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