Miscellaneous Movie Musings

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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Made me look. There are still a lot of things in this world that I don't know, apparently.

Originally Posted by wikipedia

According to film historian Kalton C. Lahue in his book Bound and Gagged (a history of silent-film serials), the actress Pearl White used the term "weenie" to identify whatever physical object (a roll of film, a rare coin, expensive diamonds) impelled the villains and virtuous characters to pursue each other through the convoluted plots of The Perils of Pauline and the other silent serials in which White starred.

So, if she used weenie and McGuffin interchangeably, can we now call the weenies at DL McGuffins? Asking that has just made me realize that I have no idea what those spinny rocket things with a ridiculous line in Tomorrowland are called. I will now only call them, McGuffin.