Re:Chekhov's Gun
by wutwutwutwut on Sunday September 05, 2021 @11:26AM
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Maybe the rifle/gun is just a bad example today? I watch movies all the time where there are guns or rifles which does not gow off. And I sure don't feel like some promise was broken.
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Chekhov used this example of a rifle on the wall in 1889, years before the invention of the movie camera.
It shouldn't be taken as advice on movie production design.
I think itβs something which is more obvious in a literary context where not talking about the gun means there is no obvious reference to it, but in a movie it may still exist, they just do not draw attention to it.