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| Sep 12, 2015 at 19:03 | comment | added | Gonvar | Well, it was the first google search result that i saw, and made sense to me, as an explanation of that screenwriting device. | |
| Sep 12, 2015 at 13:49 | comment | added | Napoleon Wilson | Why the Archer Wiki at all? I mean, it's not that the real Wiki doesn't treat that term either. Why Archer, why not the Star Wars Wiki, the it's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Wiki or the Miami Vice Wiki? It just seems completely arbitrary to even get the idea of looking that term up in the Archer Wiki. This connection is not entirely clear to me, which is unfortunate since this seems to be an otherwise quite interesting answer. | |
| Sep 12, 2015 at 5:21 | comment | added | Gonvar | I get it. In fact... (quoting www.writingclasses.com) "The term “Chekhov’s gun” comes from a bit of advice Chekhov shared with other writers. In an 1889 letter to playwright Aleksandr Semenovich Lazarev, Chekhov wrote: One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it. This concept is fleshed out a bit in Memoirs, in which S. Shchukin quotes Chekhov as saying this: If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on a wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there." | |
| Sep 12, 2015 at 5:07 | comment | added | Catija | There's nothing wrong with it as a source for questions about Archer... but you can see there's no source for the information... if it cited one, it would be OK but it doesn't, which means that someone made the info up themselves. | |
| Sep 12, 2015 at 5:06 | comment | added | Gonvar | Didn't knew that about Archer Wiki... (y) | |
| Sep 12, 2015 at 5:02 | comment | added | Catija | I didn't say the definition was inapplicable based on the Wikipedia article, only that it doesn't match the definition on the Archer Wiki... The Archer wiki cites no actual sources for its information, so it sounds like someone pulled the definition out of the air, so, no... not a good source. | |
| Sep 12, 2015 at 4:59 | comment | added | Gonvar | 1- ArcherWiki... is that bad? 2- Compared to the wikipedia definition, i think the idea applies in the same way (trying to avoid confusion) a screenwriting device that indicates an element that is irrelevant at the beggining, but at certain point, advanced in the story, takes relevance... "If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there" | |
| Sep 12, 2015 at 4:45 | comment | added | Catija | I would recommend using a source slightly more reputable than the Archer Wiki. I say this because that version of the definition doesn't seem to agree with other versions, like the actual Wikipedia article about it. | |
| Sep 12, 2015 at 4:45 | history | edited | Catija | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Spelling, formatting link to source... Archer Wiki??? Really???
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| Sep 12, 2015 at 4:01 | history | answered | Gonvar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |