Chekov’s Shoulder Holster
Iain Coleman | April 3, 2010
William Goldman’s The Princess Bride is a corker of a script, and an endlessly delightful movie. Which might strike some people as a bit odd, given its blatant subversion of one of the most long-established principles of dramatic structure.
If a pistol is fired in the third act, it should be hanging on the wall in [...]
