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A lying flashback!

posted 13 years ago by Mr_McLaurel
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Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright is often considered the first movie to use a "lying flashback," where the camera shows the audience an inaccurate version of what happened in the past. How interesting that it happens 7 years earlier in Sherlock Holmes Faces Death, in the first 10 minutes of the movie! We don't find out it was a lie until the very end, obviously. Pretty cool.

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[–] dark_frances 11 years ago

Nice point, it is the case indeed!

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[–] greenbudgie (2356) 2 years ago

I think this is indeed the first full feature movie with an unreliable flashback. Only Felix the cat did this in one of his short cartoons before this.