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		pavlov on Sept 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chekhov's Gun 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.

AlphaSite on Sept 6, 2021 [–]

I think it’s 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.

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