Film Language Tag: Chekhov's Gun

Refers to Anton’s Chekhov’s advice that if you hang a gun over over the mantle in the first act, it must be fired by the end of the play. See Jason Mittell for more on how Chekhov's Gun is used in complex storytelling. Mittell, Jason. Complex TV: The poetics of contemporary television storytelling. New York: NYU Press, 2015.